"Food systems are now the single largest cause of humanity’s overshoot of Earth’s safe operating space ... 'planetary health diet' leans hard on fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts, with modest amounts of dairy, poultry and fish, and far less red and processed meat"

Why would Democrats throw our support behind a budget deal that any day, any time, Donald Trump could just decide he doesn’t feel like honoring — and without getting anything in return to help families struggling with high costs? That would be a betrayal of the American people.

#Bloomscrolling #RoseWednesday #MobilePhotography #Photography 📷🌱

At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”

The guy is choking off democracy. Keep up the pressure. 2026 and 2028 elections will determine if we still have it. If not I think it'll take 5 million of us showing up in DC to convince him. He can escape to Moscow. до свидания jerk.

From the always great @timothysnyder.bsky.social "The overall design of Trump’s policy is clear enough: weaken the United States abroad to create an environment friendly to dictators, while using the American armed forces as an intimidation force to make dictatorship possible at home."

"... institutions of democracy ... were always ... an unstable compromise btwn true popular sovereignty & oligarchic ... power created & demanded by an economy built on private enterprise....That compromise has now been breached ... institutions can[not] stop them. Only the people can do that."

The reaction of people when russian Shahed drone got intercepted 🫠 Dnipro, Ukraine, this morning.

THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL Very happy with this one Watercolor on paper, matted, 16x20 artologica.etsy.com/listing/4371... 🧪🐡🦠

True courage

"Courage isn't the absence of fear — in fact courage can only be shown when you have fear."

“They’re living on the fumes of the real Berkeley values. But they’ve come and gone.” This is true of City government as well. Downtown was handed to developers, and is now just plain abandoned. Homeless are shoved around, not housed.

This is what the abundance neoliberals are Republicans who have no interest in following the majority or regaining democracy for all. They are dangerous authoritarians and always have been.They in part birthed Trump through their decades of technocratic nothing in place of positive material change

When people begin to catch on to what the billionaires are funding ... and why. In truth closing highway is about playgrounds for developers. One thing not addressed, if Sunset Towers materialize, where's the new, high density, luxury transportation? How do you get people out of their Teslas?

Good one @wkamaubell.bsky.social

Good one @kos.dailykos.com

Boomers were deeply turned off to Dem Party b/c both Kennedy & Johnson sent young men die in Vietnam. Dems lost a generation and never fixed it. Just like they lost the working class. Activists worked outside the Dem Party. That's why our boomer Dem presidents were so bad, one GOP + one GOP-lite.

Great post @idothethinking.bsky.social Also ugly, all the SFHs painted grey and black before sale (and their gardens covered in black dyed fake compost) regardless of the architecture. What's up with that?

Grandpa Gates looks like he's lost his mind.

Ha Ha! @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

The whole truth, direct and succinct.

Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/18/t...

Look! Helsinki did it w/18.6 mph limit (30 km/hr). Why not us? @walkbikeberk.bsky.social @adenaishii.bsky.social @markhumbert.bsky.social @taplinterry.bsky.social @igortregub.bsky.social @jwbee.bsky.social @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @jessearreguin.bsky.social

Overheard: I'm surprised the nickname “Pedofuhrer" hasn't caught on yet.

Truth

The IT post yesterday. Gutsy action, right in his face.

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Literally the Russian flag in the post. Two of them

Too bad he can't get this worked up about fascism here and abroad (ISR). Never saw him double fisted before.

So I just realized that this is the federal building by the West LA VA...which is by the 405. I was there yesterday, zero protests or action. The Marines are trying really hard to have as little to do with this clusterfuck as they can while still technically complying with orders.

This was all discussed in greater detail at our webinar with @chittimarco.bsky.social and @calelectricrail.org. To learn more watch the full video and read our event recap here: www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/5/...

Oil prices spiked due to more aggression from a country currently committing genocide. Renewable energy prices were unaffected. Do you like entrusting your country's economy to the whims of genocidal maniacs? If not, you have options.

California national guard troops and marines deployed to LA to help restore order have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they don't want to join. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

💞

Mike Pence rebukes Trump over tariffs and ‘wavering’ support for Ukraine #Ukraine

Thank you Norway for your principles in this situation. As an American who supports Ukraine and despises Putin, I totally understand. Can’t wait for the day Trump gets impeached. And Vance after him. By that time Jeffries should have replaced Johnson.

DNC vice chair's initiative to spend $20M challenging House Dems https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/dnc-vice-chairs-initiative-spend-20m-challenging-house-120878505 #fivethirtyeight #elections #news

JUST NOW — Rep. Bo Mitchell: “I’m hearing we’re #1 one in this, #1 in that… we lead the nation in children dying by gun violence, and subpoenas for a federal corruption trial. I know we lead the nation in that.”

E pluribus unum - what a great concept for USA

Huge drop in air pollution as a result of Caltrain electrification! Let's extend those benefits to Metrolink, which operates in the counties with the nation's dirtiest air. #ElectrifyMetrolink

Meanwhile in Ukraine

How is it Berkeley's Assemblymember and State Senator are abandoning urgent climate action? It aligns with who paid for their campaigns and spammed our mailboxes, so it's not a mystery I guess. @jessearreguin.bsky.social @buffywicks.bsky.social

Unfortunately Trump has no spirituality to advise.

Trump and Musk (and all their robber baron tech sycophants) are too bedazzled by their own a'brilliance' to realize they're killing their own golden bazillions goose. China will take over as the world's tech leader.

“Woo! I’m manipulating the markets and insider trading like a motherfucker, and what are you gonna do to stop me? I have control of the machine! I’m the CEO, peasants!”