For WHAT?? Imperialism/neo-colonialism all over again

A new member of my local City Council will be sworn into office Monday. I ran his campaign. He ran because the only other candidate was unacceptable to him— and, turns out, to others too He had never run for office before and I’d never run a campaign But we won —and now we need to keep doing it

The environmental and climate cost of war “Armed conflicts cause profound and often overlooked environmental damage that persists long after the fighting stops” physicsworld.com/a/the-enviro...

This is insane: 'The Trump administration is shutting down the center’s library, NASA’s largest, & threatening to destroy an undetermined number of books, documents, & journals in the process. Many of these artifacts haven’t been digitized or made available elsewhere'. futurism.com/space/nasa-l...

The nationwide average temperature for last year was 4.5 degrees Celsius, the Finnish Meteorological Institute reports, which is 1.6 degrees higher than the long-term average for the years 1991–2020.

“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are... contrary to, the president’s official duties. In this country, no one... is above the law.” --Kenneth Starr (May 13, 1998) www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/u...

"America’s 15 richest billionaires got $1 trillion richer." The enemy is the 1%. It's the billionaires vs the rest of us. MAGA keeps distracting us with culture wars as they drink all of our milkshake. www.fastcompany.com/91468647/15-...

Africa is rapidly becoming a green power continent. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

So a new Trump golf course. I sure hope all these symbols of his regime are torn down to the ground. Trump administration terminates lease for Washington's public golf courses share.google/LmoZTKV2FQdB...

[KO/JA] 📽 The International Degrowth Network's Asia circle is organising a screening of the film ‘The Cost of Growth’! 1️⃣ Stream the film on Kinema before 18 Dec for $1: kinema.com/events/The-C... 2️⃣ Join a free, virtual commentary on 18 Dec, 7-8:30pm (UCT+8): tinyurl.com/cogdiscussio...

What the KENNEDY Center used to be… Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.

I really hope @rbreich.bsky.social is right and that the US will finally take a long, hard, look in the mirror. The "American Dream" they've been sold since Reaganomics is actually a dystopian nightmare

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If the United States had sensible priorities and taxed billionaires and didn't waste so much money on useless toys for Pete Hegseth to pretend he's a he-man warrior, our country could, instead, have beautiful, clean, high-speed trains like they have in Europe.

Trump’s reckless tariffs are crushing American farmers. Thousands of farms across the U.S. are set to go bankrupt because of this administration’s policies. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Honestly, I'm still confused why our teeth and eyeballs need their own goddamn insurance.... 奋

"Francisco" sent this from where he was harvesting celery near Bakersfield CA. It was 42°, damp and cold when he began working at 7am. Walking through the celery and bending over to harvest it made his clothes damp and cold. He worked an 8 hour day earning CA min wage. #WeFeedYou

375,000 people in Sudan are on the brink of starvation, and both the SAF and the RSF have used hunger as a weapon of war. Congress and this administration must do more to secure the entry of much-needed food aid into Sudan.

Musk let DOGE run roughshod over Social Security at the expense of functionality and consumer services. If he ran his companies this carelessly and stupidly, he wouldn’t be rich. He’d be a bankrupt failure. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4pheQks

But companies will not let tariffs erode their profit margins indefinitely. Assuming the tariffs remain, the US can look forward to more price increases, and downward pressure on real incomes, in 2026. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

In 2024, a group of 200 mental health professionals warned that Trump ”is dangerous because of “his symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder – malignant narcissism”, which makes him “grossly unfit for leadership”. He hasn't gotten any better. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Don’t worry folks she didn’t take her Congressional salary during the shutdown! The median annual income of MO-2 is $99K! Ann doubled it in one month! Public service sure is lucrative! www.quiverquant.com/news/Net+Wor...

America needs an opposition party—one that will fight tooth and nail for democracy and against Trumpist cultists No more of this “my good Republican friend from across the aisle” bullshit. They are all covered with his rapey, Putin-loving stink

Immigrants are not the reason there’s a housing crisis. They’re not the reason ERs are full and people don’t have healthcare. They’re not the reason food is so expensive. They’re the scapegoat. As long as you blame immigrants, you won’t realize the 1% are taking everything.

Abolish ICE

50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person. This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle. Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities. This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist

This video is older than the state of Israel- a glimpse of a time when Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived side by side in peace This isn't just history; it's evidence of what was stolen and destroyed by settler colonialism

😔 #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #JournalismIsNotACrime

USPS has made changes that can affect time sensitive documents such as mail-in ballots and healthcare forms.🧭 💌 🗳️ ☑️ ❤️‍🩹 🏥 ⚕️ 🩺 🚨⚠️ ⚡👍

“There is palpable fear throughout the community… now if you’re an immigrant you’re not going to call law enforcement when you’re the victim of a crime…” ICE has detained nearly 6,000 people in Tennessee alone - most NOT violent criminals. Full: www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

How to Impeach a Supreme Court Justice

Excellent read. Excellent ideas. Pass it on to your reps (ya know, the good ones).

This

Trump, who didn’t spend a minute behind bars, is about to swindle about 50 percent more than the total amount of money paid to the 97 innocent people who were incarcerated for more than 1,200 years in Texas.

Why not go vegan today? It’s best for all the animals (wild and domesticated), and for our only planet 😎 #EndAnimalCruelty #EndSpeciesism #NoMeatNoDairyNoEggs #health #diet #ItsTheDiet #PlantBased #vegan #SomeoneNotSomething #green #EatClean #ShareThePlanet #ClimateFriendly

Everything is great…

"One of the main points of my story is that the particular arrangement we see today of evangelicals’ alignment with business is not a new phenomenon. It can be traced back, specifically to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. It was not there before. And it did not start after World War II.

Omg

We have way too many of these creeps in this country. There needs to be a way to minimize them and make them once again irrelevant and shameful.

The polluter pays principle, big oil pays the politicians and the politicians oppose net zero.

An academic system run by pensioners? I, uh, I wonder what that would be like. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

🚨US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs. This year, US crop farmers have lost $34.6bn according to the American Farm Bureau. | Business | The Guardian

Not everyone has the luxury of sitting in front of a microphone in their basement spouting a few hours of fascist bullshit a few times a week.

The Supreme Court needs to reevaluate the presidential immunity. This is not a thing. The constitution does not contain anything near it. This gave him the ability to legally shoot someone on 5th Ave and not feel the repercussions. No one is entitled to this. We need a massive overhaul.