Former Biden administration official and aide to Blinken with an interesting way to avoid naming the actual thing

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Really telling on themselves

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Lotta people saying things like “hey my cousin named their kid that!” and yes that’s the number one profession Jaxson’s go into: being your cousin’s child

Part of the reason for us on the left to be suspicious of such soft-power is precisely because it puts capitalist overlords in a position to threaten mass death when they don't get their way. It's wild to see the capitalist overlords in fact inflicting the mass death and be unbothered by it!

Yes important to note as well that the doing away of USAID hasn't actually done anything to prevent the kinds of things we oppose, for example USAID complicity in the genocide of Gaza due to Samantha Power's willingness to support Biden's decisions was simply transferred to new bodies.

This is totally unacceptable and a breach of civilian control over FDNY. The chief who allowed this (or the firefighters who did it without their permission) should be sanctioned.

Under two different presidents from two different parties, Israel has been intentionally assassinating and killing not just Palestinians, Arabs, and Iranians but also those with American citizenship. Abu Akleh, Asad, Ozturk, Musallet, and the names keep piling up. Does anyone in DC care?

I've given up teaching my kids to recreationally bicycle because I think drivers will kill them

Despite its overall symbolic nature, it is noteworthy that earlier today the Polish foreign minister announced that he intended to impose a travel ban on Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

even very stupid, checked out people, even partisan Blueanon Democrats, Even Trump voters, are picking up on the fact that the car is on fire and there's nobody at the wheel

That's literally your whole job 99-0

Lmao

one reason the MENA foreign policy geniuses on this website annoy me is that a load-bearing pillar of their expertise is ignoring that Israel is totally dependent on US support and has been for most of its existence.

One thing that becomes obvious as a parent is that a huge portion of the places we went to as kids was just down stream of unit configuration. If you want family tourism, you need condo & whole house rentals.

also, the progressiveness of the tax code is somewhat downstream of pre-tax inequality. if two countries have the same progressive income tax code, but one of them is more unequal pre-tax, that country will show up as having more progressive taxes, per bezo's measure

i now live in fear of the Brain Damage That Makes You Republican

Very good thread, also will say the obvious that even if it were somehow true that the number of goods under discussion was "small" this would not be an argument against implementing a ban on their import. In fact it would remove the argument that it would be difficult.

"don't vote for cops" is some of the best and most broadly applicable electoral advice you'll ever get

Tennessee plans to execute a man this morning. And if that happens, it will be an absolute travesty. theintercept.com/2026/05/20/t...

Modern conservation treats #biodiversity as a concept but the truth is that for much of our history, it was not an abstraction but was immediate, sacred & embedded in life As an admirer of ancient rock art since living in New Mexico, I enjoyed editing and publishing this new @mongabay.com analysis:

In Malaysia’s Penang state, urban development has forced endangered dusky langurs into residential areas. To reduce human-wildlife conflict, conservationists and residents have built a canopy bridge and are leading community education efforts to coexist safely with these primates.

you're executing a $2.5B leveraged buy-out, but im having a $25 beveraged lay-out. it's a beautiful day

biden should be hated for not pardoning littlejohn alone

This article does a great job at providing the historical context around the US’s latest asinine aggression against Cuba.

God when they said Barney Frank was dying I figured it meant like in a year. He really was on his deathbed complaining about the libs.

When we are in Congress, we will subpoena acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and every DOJ official involved in this blatant corruption. In South Korea, Brazil, and democracies around the world, heads of state have gone to prison for breaking the law. We should do the same.

Pedophilia is a plank of the Republican Party, a very real policy goal that they work towards on a consistent basis, from the President to the primary electorate. The Republican Party's countless exposed sexual predators simply represent the party's view, which is that children should be molested.

"Republicans blocked a law to keep your taxpayer money from going to convicted pedophiles"

Asking the mugger for a receipt after he pistol whips me

So, with the Trump admin’s ICE goons ignoring the judge’s orders, whose job is it to rein them in?

A true fact about Trump's stock trading- I ran the numbers and Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026. All 535 Members of Congress made a total of ~$635 million worth of trades in 2025. So Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did last year

Oh wow, major year on year increases in China's solar and battery exports in April, which was expected to be a very slow month after March saw astronomic exports due to changes to rebate policy. Shows strong demand for clean energy outside China.

(To the tune of “Lights” by Journey) When the banks, are out, of money

Enemy of the people

it is a conflict of interest for elected representatives to march with striking public employees. I know NY politicians never get to do it so they aren't used to it, but you are supposed to be on the other side of the table

[opening of “Circle of Life”]

"Why do voters see voting entirely as cultural consumption rather than a meaningful way to affect policy?" - People who defended the filibuster for 30 years straight

Old house stream bridge #Chartresfarm #westfalklands #milkyway #skies

It’s funny that Tate McRae has been praising Jersey City and that her relationship status with Jack Hughes is still officially “rumored.” As someone who dated in NYC, you aren’t giving NJ any time of day unless you’re fucking someone there

RGGI was a good policy when it started because it priced out coal and hurt inefficient gas plants, but it doesn't make much sense when gas for heat goes un-priced in an era of efficient heat pumps. It would be better to run coal power in TN and OH today than build any new gas pipelines

The fact that the government chooses to leak this to you is an implicit insult although you would have to be self aware to pick up on that so no worries.

The U.S. doesn’t import solar panels from China. Too many tariffs first off. Even more than tariffs from other countries. Second, unless you can explicitly show them source of the silicon that makes up sub components - solar panels can’t enter the country. Fossil propagandists.

Even the progressives are obsessed with saying that the party cannot just be Anti-Trump. Ok, well the party is not actually anti-Trump? Democratic leadership has either voted present or against moving impeachment articles forward everytime they are brought up for a vote!

lol get fucked Trump-voting small business terrorists

insane thread