Making the Strait of Hormuz safe for energy shipments would be a remarkable accomplishment, one that the world has never seen since the beginning of the month.

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The biggest movie is about science bros and the power of friendship and sacrifice, the biggest TV show is about good people doing their best under impossible circumstances to help suffering people, even under our culture’s institutionalized greed and cynicism, people are desperate for fellowship.

Sometime in the future, when I’m feeling despair, it will help if I can remember that somewhere there is a warm and humorous woman who possesses institutional knowledge on the best ways to feed baby beavers.

I hope we're all enjoying the experience of living in the first 15 minutes of a 1980s docudrama the BBC is only allowed to air once.

As usual, the Republican superpower is being so cartoonishly evil that describing their policies in factual terms makes you sound like a deranged ideologue.

Positive policy like universal basic income and healthcare, not mass deportation of our neighbors, protecting Live Nation/Ticketmaster, and starting another pointless war

The real theme of the modern age is "Nobody Wants This". AI, ICE in airports, ICE in general, the Iran War, data centers sending actual cities wiht people into blackouts -- "nobody" wants this. And yet here we are.

I like this summary of the Omnishambles à la Douglas Adams

Huh.

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

Just a thought that if they start bringing ICE into the airports, airtravel is going to fucking tank, hard, very quickly, and if their presence and deployment doesn't get curtailed real fast, it will be increasingly hard to unmake that soup.

Starfleet negotiation tactics: Kirk: Do what I want or I'll kill you Picard: Don't you see how pointless this conflict is? Can't you hear the screams of the needy? Think, damn you, think! Sisko: Do what I want or I'll kill you Janeway: Do what I want or I'll kill my whole crew and then myself

A massive Western heat wave and a potential El Niño event raise concerns about a long stretch of unpredictable and extreme weather.

“The President posted a completely, titanically unhinged rant on a social media platform he owns for the eight thousandth day in a row. Because this can’t be explained as the ravings of a demented lunatic, here are the possible strategies he’s pursuing in what’s definitely four dimensional chess.”

"Most people don't fall into homelessness. They are pushed... There is not a single state, city or county in the US where a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour or the prevailing local minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom home at fair market rent.”

A really thoughtful, in-depth piece on my book THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is now up on @cnn.com, by John Blake. It gets at what I've come to think of as the "shadow realm" of America's housing crisis: the vast, largely unseen world of the working homeless.

And here it is with spaces for text so you can use it as a meme template:

Tatyana Thompson said when she became pregnant with her son, her pain from sickle cell intensified. She was repeatedly in the hospital with a sharp pain, which she compared to being cut by a knife. After experimental treatment requiring bone marrow from her brother, she is pain-free. #BlackSky 🌱🙏🏾

It’s all fun and games until an ICE agent with an 8th grade education and three domestic violence arrests pistol whips a grandmother because she was too slow to take her Velcro shoes off…

None of you told me Eve Myles is in HIJACK and I consider this a personal betrayal.

really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying

To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

“What was really surprising to me during my initial dive into all of this was how, when you look at the question of superintelligence as a documentarian or journalist, it doesn’t take long before you smack your forehead into the low doorframe of race science, because it’s baked into this technology”

My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

A great thread. This is how adults talk.

Truly, the man is a super genius.

"After more than two weeks of consistent bombing, new US intelligence suggests Iran’s regime is now consolidating power, unlikely to collapse, and led by a cadre more extreme than before." 😬 www.cato.org/blog/strateg...

Of COURSE this guy was Charlie Kirk’s mentor. He was a utility player of evil.

"‘The inherent [worthiness] and dignity of every person’ is core to Unitarian Universalism: every person, no exceptions.” Statement of Conscience: Immigration as a Moral Issue" www.uua.org/pressroom/in...

A few weeks ago oil was about $70 a barrel and Iran was mostly selling at an often steep discount to China. The US Treasury will now let them sell at $110 a barrel on the open market for a few weeks at least. I’ve read quite a lot about the history of economic warfare. This is quite new.

a hugely underrated aspect of parliamentary systems is the snap election. far superior to impeachment, which was a dumb design to start with and straight up does not work anymore

“Bike lanes that greatly reduced crashes on National Mall set for removal” 10/10 hed, no notes. #bikedc

a billionaire must never make a decision because the billionaire can never be held accountable

The relentlessness of this Administration in making sure every single functionary, of every level, for every job, is a delusional freak, apocalyptic religious fanatic or corrupt sex pest is incredible. Just one fucking boring conservative, in any slot, would honestly be a relief.

it would be difficult to script the American Century of Humiliation much more poignantly than this

The US Supreme Court has institutionalized these open-ended elite corrupt networks by defining corruption as nothing but an explicit quid pro quo, as money for official services rendered. The law can't see anything else as corruption.

Youtube is a huge problem, as one of the hardest-to-replace internet utilities, and one that has been central to pushing far-right politics into the mainstream since before 2016. Idk what the solution is, but Google-operated Youtube can't remain the home for all video on the internet!!

For non-nerds who didn't follow Iberian blackout coverage closely, it's hard to convey how completely anti-renewable pundits led reporters - from national media down to self-styled "energy wonk" podcasters - down a totally irrelevant rabbit hole by just yelling "INERTIA" over and over.

This definitely takes a turn

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

We are at the “Dems should listen to His Holiness instead of James Carville” part of American deterioration.

I've been a subscriber since the early days and will snatch this up ASAP.

A gorgeous graphic novel reimagining the seminal British scifi comic, with a banger of a team. I backed it and it's definitely worth checking out.

Thread: This is the Cicero approach, and the Democrats must take it.

NEW: Secretaries of state slammed the SAVE America Act, warning the bill would set off widespread chaos if it became law before the midterms. They also said Trump’s threats against elections need to be treated “like a bomb threat."

electrified public transit, heat pumps, home weatherization all make life easy for people and hard for fossil capital. here's some recs from @cplusc.bsky.social climateandcommunity.org/research/blo...