58/ A domino effect where the fallout gets bigger and bigger... if we run out of feedstock, eventually refiners are going to shut down hbr.org/2026/03/the-... "These "oil and gas are in everything" graphics are about to get very real super quick for a lot of people." -- @roryjohnston.bsky.social

Volunteers to make it happen & keep it safe for all welcome!

Tell Your Members of Congress: Halt the ICE Terror Machine act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

paywall-free: www.vox.com/politics/479...

luma.com/f5iks5d0 ​ #QuitGPT #NoDeal #NoKillerRobots #NoAISurveillance

All history matters. The Black Soldiers Who Built America's National Parks open.substack.com/pub/sharonmc...

NYU Prof. Scott Galloway has compiled this "list of subscription-driven consumer tech companies having outsized influence over the national economy and our president." #resistandunsubscribe, #resistICE www.resistandunsubscribe.com

This crowd was HUGE—I was there. Only days of networking notice. Mostly young people! Momentum! substack.com/@rawstory/no...

Solid demand

Unlike our draft-dodging President, I served in combat. As a veteran, when I hear Trump's goons using military terms to describe America's streets—I find it disgusting.

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Plainly showing us their priorities

🚨 I've obtained a list of secret watchlists the Department of Homeland Security uses to keep tabs on American citizens www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...

Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks, don't you think? Thanks @rbreich.bsky.social

BREAKING: Listen to this. Reporter: "Your husband bought stock in Elon Musk's xAI days before the Pentagon expanded its role. Can you assure us it wasn’t based on inside info?” Representative Lisa McClain: “100%. If it was, we would've bought a heck of a lot more."

Hello US Senate, Congress? About that funding…

More demonizing. "over public assistance concerns" in the headline is world-class sanewashing. apnews.com/article/trum...

Velazquez: The American people are upset. They did not sign on for this. The most fundamental principle for the American people is fairness and humane policies, not beating the shit out of people, especially vulnerable women and children.

The end of coal is inevitable, by 2035: both China and India added a record amount of new clean-power generation last year, which was more than sufficient to meet rising demand. And they won't stop. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coa...

A reminder that not so long ago we honored immigrants in the US, even by carving monuments like this one at Immigration Point, over the Golden Gate connecting the Pacific to SF Bay. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

If you need a deep breath, a mental reset, a reminder of why you CARE and why you act, this is a very short read meant to give just that. (I’m there because I take no money and it’s free. The other places aren’t. And @hcrichardson.bsky.social is there.)

Be like Jerome. We won't back down. bsky.app/profile/noth...

Gestapo is here, and proud of it.

ICE beat a U.S. Marine Veteran, telling her: “Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch!” Credit to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social for the interview.

Tonight, 6-8 at Taste-of Rome in Sausolito—bluegrass time! #bluegrass #acousticmusic #bayareamusic

Plunder!

This is 1930s Germany foreign policy. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

@davidfrum.bsky.social offers a strong warning against the weakness in being ineffective in opposing T47. Offering nothing constructive, he proves his own point quite well… www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

trying to look at the new year as a slate... no illusion of clean slate, but a slate. Let's see what we can make of it.

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

Happy New Year! Let's see what we can make of it... Here's good news! youtu.be/MzyMwwZKneM?...

ICE raids appear to be 100% responsible for the current housing crunch in south Texas. Indeed, they have brought residential construction to an end.

International leadership. How bout that?

This is unacceptable. Our veterans deserve to make their own healthcare decisions. The VA must reverse course.

I feel like that makes it worse, bc it underscores that it's not just (using just loosely) RFK Jr randomly being a conspiracy addled eugenicist wackjob -- this catastrophe was coordinated and had the backing of the conservative legal movement

@pkrugman.bsky.social nails it. "Trump has no idea how to govern. Faced with adversity, he’s unable to propose policies to improve the situation. All he can do iscontinue to gaslight the public and claim that everything is great, while smearing his opponents." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

and there’s this one.

“And I voted for him!” open.substack.com/pub/official...

51.5% of India's power came from renewables on 29 July - an amazing achievement so many said can't be done - while the country delivered 50 % of installed electric power capacity from non-fossil fuel sources 5 years early Renewables are unstoppable www.pib.gov.in/PressRelease...

Some say courage is contagious. I hope this version spreads to the US!

Credit not only RFK and the wrecking ball that appointed him, but every Senator-sheep who approved his appointment.

> @amysiskind.com

“That’s not how a democracy works” could be the lead line of every story about this administration.

On Monday morning, Paramount announced a $77.9 billion hostile takeover offer of Warner Bros. Discovery. What is not mentioned in the press release is that the majority of the equity financing comes from the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar.

We should change laws to make this impossible.

A brand new throwback holiday classic from my friend John Tuttle. Complete with locally sourced retro video theme... youtu.be/Aay93v0W3ac?... @oh-that-guy.bsky.social

No one mouthes the messages of Russian influence operations more loudly or consistently than Elon Musk. And note how he refuses to talk about his regular direct talks with Vladimir Putin, which as a top secret security holder he is obligated to report to USG, but does not—ever.

Bears repeating that one of Russia’s first major social media influence campaigns in the US promoted antivax views. Why? For it’s a way to do clear material harm to the country. And here we are.

pathetic. Link is paywall-free. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Simpler times, sure. But ‘Media’ is more than the weak-kneed NYT class, so we can see plenty more than batting an eye. Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social @democracydocket.com @marisakabas.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social just for starters