No other group in this world dealt with chattel slavery or jim crow. It has been just 60 years since we were truly free.

When you see America for what it is and not what propaganda tells you then you’re never too surprised when the country reasserts it can ALSO be the “bad guys”

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Up to 250 days in the year Scotland’s renewables could have powered 100% of our electricity needs so TWICE the UK figure talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/03/u...

If you didn't vote for VP Harris in the November 2024 election, you bear responsible for what is happening now. I do not care what excuse you tell yourself, it's still your fault. Uncommitted, #LeaveItBlank, Gaza, couldn't be bothered etc. It doesn't matter, your time was November 2024.

Trump said: Were going to run Venezuela This country is in shambles with its debt, farming, manufacturing, unemployment, infrastructure, homelessness, healthcare, etc etc etc.. but you’re going to run that country. Uh huh. Ok.

Exactly. These are not the same thing. Either this was a highly kinetic police operation or the US now runs Venezuela. If it's a policing operation, sovereign power of Venezuela doesn't come in as a package deal.

Too many Americans seem to forget we live inside a superpower.. and gave all that power to dementia Don. Again. And there’s no global governing body that can control this nation or its sick president

I’m at peace y’all. I did what I could in 2020 and 2024. Don’t stress yourself over this madness.

In 2026, Democrats MUST take back the House. As a DCCC Recruitment Co-Chair, I’m doing everything I can to make sure we have strong, energetic candidates who will fight for working families and lower their costs when they flip their districts from red to blue. 💪🏾

There seem to be a lot of people under the impression that if Trump is impeached and removed for treason, that the VP and his whole cabinet go with him. That’s not correct. You have to impeach and remove one at a time. Art II Section 4 simply lists all the offices eligible for impeachment.

🚨TODAY: Mary Sheffield sworn in as 76th mayor of Detroit, becoming the first woman to hold the position in the city’s history. One of her first stops: Engaging w/ Detroiters experiencing homelessness, serving them lunch. She says housing is top priority for her. #detroit #breakingnews

So anyway. The first Black Woman Mayor of Detroit was sworn in today.

Whether it’s Barack Obama being the editor of Harvard Law Review or Donald Trump narrowly passing a cognitive test used to detect dementia, there’s plenty of serious intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.

I’d like to see Mayor Brandon Scott get more recognition for what he’s done in Baltimore. It’s remarkable.

I remember maybe three or four years ago someone introduced me to yarvin and said among other things that what makes him so dangerous is he’s really steeped in history and philosophy. Sophisticated stuff. So I read some stuff and well, no. This is the stuff you say after you read one thing …

2/ as a freshman in college and you’re bullshitting or posing for your friends one night before you hit some frat parties. Funny thing. Yarvin went to and he’s three or four years younger than I am. And I taught at brown/TA’d right around the same time. So I know the type. Like literally. In any …

3/ case you don’t need to be a sophisticated thinker to be dangerous. Sophistication in thought has fairly little to do with political or ideological traction. But Yarvins thing is to put this as neutrally as possible tossing around some very outline political ideas and a smattering of history …

4/ to a lot of guys who either did engineering in college or dropped out of college in the first tech boom because they got offered big money to build the future. He’s a type and I get the sense he hasn’t really changed or updated his schtick since he was in college.

@halsparks.com @taradublinrocks.bsky.social in response to your conversation with Dr. Adam and that Trump is signing what miller and company want makes me recall this Grover Norquist clip. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6wYY...

@halsparks.com Hal, caught this website. Some of this content may interest you as a Las Vegas resident. www.fieldofschemes.com/2025/08/13/2...

Is the Chief's stadium deal the largest public subsidy ever offered. When looking only at stadium capital construction costs, I say yes. But when you throw in everything else, @gpropheter.bsky.social says it's still not as bad as the Commanders giveaway. It's bad. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

100%. numbers got mixed up in the article; I threw a lot at the writer. $6-$25b is pv for DC but it’s $6.3b nom and $4.1b pv for KS term sheet. So in pv terms KS has a way to go before it’s at the DC low end. If KS muni $s crowd out state $s, DC is safe. But if they add to, KS deal will get there.

The late great actor Michael K. Williams. Art by me.

Who will join my movement?!?!

"The US power sector is poised for a landmark transition in 2026, with all net new generating capacity expected to come exclusively from renewable energy and battery storage, according to forecasts from the US Energy Information Administration"

The average person in Sweden, gets a very good return in value on taxes. By the way, grocery bills may be lower in Sweden than in Florida for comparable unprocessed goods. No more immigration in Sweden? I’ve never seen so many Indians/ South Asians getting groceries in Sweden as I saw this year.

Another Carl Sagan gem. And this was over 30 years ago. Can you imagine what he would have thought of @Catturd2 or @realjameswoods today? Micro-pinheaded twats who wake up in the morning and beg to be bamboozled? mastodon.social/@Cabl...

No thank you, Marge.

There are 10 transgender student athletes in this entire country. Meanwhile, there have been 231 school shootings this year. Guess which issue Republicans think is a major crisis & endangers children.

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 Who would have thought that the American Red Cross bought into scientific racism? During WWII, they refused blood from Black donors. Pull up a seat, my friends.🪑 (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory qz.com/344343/durin...

If you had parents or grandparents who told stories about WWII this was known. White soldiers would not accept blood from blacks because they thought it would taint their own. Blacks were also segregated into barracks and units. This continued until the civil rights bill was signed.

I wonder how many Americans who were paying around $6 for a 28 day supply of insulin under Biden, now have to pay $80 under Trump? Has this comparison or similar been reported in the MSM?

Sarah Cooper is back. 👏

USPS changed the definition of postmark date from the date you put an item in the mail to the date it hits their auto sorting machine, which could be days later. This will have implications for postmark date dependencies like VOTING by mail, filing taxes, etc. www.instagram.com/reel/DS20uvh...

Yes - it’s easy as anything to make and we use a lot of it and the kids like it THICK - so some gets made every week

She wasn’t wrong. Not one bit. Her husband had a deal for a two state solution in 2000, that Palestine walked away from like morons.

Rising utility bills are now becoming a defining political issue. @powerlines.org in @wsj.com: “I do think that we’re entering a new era, a new politics of electricity,” said Charles Hua, executive director of PowerLines, a nonprofit advocating for utility customers. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Watched Galaxyquest for the first in 25 yrs last nite, still holds up perfectly as a good movie & Trek satire. From the Golden Age of Big Budget Hollywood SF Comedies (MIB, Mars Attacks!) - I miss those kinda movies. Easily the only thing I like Detroit Red in, like Pratt in the Guardians flicks.

@halsparks.com you brought up lewinsky being a distraction from real issues. It also messed up the news network coverage of the pope visiting cuba for the first time @bobcesca.bsky.social angelusnews.com/voices/jp2-c...

Biden accidentally tripped over a sandbag that was bizarrely placed in his path and it was a national scandal for weeks. But the current president has bruises on both hands and a hole on one and the legacy media has absolutely zero interest in this.

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The focus on Trump and MTG is temping. But fascism still exists in this country, even when he dies. This country is classified as a competitive authoritarian system/regime. It is bad news. This country does NOT have the remorse and horror to not elect another GOP after him. The signs aren’t there

I think we are now at the masks-off moment where conservatives just say out loud "the system is only legitimate when we win" instead of trying to hide the thought in a weaselly bit of cant and sophistry. No need for think-tanks and pseudointellectual commentators any more.

Good morning with good news: Science names Renewable Energy Surge its 2025 Breakthrough of the Year! 2025 saw Renewable Energy pass coal as World's Top electricity source. Solar & wind global growth exceeds electricity demand growth from Jan-June 2025. #energysky www.science.org/content/arti...

@halsparks.com @bobcesca.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovat...

Talking about AI replacing workers is so broad as to be worthless. ATMs replaced bank tellers and Outlook replaced secretaries being dictated memos by their bosses. Yet we didn’t talk about them replacing humans. We will see similar dynamics with LLMs. They will take over tasks not entire jobs.

The problem with "podcast bros" lobbing out "hot takes" is that comedians and people who presume they're funny aren't often especially insightful or thoughtful. They've calibrated their engagement around "funny" and get absurd followings of people who want thatover thoughtful or accurate.