Turn off your phone’s “advertising ID” to make it harder for location data brokers to track you. (2/4)

I’m proud to have played a small part in bringing Jimmy Kimmel back on Sinclair’s stations. I will always stand with Seattle’s residents to protect our freedoms from Trump’s authoritarianism. I look forward to debating on October 8th — live on KOMO! #thisisyourcity #jimmykimmel #katiewilson

Which side are you on? Which side are you on?

Back in the 80's, I was a big fan of Sid Meir's Railroad Tycoon.

The brilliant historian-cum-journalist Thom Hartmann lays bare the origins of the scheme to take from the poor and give to the rich in his brilliant book, The Hidden History of Neoliberalism. #MustRead @hartmannreport.com gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/from-reaga...

One of my favorite Comic Book artists is releasing a new book this year.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Anti-vax sentiment decreasing the rate of rabies vaccines in dogs might collide with the current increase in aggressive and badly-controlled dogs + overtaxed animal control services and shelters in *really* ugly ways.

It's the beginning of a new semester and if you are a teacher, or a student, you might wish to review James Baldwin's words to Teachers in a Time of Turmoil. Love the alliteration, James. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ba...

The model of extreme "planned obsolescence" crashing headlong into the average consumers new need to keep things as long as possible because you can't afford to replace it is going to be absolute torture.

Few people have realized that the erosion of the average quality and reparability of consumer goods over the last couple of decades is going to absolutely create a crisis as tarrifs and other stupid policies prevent us from replacing all the artificially cheap shit we've been buying.

How many Katrinas will it take, how many kids swept away, before we stand up to a bully who is more concerned with hunting down critics and saving face than saving lives?

Mamie Till did it in 1955. One grieving mother will do it again, and the gun industry will never recover… hartmannreport.com/p/the-day-wi...

The long and short of it is, if you don’t want to be left for dead in the event of a disaster, you’d better live in New York or California — states with the budget to pull you out of the water before you run out of energy to tread. gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/katrina-re...

I've been fiddling with maps for a project on the Newark Subway, what once was, and what could be. The first photo is the current system in Dark Blue (Classic) and Light Blue (New Wave).

When governments rewrite reality and the press goes along, cruelty becomes invisible and the public becomes complicit… hartmannreport.com/p/are-americ...

Woah! Not The Onion! And look at the map very carefully and note the pink area on the far north coast of Alaska. That's the North Slope where the USA get's about 20% of our domestic oil production. www.newsweek.com/alaska-arcti...

Here's a nice story about re-foresting Iceland and also discussing the issues of non-native species and changing temperatures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbkW...

Meow-MEOW! Happy International Cat Day!

Does anyone know if author Kim Stanley Robinson is on The Blue Sky? Or for that matter, any non Twitter social media?

NY Aquarium, big tank.

I think there was an earthquake in NJ. There was a funny shaking occurring.

For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them. Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is simple, neat, and wrong." Mencken. (Yes, I know he was a racist and elitist but a broken clock is right twice a day and the "cuckoo" popping out is really accurate in this summation.) www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Dictator.

Big beautiful bill closes the Sandy Hook National Seashore visitor center on Tuesday and Wednesday.

#ResistanceRoots Silas Soule was born on this day in 1838 in Bath, Maine. An American abolitionist and teenage conductor on the Underground Railroad, Soule is best known for disobeying orders to participate in a massacre of Native Americans and then giving evidence against his commander. /1

The McDonalds Tree changed the fate of ancient trees in the Bluegrass. Read about it at Our Trees.

Sweet Zucchini Pickles. Soak thin sliced Zucchini, Onions, & Garlic for 1 hour in a 5% salt solution. Then transfer to a 4 cups vinegar, 1 cup BROWN SUGAR, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, all spice black pepper, and yellow mustard seed pickling solution. Refrigerate and enjoy!

I'm all for a rename to the Washington Generals IF there is an expansion team in Harlem that plays worldwide.

An antigen-presenting cell subtype tames the immune response to food antigens in early life. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/3GQM3ms

Why has the GOP declared war on everything: healthcare, Democracy, science, and you? hartmannreport.com/p/why-are-tr...

It's happening ... again. CBS are weak willed, cowardly and craven.

Oh no! apnews.com/article/gran...

(1) I’d like to study these inter-species social interactions. There’s a whole series of camera trap videos on cat food put out for feral and stray cats that attract all sorts of medium sized omnivores and carnivores.

Sweden, if you need a friend, I am available. I’ll write you postcards from National Parks to you.

Saturday Report 7/12/25 — Plow Fields or Lose Benefits? Trump Admin Says Medicaid Recipients Should Become Farm Laborers... The Best of the Rest of the News… hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-r...

This is a link to the Texas Observer Article and Jack's brief comments. Don't mourn. For God's sake, don't gloat. ORGANIZE! spaceisameansofproduction.discourse.group/t/the-guadal...

Dropkick Murphy were a favorite of mine when I was going to Ska concerts in the aughts. I remember seeing them at Summerfest in Milwaukee. “Who’ll stand with us? youtu.be/5BRHuiRyVEE

“Based on a massive dataset of over 50,000 houses in some 1,000 archaeological sites worldwide, the study suggests that economic inequality is not an inevitable result of societal advancement…Instead, it seems to be a consequence of political choices…” #MustRead archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

The secret stash just produced! We’re having Kentucky Fried Chicken of the Woodsfor dinner tomorrow!

Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people. You could call it wink murder. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is cool.

2 If crops rot in the fields, it won’t be because of the workers. It will be on Trump, who refuses to give them the dignity and citizenship they’ve earned. This is your sign to speak up now. Make noise now. Before shelves go empty. Before we fail the very people who feed us all. #OnYourSide

🧵 California’s biggest harvest is about to begin—& it grows 80% of America’s fruit, 60% of its veggies, 90% of its nuts & wine. But the farmworkers who make that possible? They’re planning a strike. Quietly. Strategically. They know exactly when to hit hardest. They’ve worked this land for decades.