“Americans should not make the mistake of believing Sanchez’s sentence only threatens immigrants, leftists or so-called antifa members – they’re just the low-hanging fruit, not the endgame.” — @seth-stern.bsky.social, Freedom of the Press Foundation

In the US, air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills 1-200,000 people per year (3.5-7% of all American deaths). At the EPA's statistical value of life of ~$10M, that's ~$1-2 trillion per year. Far more than enough to justify switching to efficiency, solar, wind, batteries, EVs, heat pumps, etc.

We must reconstruct the country and rebuild our reliability, in order to have any chance of restoring our credibility www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

The main ask in #Venezuela monetary support to prevent supply chain clogging and further strain on limited logistical channels that physical goods (food, clothing, etc.) require PLS SHARE w/ your networks Special thanks to @caracaschronicles.tierra-de-gracia.com for their resource compilation

you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help. with that said, onwards!

this morning's decision in the TPS case, Mullin v. Doe, is just a straightforward declaration from the Supreme Court that neither the law nor the lives of nonwhite people matter ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...

I have an annual update on these projections vs actuals for CCS (didn't get around to it last Dec), including comparisons to fossil fuel industry and IPCC projections. This is from Dec 2024 - not just an IEA problem. Widespread across many scenarios ketanjoshi.co/2024/11/24/2...

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Americans and Europeans need to do a building technology knowledge swap: we help them retrofit their old buildings with air conditioning and they help us retrofit ours with elevators.

It's not all bad news! Here's some good news on the climate front that we've recently shared in our #ClimateBeat newsletter...

53 years ago today, 6/25/73 With 85 million households watching on TV, former WH counsel John Dean reads his explosive 60,000 word opening statement which implicates Nixon, himself & other top WH officials in a coverup of Watergate & more. Nixon resigns 13 months later. Telling the truth matters.

I especially love this diagram.

Kanew: “I’m no fan of Tucker/Marge, but if Dems let them fill the void on opposition to 🇮🇱 they’re gonna fumble the ball here… I’m a Jew. Israel doesn’t speak for me. Their actions are why Jews are unsafe in their synagogues, not people like Zohran calling it out.”

I see no reason why several strong Democratic governors shouldn't respond this way at this point. And for the pearl-clutchers who might say, "They'd be declaring war!" My response is, "No - the Right has already declared war. This would be returning fire." bsky.app/profile/silv...

Applying this going forward there's just no actual claim of racial discrimination that would meet the right-wing justices' threshold of "overtly racial" as applied to black people.

lol does this article really not mention that Clarence Thomas was in house counsel for Monsanto, the Roundup manufacturer?

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

Highly rec @bookshop.bsky.social's latest for @fansplaining.bsky.social on how governments are criminalizing people for creating and consuming queer art, erotic art, or both. I love the framing of "currents in which fanworks flow": it's a broader problem than fandom, but fans are at the heart of it.

Evidence keeps mounting that the green economy has entered a new phase, one where its rapidly improving economics give it lasting immunity from fickle political sentiments Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

It’s funny because Mamdani gets treated as an obvious terrorist sleeper cell while open allies of this guy and his movement get “my good friends across the aisle”

At least 48 people have died in France, including 40 who drowned trying to find relief from the heat. Two children were found dead in a hot car on Monday afternoon.

“and so it’s almost like a confession – as though the words on the pamphlet are: 'We worship the devil, signed, antifa’.” @reproutopia.bsky.social quoted in @lexmcmenamin.com's incredible new story

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

There’s nothing extreme about social democracy. These people are willing to stand up and fight real extremism and that’s why they’re winning.

No more tokenmaxxing. Now it's tokenminning www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

"On June 14th, 2026, Donald Trump took the occasion of his birthday to turn the Lincoln Memorial into a catwalk for the fragile machismo of the American right. Immediately thereafter, he turned the mirror at Lincoln’s feet into a man-made swamp." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-us-refle...

Generally speaking, polls have shown the Democratic Party's problem is not being seen as too woke, but weak and ineffective. Judging by tonight's primary results, Democratic Primary voters are intent on fixing this www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Yes, we can do both climate mitigation and adaptation by installing heat pumps that both heat and cool. Mitigation by switching fossil-fueled heating to cleaner electricity. Adaptation by adding air conditioning that can save lives in the heatwaves that are getting increasingly frequent and severe.

A "podcast" that is taped and released as video and features famous people is just a talk show that doesn't have to abide by union rules.

I don't have any particularly valuable input other than 1. Stephanie is amazing, working with her is always a gift and 2. everyone should read this article and think long and hard about their own internal biases.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

There is far more money and jobs being generated in the sale, development, finance, construction, and ownership of solar power plants than in the manufacturing of solar panels.

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>>

Maybe, just maybe, it's time to cut back on the demand for steak.

It now costs more to cause climate change than to prevent it

yeah no. @amo.house.gov you gotta drop this @mikelevin.org doesn't seem like the best bill to co-sponsor! www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Terrible news and a big loss for independent science journalism

The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

Irony is dead

My piece with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that lays the evidence out: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

An underlying logic of unitary executive theory is that the President is an all knowing figure who should be granted extraordinary power, rather than a flawed individual who should be constrained

This shouldn't affect people's pensions and retail investors because of the one year 'seasoning' period before adding a newly IPO'd stock to indexes- what's that? The NASDAQ bent the rules for this one particular stock? No, they'd never do that.

That’ll teach those kids to be born to a poor mom

Do not draw your comic's inspirations solely from other comics. Speaking as an editor with a slush pile: It's incredibly obvious when a comic creator is clearly only reading/absorbing/remixing other comics. It's not good.

every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play

I’ve had straight men essentially say I’m overreacting for talking about rising internet censorship under the guise of protecting children, which is how I know it’s probably going to be an even bigger problem than I thought

Storyboard artists, often closest and most integral to realizing a director's vision, are a relatively cheap part of the process. Often their role is disparaged, or not even understood. And yet one of the main goals of AI in film production seems to be to replicate what they do.