China is dominating solar, batteries, and EVs because they made a national commitment, while we keep stalling. Every day we delay on clean energy is a day we fall further behind. This is an economic and national security fight we can't lose.

This was, in all seriousness, the point of the Harper’s Letter

Congratulations to @stephenking.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor!👍 (Novels/Novellas: Approximately 65 to 67 Non-fiction books: 5 books. Short Stories: Over 200 Pseudonyms: 7 novels were published as Richard Bachman. Frequency: He has published at least one book almost every year since 1974)

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

It’s a neat trick that Trump and his henchmen are pulling with their mafia DOJ. File a bogus frivolous lawsuit that you can never possibly win in a court of law, then have Todd Blanche settle it by paying them millions and potentially billions in taxpayer money. Theft by lawsuit.

I would never have imagined a headline like this There is very little expectation that a US law enforcement organization will agree to follow the law.

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

This is great news — for BOTH Ukraine and the EU! 🇺🇦🇪🇺

"the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power..." www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...

Uups

A great cartoon by @guyvenables.bsky.social - The #art of an #editorial #cartoon with a little joke on the #War #Iran - #USA + The blockade of the #StraitofHormuz + #Oil #Market #Manipulation

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

Peter Broelman n Canberra Times

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said the panel would be “fully prepared” to vet a Supreme Court nominee should there be a retirement at the end of the term, and would recommend that either Ted Cruz (R-Texas) or Mike Lee (R-Utah) get the nomination.

Credit where credit is due. Congress is “doing something.”

We can't keep looking away from his emotional and cognitive issues. The attack on the Pope was the beginning of a full night of melting down. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Cartoon by Jeff Stahler

In case anyone is still confused

Mark Ruffalo, Glenn Close, Ben Stiller, Jane Fonda, John Cusack, Kristen Stewart, JJ Abrams, Katie Phang, John Leguizamo, and over a thousand actors, writers, directors, journalists, producers, composers, and Hollywood executives have signed a letter against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger: 🧵

Should be part of his next test.

So glad to see someone so beautifully articulate what I think about almost every day….

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

It's really something to be living through the worst President, the worst Supreme Court, and the worst Congress all at once

An old message for Trump? In 546 BC, King Croesus of Lydia asked the Delphic Oracle if he should invade Persia. The oracle replied "that if he should send an army against the Persians he would destroy a great empire." It was true. The war led to the fall of Croesus and the destruction of Lydia.

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Right now, we are witnessing a preview of what could happen in the USA this November. Hungary's opposition party, Tisza, is so far ahead in the polls that they are on track to win a supermajority in the parliament, spelling the end of Orban. The only way Orban can remain is to subvert the election.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

This week's edition of the UK's New Statesman magazine isn't pulling its punches.

By unilaterally declaring that Lebanon is not included in the truce and then continuing its bombing campaign, Netanyahu is deliberately undermining the ceasefire. Will Trump allow Netanyahu to dictate foreign policy to him?

Trump's ally and role model, Hungarian dictator Victor Orban, has now been exposed as (1) telling Putin that he would do everything he could to help Putin in Ukraine, and (2) assuring Iran that he would pass them all intelligence to help them. Trump's ally is America's, and democracy's, enemy.

This is the type of energy we need.

Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽

If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Meanwhile, the Fox News Cabinet is rallying behind Trump's call for war crimes. www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

* IRAN CUTS OFF DIRECT DIPLOMACY WITH U.S. -- WSJ @reuters.com

Glad to know the US Congress is out on a vacation and is resting from the strong effort they demonstrated.

Trump is threatening war crimes to annihilate "a whole civilization". Republicans in Congress repeatedly voted for Trump’s war and still won't do their job to end this madness. Enough. Bring Congress back into session. Republicans must grow a spine and stop this catastrophe.

We could be looking at one of the worst humanitarian crises in history tonight.

My god. Stop this man. Stop this atrocity.

Annoying dork Elon Musk made it deeply uncool to get a thrill from space travel. Thank you, NASA, for fixing that with Artemis II.

“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV

It’s a bit too polite for my liking.

"He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power." {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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