Changing our diets is one of the best things we can do for ourselves … and for the planet. Here is our assessment of how modest changes in diet could have big impacts on climate change. drawdown.org/explorer/imp...

It has been 365 days since Hurricane Helene hit our mountains, destroying roads, flooding businesses and homes and tragically taking the lives of 108 North Carolinians. Today, in spite of a broken Washington, communities are stepping up and supporting each other as they rebuild.

Chicago just went all in on renewable energy and is demonstrating that it works. Chicago now powers EVERY city-owned building – from airports to police stations – with renewable energy. That includes O’Hare airport.

"I see every ideal that I have held fading away and conditions emerging...which not only distress me but indicate to me that my life's work has been a failure." "It is this inner rot that is the most distressing symptom of today." -Jawaharlal Nehru, 1950, quoted in The New India by Rahul Bhatia

Inanity has truly taken hold in America. We are so focused on things that aren’t actually problems (trans panic) while ignoring stuff that could really be our undoing (climate change, infectious diseases). We are governed by mad men. All this was paid for by lunatic plutocrats who want low taxes

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

The real issue isn’t left vs right. It’s not white vs black. It’s not citizen vs immigrant. It’s not gay vs straight. The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.

Stanley Kubrick 📸 Columbia University, NYC (1948)

More train, FTR:

If you are in or near Baltimore you should know that the Walters Art Museum (which is free!) has a small but wonderful exhibit about cats in medieval manuscripts

Brian Eno, Bono and The Edge with Luciano Pavarotti at the Children of Bosnia Charity Concert in Modena, Italy, 1995 by Brian Rasic

A Chinese cell phone company pivoted to making EVs and within three years is delivering 350K cars a year. It took Tesla ten years to get there.

I've made a list of people and accounts I like, that post mostly about art and art-related stuff with little or no current affairs. The discussion the other day about people being intimidated by the news-heavy vibe on Bluesky made me finally do it. bsky.app/profile/self...

Happy 95th birthday to Vera Miles! Splendidly versatile actress who could play insanity for Alfred Hitchcock just as well as she did homespun stability for John Ford. Retired for many years, she is one of our last living connections to them both.

If the fossil fuel industry didn’t have our president and corporate America by the throat, we could have nice things like this too.

I guarantee you that none of the men who paid for sex with the girls Maxwell and Epstein trafficked were roofers looking for work at a Home Depot

The new Pier 10 ferry is helping commuters get around faster than ever before! ⛴️

Environmental law isn't the only grounds on which this abomination should be illegal, but it is absolutely one of them

One of the most remarkable and impactful transformations of all human technology and civilization in history is happening right now!

It’s especially galling considering that in literally June, the World Health Organization’s scientific advisory group studying COVID origins published its report, concluding that “the weight of available evidence…suggests zoonotic spillover…either directly from bats or through an intermediate host.”

Whoa.

If you’re trying to make it harder for people to vote, stop pretending to give a shit about democracy. Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.

Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃

Researchers found that moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans. By @abrahm.bsky.social

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

"Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise." -- Ingmar Bergman

ICYMI- Horses Changing Courses- yesterday's cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com

“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.

Incredibly, we're probably gonna get a new Taylor Swift album before we get the Epstein files.

Another example of the Big Ugly Bill increasing cost to every day families just to give big tax breaks to billionaires. I will fight for lower costs, better health care and real middle class tax breaks. www.wral.com/story/afford...

Media are remarkably incurious about why a 15-year old was working for Donald Trump as a "locker room attendant" at Mar-a-Lago before being recruited as a "massage therapist" by Trump's good friend Ghislaine Maxwell. Open the damn Epstein files! www.bbc.com/news/article...

45°C = 113°F. Current forecast is 107°F in Bordeaux for Monday. France has very low AC penetration versus the US. Heat waves kill.

What's a busway? Allow us to explain. bsky.app/profile/zohr...

It’s weird that people have a huge problem with tax dollars being used to subsidize part of the cost of someone’s soda with SNAP, and no problem with our tax dollars being used to subsidize the entire cost of a billionaire’s private jets and yachts with Trump’s tax cuts.

"This brazen, hackish partisanship is the lens through which we must assess the direction the Roberts Court is taking us — and it’s clearly nowhere good. That’s why the work of our lower courts is more important than ever." -- Rachel Rossi www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

The highest levels of the Trump administration are collaborating with the FBI and DOJ to cover-up evidence the President committed sexual crimes against children. Unspeakably corrupt, and not a single Republican in Congress can be expected to speak out against it.

Watched 20/100 Movie: The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch Director: Noriaki Yuasa Watched On: Midnight Pulp Oh this was a fun Japanese gateway horror!!! #100horrormoviesin92days

Roxy Music: Virginia Plain - their debut single was released on August 4, 1972 #BrianEno #BryanFerry www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9b...

"The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future." - Sun Ra #quote

Brian Eno, 1978 by Chalkie Davies

Great work, John Roberts. You’ve played a key role in wrecking our beloved country.

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

More of this! borderbelt.org/nc-democrati...

“So how was it that Israel had the capacity to destroy pinpoint targets in Iran, some 1,200 miles from Tel Aviv, and could not safely deliver boxes of food to starving Gazans 40 miles from Tel Aviv?” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...

The GOP scheme to use the Texas floods as cover to gerrymander the state is politics at its worst. Through our 30k-person strong organizing program, we’re calling and texting Texas voters, telling them how Republicans are trying to rig the system. Let’s stop them in their tracks.