"Clean energy is affordability and anyone who doesn’t acknowledge that fact should be assumed to be on the payroll of the fossil fuel industry or looking for a job in the Trump administration." cepr.net/publications...

"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?" -Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

Elon, Bannon, Epstein and more. Plus the importance of independent media thanks to people like Jim Acosta.

In an age of toxic rhetoric and escalating political violence we need to conjure the spirit of D'Arcy McGee. He gave his life for the principle that our nation will survive if we focus on what binds us rather than on what divides. charlieangus.substack.com/p/rethinking...

There is the vehicle The idiots over on X are blaming the Muslims and the left for the lastest church shooting in Michigan. Here's the truck that drove through it . They are missing a lot of brain cells.

lolololol 😆

Boot-licking fascist jackass detected. Heaven forbid that the public would vote on a way to access their services more conveniently.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

The discussion about Charlie Kirk being a Christian martyr should have ended by rolling the tape with him suggesting a GoFundMe for the defense of the man who beat Paul Pelosi with a hammer. This shouldn’t even be hard.

Hint, hint, America

Oh, we are very much sending our tourism, investment, and purchasing power elsewhere. 🙂🍁

Welp.

We're back in the Nixon missions

American farmers are crying about an impending "farmaggedon". Their global markets are disappearing as countries walk away on America. Canada and Mexico are stepping up to fill the void. Trump created this crisis. The boycott is growing. Here is my latest. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Brits have such a way with words. You know. Those things with letter that help you define and say stuff about things.

Two big firsts today. No other American president has ever named a political opponent to be prosecuted—much less had an AG follow through with an indictment. No FBI Director has ever released evidence from a live crime scene. The Epstein files must be SO BAD.

Exactly right @mcuban.bsky.social

Trump approved a plan to release the statement... “It is the determination of the DOJ and FBI that no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

I think it would be helpful if DA Bragg charged a few of these assaults. If the agents think that federal law immunizes them for actions that would result in ordinary New Yorkers being charged, let them litigate it.

Good morning

Not for nothing, tonight is effectively a late-night comedian facing off against the president of the United States, and that has to be absolutely terrifying, regardless of how dopey Trump is. Kudos to Jimmy Kimmel, and good luck. This is an unenviable task, and it will take guts.

New statue on National Mall celebrates ‘long-lasting bond’ between Trump and Epstein

Jesse Watters just called for the bombing of the UN on national television. FCC? Nothing? Crickets? Got it.

I don’t get how you all are just joking around on the same day a phalanx of antifa super soldiers briefly disabled the president’s escalator and jostled his teleprompter. That’s called terrorism, you bastards.

HOLY SHIT

Thought that hit me: Translators needed to translate that rambling, incoherent, idiotic Trump speech at the UN.

"This is not a transition. This is a rupture," he said. "This is a sharp change in a short period of time, driven by a variety of factors. We have a determination to rise up and meet this." He does this right in his backyard 🤣. Bring it! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Trump just canceled this meeting

It's going to be one of THOSE days. *pours more tea and curses under his breath*

I’m trying to remember any scenario, fictional or real, where the side using a captive five year old as leverage aren’t the villains of the piece. If this was an action movie, we’d cheer those cops being wiped out.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

I love how rightwingers keep saying you can’t recognize a Palestinian state because it doesn’t even have any agreed-upon borders. Erm, are they aware that Israel is one of the only countries in the world that refuses to define its own borders?

Appreciate these insights from @emollick.bsky.social. But the "wizard problem" isn't that AI is too opaque. It's that we're designing systems that hide their processes. We could build AI that shows its work, explains, and lets us intervene. Instead we're choosing black boxes and calling it magic.

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Fuck ICE. Cowardly bastards.

still can’t get over Trump saying that we’re putting too much liquid into babies with the vaccine schedule. like they’re going to pop.

You know how I know it it’s not safe to take Tylenol? A heroin addict told me so.

The president of the United States is a fucking moron.

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

I wonder if Snopes should expect a visit from the FBI or DOJ? 🤔