I have purchased tickets for @alyankovic.bsky.social at Tanglewood. Very excited.

every so often Zelensky gets a chance to go back to to being a funny guy on tv and it's like his eyes light up and he loses 5 years of age look at his face man is SO HAPPY to just be crushing a punchline

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

Good on @nysfocus.com for suing @governor.ny.gov to make her calendar publicly accessable. We should know who our elected leaders are meeting with. mailchi.mp/nysfocus/why...

SF writers and readers are some of the nerdiest nerds on the planet. We love tech. We are so early-adopter that we imagined it before you built it. If you’ve lost us, you’ve lost the fight.

this is really well said www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn... @liberalcurrents.com

Wow. And huh.

I wish just one NATO leader (or all of them) would say, "This is unacceptable. The US president has lost his mind. America come get your boy. He's broken and needs to be under a doctor's care back home." I wish someone would tell the damn truth about what's happening.

I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?

Republicans often follow the party's messaging instructions to the letter -- check out how similar all the tweets about Mamdani's AC note, for instance -- but in some cases it becomes really, really obvious they're following a script.

Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

There were a lot of non-white, non-bros who saw Platner for who he is a long time ago. And, the very white, very bros mocked us and made all kinds of stupid statements about “purity tests” and “redemption.” Not the first time, won’t be the last but it’s fucking maddening.

One thing that I wish I heard more people discuss: how did Georgia Democrats find two outsider candidates to flip Senate seats in the same cycle, who have remained broadly popular among all wings of the party without any scandals, but other states couldn't replicate the magic formula?

This is from the new WH report on the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History, calling for what the museum *should* say about slavery and human rights. One question: those 750,000 people who died in the Civil War to end slavery… who killed them? And why?

Growing corn for ethanol: 👍 Putting solar on that land for 30x the energy: 👎 It's bonkers. In @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

Our refrigerator and freezer have been running off of our car for 36 hrs now. That used 17% of the battery. It's good for a couple more days before it could use a recharge, should we still be out. EVs are more than mobility. They are also resilience.

Quite the stain on our history that we now have a prolonged period of admitting zero (0) genuine refugees and instead slapping the label "refugee" on the apartheidists we are importing because they remind a single rich white nationalist of his childhood.

A stronger "HR lady" element in Dem politics would've nuked Platner sooner but instead a bunch of credulous & insecure dolts with podcasts & substacks just had to let their masculinity issues give Dems a candidate who imploded less than a month after winning the primary.

I don't think it should be legal to hide whether an elected official is conscious and or alive.

My interview: “I came to this country as an infant and became a U.S. citizen,” Roswell Encina said. “So sitting there, on the Fourth of July, I couldn’t help but think about the promise of America and the work still required to protect it.” www.advocate.com/news/people/...

Captain, we have whales!

If you have a refrigerator in the Hudson Valley, Saturday night's line of storms likely took your power. In Ulster County, gas-powered home generators are everywhere, but an EV is cleaner & more useful. And outages will increase with high energy storms.

In this historic power outage in Poughkeepsie, how our refrigerator and chest freezer are staying cool. EVs really are amazing.

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

We have booked our whale watch for tomorrow. 🤞🐳🫍

Because we are away on vacation, a friend came and made our fridge and freezer run off our car. The future is kind of cool

Well goddamn. This is really something. I genuinely can’t believe it. Thank you all so much for participating. If you missed this year we’re already scheming up some pretty mind-blowingly-exciting ideas for next year!!

I can hear the Wagner from here

Also, Canadian friends, I need more Hydro Quebec hot takes. From the south it's just a nebulous place that we get some power from. But my dudes have branding on everything. They were running tour hydro Quebec ads (for stuff 400 km away) and the tourist info center.

@johnsmillie42.bsky.social, so I missed it on this trip, but Hydro Quebec does tours! It's like 40 km out of Montreal. Will definitely have to do this in a future trip. Go go energy tourism.

The thing is, Dem voters in Wake Co are the reason we've had a GOP Ag Commissioner for 22 years. His admin led directly to a boom in rent-an-H2A-farm-worker outfits- first in NC, then US-wide. Which led directly to the ICE raids. I'm absolutely certain folks are really that stupid in Wake County!

Man, Quebec is the king of EV charging. Every town with even a few hundred folks out here on the St Lawrence has a DC fast charger, all with Hydro Quebec logos. I was medium concerned on fast charging on this trip as we're pretty far north, but it's honestly better than in NY.

The central Hudson outage map near our place. This is likely going to be days. It went out at 7:30pm yesterday.

bsky.app/profile/hype... 108. Deleting public communications we paid for to score partisan points

IDK there's something really funny about event planners not planning for forecasted weather that was reasonably accurate despite the fact that this government has gutted the National Weather Service in an attempt to privatize weather forecasting.

A Pulitzer Prize photo

[sharp exhalation of breath; deep inhale; nostril-only-sigh] Yup

July 4 parades and other American 250 festivities are getting canceled across the eastern half of the U.S. due to extreme heat. This is what climate change looks like: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/w...

Still completely at awe of these 745kV towers that loom like monsters over the north coast landscape. Really impressive infrastructure.

well that was quick

🦇 This is how blue states and Democrats can *actually* *perform* alliance with trans people. More of this. Much much more of this please.

Driving up the North Coast of Quebec, the scale of the Hydro Quebec transmission system is truly staggering. It all exists to pull that far away hydro power in Northern Quebec to the major cities and the US.

I saw a video where someone said the things that she was proud of about the USA. It included: 1. The genesis of the modern tax-supported, free public library 2. The progenitors of modern tax supported free public schools. 3. The oldest and longest-standing written national constitution in force.

Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.

Like every patriotic American, I am celebrating the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg and the Union victory at Vicksburg this weekend, which just happen to line up with the days (July 3 & 4) that the Declaration of Independence was published and widely distributed. That’s why we celebrate, right?

Be the America you want to see in the world

Happy 250th to this country, whose constitution literally says no “presents” from foreigners!

Thank you to PBS News Hour @pbsnews.org for giving me the time and space to say this last night: “What we're seeing is a manifestation of climate change. What we're doing is living in the future that climate scientists have been warning us warning us about for 50 years.”