my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

NEW: Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom announced today that they have all recognized the State of Palestine

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income. It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions. If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

imo a big problem right now is the fetishism for proper procedure that grips so many left-of-center elites, which leads them to believe that the only way to resist is lawsuits. sooner or later someone must realize that you have to simply refuse (or give a countermanding order) and face trump down

I fell in love with this sentence Audre Lorde wrote in her journal cuz discernment is so needed right now. We can have feelings and discernment. “My feelings are real but not always right.”

be real nice if DC had an actual hometown newspaper at the moment

Gavin Newsom and Buttigege both seemingly want to be the American Keir Starmer, and Americans sympathetic to that pitch should glance over at how things are going across the pond

the other thing is that they were very invested in the idea that a "canceled" person like Cuomo could come back.

Katherine Clark, the second-most powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives behind Hakeem Jeffries, just admitted Israel is committing "genocide" in Gaza: zeteo.com/p/second-mos...

This is actually good news. We have to get comfortable celebrating small victories where we can right now. And while this is not perfect, it is good news

Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic: Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...

On DC: When we say "crime is down" or "murder rate fell," we are bringing crime and murder top of mind. We have seen this backfire consistently. Say what you're for and have created, not what you fight and have eliminated. Far better to say, "in DC we have proven solutions for safety..."

The attack on DC is not merely an attempt to intimidate, silence & control this vibrant, Black led city. That alone merits our collective outrage. It is also an attack on dissent itself - as DC is the center of protest, of people exercising our freedoms to speak against this regime.

Authoritarian regimes that capture capitol cities remain in power far longer than those that don't. #FreeDC

i've never been particularly interested in epstein stuff, but if it turns out that the missing footage involves people entering or leaving the area of the cell it would probably be the biggest scandal in american political history.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

Resist. Refuse. Ridicule. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Fascism requires compliance and crumbles once it's withdrawn.

one of the massive differences between Trump II and other fascist movements is that his popularity among young men was extremely fragile rather than being the ironclad base of his support

ALT: Rebecca Torres stands in front of a military vehicle approaching a federal immigration agents raid in the agriculture area of Camarillo, Calif., Thursday, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker)

I'm a professor at the flagship university for the fourth whitest state in the US. Over 80% of our students are white. The biggest barrier to access here is that due to lack of state funding, we have top 10 highest tuition per capita of public unis in the country. We also have a food pantry.

Went to vote yesterday, last day of early voting for the NYC primary. The line was around and down the block. Been voting at that site for years and never seen so many ppl. Some of it's bc actual Election Day is likely to be 100+ degrees, but still a good sign for non-Cuomo candidates, IMO.

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Who would have guessed that "play dead," tweet about prices, and green light MAGA crypto crime spree*, isn't a winning strategy? (* yes, yes not all Dems. And the ones actually confronting fascism are, not coincidentally, getting donor support.) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

A right-winger -- a registered Republican, a Trump voter, an evangelical anti-abortion activist -- assassinates a Democratic official. Republicans respond by blaming the left. Democrats respond by blaming ... no one.

Our inability to say - explicitly - that the right wing strategy of vilifying whomever they deem other, stoking status threat and glorifying guns led to the murder of an extraordinary public servant and effective leader simply aids the right's aims.

These frogs think it's a jacuzzi like the one on board their luxury yacht.

More than 1 million in Boston! www.wcvb.com/article/more...

Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

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Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

The planned “No Kings” protest is well underway in Louisville, KY, where hundreds have gathered at city hall. Democratic Congressman Morgan McGarvey mentions the news of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker being shot and killed. “When you normalize political violence, this is what happens.”

Somehow the "We need to support policies that are popular" crowd never land on the very popular polices like "taxing big corporation more," "making health care more affordable," or "paying teachers more." It's always just "be 10% more racist."

it’s extremely funny to show up somewhere with a black eye and then say that you were punched by a baby

Gee, I wonder whether it would have been possible to report on how deeply sick this whole regime is prior to the election. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

This, and endless other reasons, are why #MAGAMurderBudget is not merely strategic in cutting straight to what's at stake, it's also the most accurate descriptor.

SCOOP: The Trump regime’s continued attacks on the Mine Safety and Health Administration have put coal miners at risk of deadly disease. Today, 32 district/field offices in 20 states that had been marked for closure received notice that those orders had been *cancelled* This is very good news!!

The difference between "access" and "transparency" is really important. Trump is absolutely giving more reporters more time to ask questions (inc. outlets that just want to praise him). At the same time it's stopped publishing transcripts and WH visitor logs.

They want to kill the "engine for social mobility" because they believe denying people college education helps keep them in power while the wealthiest among us have decided wealth is a zero sum game. Education brings income gains, which means you’re taking money that belongs to Trump, a real no no.

Many voters are disappointed in Democrats, but vote for them IF they believe they have too much to lose under Trump/MAGA. If that dread dissipates (as it did in 2024), these folks stay home, or in some cases switch parties in hopes of change.

People who say that the United States can’t build anything anymore must not be sports fans. Barely a year goes by without the debut of a sparkling new stadium or arena, often in the very cities where it’s most difficult to build almost anything else.

The Real Conflict in America that Democrats must message on: The 99% vs. the Greed of the 1% With @anatosaurus.bsky.social Full conversation here: thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-can-de...

The core purpose of right wing dog whistling has always been to destroy the sense there can ever be an "us," a 'we the people' that merits collective social welfare, i.e. government. Lee Atwater told us this explicitly in his "Southern Strategy" for Nixon.