DC's hottest new club is Acropolis. This place has everything— 🎇 a sexual matador 🎇 billionaire tech bros muttering about the antichrist 🎇 burst ketchup packets dripping down the walls 🎇 a dungeon staffed by the House GOP 🎇 Rudy Giuliani

If they don’t like being called fascists they should stop being fascists.

I’m angry and tired of this idea that just because someone puts on the decorations of a faith that they are taken as pious and devout representatives of that faith. I think it’s insulting to believers who actually try and follow the precepts of generosity, kindness, meekness, and mercy laid out.

"A brutal massacre followed, in which it’s estimated almost 150 Native Americans were killed (some historians put this number at twice as high), nearly half of them women and children." www.history.com/this-day-in-...

I know this is far from being the most important thing, but JFC this is ridiculous and fucked up at so many different levels.

Two plans were floating around that everyone turned to after 9/11. Gary Hart’s proposed centralizing congressional oversight across multiple agencies. Joe Lieberman’s suggested centralizing the agencies. Hhhh.

OK, just help me understand here

Super compelling conversation.

“What if AI fails? ...or let’s say when AI fails, and the data centers, and those GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit) that was the state-of-the-art is now old technology. They moved on to something else. Those power plants will still be in our communities.” - Dwaign Tyndal, ACE

Dwaign Tyndal of ACE, spoke at the #ClimateWeekNYC panel “Climate Justice in the Age of AI“ about the generational impact that the build-out of AI data centers and power plants is going to have on our communities. Learn more about AI and data centers: climatejusticealliance.org/ai

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Kavanaugh thinks this is a minor inconvenience, not something of concern under the 4th amendment

“We are facing a planetary emergency. The breach of the Ocean Acidification boundary is a stark scientific warning and a moral call to action. Without healthy oceans, peace, prosperity & stability are at risk everywhere. We must act now...to safeguard this life-support system for future generations"

Love this whole thread.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Remarkably, I also heard this from a state Democratic legislator a year ago — one who is a solid climate vote — relative to state-level subsidies in New Mexico. Was a bit shocked. Seems there’s a myth that O&G = “free market”; renewables = “government-subsidized market.”

I will not link to it. I just want to reiterate that thousands of books have been banned by the right. And American Dirt sold millions of copies.

i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

So say we all

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Tough break for Alex Trembath and all the other abundists who insisted this is a "bottom-up" movement. Looks the speech delivered at the Abundance Conference just three weeks ago is hilariously out of touch with reality.

How it started // How it’s going

Hard to imagine that the disdain & anger at Silicon Valley's Tech Bros will not intensify into white hot rage (if it's not there already). They have arguably done more harm to the world than any industry other than fossil fuels (who they are now increasingly aligned with).

Essential reading from @jfern.bsky.social & @prokopdani.bsky.social in @sourcenm.com & @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Much detail & money quote from WELC's Tannis Fox: “This is the oddest, most political rulemaking I’ve seen in 25 years.” She served as legal counsel for the WQCC itself for 5 years.

I'm just gonna keep reposting this inane BS from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence on the roving immigration patrol case from LA.

MLG's administration has really bungled this -- aligning with fossil fuel interests and sidelining its own agency experts. Really disappointing.

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What this shabby little crook means is that a corrupt administration has made a choice to ignore his crimes. So he’ll continue to show up on propaganda TV and lecture us about “law and order.”

If anyone needs a heathen to watch their pets after the rapture, I'm available. Just reserve your spot with a non-refundable deposit today!

Ah, I see, shadow docket *plus* rocket docket for whatever Trump needs. Reminder that the emoluments clause case filed by Maryland & DC started June 12, 2017 and then was stalled for so long that SCOTUS dismissed it in January 2021 without a decision because Trump losing made it moot.

This whole 🧵. The intrusive ascendancy of tech into seemingly all facets of our politics and lives at this precise moment of right-wing authoritarianism is not unnoticed. A backlash is brewing.

Something keeping me up at night is that it's fully saturated in the US imagination that Big Tech == innovation == sacred == desirable. Until/unless we are able to shift this broadly, especially in key policy circles, most solutions for big hairy problems will stay elusive.

AYFKM.

+Healthy watersheds, networks of protected, intact public lands & wildlife corridors, and institutions and systems that serve people and planet — not corporations and billionaires.

I don't think politicians should say "people will die" without explaining what they're doing to stop/minimize that

Sierra Club's new “Dirty Truth” report finds major U.S. utilities have collectively hit five-year lows on switching from fossil fuels to clean energy fast enough to combat climate change. Instead, they're doubling down on fossil gas, despite the costs: www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti... #energysky

Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.

I say this with earnestness: The centrist “Abundance” agenda will fail because too many of its most vocal proponents are idiots.

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

America is already complicit in Netanyahu’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and now Trump wants to send him $6.4B more in offensive weapons. Our priority should be ending the war and returning the hostages  — not funneling MORE taxpayer dollars to Netanyahu to bomb starving Gaza.

Leaving intractable governance issues aside for a moment, the list of unknowns around potential ecological impacts of geoengineering are reason enough to not toy with it. Ask any ecologist: our track record around drastic ecosystem interventions is not good when it comes to unintended consequences.

To be clear: geoengineering - including solar radiation management - is not a climate solution. It gives permission to continue burning fossil fuels while introducing dangerous and unnecessary risks to people and ecosystems.

The latest fossil fuel grift in New Mexico? Commodification of O&G wastewater. State officials claim it’s about “finding new sources of water” for our arid state, but it’s just slop for industry designed to eliminate an intensifying barrier to further O&G production: Excess — & toxic — wastewater.

We signed on to the nonprofit letter to USFS Chief Tom Schulz to save the #RoadlessRule along with 328 other well-respected groups. We don't expect him to listen. After all, he is the first USFS chief who has never worked at the Service. Prepare for a knock-down, drag-out fight. We are.

"Some say we can ‘solar-engineer’ ourselves out of the climate crisis. Don’t buy it" [even if it's being sold by the #NewYorkTimes] | My evergreen @theguardian.com commentary with Ray Pierrehumbert: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I find it remarkable how much ink is spilled on techno fixes to the climate crisis w/o so much as a rhetorical nod to the imperative to wind down fossil fuels. The unfortunate subtext of this op ed -- whether by design or not -- is that politicians need not confront fossil fuel political power.

jennifer rubin and bill kristol are now the left flank of the democratic party