Dems should be asking Why isn't there a fund compensating Epstein's victims for US failures to stop Epstein and his conspirators? Tie these two issues together and bring Epstein victims in for Dem led hearings on all of the DOJ failures involved there. nathannewman.substack.com/p/trumps-17-...

This is why researchers should not be allowed to watch Black Mirror

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

Graham Platner absolutely nails how to talk about the war with Iran: youtube.com/shorts/16bCp...

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! CATL's sodium batteries are ready for production, and they’re cheaper & longer lasting than lithium batteries. youtube.com/watch?v=ha5c...

A reminder that Newsom regularly kills progressive policy of all kinds in California. He is a one-man veto wrecking crew for pro-labor, enviro, civil rights, and criminal justice reforms in California.

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

if i were going to run a left campaign for the democratic nomination for president i would also spend a lot of my time in black churches, fwiw

We’ve hit a critical turning point w electric batteries: : study shows that “replacing 2 GW of gas-fired capacity with long-duration storage could deliver annual savings of up to €166 million for consumers, while maintaining the same level of security of supply”

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

Graham Platner is very very good at what he does youtube.com/shorts/yMVsm...

My new plan for when AI comes for my job: using miniature donkeys to coach people how to build high-performance teams youtube.com/shorts/r7aQY...

Especially this: "... attacks on science or scientists are rarely driven organically; nor are they caused by confusion, error or poor science communication. ..."

Pathetic cowardice and moral failure from elites, everywhere you look.

"Pope Leo on Friday named a formerly undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the U.S. in a car trunk to be bishop of West Virginia" From fleeing violence to working construction and other jobs, Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala embodies the dignity of immigrant labor and the power of perseverance.

Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

One more research study in what is now more than three decades of empirical studies showing higher minimum wage rates don't cost jobs - but do put a lot more money in the hands of working families.

The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Racism is over says the Supreme Court, which you can tell because it took literally a matter of minutes after they gutted the Voting Rights Act for Republicans in the South to start moving to make sure Black people in their states get no representation in Congress

I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.

It’s now inescapable: if you believe Black people should have the same rights as white people, you have to support expanding or changing the composition of the Court – and getting rid of the filibuster so it’s possible to do it. If you don’t, you don’t actually believe in racial equality

We will not get a second Reconstruction from people who don’t defend the first.

This graphic will summarize in the future how China marched towards the future as US chose to doubledown on fossil fuels and its own economic irrelevance

When you think they can't go any lower: Trump’s wants to "penalize people...simply for living in the same home as their families...The administration is working on a rule change that would deduct the value of a disabled adult’s bedroom from their SSI allotment" www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.

So: now Trump‘s former chief of staff, former secretary of defense, and former Joint Chiefs have all said he’s “fascist“, “fascist to the core“, etc. Totally normal, both sides, yada yada www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how...

people compare coding LLMs to an over-eager team of interns and then give it full access to everything, which would never happen with an intern

Here’s how we end the war with Iran: Trump says he’s an excellent health & could’ve taken Elvis Presley in a fight. So: a cage match to the death between Trump and Iran’s new supreme leader Winner gets toll rights for the Strait of Hormuz

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

It’s totally understandable to want to smack someone upside the head who’s spewing BS as they leave Trump. It’s also a great way to lose We need to get more comfortable: - celebrating a win - welcoming people who become allies even if they grate on us - putting our ego aside as we fight to win

Damn he’s good If we end with Ossoff, Pritzker, and AOC running in 2028, it’ll be one of the best primaries we’ve had — and one of the best conversations we’ve had about where we need to go

Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."

How's "Vision Zero," Seattle's purported plan to reduce pedestrian deaths to zero by 2030, going? "Nearly twice as many pedestrians were killed on Seattle streets last year compared with the year before..." Oh.

And on the basis of this -- a pure policy disagreement about which he was demonstrably, wildly wrong -- Roberts dreamed up "major questions doctrine" & thereby rendered US law one big game of Calvinball. You just can't exaggerate how low, how scummy, how dumb, how fraudulent it all was.

All they will find is sand Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."

Me after the last week of Trump youtube.com/shorts/tRkSX...

Watching Brits’ faces as they hear our secretary of defense quote from Tarantino while thinking he’s quoting the Bible is priceless youtube.com/shorts/tpqzs...

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess." A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889

We're throwing innocent people in concentration camps and letting them die, including children. Our government, in our names, with our money.

How are states doing on removing bureaucratic obstacles to rooftop solar power? Environment America has a new scorecard & y'all ... it's pretty dismal. No state gets an A. Only two states -- CA & TX -- get a B. State lawmakers really need to get on this.

Okay, sure, but there are five whole continents where Vance didn’t take an L this week.

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death