We rode in a Waymo yesterday with a relative who loves using them, and all I could think about was the character in Silicon Valley who got put on an international container ship by a self driving car:

As a constituent, I am asking that @governorwalz.mn.gov and @keithellison.bsky.social arrest these men and prosecute them before they kidnap someone and intentionally freeze them to death

Nearly 1 million New Yorkers are expected to lose health coverage as a result of President Donald Trump’s federal budget, a shift that will strain the city’s struggling public hospital system

Get yourself a weird bar with a portrait of Warren G. Harding on the wall. Ours is the House of Shields in San Francisco.

I’m pissed. Not excited to support this club from the US today, honestly.

Going the wrong way… “NextEra is the largest renewable energy developer in the U.S., but it is leaning into natural gas to meet the growing demand from data centers. They plan to bring as much as 8 GW of gas generation online by 2032, and is developing a pipeline of 20 gigawatts of gas generation.”

I love this town. Walkable, transit-able, wonderful.

Very good examination of family caregiving and how the policy choices of the Trump admin are making it even harder now: (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

When a 19 year old whose license is suspended for the next eight years is still street racing, burning tires and driving 100mph in the city, gas is still too cheap.

I had to yell at two different drivers who were driving dangerously near me in just 7 1/2 miles of side street riding tonight. Drivers need more consequences for bad driving.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

A medical establishment run by a man who believes correlation is causation. What could go wrong? (Everything.)

Pluribus is tv as written by philosophers. What makes us human? What makes us part of society (or outside it?) Is free will a universal good?

IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal. www.imls.gov/news/stateme...

Yes, the economics are pretty simple: incentivize demand for gasoline and prices will go up. Look no further than EPA's own regulatory impact analysis earlier this year, which cited EIA projections: www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-rul...

Nothing will radicalize you for universal / single-payer health care like attending your employer's Open Enrollment annual meeting. It's SO! VERY! COMPLICATED! All of us on the call trying to make choices:

How is this real life? I feel like every American who questions childhood vaccines should have to go to the 1800s Edinburgh cemetery I visited a few years ago to see the family plots with MULTIPLE children under 5 who died of things we prevent now with vaccines.

This is maybe one of the most upsetting Dollop episodes they’ve ever done. I’m totally serious.

I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics

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NREL is now NLOR. Here is my story: insideclimatenews.org/news/0212202...

I’m reading Ray Madoff’s book this week and getting progressively angrier at how working people pay taxes that billionaires dodge altogether.

The biggest takeaway from Ken Burns’ American Revolution series: America has from day one said to women, people of color, native people: “Liberty for me, not for thee.” Nobody will grant us our rights. We have to demand them, and then defend them. Repeatedly.

It would be the most supremely American thing if two pets being hit caused more limits on cars than the 40,000 human Americans killed by cars every year. Whatever it takes, I guess.

Increasingly concerning that the Trump Admin is obliterating data so we can’t document what they’re destroying. In this case, gold standard tracking of health care access, insurance coverage and costs. It’s a study that will help us understand the impacts of the Big Beautiful Bill.

So affordable— finally, an actually useful CyberMonday sale!

It’s interesting — for my own address, we’re at a low (1-3 of 10) risk for everything except air pollution is 10/10 (probably from the nearby-ish Precision Castparts facilities and maybe I-205.) firststreet.org

"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

By me: ‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The status quo believes the fantasy that traffic violence is inevitable. That there’s nothing we can do. The truth is, we can prevent severe crashes. www.fastcompany.com/91443434/cha...

This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.

Neil Page from “Planes Trains and Automobiles” was DEFINITELY the kind of 80s husband who was cheating on his wife when he was on business travel.

This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.

The most stressful notifications I get on my phone are Libby saying “your books are about to expire and YOU NEED TO GET READING, YOU LAZY SLACKER.”

Alert the populace —the beacon is LIT (in all senses of the word):

Someone write a chapter in a book about end stage capitalism on this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Busta Rhymes sponsored by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, lil Jon sponsored by toys r us. It’s too ridiculous to be reality.

Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

Hahahahaha, great job America

“Ale" works in the carrot harvest in CA. She earns $3.05 for every box of carrots she packs. One box has 24 bunches of 7 carrots each. To earn $100 she has to pack 34 boxes or 816 bunches which represents over 5000 carrots picked in a day. #WeFeedYou

NEW from me: the Trump administration is moving new chemicals that have some link to data centers to the front of the line for approvals — creating huge loopholes to push all kinds of chemicals through, experts tell me, under potential political pressure

This is how a transit death spiral begins. We need a new session to get transit back online.

hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires

Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB." Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH. 🧪 1/

Nothing is as charming as Blair Braverman’s sled dog complaining loudly to go out during recording of the “You’re Wrong About” episode about the couple who were lost at sea.

"I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Jesus, Boomers. You already hold more wealth than any generation and now you want to be tax exempt too? Low income seniors, yes, sure, I’ll concede that. But if f you have a huge house, cars, IRAs and savings / pension? HARD NO. A better message would be to stop capping Social Security taxes.

From The Washington Post: The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

And it was the SEVENTH story, scrolling WAYY down the homepage of The NY Times today.

Saving this for the next time someone says “run every nonprofit like a business!” Yeah, I’ll take $50 BILLION in VC money. Any day. TYVM.

It’s too bad we don’t care about media monopolies anymore. Maybe we’ll learn a lesson about why it matters, or maybe we’ll all be living under a regime that doesn’t allow us to discuss it. #allhailournewmediaoverlordsiguess