Tornado Warning inside a Severe Thunderstorm Warning inside a Flash Flood Warning in LA County at the moment, if you're wondering how things are going... #CAwx #LArain

Another reminder that FBI tasked 934 agents and other personnel to review & redact Epstein files between March & May & prepare the docs for public release. FBI paid $851K in OT/premium pay for a week's worth of work. Via my #FOIA www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

“The Flight into Egypt,” by Giotto, painted between 1303 and 1305. Pope Francis, 2014: "We believe that Jesus was a refugee, had to flee to save his life, with Saint Joseph and Mary, had to leave for Egypt. He was a refugee.”

Holiday spoiler: if you are a gift-getting friend of mine, there’s a good chance you are getting my favorite book of the year @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social ‘s “No Straight Road Takes You There”. Thanks for the bulk delivery that arrived today @haymarketbooks.org & thank you Rebecca for all that you do.

Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison. new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

Worth revisiting this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social piece in light of the Waymo meltdown over the weekend. Automated vehicles ignore social contracts and are only beholden to their corporate bosses. Humans are much better equipped to deal with unforeseen situations, and to prioritize human values.

Did she need someone to say that torture is good? That we need to abandon all human rights standards? Memorable critique of the bothsiderism of McNeil Lehrer New Hour many years ago: "Now over to you, Mr. Pol Pot, for a positive view of genocide."

"RFK Jr. likes to pretend that we need to run tests on already-tested, already-proven-safe vaccines to see if they're safe; the idea that we need to see what's in the files to know if Trump is a predator and a criminal and a misogynist has some of the same agenda of delay and decoy."

I had my own reasons for despising that essay and did so here a few days ago, but it's heartening to see Congressman Casten, who's got a lot of expertise in both the energy issues and the politics, kick it to the curb his way.

Thank you for asking, and NO and we're far from done, and anything Bari Weiss decides to platform is probably failing women.

My essay on this whole deal.....

San Francisco, did you just feel those two jolts?

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

neat guy

Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of Germany

" ‘Between democracy and totalitarianism,’ says Mussolini, ‘there can be no compromise.’ The two creeds cannot even, for any length of time, live side by side. So long as democracy exists, even in its very imperfect English form, totalitarianism is in deadly danger.

What an astonishingly dishonest piece of propaganda for the fossil fuel industry, including its citing of Obama's extremely outdated energy policies and its misrepresentation of Norwegian public opinion.

NYT columnist David Brooks wrote an op-ed a few weeks ago titled, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out,” lamenting people are too focused on the Epstein scandal + saying "the QAnon mentality has taken over." Today he appeared in 4 photos from the Epstein dump. Welp! www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

Donald Trump (winner of the FIFA Peace Prize) continues amassing warships in the Caribbean while bombing small vessels without any legal justification and threatening a full on invasion of Venezuela. Congress has the power to block Trump’s march to war with Venezuela, but they need to hear from us.

Are we going to interrupt our ICE protests for antiwar protests? This is stupid-horrible.

This is going to be such an exciting book about people passionately committed to a livable future and the machinations and heroics that got us from the Green New Deal to the Inflation Reduction Act.

Happy birthday Jane Austen! You're looking pretty fresh for 250! p.s. @devoney.bsky.social 's Wild for Austen is highly recommended (including by me, as you can see).

My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it. The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?" "An obituary." "Obituaries aren't on the front page." "This one will be."

Total dead now stands at 95 starting from the first strike on Sept. 2, 2025.

The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.

Are those the four members we're seeing? It is the most preposterous name and unbelievable claim.

Because WMD is code for march into an illegal war with a bullshit basis?

why would immigrants do this www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I rode one up to 9000 feet this summer and got to watch it recharge itself as we came back down. I suspect this would have been profitable with more support and less Trump.

Thank you majority: "According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy." You're right.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Thank you Mayor-Elect Mamdani.

"Those who have not given up are an inspiration to the rest of us. Those who have surrendered in advance are a danger, because both hope and despair, solidarity and surrender are contagious." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/between-the-...

"Proclaiming someone’s or something’s defeat contributes to it. It’s a form of sabotage." (And a way of giving oppressive powers exactly what they want.)

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

This is an amazing essay on empathy and/against AI.

When so many examples of so much inanity are out there, I'm stumped by the ongoing enthusiasm for substituting this for credible sources and actual thinking. (I use Duck Duck Go with the AI disabled as my search engine.)

It was @dahlialithwick.bsky.social who described these executive orders as "letters to Santa," I believe.

I had been dreading the treaty anniversary as an occasion to note that we have not done nearly enough, but in July I thought we might be able celebrate it. Because, on 23 July, the international court of justice handed down an epochal ruling....

Another handbag for justice. Another purse against fascism. The famous clobber-a-Nazi image from Sweden 40 years ago.

I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.

Doomers don't realize how much of their power they give Trump and MAGA.

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

There goes the lucrative industry of international tourism, already fairly wrecked. The US was "the world’s most powerful Travel & Tourism market, contributing a record-breaking $2.36 TN to the nation’s economy last year" said the World Travel & Tourism Council in 2024.

War is peace.

Daily Memo: A Thousand Confirmed Kidnappings in the Past 90 Days, Plus Two More Deaths in Detention @eltragon.bsky.social