3 January 1898 | Hungarian Jew Ferenc Schweiger was born in Kiskunfélegyháza. A merchant. In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive. --- ▶ Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

🚨 President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has unsettled allies and emboldened adversaries, leaving the United States not as the guarantor of order but as its starkest absence — a void reminiscent of the democracies that failed to confront fascism in the 1930s. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

Megachurches in America are building brands that are designed to be popular and flexible. The result is a Christianity that looks more like a crash course in self-help than an age-old faith anchored in scripture

PG&E’s rate cut is not all it appears to be for most #California residents. The 5% cut only applies for about a third of the #utility customers. And the big driver of rate increases — spending on the distribution grid — continues to go up. #energysky #affordability san.com/cc/californi...

🔋The Intercalation team on Substack reports that battery prices have increased slightly in 2025. LFP increased by 2 $/kWh, while NMC rose by about 7 $/kWh. Even so, pricing remains broadly consistent with BloombergNEF’s findings. open.substack.com/pub/intercal... #battchat #batteries #energysky

The very same "president" that asked his generals if they could just shoot the American protesters in Washington D.C. during his first term.

In an attempt to distract from Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s criminal culpability, Republicans wasted time in SC Jack Smith’s depo asking about subpoenaed toll records of Republican lawmakers. I explain why it’s just typical theatric Republican bullshit over nothing. youtu.be/6qidzBwGl0E?...

Over 2,500 crisis pregnancy centers operate across the U.S., often designed to look like medical offices. OB-GYN researchers found 91% of their websites misleadingly imply they provide medical services and 80% include false claims about abortion. buff.ly/66WK4Kx

I walked the dog along The Milk Block today. The food Coop bldg is coming along it seems but not open yet 15 years later. I see it's gone "For Profit" and folks are "investors" now. It appears there will be residences up stairs ? I wonder how ROI &/or Loss will be handled if it all doesn't happen ?

I literally just watched the gladiator show “Those About to Die,” and it was set during the period when the Romans were conquering Judea. It was a constant background topic in the show. But sure, the TikTok historians are trying to rewrite history now. www.imdb.com/title/tt1056...

"USAID: Trump blew up a relatively inexpensive program that saves millions of lives, combats terrorism, and keeps malicious state actors out of developing countries. In unilaterally dismantling it, Trump committed the worst “own goal” in American foreign policy history" - @contrariannews.org

Biden admin tried to get social media companies to flag antivax content during a pandemic and people decided to pretend that that was a scary attack on free speech.

So, what are Democrats planning to do about that?

Your social media diet is bad. Many such cases.

For all the numbfucks and rightwing concern trolls out there screeching "bOtHsIdEs ArE tHe SaMe!!!1!" to peel off votes of the gullible in order to install another fascist: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pr...

Here is the thing! This is what Harris promised in 2024! That was her campaign message. Everyone has completely memory-holed the 2024 campaign. www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/p...

Capping costs at 7% of income is much harder to message than “universal and free”

People keep saying this shit like she didn't have a nearly 20-year political career in the third-largest state in the country prior to becoming VP.

It is deeply concerning that even the people who are currently paying attention to policy messaging and say that is how you win have also seemed to have completely forgotten/ignored what was the Dem party's policy messaging just a year ago.

Yes, the news media actively abetted this. Anyone with half a brain & a phone does not have the right to hide behind that excuse. The information was readily available & every one of us had a goddamn motherfucking responsibility to inform ourselves.

The accounts you see saying “of course the DNC would NEVER allow such language!” are people you should clock as just having an reliably bad social media diet.

Holy shit they're cooked

Expecting to see quite a few more Republicans announce they're retiring from Congress "to spend more time with family etc." this month.

Since a lot of folks still keep ignoring what is happening in Sudan.. apnews.com/article/suda...

One of those terrific to see signs that we are closer and closer to the end of the fossil fuel age.

Don’t let this go unnoticed just because it’s the holidays!

"At the same time conservatives have overseen a massive transfer of taxpayer dollars from the government to private entities, they’ve also gutted the ability of government agencies to have sufficient staff to investigate those same private entities."

In 2026, Democrats MUST take back the House. As a DCCC Recruitment Co-Chair, I’m doing everything I can to make sure we have strong, energetic candidates who will fight for working families and lower their costs when they flip their districts from red to blue. 💪🏾

Nick Shirley went to CECOT to praise the slave labor setup.

Given the bots on my earlier post, we can safely assume Nick Shirley is a foreign funded terrorist. We've seen that botting before with sponsored propagandists. Again, if he is in your presence, he is there to get people to kill you. And on behalf of America's worst enemies.

What climate news should I be covering in 2026? (All answers accepted; wrong answers strongly encouraged)

This New Year’s Day, thousands of devout Hindus in our community visited their temples for blessings and prayers. It was my honor to visit the Malibu Hindu Temple and the Valley Hindu Temple.

I led a call for the FAA to take immediate steps to address the uptick in toxic fume events on commercial aircraft. This is critical for the health and safety of passengers and crew members. www.wsj.com/business/air...

In 2026, Texans are still generating over half of their electricity by burning fossil fuels sadly.

There's an old saying in business that you should never launch an enterprise product on the same day as your CSAM scandal. But Elon didn't get to where he is playing by the rules

One funny thing Elon Musk figured out about the media is if, instead of providing comment to reporters, you email back an automated reply saying "go fuck yourself," the reporters will just invent their own plausible-sounding defense of your conduct to balance their stories instead of punishing you

Iowa needs fresh ideas and a new perspective to move forward. This is a great way to get started. Congrats Eva! www.kcci.com/article/smal...

Don’t know if many of y’all have watched the 80s set sci-fi TV show “Stranger Things” (if you haven’t, do so!), but as a former teacher I also noticed how teachers are treated in the show…and this 👀 ⬇️ take encapsulates it perfectly! A single teacher CAN change everything!!

True — a 1988 vinyl of “…And Justice for All”. Also in that stack: A U.S. Constitution with a published ERA My ma’s 1976 ERA necklace Stephen Stills’ “Manassas” vinyl (my hometown) “The Prayer of St. Francis” written by hand Photos of my Italian ancestors, including my grandfather going off to WWII.

Drake has been accused in a federal class-action RICO lawsuit of using the online sweepstakes casino to boost the play counts of his music across the major streaming platforms.

🧵FEMA workers are calling it a “New Year’s Eve Massacre” In the final days of the year, the Trump regime began issuing termination notices to FEMA’s Cadre of On-Call Response and Recovery, known as CORE. These are not distant bureaucrats.

Yep. MAGA are perpetually angry & nasty, even when they win. (And bigots) Fauxgressives are perpetually angry, nasty, & demanding, even when they win. (And bigots)

Carbon fee and dividend isn’t a new concept. However, it’s a way of taxing #polluters, not people. The added benefit is that if the polluters raise prices, the dividend to each household acts as a buffer. Learn more. Several bills floated in past sessions: Time to push them again regardless.

But he drinks Diet Coke with it so it's fine. /s

Dr. Jonathan Reiner on CNN ticks through all the evidence we have that something has changed for the worse with Trump's health since October that the White House is covering up

CNN: Trump said about taking more aspirin than his docs recommend that 'I want nice thin blood pouring through my heart.' Does that make sense? REINER: No. It actually makes nonsense... if you're bruising a lot & your doctor says you're on too much aspirin, why wouldn't you go down to a lower dose?

He's playing both sides of the fence for follower gain. His "citizen journalist" label and responses give it away.

Talk of a 'millionaire exodus' appeared 18,000 times in news reports over the last 18 months. But are wealthy people really deserting UK?

My traditional stream follow-up with the recent updates on Ukraine and beyond! Available on YouTube. youtu.be/o0_rTYCv4OU