Klein is shameless about it but this has unironically been the mainstream Democratic election strategy for all but two races of my life

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Ngl this is hilarious even if it hits a little too hard

But it's important to remember that Trump and his true believers do not operate based on observable reality and therefore think that incredibly stupid, self destructive moves are going to work perfectly

Remember: Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes every year. They pay into government funded healthcare programs, but can't access them except in case of emergency. Emergency Medicaid spending accounted for less than 1% of total Medicaid spending in 2023.

Any emt will tell you that this is an obvious C-Spine precaution. They’re even holding traction.

It’s smug. At this point I just feel bad for Derek Thompson for saying “yes” to a project that was obvious steered by Klein. Thompson does very good work, I was surprised he ever agreed to put his name on that shitstain of a book.

Some guy on TikTok is threatening to release the Grindr profile of Mike Johnson. Please human, please don’t let God down. 🙏

Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."

Yeah this sounds safe

It is undeniable that this moment is being shaped by people who marinated for years in an informational environment where reality was not only demoted but actively disdained. It took a while for that bubble to become impermeable but it did and now we have a chunk of people who know nothing but.

As someone who started doing clean energy research over a decade ago, it amazes me how we've reached the point where we can get most of the way to our climate goals by mashing the buttons for solar cells, buses, trains, and heat pumps

is it easy to stop? of course not the main gender of the people in charge is We Burn Stuff And We Will Force You To Also they are so existentially mad that they can’t make everyone burn stuff forever it really is the task though

I was a climate reporter I got so tired of writing the same 3 paragraphs different ways in every single story it boils down to: stop burning stuff yes, it matters yes, us here, us too

Sending heavily armed goons to harass and intimidate black and brown voters would be an effective way to steal an election. Just sayin’.

send me there now

Thanks to Miriam Reynolds for sharing this on LinkedIn: lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/list...

Nobody can do business with this kind of arbitrary, capricious and senseless volatility. That’s kindof why we have procedural law.

Except, that’s extremely unlikely to happen at this rate. That party can’t get out of its own way. open.substack.com/pub/yaschamo...

Careful, don’t give it ideas now

The decline of the Washington Post is sad, not least because it’s a deliberate choice. It’s bad for media, bad for politics, bad for the country. But the famous hold-power-accountable newspaper is gone. Take a lesson from zombie stories: That’s not WaPo, even if it appears superficially similar.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

I can't have been the only one who always got the #ickvibes from #Mr.Beast. I'm glad to see he's finally showing his true colors.

MrBeast nearly burning a man to death and EA buckling under the leveraged buyout from hell are the exact same problem expressed differently. The rich will burn everything if it makes them a single extra dollar or feel one emotion, and they must be stopped

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

Duh

DAC will never work. Unless and until we can capture co2 at the source AND use it as an input, itll never make economic sense. We keep using these creative accounting schemes so we can lie to our children & pretend that the planet we leave them will somehow still be able to sustain them.

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US. The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

open.substack.com/pub/yaschamo... I have to say, I’m concerned that he’s right. The problem is that, despite all the churn and all the public outrage, the galaxy brain of policy wonks & think tank talking heads remain firmly stuck in the neoliberal consensus of the Clinton era.

Part handler, part puppet master…part Rasputin, part geriatrician…

“AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job” @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

This is so true it makes me want to puke..

This is sickeningly accurate

www.eenews.net/articles/doe... Regulating GHGs under the NAAQS was always a well intentioned fever dream. Serious action will likely require new legislation altogether. The gas is too narrow in its scope & focus… We need a brain trust to plan an alternate path They certainly have one.

Em-dash and ellipsis users unite!

Kamala Harris’s unfortunate catharsis Via FT on.ft.com/42bmLad Kamala Harris’s unfortunate catharsis Luce keeps writing bangers, this is no exception. But I doubt mobilizing against progressive dems would’ve done the Harris ticket much (any) good. Her cause was forlorn from the start.

lol

It’s not their fault. There’s been a fifty year campaign to dumb Americans down, ever since the boomers burned their draft cards, stayed in school to get out of Vietnam, then flooded into the job market all at once with their newly minted phds. My professor was just talking about this actually.

In the last few days, we've assembled independent theatres in LA, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Chicago to air this thing. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile will be in theatres on October 2nd after all, followed by the first theatrical screening of Sex House. It is going to be fun as hell.

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... Is this why I haven’t been able to find cod liver oil anywhere for the last year and a half?

productiongap.org/2025report/ Thanks to Roberta Boscolo for sharing this on LinkedIn

Trump signs order advancing TikTok deal, in boost to corporate allies www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... Of course, now it’ll be just another version of fb or twitter

3 School Districts to Lose $65 Million Over Gender and D.E.I. Policies www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/n... They won’t stop until they privatize the educational system & lock us all out of any remote possibility of upward social mobility.