💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Get your home efficiency and electrification upgrades in by the end of the year for the tax credits!
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023... Florida Texas Arizona using pension funds to invest in Israel while parents struggled to feed children and elderly die. They seriously couldn’t find a single thing inside the United States to invest this much money in. #AmericaFirst
As a doctor, I am disturbed by what RFK Jr. is doing to America’s public health system. It is time for medical associations, Republican doctors, and all who believe in science to step up and speak out about the lack of science behind these moves.
Hope This Works Out. Republicans Definitely Aren’t Pro Life! BREAKING: Hundreds of children from Guatemala Trump was going to illegally deport are SUING Trump, Bondi, Rubio, and the ENTIRE administration for their right to STAY. 👏 Experts say their case is rock solid.
Or the terrifying cat that often sleeps on it! 😼
Using the dog bed to its fullest extent #dogsky
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
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Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
What perfect album came out when you were 16? The MOST perfect #fugazi
Let me rewatch The Day After Tomorrow to see what to expect.
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And that is the oligarchs’ ultimate plan isn’t it? Making the rest of us renters and feudal slaves again. If we don’t fight back at billionaires soon, they will win & break everything on the way 😞
Take that racists in my government! Managed to get both mine and hubbie’s passports renewed for 10 years with the Māori name first. First people = first language 🤷♀️ #Aotearoa
Opinion: Can late-stage capitalism survive without insurance? “The biggest risk isn’t unaffordable insurance, it’s a world where natural risks are so bad they are effectively uninsurable.” thespinoff.co.nz/business/28-...
This is an absolute no-brainer and just another utter embarrassment by the worst government Aotearoa ever had: thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...
This is #energyhardship and it is driving more & more Kiwis into hidden energy hardship, where they are (told to) self-restrict to the detriment of their and their whānau's health: www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Someday I am going to write a book about how America managed to create a strain of Christianity that is completely antithetical to, well, Christianity.
This alone should be an extinction-level lawsuit for Elon Musk
Keep track of the Musk murders
NPR: “A whistleblower says a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names & birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud lacking adequate security...” www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
DOGE is currently creating the national identification system that Republicans have been terrified of for my entire life
Der IPCC lag mit seiner Meeresspiegel-Prognose von 1996 fast punktgenau richtig: 8 cm vorhergesagt, 9 cm gemessen. Wer heute noch behauptet, Klimamodelle seien unzuverlässig, ignoriert die Faktenlage der letzten 30 Jahre. www.mimikama.org/meeresspiege...
Looks like the GOP’s supermajority in Iowa is broken tonight, as Democrat Catelin Drey beats MAGA Chris Prosch by more than 10 points . Previously, a Republican won this seat by ten points. Look out, MAGA! Nobody likes your terrible “governance”!
I’ve been running a Home Energy Assessment Toolkit scheme across Aotearoa for 4 years now, and anecdotally we see between 50-80% (!) of Healthy Homes Standards violations in rentals of vulnerable tenants. It ain’t working: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... @rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy @rnzrss.bsky.social
When one chart says everything that’s wrong with a country #Reaganism
Before Peter Betts died in 2023, he wanted to pass on what he had learned over many years of climate negotiating. "I realise how insignificant I am as one individual, and how devastating #climate breakdown will be". www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'How France’s nuclear dream became a financial nightmare.' Tech and resource challenges escalate, including water availability in the face of climate. Plan to bury highly radioactive waste at an impasse. Political class in denial. independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
"Europe relies on freely provided environmental and health-monitoring data from the US in planning for extreme weather events and long-term investment, but the Trump administration has proposed wide-ranging cuts in key science agencies, and NASA has signaled a step back from climate science."
We strangled our rivers; now they're fighting back: "It’s like being diagnosed w/ something that’s not incurable but you can ignore it & it kills you or you can decide to do something about it. The bottom line: if we don’t do it ourselves the rivers will do it for us.” newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/13/l...
This is hidden hardship - my main research topic RN: "It’s difficult to say exactly how many of the people whose emergency housing applications were declined ended up living on the street, because the govt doesn’t have a good record of them." thespinoff.co.nz/politics/14-...
Just utterly shocking how much this ecocidal government has hollowed out what was once hailed as a world-leading response to #climatecollapse: www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/570...
12/ “DOGE was completely indifferent to the effect their actions had on human beings,” said Barnett Rubin, an Afghanistan expert who has served as a senior advisor for the United Nations and State Department. All it cared about, he said, was making “its enemies look bad.”
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
🎁 article: "If ignoring the costs of lockdowns led in some cases to an overly restrictive response, ignoring the benefits could lead to an overly loose one. In many ways, we were lucky last time. The next virus—and there will be a next one—could be far deadlier" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump & Republicans on the verge of exceeding another achievement of his first reign of incompetence. This year, he will bankrupt more corporations than he did with his disastrous Covid response in 2020. How stupid do you have to be to accomplish that? Epstein is proud moneywise.com/investing/st...
Ghislaine Maxwell lying under oath: "I never recall seeing Trump in Epstein’s house." 25 April, 2003: Dinner at Epstein’s House Hosted by: Ghislaine Maxwell & Epstein Dinner Guest: Donald Trump
How the FUCK are we OK with this!?! "Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate 5 out of 6 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Soooo, if Elon Musk and JD Vance are <6.2 (1.88m) tall, how can Trump be 6.3 (1.90m) tall? 🤨
“This is racial gerrymandering at its worst.” Rep. Al Green told Mother Jones during the Texas House proceedings, where they passed a redistricting plan that could give the GOP five additional seats in the US House.
After mass nationwide boycotts against Target for choosing to end their DEI (diversity equity inclusion) program, they have lost over $12B in sales and the CEO has also officially resigned as a result. Love it, power of the people. 💙👊
The Voting Rights Act used to stop racist voter suppression-specifically in Texas But the Supreme Court gutted the VRA-consequently Trump and the Republicans are disenfranchising Black and Hispanic Americans So Gavin Newsom will push California to respond With democracy hanging in the balance
Opinion | Fiscal challenges are real. but the attack on the humanities comes down to something much deeper. chroni.cl/3JD7MiG
We are now at the initial stages of a system failure. If we keep at it for much longer, we might see what actual failure really means. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nancy Mace: "In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I've worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here." (Mace is taking credit for legislation she voted against!)
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Fox News hosts saying Gavin Newsom’s tweets are childish and unbecoming of the governor of the state of California shows that you can lead a horse to water but the joke will still go over their heads.
“We need a strategy that anticipates a better, more secure, and more equitable response for our fellow citizens in the face of the worsening and accelerating effects of the climate emergency in our country,” said Sánchez. #wildfires #climateemergency 🔥🌍🔥 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
That is exactly right - the amazing Chloë Swarbrick read the room of what the vast majority of Kiwis believe & want: outrage over the genocide, and that our gutless white old boy club of a government needs to put their big boy pants on and recognise Palestine ASAP! www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Nothing says small dick energy more than this shit show 🤦♀️
100 years of July temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
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The former head of Israel's military intelligence just praised the deaths of innocents as "necessary...as a message for future generations." If we do nothing, we will have to tell our children that we stood idly by as millions of people were sent to their graves. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
Ukrainians didn't surrender in 2014, when the world refused even to recognize russian aggression. Ukrainians didn't surrender in 2022, when the world expected us to fall in 72h. Ukrainians won't surrender in 2025, either. For us, freedom and sovereignty are not empty words.
DOGE says they’ve saved $53 billion The real number is $1.4 billion, and it doesn’t come off the deficit because it’s still Congressionally allocated money.
5/ Think about this: At the most important US-Russia summit in years, Trump put his Treasury and Commerce secretaries in the prime seats beside him. That’s not how you arrange a table to end a war. That’s how you arrange it to cut business deals.
“The Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Anchorage wearing a CCCP sweatshirt under his Tech-bro vest.” Did Trump & Rubio lambaste Lavrov - as they did to Zelensky in Oval Office - for not wearing a suit to meeting which was deemed “disrespectful”? 🤔 open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
OUR NEW WORLD! Hurricane Erin is one of the fastest rapidly intensifying storms in Atlantic history #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #hurricane #Breaking #BreakingNews https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/16/weather/hurricane-erin-track-strengthening-atlantic-climate
After the embarrassing Putin–Trump summit, Trump emerged weaker than ever. Now he’s pressuring red state governors to send National Guard troops into DC to pose as a strongman. Soft on Moscow, hard on Americans. Authoritarian insecurity is on full display.
Israeli military preparing to expel Gaza City residents as baby in tent among those killed in latest attacks
A tale of two vibes.
Breakfast in bed 😊
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
“But there’s a lesson Trump still hasn’t learned: The Russian leader doesn’t really make deals — he takes. He takes what is offered to him, and then takes some more — he keeps taking until stopped by force. That is the Russian art of the deal.” kyivindependent.com/editorial-th...
As the unhoused are targeted, they rise. We need to stand up with them. They are being kicked while down. The papers say they have a choice. The feds say the choice is jail or shelter. The shelter takes their belongings and most shelters are at capacity. It is no choice.
Schiff: This guy ran on a platform of bringing down the costs for the American people, and he's a failure. He's a failure.
i’ve certainly had my issues with newsom but right now he’s nailing the moment
Risks of climate crisis to Australia’s economy and environment are ‘intense and scary’, unreleased government report says. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sometimes (especially for wealthier home owners) #renewables incentives work 🤷♀️
It’s *exactly* like being in jail —in South TX. They locked up a 6 yo with an approved resident visa after transporting him across state lines to be there. Meanwhile, Ghislaine Maxwell is approved for work release in the same state?
American corporations are on pace to spend $1.1 trillion on stock buybacks in 2025, an all-time high. Buybacks don't create more jobs, increase wages, or grow the economy — but they do help juice CEO pay that's often tied to stock performance. Nothing trickles down to workers.
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
But you're going to be in the #Epstein files everyday.
Let's focus on qualifications: Antoni finished grad school 5 years ago at Northern Illinois with no distinction. Dissertation: No focus on labor or data collection. Zero publications. One lifetime citation (by a former colleague). This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.
Stoked that I just handed in my chapter on "Hidden #Energy Users - Who they are, where they are, why they are hidden & who knows them" for Prof Mari Maiskanen's Handbook on #EnergyEquity. If we are truly interested in achieving a "just & fair energy transition", these groups need to be our priority.
Good fucking grief he’s not just the tackiest but the cheapest of all wannabe (small) dicktators 🙄🤮🤣
80%. of D.C. homeless people are Black. When 🍊 is sending troops to remove them tomorrow 🗣️HE’S ESSENTIALLY TARGETING BLACK PEOPLE. The plan is to remove them “far from the capitol” into isolated land. It’s giving concentration camp/alligator Alcatraz www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Welp
Climate denier buffoon gets a reality check - his damage already done. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Mark Cuban getting ratiod by a complete rando
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
I’ve always loved & fought for nature. It’s my #1 mission on earth. And yet, I never fully understood what it meant to be part of Papatūānuku’s wonders until I removed myself from my lifelong city life to the remotest part of the planet: life’s never been better! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It makes sense once you realize that every accusation is a confession.
'Norway, almost every home heated with electricity, 9 in 10 new cars EV. China, world’s largest consumer coal, moving to future: laying vast networks transmission lines, world’s biggest fleet EVs, deploying solar and wind at scale that dwarfs rest of the world.' www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Heyyyyy back from the other side of the planet! 🌕
