Here's a ray of sunshine in a very dark world Germany has already exceeded its goal of shutting down 8 GW of coal plants - 3 years earlier than expected Amazing what a little sun and wind can do 😎 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Husband, father, Mechanical Engineer. Trail runner, retired rugby player/coach, and environmentalist. Southern California born/raised at 341 ppm; @jasonnlewis elsewhere too
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Here's a ray of sunshine in a very dark world Germany has already exceeded its goal of shutting down 8 GW of coal plants - 3 years earlier than expected Amazing what a little sun and wind can do 😎 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
all this time litigating blueskyism meanwhile linkedinism is rapidly accelerating into infinite power mode
“rich people should be allowed to rip things directly out of the hands of children” is a world class Take, linkedin has truly developed the juice
I am not seeing "Constitutional amendment reversing Citizens United" on any of these New Reconstruction wishlists folks are circulating, and. Absent starting over from scratch, I don't see us establishing any semblance of democracy here without that plus Supreme Court expansion.
I really want to see the legal rationale/justification for blowing up some randos on a boat in the Caribbean. While I know the USA (sadly) has a long history of doing similar things, it doesn't make it right. We cease to even have ideals when we no longer question living up to them.
We must acknowledge reality before we can work to change it. We live in fascism now. We will not be able to vote our way out. Now we survive. And we keep others alive. And if you aren't ready, aren't prepared for the grim work of antifascism? Stay the hell out of the way of those who prepared.
Forest floor, Rosewel Park, Vancouver Island BC #travelbc #Photography #Canadasky
Trump Is Dying And Lying About It
Jerry, on
Hypothetically, could Pritzker call up the Illinois national guard to defend the state against the Texans send in by the federal government? Or ask, say, New York, to send guardsmen to his aid? When does it become civil war?
Putting a steering wheel in someone’s hands cuts their ability to think in half. Exhibit A: a line for In ‘n Out when The Habit, Tommy’s, & Tom’s Burgers #1-25 exist.
if you are a 40 year old man complaining about being “bullied” on a social media platform, I have great news for you: you are allowed to log off
The FAA’s much-hyped hiring push has attracted thousands of air traffic controller applicants, but now the agency does not have enough qualified instructors to train new recruits.
There is a recurring message in the Bible. 🙏🏻It’s simple🙏🏻 If you think the book 📖 allows you to starve children 👶🏻keep medicine💉💊 from the sick😷and look away 👀 while people are slaughtered praying 🙏🏻 in churches🕍 or synagogues ⛪️, your ideology is flawed. #pinks #thebiblesays #loveoneanother
The black hole of disinformation and bullshit continues to suck in huge portions of the US. Rabies is spreading in the US. One reason is that many people are not vaccinating their dogs. Why? Many actually believe rabies vaccinations will make their dogs autistic.
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
@mxscottkernest.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Weird cowards with badges
“The terror and cruelty are the point.” Illinois Gov. Pritzker says WH Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller chose a potential federal takeover in Chicago during the month of Mexican Independence Day.
Azelastine Nasal Spray for Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 Infections url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2838335?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=090225 #covidcautious
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
¡Vamos a ganar! ✊🏽 Workers at Houston’s Hilton Americas hotel are ON STRIKE — because one job should be enough! This is the first strike of Texas hotel workers in modern history.
Someone needs to invade us and oversee a regime change
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
You’re not alone. My mental chaser has been:
Evergreen, yo
Celebrate having nuanced opinions. Celebrate being informed on shit. Like, actually informed. Take back the “doing my own research” from those dumb assholes. Go fuck a smart person. If they don’t have books, don’t fuck’em. 23/24
In surprising news: my high schooler and 5th grader love it too. 🤷♂️📰
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
Authoritarian Strongman Threatens to Suppress Regional Dissent with Military Force
I talked to Wired for A LONG time about how The Onion works now and also alluded to some very stupid, very fun things coming very soon. www.wired.com/story/uncann...
Spoiler alert for those of us on the best coast.
America is a shithole country
I’m old enough to remember when we had 47,000 congressional hearings over Hunter Biden allegedly making money off his father’s name. Meanwhile, Trump’s corruption, in the billions, gets openly celebrated.
R.I.P....the most wonderful Graham Greene has gone forth shining.🌟 (free article) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/m...
lol people who are mad the New York Times reported on Black women exiting the workforce. "Why are we talking about Black women? Why not Black men? Why not all women?" Because numbers don't lie and ENTIRE communities rest on BLACK WOMEN. #blacksky #econsky 1/
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
Moving Space Command away from NORAD is stupid. Colorado already has the existing ecosystem to support both the command and the operations. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Yes
I liked it better when he was dead.
Fuck Marco Rubio.
Remember when it was hard to imagine exactly how we could end up in a second U.S. civil war? I miss those days.
Kennedy must be removed from office. He has already caused a catastrophe at HHS and the CDC. I strongly suspect that he is about to use data manipulated by unscrupulous and unqualified individuals to attempt to falsely show that vaccines are in some way a net harm. He simply must be stopped.
I'm old as hell. When I used to go to the mall, Auntie Anne pretzels were close to $3.75. Those pretzels are almost $10 now for one? Bitch, I'd rather wait at union station for the Churro lady.
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
the thing is that by getting out in front of this instead of waiting for it to happen Pritzker might actually short circuit the whole thing. Texas is already issuing denials.
this is just insanely illegal
www.bostonreview.net/articles/alb...
Short version: freaky homophobic types go to authoritarian state - on.ft.com/4m0Fi03
Good question, feckless answer
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive
Any website that aggregates local schools' standardized test scores with house listings in the service of selling those houses is doing the work of systemic racism.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
‘No place in children’s hands’: under-16s in England to be banned from buying energy drinks
An officer briefly became the face of Trump’s brutality mandate in DC after popping up in various videos like federal Forrest Gump. @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated and found he’s a 26-year-old former Eagle Scout named Patrick O’Hanlon who says he was just doing his job. Our report:
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
In recent days, Elon Musk promoted "remigration" for the UK via his very widely followed account on X. In case you were not familiar with this concept here's a good explanation of "Europes's far-right buzzword" in The Guardian from 2024. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website
"Scientists must finally prove the Earth is round. Some say it is, and a lot of other very smart people who I've put in charge of the US government say it's flat. Scientists show me pictures from space, but they never show them to the public. What's the truth? I demand an answer."
We did this to ourselves www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
81.1°F here in Twin Peaks at 11 a.m. On track for the hottest day in San Francisco since October! #CAwx
Greed is omnipresent
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The White House is now a double-wide trailer. A pig in a tuxedo is still a pig. 🇺🇸
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
We share this graph as often as we can. #UnionStrong
Genocide scholars affirm the conclusion of top Israeli human rights group: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Should be “don’t, old open millennials inside”
In America we've set up a cool system where, when you get *super* rich, you actually pay *lower* taxes.
Whoever broke into the mongoose enclosure, gave them all tiny leather jackets and mohawks then changed the sign to “Sneerkats:” respect.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
My “not involved in a DUI with a sex worker in my car” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
This Labor Day, Trump wants you to believe he’s “pro-worker.” The reality? He’s spent his career attacking workers while protecting billionaires and CEOs. 🧵
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
REI stop before the next play date 🤷♂️🤘 www.rei.com/product/2088...
How does anyone listen to this human paraquat?
Fascists will be banning birth control before Christmas.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Dubai resident who recently went bankrupt owing Britain over a million pounds in tax, and who cannot legally be a director of a company for four years, wants your vote to make him Mayor of London so he can use the blockchain to "shape and change the face of politics."
