Trump & co. are acting like none of this matters. Prove them wrong.
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · yesterdayOur average of polls at FiftyPlusOne gives Trump a roughly 36% approval rating and 61% disapproval rating — a net -25 — among all adults, and he’s rapidly losing ground. The president set a new record low six days in a row just in the last week: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-04...
I think the plan is to render the nation's monuments unfit for purpose.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · yesterdayScoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost
I think the ringmaster should have eyes peering out through a set of clockwork teeth.
InkyCol@inkycol.bsky.social · 23h agoThis illustrates your dodgy demo point well www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
These types always claim to have answers* to everything. * the 'answer' usually involves hitting down on someone else, which is the real drawcard.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayFormer prime minister Kevin Rudd says Pauline Hanson has no answers on policy
How often does the boss get fired because an AI can decide who to fire?
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2d agoFinally, there's an *economic* coin-trick: "AI will destroy jobs." Sure, yes, AI is destroying jobs. But there's a vast difference between "You got fired because an AI can do your job" and "You got fired because your boss was convinced that the AI can do your job, even though it *cannot*." 45/
AI makes sense, but I'm not sure that losing a transport minister is going to help hide anything.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d agoBen Carroll adds artificial intelligence ministry to Victorian cabinet, dumps transport infrastructure
My monthly roundup of environmental news for July is now up. (but your RSS feed will have told you that ;-) wearebouthere.blogspot.com/2026/08/news...
News for July, 2026
Welcome to this roundup of July's environment related articles. It is a mere fraction of what was published. The biggest talking point has ...
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Oddly enough, this has worked on occasion.
David Corn@davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d agoI dunno. Maybe declare victory and go home?
... I *think* this is in reference to monetary tolls.
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2d agoMost Sydney road tolls to keep rising after Transurban accused of blocking reforms
Even though emissions are plateauing, I predict this will continue to rise because a) emissions continue to happen, and b) oceans will start releasing what's been forced into them
Glen@gergyl.bsky.social · 4d agoAtmospheric CO2 update.
This dude could pump a billion dollars into an election campaign, and block out every advertising space in the race. That's a lot of cookie drives. (The cookies still have an advantage)
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 5d agoAmerica's highest profile gutter racist to spend $100 million supporting the party of racism.
Scoop: You know all those AI generated pro-data center ads you’re seeing on TV, YouTube and Facebook? I was able to confirm for the first time it’s all a big national campaign by the data center lobby — one with a total black box of finances. Take a look inside “America Connects”
Inside the Data Center Lobby’s Quiet Ad Blitz
What’s the deal with all those “America Connects” videos?
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within the last 24 hours i have today learned that i have likely stopped two data centers with my reporting
If your president directs your armed forces to destroy another nation's water supplies...
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is a serious issue, even though Trump is attempting to turn it into a political game by blaming Minnesota. Cyberattacks targeting municipal water and wastewater systems have now been reported in at least seven states this week.
Wheat is grass. "What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?" - Terry Pratchett
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoTrump: "Grass is like human beings. Grass has a life also. And we're changing, raking, cleaning, and changing all of the parks."
this dude is on drugs (or is the bot he sounds like)
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 5d agoAs I've said before: What high-paying long-term jobs do they pretend exist here? A data center isn't a place where execs come and do Big Deals. Go to the server room at your workplace; are there lots of rich people in there spending money?
Masked ICE thug just casually shooting pepper spray at a few old ladies standing peacefully on the sidewalk filming them in uptown Manhattan today. Just because these monsters are quieter now doesn’t mean they’re not still out there violating people.
