So impressed with people like Crystal and Mark of oaktree.eco, who aren't waiting for Washington but building community-owned energy infrastructure in their own neighborhood one block at a time: nonprofitquarterly.org/the-work-was...

The Work Was Never in Washington: Building Change One Block at a Time | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Thermal energy networks are an under-the-radar technology that’s capable of powering entire neighborhoods. They present an unusual opportunity for communities to have a shot at owning the infrastructu...

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Grim

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”

Online leftism is a powerful system of self-surveillance that effectively captures & counters righteous anger. People who want to fight fascism have to actually fight it & not be consumed by timeline wars, leftist influencer rage bait & manipulation by outside forces, warns @williamcson.bsky.social.

Another way out: Those who won't fight power will fight each other

People who want to fight fascism have to actually fight it and not be consumed by timeline wars and leftist influencer rage bait

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Anyway, I can't recommend reading Omar El Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" enough. We're getting closer to that one day: penguinbookshop.com/book/9780593...

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: National Book Award

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its funda...

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wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:

Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lukas Graham, another support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour, also now withdrawing from the tour.

Having to blast Thrift Shop was not how I wanted to spend 2026 yet here we are

Emma Silvers@emmaruthless.bsky.social · 5d ago

goddammit i am so mad about having to hand it to macklemore

For people thinking, what's the big deal about the 4% cut in global oil production coming next week, that's the scale of the 1973 OPEC crisis and 1979 Iran war oil crisis. Each followed by a major recession. Prices and supply are global. And global oil stocks are already gone. It's a calamity. 1/

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 6d ago

Welp

Massive layoffs today at McClatchy's local newspapers in Lexington, Kentucky; Miami, Florida; Sacramento, California; Charlotte, North Carolina and more. Reactionary politics depend on an uninformed populace and here we are: www.lpm.org/news/2026-09...

McClatchy guts Lexington Herald-Leader newsroom, among nationwide layoffs

McClatchy laid off 13 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader, a majority of its reporters, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs.

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I mean. You didn't think they were going to stop at disenfranchising just Black people did you?

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4w ago

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of midterms.

Join us for another round of our popular Green Density Tour on August 30th! This time we'll explore Bernal Heights ecology and talk about opportunities for further greening to create a safer, more welcoming environment for pedestrians and new neighbors. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/berna...

There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.

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ICE just spent $1.5 BILLION to purchase two massive prisons in California it was already using for detention, in an effort to avoid oversight from the state, which has been pressuring the private prison company that owned them. CoreCivic will continue operating the facilities.

Wendy Fry@wendyfry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#BreakingNews Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds calmatters.org/justice/2026...

Pope Leo is a G and they're never going to let us have a Black American pope again

Felipe De La Hoz@felipedlh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

In 1770 Crispus Attucks was the 1st martyr of the American Revolution. Son of an African father & Native American mother, he'd liberated himself from slavery & joined the multiracial ranks of northeastern mariners b4 sacrificing his life, as G.W. Williams put it, “on the altar of a people’s rights.”

What it's like to work the polls ahead of America's embarrassing 250th birthday! cailles-newsletter.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Today I learned influential photographer August Sander had a son, Erich, who was a socialist & activist imprisoned for high treason by the Nazis. Erich Sander smuggled a camera into prison where he took photos like this one of French Resistance member Marcel Ancelin weristwalter.eu/project/port...

if you have feelings about SCOTUS after today, and after the last week, and after the last months and years, remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:

Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts

Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.

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I love you Danny and all of San Francisco does too

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 3mo ago

Legendary actor Danny Glover reveals in a Today exclusive interview that he has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for multiple years.

Absolutely correct.

Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is what the moderates got us.

Even moreso than he LIKES the Fed, Roberts acknowledges the importance of the Fed to his top interest group, which is corporate interests. Same with mail-in voting: It would hurt Republican voters most, and Roberts needs them. All "good" opinions from him are best for his preferred Americans.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC. But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed. Roberts writes both majority opinions There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.

None. Because wealth derives now entirely from predation, not production, so actual journalism inherently threatens it.

Jared Wade@jaredwade.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How isn't there one uber rich person who just wants to spend like $500M to run break-even local papers in a few places? Like, literally no rich people even believe in journalism at all anymore?

Ivanka and Jared’s Island Resort Could Bring Down Albania’s Prime Minister What began as a “flamingo revolution” to protest the $1.4 billion development on Sazan Island has spiraled into mass protests against a ruling party that thousands now want out. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/ivanka...

Ivanka and Jared’s Island Resort Could Bring Down Albania’s Prime Minister

What began as a “flamingo revolution” to protest the $1.4 billion development on Sazan Island has spiraled into mass protests against a ruling party that thousands now want out.

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helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz

The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...

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Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

Three Great Society-style Democratic wins in NYC AND we get rid of James Carville????? Best political night I can remember in decades!

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 3mo ago

‘I’m Done, I’m Not in That F*cking Political Party’: James Carville Freaks Out After Progressives Win Big in Democratic Primaries

this is simply no longer a winning electoral strategy anywhere — not in PA, not in NYC, not in the USA, not on earth. the people of the planet are rejecting the us-israeli war machine. the only way this politics can survive in democracies is by subverting the will of voters and democracy itself.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fetterman: “I'm going to continue to follow Israel through all of this and their interests and the kinds of security that they demand.”

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

All In with Chris Hayes@allinwithchris.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Could be a great thing to run on if there was anyone who still cared about serving the public

Data for Progress@dataforprogress.org · 3mo ago

NEW: A majority of voters across party lines support a data center moratorium. Sixty-seven percent of Democrats, 66% of Independents, and 58% of Republicans support pausing the construction of new AI data centers for at least one year.