Caryn Hunt
@carynhunt.bsky.social
Random links & shenanigans. Writer/filmmaker. Citizen. Really tired of living in interesting times.
Everyone says Trump killed the climate law. But nine in ten factories are still being built, courts keep blocking his attacks, and the corporate tax credits survived. Read more in today's Notes from the Electric Era newsletter. electricnotes.news/p/no-the-dem...
No, the Democrats' Big Climate Law is Not Dead.
Plus, new research shows that its clean energy manufacturing boom benefitted Democrats in the 2024 election.
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Good luck with that. Alabama ranks as the 44th state (at the bottom) in terms of health care and education.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoTuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."
the @chicagoreader.com's august print issue is out this week and it's all about surveillance 📹 i often write about ai and drones and alprs. but the stories in this issue focus on the quieter, more subversive ways people in power have built a society for fascism to thrive. more in my staff note:
The quiet infrastructure of control - Chicago Reader
Staff note: August 2026 Surveillance issue
chicagoreader.com
The war in Iran has shown that Trump’s inability to perceive reality has become truly dangerous. Iran is a disaster, but Trump’s irrationality could create other, even more perilous situations. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous
The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.
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It’s been 166 days since SCOTUS struck down Trump’s illegal tariff taxes & big corporations are getting their refunds. $2.2 BILLION for Apple, $600 MILLION for Amazon, $300 million for Nike. When are American families going to see the $1,700 they're owed? Return the money, NOW.
Corporate America got billions of dollars in tariff refunds. Where’s your cut? | CNN Business
Apple got an estimated $2.2 billion tariff refund last quarter. Amazon got $600 million. Nike got $300 million. But American consumers who paid higher prices as President Donald Trump’s tariffs filter...
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The Survivors’ Truth Commission meets today, Aug. 5, at 1 p.m. MDT to present its interim report and walk through its mission investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. nmpoliticalreport.com/2026/08/04/e...
Epstein Truth Commission to present interim report Wednesday - New Mexico Political Report
By Kevin Hendricks The Survivors’ Truth Commission — formally the House Special Investigatory Committee — meets Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 1 p.m. in State Capitol Room 307 to present an interim report and ...
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Every single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents
These betting markets sites are so socially corrosive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My son has cancer. Kalshi wants you to be able to bet on his medical future | Joshua Pederson
The predictions market is planning to allow betting on clinical trial results and regulatory decisions as our family fights for his survival
theguardian.com
Very heartening news out of Missouri and Kansas. I know all of us here are by definition Terminally Online, but it gives me a lot of hope for the future of our country that folks are rejecting blatant authoritarianism and crony corporatism more and more.
This quote sums it up: “The City Council just hit residents with 50 years of higher rates to pay for a fossil-fueled facility that will be obsolete the day it opens.”
... WAR is profitable. Men in position of power. Men who make weapons for war. Men who sold their soul ...
said “fucks sake” without realizing 3 was right behind me and she’s been randomly sighing and saying “fox ache!” and honestly it’s too cute to even try to correct
I heard El-Sayed speak in person. He's passionate, committed to helping EVERYONE. It's a very different message than GOP hate. "People are tired of not being able to afford groceries, rent, a home:" high prices caused by tRump. This frustration crosses party lines.💙 www.politico.com/live-updates...
El-Sayed promises a big tent — and predicts a big win in November
The Michigan Senate Democrat, on primary day, predicted he'll beat Republican Mike Rogers "by seven."
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Pundits are underestimating how fed up the average Dem voter is with moderate Dems refusing to thwart the Republican hegemonic agenda. Ppl want government to do what it should: care for constituents.
Voters in Kansas saw through a blatant political power grab and sent a message — our courts are not for sale.
Kansas voters sent a strong message tonight - they want a judiciary that stands up to the legislature, not one controlled by it or shaped by big money judicial elections
Kansas Voters Crush a Measure to Elect Supreme Court Judges
The rejection of a measure to begin electing justices was a victory for abortion rights groups who defended the Kansas high court’s ruling that abortion was protected in the state constitution.
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"Trump is now selling early access to his social media posts to Wall St...Trump's tweets move billions within seconds, billions Wall St must pursue...As a result, Trump will make millions" It's just more "shameless profiteering". But it's also "a federal scandal the likes of which we've never seen."
Aschenbrenner’s AI Fund Collapse Is Just The Beginning
YouTube video by Prof G Markets
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A 41-year-old man has died in ICE custody. He had not been convicted of any crime.
Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · yesterday
Next: "Jack Torrance broke his son's arm, yet everyone loves the Shining. I think we can see the hypocrisy here"
He could have left with his head held high doing the hard thing, the right thing, instead of scurrying and slithering along a wall like a lil mouse.
I seriously feel like I am living in some sort of alternate universe. This is just insane. They are lying, journalists say nothing.
And this is why everyone must vote Democrat across the board. Republicans absolutely have the power to stop this and simply won't. Vote Vote smart Vote Democrat
Lawrence O'Donnell said last night the two Senators knuckled under so they could maintain their lobbying businesses when they "retire" after this term. So they sold us all out just so they could make some dough later. That's all our elected reps do anymore on both sides I'm afraid. We are secondary
They’re protecting their post-Senate money trough as a highly paid (republican) lobbyist.
We are unable to stop the carnivorous monster so we've lined up all the children in order of tastiness to carnivorous monsters.
He misspoke. He meant to say “there’s nothing we WILL do to rein in Fat Bastard.”
When we defeat MAGA fascism, there'll be lots of denazification left to do. If we let bygones be bygones, we'll be repeating past mistakes. When Nixon got away with felonies, it signaled to crooked politicians that they were unaccountable too. Then came Iran-Contra, the WMD lie & Trump. No more.
