El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

“Energy from heaven not from hell.” Bill McKibbon

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · last wk.

So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

Republican Congressmember Max Miller of Ohio is facing allegations of domestic abuse as he runs for reelection. Mother Jones obtained around 2,000 pages of court filings and police reports pertaining to Miller, which include allegations dating back to high school.

“Assault, Misogyny, Verbal Threats”: Mother Jones Exposé on Allegations Against GOP Rep. Max Miller

Democrats are calling for an ethics investigation into Republican Congressmember Max Miller of Ohio, who is facing allegations of domestic abuse as he runs for reelection. Miller’s ex-wife Emily Moren...

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Solar energy supplied more power to Great Britain’s grid in July than in any previous month as households turned to rooftop panels to cut their energy bills. ☀️ 👍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Solar powers record share of Britain’s electricity mix in July

Farms and rooftop panels contribute 14.4% to the grid – and figures reveal a surge in new installations

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Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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I made dinner for my abuser a bunch of times. You have to play nice while you're planning your escape so you don't get dead. Max Miller is a textbook abuser.

"No bid" contracts means Trump is giving money to people working for, or making something for, the government without getting competitive bids. It results in overpaying. It's not his money, it's ours, so he doesn't care. He gets to give our money to his buddies. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...

Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts

The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.

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Don't let the coal industry roll over the Monongahela National Forest! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/do...

Don't let the coal industry roll over the Monongahela National Forest!

The Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia is a national treasure. “The Mon” boasts some of the continent’s southernmost cranberry bogs and red spruce forests, as well as numerous rare species a...

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BREAKING: Max Miller - republican Rep from Ohio who is accused of beating his wife and child - is making an announcement on Twitter at 10 AM tomorrow. It better be his resignation.

The timing is literally impossible to ignore. @eastendjoe.bsky.social

OUTRAGEOUS! DHS officers in Portland detained an Indigenous activist wearing the MMIW handprint outside the ICE facility. Suppressing peaceful demonstrators exposes the deep disregard for native lives. Indigenous sovereignty and human rights cannot be silenced.

Thread of updates on an unusually busy day in ICE flights. This Omni ICE flight just landed in Laos. Passengers have been shackled for 25+ hours. There is likely at least one more stop. 1/

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last wk.

Overnight this Omni ICE removal trip refueled in Anchorage and is now likely headed to its second refueling stop in Guam. It’ll be another 10 hours at least before it makes its first removal stop. The people onboard have been shackled for at least 14 hours so far.

A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List

A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.

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Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...

BREAKING: The U.S. and Saudi Arabia launched joint airstrikes on Iran-backed militia targets in Iraq after more than 30 IRGC-directed drone attacks over the past 72 hours, per CENTCOM. The statement from CENTCOM comes just hours after Iranian strikes targeted a U.S. base in Jordan.

Take a tour of Camp East Montana, just outside of El Paso, TX. It's Trump's number one concentration camp. And the death count is piling up and worrying the El Paso County coroner's office. We're talking homicide by the prison operators, not mere neglect.

‘This Place Is a Graveyard of Living People’

A harrowing human rights report details horrors at America’s largest concentration camp.

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Elon Musk pleads: please, please don't watch my interview with The Economist. By all means, watch it here: www.economist.com/insider/the-...

Marc Rosenblum, head for statistics at DHS, resigns, saying he is delighted to no longer be involved in supporting the agency's war against facts and the truth. www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...

DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’

The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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NEW: DHS' top number-cruncher just left the department -- and blasted the administration's "war on immigrants" on the way out. He's one of the very few DHS officials to step down and speak out publicly against this White House. Me in @wired.com ... www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...

DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’

The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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Love it!!

Corey Cantor@coreybcantor.bsky.social · last wk.

Spoke with @jeffstjohn.bsky.social about the new California EV incentive program, passed by the legislature & gov that launched off of white paper by Atlas Public Policy & EVs for All America. Check out the piece 👇🔌🚗 www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...

Trump is so much more criminal than we have ever understood. Spy Sheik? Half a billion on crypto cuz he’s sold off the US presidency. This alone is impeachment territory. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.

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Phang: "Judge Sullivan has ordered Todd Blanche to appear with specific unredacted Epstein files, emails, and documents no later than 3 p.m. EST on Thursday, July 30th. But most importantly, Blanche must come and show his work..."

#Republicans - you good with this? World Liberty (aka Trump Family Mafia) blatantly stealing our money? Treason. Shameful. If you don’t impeach him I’m going to assume you are complicit.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver@lastweektonight.com · last wk.

This week’s story is about Trump’s sprawling and ethically compromising cryptocurrency projects, how they’ve created massive conflicts of interest for the Trump administration, and why the pages of Trump’s bibles might be sticky. Ok fine, we think it was Craig.

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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Maybe we should be reporting on CO2 emissions at the power source or tailpipe more often rather than waiting for them diffuse through the entire atmosphere and just reporting that one number…. #climatechangedoesntcareifwebelieveinitornot

it’s always ‘too many mosquitoes’ and never ‘more animals for them to bite instead of us’ #trophicsystemsmatter

So much WINNING!!!!!

NYC SMALL BIZ OWNERS ON ZOHRAN: “These people really care about small businesses… They get shit done… I like that he stands for making sure nobody seems to feel marginalized, we all win together… If that’s what socialism is I’m all for it!” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

p.dw.com/p/5CvDs More eco-destruction coming your way.....🧪 "In May, the EU announced plans to reduce pesticide use by 50%. Two years later, pesticide sales were clearly decreasing. The EU law proposal was eventually withdrawn and pesticide sales started to grow again.

EU is failing to cut pesticide use

With binding cut targets scrapped, the European Union's pledge to halve pesticide use is stalling — even as controversial chemicals like glyphosate remain on sale across the bloc.

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