A sentence I would rather never hear, yet here we are: "Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly". #ClimateChange 🧪 Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118804
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We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d agoBREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Proud of this little trick. If you've started using CSS gap decorations, you might know you can inset the lines by some amount. Well, if you also use a CSS size container, you can inset the lines by, say, calc(50cqi - 2px) to get a 4px wide line! ➡️ patrickbrosset.com/lab/containe...
No way this could backfire. When it does, Trump will blame states or somebody else, but this is a decision to endanger Americans that Congress did not approve. (Via @almsnatalie.bsky.social) www.notus.org/agencies/fem...
FEMA Cut Staff Without Planning for Future Work, Watchdog Says
The agency has already moved to rehire some of the staff.
notus.org
Natalie Alms@almsnatalie.bsky.social · 20h agoNEW: The Trump administration cut FEMA's workforce without a plan for what this would mean, leaving it at risk of being unprepared and without staff to respond to future emergencies. More 👇
Pundits *thrilled* over the supposed "realignment" that had black and brown voters swinging to Trump in meaningful numbers. It was so counterintuitive! And a chance to lecture the left! Turns out the whole thing was as substantial as a fart in a breeze. Pundits were projecting their fantasies.
Americans Are Turning on Trump
The president’s big gains with Black, Hispanic, and young voters in 2024 suggested a major shift. Less than two years later, he has lost those new supporters.
theatlantic.com
The founders are calling. They suggest you read the damn Constitution.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Important, because Farage's defence for not declaring Harborne's £5m 'gift' has always been very specific: he did not decide to stand until 3rd of June. Turns out this deal was struck mid-May (confirmed by RefUK) and facilitated by Farage's other big donor, convicted felon 'Posh' George Cotrell. 🧐
European Heart@bexbitchley.bsky.social · 4d ago@mrjamesob.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/nigel-farage-reform-leader-deal-george-cottrell-5gfrcrmb0
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Michigan Senate primary tweets are the most brutal.
NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4d agoRepublicans believe vaccines cause autism, Trump won the 2020 election, Michelle Obama is a man, and ivermectin can cure Covid. Democrats need to accept at least some of these or give up the charade of bipartisanship.
A reminder of what Abraham Lincoln thought of the Know Nothings, the party that championed "heritage Americans" and attacked immigrants in his day. quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
I will go to my grave hating this man's guts and feeling bottomless contempt for all the Very Savvy commentators who still to this day try to impress one another by caping for him.
Compromised Values | Bryce Covert
Joe Manchin’s memoir reveals that the West Virginian Senator worshipped “work” at the expense of supporting his party’s efforts to help working people.
nybooks.com
Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
Jeanine Pirro has gone from embarrassingly faceplanting in federal court to embarrassingly faceplanting in in DC Superior Court. Masterful gambit ma’am
I wish that some journalist would at least ask a high-profile Democrat how they justify still posting on X, a site owned, run, & shaped by a racist Republican oligarch. At least make them articulate it! It's just wild no one talks about it, asks them about it, nothing.
This stirs two competing feelings: - wow, the '28 primary consensus is moving *fast*, and that's outstanding - oh god, she's running 🤦
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 5d agoKamala Harris: I know this is going to be controversial coming from me in particular, we need to revisit the electoral college. We need to revisit the point of expanding the court. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.
🎙️ Check out Bruce Lawson’s interview with Alex Moore, executive director and co-founder of Open Web Advocacy. They explore OWA’s history, why it exists, and what it’s fighting for: a better, more competitive web 🌐✊ open-web-advocacy.org/blog/bruce-l...
Bruce Lawson Interviews OWA: For A Better Web - Open Web Advocacy
Check out Bruce Lawson’s interview with Alex Moore, executive director and co-founder of Open Web Advocacy. They run through the history of OWA, why OWA exists…
open-web-advocacy.org
The pedophile protector regime wants to force kids to beg for their lives alone in immigration court. Call your Member of Congress, tell them to demand HHS pay what they owe the lawyers representing 20,000 unaccompanied kids & let them keep doing their jobs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Thousands of immigrant children risk losing lawyers after Trump aid cuts
More than 20,000 unaccompanied children risk going to US immigration court alone after federal funding cuts
theguardian.com
AI flagging opponents as "terrorists" and the state cracking down. Straight-up dystopian.
Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 5d ago“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”
Values are a measure of tools, not the other way around. It's impossible to reliably do good and meaningful work under confusion about that fact.
"Gentrification is when the government installs infrastructure, and the more infrastructure it installs, the more gentrified it is"
Theo Gordon@theogordon.bsky.social · last wk.Move over zucchini lady, this guy calling 'bike lanes white lanes' and calling the Terner Center the 'Gentrification Center' is my new favorite Berkeley Council moment. #berkmtg
Still available in Apple and Google's walled garden app stores, and Apple even lists it in "news". No less of a scandal now than it was 7 months ago, just more putrid and gangrenous: infrequently.org/2026/01/nake...
Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · last wk.SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...
You could replace "AI" with "React" and post this ~7 years ago WOLOG. Same failure rate, same religious fervour, same consequences for heresy, same shitty mgmt class. It was all there, bubbling up from the npm fever swamps: ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
ludic.mataroa.blog
Meanwhile, look at the extreme discordance and dissonance of stories on this news page in the same edition...
Here's a quick recap of those five stages of climate denial... 1. Deny the problem exists 2. Deny we are the cause 3. Deny it is a problem 4. Deny we can solve it 5. Claim it is too late And we should probably squeeze in... 4.5. Claim we can just adapt www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report | Dana Nuccitelli
Dana Nuccitelli: Climate contrarians appear to be running damage control in the media before the next IPCC report is published
theguardian.com
It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.
I Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump Judges
Four months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
TC39ers: the committee is working well and doesn't need fundamental reform. me: <checks on statuses of the largest, most top-of-mind features anyone has dared to bring into the Bermuda Triangle of SDO progress since I stopped attending...> github.com/tc39/proposal-si… github.com/tc39/proposal-de…
Our moral and political imagination must concieve and demand Elon Musk behind bars for the rest of his life.
It was, in accelerated fashion, a parallel to how living through climate change is making Republicans far worse on emissions & pollution.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoThe Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.