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Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.

submitted 4 days ago • 698 comments

I don’t see why Trump couldn’t get a peace deal in Ukraine in 24 hours. He destroyed the entire world’s economy in a matter of minutes

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. By @alecmac.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 93 comments

Interesting research! Human beings are, by nature, extremely bad at noticing & appreciating the significance of gradual change over time. We notice binaries, on/offs, either/ors. "Winter temperatures gradually rising." - no one cares "Lake X used to freeze over; now it doesn't." - people notice

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"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 13 days ago • 236 comments

A funny thing about Leninists and extreme neoliberals… they hold the mirror image critique of ‘bureaucracy’ as the obstacle to a self-regulating material Eden: a system of perpetual economic peace that needs no political organisation. Truss declares a revealed prophecy of the prelapsarian market…

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

now this is the anecdote of the day

submitted 12 days ago • 36 comments

More than 2 million oil and gas wells sit unplugged in the U.S., many leaking contaminants into waterways, farmland and neighborhoods. Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how. (Published Dec. 2024)

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

In 1994 Pat Buchanan surveyed 7000 of his most dedicated supporters on their opinions about immigration. What they said was wildly out of touch with the GOP ca. 1994, but 100% in line with the GOP ca. 2025. This included a border wall and getting rid of birthright citizenship.

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

1960 in Montana. The head of the Teachers College there is being pressured by local right wing activists and media outlets to fire 22 professors falsely accused of being Communists.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 37 days ago • 613 comments

The Fort Knox conspiracy theory seems to have begun with this exchange on X. 2 days later Fox ran a segment about it. A few days after that Trump began bringing it up w reporters. Hard to overstate how much influence posters on a far-right forum have over the national conversation right now

submitted 58 days ago • 182 comments

Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.

submitted 59 days ago • 25 comments

Nice: thermal energy networks popping up in Michigan!

submitted 59 days ago • 4 comments

Musk trying to buy Wisconsin judicial election to strangle its restoration of democratic elections www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/musk...

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

Awful: Numerous scientists and researchers were just fired at NIH's center for treating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They fear Trump-Musk cuts could dramatically set back our ability to treat dementias. New reporting from me here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 62 days ago • 65 comments

SCOOP: For 25 years, FEMA has helped develop building codes that help homes survive floods and hurricanes. Now, FEMA is pulling back on that work, taking its name off recommendations its experts have written. On @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...

submitted 62 days ago • 4 comments

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

submitted 68 days ago • 41 comments

We might have a few less seats in Congress but we’re not going to be the minority. We’re going to be the opposition. Thanks @leximcmenamin.bsky.social & @teenvogue.com for covering. www.teenvogue.com/story/maxwel...

submitted 75 days ago • 159 comments

An acre of land can power a car to go 13,000 miles per year using biofuel (corn ethanol), or 900,000 miles per year using solar.

submitted 79 days ago • 40 comments

look I’m no messaging expert but it seems like the American people might be interested to know that Donald Trump just gave our social security numbers to a teen called BigBalls

submitted 80 days ago • 78 comments

British Columbia recently reinstated masking in health care settings for all staff, visitors, contractors and visitors in patient care areas. 1/2

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

I feel like I'm talking crazy pills. How can so many doctors ignore the massive elephant in the room!

submitted 81 days ago • 24 comments

Taps sign:

submitted 89 days ago • 16 comments

The U.S. claims the hacking was commissioned by a lobbying firm working on behalf of one of the world's biggest oil companies.

submitted 89 days ago • 68 comments

Who should pick up the tab for the billions of dollars in damages from these deadly fires in LA? The fossil fuel industry who lied about climate change for decades, that's who. Brilliant must read from @cadavejones.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

submitted 91 days ago • 34 comments

Why have tech billionaires cozied up to Donald Trump? There are deeper, darker forces at play here beyond lower taxes and friendlier regulations.

submitted 93 days ago • 21 comments

So on brand. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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It's not been clear what may move the needle on climate risk and potential migration, but insurance appears to be the top candidate. www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...

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related: EV batteries complicate debris removal after wildfires finance.yahoo.com/news/ev-batt...

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

New Brazil law restricts use of smartphones in elementary and high schools apnews.com/article/smar...

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Air pollution "kills more people each year than car crashes, war or drugs do. This invisible killer is the air pollution from sources like cars and trucks or factory smokestacks."

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

Los Angeles is on fire and big oil are the arsonists. Every barrel of oil, every cubic meter of gas, and every ton of coal burned brings us closer to environmental catastrophe. by @tzeporah.bsky.social #LAFire #EnergySky #GreenSky #ClimateSky www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Listening to the recent @volts.wtf pod on GreenLight. They note that in local politics "Someone yelling versus no one yelling is the relevant difference. What they're yelling is of secondary importance." which is my experience too, on housing. However... #EnergySky www.volts.wtf/p/organizing...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty amazing that nonprofit Watch Duty -- which says it has 150 volunteers working around the clock to track wildfires -- has become the most trusted source of information on LA fires. Operated by retired/volunteer firefighters, dispatchers, and reporters. Real people. www.watchduty.org

submitted 104 days ago • 29 comments