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RFK really missed the simplest lesson of LBJ’s career, try not to get any kids killed if your name rhymes with “how many kids did you kill today”

submitted 14 hours ago • 20 comments

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

submitted 13 hours ago • 35 comments

Fox News just said the U.S. doesn't have anything like China's Belt and Road Initiative, which is hilarious. We did. It was called USAID.

submitted 17 hours ago • 64 comments

1. Feature, not bug, as stated below 2. There’s zero urgency to do anything they’re doing so there’s no reason to be killing people carelessly, flagrantly 3. It’s sabotage to destroy our country as we know it and to demolish the rationale for taxation as a thing

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

They’re trying to kill you Or They want you to die Or They think you’re expendable I mean, pragmatically, what’s the difference here, and why should you waste effort figuring out what their problem is instead of just getting rid of these bastards?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The United States is literally for sale

submitted 2 days ago • 385 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 5 days ago • 2211 comments

In a heathy democracy, the WHCA would fight this by boycotting all WH and travel events until the old system was restored. But they’re going to roll over and do whatever it takes to maintain “access” so they can be lied to in comfort

submitted 2 days ago • 234 comments

People have to stop expecting Trump breaking a rule or precedent to be what puts an end to this. There are no guardrails, no referees, no institutional block. The only thing that will stop this is a grassroots movement of people organizing to reject an oligarchical takeover. That’s it. Period.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

For years, officials in the Czech Republic had pushed a dam project to protect a river south of Prague, and the critically endangered species living in it. But the project stalled. In the meantime, the beavers of Prague simply built dams themselves, saving the government some 1.2 million euros.

submitted 15 days ago • 119 comments

People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity

submitted 12 days ago • 234 comments

Read the letter of resignation from SDNY AUSA Hagan Scotten, Bronze Star recipient, former clerk to Chief Justice Roberts. Bravo! 👏👏👏

submitted 13 days ago • 165 comments

The news getting you down? I invite you to stare at this chart of solar and wind deployed capacity in China. They blew past their ambitious 2030 target... last July.

submitted 23 days ago • 64 comments

The water released from two California reservoirs at Trump’s order will likely go to waste, instead of helping Los Angeles with firefighting, experts say

submitted 24 days ago • 69 comments

“At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV, now do.” Send him to the fucking Hague

submitted 24 days ago • 34 comments

I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans. And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump. It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other. Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.

submitted 24 days ago • 3222 comments

There's something fundamentally wrong with the editorial management of the NYT and WaPo when the right-of-Atilla the Hun editorial page of Murdoch's WSJ correctly describes what happened today, while those other papers couch it as Trump winning 'concessions' from Canada and Mexico.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

The federal government regularly spends money to encourage behavior it couldn’t compel directly. Like paying states to build roads or fund healthcare for those who can’t afford it. It’s called the Spending Clause—and it’s the very first enumerated power that the Constitution gives to Congress. 🤦🏻‍♂️

submitted 25 days ago • 204 comments

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submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

“The technologies of decentralized communication […] can in fact be made cornerstones of [authoritarian] power.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The State Department website has replaced "LGBT" with "LGB"

submitted 27 days ago • 131 comments

What opposition?

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Fire debris on the beach in Santa Monica today…

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submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

submitted 37 days ago • 318 comments

Is BlueSky the answer to a fun, fair and free social network for all? open.substack.com/pub/japhygra...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

In less than 24 hours, gay marriage will become legal in Thailand; in less than 48, marriage registration will start.

submitted 38 days ago • 102 comments

This is how we must do it.

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Now that Trump is in office he's immediately pivoted from "the President is responsible for anything bad that happens in the world" to "Me? That's not my problem."

submitted 38 days ago • 167 comments

submitted 39 days ago • 690 comments

I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once: - Things are going to get worse, no matter what - The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org

submitted 42 days ago • 184 comments

This timeline is being written by hacks.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

TikTok shares new message.

submitted 40 days ago • 58 comments

Buried, amid the more immediate casualties and clearly visible damage of modern wildfire disasters, are the far more numerous victims of the secondary harms and "chronic emergencies" that subsequently unfold for months and years thereafter.

submitted 41 days ago • 10 comments

To help robots execute open-ended, multi-step chores, MIT CSAIL researchers used vision models to see what’s near the machine & model its constraints. An LLM sketches up a plan that’s checked in a simulator to ensure it’s safe & realistic, potentially aiding household robots: bit.ly/3ZNJWXj

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Food for thought.

submitted 40 days ago • 1572 comments

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submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

A damning look at where climate change will leave the US in coming decades: projects.propublica.org/climate-migr...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Red Note is genuinely a blast, the cross-cultural exchange going on is one of the most wholesome things I’ve seen in years

submitted 44 days ago • 161 comments

Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire. Imagine if his wealth was capped at $999M, and we taxed the rest (~$239B). We could: End homelessness: $20B End hunger: $40B annually to 2030 Build homes: 710K new homes at $308K each A trillion for one or a future for all?

submitted 51 days ago • 26 comments

Brilliant:

submitted 46 days ago • 26 comments

[werner herzog voice] the looney tunes are an abomination. the little bald man shoots the duck in the face but he lives. the coyote is crushed by many anvils, and yet he continues. these unnatural beings cannot die - and without death, what is the value of life itself?

submitted 47 days ago • 233 comments

The original Wizard of Oz is a fantastical story about a young girl who is transported to a magic land where she immediately murders two brutal dictators completely on accident and I think that's beautiful. what if a Mr. Bean movie was willing to take you outside of your moral comfort zone

submitted 46 days ago • 48 comments

The National Weather Service has once again issued an elevated "Particularly Dangerous Situation" (PDS) Red Flag Warning for large portions of Los Angeles & Ventura Counties early Tue though Wed due to return of very strong offshore winds and extremely dry air. #CAwx #CAfire

submitted 46 days ago • 8 comments

"Our social bonds do more than just motivate and sustain us in the long process of recovery. They give us purpose during this difficult time of response." "As natural disasters get worse and more common, we will need resilience more than ever." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

What I learned from losing everything in a fire. open.substack.com/pub/japhygra...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past

submitted 48 days ago • 176 comments