Senate Dem looking at funding Trump's war, per Politico:
Jack Reed (RI): @reed.senate.gov
Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov
Tim Kaine (VA): @kaine.senate.gov
Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov
Chris Coons (DE): @coons.senate.gov
Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.gov
@deardara.bsky.social is awfully good.
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Needed this today. How We Stay Engaged Without Burning Out americansofconscience.com/joy-as-resis...
When our descendents ask about this "dark time" and how we let things get here, we're going to have to explain "everybody just... kind of waited for someone else to fix the problem. Most of us were certain someone else would eventually put a stop to it. And the worst of us took advantage of that."
Please share this where relevant. Travel in or through Oklahoma is absolutely NOT SAFE whatsoever if you are not a white US citizen. checkpoints set up on interstates. Multiple reports that they're stopping everyone who isn't white. They have trained highway patrols to be ICE
Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican.
He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.
Hey, Southeast Boulder County — we have a fire. In the open space bounded by Dillon Road/Northwest Parkway, 104th Street, Empire Road, and US 287, so Lafayette and Louisville. If you’re in the area, locate your pets, their carriers, your important documents, and eyeball your laundry baskets.
Today would be the best first day of the year to cancel your subscription to the holy goddamn New York Times
Americans do not have a "love affair" with cars, the term typically used in the media.
Rather we are in an abusive relationship, wanting to leave but fearing the consequences.
[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care
Courts are using originalist arguments to expand executive power in democracy-eroding ways. Our latest guide for litigators equips lawyers with the strategies, arguments, and citations they need to push back. bit.ly/48MyFJV
Know what’s worse than illegal migrants…?
Raping children and covering up for ‘em.
Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.
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Endangered Species Act Under Threat!
Final hours to comment!
Endangered Species Act regulations comment period ends Monday 12/22 at 11:59 pm ET.
Easy-to-use comment guide with direct links to comment: shorturl.at/NL623
We're running out of time to stop a serious threat to the Endangered Species Act: proposed changes that would remove protections, make it harder to list new species, & let industry get away with damaging habitat.
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Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
Are you in Mesa County, Colorado? Your public library board is about to be overtaken with extremists.
Get to the board meeting TOMORROW to speak up and out about what's going to come if these two get appointed.
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Officially day 5 in a row at 60°+ in Denver. Very unusual for December. Longest December 60°+ streak on record: 7. We’ll break that next week.
#COwx
Insights on the combined impacts of storm intensity and sea level rise: A modeling study of 20 historical hurricanes under various future climate scenarios by Danso et al. (2025): 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2025/12/13/w...
How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
Our system is broken. Medicare for All, now.
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵
Listen.
this was a really thoughtful piece that got buried by everything else falling apart. it’s essential reading for anyone actually thinking ahead
Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
Citizens United unleashed a flood of corporate money in politics. State trigger laws can prepare the ground for real reform when the Court changes course. bit.ly/3Xsczat
