Remember that Donald Trump, Jr. is involved with both Polymarket & Kalshi — and the Trumps’ social media company is launching its own prediction market.
Meanwhile, Trump’s regulators have announced they will fight any state that attempts to regulate prediction markets.
Always follow the money.
There has never been a moment when ending the oil industry has been more urgent or important. Here is a thread of seven tools that can help.
Brief, readable 2-pagers, and a 30-page overview from @michealpodgers.bsky.social at @clicabedu.bsky.social.
Ad on housing and homelessness: “If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.”
Ad on car dependency and mobility freedom: “Car Dependency isn’t freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices.”
Ad on walkable neighbourhoods and complete communities: “Walkable neighbourhood aren’t scary, they’re convenient.”
Text from the URBAN TRUTH COLLECTIVE website, “About Us” page: “The Collective will share persuasive research, evidence, and information in ways that will successfully break through the noise and influence decisions. The Collective will create new messaging, brands, and marketing campaigns to help expand understanding around the truth about better city-building, and build defences to urban disinformation. And the collective will forcefully call out the lies, and the liars, that seek to undermine both the truth about, and the achievement of, better cities for people.“
A BIG thank you to everyone for all the interest and energy during our official LAUNCH WEEK! Trust us, this is just the beginning, as we continue to “build this plane while we’re flying it.” Please keep helping us spread the word, and stay tuned for more details on how to get involved. #UrbanTruth
This post is for all of you in every time zone all around the world.
I keep hearing that Bluesky is still mostly North American. But I think there’s lots of you around the world that love cities, and want them to be better.
We want @urbantruth.bsky.social to be global.
I hope you’ll check us out.
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
He craves attention more than anything else.
Don’t give it to him.
American Meteorological Society denounces EPA’s endangerment repeal.
www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
We are stepping up to support climate science, solutions, and public service.
Announcing the Climate Science Serving America Fellowship program!
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
This entire answer from Mike Johnson — the speaker of the House and a lawyer — must be seen.
It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
He was then flown to the Ice facility in El Paso, Texas. He said he has been locked in the same large, cold and damp room for 4½ months with more than 70 men. He said detainees are constantly hungry because meals served at tables in the centre of the room offer only child-sized portions. Fights often break out over food, “even over those little child-sized juice containers”. Toilet areas are “filthy”. He said there is little to do but lie on a bed all day. Most detainees do not speak any English. He said he has been allowed outside for air and exercise fewer than a dozen times in nearly five months. The atmosphere is full of “anxiety and depression”, he said.
The government says the people being deported are violent criminals, and they treat them inhumanely. But mostly they are subjecting ordinary people to extraordinary punishments.
🏗️ 🏭 To stave off the worst impacts of climate change, states & territories across our coalition are taking swift action to help the industrial sector reach net-zero GHG emissions.
Learn more via our updated guidebook ➡️ usclimatealliance.org/guide/industrial-decarbonization-guide-dec-2022/
Bad Bunny's halftime show ripped for language barrier, suspected political message
lol stay mad
NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Alliance Letter: U.S. Climate Alliance Urges DOT to Withdraw Proposal Weakening Fuel Economy Standards
This push to weaken fuel economy standards would leave Americans breathing dirtier air & paying more at the pump.
Read our letter ➡️ usclimatealliance.org/letter/dot-cafe-standards-letter-feb-2026/
So many incredible journalists got laid off today. Heroes, mentors, friends. Just an absolutely devastating day. Starting a thread here with some of their incredible work, and how to follow and support them.
Abolish ICE
Winter sport needs snow-not fossil fuels
Eni, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas corporations, is using the Winter Olympics to greenwash its fossil-fuelled destruction
If you agree that polluters shouldn’t get a podium at the Games, share the video
(Proudly human-made. No AI)
#WinterOlympics
Minnesota is grieving. But we’re resolved. The support we’ve received from across the country has energized us, and given us hope.
It’s time for the federal government to draw down their forces and let us get back to allowing freedom, opportunity, and security – for everyone.
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
Great work per usual by Greg here. 👇🏾
I would add 6th: assemble for Congressional review a database of ICE agents (names publicly withheld, sure) hired since 1/20/25, including age, race, gender, occupational history, legal history, group affiliations, social media records.
You know why…
I don’t want better point of view videos of people being brutalized, I want those people to not have jobs. The brutal agency to be abolished. Their victims released. Criminal charges against everyone who brutally assaulted our communities. Better video means more funding and crimes
you should not share a post that's a screenshot without a link to a news item. you should not share a post that's a video or picture without some kind of sourcing. we're in a new bad era and these are now basic practices.
... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
The headline reads 2nd MPLS. Killing and shows a woman crying on the streets being comforted by another man
Front page of Minnesota Star Tribune showing a US citizens being held on the ground and pepper sprayed. The headline says Children as young as 5 detained
Right now, this is the most important publication in America.
Its reporting has been relentless and essential.
@startribune.com
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
This is who the feds gunned down today on a cold Minnesota street. Then, multiple top officials from the Trump admin took to every media outlet they could find to lie about his actions and smear his name. This is where we are one year into the second Trump presidency.
One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history
