Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.
Trump ran on “Biden is pressing the Increase Gas Prices button, and I will press the Decrease Gas Prices button” but it turns out there is no Decrease Gas Prices button, only an Increase Gas Prices button, which Trump keeps intentionally hitting
2 wars in 4 years. This war will accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security.
"rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels & the whims of idiots"
Be like Spain. bsky.app/profile/jere...
Billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago and their numbers are shrinking ever faster, mostly due to the combination of intensive agriculture and warming temperatures.
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This court specifically avoided bringing up challenges on bans for gender affirming care for trans youth on parental rights grounds so they can weaponize parental rights against trans youth while stripping them from the supportive parents of trans youth. It's obscene.
Another contrast—this time, between this case and United States v. Skrmetti, 605 U. S. 495 (2025)—is also striking. In Skrmetti, several parents challenged Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The suit raised claims grounded in both equal protection and substantive due process. As to the latter, the parents in Skrmetti, similarly to the parents here, asserted a right “to make decisions concerning medical care for their minor children.” Pet. for Cert., O. T. 2023, No. 23–466, p. 34; see id., at 18 (invoking a “right of parents with respect to the care, custody, and control of their children, including in decisions about medical care”). And in support of that right, the Skrmetti parents relied on the same precedents the Court does today: Parham, 442 U. S. 584, and Pierce, 268 U. S. 510. See Pet. for Cert., No. 23–466, at 34–36; ante, at 5–6. But the Court, when deciding to grant certiorari in Skrmetti, limited its review to the equal protection issue: It would not even hear the parents out on their substantive due process claim.
This footnote in the Kagan dissent specifically calls out the double standard of quickly jumping to defend the rights of transphobic parents while ignoring the parental rights of trans youth seeking access to gender affirming care in Skrmetti.
Cutesy word games. No gravitas. Four dead Americans so far.
The amount of snark and disdain over a legitimate and widely held concern is disgusting.
Media Matters analyzed a year of NYT coverage of anti-trans bills and found that 66% of the time the paper didn't quote a trans person. Further, it found that the paper often quoted right wing sources without mentioning their histories of anti-trans rhetoric.
So "right-wing rag" is pretty accurate.
This guy rules, but of course it has a housing angle. He pays only 12k a year in housing costs!
Any country that doesn’t produce its own oil keeps getting more and more incentive to accelerate the shift to renewables, even if it couldn’t care less about climate change.
there is no metric by which this is true. even 2028 primary polling (which is meaningless in general but seems like a fair yardstick here) doesn’t have him on top.
just a brazen attempt to impose him on us by the rich and the commentariat.
You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
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According to The Economist, Cuba’s imports of Chinese solar panels grew by a factor of 34 last year, faster than anywhere else in the world
They're trying to prepare for the inevitable next attack from Trump
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"See history - as it happens: The Gold Mar-A-Lago membership includes unique access to the invasion peep-show"
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
Guys, China’s risk calculus on Taiwan is not determined by some global scale of the acceptability of aggression
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself "Christian" see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent.
Hate to lib out here, but even if there was some sort of clear, strategic goal, this would still be highly illegal and the president should be impeached and removed from office immediately.
They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.
Don't vote for Raja, my fellow Illinois people! (I'm going to vote for @julianastratton.bsky.social)
it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.
This 🧵 is extremely comprehensive about USDA's bipartisan industry capture and the horrific conditions for meatpacking workers and the animals they slaughter.
I'd add, the land grant university system is captured too, and always happy to produce small science results that the industry wants.
We need to really reflect on what kind of world we want to live in. Do we want to live in one where an AI is always guiding our thoughts? Do we want to live in one where we are OK with others using AI to guide their interactions with us, even if we don't use it ourselves? I don't. I really don't.
That is so scary to me. Not only the fact that these tools exist, but people who are going to become attorneys at the same time as me are already thinking of ways to further integrate AI into really consequential settings, and outsourcing the humanity from a process that is often already inhumane.
Had a product demo of a legal AI tool as part of class today. In part of the demo they used it to aid in taking a deposition live, guiding the direction of the deposition. A classmate said they wish we could use such a product live in trial; they'd have so much fun using it to impeach a witness.
⚠️ THIS IS A BEDROOM CUP CHECK ⚠️
please take a moment to take all of your empty cups to the sink
Like Dick Cheney's VP search, JD Vance's fraud search will end with him concluding he's the fraud they've been looking for all along.
