Joe Calvello, the guy that ran Fetterman's campaign, also launched Platner's campaign. Defended him after the Nazi tattoo story came out and only left his campaign, and Fetterman's for that matter, when he got a better job.
I have a friend who works as a power generation engineer for large projects. He's repeatedly told me that the backlog for gas powered turbines for power plants is so large now they have no idea when it ease up. This is not great.
Love a followup story: Last year there was a lot of reporting on how Black women were disproportionately affected by budget cuts, and here are the numbers to back it up.
The descriptions here about how many men were sitting in a Vegas casino alone gambling on their phones is so bleak.
Happy Earth Day.
China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
4 Democratic members of the House have died in office since this Congress started in January 2025. (That's roughly 2 percent of the Democratic caucus elected in November 2024.)
Exactly.
There is a time to step aside. Do it.
"It would be really bad if they don't work out this Hormuz thing, so they'll figure it out some way" is still the prevailing attitude.
Can see it in markets, media, politicians, public.
Bad can't happen, people in charge know what they're doing, it's all content anyway.
I find it... unsettling.
Since Trump’s return to office, the Board of Immigration Appeals has come under unprecedented influence from the Attorney General — reshaping rulings, limiting appeals, raising fees, and reducing transparency. bit.ly/4cCXCdW
1. We desperately need more housing.
2. Developers are satan incarnate because they make a reasonable profit for building things people want.
So many left-NIMBY people agree with #1 and then slip right into saying #2 that it makes me want to jump right into the void.
“Bryan Fair, the interim president and chief executive officer of SPLC, said in a video statement released before the indictment was out, ‘We are … unsurprised to be the latest organization targeted by this admin. They have made no secret of who they want to protect and who they want to destroy.’”
i think it is cool that the president of the united states routinely slurs black people as biological inferior
“The idea that donors were defrauded by the existence of one program that’s been known about for 45 years and that had cost the organization just a minuscule portion of its budget in any given year is an unbelievable stretch.”
The bad news is that being under federal indictment sucks and this is going to waste a lot of SPLC resources. The good news is that these scurrilous shit lizards are so bad at lawyering that they are just going to end up embarrassing themselves again.
One big political divide is between people who believe germs cause disease and people who believe Those People cause disease. It was pretty evident right away during the pandemic
A mummy containing a rare papyrus fragment which included text from Book II of Homer’s Iliad, the famous “Catalog of Ships” which lists the Greek forces that sailed to Troy #classicalreception
arkeonews.net/archaeologis...
This is insane. All because Donald Trump launched a war with no plan and took away your healthcare.
Americans deserve relief now. We’ve paid enough.
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa strikes again. We need to be better than this and treat our unhoused neighbors like human beings.
In Chicago today—what was supposed to be a simple off-street cleaning at Eugene Field in Albany Park turned into an encampment sweep that lasted for hours.
City workers destroyed two unhoused residents’ belongings and shelter.
5th Circuit always gonna 5th Circuit, and without a functions SCOTUS to call them out for all their asshatery, I’m afraid they are just going to keep 5th Circuiting harder.
most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters
these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.
1. The central claim in the indictment of SPLC is a lie.
The DOJ/FBI accuse SPLC of lying to donors about seeking to “dismantle” extremist groups while secretly funding them. But the funds were used to infiltrate & help law enforcement dismantle these groups. Kash Patel knows this is the truth…
My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus
NEW: Amid Trump’s war in Iran and an exodus of intelligence staffers, Sebastian Gorka has asserted that a blueprint for fighting terror threats is “imminent” — but has not released it. Iranian threats have refocused attention on the lack of a doctrine.
Kidnapped girl saved by Yemeni immigrant at a gas station in Detroit.
