…and to continue to believe [wrongly] that fossil fuels and liberal democracy are natural and inevitable partners.”

Re-reading Cara Daggett’s 2018 article “Petro-masculinity,” and I’m newly struck by her point that any democracy that arose with the fossil-energy system has historically been dependent on authoritarianism.

Going to sit with that one for a while.

“The authoritarian practices required by fossil capital in the global south [and middle east] were often geographically separated from liberal forms of governance in the West. This made it possible for many…to remain ignorant of their complicity in fossil authoritarianism, and…

the reason a lot of women who are critics of gAI understand very clearly the rhetoric of AI pushers who want to defang critiques ("hysterical," "angry," "hysterical", "irrational") is because some of us at least encounter these descriptors any time we have an opinion, no matter how measured it is.

ICE was here before, they are still here, they have been kidnapping and deporting your neighbors for the last 20+ years

"The media" should not be absolved of any blame here but there is also just straight up violence fatigue happening, people can only pay attention to so many tragedies at once and at a certain point one has to do psychological triage in order to keep going to work/living

The fascists know this, fwiw

Comment after comment on Instagram yesterday from people who earnestly thought "ICE left Illinois." This is what happens when fascist violence intensifies, pulls back some, then leaves even more room for activity under the threshold of broadcast news media's barometer for "shocking scenes"

I'm fascinated by how the people talking about how their algorithm is going to become god are supposedly not hysterical but the ppl saying no it isnt are

seems like the smart play here is to just not attend it is just my opinion

as a former staffer, this isn't just unprecedented, it's star trek evil mirror universe shit

Why Democrats with 2028 hopes are calling Lina Khan – and what she’s telling them about remaking the economy | CNN Politics Lina Khan is getting constant calls from Democrats, many of them thinking about presidential runs, to sound out problems and workshop potential solutions. That’s a shift from when she was Federal Trad...

If you want to lead our party (and lead our country), then of course you should be calling Lina Khan.

Let's stand up to out-of-control monopolies. Let's rein in unchecked corporate power. Democrats should be the party that fights for working people.

What is fucking infuriating about this is that the dems could have been fighting back like this for literal decades and they just never bothered

Just on observation is a really striking act and admission of weakness, of course we don't talk about it in those terms but it really is. They started this fight, very openly and very publicly, and only did they not even really swing, they ran away once the fight was really pitched. Just walked away

The redistricting fight is a reminder that for all of their bluster and all of their bullshit Republicans fundamentally can't take what they dish out

They brayed about installing a permanent majority by gerrymandering only to find out they can't do it as much as they wanted without fucking themselves, and whoops by braying about it and moving toward it unprepared, opened themselves up to the democratic counter initiative, for which no answer.

A four panel comic. In panel 1, there's an image of a closeup on the head of a yellow morph timber rattlesnake, with text above it that says "Behold the snake: Cunning, cruel, and bloodthirsty, it embodies evil and sin. Who knows what malevolent thoughts lurk in its mind?" In panel 2, the snake is zoomed out slightly, and a thought bubble rises above its head with three dots inside it. In panel 3, we're zoomed out more to see the whole snake curled up on a rock with a colorful background behind it, and there's a thought bubble rising from its head that says "Mmm warm sun." In panel 4, we're zoomed out even more, and the snake is sitting on a rock at the top of a hill with green grass and trees, a vibrant background of mountains and lakes behind it, and a bright blue sky with a golden cloud and birds flying. The snake is thinking "Nice day."

Behold the snake.

A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.

Hot take here, but I think it's bad that the US has started a war run by a White House brain trust that would be out of their depth managing the second shift at a suburban McDonald's.

The US government has never provided evidence that *any* of the ~180 people killed were involved in drug trafficking. And even so, that’s not justification for extrajudicial killings. Yet somehow it just carries on.

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

These fishermen are lucky to be alive. We will probably never know how many of the ~180 people killed in similar US attacks were also just fishermen.

Not surprisingly, the least effective messaging tested to "win back" 2020 Biden voters who sat out 2024 is the same message many elected Dems keep hammering: "blame the left."

another nice thing about having politicians who aren’t from the crypt is you can use power shots like this one. that stuff really does matter. the obama vibes aren’t coincidental

hahahahahahaha fuck'n idiots

Convince me that this episode hasn't revealed in stark contrast Director(s) Bhattacharya's true motivations and values.

When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene. By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks. One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance. The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.

Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics.

Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

Also worth noting that wind had the largest effect in cutting power prices here - a very good reminder of the importance of a diverse mix of non-fossil energy sources :)

DC is the test case because it's so obvious people who live there want it; I'd caution everyone in the replies immediately expanding this to include Puerto Rico and other territories that the question of whether statehood is what the residents want should probably be answered first.

If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."

The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!