We have lost the modern "arms race" of green technology - entirely due to the greed of the fossil fuel corporations & the corrupt politicians they fund.

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Tucked into Trump's absurd $1.5 trillion Pentagon request is $54.6 billion drone budget. A 24,000% increase over last year.

Who has just happened to have gotten into the drone business recently?

Don, Jr. and Eric Trump.
I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

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@SecWar: The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately. 21 Apr 26

Washington ordered smallpox inoculations for the Continental Army beginning in 1777.

Hegseth, therefore, is taking a mid-18th century, pre-Industrial Age approach to medicine and warfare.

And .. here come the Freedom of Information Act requests for Kash Patel records

DC watchdog group Democracy Forward has formally requested Patel's calendars & any messages from security detail that include words "drinking", "hungover", "inebriated"

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WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

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The Inflation Reduction Act was the single most aggressive investment in rural America since the New Deal.

Direct investment, high wage jobs, energy security, you name it. It was all there.

Too bad it happened 200 years ago and all the records of it are lost forever.

shouldn't be allowed to choose their own clerks, shouldn't be allowed to accept fees for speaking or prize money or awards. shouldn't be able to get book deals, etc. etc. if what you want is to be famous, well, no one is forcing you to be a supreme court justice.

“Democrats, if they have a majority in the House and possibly Senate, need to start laying the predicate for a major accountability agenda. They[‘d] have the power right at the outset to start referring things for criminal prosecution that puts down on paper what all these people are doing wrong.”

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

Pope James David Vance the First The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.

Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology.

The queen of all vices: Pride.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When you feel imposter syndrome sneaking up on you, just remember that JD Vance lectured the Pope on theology.

> @adamscochran.bsky.social

"The conservative caricature of college campuses as liberal indoctrination camps persists because it is useful cover... American higher education is facing down a process of authoritarian capture that threatens the long-term viability of our system of higher education."

Reagan’s OMB Director:

We are the dumbest country.

pic of Dana White, Rubio, and Trump

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail

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Some of the most successful political propaganda was convincing so many Christians that supporting policies that gut social safety nets, cut healthcare, defund SNAP, roll back environmental protections, and endlessly fund war is somehow the “pro life” and “family values” position.

Trump is unfit to be Commander-in-Chief. I support his removal from office, whether it be through the 25th Amendment or impeachment in Congress.

Hegseth pushes white-supremacist politics.

Republicans push Christian nationalism.

They condemn Iran’s religious extremism while trying to build the same nightmare here at home.

I am aging in fucking dog years because of this lunatic.

Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost “The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

From AI warehouses to private prisons, everything comes back to money in politics. Hear more from End Citizens United President @tiffanymuller.bsky.social:

One good use of the supposed two-week ceasefire is to get back to talking about the Epstein files