Why reforming rooftop solar and battery permitting belongs on every state affordability agenda The hurdles that stop families from installing home energy upgrades are firmly within the control of state governments, writes Permit Power founder Nick Josefowitz.

Quick and easy way for states to tackle energy affordability and boost clean energy: cut permitting barriers for home solar and battery installation. @permitpower.bsky.social

The New York Times telling me that my dog is dumb

Bitch I will beat your ass

BREAKING: 300+ New Yorkers have taken over the offices of Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer demanding no more weapons for Israel.

Tell Congress: Fund people, not bombs.

Stocks soar on 2-week postponement of Armageddon.

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

A woman on the side of the road wearing an american flag-themed cardigan holds a sign that reads 'SAVE DEMOCRACY'

After I shot this photo of Stephanie Tubbs at the #NoKings rally in Hattiesburg, I asked for her name.

She hesitated, worried about how her family would react. "No problem," I told her, "We don't have to use your name."

She paused.

"Fuck it," she said, drawing cheers from the women around her.

Coop from Interstellar piloting a spaceship and saying "This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years"

your grandparents voting for reagan

What are the specific examples you’ve seen? The stuff I’m reading has him separating Zionism from antisemitism. Not trying to be belligerent. Genuinely asking.

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵:

These protests are important b/c:

1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

Remarkable how quickly conservatives grasp previously alien to them concepts like microagressions and safe spaces.

I’m literally tired of winning

Kat.

I wrote about Kat.

A fundamental problem with this country is that you have less responsibility, transparency, and duty as you gain more power when it should be the opposite. The Supreme Court gets to be very secretive for no good reason. Cops get a monopoly on violence and have near total immunity when they use it.

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GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Mostly I’m just embarrassed

Wow.

💯% this:

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires.

Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess.

Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining.

Documentarian: Exactly.

Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

skaters will not have this problem should they choose to skate with the universally beloved music of the Mountain Goats

Video: New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.

These deep video analyses have been the most valuable journalism of the past weeks, and this one is just devastating. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Tim Miller: You Don’t Get a Mulligan for Murder YouTube video by The Bulwark

Excellent Tim Miller.

A reshuffle of the faces in charge, and one guy leaving isn't even the beginning of being enough. We need ICE and CPB out of Minnesota. And we need fundamental changes in the behavior of ICE everywhere.

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Reporter: Will Stephen Miller be apologizing to the family of Alex Pretti for calling him an assassin?

Leavitt: This incident remains under investigation.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

For no reason, I remember:

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