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.
Ages of congresspeople in ranking positions in charge of overseeing the Trump admin 👇
Homeland Security: Bennie Thompson (78)
Judiciary: Dick Durbin (81)
Appropriations: Rose DeLauro (83)
Ways and Means: Richard Neal (77)
Armed Services: Jack Reed (76)
Intel: Mark Warner (71)
Finance: Ron Wyden (76)
the haters said he was too old, and decrepit and was ruining his legacy by clinging onto a job he was no longer physically capable of doing, and was blocking a more effective rep from taking the role and in any case hadn't voted in more than half of sessions so what was the point, an
Twitter/X is a story on its own:
🔴 While users have become more Republican
💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗70 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to Republican-leaning.
The "private prisons" line many people use is well-intended but misleading. For-profit prisons incarcerate less than 10% of the prison population. The problem isn't for-profit prisons... it's the American institution of prison altogether.
I really wonder how this is gonna work out. never before have I seen members of a presidential administration lying about current financial conditions like this. especially given they were put in place to lower prices. crazy shit
I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:
Congressional Democrats, advocates, students and leaders on Wednesday blasted attempts by President Donald Trump’s administration to do away with funding for minority-serving institutions in higher education, reports Shauneen Miranda.
1. Trump has weaponized the FCC to control the media under his autocratic rule. Now, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is turning the agency towards his next target: transgender characters in TV shows.
He seeks to change the rating system to penalize trans characters.
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This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
In other words more than 1 out of 10 Israeli Jews do not live in territory that is recognized by the international community to be Israeli land. An equivalent number would be, say, 34,000,000 Americans in Venezuela.
A lot of people believe, for whatever reason, that 1) settlers are few and far between in Israeli politics, rather than literally >10% of the Jewish population and in government, and 2) that settlement as an enterprise is not state-backed and state-ran.
Charging more per BBC seems racist 🤷♂️
The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!
DC statehood yesterday
WV House spent $114K on school funding study, didn’t implement recommendations this year westvirginiawatch.com/2026/04/21/w...
SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
everyone's talking about gerrymandering when you should be talking about gerry meandering
gerry (meandering in): this kind of wordplay was stale even before you joined bluesky. the only thing worse is if you turned it into a meta commentary joke about how bad it is
me: wazzaaa gerry
gerry: wazzaa
fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM
In the US, it’s National Library Workers’ Day, and I would be remiss to let it pass without reminding you that the “library workers are magic” narrative leads bad places. Love, respect, and cherish them, but also pay them, staff libraries appropriately, and let them draw boundaries.
Texas can require public schools to display Ten Commandments in classrooms, US appeals court rules A federal appeals court rules that Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, allowing posters of the religious doctrine to go up throughout the state
So public schools can’t have a book assigned in class about LGBTQ people but apparently can be required to teach Christianity.
Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.
One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.
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.
10-1 VA time. Bottom text
WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia voters approve new US House districts that could aid Democrats in midterm elections.
A dozen Republican state attorneys general are moving to defend President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail ballots from legal challenges mounted by Democrats, reports @jonshorman@bsky.social.
the MSM likes it when the GOP punches Dems in the face and Dems say 'please sir, give me some more.' LOL
State lawmakers ended the session with no adjustments to the school funding formula, which has been tied to dire public school finances, reports @amelianews.bsky.social.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended the Trump administration’s approach to energy production Monday, as Democrats on a U.S. House Appropriations panel accused the department of kowtowing to oil and gas interests at the expense of renewable energy, reports @fischler.bsky.social.
