The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump.
Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done.
Yet only one is considered a "power grab."
Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.
Perhaps yes.
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The Paris Climate Accords were signed on April 22—#EarthDay—10 years ago today.
@jessimckenzi.bsky.social interviews historian @marchudson.bsky.social, who publishes various pieces of climate ephemera on his blog, @allouryesterdays.bsky.social, about what he's learned archiving climate history.
Following the Covid-19 lockdowns, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the threats of climate change, the EU says it "needs to be ready to protect its citizens and the key societal functions that are crucial for democracy and daily life." A key part of the strategy includes helping individual households prepare for the growing threats and crises the continent is facing. "450 million citizens, 450 million reasons to be better prepared," Lahbib told reporters in a press conference.
...meanwhile, also the EU: everyone should have a 72 hr supply of the things you need
www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1504...
😶 The EU's largest economy...
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What this shows is that
- Demand growth should be curbed (hi, AI slop) + reserved for heating, cooling, electrification etc
- Renewables aren't growing fast enough
- Coal and gas power aren't being restricted enough (what did we expect when we deleted climate from public discourse?)
Laurie was one of the billionaires I spoke to, who I was very grateful came on the record and basically talked about the world from her point of view. She said things like: It’s a very unfair world. It’s a very unequal world. This kind of power is unjust. She talked about when she thinks about how that family fortune was made, including cigarettes and other things, she feels sick to her stomach. Sometimes people thank her for her philanthropic gifts. She feels bad because, in that moment, she thinks about where the money came from. But she also said: Look, we are here now. The best I can do is give things away and try to be a good person. But it’s very striking that at the end of that section I had with her, she said: At the end of the day, it’s hard to convince someone like me to give up power. So I said: Then how do you change this kind of thing? How could this kind of thing ever change? And her words were: “Revolution, maybe.”
You have to expect people to protect who they are, ex 2
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...
You have to expect people to protect who they are, ex. 1
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Good to go back to the origins of 'left' & 'right' as political definitions; an excellent recap:
youtu.be/B3uevocEy3c?...
Also, in a nutshell, if you're immensely wealthy you will almost inevitably be on the 'right,' in the deepest sense. Being on the right protects your wealth, which is who you are
I, for one, am looking forward to Harvard Medical School embracing viewpoint diversity by establishing a named chair in humoral science.
Mark Zuckerberg is making his “Metamates” train the robots that will walk them off the plank. They ought to mutiny.
It’s also a warning for the rest of us.
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Our latest: Fossil fuel donors like Chevron and ConocoPhillips have given at least $29 million to the two largest Republican super PACs tied to congressional leaders, as the industry lobbies to pass legislation this year that would provide total legal immunity for climate change damages.
The special experience of being Jeff Bezos
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The special experience of being Jeff Bezos
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Frame it and hang it on the wall
I'm currently partial to the recruitment of renegade GOP like Thomas Massie as prosecutors. They would truly be relentless and they've already shown they have spine, which at least on that metric puts them ahead of 90% of elected Dems.
Decades of corrosion making itself evident, like the bottom of a car falling out from rust
www.npr.org/2008/09/25/9...
This, along with the "Death Panels" campaign that RFK Jr, Elon Musk et al are instituting for real, not as a right wing fever dream
Fascists cant be shamed. They arent committed to rules & institutions. When they overturn them there is no cognitive dissonance. A political strategy aimed at calling them out wont stop them, because the problem is not that they're inconsistent.
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Foote's paper establishing CO2 as a greenhouse gas, in 1856, preceded the publication of Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities by three years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_...
The answer isn't "try to be a better judge of character," it's that market-driven democracies don't work in late stage capitalism, where an immense concentration of wealth breaks government over decades until there's an entire predatory elite class.
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Or: imagine if Musk were the person that Obama and Chu thought they were loaning money to, instead of the person he is. That could be the 2C target right there.
While many Democratic candidates in battlegrounds are out-raising their Republican rivals, the GOP holds a strong edge in super PAC fundraising.
Fossil fuels, crypto, tobacco, and the finance industries—benefiting from deregulation—are donating tens of millions of dollars ahead of the midterms.
FEC-reported contributors from Jan. 1, 2025 - March 31, 2026 to the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) and Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF). Table compiled by Sludge, link: https://readsludge.com/2026/04/21/gops-outside-money-edge-is-being-built-by-billionaires-oil-and-crypto/
Top donors this cycle to super PACs SLF and CLF, spending to hold Republican control of Congress:
- Pro-Israel donor Miriam Adelson: $40M
- Citgo owner Paul Elliott Singer: $22.5M
- SpaceX's Elon Musk: $20M
- Trump megadonor Steve Wynn: $7M
- Chevron: $7M
... complete list in our latest post.
For those of you who aren't tuned in, this a call for genocide against disabled people.
