Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol?
These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes
@elliotkirschner.bsky.social frames Artemis II and the Iran war as "two events [that] should be viewed in tandem."
"The enduring strength of a democracy is that we have the power to choose. And in this past week, we have seen clearly where choosing well and choosing poorly can lead."
what in the world
So he’s advertising the next No Kings Day?
100% of diehard Yankee fans want to see the Yankees win the World Series.
Elections matter, like when you dump a GOP ass like Glenn Youngkin and put in a Democrat.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
you mean the ones doing the thieving? I am shocked, shocked to find theft in this Oval Office. I mean just look at all the gold on the walls.
The New York Times is right. I don’t care!
(And huge credit to the @wired.com team, whose intrepid, fearless, always fair reporting gives the tech bros plenty to be mad about.)
This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
We attacked Iran and Russia won. Go figure.
We have chicken hawks and chicken straphangers
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.
They’ll play this in museums in future.
(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
The Trump regime thinks the "power of the purse" is a DEI thing.
The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.
"We are entering an era of repercussions for this president and for the legacy of his actions. He chose war, and now he must face the consequences.
"The world is far bigger and more complex than his ability to control it." [1/2]
-- @elliotkirschner.bsky.social
The depravity of war as entertainment:
"They are deploying the tropes and iconography of popular entertainment to turn the inhumanity of what is transpiring into the serotonin hits of video games and action movies."
- Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social
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Graphic of busy car-filled road and text stressing that car dependency is the opposite of freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. Graphic by the Urban Truth Collective.
Gas price hikes & shortages “fuel” controversy, especially when they’re “driven” by an illegal war. But let’s not forget one of the most important discussions that should flow from such hikes — how they spotlight the difference between places with mobility choices, and places that are car-dependent.
Killing people is entertainment to the sociopaths in the White House. Decency demands that we resist this.
This war could more likely lead to regime change in the US than Iran.
I’m old enough to remember “Mission Accomplished.”
Graphic showing all the many costs of suburban brawl, explaining how many costs are hidden and indirect costs, and sharing stats and data. Prepared by the Sustainable Prosperity Institute.
Suburban Sprawl may seem cheap, but even the costs we CAN count are far too high, and we ALL pay them.
HT Smart Prosperity Institute #UrbanTruth institute.smartprosperity.ca/library/publ...
This is all true and infuriating. But eras of impunity are often followed by waves of accountability, sometimes quite severe. There are some dominos falling in people close to Epstein like Larry Summers. I think if the Dems win back power, from antitrust to mass prosecutions, a recoking is coming.
If they had walked out, that would’ve been the entire narrative. And they would’ve owned it. And they would’ve owned him. Idiots.
Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%).
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)
One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.
New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
