Fossil fuels: Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break the global fossil fuel deadlock. The Santa Marta conference was born out of frustration at Cop summits, where renewable progress has been stalled by major polluters. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
Shantal Ochtere, our awesome new Managing Editor at resilience.org, is top notch at headline writing and image selection
I’ve seen a good deal of polling this cycle and Democratic voters all over this state are basically saying they want an army of Bernie Sanders’ in office.
The DSA isn’t tricking people. Liberals and progressives are tired of the bullshit excuses and a party that takes a dive while things degrade.
Mexican President Sheinbaum took a harder line against the US in the wake of mounting deaths of Mexican citizens in custody of US immigration. She wants investigations into the deaths of the 15 migrants. Mexican consulates will visit detention centers daily. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
I'm not up to speed on his actual politics (we just moved back, cut me some slack) but this is great. Kudos to politicians who get out and get their hands dirty.
Nice dissonance. Let me guess, cognitive?
A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.
I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.
Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.
This is why primary elections are important. They help screen out Republicans pretending to be Democrats. Some things to look out for are Nazi tattoos, joining Blackwater and using slurs for people with mental disabilities.
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
After it happens, the GOP will look like this for several years. But eventually, a new personality will emerge from the Nazi slop they're all stewing in and that person will be worse than Trump.
Just saying it's a huge mistake for the media to allow a definition of MAGA exclusive of Trump. If it doesn't die with him, they're just gonna select someone 20% less insane and we're gonna be permafucked.
Have to come clean here, I've rewatched this video maybe a dozen times today. Absolute cinema.
I just thought of another terrible consequence of the war against Iran: once Tehran starts charging a toll in crypto currencies to ships passing the Strait of Hormuz, this will actually boost crypto - meaning the bros will soon crawl out of their holes again. It will be torture.
"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.
Google's AI overviews give wrong answers 9% of the time (1.25 billion times a day), and in over half of the cases point to websites that don't actually support the answer given.
I read a paper a few months ago that looked at the 2010s and the AfD, and found that their electoral victories were most highly correlated not with any social factor but with where other parties had not contested the election.
Just a regular reminder that the centers of both the Harvard and Yale campuses are named for Trump supporters, as is the main branch of the New York Public Library. Trump is the crowning glory of 40 yrs of work by an entire set of persistent, well-educated Americans, which is the actual problem.
Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.
Attending the Nuremberg Rally but standing in the back with my arms crossed and making a frowny face.
I really hope this is understood.
Thank you for protecting PCEF & holding the mayor's feet to the fire.
Is expanding day shelters and mental health svcs part of the conversation, too? Here in inner SE, I daily see mentally ill people left to fend for themselves on the street. It's cruel for them and at times frightening for others.
It's important for anyone who wants to be the Democratic nominee for president to outline exactly how they'll use the power of the executive branch to dismantle the conservative legal movement. Which law schools will you attack and which nonprofits will you sick the IRS on?
This is a very dangerous moment. People keep saying it never should’ve gotten this far, and they’re right. But it got this far because people believed a piece of paper would be enough to override the white supremacist president, congress, police, etc.
Remember, kids: Normie cringe means we are winning
Rep. Dexter in a committee hearing room
BREAKING: I just motioned to subpoena Don Trump Jr. for funneling $670 million in taxpayer dollars to a critical minerals company he has financial stake in. 

Republicans left the hearing room.
Please for the love of god don’t EVER talk to me again about ‘doing it the right way.’
One of the most healing things that happened for me growing up in fundie Christian land is moving to this side of the state with a big Muslim presence and being told ‘only god is perfect’ after decades of being treated horribly for being a ‘sinner.’
Monarch caterpillar munching milkweed
Here's one of the monarch caterpillars that hatched in our yard ~5 years ago when we lived in Mexico. It always amazes me that the the species --and the milkweed-- thrives in such different climates!
I had a similar but with urban visual cues.
My 1st D experience was Berlin; it felt *understandable*, like a vastly more developed / better run version of what I recognized as "City".
My first UK experience was London; it felt like some bizzaro world where straight lines didn't exist.