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Last Notes

2026-04-17 22:23:11 GMT

Today, instead of marinating in bad vibes online, Mrs. Volts & I took the bus downtown, had breakfast & coffee at a cool little pop-up Ethiopian place, strolled the waterfront, visited the aquarium, got a slice at DiLaurenti's, got some fresh little donuts from the fresh little donut place...
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2026-04-16 20:29:52 GMT

A modest tax on second homes is the scariest thing this rich lady has ever seen.
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2026-04-11 17:05:46 GMT

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.
[In a first, renewables beat na...](https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/renewables-beat-natural-gas-us-grid-march-2026 )

2026-04-02 20:18:10 GMT

Rooftop solar has come out of nowhere and is now 20% of Puerto Rico's energy generation mix -- more than natural gas.
[Rooftop solar reaches 20% of P...](https://www.utilitydive.com/news/rooftop-solar-puerto-rico-generation-mix-eia/816499/ )

2026-04-01 23:42:53 GMT

jesus christ
[BREAKING: Trump Administration...](https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders )

2026-03-18 19:57:31 GMT

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane:
The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

2026-03-02 19:31:05 GMT

Had a lovely coffee and chat with Bend mayor [@[email protected]](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:ecubdajsr622tm2fkcvxbodw ) this morning. The city is growing like crazy but also rapidly densifying, adding bike lanes, reforming zoning, pushing back on new gas, etc. Fascinating case study & just a wonderful place.
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2026-03-01 22:46:02 GMT

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."
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2026-02-23 20:40:11 GMT

It has occurred to me that the optimal level of marketing for my podcast Volts, upon which my family's entire income depends, might be higher than its current level of zero.
[Subscribe to Volts](https://www.volts.wtf/subscribe )

2026-02-13 21:53:33 GMT

This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
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2026-02-13 20:26:02 GMT

"Republicans were ready. Democrats weren't." is an apt description of most of the major social & political developments of my lifetime.
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2026-02-12 20:57:19 GMT

One more quick thread, and then I'm getting out of here to walk my dog in the sun.
I think a lot about the authoritarian personality. I won't start going on about that because this thread would last forever, but I just want to say one thing about it.

2026-02-08 20:34:20 GMT

I really hate this fucking guy.
[The Real Reason Jeff Bezos Kil...](https://slate.com/business/2026/02/jeff-bezos-washington-post-layoffs.html )

2026-01-19 21:03:57 GMT

Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.

2025-12-17 18:47:29 GMT

They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!

2025-12-16 20:47:20 GMT

More than 600 Americans faced professional consequences for saying things deemed insufficiently reverential after the death of Charlie Kirk. And then there was Rob Reiner.
Read @npub1hln…0lua's infuriating forensic analysis:
[The Rules of Grief](https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-of-grief?publication_id=2282&post_id=181719855&isFreemail=false&r=bzxnl&triedRedirect=true )

2025-12-10 17:40:54 GMT

A new report on civic freedoms concludes that "the US is no longer a functional democracy."
Congrats everyone. And a *special* congrats to the Harpers letter signatories, free-speech warriors, and "anti-woke" crusaders. You saved us from woke! Great work.
[🇺🇸 America Just Got Downgraded...](https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/america-just-got-downgraded-the-united )

2025-12-06 19:28:17 GMT

Some simple moral clarity. Our country is run, and our public life is dominated by, wicked people.
I wish there were a party -- or christ, just a substantial faction of Americans -- who stood up for love, compassion, & decency with the same vigor these fucking ghouls celebrate murder.
[Opinion | What Trump Is Really...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/opinion/trump-boat-strikes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share )

2025-12-03 18:57:58 GMT

This piece from @npub1pg6…0gsj is about the only sensible thing NYT has published on the subject of electricity prices.
[Opinion | A Simple Fix to Amer...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/opinion/electricity-power-bills-ai-data-centers.html )

2025-12-03 17:28:22 GMT

Today on Volts: while some blue states hedge on their green commitments, Illinois is doubling down, passing its third major energy bill in a decade. Among other things, this one empowers the state's utility regulator to directly procure clean energy. I get into it w/ two of its architects.
[How Illinois passed its third ...](https://www.volts.wtf/p/how-illinois-passed-its-third-big )

2025-11-30 20:04:06 GMT

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
[Zillow Removes Climate Risk Sc...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/climate/zillow-climate-risk-scores-homes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8.pnKU.tdqxwARPeVCp&smid=bs-share )

2025-11-26 22:00:50 GMT

An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
[ICE Detained an 18-Year-Old U....](https://youtu.be/Q0mQxt9jlCM )

2025-11-26 18:24:51 GMT

Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!
[What's the deal with balcony s...](https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-balcony-solar )

2025-11-21 19:41:15 GMT

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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2025-11-15 19:39:56 GMT

Here an underage girl testifies that Epstein vaginally and anally raped her before beating her in fury because Trump had taken her virginity before he could.
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2025-11-13 18:56:23 GMT

From Jay Inslee & Sam Ricketts, a Democratic agenda for lower energy prices:
1. deploy more clean energy;
2. expand the grid;
3. hold utilities accountable.
[Trump is raising Americans’ en...](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/trump-is-raising-americans-energy )

2025-11-12 21:27:16 GMT

This Trump/Epstein stuff is so typical of a modern political "scandal," in that ... we know he did it. He knows he did it. Everyone knows he did it & everyone knows that everyone knows he did it. There is zero "did he do it?" involved here. The whole thing is about ... what, exactly?

2025-11-11 17:38:39 GMT

Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.
[Cleaning worker who mistakenly...](https://abcnews.go.com/US/cleaning-worker-wrong-home-fatally-shot-indiana/story?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&id=127276247&fbclid=IwZnRzaAN6eThleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEegfiV4HdwEKhgfJCFUzFzrguVqbZS0OESUUj9_AW6wPQneTH6mCOKk0SVrVU_aem_5QPFo_pcVMEQE3v0sDZAxg )

2025-11-10 20:55:36 GMT

America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.
[What Climate Change Will Do to...](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2025/12/trump-climate-change-acceleration/684632/ )

2025-11-06 18:53:20 GMT

A bold proposal: let's treat high-voltage transmission lines the same way we treat gas pipelines!
[cleanenergygrid.org/wp-content/upl...](https://cleanenergygrid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ACEG_Challenge-Report.pdf )

2025-11-05 06:21:37 GMT

Volts gets results. ⚡
[In an Upset, Democrats Oust Tw...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/georgia-election-utility-board-results.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share )

2025-11-04 20:09:11 GMT

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

2025-11-03 20:18:52 GMT

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
[Energy retailers to be directe...](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-03/energy-retailers-offer-free-power-three-hours-dmo/105965472 )

2025-11-02 19:11:22 GMT

Why wouldn't this exact same logic have applied to Hitler? I mean, some of his supporters had puppies and were kind to their grandmas. If you can't call anything fascist unless/until *literally everyone supporting it is a comic book villain*, then you just can't ever identify fascism.
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2025-11-02 18:47:10 GMT

So, how are things going over on the right?
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2025-10-27 17:23:31 GMT

Everybody knows in a vague way that Russia is funding bots to foment misinformation & conflict in western countries, but everybody thinks that it's *someone else* who's actually being affected by it.
No, it's you too.
[Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctione...](https://www.wired.com/story/chatbots-are-pushing-sanctioned-russian-propaganda/?bxid=5fa7b15f8f616f7bf274fbd5&cndid=62658284&hasha=f84e5ac04f021896598d9107641bfee0&hashc=9417d8b4b961919ffc1186b1875b2d245763fc71e609085edf732ffbc8b77586&esrc=MARTECH_ORDERFORM )

2025-10-26 23:38:30 GMT

Such deranged, casually fascist shit.
[House Republicans want to stri...](https://nypost.com/2025/10/25/us-news/house-republicans-push-to-denaturalize-mamdani-over-citizenship-form/ )

2025-10-21 19:18:01 GMT

Hilarious that Marj, of all people, has looked around, seen that the cost of living going up, and recognized that her party has absolutely nothing to offer in response.
[Marjorie Taylor Greene deliver...](https://www.semafor.com/article/10/20/2025/marjorie-taylor-greene-delivers-her-harshest-warning-yet )

2025-10-19 20:00:37 GMT

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!
But media elites find that boring.
[It’s 2025, and Democrats Are S...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/democratic-campaign-ads-trump.html )

2025-10-19 18:56:49 GMT

[checks calendar]
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2025-10-15 17:03:41 GMT

Elon Musk is a mass murderer.
[Starving children screaming fo...](https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0 )

2025-10-11 02:34:36 GMT

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?
[www.nj.com/news/2025/10...](https://www.nj.com/news/2025/10/sold-out-ta-nehisi-coates-speaker-appearance-in-nj-canceled-over-security-reasons.html )
[Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates spea...](https://www.nj.com/news/2025/10/sold-out-ta-nehisi-coates-speaker-appearance-in-nj-canceled-over-security-reasons.html )

2025-10-10 10:18:15 GMT

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

2025-10-09 13:38:52 GMT

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.
They should feel bad.

2025-10-05 19:00:52 GMT

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳
[1 to 2 Starlink satellites are...](https://earthsky.org/human-world/1-to-2-starlink-satellites-falling-back-to-earth-each-day/ )

2025-10-01 22:15:24 GMT

It's kind of wild that crypto scammers became *the single biggest source of political donations* in the last US election and barely anyone even noticed. These dipshits basically own both parties now and are getting whatever they want and there's been zero (0) public deliberation or debate about it.
[Crypto's $245 million campaign...](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/05/cryptos-245-million-campaign-finance-operation-funded-non-crypto-ads.html )

2025-09-28 23:10:37 GMT

"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice," Trump said. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.'"
Almost ... a glimmer ... "am I in an anti-reality bubble populated by sycophants?" ... and gone.
[Trump seems to back off Portla...](https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/trump-seems-to-back-off-portland-military-plan/283-e9c6bdfb-92d6-4881-bb74-09bb325a5270 )

2025-09-26 19:55:00 GMT

Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.

2025-09-26 18:51:27 GMT

Centrist pundit in a few years: "Well, the American people just don't like wind power. It's just the way they are, part of the national character. What can you do? Best to dial back on our wind power talk. Moderate to win!"
[The U.S. Anti-Wind Movement, E...](https://drilled.media/news/podcast-antiwind )

2025-09-26 18:18:38 GMT

Excellent piece on the way Connecticut utilities drove one of the nation's best utility regulators out of office through a campaign of slander, lawfare, & intimidation.
If the clean energy world were organized worth a flying fuck, it would have made this a high-profile national fight.
[Monopoly Utilities Ousted Amer...](https://boondoggle.substack.com/p/monopoly-utilities-ousted-americas )

2025-09-22 14:40:37 GMT

God, insomnia sounds like such a nightmare.
[Why Can’t Americans Sleep?](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/08/insomnia-health-cognitive-behavioral-therapy/683257/?utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20250921&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&lctg=6050e33a1fc16d137f856b2f&utm_term=The%20Atlantic%20Daily )

2025-09-17 20:51:55 GMT

It can't be said often enough: the contemporary US right simply does not accept the background presumption that "we all have to live here together." They want to eliminate liberals! They're very vocal about it!

2025-09-16 19:50:54 GMT

Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was:
* successful at everything he tried
* genuinely intelligent & insightful
* desired by women
* envied by men
* an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with
* a tireless, lifelong philanthropist
... and he died peacefully in his sleep.
10/10 life. No notes.

2025-09-15 20:49:28 GMT

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

2025-09-15 17:50:32 GMT

Empires decline all the time, for all kinds of reasons, but our present moment will be remembered in history books for the sheer volume of *voluntary & pointless self-imposed damage*. We're systematically dismantling what made us great, for no reason! Genuinely, with no rationale! It's wild.

2025-09-13 20:06:22 GMT

Immense amounts of bullshit piled up here in this post, but just to pick one little thing: Weiss was not "forced to quit." She quit on her own! She clearly went to the NYT *hoping* to be canceled, to make herself a martyr, but they refused to cancel her, so she just pretended they had!
[The Bluesky-ization of the Ame...](https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-bluesky-ization-of-the-american?publication_id=35345&post_id=173494929&isFreemail=false&r=bzxnl&triedRedirect=true )

2025-09-11 19:51:49 GMT

Just watch. The whole system is swinging into action, using Kirk's killing to advance the power & interests of the right. The crucial thing to notice is that *the process wouldn't work without the complicity & assistance of the mainstream elite establishment*. Every time.

2025-09-11 19:48:05 GMT

what the absolute fucking fuck
[Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Pra...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination-fear-politics.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare )

2025-09-08 20:12:13 GMT

The simplest explanation for why the right does not appear to care that Donald Trump is a sexual abuser and a pedophile is that they do not, in fact, care if he is a sexual abuser and a pedophile.

2025-09-07 18:45:17 GMT

It's become very clear that US political, media, and financial elites felt much more *personal* anger & disgust toward Biden & Harris than they ever have toward Trump. They might acknowledge Trump is "bad" in some abstract sense, but he doesn't *bother* them as much as Biden did.

2025-09-04 19:03:23 GMT

Every so often I look into the question "how can I grow my podcast?" and every time the answer comes back, "put some actual work into promoting it." Ugh.
Anybody got a different answer?

2025-08-30 05:15:02 GMT

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2025-08-27 22:21:25 GMT

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
[After six months in ICE custod...](https://www.wunc.org/2025-08-26/after-six-months-in-ice-custody-charlotte-woman-chooses-voluntary-removal-to-honduras )

2025-08-22 21:40:05 GMT

If we'd made DC a state we could have avoided all this but conservative Dem senators love the filibuster, so 🤷‍♂️
[How Moderate Senate Democrats ...](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-08-22-how-moderate-senate-democrats-enabled-trumps-dc-takeover/ )

2025-08-18 21:01:33 GMT

"House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has declined to oppose a Texas gerrymandering effort that could maintain Republicans' control of Congress. Still, he has insisted that a similar move by Democrats in California was an 'illegal power grab'."
[Mike Johnson vows to fight Cal...](https://www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson-california-redistricting/ )

2025-08-13 19:54:47 GMT

Much like in the US, in the UK it's fashionable (especially in the conservative media) to dump on cities, specifically London. Crime-ridden, declining, etc. etc. All the same shit they say about NYC or DC.
Here's Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, saying "fuck off, cities rule."
[‘These People Can’t Stand What...](https://bylinetimes.com/2025/08/13/these-people-cant-stand-what-london-represents-it-makes-a-mockery-of-their-entire-worldview/ )

2025-08-04 20:06:57 GMT

In June, for the first time ever, solar was the largest source of power in the EU.
[Solar is EU’s biggest power so...](https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/solar-is-eus-biggest-power-source-for-the-first-time-ever-in-june-2025/ )

2025-08-04 19:17:48 GMT

Sometimes I think about those very first scientists & pols who became aware of climate change. They thought, "what's step one? I know, we'll get literally every nation in the world together & sign a binding treaty that will force us all to completely retool our industrial bases!"
Imagine.

2025-08-03 18:37:25 GMT

*Extremely* interesting piece.
[What if America’s red states a...](https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/07/14/what-if-americas-red-states-are-about-to-lose-their-cheap-housing-advantage?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email )

2025-08-02 19:10:07 GMT

"Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity 'by 2026 at the latest', according to new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA)."
[IEA: Renewables will be world’...](https://www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewables-will-be-worlds-top-power-source-by-2026/ )

2025-07-31 20:08:48 GMT

Billionaires are colluding in private to run experiments on the atmosphere, but they don't want to "scare the public," so they're keeping it secret.
Do you feel safer yet?
[Researchers quietly planned a ...](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/27/california-sunlight-dimming-experiment-collapse-00476983?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwL1ybdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp4-Pz_XooWHrlnc-gZMewuq8enBTNSNUQknpAuDD-QSLOUElf5iyM9LlCbE7_aem_f1eu-VkA2rrbbxkle_6rOQ )

2025-07-30 16:50:56 GMT

"From 2020 to 2025, the data shows young women in the Seattle area have grown increasingly Democratic, and the share who identify as Republican has plummeted. Among young men, the reverse is true..."
[Seattle-area political divide ...](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-area-political-divide-among-young-voters-grows-along-gender-lines/ )

2025-07-29 19:52:33 GMT

AI is killing the internet. If all anyone reads or sees are AI summaries, what incentive is there for people to continue to generate the material that AI is summarizing?
[AI is killing the web. Can any...](https://www.economist.com/business/2025/07/14/ai-is-killing-the-web-can-anything-save-it )

2025-07-24 06:19:35 GMT

Most Americans really have no clue how far the US is being left behind.
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2025-07-22 20:00:37 GMT

Interesting idea: *shade* as a natural resource that is being privatized in the era of climate change.
[All Praise Shade](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/shade-climate-change/683578/ )

2025-07-19 22:42:42 GMT

This is an incredible piece -- fantastic political writing about some of the worst, most pathetic people you can imagine.
[Inside the Well-Funded, Likely...](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/well-funded-likely-doomed-plan-to-stop-zohran-mamdani.html )

2025-07-19 22:40:25 GMT

"Some troops became so disgruntled that there were several reports of soldiers defecating in Humvees and showers at the Southern California base where the troops are stationed, prompting tightened bathroom security."
[Trump’s National Guard Troops ...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/trump-national-guard-california.html )

2025-07-19 22:16:27 GMT

US conservatives are bound & determined to prevent humanity from addressing climate change.
[How the Right Is Waging War on...](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/leonard-leo-consumers-research-esg-climate/683581/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email )

2025-07-12 19:03:48 GMT

The US is the wealthiest country in human history and we put up with endless picayune daily humiliations so that a few piratically rich corporations can get a little richer. What a cucked people.
[That Dropped Call With Custome...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/customer-service-sludge/683340/?gift=OgiGhauTZ1d07288Ut5T8de9_hfGwP799P8C_st7A2A )

2025-06-26 17:32:20 GMT

The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.

2025-06-21 20:13:40 GMT

When the market of ideas has left them behind & they are not in control, conservatives whine about fairness & demand "viewpoint diversity."
I promise you, the minute they have the power to do it, that notion will go out the window & liberal ideas will be forced out.

2025-05-07 19:23:32 GMT

"Woke" -- changing norms through social pressure -- is not, contra the reactionary centrists, another form of tyranny. It's the *alternative* to tyranny. It's new norms winning through the marketplace of ideas. The alternative is what we see now: enforcing norms via the threat of state violence.

2025-04-05 19:21:43 GMT

"The speed and scale of the American public’s souring on Trump’s economic agenda are stunning. This week, just before the tariff chaos, 63 per cent of Americans had a negative view of the government’s economic policy, comfortably the highest figure since records began almost 50 years ago."
[Trump chaos is alienating Repu...](https://www.ft.com/content/26d15d7e-dd36-4ca1-b974-da8a57bce290 )

2025-02-22 22:23:26 GMT

Last night I went to see an REM cover band fronted by actor Michael Shannon. They played Fables of the Reconstruction start to finish & then did a second set of deep cuts. Peter Buck came out & played on the last 5 songs or so. It was fantastic.
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2025-02-07 21:52:46 GMT

Remember when we found out that Russian intelligence services are funding several prominent right-wing media figures and then the story just blew away like a feather in the wind and no one ever talked about it again?

2025-01-24 21:52:57 GMT

Welp, there you have it. The "sin of empathy."
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2025-01-20 21:08:48 GMT

The rules, if you are keeping track:
If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever.
If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.