Aaron

When I saw that Elon Musk was wearing a Half-Life shirt in the trailer for Alex Gibney’s new documentary, Musk, my heart broke. For years, I had been wanting such a shirt. Now, the orange lambda symbol would be forever associated with the G-Man himself.

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Does anyone else feel that framing the Big Bang as a “giant explosion” makes the mainstream scientific narrative about the history of the universe less credible to students? I want to say that it could have been gentle, even if the energies involved dwarf our understanding.

Partisan gerrymandering doesn't just rob North Carolinians of their political representation. It also fosters dysfunction and widespread political corruption - which is exactly what we see today in the North Carolina state legislature. Vote Jessica Bichler for Senate District 7!

Plainspoken philosopher and poet, Berry encouraged us to turn from abstractions to the specific places and histories that condition our existence; and not to shy away from, but embrace, the limitations that make us human. 🪢 text.npr.org/1139228585

For the first few hours of the ICE flight over the Atlantic Ocean, Mohamed Barry continued to act like himself, which is to say, he expected to be visible to the people around him. prospect.org?p=143817

As a great writer, she knew the power of words.

From now on, Canadians will refer to the United States as Epstein Island.

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...

The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?

Maybe another war 💣 will fix it… text.npr.org/nx-s1-5937600

Woah.

This is why we need data centers.

“The root source of DSA’s rise is the depraved material conditions bearing down on growing numbers of unemployed, underemployed, and economically insecure. That’s also what aggravates the legitimacy crisis.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-theory...

If political candidates and elected leaders aren’t taking the time to explain ranked choice voting and proportional representation to their constituents, they aren’t doing their job. Structural reform is the only way of keeping any “democracy” in our system. text.npr.org/nx-s1-5920312

Private prisons should not exist! text.npr.org/nx-s1-5923881

“Rates of cancer, heart disease, stroke and child mortality in these areas are far higher than the state average, Department of Environmental Quality data shows.” insideclimatenews.org/news/0408202...

Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

On the positive side (?), the people operating these models are only going to get dumber text.npr.org/2026/05/31/n...

"It doesn't matter how low your taxes are. If your kids are leaving, your people are dying, you're not winning," Lahn said. text.npr.org/nx-s1-5900895

Attention is turning to an electoral alternative that could achieve a fairer and more inclusive politics: proportional representation, long dismissed as a fringe idea in the United States. prospect.org?p=141273

“Erin Carey, the deputy director of the Sierra Club's North Carolina chapter, said it is disappointing that Whatley has not discussed PFAS contamination and more so that he is accepting campaign contributions from the company that is linked with that contamination.” www.wunc.org/politics/202...

Democrats have stopped talking about climate. Strategists say that's smart—but they're wrong. Making climate a top priority wins votes, and barely 1 in 10 voters will vote against climate action. Read all about it in my newsletter, "Notes from the Electric Era." electricnotes.news/p/yes-democr...

“That is to say: Everyone in this supply chain has a vested interest in making sure these old batteries become resources, rather than hazards.” text.npr.org/nx-s1-5847025

This right here

There's been bipartisan disgust at the Save Our Bacon Act, which attempts to pre-empt state rules to give pigs at least a little room to walk in confinement cages. Yet it's the pork industry's top priority, and it could ruin the farm bill. Good story from Zachary Groz: prospect.org/2026/07/07/m...

Nationalize the banks!

Congress has blocked the amendment Thomas Massie and I introduced to stop the integration of our military with Israel’s. It is unconscionable to not even have a vote. We will be continuing on and will not be intimidated by the pro-Israel lobby.

“Amnesty International said it had interviewed 73 people released from compounds in recent months, and determined all were victims of human trafficking . . . The Cambodian government has insisted that they pay fines for overstaying their visa . . .” text.npr.org/g-s1-128624

A bipartisan group of senators plans to introduce legislation to halt NSF's dismantlement of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a network of ocean sensors crucial for tracking ocean circulation, marine ecosystems, climate change, and extreme weather. 🌊🧪

Just realized that changing a toddler is the basic archetype for half of the skits in #Reno911!

This is yet more insanity from the Trump regime. Commercial fishing is the most destructive thing we do to the ocean.

The U.S. spent $11B in the first week of the Iran War and have spent many times that in weeks since, dwarfing the subsidy China has given solar panels. This war is all about oil and is another example of how our entire society is effectively built around enormous subsidies for fossil fuels. 🔌💡

“. . . if the reorganization of the agency's research division is carried out as it has been proposed, it will be the end of the Forest Service's strong science legacy, current employees believe.” text.npr.org/nx-s1-5831470 #WarOnScience

Our Constitution was written by people who believed the world to be limitless and ripe for the taking; today, the people who interpret that Constitution must struggle, and often fail, to see beyond that illusion

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

“Duke has said more energy generation is needed to keep up with growing demand, tied in part to the proliferation of data centers.” How much energy and water will be continue to be sacrificed not to meet human needs (food, shelter, etc.) but to satisfy tech investors? What gives them the right?

“The way they keep telling me they look at it – and I can't blame them – is ‘gosh, that feels like 1.5% for last year, which they owe me a year of, and then 1.5% for this year, yet they jacked my healthcare up. So what are they doing for me?’”

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández . . . said at the presentation of the document that unlike these philosophies, claiming "that humanity has reached its expiration date and must simply be replaced," Catholic teaching believes that "every human being has infinite dignity." text.npr.org/nx-s1-5828375

Obviously Donald Trump is not an expert in refrigerants, but you can be, and understand why these decisions can be hugely consequential for climate change, if you read this quick 🧵:

Super PACs are allowing billionaires and special interests to spend limitless money to buy candidates and our democracy. We must abolish them. Proud to be the lead sponsor of the Abolish Super PACs Act in the House and am grateful to @sanders.senate.gov for his leadership in the Senate.

🚨NEWS: Republicans just pulled a vote on an Iran War Powers Resolution because they knew they were going to lose. They don’t have the guts to end a war that’s costing BILLIONS of dollars and putting lives at risk while driving up the cost of gas & groceries.