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Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

It was good to be back in Michigan to support @jocelynbenson.bsky.social as your next Governor and @abdulelsayed.bsky.social as your next U.S. Senator! They are working to change the lives of Michiganders for the better. Make sure to vote early or on Election Day at MichiganDems.com/Vote.

This is the latest in a series of serious allegations that Jared Kushner has been selling foreign policy to the highest bidder. He needs to answer these questions before the American people.

Mike Rogers was just caught on tape talking about how he wanted to make sure that there were retired cops who could intimidate voters in the city of Detroit. We deserve the right to vote. People have fought and died for that right. No more election deniers.

“The borrowing let Ellison keep his stock and avoid locking in taxable gains, and highlighted how billionaires often employ a strategy called ‘buy, borrow and die’ to retain their wealth without selling assets.”

Second, we need accountability, particularly on corruption, the abuse of taxpayer dollars and the weaponization of government. And third, we need to Trump-proof the government.

$165 million a year in taxpayer contracts to run detention camps, then $1.4 million flows straight back to Trump’s super PAC the next month. That’s your money, laundered through a prison company, landing right back in Trump’s political war chest. #TrumpsCorruptionCostsUS #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

because i did not know

Does it ever feel like you're in a cage being watched? Well, you are. By Flock cameras, thanks to Mike Rogers.

See those uniformed police officers applauding Trump while he lusts over young girls? Never ask a rape survivor why they didn’t report the assault to the police.

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

Christians should be banned from playing sports. Jesus provides them with additional strength, which gives them unfair advantage.

This is fascinating and also frustrating because we're being very very stupid. Unbelievably stupid. We, too, could have nice things if we'd stop being stupid.

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

Rather than repeating debunked election conspiracy theories, in a better world, a President would be addressing... this:

If liberty comes from the Bible, why did the Constitution omit God, ban religious tests for office, and prohibit the establishment of religion? The founders were drawing heavily from Enlightenment philosophy, not creating a biblical republic.

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

Please spread the word so we can reunite Gus w/his family! FOUND July 6, 2026 in Santa Monica, CA 90405 Brown Tabby with left eye discoloration. Wearing tag w/Gus (Gussy) and a phone # that's no longer in service Do you have info? Contact finder here: www.pawboost.com/p/73104383

wear your feelings for fourteen whole dollars eatf.art/usa

Trump, who is still refusing to sign a bipartisan bill to lower housing costs, is flying off on a billion dollar plane given to him by a foreign nation and refurbished at our expense.

Four conservative justices on the Supreme Court believe Folarin Balogun shouldn't be a U.S. citizen. Something to consider as he carries the U.S. team on his back in the World Cup.

Not for long. Not for long.

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow

The Trump administration says countries like Haiti and Syria are too dangerous for Americans to visit, yet today's SCOTUS decision puts TPS holders at risk of being sent back. @pressley.house.gov and I will do everything in our power to pass legislation to protect TPS holders.

ZOHRAN: *parachutes in to help wildly unpopular congressional Dems get more popular* 🦸🏻‍♂️ ESTABLISHMENT DEMS: “wHY iS He TRyiNg tO KiLL tHe PArTy?”

Beginning next week, Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

And the New York Times - which has obsessively covered minute aspects of the gender affirming care fight - chose not to cover this, or a major study finding anti trans laws increase calls to suicide hotlines, or many other stories that don't fit their agenda.

Do not let anyone tell you there’s no money to build housing. If they can find money to build cages they can find money to build homes.

I will be on the Senate floor giving a comprehensive speech outlining the last 500 days of Trump's dizzying, unprecedented campaign of corruption. We cannot normalize what he is doing. He is stealing from us.

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

"Only once before has America had a president this old — and that time, we held an extended and furious debate about whether age had rendered the octogenarian unable to do his job. By comparison, discussion of Trump’s age has been quiet and infrequent." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Wait, why the fuck is Popehat/@kenwhite.bsky.social suspended?

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

It appears Grok killed the schoolchildren in Iran, in tandem with a US military under Pete Hegseth who DGAF. Remember when Anthropic said 'No' to Hegseth's demand that they allow the DoD to use Claude to kill autonomously, with no human oversight? Check out this timeline:

I don't care who you are, who you love, how you pray, or whether you pray at all—you deserve healthcare, housing, and opportunity. But if we want those things, we have to start by getting money out of politics.

She loves to play with the rooster 😭

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

today's post is the eulogy I wrote and delivered yesterday at the memorial service for my late wife Claudia Long. please read it — and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

A future Dem government should nationalize SpaceX and rip it away from Musk. He gets NOTHING in return and the US gets its NASA investment back.

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people. Or one in which the richest handful of families have the combined wealth of almost forty percent of the rest of the country.

Here are the Chicks performing “Not Ready to Make Nice” on Kimmel last night on the 23rd anniversary of them being right about the Iraq War and getting actually canceled for it: youtu.be/Gc84Qk7f-pg