Investigate. Imprison. Rebuild.

this man is a gotdamned patriot

NEW: USAID cuts have threatened decades of forest conservation in Guatemala, forcing communities to find new ways to fund their work and protect the forest. “The withdrawal of USAID was [at] a very critical moment,” says Sergio Balan, a coordinator at Guatemala’s national conservation agency.

👀 “We’re doing this experiment on an entire generation on cognitive development, with no control group." — fmr Google research scientist Mikel Rodriguez. He said people inside Google privately worried about how their AI use was affecting their own cognitive skills. 🎁 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

Solar power made up 11.3% of US electricity this July, up from 9.5% last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 9.5% of US electricity, another record high!

Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!

It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. othermeans.substack.com/p/the-wheels...

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

OpenAI likely commited the most shameless theft today and there is nothing indicating the exposure wil stop them. We are all lab hamsters for them training data, and they will soon cordon off things they have stolen and demand massive subscription to get behind the wall.

Returning to this post from last spring, and it feels more obvious than ever. Just a series of 30-second ads of rapid-fire headlines about scandals in one Cabinet department with the tag line at the end: Had Enough? Vote Democratic

So I know it kind of fell off the radar relative to other things but when's the last time we saw any verified picture of Mitch McConnell, and beyond that, the last time we had any video footage of him?

Elon Musk is a world historical mass murderer whose actions will lead to the preventable death of millions and the implications of that are horrifying so Very Serious People make a huge performance of scoffing at the suggestion but it is the dry spreadsheet reality of what he did.

In terms of people who would otherwise have lived dying there’s a case for it being the worst thing any leader has done this century, easily one of the worst, but people usually on about Amerikkka are often silent because it is something good the US was doing that stopped in the worst possible way

Have you seen any reporting on how solar power generation in the USA is 5 times higher than it was in 2020 in mainstream outlets? If not, why do you think this is not being widely covered the same way other large technological changes are?

Tim Curry décède à l'âge de 80 ans

"What did he do to deserve to be murdered, to be left cold, on the ground, dead, my child? What did he do? ... they don't care ... I expect an apology. Why shouldn't we get one?" -- Alex Pretti's mom

Americans hear "51st state" as Trump trolling. Canadians hear it as an existential threat to their sovereignty. That gap in perception is why Carney can't afford to look conciliatory, even if the economics of retaliation don't add up. This isn't just a trade war anymore.

Quebec cultural victory. ✌️

[in a @sharonk.bsky.social voice] fascinating Full retreat.

woof. is that good

i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason

and one of the domestic political projects of the republican party is to export the deep south model of cheap labor, low wages, low taxes and low services to the midwest and the northeast

Which is not to say we're powerless. Indeed, the opposite: the entire reason we perceive this impulse as 'fascism' rather than just 'normal politics' is that we have succeeded in building a world that is *better* than fascism. That is not natural, it is a creation of our effort!

I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.

Dems should absolutely kill corn ethanol and divert the spending to solar subsidies.

They keep saying that wealth taxation is about “punishing success.” But the reality is it’s about punishing failure. Over the past decade tech elites enshittified the internet and pledged to kill your job. They don’t think they’re part of society. They brought this on themselves.

PARCL LABS: “.. As of tonight, 1 in 4 homes for sale in America are in Texas and Florida - two states that hold just 17% of the nation's homes. Of the two, #Texas is the bigger concern. 48.3% of all Texas listings are cutting prices.”

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

Correct: zeteo.com/p/its-a-huge...

you can’t really ask for a more iconic set of images than spiderman vs. jake lang

Read this, then read it again, then stop crying and force yourself to read it a third time, and you'll understand American politics.

I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.

WELKER: Do you think democratic socialists have a place in the Democratic Party? VAN HOLLEN: Yes they do as part of the debate. I think that those in the Dem Party who are afraid of a healthy debate are missing the point, because Democratic voters do not want a return to the pre-Trump status quo

Mark Carney: "In recent days. the US proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermine the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal. In short, they asked too much and they offered too little ... You're at war when you get attacked. We got attacked."

Holy shit. No wonder Carney told the US to pound sand.

Really? Or, as the kids say, AYFKM? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...

remember when there was that train accident in east palestine ohio and the right wing talked endlessly about how biden & co didn't care about the middle of the country? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

The mild distaste I have for Quebec politics leaving my body when I found out Trump threatened Quebec culture and the French language during trade negotiations

The precedent here, that the president can simply level federal buildings at will without judicial interference, will come in handy on January 21st, 2029.

The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the Court as currently constituted ruled that President Trump could knock down half the White House and pour your money down a hole. Is that a fair application of the law? Or do we need to reconsider how the Court does business?”

Alan Eyre, a former diplomat who served on the U.S. negotiating team that secured the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, compared the Trump administration’s actions to that of a “thrashing mastodon, slowly sinking into a tar pit” during the Ice Age. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...