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What a rock star. She aged out of the foster system and went onto a job with the city and finding everyone else the furniture they need

In the coming century, there will be very few people who have seen a coral reef or a glacier.

North Carolina’s Democratic governor warns that the absentee ballot rejection rate is twice as high as in 2022 thanks to last-minute changes by Republicans. He recommends voting in person if you can (early voting is even better!) wcti12.com/news/local/g...

When we said women needed to vote like their lives depended on it, we werent joking www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/m...

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

National Food Bank Week- Helping Others in your Community! This week is National Food Bank Week. If you've got a spare $5.00 or so, you can help your neighbors in need by picking up some canned/shelf-stable food and donating it to your local food bank or local free little pantry. Find your local…

School boards are way under the radar in a big year like this, but the same battles you've heard about (book bans, Moms for Liberty, trans kids) are happening this year too. I identified 19 school boards where there battles like this — and what's up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

"We can’t just tell youth what not to do, we have to tell them what they should do. We have to actively teach boys and young men what to do when they witness the dangerous behavior of their peers. We have to teach them to disrupt the group chat…” - @ruthz.bsky.social

Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...

The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.

Meanwhile EPA says that regulating climate pollution is none of its business, but your uterus is www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Check whether you are registered to vote but NOT HERE. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

USPS’s job is to deliver the mail even if some mailed ballots genuinely are fake, illegal, fraudulent, or otherwise invalid. It’s on election administrators to catch and reject those, and they do. USPS has no role in it and the very idea mucks up the systems we actually have for election integrity.

Trump has been banishing people to one of the world's worst dictatorships Including: a Phoenix man whose family fled Egypt at 4 yrs old a woman who came to the U.S. at 5 yr old They're now imprisoned, & report being handcuffed and assaulted They've committed no crime tucson.com/news/local/b...

Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.

@jtkantor.bsky.social How about Christopher Cross’ ‘Sailing’ for all the yacht rockers here tonight?!

7/ Every one of these men served his sentence here. Due process does not end at a conviction. The right to counsel does not stop at the border. @NACDL.org defends that principle for everyone, because a right that can be switched off is not a right.

$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill. Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.

Next Friday will mark *17* years since the last increase in the federal minimum wage.

Happy birthday to Mavis Staples. Here are the Staple Singers with their version Slippery People by Talking Heads. Mavis has two shows lined up at London's Union Chapel next month

See if you can guess which 15 songs on this list were requested by Scottish soccer fans.

The public comment period is open through Monday, June 15. For more information visit: parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm...

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

Many community fridges have a variety of volunteer opportunities, from cleaning the fridges to picking up and dropping off food. And even if you don't have the time/energy to volunteer regularly, you can still cook/bake/buy food and drop if off whenever you're up for it.

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

Voting rights advocates recently launched an Arizona ballot initiative to safeguard early voting, mail voting, and other measures from Republican efforts to restrict them. Supporters need roughly 384,000 voter signatures by July 2 azmirror.com/2026/05/06/c...

Amazing….Mike D doing "So What’cha Want" with his sons' band 🔥

This is demented www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/u...

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

Oregon water managers need to drive a harder bargain with these data centers. Like, if they're using 40% of the water, they ought to be purchasing 80% of a water recycling plant to feed their cooling systems and remove pressure on drinking water systems.

I’m gifting this article because it’s about taking away women’s right to vote. We need good men to fight for us. Please stay informed on this topic. We cannot allow this to happen. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Please remember to support independent journalism so there'll be real media out there not owned by the Ellison empire or by Bezos. It's no panacea, but it's vital. We've built @boltsmag.org as a place to cover the bricks of local power without that corporate oversight.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Who Save America Act could disenfranchise: -146 million without passport -69 million married women who took spouse's last name -21 million without ready access to citizenship docs -21 million without current drivers license -Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thought I was done writing about the bullshit that outside media says about S.F. But this pair — making fun of unhoused people in wheelchairs — coaxed me out of retirement. On loving the city, and the fragility of visiting adult male Patriots fans. Gift link 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.