Charlotte Jameson

"In total, since taking office again, Mr. Trump exempted 202 facilities in 39 states & Puerto Rico from clean-air regulations that were going into effect. Some were among the country’s worst industrial polluters, including chemical manufacturers, copper smelters & coal-burning power plants." MAHA!

I think that democratic politicians should not forget that the teamsters are going all out to defend swing seat Republican ghouls like Mike Lawler

We are facing a concerted, cross-border, not exclusively Christian nationalist effort to brainwash every demographic except young (and diverse) women of the manufactured threat posed by young (and diverse) women, in order for countries to collectively hand over their democracies to tech oligarchs

There's so much good stuff we need to build: Housing, Schools, Vehicles and Transit Infrastructure. But data centers are sucking up all the available capital investment and crowding out everything else. It's time to reevaluate our national priorities.

Batteries, baby!

"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

they want to loot and destroy our country. tearing it down to the studs and shipping the money out

Heard a great line about this (forgot where, unfortunately): "If you can walk 15 minutes to a coffee shop, but the barista has to commute 1 hour to the same coffee shop, you don't live in a 15-minute city, you live in an amusement park."

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

Under Biden's Solar for All program, $117 million in federal money was set to go to Indiana for solar, battery, & microgrid projects. Tens of millions of those dollars were headed to Gary, to improve its resilience. Then Trump canceled the program & yanked back all the money.

The most corrupt president in history, using paramilitaries to wage war on the population, awarding himself billions of dollars, bulldozing the White House to build himself a golden palace, unilaterally torpedoing millions of ballots Democrats: five working groups on affordability

this stuff loses a lot of regular people like me, wins no one on the right, and undermines efforts to build unity in a coalition that go back to AOC backing biden. with elections right around the corner, does the dem party have a toxic centrist problem?

The most eye-popping part of the new EPIC-MRA poll of Michigan, which has Dems leading by an identical 4 points in the Gov and Sen races: Rogers has a disastrous fave rating (29/40), perhaps a leftover of the 2024 Senate race he lost. El-Sayed & Benson are +1, & James is -5.

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.

from the abstract: "Using longitudinal data from more than 420,000 children across 57 LMICs, we show that both greater tree cover and lower canopy fragmentation are independently associated with reduced U5M [under-5 mortality]." filing under big if true

Problem 3: A large share of states use their block granted funds to essentially ignore transit. They spend almost all the money on highways, even when localities want something different! Fed funds help localities do what they can in the face of difficult states!

"I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYTHING EXCEPT THE VROOM VROOM SOUND!" Everyone is twelve now theory holding strong

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The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

I admit, when WA passed a law mandating a carbon-free electricity system by 2045, it did not occur to me that utilities would simply ignore the law & double down on gas plants. Laws mean nothing without credible, visible enforcement.

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

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spain can build over 500 miles of high speed rail for the amount of money Trump wants to redesign an airport

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I know I've been on one about this lately, but there's a certain kind of commenter who loves to complain about bike lanes and what that ultimately is is a wink and a nod in favor of vehicular manslaughter against cyclists justified by the drivers inconveniece.

The lettuce thing I can handle but if they ever declare the potatoes as off limits I will burn it all down.

In Thomasville, GA, in a historic Black area, there's a creek Black churches once used for baptism Today, fecal bacteria and other contaminants have made the water unsafe due to an aging wastewater system The town got a grant to improve public health. Funding was axed due to Trump’s DEI crackdown

OMG The driver backed up on purpose to hit Hannah Rapp - and killed her. Female Boxing Legend - murdered by a random hater. I have no words www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

It’s gotten yellow in Ferndale.

in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors

"Hundreds of federal food-safety staff have been cut, and last July the CDC narrowed FoodNet — the sentinel network that provides early warnings of foodborne illness — from eight pathogens to two, dropping cyclospora altogether."

Another example. Recent stories about a millionaire exodus from NYC, with pictures of Mamdani. 1) The report covered a period from 2010-2022 - before Mamdani was elected! 2) Its about NY state not NYC! 2) There was no millionaire exodus! NY's millionaire growth just lagged other states!

A 15mw turbine burns the equivalent of 450 gallons of gasoline/hr. 40 of them at a single site is like having 10 thousand cars idling in one spot. You can talk unit level efficiency all you want but some of these data centers, like xAI are almost incomprehensible in terms of stuff combusted

MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS: If you have already voted for Mallory McMorrow and wish to change your vote, you can contact your local clerk to have your ballot spoiled and a new ballot issued. 🗳️

“Of course no one can afford anything, just look at egg prices!” All through the Biden administration. And then it turns out that egg prices, and specifically egg prices, are the subject of a big price-fixing scam.

Heartening news: A new childcare center for around 100 kids — including Head Start + free pre-K programs — has opened in once-vacant space in Grand Rapids Central Station, the area’s main bus hub. Its meant “mainly to make life easier for working parents.” Via @freep.com

Starting in 2030, all public school students in Texas will be required to read passages from the Bible in class