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So by using WhatsApp for the first time to connect with voters, Lula won the runoff by going meta.

Funnily enough, the newest one is a contender.

*MUSK ORDERED STARLINK SLOWDOWN ON UKRAINE: WSJ 👀👀👀

Governing via ballot initiative, where any motivated billionaire can buy enough signatures to get something on the ballot that reverses democratically passed legislation ... is not great.

The GOP's ongoing success is an indictment of journalism, in and of itself. I don't know why they don't see it that way.

The film unearths new dimensions of this story, and underscores an important point: the phenomenon of oligarchs acquiring supra-governmental power, without elected roles and often with little accountability, is bigger than Elon Musk, and we’re all living with the consequences.

From your lips to G_d's ears.

A very notable thing about this graph is that it is not a long list of developed countries. Developing countries also list high on the list, well above the EU average (and long above the US). EVs are better than ICE, people are noticing, and the transition is happening...

Wow, this is so beautiful.

What this thread fundamentally gets—something that clicked for me while working with Amazonian forest peoples in grad school—is that all identities, group or individual, are constructs. That makes them no less valuable, only more mutable, contingent, contestable, ephemeral.

"I made you into peoples and tribes that you may know one another." 49:13 Quran

Anyone ever stop to think that a guacamole is just an aguacate type of mole?

this is an…unbelievable paragraph. yeah, what could be the difference between the court overturning a duly-passed and signed law and the court overturning an executive memo that violates the law?

This t-shirt is raising a lot of questions.

Like.... 🎶"You think you've got it Oh, you think you've got it But got it just don't get it 'til there's nothin' at all"🎶?

EVs made up over 60% of all vehicles sold by Chinese automakers in July, and 50% year-to-date, both for the first time. They reached a 68% share of domestic passenger car sales and over 50% of vehicle exports.

The IRA was good policy. And it would have been better -- and had faster & more dramatic results -- if not constrained & blunted by the idiosyncratic assholery of one dimwit egotistical senator. Just because it couldn't stop a global tsunami of discontent doesn't mean it "didn't work."

Sending most New Yorkers...to their estate lawyers. Ok, now that's pretty funny.

"Davis, the government says, has attended and facilitated meetings about protests and discussed his anti-authoritarian ideology with other activists. He is not accused of violent acts, taking any specific actions at protests nor having any encounters with ICE agents. He is facing 6 years in prison."

NYC has both a very powerful executive and a frankly enormous amount of fiscal capacity relative to any other city or even most state governorships. I think more blue state Dems should think about ways to concentrate power and expand their jurisdictions fiscal capacity!

Contest? There is naan.

Aaaahahahahahaha

En España se llama el caganer.

Looks, the Nicks, now Spain. I'm not telling you how to vote but if you want your team to win...

Cucurella got that Puyol hair stopping every ball.

Soccer does, as it turns out, beat rugby.

The arc of the world cup final was long, but it bent towards justice.

2-0! 🥳

The sky turned pot kettle black, like ashes on an American flag.

England and Argentina at war? Ok now retvrn is taking it too far.

The man absolutely reeks of gilt.

Over 4 million Americans, including over 55k Hoosiers, have lost their food assistance due to Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

This is why George Clooney has done Odysseus, scallywag that he is, the most justice on the silver screen.

Throughout U.S. history, and starting immediately upon the publication of the Declaration, those excluded from the promise of equal status and participation read Jefferson’s words not just as a statement of lofty principles, but as a call to action, an emancipatory agenda to be enacted.

If I can't have a Joe Rogan of the left, I will accept a Ralph Nader of the right.

I knew these reactionaries wanted to take us back to the fossil fuel age, but isn't horse power a bit too far back? Next they'll want to roll back the 14th amendment...

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Yet another Don with a weird, half-baked vendetta against windmills. Does this mean I get to call JD Vance Sancho Panza?

Genuinely incredibly hustle from Japan against a juggernaut Brazilian team. Much respect. Definitely the best game I've watched so far.

Now this, this is a spicy meatballs.

Back when Twitter wasn't a hellhole, I posted how we're not ready to hear that the rise of Trumpist fascism has been on the back of a (then) billionaire's federal loan- and carbon-credit-boosted EV + solar fortune. History is not a straight line. heatmap.news/daily/spacex...

"Out, damned spot!"

By coincidence, I received a Nigel Cabourn cap in the mail the day of his passing. RIP to a legend.

If you don't occasionally drink it, this is probably true. Also, remember olive oil is a kind of fruit juice: you should keep it fresh, use it promptly, and don't "save" the good stuff for a couple years on the top shelf.

1/ AI is driving a major buildout of data centers and corresponding increase in electricity demand. How utilities, regulators, hyperscalers, and cities respond will affect household electricity costs, emissions, and grid reliability for decades. The wrong approach will raise energy bills. 🧵