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This is the biggest threat in the world to the biggest humanitarian crisis in the history of the human race. environmentamerica.org/center/resou...

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

Content Warning, but too much of the country doesn't truly accept these truths, and they need to be where they can be found for those who choose to confront denial.

One way that I remain deeply pessimistic: We didn't get here purely because of xenophobia. In part we got here because everyone thinks that achieving border security is possible, and it isn't. When it fails, it looks like a failure, and the electorate says, "Wow, maybe we need something harsher."

There's more to say about this, but note that the starting point is that the courts decide that they are allowed to do the thing that they previously decided they aren't allowed to do.

The good old days when stories on truly anticentral topics could be published simply because a good journalist made them become interesting, using sheer talent

This is a half truth. We could cover the entire planet with solar panels, but if we’re still using oil and gas, we’re not going to halt global heating. If you support clean energy AND the expansion of fossil fuels, you’re making climate worse, and you should be honest about your blind spots.

I'm not reposting this as an endorsement of the statement here, but for the high-emissions, high-temperature rise scenario discussion downthread.

hang on, so Bleecker Street was sold to a Pierre Omidyar-backed group that also happens to back Tosca Musk's Passionflix... and now "MUSK" is disappearing from theaters?

Every remaining scenario for climate safety shows overshoot, so carbon capture is needed — and so is carbon pricing. Fossil fuel being allowed to pollute for free is now lethal to climate safety. Period. It’s price or fail. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New @centeronbudget.bsky.social fiscal policy paper. The U.S. has 2 deficits: 1. A fiscal deficit 2. An investment deficit—our failure to adopt policies making folks better off. Fiscal policy should reduce both—not reduce one deficit by growing other. More revenue can do just that.

Good context here.

Staggering corruption

The U.S. is the only major economy where planet-warming pollution dramatically increased last year. The United Nations warns the planet is on track for catastrophic warming. n.pr/4zb8sRp

Blackstone CEO bankrolls ad attacking Democrat for buying Blackstone stock Public Information https://popular.info/p/blackstone-ceo-bankrolls-ad-attacking

“.. They offered her $10 million a year for four years along with a range of bonuses. .. At the time, Ms. Habba was also a senior adviser to Attorney General Pam Bondi, overseeing U.S. attorneys.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Why do I try to work? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

look man. I realize we live in an era of repulsive politics but this is some low-down shit right here bsky.app/profile/eric...

if millennials could afford homes this wouldnt be a problem but this is going to hit the generation like a truck

Musk would do this through those f*cking Trump Accounts they opened in every child's name without parental consent. I HATE these SO much. Parents cannot close the accounts. Parents cannot reject donations to the accounts. And we must hold on to donations for at least 5 years. I'm a state lawmaker.

I've been skeptical of malicious intent re the Meta NoKings interference. Tactically, blocking there halfway through its mundanely successful event made no sense - the account has done 90% of its job, the event was autopiloting. Big picture, the rats aren't jumping *onto* the sinking ship right now.

some of these people get so locked into a labyrinth of Rationalist thought experiments that they are no longer really capable of interacting with reality

The biggest fraud in Minnesota is the Republicans screaming about it deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trumpian-c...

Brady Rule not even good enough

Across the country, hospitals under financial strain are shuttering their delivery units, putting expectant mothers at greater risk. As Trump’s cuts to Medicaid take effect, these “maternity care deserts” will only grow. newrepublic.com/article/2166...

More than half of all internet users have installed an ad-blocker; Doc Searls calls it the largest consumer boycott in history.

“I think it’s been clear that the current administration has been very vocal about having a lighter footprint and a lighter-touch approach to disciplining companies. This seems to be a direct output of policy shifts.”

I do this and i enforce it in my family. I am Officially a Climate Very Scared / Angry person, so I have. You should do it and you should cleverly and persistently advocate for people you know to do it. Just don't eat cow is such a small ask.

The Gulf Monarchies — a small group of royals on top, a group of citizens underneath them who enjoy rights as long as they're loyal to the regime and then below them a huge group of quasi-slave guest workers with no rights at all — is considered a model for what conservatives want for the USA

Finally, Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski sent a statement to Laura Loomer, telling her Ms. Comans was "fired for illegally funding" migrant shelters "in violation of President Trump's Executive Order." Both Lewandowski and Noem, the government now admits, knew this was false.

this guy is bad

This goes on a list of memorable cyber-physical attacks that created physical outcomes at scale. A short list.

Between Le Pen and AfD we're headed for a version of Trump II across the power centers of Western Europe. I fear for Ukraine.

A big finding from public management research is that stability improves performance. *The IRS had 7 commissioners in 2025, but has not had a commissioner in 212 days. *Its lost 2500 IT staff. *Look at the scale of turnover in key leadership positions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/things-rea...

As I show in this article, depending on privileged families for donations makes schools hesitant to hold those families' kids accountable when they break the rules. So, it makes sense that schools would be similarly wary of punishing likely future big donors. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Trump Admin hires private equity guy at DOD. Months later, guy's former employer gets a $281 million *no bid* contract to consult for him. Pro Publica is running circles around every other news outlet when it comes to chronicling the obscene level of corruption going on right now