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The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

#Denmark built so much wind that some blustery hours the turbines out-produce what the whole country is using. When that happens, the extra power doesn’t sit idle. It moves through Denmark’s links into the wider European network and heads to neighbors like Germany, Norway, Sweden. #ActOnClimate

An innovative floating offshore solar project that generates electricity and converts seawater into drinking water. The farm near Gran Canaria produces 85 MW of renewable electricity while using that same power to operate reverse osmosis systems that desalinate seawater #ActOnClimate #renewables

This, too.

The USAID thing will eventually be talked about like a genocide

I don’t agree with all Abdul El-Sayed’s views, but GOP “othering” is a disgrace. He was born in US, educated at Bloomfield Hills Andover, where he captained football team; Univ of Mich; Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; Columbia, where he earned an MD. Debate his views, not whether he’s a “real” American.

Maybe Canada isn’t the problem. (via CFR)

Vaccines Save Lives! “Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.”

Just one year of Walt Disney World's solar output could power the monorail for 34 years. Disney shared that figure alongside the announcement that four solar projects can now meet 100% of the resort's daytime energy needs. ☀️ Read more: blogmickey.com/2026/04/walt...

FRANKLIN, TN conservative David French: “I’ve changed my perception of the lingering severity of race problems. We adopted a child from Ethiopia- maybe naive: didn’t think she’d have a different experience than our older kids. There wasn’t a school she wasn’t called the N word.”

This is so well done. 👌

And the three exceptions, who were Afghan, had their protected status stripped by Trump.

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

“Unhappily, we have yet to realize that nobody can go to war anymore and win. It's impossible. It's a dirty habit that mankind has got to give up.” — James Baldwin

The call is coming from inside the house.

Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run. In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

I think we should allow Trump to choose Iran’s next leader as long as the rest of us can choose America’s. Because it’s clearly far too important a job to be left in the hands of Americans.

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg. My report:

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

The man who told reporters it’s time to move on from the Epstein files won’t shut up about the 2020 election.

Every American needs to watch this:

CEOs of big tech companies who the Trump administration listens to have decided to ignore the slow descent into fascism. www.resistandunsubscribe.com

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

“The official story—promulgated by Kristi Noem, and Stephen Miller and JD Vance—was a lie. They are lying to you. They're lying to us. They know it. And in fact, they seem proud of it,” says Chris Hayes on JD Vance saying he won’t apologize for labeling Alex Pretti an “assassin.”

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

"Numerous studies show that immigration is not linked to higher levels of crime, but rather the opposite." Source: Research articles cited in article at Brennan Center www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Scott Adams: “The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people… So I think it makes no sense whatsoever as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore.” This is who JD Vance and Trump are celebrating today.

"Numerous studies show that immigration is not linked to higher levels of crime, but rather the opposite." Source: Research articles cited in article at Brennan Center www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

"I doubt Senator Kelly will see this blog, and if he does see it, I imagine he will not be pleased with it. He’ll probably find it embarrassing. His humility likely makes him bristle at stuff like this. Well, that’s just too damn bad, Senator."

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) in March 2024 was 51.6 million. Thus, if the administration deported 100 million people, it would have to deport roughly 48.4 million U.S. citizens to hit that target. #holdfast #getsmart

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

Sounds about right.

Rob Reiner had one of the greatest movie runs in history. Look at these classics. 5 in a row. Doesn't even include This is Spinal Tap. The Sure Thing was between Spinal Tap and Stand By Me, and was a fine movie. Huge talent. And now it's appearing to be a homicide.

We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.

Around a million Syrians have returned since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. And every day at Damascus airport, families separated by years of war and dictatorship, are finally being reunited.

"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst." Everything this administration tells us is a lie.