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Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

I also think this is a very powerful graph. Most people don't know it, but the US is a *very* low-tax country. We tax below average and we spend below average, among rich nations. Fixing our fiscal situation entirely through taxes would still leave us *very* low tax. bsky.app/profile/bren...

I guess one issue with the press not treating Musk’s obvious white nationalist ideology as a big problem is they don’t actually treat white nationalism itself *as* a big problem for the most part.

Insulating homes and investing in heat pumps would be more effective in reducing living costs, creating jobs, and boosting the economy than drilling for new oil.

Inside an ICE facility, women talked about the men whose 911 calls landed them there — the boyfriends or husbands who had beat them, choked them, threatened deportation. “I had suffered from domestic violence,” one woman said. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”

Paris is showing how to make cities healthier and more child-friendly. More than 300 school streets are now car-free and give space to trees, play, and safe walking/cycling. The aim goes far beyond traffic safety: cleaner air, less noise, and more independence for children.

This area in front of Gare du Nord in Paris used to be full of cars and totally chaotic, but they recently limited the street to pedestrians and cyclists and it has made a huge difference. This is what cities that care about people do.

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

The Logic of Destruction snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

In NYC, Mayor Mamdani has launched the Office of Worker Power, designed to connect workers who want to unionize with education and resources. Former US Labor Sec Julie Su is overseeing the effort & the executive director comes from the UAW. "When workers can organize, everything changes," said Su.

Spotted over I-5 in Seattle

In the past year, the Trump administration has killed at least 223 people in Caribbean Sea and East Pacific boat strikes. These attacks are extrajudicial killings and should be considered murder under domestic law and crimes against humanity under international law, writes @seharrison7.bsky.social.

As mentioned in my comment on USPS's new ballot rule, the American postal service was born in 1774 _because_ the alternative system (the Crown's post) let the executive decide which mail not to deliver. For a Court riveted by bespoke historical analogs, this rule is 252 years of unAmerican.

🗞️As a former Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes I can tell you it is the most important newspaper in the world because it exists to inform and protect our troops from people like the despicable Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump who do not believe they — or anybody for that matter — are owed the truth.

2026 MN State Fair Crop Art entry "Witness" based on pStar Tribune photograph by Leila Navi with MPR reporter Sam Stroiza.

Tifo by @weareecs.bsky.social: ‘always here | always proud.’

NATO is bad, EU is bad, democracy is bad, Putin is good, you aren't white enough. countries that fought in Afghanistan never do anything for us, we're tariffing you, we're taking Canada, we're taking Greenland, no air defense for Ukraine, we attacked Iran and you have to fix it, hey where you going?

On geographies of grounded relations and repair, power structures, and ultimately, geographies of accountability by American Association of Geographers President Sara Smith www.aag.org/geographies-... #AcademicSky #GeogSky #BlackSky

Paging Franz Kafka

This also relates to that Lula quote I keep coming back to, that the point of politics is to make things good for people, and that those good things *must* be joy, art and play. If you reject that, you get the modern right, who think the point of politics is that they should be allowed to use slurs

the problem these people have can be boiled down to a simple binary: (a) they look down on every person on earth but (b) they are the lowest of all people on earth. they venerate "civilization" but themselves are wholly uncivilized. sanctimonious and judgmental, criminals and antisocial scum

it's so fucked up in so many ways including the many times where it's like "haw haw you will be so miserable being deported to this hellhole full of mud people" and then the people there actually show them humanity and compassion not possessed by us americans

So many families terrified and in pain tonight. The people who just followed these orders need to be brought to justice.

Today marks 3 years since anti-corruption activist & economics professor, Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu, was arrested & detained on politically motivated charges in Azerbaijan.   Despite his deteriorating health, the Aliyev govt has denied him access to the life-saving care he needs. (1/2)

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1945: You borrow > 100% of GDP and you can comprehensively defeat fascism, allow the US to design and build international institutions, and instill in a generation the vitality of freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear 2025: You borrow > 100% of GDP and, uh

This working mom of 2 has been trying to get her family's SNAP benefits reinstated for months but keeps getting caught in the added red tape. She’s cut back her own meals to make sure her kids get enough. These are the people this administration claims were "lifted" off SNAP.

The right has a longstanding tradition of shoving sources in your face (the Bible, the Constitution, etc.) to justify their worldview that they also absolutely refuse to read in full or see how these sources indict their own behavior, and it's not stopping now.

The Seine river went from being too hazardous to swim in, to its second summer as a popular swimming spot for Parisians and tourists alike. CNN's Melissa Bell reports. Read more: https://cnn.it/4b6GLz8

according to the Treaty of Tordesillas this is a home game for Spain

Spain-Portugal in JerryWorld

And you could probably say that about just NYC or Chicago (& maybe LA & Houston) Been thinking about the Cape Verdeans I met when I worked in Bridgeport.

celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

But now, Republicans are gutting seniors’ healthcare to bankroll tax cuts for billionaires, starting with a $536 billion cut under their Big, Ugly Law. Democrats will continue fighting for a nation where healthcare is a right for all — not a luxury for a few.

60 years ago today, Medicare’s first 19 million enrollees began receiving the quality health coverage they deserved. For generations, Medicare has provided Americans with dignity and security in retirement.

You're telling me that firing the coach 1 game into the World Cup and giving Hervé Renard 4 days to prepare a downtrodden team for a do-or-die duel with one of the most synchronized, technical, ball-dominant teams in the tournament isn't working out for Tunisia???

As for what I am doing being political, my outside of work activities often are. Because I care deeply about the future of science and my country, I engage in politics often. All Americans should as much as they can.

The final bike bus of the school year. I can't emphasize enough how great #bikebus is for my son: he loves his friends, loves biking with them and the confidence he's gained cycling is invaluable. Have a great summer everyone and here's to many more miles! 🚴🏽‍♂️ @bikebusworld.bsky.social #bikedc

Scottish soccer fans in town for the World Cup made a side-trip to Fenway on Sunday and brought actual magic with them. It was such a delight and honor to get to accompany their singing.