Rusty Zimmerman

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...

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

This is a rare moment of bipartisanship. And a reliable indication that Darline Graham is a horrible, inexperienced nepo-candidate.

NYPD arresting an ICE goon for trying to steal someone off the streets of NYC. RESPECT!!!

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

The Bush family is basically coming out in support of Talarico. This makes the third endorsement this week. www.ms.now/on-the-line/...

Watch this 👀

Still nothing from Schumer.

Good

Dude could literally end poverty with all this money, but instead--

The World Cup brought the people's game to our backyard. Now it's New York's turn to play. Join us at the Cost of Living Classic this Sunday for an afternoon of free footy and family friendly fun. organize.nyc.gov/colc

For decades, federal Pell Grants have helped millions of students from low- and middle-income families afford college. Now, that financial aid will also be available for short-term vocational training programs. https://to.pbs.org/4iwH1LX

The U.S. State Department has ordered nonessential government employees and their families to leave Saudi Arabia, warning that hostilities between Houthi rebels and Saudi forces could "escalate rapidly."

A national polling organization revealed on Tuesday that the vast majority of its data had been fabricated, saying it was an "experimental project to demonstrate the vulnerabilities" of the modern political polling industry. https://to.pbs.org/4k8qT4q

Starlink has given Elon Musk enormous influence over the war in Ukraine, and also the U.S. military and other NATO militaries that use the technology. https://to.pbs.org/4zcRD8H

Chase your dreams. Follow them wherever they take you, no matter how far or how winding the roads. Never give up. Run red lights. Cross the median. Box your dreams in and force them down a dead-end street. Grab them while they try to scale a rusted chain link fence. This ends now

Good morning.

Interesting...

I've got 50 portraits and oral histories of Red Hook Brooklyn on view this month at strong rope brewery, 185 Van Dyke St.

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

The far-right MAGA billionaires said we couldn’t freeze your rent. Thanks to our working class movement we just did. Join DSA to help us defend the pied-à-terre tax and win even more.

I hope Keke Palmer gets a Golden Globe nomination for Best Comedy Actress for I Love Boosters. She not only gave us an unexpected, nuanced, touching performance- she brought back physical comedy & set the bar HIGH. One of the funniest ppl ever. Raucous laughter throughout.

Yep. This is my first phone that didn't have a user-replaceable battery, I keep stuff until it no longer works.

Friendship is built in small moments: a shared meal, a quick conversation, simply showing up. One professor created a college course to help students put down their phones, talk to each other and rediscover how friendships begin 🤝 theconversation.com/friendship-i...

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished

NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.

Could new bus shelter roofs help New Yorkers stay cool in extreme heat? We're testing a few in Brownsville to find out: a green roof covered with native plants, and reflective roofs covered with low-cost, heat-resilient film.

Rio Hondo Shadows Lindsey Warren , American , Oil on canvas youtu.be/hyUx91wYviQ

every first day of nyc public school I think about how it was our tradition at dnainfo (RIP forever) to send a bunch of reporters out to photograph kids' first-day outfits (w/ parent permission ofc) just a big slideshow of kids CHEESIN in new threads 🥲 so fun and silly and special. I miss it bad

Acting the way my friend's 3-year-old acts when she comes over.

This week we celebrated the transfer of three buildings that had suffered from years of disinvestment, away from their neglectful owners. We will continue to address New York City's housing crisis with the scale and urgency New Yorkers deserve.

The people in charge of this country are a colossal embarrassment. #canada #tariffs

We're witnessing the death rattle of AIPAC & its grasp on the Democratic Party. The pro Israel hawks are choosing the Samson option. Gonna bring it all down and crush anyone to the left of the Establishment on this issue, which is a majority of Americans and Dem voters. I don't think they'll win.

Say what you want about the elephant, it really ties the room together.

The #Colorado River is running out of water faster than nature can replace it. And the existing plans to cut water use don’t add up to even half of the savings needed to keep the river flowing. theconversation.com/colorado-riv...

Good night, my sweetest bear.

NOW HEAR THIS: Oral history excerpt in memoriam: Imre Kovacs, no. 38, Red Hook: soundcloud.com/freeportrait... Full 22-minute recording at: www.Soundcloud.com/freeportraitproject Memorial 8/15, 11am, River of God Church. community potluck bbq to follow. #redhook #brooklyn #portrait #oralhistory

This is like scrubbing the murder scene of evidence before the murder.