Doug Walter (he/his)

Hochul: "This is what I call a legal insurrection ... they know they're going to lose next year. That's the only reason they're engaged in this. It also might be a nice distraction from people asking -- all of the sudden this happens when? When they refuse to release the Epstein files."

#TrumPutin breaks contracts like they're breadsticks, and apparently that's the new paradigm for the GOP.

Energy projects across the country are in limbo after Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' Community groups, businesses, and consumers say projects face an uncertain future after Republicans slashed renewable energy tax credits.

'Since this story published, Georgia BRIGHT received notice that its grant was terminated by the EPA. The organization says it will “use every avenue legally available to us to regain access to the funds.”' The money was already committed to homeowners and non-profits.
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Black-and-white picture of JFK addressing Congress, with text: "Ask not what your country can do for you / Ask where are the Epstein Files"

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

Today, 7 out of 10 Copenhagen school children cycle to school.
In Dublin? Just 6%.

We’ve stolen children’s freedom to move and breathe clean air.

Cycling is daily exercise, mental wellbeing, and climate action on two wheels.

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.

RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

Energy projects across the country are in limbo after Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' Community groups, businesses, and consumers say projects face an uncertain future after Republicans slashed renewable energy tax credits.

"The new budget law delivers deep cuts for programs like renewable energy, tree-planting, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. It also includes boons for oil drilling and exploration, and increases demand for timber from national forests."
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This wasn't a great thing to post the day before Mamdami's video of himself and his campaign workers walking past 5 operating New York busses in an hour.

"Better Buses Now!"

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I salute Darkshire's imagination.
I imagine the opinion piece is about the ordination of women, a feat of imagination and daring that will evade the Church hierarchy ...forever?

Your future self is going to thank you for not giving up.

The Forest Service Wants to Hear from You About its Staffing and Reorganization Plan — Outdoor Alliance Before August 26, the USDA is accepting public input on its staffing plan, in the wake of massive layoffs over the spring and summer.

"The US Forest Service is accepting public comments until August 26 about the future of the agency. Everyone who cares about forests, trails and wildlife habitat can speak up to strengthen how the USDA stewards our public lands." 🌍 www.outdooralliance.org/blog/2025/8/...

Narrator: Sadly though, SCOTUS has now exempted the president from the founders’ intent to criminalize bribery.

The FBI director whose prior career was “podcast guest with an enemies list” thinks other people are engaged in “political weaponization”

“As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.” —UC President James B. Milliken

Absolutely unconscionable that a statue of a traitor to the Union is going to be reinstalled. I think it is a deliberate provocation, to create a flashpoint for future vandalism that can then be brutally suppressed.

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Photo of a Latina with text "Stand Up for UC" and the logo of the University of California system.

@uclalibrary.bsky.social and the Brain Research Institute at UCLA figure prominently in my family's history. I'm not happy about how pro-Semitic thugs attacked the "encampment" for Palestine on the Quad in Spring 2024, but the demand that UC pay the Federal Govt. is extortion.

As previously pointed out by others, adding political appointees to approval of scientific grants will likely kill good science. #TrofimLysenko #Lysenko

A good explainer on the EO. @kgandersen.bsky.social takes apart the key points.

His main point is exactly right. And we’ll add: politicizing science grants like this will — flatly — kill American science. Science, like business, is choked off by corruption.

Zohran’s citibike numbers make me feel like we need to start demanding bike share stats from our politicians in the same way we demand tax returns

"...more like a Supreme Super-Legislature."
This is a dream of the Federalist Society, to kill the engine of our medical and economic progress.

Justice Department launches grand jury probe of N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James James prosecuted the president and his companies, winning millions in fines linked to fraud allegations. Her attorney called the probe a "desperate example of the president's campaign of retribution."

James prosecuted the president and his companies, winning millions in fines linked to fraud allegations. Her attorney called the probe a "desperate example of the president's campaign of retribution." From @carriejohnson.bsky.social

Trump claims to have reached ‘historic’ peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan The two sworn enemies went to war twice over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan eventually captured in 2023

"The agreement, according to officials speaking to the Associated Press, would give the US leasing rights to develop the corridor and name it the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity." Has he... been studying Stalin??
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I did, and you can too! :^)

I'll take a Gen-X Elizabeth Warren behind the bear right now.

Yet another case of the Online Safety Act taking down harm-reduction and community support services -- in this case because the site hasn't been able to implement age verification yet (it's expensive as fuck!)