Awesome ! I remember Harvey like a weird childhood acid trip. Wishing you and your peeps a very happy 2026. :)

Dan Bongino Admits to Lying During His Pundit Days Before he joined the FBI, Bongino spread bogus claims about the January 6 pipe bomber—and now says he did it because he was getting paid.

Lies and rage baiting for $$. This should be a career-ending admission, but, instead, it's the modus operandi of influencers and admin 'officials'. It's deeply destructive 'business as usual'. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Wow, that is beautiful. It reminds me of Vik in Iceland, though the rockface looks a bit different.

Climate Talks End With 'Empty Deal' That Fails on Forests, Finance, and Fossil Fuels | Common Dreams ​"COP30 provides a stark reminder that the answers to the climate crisis do not lie inside the climate talks—they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-fre...

Article has summary of #climate campaigning groups responses to #COP30's dismal outcomes.

“COP30 offered a spark of hope but far more heartbreak, as the ambition of global leaders continues to fall short of what is needed for a livable planet" -@vivianasantiago.bsky.social
#ClimateSky 🔌💡

Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency feature

In addition to bots writing Community Notes... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

3/3 Piker: "as long as you center working-class struggles and affordability at the heart of your campaign, you will definitely win.”

2/3 Piker: “Zohran’s message is universal. It is applicable, and I think as long as you localize it to address the ailments that people feel, the issues that people feel in whatever locality, in whatever state that you are running for,...

Hasan Piker: “This is probably the 700th time saying this, and not just about Zoran in general, not even just last night. This is the message of my entire political advocacy. This is the message of my entire political career as a commentator, as someone who works with organizers and activists. 1/2

C'est juste ! Je te donne un "j'aime" pour cette réponse :)

J'attends l'expérience du bouton "dislike" sur Bsky :)

Je suis d'accord, C -- la mauvaise stratégie et un manque profond d'introspection critique !!

Come on everybody. We showed Disney that collaboration has a price tag, let's give Spotfiy some of the same anti-fascist medicine. #CancelSpotify #NoKings

Beautiful, Jody. Where is it ? It reminds me of a trail at Camel's Hump.

Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

“If you are not frightened,” Hannah Fried, the executive director of the voter-access group All Voting Is Local, told me, “you are not paying attention.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

4" ‘fascism’s guns are at the ready,’ when it’s our man down?”
I mean this: I despise the man who shot Charlie Kirk as much as I despise Kirk. My disdain for those whose goal isn’t democracy but other people’s pain is universal." Jeff Sharlet, Scenes from a Slow Civil War (9/10/2025)

3 "Think before you spout off. Winning the struggle against fascism is what matters, not indulging conspiracism or owning the fascists or showing off your quick wit.
To rightwingers who may read this: I can imagine you saying, “What are you talking about,

2 "We don’t know enough yet about what happened in Utah to say much that’s definitive, though perhaps by the time you read this we will. But already I can tell you this, from my years of reporting: Fascism’s guns are at the ready.

1/1 Great blog post and wise words from Jeff Sharlet that some up my great un-ease after reading the responses of right-wing leaders to the shooting in Utah. The Struggle is Long
On Charlie Kirk and resisting the momentum of civil war
Jeff Sharlet
Sep 10

Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power *neighborhood in southeast Baltimore

My new one is up!

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America Tips Into Fascism Today is different than before.

Sharing this well-argued piece that includes great links:
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

This is an important analysis with clear (hardhitting, devastating) receipts, Patrick. Thanks for sharing.

Companies aiding Trump’s immigration crackdown see ‘extraordinary’ revenues Palantir, Geo Group and CoreCivic, cogs in president’s enormous detention and deportation machinery, report ‘unprecedented growth’

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I Want a Better Catastrophe · Flowchart A flowchart for navigating our climate predicament

A shareable and provocative flowchart for navigating our climate predicament from the Andrew Boyd of "I Want A Better Catastrophe" flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com

"viewpoint diversity"

6 out of 6 should always turn into 16/6 -- awesome story !

Great blog post, P ! Thx :)

(7) He is the personification of a mode of irrationality… It is superabstract.”[4]

(6) But to accumulate more than anyone could ever spend? And then keep on accumulating greater and greater sums, with no other interest or aim in life? That is beyond good and evil. The neoconservative capitalist is defined less by what he possesses than by what possesses him.

(4) An abstract desire, a mania for accumulating numerical quantities. Possessing things is understandable from the moral-molar point of view, as is wanting to accumulate capital for what it can buy in the way of time, things, and activities.