heat creates hurricanes—
data centers emit immense heat—
hurricanes are getting larger, less predictable, and affecting new areas—

y’all see where I’m going with this?

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I'll just say this before heading out. If you're a young person in NYC, THIS IS YOUR TIME. The next couple of decades in this city are going to be shaped by what happens on Tuesday. Be part of the team that is turning the page on politicians like Cuomo. There are better choices.

Welp

Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think

ice’s illegitimacy grows with every passing day

Tariffs.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran

This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.

Co-sign here: we're very much in uncharted water here, for sure. Don't buy the punditry and facile predictions, bad, good, or otherwise 👇

Tomorrow is a very good day to impeach a president and his entire cabinet. Today would be good too, but tomorrow will work for me.

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.

They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.

And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

A screenshot of a post previously from Greenpeace. It’s a photo of a blue fence with black writing on top. The writing says: ‘If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering and ecological destruction. Remember that’s trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn’t work on you. ‘

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

Total SCIF Show: The GOP's Raid Puts National Security at Risk House Republicans barged into a secure facility uninvited Wednesday, creating a host of problems in the process.

For no reason, today I've been thinking about that time a bunch of GOP House members broke into a SCIF where classified hearings were being held with media in tow, refused to give up their devices, and live tweeted from inside. No one was escorted out or put in cuffs. www.wired.com/story/republ...

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

the naysayers making me think of this awesome lady again

About 3 dozen LAPD officers in full riot gear, standing around looking confused, bored, aimless. A waste of taxpayer money, a threatening show of force without morality or purpose. Behind them, the north wall of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, covered with Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)" mural: against a field of stark red, white letters that read, in part, WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

It is only one poll but if polls keep showing a consistent “in the 30s “ range for Trump’s approval, that is maybe the greatest cause for even a glimmer of hope about the humanity of a collapsing empire

"This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution," one commander at Fort Bragg...on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. "This was shameful. I don't expect anything to come out of it, but I hope maybe we can learn from it long term."

Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

Members of the Yemen Signal chat—including NatSec Advisor Michael Waltz and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles—left their Venmo accounts exposed, linking them to politicians, doctors, tailors, lobbyists, and each other.

Experts say it a digital op-sec disaster.

w/ @timmarchman.bsky.social

When — not if, when — Hegseth’s incompetence results in a national security disaster or the needless deaths of soldiers, blame will lie not just with the Trump administration but with Congress too.

Anyone who hasn’t demanded his resignation will share responsibility when that reckoning comes.

every single video I've seen of the hearing today, Democratic Senators (including ones I don't even like) were pounding the shit out of administration officials.

if the media will not play those clips, it's up to make them go viral, show our friends & family, etc.

They did something.
Reward them.

Group chat message beside Hegseth avatar: •“1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)” •“1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier ‘Trigger Based’ targets)” •“1536 F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.” •“MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline)” •“We are currently clean on OPSEC”—that is, operational security. •“Godspeed to our Warriors.”

In a just world this would be a career headstone.

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.

Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

To recap, a 19-year-old without a security clearance named bigballs can get into the EPA. Senator Ed Markey cannot.

They're going to try to run away from this. Don't let them.

So, like, what are you and the Democratic Senators gonna do about it?

It's amazing how badly most congressional Democrats are misreading the mood of their base.

On the bright side, if you're ever considered running for Congress, the 2026 Democratic Party primaries are going to be a prime moment for "throw the old guard out" insurgents.

Is what’s going on too simple to see? By force, a white male power structure is in the process of seizing back control, and as ever they can’t hold onto power without subjugation and scapegoating and coercion and violence. That doesn’t really seem like chaos, it’s America like clockwork.