Ginny Maier

This is clearly AI

(In case you were wondering if climate action is actually, in fact, an affordability issue)

Electricity rates are almost completely dependent on natural gas prices, which are rising b/c we export so much now. This will not get better until we invest in domestic renewable production, which everyone (including NYS) is walking away from

People will be showing up as the Mona Lisa and Monet paintings. Someone will be The Scream.

Good thing they attended to lend the proceedings a sense of normalcy.

Students that have a red or a blue color wash over them mingle around a campus plaza.

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus

A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views. https://bit.ly/4styRX5

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

Schumer is in the gang of eight and he's got no recommendation about how people should think about attacking Iran? What do decades in Congress get you if not expertise that is significantly better than mine? You're just gonna let this come down to a sales job from a known conman?

"Oh, I didn't want *this* much racism & xenophobia! I just wanted a little bit, the fun kind! I just wanted to say 'retard', I didn't want a eugenicist in charge of health policy!"

Oh? You didn't want this? Yeah, fuck off. Fuck off to space. Fuck off to eternity. Fuck off & never stop fucking off.

But standing up to the "anti-woke" hysteria was -- still is, really -- kinda cringe. All the cool kids were celebrating being able to say "retard" again. All the cool kids understood that progressive nagging about equality is smug & annoying & condescending. 🙄🙄🙄, amirite?

You probably guessed where this is going: the entire "anti-woke moral panic of the last five years is an absolutely *textbook* example of how horrors happen. It was never going to stop with bathrooms or sports or HR policies.

Here's the problem, though. If you stand up to tanks in the streets, everyone will agree you're a Brave Hero. But if you stand up to the small things -- stopping the train before it really gets started -- you will be coded as *annoying*, as uptight, as moralistic, as uncool.

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Detainments by ICE have reached a record high. Criminals are not fueling the surge At the immigration detention center in Batavia, the average daily count of detainees reached a peak this fiscal year. But that figure came as non-criminal detainees increase by 60%, and now make up 83...

Detentions by ICE have reached a new high this fiscal year. But criminals are not fueling the surge. In the detention facility in Batavia, for example, more than 80% of the average daily population have no criminal record. Criminals are at their lowest point on record.

Perhaps what's most interesting about this study is that it does not mention Solar Radiation Management and other forms of geoengineering (beyond large-scale Carbon Dioxide Removal). But others will use this study to campaign for SRM deployment. Because it's an "emergency" 4/5

Democrats who attend the SOTU should show up in spray tan and appear to doze off during the speech

Another one of your superpowers!

Unapologetically lazy

@drelizabethmurray.bsky.social

Melting the Bonds Between ICE and Local Law Enforcement Lessons in Activism from a County Trump Carried Three Times

Here is how Stand Up Lockport helped melt ICE in one of the most Republican counties in Western NY. A case study in citizen action. open.substack.com/pub/jimshult...

On the other hand, it made almost everybody's life demonstrably worse

Let's run with this. If Twitter really is "the Commons" then it has to be nationalized, like, yesterday. Because, that's what the word means.

if "the Commons" has been taken over by a Nazi villain then it's not the Commons anymore, that's the whole point

To my representatives and friends still on X.
No one is immune to propaganda

There's considerable ignorance about animal agriculture practices

People overestimate the prevalence of high-welfare practices and underestimate low-welfare ones

Gutting

Anyway it’s pretty grim that otherwise smart people have either been brain-cooked enough or figured out a pretzel-ish justification to just keep doing an indefensible thing, it’s so goddamn straightforward

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Post from Canadian PM Mark Carney with four photos, celebrating Canada’s participation in the Olympics

Weird, it’s still on his account!

This is a great point and something to watch out for!

In Upstate NY, I'm finding that the social bonding in activist work is very important. Having a dedicated space to hang out, meet, create together seems like it would be so so valuable. If I could get a foundation to just help us pay rent on a storefront or the like, I think it would be powerful