Chris Wilke

What exit?

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

He won’t be indicted. Or if he is it will be theater, and they’ll slow walk the case just to have it dropped later, for reasons that you suggest.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Defiant Bondi Stonewalls Democrats on Epstein and Homan Investigations

Watching this coverage it would easy to conclude that this woman has no regard for the rule of law and that she is only motivated by power and contempt.

It would also be easy to conclude that D Senators need some serious coaching. They fell completely flat. Again.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

What is your opinion of this framing?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I agree. I am cognizant of the emergency at hand. 15 years is nothing, but it’s also still in the lower end of probability. Timeline & risk need to be clearly spelled out for smart decision making. If we overstate temporal risk it lessens trust.

Humans are poor at managing long term risk though.

Not as imminent as they make it seem, 2040-2075 is more likely, but it’s still a huge catastrophe.

However when you overstate the timing or magnitude of impacts it opens you up for a denialist response.

This is a tell.

Liars always want to look you in the eye because they need you to believe them.

Lower Than Cowards The surrender of America’s elites

"All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility...The people, it turns out, are far more courageous than their leaders."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

Data centers = climate pollution, obscene water consumption and permanent poisoning of the environment with highly toxic chemicals.

Where is the line? At what point will we realize our gadgets are not worth it?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ExxonMobil CEO quietly issues stern warning to employees The energy giant is undergoing a major change.

The average price of gas is about the same as it was a year ago (Within 1%)

Yet Exxon is laying off 3-4% of its work force because of low energy prices

Who here is dumb enough to believe that “Drill Baby Drill” is going to lower your price at the pump?

I’ll wait…
www.thestreet.com/employment/e...

It’s the talk of the entire country and the speaker of the house did not see it???

That is is either willfully ignorance (head in the sand) or a lie (pants on fire).

I wonder if he has heard of the Epstein Files?

Riding medical costs?

Or Climate Change?

Trump and Hegseth Gathered U.S. Military Leaders for an “Embarrassing” Rant Defense officials were shocked at the cost and danger of assembling the military’s top officers to listen to meandering tirades.

“Embarrassing”
-Anonymous military leader attending the mandatory generals rally.

theintercept.com/2025/09/30/t...

Live Updates: Shutdown Grinds Many Government Services to a Halt

On the bright side, for the time being, the government won’t be approving any new oil drilling, unwinding important environmental protections, or producing hare-brained schemes to lessen access to vaccines. 👏

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Pretty sure it’s Ai

Fun.

Pretty sure it’s Ai generated though. Either that or a professional videographer was in the right place at the right time. Not cellphone (follow the zoom).

It’s ok to laugh. But we can’t complacently celebrate funny videos while real abuses occur and people’s rights continue to be trampled.

Hitler, Stalin, Trump.

Wake up Congress! It’s time.

Can a film editor please analyze this? I think it’s probably Ai. Definitely not a cellphone vid, if you look at the way it slowly zooms in follows the chase.

If it’s indeed Ai, we might ask: why celebrate this keystone cops moment, when actual people are detained, families ripped apart, suffering?

People should stop posting rumors and just release the documents

Trump Administration Live Updates: Hegseth Summoning Military Leaders to Virginia Without Saying Why

Totally normal.

For military dictatorships and monarchies.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Opinion | A Responsible Way to Cool the Planet A small, carefully scaled geoengineering program could compensate for the loss of cooling as we eliminate sulfur pollution.

I have a new @nytimes.com guest essay w/ @davidkeith.bsky.social about sunlight reflection. We note its not a solution for climate change and at best a band aid to treat systems, and suggest if its ever done it should only be to replace the cooling from air pollution today:

Trump Demands That Bondi Move ‘Now’ to Prosecute Foes

Gift article:

He said he was going to end politically motivated prosecution (not that we believed him).

He is doing the opposite, of course.

When does cognitive dissonance override blind loyalty and hatred ?
…asking for 340M friends.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Who Is Brendan Carr of the F.C.C.?

These crooks own Fox News, NY POST, WSJ, almost all of AM radio, Twxter, Nat’l Enquirer, Truth Social, Facebook/Meta, and countless others. They’ve neutered LA Times, WaPo, NPR, ABC/Disney, CBS/Paramount, & now are about to buy TikTok.

And they cry about bias!

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

If only she followed your script…

“You’re head of the FBI”
Stop.

Let him respond.

Your disbelief will be more believable if you let him flounder.

Since the beginning of the admin I’ve seen well meaning Ds think they’re scoring points while letting the subjects of their questioning off the hook.

You win Blue Sky today

E.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters

If we can’t measure pollution, we can’t protect our air or our future.

Ending the EPA greenhouse gas reporting program means flying blind on emissions and leaving communities, businesses, and national security in the dark.

America should lead on clean energy, not hide the facts.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other – to disturb, even – is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to – painful as it may be at times – is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Bailiff?

Exactly why I unsubscribed in January