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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Can you write a Twilight Zone episode about ecological restoration? 🦬🐮
I gave it a shot, and here's what happened:

The very short story, "Midsummer Prairie Moon," kicks off this "30% Wild" episode, new this week.

(Also containing bison and yes, burgers)

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My favorite moments at the Detroit, Michigan No Kings rally

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Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.

What if Democracy gave a party and EVERYBODY came??

SW Michigan.

St. Joseph, MI, pop. 7980, Nearly 4000 people from town and around showed up, stood up and spoke up.

SWMI Indivisible
SMALL TOWNS -
BIG IMPACT

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@indivisible.org Sign seen today at our local #NoKings:

"Give the Nobel to Ezra and Leah"

💙 from little blue Chelsea, Michigan, where the estimated 700 protesters were about 13% of the town's population

❌️👑

WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy

Take some time this weekend to get caught up in our #OptOutOctober series, where we’re providing daily tips to reclaim your privacy, one small task at a time. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Know Your Rights, Share Your Rights Read the full Know Your Rights resource on protesters' rights here. If you're ready to share what you've learned, we've created graphics outlining your protest rights that you can download and share on social media.

If you're headed to a No Kings protest this Saturday, make sure you know your rights and others do too.

Download a Know Your Rights phone screen background, protest sign, and more.

And yes, the podcast is back (from the dead)!
Eleven new episodes, one each Thursday through Christmas 🌳

Because writing projects evolve as you go, I give you a zombie story about gardening, or a gardening story about zombies.

Don't say you weren't warned.

🧟‍♀️🌻"Back from the Dead, aka Rewilding"

New episode from "30% Wild: Scary Animals in the Backyard"

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Because every alleged "war-torn hellscape" needs a couple of friendly spokesfrogs

U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after Solar and wind represent about 11% to 12% of the energy mix each, while coal sits just under 15%. Developers brought online 16 GW of solar out of a total 21.5 GW electric generation capacity cumulativ...

By 2028, solar will provide more US electricity than coal. 🌞

Lots of new solar coming online, no new coal pwr plants, many coal plants closing.

Natural gas = top source in US.

"U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after"

pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/01/u...

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

In her recommendation, Bagdasarian stated, "Any person over the age of six months without contraindication who has not received a dose of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved or-authorized 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine may be considered to have an underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 and is thus eligible to receive an age-appropriate dose."

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.

www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

In LA port, bobbing blue floats are turning wave power into clean energy At the Port of Los Angeles on a site that once housed oil tanks, seven steel structures that look like small blue boats are lowered into the ocean, where they gently bob up and down with the waves to ...

First US onshore wave energy project! 🌊

Pilot project, planned expansion along breakwater at port

Similar project planned for NJ

Potential to generate 1/3 of US power with wave energy

"In LA port, bobbing blue floats are turning wave power into clean energy"

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Outstanding piece, Josh!

A Few Thoughts on KimmelGeddon Let me start by noting the obvious: What we saw yesterday with...

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Pam Bondi says no more hate speech. So here’s a “hate speech” while I still can.

The Future Is Coming and It's (Literally) Sunny: Notes on the Solar Revolution I drove home to San Francisco from New Mexico last weekend, and in the western Mojave desert of California I passed in quick succession three vast renewable energy sites: the first was three solar con...

The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.

Bill McKibben says it's down to 18 hours, thanks to China. Sun Day is coming. Sept. 21. sunday.earth

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.

Speaks for itself.

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub. 1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything. For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub. For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know your rights, Illinois.

Stay safe and stay informed.

UPDATED MAP: The Board of Pharmacy in NV made a statement making vaccines available with a prescription. The Board of Pharmacy in OR downgraded their access to needing a prescription (a very strange decision)

Map of COVID vaccine availability by state

🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US.

Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.

It's working, #Hoosiersky! Despite in-person lobbying from the clown-in-chief, #Indiana is still dragging its feet on whether to hold a special session to re-district (e.g. gerrymander; dilute; steal) our voting power. Keep up the calls! 🗽 Keep holding their 👣 to the metaphorical🔥.

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