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YouTube video by Wajahat Ali How to Confront and Defeat an Authoritarian with Heather Cox Richardson

My recent conversation w @hcrichardson.bsky.social has more views than many of the videos on Bari Weiss's The Fress Press.

I am independent, with no support, a janky setup, & started my channel recently.

Can someone give me $150 million, please?

youtube.com/watch?v=3nTVzhv5jkI&feature=youtu.be

Don’t you hate it when that happens? At least Donald Trump doesn’t care about polls 🤣

In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally Solar and wind power aren’t just keeping up with global electricity demand anymore – they’re pulling ahead. According to a new analysis from energy think tank Ember, solar and wind combined outpaced global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025. That shift led to a drop in both coal and gas generation compared to the same period last year. For the first time ever, renewables generated more power than coal globally. more…

In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally

Oh this is a good one.

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How would $50M change your life?

You'd have more than enough for yourself, your family, for generations. If you taxed Elon Musk at 99.99%, so he only controlled .01% of the wealth he currently controls—he'd still have $50M.

No one needs or earns $500B. Abolish billionaires. Save democracy. Period.

New Zalculator Does Mamdani Math Zohran launches a savings calculator. And more links for your Monday.

Zohran Mamdani has launched a "Savings Calculator"—a novelty tool (and email collector) where voters can tabulate how much a rent freeze, free bus service, and free childcare would save them annually.

I think this is right:
"We've slid into some form of authoritarianism," says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard. "It is relatively mild compared to some others. It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy."
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil.”

From July 17th: m.facebook.com/share/p/16yL...

The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

We’re only 9 months into this presidency and he’s already sending troops from red states into blue states while clearly stating his motives are political.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

A Christianity that promotes the interests of empire* is a Christianity that rides the back of the beast as the whore of Babylon.

Reup

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

YouTube video by ONEST #JaneGoodall final message: “Don’t lose hope.”

Netflix recorded an interview with Dr. #JaneGoodall in March, set to air only after her death. In it, she says she wishes Trump and Elon Musk could be blasted into space.
Her final message: “Don’t lose hope.”

youtube.com/shorts/kIej4...

Trump's Argentina bailout pits two competing MAGA factions against one another President Donald Trump's attempt to give Argentina's fledgling economy financial assistance is creating a headache for him back in the U.S.

Trump’s stupid tariffs killed the top market for U.S. soybean farmers (China). So he’s going to subsidize them. Meanwhile, his Argentina bailout subsidizes soybean farmers there who, thanks to his tariffs cutting out U.S. farmers, are now selling in China.

And that, friends, is the Art of the Deal!

Paris before and after street transformation

New urban forest planted in front of Paris City Hall

A Paris “School Street” where cars are removed and people space/tree planting are added

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...

Insane Nazi scenes from Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood right now

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

If what was happening in Chicago was happening in NYC, there would be wall-to-wall cable news coverage

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons