Erin Bergren

It's a strange thing to not disclose in the post but this research was led by Google, which has seen rising greenhouse gas emissions for years now

I know it's extremely outdated and weird to say this but it's emissions that are causing climate change + AMOC collapse etc. Sorry to mention it

Green or not, US energy future depends on Native nations Native American lands contain 30% of the nation’s coal, 50% of its uranium and 20% of its natural gas, as well as copper, lithium and rare earth elements.

Tribal territories hold 30% of U.S. coal, 50% of uranium and major reserves of critical minerals — and their treaty rights are supposed to be “the supreme Law of the Land.”

A good time to repost this about Ilhan Omar 💕

If you have to conceal who you are to do what you do, you are fully aware that what you’re doing is shitty and wrong.

I don’t think most ICE agents are ashamed of themselves because they’re sad little loveless bullies who like the freedom to be monstrous. But they know they should be.

But more importantly, if you’re doing a job that protects your community, you should be proud of doing that work. Judges, lawyers, social workers, even cops - they don’t have to hide behind a mask. Politicians don’t get to mask up, they have to face the death threats.

Sarah writes, “this being an open question of law is a bizarre insult to the conscience. It’s not just that it’s perfectly legal for ICE to mask themselves, it really might be illegal for the state of California to try to stop them.”

If the only thing laws can do is protect power, they don’t work.

This isn’t just bad for the expendables (read: regular non-rich people not in the Gestapo).

If I wanted to infiltrate ICE to, say, do some violence against them for a change, I don’t have to steal the uniform! I can buy that shit online! No mask, no facial recognition.

As Sarah points out, mask and no uniform means that LITERALLY ANYONE can cosplay as a Temu Klansman.

Yes, most of the people who would do this for free have already been hired by ICE, but what stops organized crime from ICE cosplay? If someone were, say, in one of these gangs they claim to hate?

Why won’t anyone stop ICE from masking? Americans do not like masked secret police.

Just like @sarahjeong.bsky.social, I find it absolutely mind-melting that we have MASKED PARAMILITARIES bopping around our cities kidnapping our neighbors, people paid without tax money? And nobody with any power has found the balls to actually stop it?!

www.theverge.com/policy/86720...

Fighting In The Dark Doing things fascists can't do. Not doing things fascists want us to do. Doing things fascists don't want us to do. Refusing the fascist offer.

“Fascists love to tell us that their numbers are great, and we have to deal with them. But our numbers are also great, and they have to deal with us. They want us to think we have a them problem, and we do. But we should not forget to give them an us problem.”

www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...

Thing I said out loud today:
“I don’t want to buy blood capsules online! This is Los Angeles! I want to shop local!”

"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."

Don’t insult vampires like that

This knowledge will warm my heart forevermore

Average Sunday show interview:

OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats

HOST: how will you pay for it?

OFFICIAL: tariffs

HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money

OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed

HOST: thank u for ur time

I am sorry to say that it absolutely crossed my mind

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

there is a higher horror in this whiteness of her woe

A massive "Hands off Greenland" protest is happening right now in Copenhagen to demonstrate against Trump's threats.

"The aim is to send a clear and unified message of respect for Greenland's democracy," organisers said.

“Respect for Greenland, respect for Greenlanders, respect for Denmark.”

The new food pyramid

If you’re kind of a homebody by nature it really encourages you to embrace that inclination.

But also going anywhere is such a pain that with very little extra effort you can just go to the beach. Once you’re at Costco, you’re halfway there.

Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state

But don’t worry, crypto dot gov is up and running

What could be a better encapsulation of what the government doesn’t care about any more?

telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

"Get in loser" meme from Mean Girls

Get in loser, we're going to put our bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, to make it stop

Toad looked at the ground again. The seeds did not start to grow.

Toad put his head very close to the ground and shouted, “NOW SEEDS, START GROWING!”

MAGAs: The left is escalating the rhetoric by calling us Nazis

Also MAGAs: Look at our new podium, featuring a Nazi slogan about the time Nazis wiped out an entire village in Czechoslovakia and killed up to 5000 innocent people in retaliation for one Nazi being killed.

"One of ours, all of yours."

The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.

“Still punk as fuck”, I whisper to myself as I look through the Burpee seed catalog before bed