David Stewart

Needless to say, we have adversaries in the world that are learning by watching, and instead of pivoting to solar, batteries, portability, self-sufficiency, and scaling up, we have decided to double down on old tech. We will be riding the equivalent of horses into the next tank battle.

The whole point of inexpensive drones is that millions of small contributions easily offsets a few large pieces of infrastructure, well-protected or not. That principle needs to be broadly understood in the government sector.

Threat assessments by the United States don't seem to be looking at the steady demolition of Russian refineries and incredible vulnerability of petroleum infrastructure. Our choice to continue dependencies on these very vulnerable pieces of infrastrucure is flatly baffling.

No Kings Boston with American flags and protest posters facing a stage.

Lots of people at No Kings protest in Boston Commons.

No Kings Boston

A thread about how farmers can kick their government subsidies, if they want to make good, independent money. Grow crops below & still produce more energy for electric vehicle fuel than corn/ethanol. A 16,000% improvement in vehicle fuel generation, make $$$ with solar and make even more from crops.

Fair enough. When the OP said, "you boys", I thought she meant the authors, who seem to not be lampooning the misogynistic attitude, but actually embodying it. Maybe OP meant all the people playing it or singing along, as you say.

Wasn't that the point of the song, to point out how creepy that behavior is? Sting was shocked by how Americans adopted it as a love song. Or is it just the song on its own qualifies as creepy but the author isn't? Maybe I missed something?

Maybe we could appoint Woman to many many positions and congratulate her.

When the current American federal government cancels programs in the various states, I am wondering why the states don't have the right to "cancel" sending their taxes to the feds. What am I missing? Is this unilateral disarmament or ethical suicide or something else?

EVs have a huge battery heating load at that temperature to maintain the property temp range. It isn't just the cabin. Don't let it dissuade you, but at those temps maintaining the battery is a real concern. It shouldn't wear out the equipment the same way ICE idling does.

They would pay the political consequences of blocking emergency aid. What if the executive didn't aid states that voted against the current occupant? (Sound familiar?)

"The solar-over-canals design not only produces clean energy but also reduces water evaporation from the canals, offering a sustainable solution for water and energy management in the region."

Jeff Buckley. A tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

Mamdani names a new campaign manager as part of staff expansion | CNN Politics Zohran Mamdani is naming a new campaign manager and expanding the staff of his New York City mayoral campaign, CNN has learned, as the Democratic nominee aims both to consolidate support heading into ...

I don't know if it is Mamdani or his team (www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/p...) that are doing this amazing work, but as far as I am concerned, many of the rest of the Dems around the country need to crib from this playbook and hire these staffers. They are running an incredible campaign.

1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Seems like a trap no matter how one answers.

Gone with the Wind isn't exactly a book I would normally point to for any kind of wisdom, but damn if Margaret Mitchell didn't get it exactly right on this one. The US is being dismembered, and the profit the mafiosos are making off of vampiring our culture and businesses are immense, and fast.

"I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up." --Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind

Mafiosos specialize in extracting blood and money. These two profit from war, a war that one of them started. Remember, TFG just nationalized a piece Intel, I guarantee you he will do the same to Exxon, and claim that anything good for Exxon is good for the country.

This is why my children get sex education - the award winning "Our Whole Lives" program, a collaboration between the UUA and the UCC - at my Unitarian Universalist congregation in Atlanta, UUCA. No one else does any where near as good of a job, in my experience, & others actively erase trans ppl.

Which country first is MAGA again? I had always thought the America-first-ers were a serious problem, but these Putin-first-ers are really mafia scum, bought and paid for.

Crytpo: There's just no legit use case for it. But, man, are these bros lobbied up. Our looonnnggg take on why private digital currencies and the blockchain are an accident going out to happen.

“While crypto’s huge computational costs undermine any legitimate use case, the benefits of anonymity and the lack of a centralized authority are well worth the inefficiencies in one particular context: if you want to transfer money to commit crimes.”

econjared.substack.com/p/crytpo-the...

The Reconstruction failed, so I don't know that it is a good example. I don't mind partisan action, but focusing on structural partisanship would probably last longer. For instance, add DC as a state, add PR if they pass a referendum, add 4 Supreme Court justices. Let them do the work over time.

Does Trump think the Epstein files are committing crimes in DC?

Single-handed Presidential declarations of emergency are a fundamental flaw in US governance. Proposed: declaring emergencies get priority Congressional consideration and require 66% to pass. If it isn't broadly held a situation is an emergency, dictatorial powers should remain untappable.

A still of Officer David Rose speaking as class leader of Dekalb’s 138th police academy during their graduation ceremony. Quote: “It’s about protecting the vulnerable, standing for justice and being the person who runs toward danger when others run away.”

Officer David Rose died protecting us.

A true hero. Thank you.

🔗 Link to Officer Rose’s speech: m.facebook.com/watch/?v=109...

Who knew that we needed to provide tax-protected investment access to booming businesses of human trafficking, money laundering, government corruption, and tax evasion? Now that we have a bright new techno-gleam on investing in crime, we should all claim our share of the vampiric profit!

YouTube video by Save America Movement Amazing Grace

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZD...

One minute, well worth your time.

Next time, Confederate monuments installed after the Civil War in ahistoric efforts to justify Jim Crow and white supremacy need to be dropped into the Mariana trench.

A big part of the reason Atlanta is hitting it's limits is the way the state DoT funds highways and road projects instead of MARTA and bike paths and other alternatives. We are building out alternative infrastructure in spite of them, but it goes slow.