Jean Bourg

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.

"The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote"

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine to limit absentee voting & impose voter ID requirements.

Important reporting from Zeteo's new political reporter @andrewperez.bsky.social

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

This is why they’re deleting studies

Don't be surprised if whoever killed Charlie Kirk has no coherent political ideology, didn't do it for any particular reason, and doesn’t fall anywhere neat on the left/right paradigm.

I'm not really one for nostalgia but in the old days a crank like RFK would have started a cult - and probably hurt only his own followers.

We have the misfortune of living at a time when a cult elects a government (one full of cranks, con artists, and quacks) that will harm all of us.

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First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

I do seem to remember that, yeah.

She was a qualified motor mechanic during WWII

"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”

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Both sides news coverage is killing democracy and there is no place where it is more dangerous that in how legacy media covers the GOP attacks on free and fair elections.

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EVs Will Decimate Big Oil. Even Without U.S. Tax Credits. Electric vehicles are already displacing millions of barrels of oil per day globally. Oil demand is expected to fall spectacularly over the next decade.

I think this rah-rah stuff can be fun popcorn reading, but misses the bigger point spelling out the inevitable demise of the internal combustion engine & ensuring oil demand collapse.

EVs and their charging infrastructure are getting better at a staggering clip.

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I had not thought of it this way before.

Excerpt: Uranus in Aries is going to be the 1960s all over again. The greatest time of upheaval will be between 2015 and 2019, when the square of Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn will create the seeds of revolution everywhere. Forces of repression are going to clamp down even harder on those who want to speak their minds. Then, in the years 2023–25, the final stages of the Pluto return and the Capricorn effect will reach a climax. Some astrologers believe that an empire lasts no longer than one Pluto cycle, and by 2025 this cycle will be played out. And no matter how you look at it, the U.S.A. is an empire. Just as the British Empire began enduring sunsets after the fledgling colonies won their independence, our turn may be coming. The Pluto return of 2025 will demand a redefinition of the United States and create the ultimate identity crisis. We will have to put ourselves on the line, as we did in the 1770s.

Do I believe in astrology? No. Am I still sharing this Vanity Fair article from 2006 that reads the United States stars? Hellls yes. www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/12...

What makes Mamdani so good in response to the attempts to smear him is that he gets this fundamental reality once stated by GW Bush advisor Matt Dowd: “If you're arguing against us while using our language, we're winning.” Mamdani refuses their terms and pivots to his platform.

Because Trump is on Putin’s side. Because Trump works for Putin.

Gotta give some props to Josh Hawley.

Saying you’re doing everything you can to stop Medicaid cuts in the same statement in which you announce you’ll vote for Medicaid cuts is a new level of ghoulish shamelessness.

We’re All Rats Now Time to take a stand, again, against racism

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@pkrugman.bsky.social for the win! Thank you sir. And to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: Don't let the bastards get you down! They seem terrified of your compassion and courage, but please know that the rest of us are inspired and uplifted by it. Carry on!!

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were particularly focused on masked gunmen who violated the civil rights of Black people. We should remember this history when masked law enforcement ofcrs are deployed in our communities.
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If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.