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The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show

Like, the utility pole act and the lights in the stadium flickering were not just random. The power goes out in PR all the time! Because we ran their utilities into the ground! That’s political!

The political critique about the power crisis on the island! Benito!

Senator Lucas basically ethered Youngkin’s signature issues on education and his personal passion project of opening up a sports stadium in NOVA.

She was never lying about wanting a 10-1 map lol

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

if I were a Democratic strategist, columnist, or politician, I would simply not be outflanked by Bill Kristol and this guy

this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

The Winter Olympics are slated to begin in like two weeks and it just does not feel like this is going to go super smoothly, to me, as a Critic of Culture

if it’s too difficult for any single person we’ve elected to congress to say, “not one dime for the child stealers”…

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

state-sponsored child trafficking

I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?

A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

This is heartbreaking, and also upsetting to see it amplified instantaneously when video shows her wife crying and talking about their kid at school. We have no idea what kind of family dynamics are at play and a same-sex partner is vulnerable to being muscled out of the story, so we should use care

Trump's conducting illegal kill campaigns and military raids and 7 of the 47 Senators in opposition just voted to confirm a Trump nominee to the Pentagon. We can dream of what it will take to change the party eagerly cheering the killing, but a good first step would be opposition from the opposition

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

again, every Democrat has not in fact done this by any stretch of the imagination, and there have been multiple statements - here's a few - www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/art... - that condemn this unequivocally but sure, if you just lie about it you can feel fine saying both sides are the same.

"DATA CENTER WATER USE DOESN'T MATTER" is one of the silliest arguments I see floating around. unless you think re-writing 200 yr old water law (OG political third rail in the US) is a simple matter, the marginal consumption of new water is literally make or break for much of life in the western US

This began as a bit (and I'm not really a resolutions person), but my 2026 resolution is to bring more love and light into the year. Sorry that it's a phrase that is used insincerely 99% of the time but that's too bad because I love it.

2026: it will be a slightly better year!!!!!

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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we gotta torch the climate so that repeatedly successful Dems in swing districts can win by a larger margin

The gaslighting from people like Yglesias about what happened during the 2024 campaign has been absolutely enraging. Harris ran the campaign centrist wonks & the consultant class wanted, & it blew up in their faces.

“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.

"yogurt rewind" and it tells me how many times this year i bought more yogurt when i still had a half-full container of yogurt in the fridge. it was 7 times

My apartment's gym (which is otherwise very nice) has been blasting very loud Christmas music since December began and it's truly a unique kind of hell and it's so weird! A lot of people don't celebrate Christmas!! And it's SO loud! And why would you want to listen to it on the treadmill!!!

i’m really digging the new democratic catchphrase “from the window, to the wall”