@carterbrooks.bsky.social
Artist, Storyteller, Thinker, Writer
“Fog of war”? That might be reasonable to consider in an actual war. But the boat strikes are not that. The secretary of defense is the most dangerously kind of cos-player
03.12.2025 02:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Is there any hope?"
02.12.2025 00:01 — 👍 148 🔁 8 💬 7 📌 1I miss having an actual president.
01.12.2025 21:55 — 👍 4071 🔁 532 💬 146 📌 27
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c... (Basically because it was *working". The info prompted some changes in real estate shoppers' attitudes toward flood risk.) #greensky
30.11.2025 13:36 — 👍 32 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1We are going to need some prosecutions.
23.11.2025 08:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Former U-Va. president blasts DOJ, board for ‘forced resignation’
15.11.2025 01:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wild. They are figuring out how to store electricity in ... concrete.
09.11.2025 20:09 — 👍 377 🔁 99 💬 15 📌 18
Holy shit. This company claims it has developed an air-source heat pump with a COP of *7* (3-5 is considered good). For you non-nerds, that basically means it produces 7 units of heat for every unit of electricity it consumes. How are they doing it? You're not gonna like this answer, but: it's AI.
09.11.2025 20:27 — 👍 313 🔁 46 💬 71 📌 12This I can get behind.
10.11.2025 04:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
What a wanker
07.11.2025 01:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the United States, we are witnessing:
☑️ Sanctions against ICC judges and prosecutors
☑️ Attacks on academic institutions
☑️ Targeting of philanthropic human rights organizations
These attacks mirror the signs of repression we have documented in other countries.
hrdag.org/2025/10/21/h...
Read that last sentence again. A judge to a Border Patrol leader.
28.10.2025 16:39 — 👍 378 🔁 134 💬 6 📌 4"Alleged link to autism" = the basis of a lawsuit in a world where countless medical researchers and scientists have been thrown out of their jobs and the CDC has been gutted.
So hey.
Just sue away over every little assumption you wish were true!
There will be prizes!
I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
It’s picking a bus driver, not a referendum on your ideals
26.10.2025 02:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure.
Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.
EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
Please understand that the Trump regime is dehumanizing Democrats the same way the Nazis dehumanized Jews. Trump is laying the groundwork to arrest, imprison and even kill us. History is warning us that is where we are heading.
16.10.2025 18:46 — 👍 393 🔁 187 💬 49 📌 12Open enrollment for ACA plans began yesterday in Idaho.
One couple got notice that their monthly premium next year would jump from $51 to $2,232 as subsidies expire.
25,000 Idahoans are expected to be priced out of coverage.
This is what's at stake in Trump's shutdown.
Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
Trump has frozen or canceled $28B in funding for infrastructure projects in Democratic congressional districts.
Meanwhile, representatives of those districts are fighting to extend ACA subsidies — more than half of which go to people in GOP-held districts.
Remember this.
The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.
Hello?
Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.
Enough of the false equivalence.
It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.
They should feel bad.
Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
20 Lessons on Tyranny
John Lithgow reads Timothy Snyder
10 minutes of pure universal wisdom
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...
Understand this properly. The tax cut the millionaire is getting is basically immaterial, or at least marginally insignificant to the millionaire… but it’s devastating to the four people losing health care
04.10.2025 00:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chris Murphy: "In a different era, maybe just asking for a minor adjustment in health care tax credit policy would be enough. But it’s not a normal time. If you don’t mount a stand right now on behalf of democracy, there won’t be another opportunity."
03.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 433 🔁 132 💬 8 📌 3This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight.
But consider this...
Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.
Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?
