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Trump is trying to kill solar power—here's how to fight back Rooftop solar is a clean power miracle. Why are we killing it with red tape?

www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Urge Congress: Save Public Media Save your local stations. Email your Members of Congress now!

protectmypublicmedia.org/rsc-emails/

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Darn it, that's just not true If their lips are moving...

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American Corruption The Founders would have hated Trump’s luxury jet.

"First they recognized that influence could be readily purchased from unprincipled leaders."
"But Congress today is supine—this, perhaps more than anything, is what they could not possibly have imagined."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A Truly Dark Day in DC And what you can do about it.

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@mikebradleymke.bsky.social I’m curious if you find this generally useful or harmful and if useful, what does this look like for MKE?

austinlouisray.com#/how-id-fix-...

What's Wrong With Earth Day Today is Earth Day, a moment when children all over the world are taught valuable lessons about the wonders of the planet we live on.

"One way or another, it’s time for Earth Day to return to its roots as a day of anger and activism, not awe and celebration."

Even more true today than when I wrote it in 2019.

CDC denies Milwaukee’s request for help with unsafe lead levels in public schools | CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has denied a request fromMilwaukee’s public health department for assistance in managing unsafe lead levels in the city’s public schools, citing the l...

It is clear the feds could care less about making America healthy 🌊🌊

www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/h...

The fact that we need the Supreme Court to rule on this is unfuckingbelievable.

This writing is so real

Humans. Plastic pollution is a real problem. It’s in you and all my fish.
Send a message by refusing single use plastic things as much as possible 🌊🌊

www.ripplesofplastic.com

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.

2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."

3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."

This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country WASHINGTON—According to a new report published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, you live in a deeply embarrassing and barely functional country. “Our latest research and statistical analysis show...

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

I sure hope you’re correct!

Hey Wisco humans - I hear there is an election on Tuesday April 1. Don’t be an April fool. VOTE!
Support the candidate that will defend the environment, clean water, women’s reproductive rights, and the constitution. @crawfordforwi.bsky.social
SUSAN CRAWFORD for Supreme Court

The evil at your door The deportation action as regime change

Timothy Snyder on the terrifying deportations being undertaken by the Trump regime. This is a prelude to any American being stripped of citizenship and expelled from the country for any reason (protesting, faving the wrong photo, using pronouns). [snyder.substack.com]

Unintended consequences?
Get the fuck outta here. This is one of the most obvious consequences of random mass firings.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run. “You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do you. Neither do I.” [theatlantic.com]

JPMorgan's David Kelly on tariffs: am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-...

Mike Masnick explains Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not). “Right now, the story that matters most is how the dismantling of American institutions threatens everything else we cover.” [kottke.org]

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Heroes

Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.

I’ll state the plainly obvious that this is extremely bad.

A big miss in Milwaukee was not moving the Brewers downtown 25 years ago. Instead they have a ballpark surrounded by massive parking lots that is used just 85 days every year.

Medicaid provides 40% of the funding for community health centers.

Medicaid supports 2 out of 3 people in nursing homes.

Medicaid provides health care to 41 million children.

Trump and his Republican friends want to enact massive cuts to the program.

We won't let them.

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics.

Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.*

So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important Why? Because others will see you do them, and it will make it easier for them to take their own (slightly less lonely but equally beautiful) action by your side

open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...

6 Photographers Reflect on Robert Frank’s “The Americans” Dawoud Bey, Kristine Potter, Alec Soth, and more consider the lasting impact of Frank’s groundbreaking photobook.

Robert Frank fans, FYI: aperture.org/editorial/6-...