Rik Scarce

emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts

Built to Fail: Rules at UN Climate Talks Favor the Status Quo, Not Progress - Inside Climate News Experts say stifling bureaucratic procedures that are disconnected from the climate crisis have consistently stalled COP negotiations.

How the disadvantaged are disadvantaged here at #COP30

Great piece featuring insights from two of our leading @cssn.org scholars @daniellefalzon.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social

insideclimatenews.org/news/1211202...

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Epstein's e-mails are flowin'

The nation is aghast

I should probably stick to prose.

OK, well, they'd better show up with goodies outside of polling places on election night. If not, they're just slime to me.

Powerful words from @robertgarcia.bsky.social.

Absolutely priceless! Hope they replace their troops in Ukraine with these puppies--the good guys will win in an instant. @kyivindependent.com

Meaning that a pretty remarkable pressure campaign -- including phone call from the president and a personal meeting in the Situation Room with the AG, Deputy AG and FBI director -- could not sway a Republican House member.

the key error was letting Boebert sit in those leather chairs they've got in the situation room- in theater seating there's no way she'll release her grip

And Bush was at the end of his second term. Trump? Lotsa time. How low will he go? How low will he go? How low will he go? How low will he go?

Oh, and will the gop* start breaking with him???

*I'll start capitalizing gop when they start correctly referring to the Democratic Party.

A reminder that the crises routinely treated as separate—housing, food, climate, healthcare, electricity—are anything but.

This moment in America makes it glaringly clear: each feeds the other, driven by the same rapacious, profit-maximizing forces.

A bit of levity, if I may: of Gen. John Robinson it was said, “The hairiest general… in a much bearded army.”

@pkrugman.bsky.social cannot post using allusions to the Civil War often enough for my taste.

graphic showing the prices of various food products rising significantly since one year ago

“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One"

I'm sorry: why meet in the Situation Room? It screams "not transparent!" It also screams "guilty as hell and in massive trouble." We're about to find out if the gop* has the courage to do what's right.
*I won't capitalize the abbreviation until they quit misnaming the Democratic Party.

Busy day today but note the U of Michigan consumer sentiment survey just reported its lowest reading in its 65 year history. Well done Donald!

Summers also wrote that Africa is underpolluted, suggesting that more toxic waste should be shipped there. A horrible human being in so many ways.

WAR ON THANKSGIVING

Like… people want affordable groceries, housing, and healthcare, *And* they want their friends and loved ones the be alive and safe and free from persecution.

These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.

Ah yes, the GOP gets to continue destroying the government, the Dems get a line for an email.

Social work instructor reported to state senator for teaching about social justice.

We are here.

Another J6 insurrectionist pardoned by Donald Trump was arrested on other charges, this time, kidnapping and rape.

Trump in the Oval Office of the White House with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The walls are decorated with tacky gold bullshit https://flic.kr/p/2rE6s9j

Just a little more gold and it will be perfect

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES

THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

'A powerful secondary detonation' — Ukraine confirms drone, missile strike on Russian Shahed base at Donetsk airport Unmanned Systems Forces leader Madyar described the strike as the result of a "painstaking months-long reconnaissance operation" in a post on Telegram.

⚡️ 'A powerful secondary detonation' — Ukraine confirms drone, missile strike on Russian Shahed base at Donetsk airport.

Unmanned Systems Forces leader Madyar described the strike as the result of a "painstaking months-long reconnaissance operation."

"How's that shutdown working for you?" is about to go next-level....

Absolutely correct.

There clearly *is* a social media site where the users are trapped in an unreal bubble that bears no resemblance to reality, but a lot of reporters are trapped on Twitter there with them so they just can't see it.

...and if the land DID vote, it sure as shit wouldn't be voting for the climate-denying, species-destroying, all-that-matters-is-the-wealthy gop.

The White House tweeting out the county level map that exaggerates their success in 2024.

Stage One: Denial.

Ahhhh, yes: but it's in gold, so you know....