Kindler

The Nazis drove away Einstein and his peers and how did that work out for Germany?

Turning Our Back on Clean Energy Why does MAGA hate the planet?

Important piece by @pkrugman.bsky.social, reminding us of the big role the Kochs played in bringing us to a stupidly pro-fossil fuel administration even as solar & wind are the cheapest & cleanest energy sources on Earth - as the rest of the planet knows, leaving the US in the ash heap of history.

While Democrats are CONSTANTLY advised to trim their sails and not demand anything so extreme as slowing down the climate crisis or defending people’s human rights.

Those “laws” only apply when it involves a Democrat having sex with an intern.

man ... lying under oath really ought to be a crime, you know?

What, you kiddin’?

The voters of South Carolina should give a sh*t who owns Lindsey Graham.

Top Republican lawmakers spar over Greenland Without naming him directly, Sen. Thom Tillis appeared to fire back at Sen. Lindsey Graham over his comments on Greenland's sovereignty.

The disagreement started with Graham’s comment Friday, “who gives a shit who owns Greenland? I don’t." Tillis responded, “who gives a shit about who owns Greenland? The 85,000 indigenous people in Greenland give a shit about who owns Greenland. And at the end of the day, we need to show respect.”

Not even - Of all the Ten Commandments, are their any Trump hasn't broken?

And then insanity qualifies you to be a Republican appointee.

I’m old enough to remember when the government spending money required both authorization and appropriation from Congress. Y’know, before we became a tinpot kleptocratic dictatorship.

So how do you explain RFK
Jr?

Pretty crazy that a BMW cost more than the entire stock market.

Attn. @markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov This is how you do it.

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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That earned you a follow!

Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

@markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov Please come out strongly and loudly against this grotesque attempt to throttle Americans’ right to vote.

Who Save America Act could disenfranchise:

-146 million without passport

-69 million married women who took spouse's last name

-21 million without ready access to citizenship docs

-21 million without current drivers license

-Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office

Their Nazism gets less subtle every single day.

I moved a significant portion of my retirement funds to international stocks last year because yeah, it’s all about the economic fundamentals, which Trump has been steadily dynamiting here at home.

What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s… "Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000.

So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000.

Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation
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Jeff Bezos twists the knife The Washington Post editorial board is now cheerleading for President Trump's climate rollbacks.

Repugnant example of how playing the “both sides are equal, the answer is always in the middle regardless of the question” game leads to idiotic & dangerous conclusions. Time to dump the @washingtonpost.com, Whole Foods, Amazon and everything else Bezos touches.

Really important thread here. As @hcrichardson.bsky.social recently said, the current administration is acting like the Confederacy won the Civil War - and these blood and soil speeches confirm that point clearly.

it has more in common, in fact, with with the antebellum slaveholder preoccupation with (its vision of) medieval europe, a romantic notion of Anglo supremacy that you can see articulated, in similar form, during the early days of american imperialism at the turn of the 20th century.

rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.

four score and seven years later, lincoln would defend the american experiment in similar terms, rooting the the war effort in a defense of freedom and equality — those were the things that made american civilization distinctive in his telling.

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

Know what keeps me awake at night? Awareness of how much damage has been done to the military and civil service since 2017.

The entire culture of public service inside agencies has been shattered, and fixing it is not simply a matter of hiring back some people and rewriting a few policies.