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@charleyonthemta.bsky.social
Former influencer. Principle of Charity. This isn’t a good venue for argumentation. Not the time for doomism. S—-lib, normie, cringey.
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Sierra Club Blasts Report of "Concierge, White Glove Service” for Fossil Fuel Companies
A report from the Washington Post yesterday, detailed the lengths to which the Trump administration is catering to fossil fuel companies, offering “concierge, white glove” service for executives looki...
www.sierraclub.org
It is absolutely not a coincidence that climate change and fascism are trending at the same time.
The fossil fuel industry knows, and has known, that it cannot survive if people are able to govern themselves.
www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
The fossil fuel industry knows, and has known, that it cannot survive if people are able to govern themselves.
www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
We pay too much attention to the NYT.
Tell me what media/narratives are reaching the misinformed middle; what’s softening the MAGA hard-core, discouraging the committed. Tell me about Cuban- and Venezuelan-Americans in FL who thought they were voting vs dictatorship.
They’re not reading the NYT.
Tell me what media/narratives are reaching the misinformed middle; what’s softening the MAGA hard-core, discouraging the committed. Tell me about Cuban- and Venezuelan-Americans in FL who thought they were voting vs dictatorship.
They’re not reading the NYT.
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We pay too much attention to the NYT.
Tell me what media/narratives are reaching the misinformed middle; what’s softening the MAGA hard-core, discouraging the committed. Tell me about Cuban- and Venezuelan-Americans in FL who thought they were voting vs dictatorship.
They’re not reading the NYT.
Tell me what media/narratives are reaching the misinformed middle; what’s softening the MAGA hard-core, discouraging the committed. Tell me about Cuban- and Venezuelan-Americans in FL who thought they were voting vs dictatorship.
They’re not reading the NYT.
Watched @aoc.bsky.social YouTube short, attributing MTG’s turnaround vs Trump to personal factors, Trump discouraging her Senate run, therefore not real, etc etc
Who cares? Who cares what factor made a political opponent decide to change their minds?
Take the W! Encourage more!
Who cares? Who cares what factor made a political opponent decide to change their minds?
Take the W! Encourage more!
November 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Watched @aoc.bsky.social YouTube short, attributing MTG’s turnaround vs Trump to personal factors, Trump discouraging her Senate run, therefore not real, etc etc
Who cares? Who cares what factor made a political opponent decide to change their minds?
Take the W! Encourage more!
Who cares? Who cares what factor made a political opponent decide to change their minds?
Take the W! Encourage more!
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One father, a U.S. citizen, walked into a green-card interview with his wife & 4-month-old baby.
He walked out with the baby in his arms…& his wife in ICE custody.
No criminal record, just families being separated. Trump said he would only go after violent criminals, he lied.
He walked out with the baby in his arms…& his wife in ICE custody.
No criminal record, just families being separated. Trump said he would only go after violent criminals, he lied.
November 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
One father, a U.S. citizen, walked into a green-card interview with his wife & 4-month-old baby.
He walked out with the baby in his arms…& his wife in ICE custody.
No criminal record, just families being separated. Trump said he would only go after violent criminals, he lied.
He walked out with the baby in his arms…& his wife in ICE custody.
No criminal record, just families being separated. Trump said he would only go after violent criminals, he lied.
I checked the GasFriend app to see how much sunshine costs. Still free.
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I checked the GasFriend app to see how much sunshine costs. Still free.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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Not a lot of folks out there, of any political persuasion, have the courage that some of these Indiana Senate Republicans do
Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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November 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Not a lot of folks out there, of any political persuasion, have the courage that some of these Indiana Senate Republicans do
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“CO2 levels at their highest in around 12 MILLION years.”
10 words that mean none of our lives are gonna work out the way we might hope.
10 words that mean none of our lives are gonna work out the way we might hope.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“CO2 levels at their highest in around 12 MILLION years.”
10 words that mean none of our lives are gonna work out the way we might hope.
10 words that mean none of our lives are gonna work out the way we might hope.
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Possibly because I was growing up Jewish only ~30 years after the Holocaust, but the evil of “scapegoating” was hammered into me repeatedly. I rarely see the term used, but it’s exactly what Trump, Miller, Noem and the right wing at large do, explicitly, and it should be forcefully condemned.
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Possibly because I was growing up Jewish only ~30 years after the Holocaust, but the evil of “scapegoating” was hammered into me repeatedly. I rarely see the term used, but it’s exactly what Trump, Miller, Noem and the right wing at large do, explicitly, and it should be forcefully condemned.
Let’s be 100% clear:
It is Stephen Miller, and his broken values, that is creating the “conditions and terrors of a broken homeland.“
It is he who “refuses to assimilate” to what America actually is, and always has been: Diverse.
Give me your tired, your poor, etc. America Forever.
It is Stephen Miller, and his broken values, that is creating the “conditions and terrors of a broken homeland.“
It is he who “refuses to assimilate” to what America actually is, and always has been: Diverse.
Give me your tired, your poor, etc. America Forever.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Let’s be 100% clear:
It is Stephen Miller, and his broken values, that is creating the “conditions and terrors of a broken homeland.“
It is he who “refuses to assimilate” to what America actually is, and always has been: Diverse.
Give me your tired, your poor, etc. America Forever.
It is Stephen Miller, and his broken values, that is creating the “conditions and terrors of a broken homeland.“
It is he who “refuses to assimilate” to what America actually is, and always has been: Diverse.
Give me your tired, your poor, etc. America Forever.
Love this. Chicago is showing the way forward; the bubble of grift, fraud, and fascism is about to burst — with continued pressure.
open.substack.com/pub/rashkinr...
open.substack.com/pub/rashkinr...
🇺🇸 Chicago, Democracy, and the Bubble That’s About to Burst
Reflections on a night with Rachel Maddow and Timothy Snyder at the Harris Theater
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Love this. Chicago is showing the way forward; the bubble of grift, fraud, and fascism is about to burst — with continued pressure.
open.substack.com/pub/rashkinr...
open.substack.com/pub/rashkinr...
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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My latest, about how returning to Thoreau and Emerson has revived the courage of my convictions in a time of moral rot.
open.substack.com/pub/jasonteb...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonteb...
Why I'm Reading Emerson and Thoreau Again
We are commonly assigned texts in high school English classes whose depths and wisdom are wasted on the youth.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
My latest, about how returning to Thoreau and Emerson has revived the courage of my convictions in a time of moral rot.
open.substack.com/pub/jasonteb...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonteb...
Absolutely obscene.
Get her back here.
Get her back here.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Absolutely obscene.
Get her back here.
Get her back here.
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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Idea for how to make your climate giving count: support our researchers who had their clean energy and climate projects canceled by the government: givenow.cmu.edu/schools/Carn...
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Idea for how to make your climate giving count: support our researchers who had their clean energy and climate projects canceled by the government: givenow.cmu.edu/schools/Carn...
No guarantees in Maine’s 2nd, a House district Trump won three times but which has flipped between R and D control lately. You just hope for a good, solid, community-grounded candidate, with the kinds of qualities money can’t buy. Nice profile here 👇
Matt Dunlap is the kind of Democrat who can win Maine’s 2nd Congressional District #mepolitics www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/25/o...
Opinion: Matt Dunlap is the kind of Democrat who can win Maine’s 2nd Congressional District
“Dunlap also brings varied experience that undercuts any attempt to paint him as extreme or unprepared.”
www.bangordailynews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
No guarantees in Maine’s 2nd, a House district Trump won three times but which has flipped between R and D control lately. You just hope for a good, solid, community-grounded candidate, with the kinds of qualities money can’t buy. Nice profile here 👇
FINDING OF FACT
Pumpkin cheesecake >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pumpkin pie
Pumpkin cheesecake >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pumpkin pie
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
FINDING OF FACT
Pumpkin cheesecake >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pumpkin pie
Pumpkin cheesecake >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pumpkin pie
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If you’re a climate/energy person, I will take your portrait pro bono.
After far too many years, I've got myself a new Guardian byline pic, very kindly taken pro bono by Nick Bowring. It was getting like The Picture of Dorian Gray in reverse.
Embrace the ravages of time!
Embrace the ravages of time!
May 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If you’re a climate/energy person, I will take your portrait pro bono.
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Renewables routinely generate more than half of U.K electricity.
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Renewables routinely generate more than half of U.K electricity.
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
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This is totally fucking unconstitutional!
The Education Department is being dismantled. Here's what that means
The Education Department is breaking off several of its main offices and giving their responsibilities to other federal agencies, an early look at how President Donald Trump could fulfill his campaign...
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is totally fucking unconstitutional!
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About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
Man those folks were fools. “Well I believe in efficiency” like I believe in the teachings of Bophades.
Corruption. It. Was. Corruption.
Corruption. It. Was. Corruption.
You know what was unhelpful, all the electeds and pundits back in the spring saying, "to be sure, maybe DOGE is needed to increase efficiency". That's not what it was for, it was meant for destruction and crimey stuff. Total marks.
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Man those folks were fools. “Well I believe in efficiency” like I believe in the teachings of Bophades.
Corruption. It. Was. Corruption.
Corruption. It. Was. Corruption.
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Excellent analysis!*
"Thirty Minutes in the Lion’s Den: The Interview Trump Thought He Controlled:
"And if there’s a lesson here for the rest of the country, it’s this:
Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism.
Take it away, and even a strongman starts to sound like a man."
Bruce Fanger on FB
"Thirty Minutes in the Lion’s Den: The Interview Trump Thought He Controlled:
"And if there’s a lesson here for the rest of the country, it’s this:
Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism.
Take it away, and even a strongman starts to sound like a man."
Bruce Fanger on FB
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Excellent analysis!*
"Thirty Minutes in the Lion’s Den: The Interview Trump Thought He Controlled:
"And if there’s a lesson here for the rest of the country, it’s this:
Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism.
Take it away, and even a strongman starts to sound like a man."
Bruce Fanger on FB
"Thirty Minutes in the Lion’s Den: The Interview Trump Thought He Controlled:
"And if there’s a lesson here for the rest of the country, it’s this:
Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism.
Take it away, and even a strongman starts to sound like a man."
Bruce Fanger on FB
Your AI-generated political cartoons are absolute garbage and embarrassing. Stop.
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Your AI-generated political cartoons are absolute garbage and embarrassing. Stop.