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James Belcher @jamesbelcher.bsky.social · 8h

"I say this more to our liberal or centrist counterparts—that when you don’t think critically about extraction, you can find yourself having promoted all this mining supposedly for the energy transition, but now it’s not even being used for that."

"Centering the Climate-Economy Intersection Is Our Only Way Forward"

An interview with Thea Riofrancos on climate left strategy, asymmetric polarization, and "critical" minerals

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 2d

Confronted with the "The left must move right to help Dems electorally" argument, Ta-Nehisi Coates distinguished between politicians and everyone else. But @anatosaurus.bsky.social
articulates the electoral flaws of moving right and offers alternatives. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

www.weekendreading.net

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 2d

buying it for 150 mil for an extremely efficient $100 per reader

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

primary anybody who doesn't talk like this

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 7d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 6d

“we heard tale of expanding the tent”

Photo of the three vampires from “sinners” trying to get invited into the juke joint where a party is happening

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 5d

we need a mass understanding that these people are trying to destroy the world. in the over the top way we're supposed to think only movie supervillains want to do, that's what they are actually trying to do

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Reducing the CO2 emissions, that's expensive but really wholly unnecessary. Extremely expensive, very little benefit from that. Again, it's just returning common sense. Americans want affordable energy."

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 6d

fun fact: Hochul has helped Con Ed raise bills so much in the last few years, it will effectively cancel out this check for most people

Jon Campbell @joncampbellny.bsky.social · 6d

Those up-to-$400 checks coming from NY state? You'll have to pay federal tax on them.

"(T)he federal tax liability could have been avoided if the rebate program were structured differently."

From Jimmy Vielkind: gothamist.com/news/you-sho...

You should report Gov. Hochul’s ‘inflation refund’ checks on your taxes

The program will send hundreds of millions of dollars to the administration of President Donald Trump.

gothamist.com

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 7d

who among us could forget The Untroubles

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

The average liberal pundit acts like you're Hitler incarnate for agreeing with Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the UN, B'Tselem,, Yesh Din, Doctors Without Borders, and the International Association of Genocide Scholars. The average liberal voter is confused as to why we fund apartheid and genocide.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

The size of the divide between the average American liberal and the average American liberal pundit on one of the defining questions of foreign policy today really can't be overstated.

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 7d

An insane question just now on The View calling Zohran “inflammatory” for naming Israel as an apartheid state, resulted in the audience applauding Zohran for calling the horrors in Gaza a genocide.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 7d

it cannot be said enough: the political return on having concrete moral beliefs with the courage to defend them against your opponents is currently somewhere in the ballpark of infinity.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

The size of the divide between the average American liberal and the average American liberal pundit on one of the defining questions of foreign policy today really can't be overstated.

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 7d

An insane question just now on The View calling Zohran “inflammatory” for naming Israel as an apartheid state, resulted in the audience applauding Zohran for calling the horrors in Gaza a genocide.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7d

Mamdani’s innovation is showing how to emphasize cost-of-living *without* retreating from the defense of immigrants and *without* shirking the mission of centralizing Trump’s authoritarian lawlessness.

He attacks all forms of power, economic *and* authoritarian.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7d

There's a strange tendency in center-left discourse to treat Zohran's focus on cost-of-living as the *only* reason he's succeeding. Yes, it's critical. But that overlooks the other big thing he's doing: Relentlessly highlighting Trump's authoritarian abuses.

newrepublic.com/article/2011...

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Kelsea Bond 🌹 @kelseabondatl.bsky.social · 8d

Tonight is our BIGGEST fundraising deadline yet, and we’re $10k from our goal. Contribute to our grassroots campaign TODAY BEFORE MIDNIGHT! Every dollar counts!

Contribute now at kelseabond.com/donate! 🌱🚊🧱

Chip in to support Kelsea Bond!

Let's win an Atlanta for the 99%

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Kelsea Bond 🌹 @kelseabondatl.bsky.social · 8d

Folks, today’s the day! ⏰

Tired of status quo politics? Want to elect Atlanta’s first democratic socialist to office? Ready to win Beltline Rail, a green, walkable city, and an Atlanta for the 99%?

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 8d

hard to live with someone who is attempting to render you dead!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

www.nytimes.com

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Don’t Risk Evil Andrew for Mayor @dreamfornyc.bsky.social · 8d

Billionaires in a bribery arms race to keep NYC unaffordable:

meme of two buttons with one labeled "bribe eric adams to leave the race" and other labeled "bribe eric adams to stay in the race," sweating guy who can't decide labeled "MAGA BILLIONAIRES"

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 8d

the ostensible leaders of the opposition party to fascism should not be completely silent on whether their own city, the largest in the country, should be run by Donald Trump's personal pick for mayor. if they can't clear this very low bar, they are probably not up to leading an opposition.

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Lauren Rosenthal @laurenthal.bsky.social · 9d

Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million

Alphabet settles with Trump instead of fighting lawsuit over January 6 suspension.

arstechnica.com

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 9d

maybe it was just me, but all this stuff is erasing the *actual* defining quality of growing up in the 2000s, which was thinking the 2000s were pretty wack

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 9d

This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.

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Don’t Risk Evil Andrew for Mayor @dreamfornyc.bsky.social · 9d

Our job isn’t just to make sure Zohran gets elected, it’s to crush the billionaires' latest ploy to buy our city, and crush whatever they try next too. Donate to the official anti-Cuomo Attack PAC so we can keep crushing them, until we have truly won. secure.actblue.com/donate/dream...

Donate to DREAM!

Don't Re-elect Eric or Andrew for Mayor

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Don’t Risk Evil Andrew for Mayor @dreamfornyc.bsky.social · 9d

Polls only tell part of the story.

After all, Zohran and the half a million New Yorkers surprised the polls before.

To make sure there isn't an upset and Zohran wins, we need to recapture the same grassroots energy that beat Cuomo before.

It's time to lock in and DREAM.

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Don’t Risk Evil Andrew for Mayor @dreamfornyc.bsky.social · 9d

Eric Adams has finally exited the race, but only because MAGA billionaires bought his complicity.

They will do anything to stop the Mamdani mandate.

Because they know that evil Andrew will give them carte blanche to wreck our city.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/n...

At Hamptons Fund-Raiser, Cuomo Predicts Help From Trump Is on the Way

Andrew M. Cuomo, who trails in the polls for New York City mayor, is said to have told a crowd of donors that he believed President Trump would help smooth his path to victory.

www.nytimes.com

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