@enviroaggie.bsky.social
Progressive. Loves cats. Christian. Policy wonk.
I haven't double checked the math but seems largely correct.
It’s completely absurd, to save $226, you’d pay an extra $500,000 in interest.
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I haven't double checked the math but seems largely correct.
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
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virtue signalling is good actually
Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
virtue signalling is good actually
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excited for full trans Marxist sharia, what a time
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
excited for full trans Marxist sharia, what a time
Cynicism is hard to fight, but important
This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
November 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Cynicism is hard to fight, but important
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I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.
October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.
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"If we just keep ruining the environment more and more, eventually, surely this sunk cost will pay off by finding us a way to protect the environment!"
Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less.
AI can help the environment, even though it uses tremendous energy. Here are 5 ways how
Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less.
bit.ly
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"If we just keep ruining the environment more and more, eventually, surely this sunk cost will pay off by finding us a way to protect the environment!"
I can't go, but pass the word to those who can.
Just posted a ton of new info/FAQs/rough schedule and more for this Sunday's* Teach-In in Washington, DC. Keep spreading the word! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
*deleted a post that accidentaly said Saturday! Whoops.
*deleted a post that accidentaly said Saturday! Whoops.
October 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I can't go, but pass the word to those who can.
Hadn't even considered this part of it. I wonder how far the particles can travel?
As others have mentioned, what kind of testing for asbestos or other noxious substances was conducted? Based on the time this wing was built, it’s very likely to have asbestos. There aren’t any mitigation measures visible in the photos. I know he doesn’t care, but if I worked @WH, I’d be worried.
October 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Hadn't even considered this part of it. I wonder how far the particles can travel?
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
Those who are calling tomorrow's event the Hate America Rally fundamentally don't understand the values of America, and that going to (or supporting) the protest shows how much you love America.
“I want my sons to be more like George Retes”
Watch @podsaveamerica.crooked.com 's @jonfavs.bsky.social's powerful response to our interview with a U.S. citizen who was brutalized by ICE
Watch @podsaveamerica.crooked.com 's @jonfavs.bsky.social's powerful response to our interview with a U.S. citizen who was brutalized by ICE
October 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Those who are calling tomorrow's event the Hate America Rally fundamentally don't understand the values of America, and that going to (or supporting) the protest shows how much you love America.
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Plausible
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there
October 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Plausible
Report from the trenches.
the hardest part of living in Portland is having your house burn down every single night and then having to rebuild it during the day. the amount of money i spend just in drywall is insane.
Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.
October 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Report from the trenches.
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Again, patriotism isn’t about loving America as is, it’s about believing it can be something better. Also, anyone who says my grandfather fought in a segregated unit at Normandy for fascism can take a hike.
I’m personally done ceding our national symbology to those that get off on perverting it for their political ends. If you want to convince people you’re trying to improve the country, you have to prove that you sincerely like the country, which many an extremist proudly dos not.
October 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Again, patriotism isn’t about loving America as is, it’s about believing it can be something better. Also, anyone who says my grandfather fought in a segregated unit at Normandy for fascism can take a hike.
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All those 2024 media fact-checks that said, “Donald Trump and the Trump campaign deny any connection to Project 2025” look pretty ridiculous right now.
A Trump denial is not a fact. You just used his lies to “debunk” a reality that was obvious to anyone paying attention.
A Trump denial is not a fact. You just used his lies to “debunk” a reality that was obvious to anyone paying attention.
October 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
All those 2024 media fact-checks that said, “Donald Trump and the Trump campaign deny any connection to Project 2025” look pretty ridiculous right now.
A Trump denial is not a fact. You just used his lies to “debunk” a reality that was obvious to anyone paying attention.
A Trump denial is not a fact. You just used his lies to “debunk” a reality that was obvious to anyone paying attention.
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This post is extraordinarily good - and comforting.
"... You don’t even have to dig that deep to make a difference right now. Figure out today what your core values are and don’t trade them away."
"... You don’t even have to dig that deep to make a difference right now. Figure out today what your core values are and don’t trade them away."
I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This post is extraordinarily good - and comforting.
"... You don’t even have to dig that deep to make a difference right now. Figure out today what your core values are and don’t trade them away."
"... You don’t even have to dig that deep to make a difference right now. Figure out today what your core values are and don’t trade them away."
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It's even worse than we thought.
September 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It's even worse than we thought.
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Just spitballing here, but if you’re upset about being called fascist and insist you aren’t a fascist, signing an EO that makes being anti-fascist “domestic terrorism” doesn’t help your case.
September 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Just spitballing here, but if you’re upset about being called fascist and insist you aren’t a fascist, signing an EO that makes being anti-fascist “domestic terrorism” doesn’t help your case.
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🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.
As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
September 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.
As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator
September 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator
Funny how there's no money for Ukraine.
September 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Funny how there's no money for Ukraine.