The Trump Administration was holding up 16 projects totaling $9 billion in investment and 22,000 jobs. All because the President doesn't believe in renewable energy. We will always fight back to help bring down energy costs for Illinoisans and put money back in your pockets.
Federal Judge Orders Pentagon to Lift Freeze on Wind PowerSince April, the Defense Department has halted all military reviews for wind projects, stalling dozens of projects nationwide.www.nytimes.com
The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.
Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were PartisanThe admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected.www.civilbeat.org
Trump is the authoritarian. He/the GOP have agency & own all the things now. But the media/societal enabling of this "Blue America are not Real Folkz & their cities are sh*tholes" rhetoric, for my entire lifetime, helped make it possible. It should have been banned from polite society decades ago.
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The VergeBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
becoming a parent has turned out to be a great excuse to learn the entire alphabet. sometimes he’ll ask me what a letter is and i’m like well shit, bubba. let’s find out together
We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium.
Aaron RuparHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
Throw another thing on the ‘unacceptable‘ pile
Murshed Zaheed“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
imo of all the formal political institutions in US life, the judiciary has given the best account of itself by a pretty large margin (with the obvious exception of SCOTUS) and a younger me was way more dismissive of the courts than history would prove deserved
Anna BowerA magistrate judge found no probable cause to support arrest warrants for 5 people involved in the St. Paul church protest. DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir. That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court… storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is the latest one that I can't believe doesn't have legs. They listed all the grants by whether the states they were in went for Harris or Trump and whether they had at least one republican Senator. All grants in Harris states w/o a republican Senator were canceled.
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.www.nytimes.com
ICYMI ‘This is terrifying’: The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source www.latimes.com/environment/...
'This is terrifying': The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its sourceThe source of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains is drying up, threatening a critical water lifeline for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland across the Southwest.www.latimes.com
In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.
Never lose sight of the utter stupidity of Trump whining that anytime he or a Republican loses, it was rigged, yet any time or a Republican wins, there's nothing wrong with the election.
English-speaking nations eliminated Telemundo officially wins the 2026 World Cup
So we’re wrecking the planet and enriching billionaires so Google can answer my question with an old Reddit post great work everyone
A new OMB rule would allow the executive branch to cut scientific research funds on behalf of corporate interests and against marginalized people. Please submit public comments before the deadline on Monday July 13. This link gives excellent instructions: www.faseb.org/science-poli...
Defend ResearchWe advance health and well-being by promoting research and education in biological and biomedical sciences through collaborative advocacy and service to our societies and their members.www.faseb.org
Let’s elect a president that will appoint Jack Smith as Attorney General.
Kyle CheneyJUST IN: It's over. Judge Kelly has granted DOJ's motion to dismiss the J6 seditious conspiracy case against Proud Boys leaders He takes a couple parting shots, suggesting Trump's view of the riot is based on "fiction" and notes PB prosectuion started under him www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
World Cup? More like Northwestern peininsula of the Eurasian continent cup amirite
"Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday that his department would redirect $1.73 billion in Biden-era grants away from establishing “DEI bike lanes” to build roads and bridges instead." The most shallow, simplistic fuckwits to have ever lived are running the US government...
Trump Secretary Says Bike Lanes Are DEIApparently the Trump administration is just calling anything it doesn’t like “DEI.”newrepublic.com