For climate change, I used to have the mental model that corporations, govenment, and consumers were blaming each other, passing the buck to each other for fixing climate change.

Now that corporations’ centuries-long, gradual takeover of government has suddenly kicked into high gear, we see how wrong that model was. Instead they’re immediately forcing the government to do even less to mitigate climate change.

Here’s on argument for non-corporate social media like Fedi, email and Gemini.

Police play Disney tunes to prevent video of them on patrol being posted online, California lawmaker claims

The wrongest Jon Stewart has ever been.

I remember reading (might’ve been in The Undercover Economist) the proposal that the one industry that would have a lot to gain to lobby for climate regulation would’ve been the insurance industry. Obviously that didn’t happen.

(Also… “net zero”? We need net negative, even.)

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And it’s no news that the opposition is doing it.

Four boxes of liberty for me but not for thee as per ushe because whaddayamean ballot box?

It’s just not about the battleground states this election because congress seats are also up for grabs.

Full text of Jack Smith’s filing.

We have the ballot box and the bullet box… How about the ballet box? 🩰

Since Trump will lie that he’s not associated with Project 2025, it sometimes makes more sense to bring up Agenda 47 which is his actual official platform probably better known as a horror show.

Prospect writes.

He makes buses roll from Texas towns whose emergency managers sometimes give officials at their intended destinations 24-hour warnings, but sometimes not. Migrants are dropped off in the middle of the night in random spots; they arrive soiled, in wet clothes, shivering from disease. Once, a little girl died along the way.

World: Nie wieder. 🛤️

One thing that’s not clear in this Wikipedia page is that this July 9th law also “legalized fusion” (or rather, reclassified fusion as particle accelerators rather than as fission reactors, so now fusion plants fall under a separate, more accessible regulatory framework).

Why is there no new episode of The Daily Show tonight, July 15.

Originally, The Daily Show was planning to have on-the-ground coverage of the convention with their correspondents, but following the event at Trump’s rally over the weekend, Comedy Central released a statement that there would be no July 15 episode of the nightly news satire. However, the show is set to return Tuesday through Thursday, but at their New York studio rather than at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee

Huh!

He predicted that if a president was involved in murder, he would be “speedily” impeached.

Darling, stop confusing me with your wishful thinking. We both know that wouldn’t happen, that the president’s party would jam those spokes. This is the end of the three separate branches of government.

So cheap, but so validating and sanity-inducing to watch, like rain in the desert.

(A fake video where the Fox News hosts are speaking honestly about the Trump verdict, created by audio from them speaking about the Hunter Biden verdict but with photos of Trump.)

I like this comic (it argues for “latine”, which matches what I’ve been seeing in French and Portuguese), but that’s not to take away anyone’s right to choose a name for their own group or subgroup.

2% of Americans of that background do use the name latinx for themselves in that context according to (older) polls.

Est your greens