Rob

Question everything & stay flexible. January 6th commission party host.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Emerging Asia is sprinting toward electric independence to crush fossil fuel fragility. Fossil fuel wars will only accelerate this trend

➡️Viet Nam: 38% EV sales share, ahead of EU
➡️Singapore: Leading the charge at 50%+ share
➡️Indonesia: 15% share, more than US
➡️Thailand: 21% share, leaving Japan (at 3%) in the rearview mirror
➡️India: Three-wheelers at 57% share, EVs rising rapidly and at 4%, already ahead of Japan
➡️China: Already banking $28b/year in avoided oil imports

The era of being held hostage by oil chokepoints is coming to an end in multiple Asian countries, fast

https://t.co/RLT7QrkMhy

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

After the Nuremberg Trials, one of the most unsettling conclusions did not come from the courtroom, but from the psychiatrist tasked with evaluating the defendants.

Dr. Douglas Kelley, the U.S. Army psychiatrist assigned to assess many of the senior Nazi officials, expected to find monsters people fundamentally different from the rest of humanity. He did not.

What disturbed him most was how ordinary they were.

They were not raving madmen. They were not obvious sociopaths. They were intelligent, educated, and often convinced they were simply doing their duty, following orders, or serving a higher cause. Kelley warned that this was the real danger: evil does not always look abnormal. It often presents itself as competence, obedience, and institutional loyalty.

His central warning was deeply uncomfortable there are people with morally vacant or destructive tendencies everywhere. In every society. In every era. What determines the outcome is whether systems elevate those people, shield them from accountability, and normalize their behavior, and whether ordinary citizens are willing to question authority when it matters most.

Modern bureaucracies and institutions are powerful precisely because they diffuse responsibility. Decisions are broken into policies, protocols, committees, and “best practices.” Harm is rarely framed as harm; it is reframed as necessity, risk management, or compliance. Individuals are encouraged not to think morally, but procedurally.

This is how ordinary people become capable of extraordinary wrongdoing by outsourcing conscience to institutions and convincing themselves that accountability lies somewhere else.

The lesson of Nuremberg is not that “those people were different.” It is that they were not.

That is why vigilance matters. That is why blind trust in authority is dangerous. And that is why a healthy society must protect dissent, accountability, and moral courage especially when it is inconvenient.

History does not repeat itself because people forget facts. It repeats itself when people convince themselves, “It could never happen here.”

[Rob @DenverBeerRob]

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[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

The Netherlands will invest €1 billion in cycling infrastructure to connect hundreds of thousands of new homes. This will build bike highways and improve bike-train intermodality, enabling residents to access jobs, healthcare, and school without locking them into car dependency.

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

Hey, Beavis. Heheheh. Like, what if we keep saying America's broke.. hehehe ...Yeah, yeah...and we make people believe it..heheheh... and then we take all the money for ourselves. Hehehe.

I swear to God we're trapped in the dumbest cartoon of all time.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

We knew it, but seeing the data laid out – it's still shocking: higher taxes for most, deep cuts to Medicaid & SNAP—all to fund tax breaks for the top 1%.

It's difficult to fully grasp the scale of the con being perpetrated on Americans right now by the Trump administration.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law:

Verizon
Before: 21%
After: 8%

Walmart
Before: 31%
After: 17%

AT&T
Before: 13%
After: 3%

Walt Disney
Before: 26%
After: 8%

FedEx
Before: 18%
After: 1%

This is what a corporate giveaway looks like.

[Joe Hughes @JoeHughesTax]

I could say a lot but this chart speaks for itself.

[Rob @DenverBeerRob]

@ScottParksValpo @espn

[Rob @DenverBeerRob]

@hollywoodpete69 @frankthorp ... Jjjjjjjjj======j

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Wow.

This video is truly eye-opening.

Take a couple minutes to watch this.

A mind-boggling visual representation of wealth inequality in America.

This sh*t ain’t workin’, folks. #TaxBillionaires #UnionsForAll

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

[Rob @DenverBeerRob]

@biculturalbrokr 22nd St from Colorado to Monaco.

[Rob @DenverBeerRob]

@amazinglovetllc your commercial driver hit me this morning. I am not getting an adequate response from your company.
Pic of your driver wearing headphones while driving.

[Rob @DenverBeerRob]

F this start to my Friday... COMMERCIAL driver had headphones in... Did not see me or hear me screaming.
I think I'm OK, bike is not.
16th & York

[The Lefty Canadian Radical 🇵🇸 @Tori_TLCR]

Videos like these are why our governments hate Tiktok.

[Rob @DenverBeerRob]

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[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Not to be outdone by the "small regional" North Atlantic anomaly, global sea-surface temperatures have experienced remarkably stable gobsmacking f&%kery for much of the year.

[Rob @DenverBeerRob]

@GovofCO @ColoradoDOT This is NOT a good look @GovofCO... Don't tell peds or cyclists it is their responsibility to stay safe when @ColoradoDOT and @DenverDOTI FAIL to slow vehicles, provide sidewalks & crosswalks, FAIL to enforce existing traffic laws. Vision zero my ass.

[Osita Nwanevu @OsitaNwanevu]

This is...
https://t.co/XeCOCurwob

[Rob @DenverBeerRob]

@GoingDutchDEN @DenverDOTI Literally just happened again to me!!! @DenverDOTI please don't wait to act.

[Rob @DenverBeerRob]

@GoingDutchDEN @DenverDOTI YES, so needed. I have witnessed dozens/hundreds of illegal right on red turns at this corner. Likely also my single intersection with the most near misses in Denver. @DenverDOTI primo location for automated enforcement!