Uncommon Commoner

Bon Vivant, Man About Town, Scoundrel #TeamChrisRock

[Uncommon Commoner @lifeat24frames]

This pretty much sums it up...

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

People like @GretaThunberg and @AOC are often dismissed as ‘radical’ or ‘out of touch’. But the reality is: their radicalism is the future. While the planet is heating up, it's the so-called 'moderates' who are out of touch.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Shuts down Ebola research - Massive Ebola outbreak

Closes CDC Parasitic disease division - Huge parasitic diarrhoea outbreak

Defunds screwworm research - screwworm comes back to the US

Ladies and gentlemen I give you Health Secretary RFK Jr

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The CHIPS Act funds the production of chips using leading-edge **transistors**

And now you can probably figure out why he thinks these companies needed transgender people to qualify.

We are truly living in the dumbest of times.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

My wife and I got into it last night about the grocery bill.

I pulled up an old Target order from February 2020.

28 items. $64.50.

Added every single one back to the cart just to see.

$158.30.
Same 28 items. Same store. Same cart.
$93.80 more.

In five years.
We didn’t buy more.
Didn’t upgrade anything.
Didn’t add a single extra item.

Just needed the same things we always needed.

They told us inflation was transitory. They told us it was under control. They told us the economy was strong.

Our cart didn’t get any of those memos.
145% increase in five years.

Not one member of Congress has looked at a grocery receipt in decades.

And it shows.

[Uncommon Commoner @lifeat24frames]

That’s the pot calling the kettle black…

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Taking a page from the Erdogan-Putin-Bukele playbook.

[Uncommon Commoner @lifeat24frames]

I love the smell of treason in the morning.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

He’s demolishing everything that makes America great. A one man wrecking ball. For 82 years I’ve been so proud to be an American. I don’t recognize us anymore. I hope I live long enough to see it back the way it was when I went camping with my dad in Yosemite

[Uncommon Commoner @lifeat24frames]

@davidfrum Socialism is dumb? Don’t call the police or fire department if you need them. Don’t use a library or Libby. Don’t go to museums in DC. Don’t use any roads.

Have you been to any other county?

Let the county burn down so you can make proclamations in the ashes.

[Uncommon Commoner @lifeat24frames]

More #hydrogen #fuelcell electric vehicles, please! And long term hydrogen storage!

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

What I don't get about climate change deniers is why they're opposed the green transition.

Say they're right and its a hoax. We still end up with a high-tech industrial revolution, more trees in urban centres, cooling systems, public transport, more EVs!

Why is that bad?

[Uncommon Commoner @lifeat24frames]

@RachelBitecofer Agreed. Well said. Also, starve them financially and get them out of the blue states.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Other than legal accountability the best way to punish the Republican Party for the Trump Era would be to put tax rates back to the pre-Reagan era.

Just send a giant fuck you to our corporate overlords and their political cult.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The government just paid a French oil company $2.5 BILLION of YOUR tax dollars... to kill American wind energy.

Not to build it. To make it disappear.

TotalEnergies had two offshore wind farms ready to go. One off North Carolina, one off New York. Combined, they would have powered hundreds of thousands of homes.

The Department of the Interior paid TotalEnergies $795 million to walk away from both, and banned the company from ever building offshore wind in the U.S. again.

Here's the part that should stop you cold:

That $795 million isn't just a payout. It's a condition. TotalEnergies has to take that money and pour it into oil, gas, and LNG projects instead.

The government is paying a company, with your tax dollars, to convert clean energy into fossil fuel. On purpose, by design.

And it didn't stop there.

Invenergy took $765 million to drop four more offshore leases, same condition attached: oil and gas only.

Bluepoint Wind, a 2.4 gigawatt project off New York, folded too. So did Golden State Wind, a floating wind farm planned for the waters off central California.

These weren't early-stage ideas. Ports were already being built to support them. California alone has sunk over $100 million into port and mooring infrastructure for a project that may never get finished.

Over $2.5 billion in taxpayer money, across four separate deals, all pointed the same direction: away from wind, straight into fossil fuel.

Meanwhile, a wind farm that did get finished, Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts, is already saving families $1.4 billion on their power bills over the next 20 years. That's the version of this we're not choosing.

Seven states are suing over the TotalEnergies deal alone. California's Attorney General just filed a separate case over the rest.

Since when does the government bribe companies to pick oil over wind?

#DemsUnited

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH Scientists just cracked the multiple sclerosis code after decades of searching.

Two specific gut bacteria are triggering the disease, proven using identical twins and mice.

This changes everything.🧵

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

Shaq caught wind of this 7-foot-3 kid in Kemah, Texas who powered through the police academy only to fall one point short on the state exam. His whole dream of becoming an officer looked like it was slipping away right there.

Then Shaq jumped in and covered the guy’s living expenses for the next five months so he wouldn’t have to juggle a second job and could zero in on passing that test. Because of that extra push, Jordan Wilmore got back in, nailed it, and just got sworn in as a Kemah police officer.

[DjaMon💫 @DjaMon777]

Shell's 2025 revenue
was $267 BILLION!!!
Why the fuck do they
get a single dollar of
taxpayer's money?🤔

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

A billionaire’s greatest skill isn’t intelligence. It’s sociopathy. The ability to ruin lives, communities, and environments without losing sleep.

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Technically, but long haul shipping and aircraft are better with hydrogen fuel cell electricity. Short and mid haul with battery electricity. This paper analyzes air, sea, and land transport considering conservation of four properties (range, thrust-to-weigh ratio, mass, and volume).

https://t.co/5sfJGM08R8

[Uncommon Commoner @lifeat24frames]

@mzjacobson @Marioxjumper Makes no sense when a hydrogen powered ship blows these metrics out of the water. Pun intended.

[Peter Gardner @PeterDGardner]

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys https://t.co/9BeOX8hiip

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Democrats wore masks so their neighbors wouldn’t get sick.

Republicans wear masks so their neighbors don’t know they are a racist.

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

https://t.co/DHnrEV1U1S

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

Serious question.

At what point does a country that charges you $3,200 for an ambulance ride, $47 for a Tylenol, $8,000 to give birth, and $400,000 to treat cancer stop calling itself the greatest healthcare system in the world.

Because from where most people are standing it looks less like a system and more like a hostage situation with a billing department.