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[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

A bunch of “fake it til you make it” guys fake it until they break it — science, health, warfighting, air travel…

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Bong Joon-ho says he made PARASITE (2019) deeply specific to Korean culture, only to find audiences worldwide responding the same way.

“Essentially, we all live in the same country, called Capitalism.”

[Adam Cesare @Adam_Cesare]

The Clown in a Cornfield 3 hardcover is an early Black Friday deal on amerzon.

It’s never been cheaper to own all 4 in HC.

Book 1: https://t.co/CpfiDWnIR3
2: https://t.co/LxsbqLVHMs
3: https://t.co/2L6w9hAfJG
4: https://t.co/vRWmF0DQ6C

Or signed: https://t.co/qlVjKfWG7E

[raina douris @RahRahRaina]

imagine if microsoft office just never came back

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

This pattern holds across decades. Republican presidential candidates have hit 50% of the vote *just once* since 1988. Their highest margin was George W Bush by 2.4% in 2004. Clinton won by 5.5% in 92 and 8.5% in 96. Obama won by 7.2% in 08 and 3.9% in 12. Biden: 4.5% in 20. …

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

THIS IS WHAT FAILURE LOOKS LIKE.

This map shows how profoundly our planet has warmed within a Baby Boomer’s lifetime. And the most disturbing part is that we knew this was coming.

1965: President Lyndon Johnson’s own scientific advisers warned that burning fossil fuels was increasing CO₂ and could cause significant changes to Earth’s climate.

1977: Exxon’s own scientists warned company executives about global warming. Their predictions would prove remarkably accurate.

1988: NASA scientist James Hansen famously testified before Congress that human-caused global warming was already underway. The warning made front-page headlines.

2015: Nearly every nation on Earth came together for the Paris Climate Agreement, pledging to limit warming to well below 2°C, ideally 1.5°C.

2026: More than 6 decades after the White House warning, greenhouse gas emissions keep climbing to extraordinary new highs year after year, and the science indicates that global warming is accelerating.

That brings us to this map.

Across vast stretches of the tropical oceans, October 2026 temperatures were more than SIX standard deviations above the 1940–1970 average. In a stable/ normal climate, a six-sigma event would be virtually impossible - statistically a 1-in-1 Billion+ chance. Yet these extremes now cover enormous areas of the planet.

The explanation? Today’s climate is no longer centered on the temperatures of the mid-20th century. We’ve shifted the entire temperature distribution. The current map shows a profoundly different planet than the one nature provided.

Yes, natural fluctuations like El Niño add to the warmth. But they are superimposed on a long-term warming trend driven overwhelmingly by human activity.

We were warned. The science was remarkably accurate. We had decades to act.

And while progress has been made, it has not been nearly enough. In fact, instead of slowing warming, we continue to speed it up.

This is what decades of insufficient action, climate denial, and deception looks like.

[Lucas Romero @LucaRomero]

No es una derrota de Trump, es una catástrofe. El escrutinio continua y la diferencia en el voto popular ya es de casi de 14 puntos (16 millones de votos). Es la victoria más aplastante desde 1974. Para tener una idea, los Republicanos no llegan al 56% de los votos desde 1928.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Warren: "Democrats must deliver popular, meaningful legislation to Trump's desk, and then dare him to veto it. Dare him to veto an increase to the minimum wage for hard-working Americans. Dare him to veto a ban on price gouging. Dare him to veto a ban on AI surveillance pricing ... you can't win what you don't fight for"

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Amazon is building a gas fueled data center in Texas that will pump out 33 MILLION TONS of CO₂ every year.

It would take the average American 2 MILLION YEARS to produce that much CO₂.

All so trillion-dollar tech companies can build out AI slop machines.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

The vast majority of Americas unions support Medicare for All. 66% of the country supports Medicare for All. 50 healthcare billionaires do not.

[David Roberts @drvolts]

Don't spank your fucking kids.
https://t.co/wrjyx8bILJ

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Troy Jackson makes like $80k a year. Him and his wife's biggest asset is his wife's retirement account which is under $250k. He is one of us. And we need 100's more in Congress just like him.

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Listen to this. And then listen again. And again. Until you get it.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Just 10 years ago the 1.5 breach was expected in 2042.
Now: It is expected in the next couple of years. Accelerated warming.
If you are not willing do the hard work, you fail.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jon Stewart on Chuck Schumer: “Someone has to meet this moment. You have an opportunity to actually govern. One of the first things you need to do is remove that system of seniority from Democratic politics. It’s a bullshit system and it needs to go. Chuck Schumer fought tooth and nail against half of these fucking people. He does not understand the urgency of the moment and what the future demands”

[raina douris @RahRahRaina]

i need americans who "love" their "great health insurance" to try to imagine never having to think about health insurance (or copays, or deductibles, or "choices") again and how wonderful that would feel. i deeply miss the feeling of it never entering my mind.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

People looked at these kinds of maps in 2024, which showed GOP swings everywhere, and decided the country was on a new MAGA trajectory. Trump hadn’t even cracked 50% of the vote. He won by 1.5%. Democrats just won the midterms by 13%, the biggest margin in at least 40 years.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

so stupid that every election is about gas prices while we have rendered cheap chinese electric cars illegal

[Chris 🏳️‍🌈 🥥🌴Revolution 4 Big Struct. Change @Chris_H_Politic]

Crying as I tap the sign

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

The new high water mark for Democrats in national congressional races in the modern era is now D+13. Republicans haven’t managed better than R+6.8. In presidential elections, Republicans have won more than 50% of the vote just once since 1988. This is not a red country.