Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23hMeToo went about 1% as far as it should have gone. 1060291
Reposted by Nathan LewisNorm @thebookstoreonpluto.ca · 07/10/2026I'd bet my house the Trump team is already developing a possible plan to use any outbreak as a reason to declare martial law and meddle with the mid-term elections. It may not be needed, but I'm sure their considering it. 3271
Reposted by Nathan LewisMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23hHegseth: “Theocratic regimes should never have access to nuclear weapons. Trump recognises that.” The man who last week was manifesting the Christian god in the Pentagon and calling for a crusade. 38616182
Reposted by Nathan LewisMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Big deal for Anduril, funnily enough shortly after CEO Palmer Luckey joined Hegseth’s new weapons group.cnbc.comAnduril lands $2.9 billion Navy submarine shipyard contract days after CEO joins Pentagon weapons groupDefense tech leaders are gaining sway in Washington in President Donald Trump's military reindustrialization push 36290128
Reposted by Nathan LewisHunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026PSA: This is blasphemy. Jesus was not a 6-foot guy with roid rage; Jesus was a 1st century Palestinian Jew murdered by a police state. “Uhh he wasn’t tolerant” get outta here! He told you to *love* your enemy & broke down walls of ethnic hatred. Also, why is this description *extremely* homoerotic? 3938666
Reposted by Nathan LewisMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The fact that there is a social stigma around being a vegan is frankly embarrassing for us as a society. At absolutely worst, veganism should be accepted as a perfectly valid lifestyle choice in a liberal society, and imo it should be seen much more positively than that 3653348
Reposted by Nathan LewisGovernor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 22/08/2026This is outrageous. A free press cannot function under constant threats and retaliation from the government. Reporters must be free to hold those in power accountable — without fear of retribution. The assault on the free press must end! 486151514947
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 201843914
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/09/2026In Denmark, 96% of private individual vehicle sales are electric these days. 86% of total (fleets are slightly slower). 9503106
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/09/2026Basically EVs have become the default and gas cars are seen as janky and old-fashioned. 1315615
Reposted by Nathan LewisSøren Have @sorenhave.dk · 29/09/2026Exactly. Here's a summary of how we got there. bsky.app/profile/sore... 04615
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026I kind of think it's an ongoing testament to their pathetic cowardice and lack of moral character. 1322544
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026Governors need to get serious about disciplining utilities. Or claiming some of their planning powers for the state. Or making them publicly owned. Enough of this shit.canarymedia.comUS utilities get failing grade on clean energy transitionToo many utilities are keeping coal plants open, planning new gas plants, and building less renewable energy, the Sierra Club’s latest "Dirty Truth… 425158
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026The fraud is that they are paying for insurance ... but not using it? Who exactly is the defrauded party here? 69955127
Reposted by Nathan LewisTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...texastribune.orgDPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to countiesCounties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar. 4119461415
Reposted by Nathan LewisMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Stupidest man in America speaks out on an important issue: Alabama Sen Tommy Tuberville: “Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.” (CSPAN) 5319034
Reposted by Nathan LewisMother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026"They sent me a paper that said I got first- and second-stage black lung. That ought to be enough, or do you have to be dead?” motherjones.comSickened coal miners plead for their black lung benefits as cases surge"Do you have to be dead?" 1416874
Reposted by Nathan LewisThe City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 23/09/2026Julie Kantor, a frequent volunteer court observer, said in the days since the private courtrooms opened, she has found people wandering through the hallways unsure of where to go. “Because of mass confusion, they are missing their hearings."buff.lyDHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal PlazaA reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst. 211863
Reposted by Nathan LewisProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 412114136090
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026This shit is so infuriating. We should make these parents famous. Get their faces out there: "this is the couple that demanded the right to beat and intimidate their children without interference." 7619159
Reposted by Nathan LewisAnnie -RLS @annie53.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s Republicans that have left the Cubans starving. Make no mistake that they could stop this immediately! 033
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026As I said the first time Trump proposed tariffs: this is precisely why he likes them! It makes everyone come to him on bended knee, begging for exemptions. It makes economic survival dependent on his whim. That, not any economic theory, is the whole attraction. Mafia boss thinking. 26993250
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026"Privately" being the key word here. The world's most pathetic, contemptible collection of cowards. 927543
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026Way to read the room, guys.bloomberg.comUS Plans to Provide Thousands of Massive Weapons to IsraelThe US is preparing to provide Israel thousands of bombs that are among the most destructive in its arsenal, the largest single transfer of such weapons in years. 512318
Reposted by Nathan Lewisjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings 32988451560
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/09/2026I missed that the cartoonishly corrupt Greg Abbot is trying to destroy Texas' municipal utilities.texastribune.orgDisbanding city-owned utilities won’t lower costs, officials sayOn the campaign trail, the governor said dismantling city-owned utilities will save customers money by introducing competition. 915843
Reposted by Nathan LewisSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Correct. And he's also lying about what these three good men have said and believe in order to try to get them harmed. They have committed no offense against him or anyone other than being Democrats. We are living in an extremely scary time in which one of the two major political parties is insane. 46744281
Reposted by Nathan LewisSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My point is simply that there needs to be a lot more discussion of whether the President of the United States just committed a federal crime on national television that threatens the integrity of an American election. Because I do not read the case Hasen posted as somehow being a spot-on precedent. 819430
Reposted by Nathan LewisSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’m not sure I agree that case is precedent here. What happened in Dallas wasn’t just "a candidate's offer of ideas to the voter[s]"—which is what would have happened had TRUMP been on the ballot and he promised a new $5,000 policy if HE won—but telling voters they’ll be paid for voting for OTHERS. 1120752
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Remarkable. In 2025, Japan had the lowest number of crash deaths on record (going back to 1948). Now they're poised to have even fewer.theguardian.comJapan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streetsSpeed limit dropped from 60km/h for around 70% of general roads in the hope of making narrow streets of crowded cities safer 435868
Reposted by Nathan LewisAmericans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A truck driver working 40-hour weeks to make $50,000 a year pays about $3,800 in federal income tax. An 8% rate. An investor earning the same $50,000 in long-term capital gains pays $0. Work gets punished. Wealth gets rewarded. This tax code is a scam. 19068752367
Reposted by Nathan LewisKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/09/2026if U.S. lawmakers cared about privacy they'd pass a modern U.S. privacy law and regulate data brokers if they cared about national security they'd work tirelessly to excise Donald Trump from the body politic anti-china protectionism is lazy ass pantomime 216126
Reposted by Nathan LewisKendall Dix @kendalldix.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is already happening in Virginia with opposition to grid upgrades. People around me are opposing Dominion’s Valley Link project because the electricity “just going to northern Virginia for data centers.” 25013
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026"Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. ... In a large majority of states (40), undocumented immigrants pay higher state and local tax rates than the top 1 percent of households living within their borders."itep.orgTax Payments by Undocumented ImmigrantsUndocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both be... 5330154
Reposted by Nathan LewisSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Hey, out of curiosity, why are we calling this a "foothold" instead of an illegal invasion, annexation and occupation? We're still doing journalism, right? And "foothold" makes it sound like Israel is just a scrappy little tyke trying to make its way in the world like a big boy? 23522157
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026China's net greenhouse gas emissions *fell* this past quarter. Why? Because rapidly expanding electric vehicle use is putting a serious dent in oil demand. We could do that too. But we're not. We have the slowest EV update in the developed world, thanks to Trump.carbonbrief.orgAnalysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon BriefChina’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis. 431533502
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list. 312642709
Reposted by Nathan LewisWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We’re stuck doing deep textual analysis on Hasan Piker, a Twitch streamer, to discover if he said something offensive. Then the actual Secretary of Defense is gleefully picking out random Canadians and mocking them for being overweight, and it’s like “Well Trump will be Trump!” 8871117
Reposted by Nathan LewisWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Genuinely I cannot take it. The way the press has ONE STANDARD for everyone but Trump and his goons and then A TOTALLY DIFFERENT STANDARD for them. It’s intolerable, it’s obscene 311519237
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/09/2026Under Biden's Solar for All program, $117 million in federal money was set to go to Indiana for solar, battery, & microgrid projects. Tens of millions of those dollars were headed to Gary, to improve its resilience. Then Trump canceled the program & yanked back all the money.canarymedia.comGary power outage underscores stakes of Solar for All cancellationSome city residents went two weeks without power following storms. The federal program, ended by Trump, would have enabled many to access solar and… 6627259
Reposted by Nathan LewisCanary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 02/09/2026U.S. battery installations just had their best quarter ever — and things aren’t slowing down.canarymedia.comThe US built more grid batteries last quarter than ever beforeThe outlook for storage construction keeps getting brighter as everyone from the Trump White House to clean energy advocates to AI giants clamors for more. 17020
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/09/2026Somehow the "we need a big tent" thing never quite extends to, say, democratic socialists, it only extends to people like these who actively help the Republican Party. 1839087
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026Numerous Republican candidates and elected officials have *themselves* said worse things than the worst thing Piker has ever said. They do it regularly. The president among them. Why does no one care? 1235949
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026I think I can say categorically: there is not a single prominent right-wing media figure, including many that regularly campaign with & for Republican candidates, who has not said worse things than the worst thing Hasan Piker has ever said on at least a weekly basis. Why does no one care? 711402216
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026Elon Musk, the top Republican donor, who appeared on stage regularly supporting Republicans, says worse things than the worst thing Piker has ever said *every day* on the website he bought. Why doe no one care? 961293
Reposted by Nathan LewisMax P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Americans will say things like "We must starve Cuba to death with our embargo. Do not let China rescue them with food and energy" and still think people around the world hate them for their freedoms. 172113663
Reposted by Nathan LewisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/08/2026New report from the minority on the Joint Economic Committee finds that Trump has profited richly from his own oil & gas stocks, as his idiot war & tariffs have driven those stocks higher.jec.senate.gov 45821