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  • How the Inflation Reduction Act is transforming America — and the world

    Thanks in part to the IRA, US greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 will likely be between 32% and 34% lower than they were in 2005, according to the REPEAT project, which is led by Princeton University’s ZERO Lab. By 2035, the reduction will have reached 40%-43%. https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/08/20/how-the-inflation-reduction-act-is-transforming-america-and-the-world/ One of the things I love about how…

  • Race is a fiction, Racism is real

    This is the best description of how race is weaponised via ‘racecraft’ This is really important in NZ at present. We have virulently racist minority partner in our current government. They are tearing up many equity initiatives because they discriminate via skin colour, they are therefore “racist” and socially divisive. When, in fact, they discriminate…

  • Americans Will Always Do the Right Thing — After Exhausting All the Alternatives

    Americans are beginning to demand more than just Trumpism. Trump. His endless stream of Big Lies, his unhinged rants, his vitriol. They are starting to sense it doesn’t go anywhere, lead to anything, that it’s just a dead end for them, in the soul, and for their society. This is why Trump’s schtick now feels old. Isn’t even met…

  • UAW: Fight for a Better Life.

    Like I said… Thiel is looking really incompetent when it comes to politics. There are four faces featured here: Trump, Musk, Thiel and Epstein. Thiel has now become the visual shorthand for evil – along side Epstein.

  • Tim Walz Pick ENDS Obama Era?

    … just maybe Hey there neo-liberalism. Careful the door doesn’t hit you on the ass on the way out.

  • Anand Giridharadas on Morning Joe: “[Walz] is a PSA for white folks, older folks, men, rural dwellers, and others: You don’t need to be afraid of the future.”

    Permission structures and vibes… Some super insightful comments here.

  • The Broligarchs Are Trying to Have Their Way

    Eight years ago, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley for publicly supporting Donald Trump. But now a number of prominent male tech plutocrats who previously opposed the former president have done an about-face: These broligarchs are publicly endorsing and donating to the Republican candidate—and revealing a lot about…

  • Forty years after Rogernomics: Imagining an economy grounded in Māori values

    It’s well past time we start thinking of a new next model… An economy or economies based on manaakitanga, whanaungatanga, kaitiakitanga could set everyone up to live well, within connected communities and planetary boundaries. What if rāhui were respected and our ecosystems were regenerated, or our sense of obligation to each other meant that no…

  • Kia ora, Mayor Tim

    He’s also not especially worried at the nationwide hostility currently directed towards the use of te reo Māori in everyday life. “I think it’s a dead cat bounce.” In other words, it’s a declining trend that makes a small uptick before it disappears completely. “You look at the young people in this district, you go…

  • ACT: the party of crybabies

    ACT: All edge, no point. Props to Andrea Vance for calling the hypocrites out. The party has re-risen by stoking a culture war, peddling identity policies and putting a tale of Pākehā grievance at the heart of party identity. Part of that was relentless attacks on the character and motives of those with which it…