…and those clean energy changes have to happen fast and happen everywhere. encouraging more residential solar: great. elected officials doing things like mandating solar, wind, & batteries instead of more gas plants (or coal ffs): way greater
…and those clean energy changes have to happen fast and happen everywhere. encouraging more residential solar: great. elected officials doing things like mandating solar, wind, & batteries instead of more gas plants (or coal ffs): way greater
…to be clear, in 2026 “environmental voting” means doing something to stop the runaway climate train, which primarily means switching from fossil fuels to clean energy as soon as humanly possible (i.e., “environmentalism” is no longer a nerdy/niche thing about saving a salamander or recycling more)
what a smart approach to increasing pro-environmental voting from www.environmentalvoter.org I also love how it’s an ongoing, long-term effort, beyond the boom & bust of individual elections
Touch Girl Apple Blossom, Heart Go, live on KUTX 🎵
Beth Orton, Otherside live 🎵
Tell me you’ve made it through the night
Ratboys, Light Night Mountains All That, live on KUTX, 2026 🎵
10,000 Maniacs, These Are Days, live at MTV’s 1993 “inaugural ball” 🎵
never before and never since I promise
Republicans don’t mind data center expansion (& the horrifically polluting fossil-fuel power generation required), but they know how unpopular that expansion is. so they’re faking concern & slowing the headlong rush a little, but just until after the election. don’t fall for it
The Police, Synchronicity II, live in Buenos Aires, 2007 🎵
happy Oktoberfest! (yes, I know what month it is. close enough! also I decided I’d stok’d up about enough) 🍺
The Kills, Future Starts Slow, live at Rock en Seine, 2011 🎵 youtu.be/H2NGdSyeC…
I’ve stopped donating to individual campaigns, even for candidates we love. win or lose, those orgs are gone the day after the election. check out these alternatives:
Happy Birthday (not that one), live on KEXP by the unique band Black Country, New Road 🎵
Joan Osborne, covering Stevie Wonder’s Love’s in Need of Love Today, live on Conan 🎵
Good morn' or evening, friends Here’s your friendly announcer I have serious news to pass on to everybody
stoktoberfest - the period of time in August when you buy up all the märzen/fest/Oktoberfest beers that are already out, so you’ll have them in October (ok ok, September), when they’ll all be gone (replaced by winter ales) 🍺
Automatic, Is It Now?, live at KEXP 🎵
The Grateful Dead, New Speedway Boogie, live in 1970 🎵
one way or another this darkness got to give
Sinead O’Connor, Troy, live in 1988 🎵
the beauty & raw power from this 22-year-old woman with an acoustic guitar is honestly staggering
I’d kill a dragon for you
Tacocat, Psychedelic Quinceañera, live on KEXP 🎵
for any country, let alone a host country, let alone this vile kleptocracy, to interfere like this is fucking sickening. for the supposedly apolitical FIFA to give this even a moment’s consideration is worse. way to taint whatever accomplishment the USMNT reaches. way to defile the entire sport ⚽️
The World Cup is undressing the myth of Trump’s American homogeneity ⚽️
If [FIFA] wasn’t so busy kowtowing to authoritarian regimes and fleecing workaday fans, it could be the greatest force for global good since, well, the advent of international flight
what a day 🇳🇱 🇸🇪 ⚽️ 🏆 🥹
I’d given in and was going to subscribe to the Fox One service for the World Cup, but between ads during the two-per-game hydration breaks & having to see Fox News idiots’ big dumb faces every time we launched the app, decided to cancel. we’ll just watch on Telemundo, no problema ⚽️
when you just want to be friends
a nice intro for the curious: A (total) beginner’s guide to the World Cup (funny, too: “the expanded field means there is a chance for plucky underdogs with little chance of winning – such as Jordan, Curaçao & England – to compete with the big boys”)