The fact the New York Times is on a crusade to prevent a Muslim nominee for New York City’s mayor from getting elected while the most powerful people in the country openly talk about ethnic cleansing and dismantling democracy is why I will never stop despising that garbage fire of a newspaper.
Battery storage just hit a watershed moment: $51/kWh in China, down 30% in 12 months. While fossil fuels get slower & pricier, batteries are getting cheaper and better. This isn’t a trend—it’s now a rupture. Solar + storage is now the default for new energy. Everywhere. ⚡📉 #BESS #EnergyTransition
This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...
@petersagal.bsky.social finished listening to your book last night. cried a few times. truly lovely and helps me think about what matters most in my life. thank you so much for being so vulnerable.
I started running! Just a bit, but going on two weeks now, most days. never enjoyed it until now!
I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.
I would just like one (1) high-profile political journalist to publicly acknowledge the painfully obvious fact that the two parties are covered differently, held to different standards, and to wrestle with why that is & its practical effects on US politics.
(Difficulty: impossible.)
In order to keep global warming below 1.5C or 2C, we need to move industrial activity to clean energy. This will MORE THAN DOUBLE our global need for electricity.
We are going to need a LOT more wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean electricity than most people are expecting.
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Carbon budget countdown to exceeding 1.5°C
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@mcbride.house.gov really lovely interview on Ezra, thank you! Feeling inspired and hopeful in a way I’ve not in a long time. Hope others take your message to heart. Thank you for fighting for real change, even if slow and imperfect.
The country’s ruler celebrated their birthday with a military parade while simultaneously protests against their authoritarian rule occurred in every state is the sort of news story Americans used to write about “failing third world democracies.”
FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large
FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large
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Here's Governor Newsome's full address tonight:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXQQ...
No uniting speech.
No attempt to explain to a broad range of thoughtful Americans why these drastic and terrifying actions are necessary for us all.
No appealing to the best parts of all of us.
In short, no *leadership*. America is entering a historic crisis with no leader, no leadership at all.
really well done! one of the best explanations of downscaling I’ve read.
20% - 25% of the CO2 emissions of gasoline come from its extraction, refining, and distribution. That carbon is in the air before the fuel is even burned.
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.
Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.
*Trump's "big beautiful bill" is the cruelest and most irresponsible domestic legislation to be seriously proposed in my lifetime." -Ezra Klein nails it.
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
Climate solutions. . . .
I have in general become way less tolerant of ‘crunchy’ bullshit since ascension of people like RFK jr. to actual power. Sorry but the obnoxious Reddit science and logic guys were right, you should be scorned for believing objectively wrong things about consequential issues.
At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
Since we’re in a golden age of new Star Wars tv shows, I’ll again pitch “David Attenborough style nature documentaries but of fictional Star Wars creatures.”
No empire. No Jedi. Like, what the Jedi would watch on tv to relax after a stressful mission.
From The Onion: Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
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I finally found a strategy that’s dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions from food, and it’s a hilariously simple strategy. I wrote about it for @canarymedia.com.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...
Kinda wild to see Morgan Stanley pretty much saying that investors are screwed.
It’s not a surprise but still jarring to see people whose job is to provide sober financial analysis just going “sucks to be you” if you have money in the market.
I’m gonna say something that is going to sound crazy, but when has that ever stopped me from saying something publicly: there is a way in which the U.S. chucking its position in the world could actually fast-track energy transition. A few things that have me thinking this way 🧵
