More evidence of solar plus batteries eliminating the need for diesel generators. This is incredibly good news for the people who live in these communities. “We used to depend on diesel and lamps,” said Waldemir da Silva....“Today we have electricity 24 hours a day, without noise or smoke.”

the number of people i see speeding through school zones and residential streets with their phones directly in their faces…

This is our future with Grok teaching elementary school math

BLIMP

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

This is culturally really dangerous. Functioning societies depend on most people mostly following the rules even when they could probably get away with not doing so. That breaks down very fast once a critical mass decide that makes them saps and suckers.

everyone involved in the dismantling of USAID should be forced to spend their lives watching graphic videos of what they have subjected people to in their callousness, clockwork orange style

Apparently the stock market likes trade blockades and a good ol' fashioned POTUS-POPEUS spat

historic rejection of JD Vance

Super Typhoon Sinlaku is now peaking at Category 5 strength and is likely to make landfall on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands in about 36 hours. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is a US territory. They're going to need all the help they can get after this storm.

even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

So I guess we are all just supposed to go to work and run urgent errands and keep an eye & ear out to see what the madman does – and how Iran retaliates – today, huh?

conservative pundits, GOP apparatchiks and their various enablers spend 10 years insisting that racism is marginal to trump and trumpism trump:

I think especially because the news media has recently demonstrated what "we think the president is incompetent and that he should not be in office" looks like in how they covered Biden post-debate and don't do the same for Trump

The Contiguous U.S. had its 3rd driest March since at least 1940. 🌵

yes

Millions of working class voters: Lose my health insurance, lose my local hospital, lose my elderly parent's nursing home, lose my kids' daycare, and get a foreign war that leaves a lot of people dead plus makes my cost of living more expensive? Yes, thank you, this is what I want.

It's hard not to think of Paxton's definition of fascism when considering the extent to which the federal government under Trump has been reduced to a) a rogue murder state outside the nation's boundaries and b) a rogue, ethnic cleansing/mass deportation operation *inside* the nation's boundaries.

The multiple question marks are really what does it

Just a note that Noem and Bondi weren't fired for their evil actions. They were fired for not being evil enough.

Now France is denying airspace…

Shot / chaser

Of course, the local news mentioned TSA agents being paid without noting that the spending of funds without Congress appropriating them is blatantly illegal

"...you guys need to do something about it."

They’re cutting your healthcare to pay for a war that’s raising your gas prices.

People with #disabilities are once again harmed by the Trump Administration's malice, this time through the predictable consequences of an unnecessary, illegal war...

Congressional Republicans: We can only win this year's elections if we change the rules

This is infuriating

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

My jaw is on the floor

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Everyday voters like you can exercise SIGNIFICANT influence over state and local politics by calling your legislators and politely explaining your position on an upcoming vote. Small but well organized groups of NIMBYs have maintained a 65 year chokehold on zoning by simply showing up all the time.

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

AI starting to cannibalize cities

I love this framing. Not excited about the CA Gov race but Steyer seems like clearly the best of our options.

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

This is insane.

This isn’t normal and we have to say that out loud.

If we want to have a functional welfare state, and I do, then we are going to need to tax the middle class to fund it. That is okay.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

The food stamp cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill are $18 billion this year.

MAHA is a public health catastrophe, and a catastrophe for people with #disabilities. The anti-vaccine movement is filled with eugenicist ideology and rhetoric. And the unnecessary increase in rates of disability will strain health and social service systems that people with disabilities rely on.

The cost of this war is not going to be felt hardest or most by the bank accounts of Westerners.

That’s 3-4 days global supply/demand….

Transit is a great medium-term way to attack foreign energy dependence, and yet, here we are, shooting ourselves in the foot, again!