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Pundit brain: “Dems should pivot to the center by not talking about the issue that 65% of voters blame for the rising cost of living.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

One of my very few woo woo beliefs is that humans need to be able to see the night sky at least periodically to function properly and my evidence is that if I don’t go somewhere with dark skies at least every 4 months, I get really irritable and sad.

Leaving taxpayers to deal with huge environmental mess is framed here as a unique problem to the Permian. But you’d be hard pressed to find any huge oil and gas buildout that didn’t have it at the core of the business model. US abandoned wells number in the millions. www.reuters.com/article/busi...

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome

What's a few life-threatening mass blackouts when you can type in a few keywords and get a picture of Sydney Sweeney as Lara Croft but with 3 boobs

There are only two offenses the Constitution goes out of its way to specifically say merit impeachment, and this is one of them.

And (took me AGES to find this), have a read of this excellent piece by @rebleber.bsky.social on the history of cooking with gas. bsky.app/profile/rebl...

Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.

Stopped in the Richmond Target this evening and shared it with the descendants of African slaves, Asian refugees, English settlers, and Hispanic immigrants - all doing that most American of activities: last-minute Christmas shopping. That's the America I swore an oath to support and defend 🇺🇸

Engles saw workers in 19th century Manchester paying 25 percent of their income towards rent and was so aghast he invented communism. 25 percent of income going towards rent doesn’t even qualify as being rent-burdened in America today.

It was all a lie…

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

Not saying the people running State are foreign agents but also if you were a foreign agent running State this does feel like the kind of thing you’d do.

every time

It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.

this is always my favorite It's a Wonderful LIfe Trivia

J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.

this isn’t bringing up any historical parallels or anything

dumping the epstein files right before christmas is incredible news for cousins

Anyone else just hear this lyric banging around their heads all the time these days

There is no energy emergency in WA. There is a climate emergency. The Centralia coal plant needs to close as scheduled. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/keep...

We all deserve to know when we’re being lied to. CCI’s Charlotte Marcil explains how BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell sold false climate promises for 25 years — and how to identify Big Oil's most common lies, one by one.

Some of my stories this year included: - how the gas industry pushed state bills to redefine gas as “clean” energy - how the DOE partnered with plastics lobbyists - how Exxon is building CO2 pipelines through communities after Trump withdrew safety regs More: www.exxonknews.org/p/exxonknews...

House Democrats are undermining the party's chance to run against Trumpian graft by prioritizing the protection of their own corrupt incumbents. Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social makes the case for @prospect.org. prospect.org/2025/12/23/h...

Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression

Unsurprising but devastating: plans for a zombified NCA6 to be written by a handful of climate contrarians & Grok. A slap in the face to the American public, and to the hundreds of scientists who'd volunteered to spend the next several years carefully doing this the right way, for the public good.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

“Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras designed to record and track people, not vehicles. Condor cameras can be set to automatically zoom in on people’s faces as they walk through a parking lot, down a public street, or play on a playground, or they can be controlled manually”

Not trying to “I told you so” anyone in the media but I stood by my reporting on Trump targeting Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind despite countless Beltway pundits telling me privately I was wrong because “Republicans like that one” MAGA culture is not about “all of the above”

📰 10 years ago today 📰 @insideclimatenews.org exposed how oil companies other than Exxon — including Mobil, Amoco, Phillips, Texaco, Shell, Sunoco, and the predecessors to Chevron — were aware of the climate dangers of fossil fuels in the 1970s. Oil executives still pushed doubt for decades.

He's a YIMBY abundance guy

a note from the CBS reporter behind this story to her colleagues tonight

The final battle for American politics has begun...the evil guys are really dumb but the good guys are 100 years old or on vacation for 44 weeks out of the year so it's anyone's ballgame really

So, in addition to the Cars of it all, we just don't yet have the hardened, sustainable, multiply redundant infrastructure necessary to make automated vehicles work. Also, as the article notes, humans & semi-autonomous networks likely won't respond the same way if & when a facilitating system fails.

This is the (pretty negative) prognosis for the oil and gas industry from the belly of the beast in Texas, even with absolutely every bit of federal and state help they could possibly have. But sure, let's continue to pour all our hopes for "abundance" into this leaky bucket.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Do you feel safer now that anyone wearing a balaclava and a jacket that says FBI can come into your house and rob you? www.chronline.com/stories/they...?

This isn’t just a hypothetical “fear.” The same communities of color that have long suffered from higher rates of pollution and environmental degradation are now being targeted again by big tech companies and their power hungry data centers. This is unacceptable.

These sections in particular read as if you put 10 year old American Petroleum Institute ad copy into ChatGPT and told it to write a NYT column. Just uncritical industry rhetoric.

The Desimone levee seemed destined to fail Here’s why: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

if im being honest i have been chasing the high of the mlb playoffs when i was drinking like half a rack of mexican light beer while screaming with blind despondent rage at the mariners and then the blue jays until like 2am

There’s been lots of studies done showing these weapons have little utility in modern warfare, especially given the well-documented death and disfigurement they bring to civilians for decades after they are placed. This is a proactive choice to kill innocent children. www.icrc.org/en/article/l...