And I thought America was run on bullshit.

see also screwworm

🔥 Here in Boston, like elsewhere, we're seeing air pollution from Canadian wildfires — the odd-colored sun, the haze, and the real health risks that come with it. This has real costs. @kclausing.bsky.social, @knittelmit.bsky.social and I tallied ways that U.S. hhs have experienced climate change.

I also think much of the rather quiet response in the streets is owed to these people believing this justice will surely be meted out. In spite of Jan 6, it’s just inconceivable that they’ll get away with this mind boggling criminality. So we wait..

I simultaneously believe AI will be transformative, and that there will be relatively little producer surplus to be captured by the multiple firms offering reasonably good substitutes. I think the "AGI race" framing that has driven this investment boom is a genuine mania. They'll lose their shirts.

As someone how cares about climate and energy policy: Boy that Bill McKibben interview on Ezra Klein sucked. Just a bumbling mess of lefty talking points. First reference was praise for Mark Jacobson, the hack who sued a scientist for pointing out basic errors in his work. Downhill from there.

ICE is a menace to democracy and its murderous conduct should be soberly considered. But we should also recognize that these people are weak and sad and ought to be made fun of. Read more: www.theverge.com/policy/96430...

The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.

The pilot fish found a new shark for whom he could betray all his principles.

Some are saying go Norway. Others are saying go England. But I’m saying go Switzerland and the seven person executive council!

Realistic missing markets for opportunity lead to excessive residential segregation by economic status when neighborhoods matter for child outcomes, from @lkatz42.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35419

S31: It may not be an A, but we're all proud of you.

If the upshot of this scandal is a more deeply tainted FIFA and athletes joyously mocking Trump on the biggest possible stage, I’d say thanks for the own-goal, Mr. President.

Ha, I was about to click. Nah, I’m good.

Oh man, today I learned: www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Great job everyone.

PM at 256 for the 250th.

What is the point of that insanely specific geolocation data sold by brokers if not tracking these losers back to their clubhouse, and from there to their homes and identities?

Welcome to bsky to my newly-tenured Tufts colleague, @elizabeth-setren.bsky.social !

To be fair Europe *also* makes it too hard to power A/C with clean energy. At least their backwardness suppresses both supply and demand simultaneously!

Just received a spammy emailing licking Trump’s boots from the U.S. Social Security Administration and I swear someone broke a law somewhere with SSA data just to stroke Dear Leader’s ego.

Chris Rufo, your ancestors were Italian for the love of furbizia. The Klein interview was a series of near pin-downs, moving on to a new topic before ever forcing Rufo to tap out.

There were 2 major defeats of the Confederacy and its pro-slavery rebellion. One was on the battlefield. The other is called the "Reconstruction Amendments", 13, 14 & 15, passed to undo the Confederacy's power. The 6 Supes are Neo-Confederates working to reverse those Reconstruction Amendments.

KGB officer just updated his LinkedIn profile to “communications contractor.”

I think this case is one where—paradoxically—the larger the reform, the more moderate it appears. A small change to just the Supreme Court is much more easily dismissed as a partisan power grab.

Alternative headline: "After decade-long grace period, market-based climate policy shows effect" Sub-hed: "Domestic vacations and night trains as big winners"

It’s really quite striking the lengths that conservative legislators and judges will go to prevent imaginary harm to themselves while simultaneously denying redress for the actual damages they inflict on others.

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“I can’t guarantee your lights are going to stay on unless you pay us what we ask for” is a hell of a business model.

I especially love this diagram.

Packing the court won’t be enough. Moderate Democrats should be drawing up and selling plans for a wholesale restructuring of the U.S. judiciary. It’s broken beyond repair.

This is like the gas lobby saying renewables and transmission can’t be built fast enough while making sure the process is as slow as possible.

We need people with the stomach to fight fascism & the smarts to do it effectively Where they fall on the ideological spectrum is of secondary importance

With Europe breaking temperature records in June it's worth highlighting the complete absurdity of building gas-fired turbines to power data centers in the EU. Data centers can be located anywhere and deliver output globally, costlessly on fiber. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Happy Juneteenth, the greatest of American holidays.

If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.

Okay folks, what's the next hot stove we're going to touch, just to make sure it still burns us? We're not going to just sit around and let the Epstein files dominate the news cycle anew.

Trump fired the BLS chief for allegedly rigging jobs numbers. Cool new paper finds the act of firing her (and the uncertainty it created) likely cost the economy more than the entire annual BLS budget.

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

I’ll just note that we have one of those, too.

Where do you put it?

the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.

Two simple questions in order for Dolan/MSG: 1) Did you expect that Trump might get booed if you put him on the Jumbotron? 2) Why did you choose to provoke that reaction during the National Anthem?

20,000 people chanting "F-you Donald" like it's "Let's go Yankees." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Hundreds of thousands of German Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and most were unwanted abroad, putting them back in the sights of the Nazis. Hegseth's analogy only points one way.

I think the front page of ESPN advertising the spread, sponsored by the bookie is probably bad for sport.