My coverage of today's announcements on coal from the Interior Department, EPA, and DOE is below. As one source put it: "There is no such thing as clean coal." insideclimatenews.org/news/2909202...

I'm afraid Ezra is lost to the brain worms. If Ta-Nehisi Coates can't bring him back, no one can.

No one at any of these stations or KPTV (Gray/Fox) thinks Portland is a war zone. But watch whether any of them say the factual part out loud. We need local news, but only if it's willing to say what is observably true. Otherwise journalists are just stenographers.

Turns out the Epstein files are in Portland

1) A good reminder that Doug Burgum is full of shit 2) Some courts are holding

We saw a LOT of great music this summer, and Al's Red Rocks show was easily the best of the year.

Only the best people

Damn that's cool

This is a BFD.

Putting on my media analyst hat for a moment: Nexstar and Sinclair need Disney far more than Disney needs Nexstar and Sinclair. The only exposure that Disney has to the FCC is through its affiliates, not streaming or cable. 🧵:

This. You can acknowledge that political violence is unconscionable without also whitewashing people who dehumanize others.

Quick check on how quickly we're falling into fascism. Reporters need to make it clear whether they've signed this Kremlin bullshit. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/g...

Listen, if Homan is going to get in trouble for this, it's because the going rate for a cabinet-level bribe in this administration is way higher than $50k

Ordinarily I wouldn't even bother sharing a debunking of Тим and Elmo, but this is, in fact, one of the stupidest charts in human history.

I'm old enough to remember when Donald Duck punched fascists

This is from January 22.

"Who am I as a person if I'm not willing to eulogize a bigot who spent his career dehumanizing others?"

He then told Eric all about his girlfriend who lives in Canada

Once again, RTD gives us a minimum viable service that is designed to fail. Linking to the W line which runs on 30-minute headways makes this almost impossible to use. So no one will use it, and RTD will declare the experiment a failure. Wash, rinse, repeat. denverite.com/2025/09/12/r...

Aka Friday night

Columbine happened as I was graduating from college. This week, I got the "I love you" text message from my kid as he hid from a gunman who shot one of his friends. Today, I went to one of the many school walkouts and cried as I realized just how badly we have failed these children.

TFW your publisher says you have to keep writing books about secrets but you're all out of ideas

They're going to use this to go after anyone who stands up for trans kids or says fascism is bad. For the record: DEFEND TRANS KIDS. FASCISM IS BAD.

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

To the 9News anchor who just said today's shooting at my kid's is "something we have to accept in our world" — it is not. I do not accept that my children have to live in fear. I do not accept that any child should ever be shot, at school or anywhere else.

Yes I am politicizing this shooting at my kid's school. Every school shooting is political. Every school shooting is the result of choices made by cowardly politicians. This is on them. I'm so sad and so angry.

Charlie Kirk might have thought he was an acceptable sacrifice on the altar of the Second Amendment. My kid, his classmates, and friends are not. Now is the time to talk about gun control, gun fetishization, and everyone in power who makes our kids live in fear.

My kid's school is on lockdown right now because of an active shooter. One hour ago I got the "I love you" text that no parent ever wants to get. Charlie Kirk is always wrong, even about Charlie Kirk. Screw your thoughts and prayers.

I didn't realize we had a ho usage crisis but this may explain a lot

Quick, someone tell Ezra Klein it's time for Pet Adoption Abundance

Took some great food pictures at dinner last night but my favorite ended up being a glass of water.

Now is a great time to listen to S3 of 13 Minutes to the Moon from the BBC— it's a history of the Space Shuttle, including the terrible decisions and structural problems inside NASA and its contractors that led to the Challenger disaster.

This is an entirely new level of evil.

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr

What is the most perfect prepared food you can buy in the grocery store and why is it Kozy Shack rice pudding?

Tired: Deportation abundance Wired: Epstein file abundance

The "Abundance" people think it's okay to have a speaker from the Manhattan Institute promote "deportation abundance." The conference is filled with people like this, making it clear that the "Abundance" grift sits far to the right of the median voter. It exists to move the country farther right.

A government of sociopaths

Masks off for Ezra and Matty. Masks on for ICE.

Don't forget the land seizure crew! Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein have crawled into bed with the anti-public lands extremists at the Pacific Legal Foundation. There's nothing centrist about the abundance charlatans.

I'm only buying it if there's a secret weakness that causes the entire thing to explode

The pro-life party strikes again www.jezebel.com/in-africa-ba...

Just to be clear here: The president is claiming he has the authority to execute anyone he claims is a drug dealer, without trial or any due process

The only way out is with so much more fire. We have a century of suppression buildup exacerbated by climate change. Suppression will continue to fail in more expensive and spectacular ways.

And the search for that framed photo begins now

Meanwhile, Polis keeps cozying up to RFK. Colorado deserves so much better.

This is my rake. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rake is my best friend. It is my life.

Thursday Murder Club: God, what a great movie that could have been with a script and director that approached it with just the tiniest bit of subtlety. It's insulting to waste so much acting talent on a script that bad, and Chris Columbus treats these legends like they're child actors.

Trump's union-busting spree now includes the National Weather Service, Voice of America, and NASA. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Eat, Pray, Murder