I genuinely hope that Musk can deliversolar + battery storage at anywhere vaguely near the cost & tech level Chinese manufacturers have achieved. For sure, that would be great if it happens. Still the idea that Musk's business now turns on proving the dirty hippies were right is...pleasing.

I. Can't. Even.

I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids." That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

رَمَضان كَريم

This is at once a penetrating glimpse of the historically obvious and an utterly novel thought to the cabal currently operating as the government of the United States.

It is remarkable how much clearer the air is in Silicon Valley than it was ten years ago. Electric cars have made a huge difference www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My cat Mo could play for the nation on the Olympic kitty bottle cap hockey team.

Woot! The almost final cover for the US edition of A Pox on Fools has just dropped! (More info about the book here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808113...)

New quick post up at LinkedIn and Substack about the common thread that links disparate Trump administration anti-science efforts. LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... And Substack:

Crazy day deserves a crazy type video. Makes us smile .. youtu.be/B9FzVhw8_bY?...

Ted Cruz is a reliable inverse indicator. If he says the sun rises in the east, go check.

No surprise, but depressing as hell anyway. We're killing 1000s of Iranians & destroying ancient, vibrant places to obscure a) Trump's political decline & b) the drip-drip-drip revelations of Trump's pedophilia. All that in our names, to the lasting shame of—and increased danger to—every American.

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

I made this a year ago, so CBS should now be under state run news. but other than that I think it still holds.

Who could have predicted this? [Narrator: everyone with a functioning lobe.]

Daylight savings time has altered the positioning of the a.m. bedspread sun splash, and someone is not amused:

Draco's Triplet in the northern constellation Draco contains three gravitationally bound galaxies located a staggering ~130 Mly away NGC 5985, NGC 5982 and NGC 5981 combined contain trillions of stars and potentially billions of habitable planets #Astronomy #Photography #Nature #AstroPhotography

What exactly is the Pentagon paying these AI companies to do to us? www.npr.org/2026/03/08/n...

So Much Winning. Thanks everyone who voted for this monster in 2024. And thanks, everyone, who decided voting for the Democrat was simply impossible, despite the stakes.

Trump openly lies about the bombed girls school. As Americans we make mistakes in war but they are unintentional and we own them. Trump blaming Iran is no different than what Putin does when he blames Ukraine for attacks Russia clearly does. We’ve become accepting of pure lies

Andrew O'Hagen has written a marvelous, judicious, furious essay about that other Andrew, the child-rapist former 4th-in-line-to-the-UK throne. Read to the end. The existence of an Epstein class is confirmed, and clearly identified with MAGA and Britain's Reform.

Page One @miamiherald.com

It is always the Democratic officials' fault, according to elite mainstream media. Always.

Should be noted that Talarico also advocates for a separation of church and state. I'm a lifelong atheist, but if faith guides politicians to kindness and compassion, I will embrace them all with open arms regardless of religious denomination. Don't care how others get there, love is love.

This is really good.

There is no grift opportunity anywhere that this president won't grab. According to the linked article, the president is exempt from conflict of interest laws. Not a problem when you have the integrity of, say Jimmy Carter. Kind of a big deal right now.

So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Welp…I’ve a timeline for retirement with a plus/minus on the exact year. Events over the last week have moved me hard to the plus side. The effect of Trump’s & MAGA’s war of choice on my ability to stop working is…not positive. I’m lucky. I have a job in which I get to make that choice. But still.

🔆 Good morning! History doesn't repeat... But it sure as hell rhymes. “Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.” — George Miller The Who - Baba O'Riley www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY5r...

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

A follow up question asking him what the causus belli was in 1947 could have led to an amusing reply.

When the President of your country acknowledges that he's letting the leader of another country make critical national security decisions for him.

Just filled my tank tonight. Our car is a Prius plug-in, which means that this is a rare occasion. Up at least 20% since the last time in a gas station. Thanks for nothing Trump.

The Republicans, led by their felon in chief, refer to everything climate-change related as the “green new scam.” Meanwhile, in the rest of the world… We’ll be choking on diesel fumes while the rest of the world rides in silenct style.

In support of stand up for science here is an image of galaxy M51. Beautiful night. Clear and no moon

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces. Not surprising. What IS surprising? Our response: easing oil sanctions on Russia. Full breakdown on this and more from my Weekend Update on my Substack page: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/weekend-vi...

Why Tesla robotaxis can't go driverless: -4x more likely to crash vs humans -3x more likely to cause an injury crash vs humans -FSD knowingly runs red lights/drives the wrong way -Tesla can't explain why -Regulatory strangle: 1000s of new FSD crashes found open.substack.com/pub/bradmunc...

Trump's done an enormous favor for Putin. The Russian economy was/is floundering. Higher oil prices is a lifeline.

Every single staffer who took part in this should be fired. And then prosecuted for malicious neglect. (I don't know if that's a crime, but somehow it must be possible to find a prosecutable act in knowing a risk of suicide and creating an incentive to encourage it.)

Yes, gentle reader... I laughed. In fact, if I'd been drinking some soda, it would have been fountaining out my nose. (Now there's an image you didn't need. ;-))

Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.

ICE is STILL in Minnesota and STILL terrorizing communities. Reporters that say otherwise are either uninformed (which....) or lazy (which... ) or just repeating regime lies (which... is also extremely bad). People are still missing, people are and will be traumatized, businesses demolished...

Trump did say he saw those who serve as marks. He's proving that now.

Trump is the markiest mark that ever lived. Putin is telling Iran what, where, and when to hit, and Trump is all "Please, sir. May I have another."

RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

Just got an email that displayed the following header in my inbox: "Please sign and send a letter to your member..." To be honest, I don't usually write to that particular addressee.... ;-) #sorrynotsorry.

OK. So that's done. A vertical video is now out in the world. Now I gotta figure out a) how to do this much more efficiently than this first one. b) how to do it better. And... c) how not to get sucked into the endless edit vortex that is so seductive. Priez pour moi.

And one more: LinkedIn too: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

And another update: it's now up at Youtube, the first video on my nascent channel: www.youtube.com/@tomlevenson...