This is well worth a read. But it's premised on a notion that gas is still good in the short term, everywhere. By Zeke's own analysis elsewhere, US electricity emissions haven't gone down at all since the dawn of frack boom. We also know that right now, methane leaks in the Permian average 9%.

The results re oil seem very uncertain (almost like no one planned it?). But sleepy wanna-be king tilts at windmill of last centuries energy policy while the US gets lapped technologically seems pretty par for the course

One thing I've learned is that you don't call it a gas station. Western PA in mourning www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-n...

Congestion pricing is working as expected in New York City. Here's why. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/05/h...

Congestion pricing is an unqualified success in NYC. It would be great to see it expanded to every city with decent public transit options. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New year, new bread

Crack, crack, old ship! so long as thou crackest, thou holdest!

Despite headwinds, over 20 new EVs are coming to the US market in 2026, including several more affordable vehicles. Can any thrive without federal tax credits? insideevs.com/news/782572/... 🔌💡 🔌🚗

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

oh my god he posted so many action shots from the makeshift mar a lago situation room and they were just looking at tweets together on a gigantic screen

Gen Z may not appreciate how much effort went into WMD lies. What a production. This is so lazy, transparent.

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

Electeds should say any oil companies participating will be subject to sanctions and investigations

Senate to close barn door following horse escape.

Possibly a reason someone used to talk him into this, but do we really need to look past the obvious: this like everything else is a vanity project for Trump. Past prez’ got to have their wars and he wants his. This keeps him in command of headlines, and distracts from prices and the files.

This war/invasion/kidnapping is a lot of terrible and illegal things, but don't forget that one of them is a distraction from the still-largely unreleased Epstein files and what they may tell us about Trump's history of sex crimes.

Even Rs who’ve gone after Meta for allowing crime and abuse on the platform (like Hawley) haven’t wagged a finger at Elon.

At 1:55 a.m. this morning, our reporter in Caracas looked up with a start. Explosions were being heard all throughout the city. Here’s what he saw, heard and felt as the U.S. captured Maduro — and what he fears will happen next.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

The US needs to start the year off right. Everybody who can needs to call for impeachment and removal right now.

So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago. And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.

Just once I'd like to wake up to people freaking out for good reasons

Good news, everyone. We can relax. The oil is fine.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

One of the most gratifying parts of my work in 2025 was supporting the build-out of a new state agency designed to finance clean energy. From $0 to $20M in lending in a few years, with hundreds of millions in the pipeline. Public sector-driven abundance, you might say. Read more 👇 #hugabureaucrat

"He is arguing that democracy has been undermined not as much by a single individual, but by decades of policies that have led to an anemic government—one that has enriched those sitting atop the private sector and left everyone else treading water"

“Why are Americans mistrustful of AI?” asks the morning briefing thing I’m skimming while I “no” through literally a dozen questions being asked to me by a robot who stands between me and the person I need to talk to to schedule the x-ray that I really, really need

Congestion pricing "has been a striking success. Traffic speeds have increased. Pollution is down. The fee is generating a large amount of revenue for the city’s transit system. And predictions that it would be bad for business have proved completely wrong." Via @pkrugman.bsky.social

“We might not be able to solve all the problems — in fact, we certainly cannot — and we aren’t able to reduce all the suffering our government is causing. But we want to offer something that is meaningful and worthwhile.”

"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

Dog says happy new year I love butternut squash and snow

One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Happy New Year, Bluesky.

Somehow missed this October paper announcing that staghorn and elkhorn corals are officially functionally extinct on the Florida Reef after a 2023 heatwave. It was a good run in the Holocene, RIP www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A New Year's Toast from Patricia Highsmith (and me) 🥂🥂

“But in a modern, free, and truly democratic society, it should not be a mystery for days to its population and its voters whether or not their president has just bombed a new sovereign nation, without any declaration of war – all while the federal government that’s funded by our tax dollars…

Just remembered Ozma. This really is a week to reset.

Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.

In Australia, rooftop solar permitting & utility interconnection take 24 hours each. In the US, each step is 60-90 days, plus more time for post-install inspection. More deets in this podcast 👇🏼

Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.

We have grown fat and arrogant in our holiday torpor. The discourse tired, the takes without juice. Friends, I implore you, go outside and seek inspiration in the divine. Find the grass, touch it.

this story is so upsetting in so many ways. folks pushed out of their homes by banks that never follow through, a land bank that city officials have allowed to languish rather than properly funding, & properties wasting away because the city isn't pursuing foreclosure on tax delinquent properties

Seems very good