Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: < A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

A house in my neighborhood has dahlias that are dialed up to 11, and I wish I could give them to everyone everywhere.

Exactly this

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Robert Frost

Wind turbine parts for offshore projects still staging in New London, in spite of the Trump admin trying to kill it all off

On this #Caturday, our vet's new office manager is not putting up with foolish dogs or their feckless owners.

Found this masterpiece in a carton of family papers, drawn by my brother when he was 7 and our younger sister was 4. If there's a "My older sister" opus somewhere in the box, I can guess what it looks like.

NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: American University

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I've heard this from Boston-area therapists. We're a health care center, but that doesn't mean it's easy to find a caregiver who takes insurance. And it's agonizing to have a loved one in crisis and struggle to connect them with treatment. projects.propublica.org/why-i-left-t...

Next-level pettiness from the Trump administration, which wants to destroy systems that cost hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to build, just because it doesn't like what they do. Don't tell us you're cutting government waste when you're causing it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

This is a solidly written survey question. I hope Blue Rose is starting their forced choice era. They’re helpful for understanding both current public opinion and how to shape it; when you get a result like this it’s a clue there’s a resonant surface there you can amplify with positioning and ads.

THIS! Dems don't all have to sound alike, but they should sound like real people. www.thebulwark.com/p/shocking-i...

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One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say. Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.

The Trump administration "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of the [Administrative Procedure Act], the First Amendment and Title VI."

The prospect of states sorting themselves into red and blue camps isn't a happy one, but if it's going to happen, I know where i'd rather live. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...

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By retired Lt General Mark Hertling, former Commanding General of US Army Europe and Seventh Army

We know spending time outdoors can restore our focus and renew our energy, but how does that work? Neuroscientist Marc Berman has answers in "Nature and the Mind." It was a pleasure to review this optimistic and highly readable book for @undark.org 🌏🧪 📖 undark.org/2025/08/29/b...

CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Mahalia Jackson

🎶 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🚚 #Storrowed

Oh, New England

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.

On the environment beat, there would not be money in that bag Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Smashing car windows to make arrests has become a frequent ICE tactic: @propublica.org documents nearly 50 instances in 2025, compared to 8 in the past decade. Use-of-force experts say that tactic has been rare up to now projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Tech companies use billions of gallons of water to power and cool their data centers, but good luck to prospective host communities who want to see the numbers theconversation.com/data-centers...

Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C. www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news

Heads up, @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @latimes.com -- here's how to inform your readers with a headline, and make them want to click for the details. Fist bump to @bostonglobe.com and thanks to @sulliview.bsky.social for spotlighting media normalization of Trump

“Free DC!” chat at the 51-minute mark at tonight’s @washingtonspirit.com - @racingloufc.com NWSL game. #NWSL #WoSo #ThatsTheSpirit

Hell yes, we should (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hey @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com et al: While you focus on institutions bowing to Trump, Americans are standing up for democracy. New data from @chenoweth.bsky.social and colleagues shows that No Kings Day was one of the largest days of protest in US history wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Jimmy Fallon

Rewriting US history, right here and now.

This is spot on. Do better, @nytimes.com, and do it now.

"There seems to be an aggressive approach to the most vulnerable families and people in America. Not only is it unfair, it’s onerous that public schools have to provide transportation to non-public school students.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It is important that people understand that only building engineering prevented this being a wholesale slaughter of dedicated public servants.

and it goes like this: Driver friend: Bye, have a good trip! Traveler: Um, something's weird ... oh jeez Driver: are you effing kidding me Traveler: I wish [mad scramble back to car, tense drive] Driver: BYE

My daughter’s reaction is spot on: Anyone who’s not a rich white man and tried this would be arrested. Also, #pierogiless should become a meme vineyardgazette.com/news/2025/08...

Does Trump understand that the US doesn't have proportional representation? “They did it to us, the blue states .... In Massachusetts, I got, I think, 41% of the vote, a very blue state, and yet [Democrats] got 100 percent of Congress.” #polisky www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/m...

In other news, smoking will now be required on airplanes, women will once again need a man's signature to get a credit cars, and trash cans will be removed parks so visitors can freely strew their garbage www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Many questions @us.theconversation.com receives for its Curious Kids column ask "If everyone on Earth did _____ at once, what would happen?" Here's the latest – what if we turned on ALL the lights? Love editing these fun pieces. 🌏💡❓ theconversation.com/if-everyone-...

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

Scientists: If you're alarmed by the new Trump administration report that says climate change isn't so bad and is too expensive to mitigate, 👇👇👇🌏