Friday afternoon scoop 👇 About $50 billion in wind investments and 150,000 jobs are imperiled by the Trump administration’s effective halt to approvals for new onshore projects, according to a trade group report reviewed by Bloomberg News. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A tread on AI: 1/ When radio emerged in the 1920s it was sold as a powerful democratizing force that would create the kind of informed, ideal republic imagined by the founders. Instead we got a wasteland of right-wing talk radio and fundamentalist preachers. www.apmreports.org/episode/2014...

Accountability is a bitch! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

1969 and not 1959. Wow.

Good God, the NYT really can't help themselves, can they? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/u...

For something non-political on a Friday, I'm seeing more of these sorts of articles these days. As the father of 3 daughters I'm paying attention. Our strategy to avoid arguments will be simple: "Here is your wedding cash. It is your money, spend it as you want." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/s...

Looks like there could well be a Trump-driven gas tax holiday coming to Congress that Senate Dems will be very hard-pressed to go along with. Dems should condition a gas tax holiday on a complete reversal of Trump’s blocking of wind and solar around the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

They truly believe that all ordinary public servants are lazy grifters. And so have convinced themselves that this is actually the way to go. It is also the case that Trump has a feral nose for selecting out the worst grifters for appointments. Game knows game. The GOP wasn't always like that.

“10 publishers—The Toxic 10—are spreading baseless, unscientific climate denial on their own websites & across social media. They are responsible for 69% of all interactions with climate denial content on Facebook. It's a climate denial propaganda machine funded in part by Google via ad revenue…”

The next time you find someone pretending to explain quantum mechanics, quantum computers and quantum artificial intelligence like a guru, keep in mind this short introduction to the field given by Prof. Shankar at Yale University. After it, you can start spreading ignorance too. Simply brilliant.

I think we took something of a 'wrong turn' as a society when we made our intellectual ideal the young 'best and brightest' and put all of the value on *intelligence* as an inborn trait rather than on *learning* as an earned value. Learning is, frankly, far more important.

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

History repeats itself when small, corrupt men are allowed to have power. Science and truth are among the early targets.

This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪

I'd forgotten half of these.

Todd Blanche went to the Supreme Court to protect Trump’s sacred right to paint a target on judges’ backs

Blazers! Who knew.

I want to come back to this crucial point from @nickfleisher.bsky.social, with data. If you're going to write a report about "declining trust" in universities, then you better benchmark that to other institutions, & you cannot identify causes of that decline w/o accounting for the broader trend.

Turns out Donald Trump is the environmental president.

our opponents are relics. oil and coal and black smoke and childhood cancers. they are as much dinosaurs as the fossil fuels they seek to exploit. we look to the future, energy from the sun and wind and all the bounty given to us by god for a clean planet. do you see how easy this shit is

I do not understand this mentality at all. At every point in world history, homesteaders have always lived the most deprived, difficult, and meager lives. The 19th Century homesteaders on the great plains were the most impoverished Americans of their time. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

No more testing for rabies, monkeypox, other pox viruses at the CDC. They want Americans dead. www.aha.org/news/headlin...

Evil.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Fox News coming out in favor of teenage pregnancy was not on my bingo card for 2026.

Why'd the Confederates fight? They told us

The sad thing is people have been writing for decades about the decline of the family, specifically citing how it's the decline of stable marriages among the poor that is the key problem, but nobody's sufficiently willing to fix it because it would mean giving money to black people

“Future teachers should be prepared to select and sequence pedagogies based not on ideology or fashion, but on evidence about how learning develops, particularly for novices and students with fewer academic and social resources.” buff.ly/pJ6qw9y (via Science of Learning) #EduSky #AcademicSky

Once in a while, the classic NYT "both-sidesing" headlines are actually appropriate.

don't ask how I know, just trust me on this

The country would probably be better off if THESE women didn't vote! Of course they already have the right not to vote: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Trump is doing more than any other human on the planet to speed-run the worldwide conversion to EVs. Unfortunately, also because of Trump (and the incredible short-sightedness of US car companies) they won't be American-made EVs.

PRESIDENT: "We should have a national database of all legal US gun owners." CONSERVATIVES: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THAT IS UNAMERICAN!! YOU CAN'T TRACK AMERICAN CITIZENS!!! IT'S AGAINST OUR LIBERTY!!!!" PRESIDENT: "We will have a national database of all legal US voters." CONSERVATIVES: [yawn]

This is just about the most "reddit" reddit story ever!

Falls Church council member Justine Underhill explains this really well. I don't know if there's any amount of facts and logic that will convince many of these people, but if there is this video has it.

Here at No Kings Vancouver and remembering the last time the right tried to stage a protest in this country. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Thousands here in Vancouver WA.

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Thanks to Trump's war, this is now happening all around the world. BYD just sold 4,300 new EVs in Brazil in 2 days. If Trump has his way, the US will soon be a car museum like Cuba while the rest of the world moves on. en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/BYD-sold-43-...

Elizabeth Banks

OK, he already has my vote for this alone.

Western carmakers are retreating from EVs just as oil hits $100 a barrel. The parallels with Detroit in the 1980s are striking. They ignored fuel-efficient Japanese cars. Now they’re ignoring Chinese EVs. BYD just unveiled 600-mile range and 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes.

The Rapture is a moronic 19th-century theological concept, primarily popular among inbred American Evangelicals, that Jesus Christ will return to suddenly "snatch away" (or caught up) all believers, both living and dead, to heaven before a period of global "tribulation". 😐😑

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915

WATCH: Think 15-Minute City conspiracy theorists are just unhinged tin-foil hat nut jobs ranting about global overlords? Well, drop everything and watch this hard-hitting story by the @thedailyshow.com to be proven… um… #UrbanTruth Congrats @culdesac.bsky.social (ps, walkable cities can have cars)

1/ With the Iran war and skyrocketing gas prices I have more friends and co-workers seeing us drive a Tesla (I know, it's my wife's car) and have questions about how EVs work and charge. And even a lot of EV owners don't fully understand, so here is a tutorial thread on EVs and EV charging: