That also means moving away from the obsession with heroic mobilisation multiples. The right benchmark is not PR-friendly leverage arithmetic. It is whether climate investment becomes: cheaper, repeatable, and scalable. findevlab.org/wp-content/u...

Are gun rights more sacrosanct than voting rights? In Watson v. RNC, there’s an unexplored 2A comparison. Conservatives accept that blanket gun rights come with real harm. Even assuming the boogeyman of voter fraud risks, should it justify weakening constitutional protection of voting rights?

Any more Weberianism and we'll start calling him Spidey.

“How is diversity a strength” well it’s better than racist dumbass homogeneity, you see

Natto good idea! (I'll see myself out)

There is a misperception that fossil fuel shocks could drive *more* fossil fuel use. It should be simple: fossil fuels - including coal - get more pricey, we use less of them and more clean energy. The error is focusing on what politicians say instead of the real world.🧵 bsky.app/profile/laur...

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

The "paradise" Joni sang about was a single-stair multifamily don't at me

I see spiderman is no longer the only Weber in New York City.

Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court. DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses! DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations." DOJ blames ICE (page 2)

Trump is holding TSA pay hostage all to try to disenfranchise tens of millions of American citizens over delusions of voter fraud. Rein in ICE. Pay TSA. NO to the SAVE Trump Act.

Swedish highways often post reduced speed limits during traffic jams, with the bus lane prominently posting a higher speed limit. I don't think the bus drivers need the information but it sure helps remind drivers why to take the bus.

"The Axis of Petrostates is a reactionary coalition—led notably by the US, in tacit coalition with .. states such as Russia and the Gulf monarchies—whose economic models and civilizational narratives are inextricably tied to fossil fuels." foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/c...

Ah, Kant for toddlers. I Kant even.

the republican justices are as pickled in MAGA slop as any pardoned jan 6er

Anyone who thinks hydrogen is the solution to energy security in Europe is flat wrong. You would need to believe the price of natural gas is going up 5x and staying there for 15 years! It would be like buying a fleet of snowploughs in case it snows in Riyadh, except at a cost of trillions of euros.

"In President Trump's America, there may be only two genders, but our military adventures can identify however they please." Now that is a zinger.

TACO is truly betamaxxing in every sense of the term.

The economic fallout from the Strait of Hormuz isn't a hypothetical — it's already there. Most people in Europe and the US just can't feel it yet. A threat on our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social article: what's heading our way, and why the burden won't be shared equally. 1/

It's called the polycrisis because enough shit is fucked it's poly gonna cause a crisis

The first muslim recorded in what is now New York City settled in 1630, a few years before the first Italian. Eid Mubarak.

Commodity markets are dramatically tiny compared to Bond Markets that are in turmoil this week. Its not directly War -> actual Inflation but about the change in expectations about the future. Financial markets were expecting Central Banks to cut interest rates this year bsky.app/profile/iank...

Kharg of the Light Brigade

"The most unhinged post of your life so far!"

Bleak, but clear-eyed view.

"Thanks, Obama" [sad trombone noise]

New research from Pew quantifies the extent of the success of YIMBYism in Austin: after a huge run up in prices over the 2010s, the city dramatically liberalized and kicked off a building boom. Now rents are falling. www.pew.org/en/research-...

He couldn't get this straight any more than he can get his spelling so.

The Perfect is the Frenemy of the Good.

This is insane.

I seriously believe that high quality, low latency financial disclosures are one key driver of the US equity risk premium advantage over other developed markets, yes.

Plato's Phaedrus, 4th Century BCE

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Tale of two petrostates. Data from @robbieandrew.bsky.social: robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

O man that's a bad idea.

One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

Circling back to this, my main take-away was: If we were able to get solar PV off the ground with a feed in tariff, why don't we advocate for juicing the alternative meats market with a meat-in-tariff?

I have a lot of ideas: PV wind geothermal nuclear batteries EV trucks, cars, and bikes Dense, walkable cities Transit Home and industrial heat pumps Weatherization Demand response and VPPs

If techno-optimists are "people who believe technology alone is needed to address climate change", then what do you call it when someone, like me, believes that zero-emissions innovations approaching price and performance parity unlock new social and political frontiers? A sociotechno-optimist?

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

If one little fact could describe everything in the world, this could possibly be it.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

I've seen pictures of Isaac Chotiner, but I am still convinced he must look like this.

Ah, the Merz-Chintz summit I see.

This is, frankly, exactly what it looked like. Good of them to admit it.

My opinion: Jamelle Bouie is the best national political columnist in America. This doesn’t mean he is always right or you always need to agree with him. But he consistently elevates the form. Conservatives and liberals who make deranged personal attacks on him just make themselves look bad.