Oh, we're good then.

Harsh but entirely fair critique of Trump's piecemeal plan.

As Killer Mike once said: "Nobody speak, nobody get choked."

Wow, this is a great summary of COP30! All the COPs, come to think of it. 🤔

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Cities free wild spaces.

It is interesting to me how the media seems far less interested in Trump's Murder Memo than you'd expect. Only a few reporters seem to be even trying to get a hold of it, and very few commentators are talking about it. Contrast that with Bush's torture memo, which was a national obsession. Weird.

Hey @badlegaltakes.bsky.social, this one's for you.

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Ok apparently this is actually not widely known: Gov. Shapiro withdrew Pennsylvania from RGGI today as part of a deal to pass a now-4month overdue budget.

Does this mean if you're in financial services you can only give advice one client at a time?

"Much as granaries and refrigeration transformed food markets, storage will turn electricity from perishable to persistent, unlocking a new era of energy abundance."

"Gork, is loving the Iliad woke?" - Patroclus's ghost, probably

Dead on arrival.

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

This, more than any other data set anywhere right now, matters for climate. This thread contains the signal from the noise.

China's power sector emissions have been falling for the past 18 months, but it has taken extremely large additions of clean energy to achieve this. This year will highly likely see a record amount of clean power added, sufficient to drive emissions down well into next year.

Emissions from power generation, construction materials, transportation and steel all fell in January-September, but two major obstacles to emission reductions in China stand out: the chemical industry and lack of progress on switching to electric steelmaking.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The CO₂ₑ emissions cuts since Paris are nothing to scoff at. And more needs to be done. Much more. Early investments matters.¹ But the long-term trend is quite a bit better than the NYT/ClimateActionTracker pathways show. ¹ gwagner.com/scenarios

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

It feels crazy to watch this and think about the Biden manufacturing boom stats. Just crazy.

If this is really the incentive package necessary to motivate Elon then that would make him an extremely difficult-to-motivate person.

Your daily dose of climate hope. From the team at RMI: rmi.org/wp-content/u...

I feel like humanity's "immiseration," rather than "demise," is bad enough to warrant an urgent response, don't you?

The *size of the state is a residual in the process* because you can't know what the denominator you are working with ultimately is. But you can ensure that the system for funding your policy goals is efficient and robust, your goals are well-specified and that risks around them are monitored.

Mashallah

Obama: "They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and blame DEI for every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? Must be DEI. Your wife kicked you out? DEI. Who knew?"

This is the nut of it.

For decades we have had climate technologies that save money now and climate technologies that are in need of commercialization. He was at the forefront of convincing everyone to focus on the ones that have a “green premium” which is just a “technology premium” that has nothing to do with green.

Been wondering what fills the seemingly inevitable vacuum of American soft power.

Still this: "I disliked Biden because [thing Trump did], and I missed Trump because [thing Biden did]. I voted for Trump again because I wanted [thing Harris promised], But I really hope that Trump doesn't [core Trump campaign promise]."

Here is how to use a whistle for ICE alert. Neighborhoods all over are banding together, handing out whistles and instructing everyone. This is where we are at. Nazi alert!

(5) Stop with the fucking “kitchen table issues!” Yes, people respond well to that line experimentally. But if they actually acted on it then Donald fucking Trump wouldn’t be president right now. Try to have the faintest clue of what sort of apparatus his party network has actually built!

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Guess what, you need government and the people who work for the government are committed enough to risk their lives for you without pay

"The global oil market may be at a tipping point as signs of a significant supply glut emerge" writes the IEA. Tepid demand due to "subpar economic conditions, increasing vehicle efficiencies, & robust electric vehicle sales in many markets." 😮 www.iea.org/commentaries...

Black Hawk Lotus is going to be bad.

That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group. Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.

📸 There's a story behind this breathtaking shot of Hungary’s opposition rally marking the 1956 revolution: Orbán’s government banned drones to try conceal the crowd’s size. Yet a passenger on a landing plane caught the scene in Budapest from above — the photo hit Reddit and went viral instantly.

If these were both German cars sacking the streets of Rome it would be too on the nose.

I consider myself extremely, perhaps overly, pragmatic and not one to go in for symbolism...but man does tearing down the East Wing with the President's corporate shakedown money push all of my buttons.

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Committed to the craft.

Makes me feel all Alicia Keys up in here. 🗽

this is not even a march, this is spontaneously assembled from the people on the street and surrounding areas who hate ICE and that’s fucking beautiful. I love New York City so much