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"I have searched the depths of the Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future."

Y'all wishcasting Woke 2, I'm out here dreaming about Green 2. I don't mean like a new 2010s with federal rulemakings and pipeline protests. I mean like a new 1970s with grassroots movements that lead to new legislation and durable institutions.

My new article, "why pilots should have blanket immunity," is up on SSRN. #Satire www.alternet.org/kristi-noem-...

The Dow is the pitcher wins of economic indicators.

some weird-ass shit happening on the Federal Register, with a list of Chinese-military-aiding firms being published and _very_ rapidly withdrawn www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Oil companies & other big industrial polluters should be terrified by EPA's phantasmagorical pretzel logic in disclaiming authority over climate-changing pollution under 1 part of the CAA while arguing another part 'preempts' federal & state common-law suits. www.epa.gov/system/files... (pp.205-206)

Also: a network of trusted allies

Claremont has been doing anti-birthright stuff for generations. The new thing is attaching itself to law professors and judges who it claims to be furthering its agenda. Literally advertising themselves as a Madisonian faction (derogatory).

Here it is. Don’t stay up all night. www.epa.gov/regulations-...

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.” Sounds accurate to me.

Yesterday, DOE announced plans to reprogram $175 million to bail out 7 coal plants in KY, NC, OH, and WV. In 2025, these plants generated 61.7 GWh of electricity, equal to 8.4% of total coal-fired generation. Let's look at the full costs of this proposal. www.energy.gov/articles/ene...

NEW ANALYSIS: Donald Trump has overseen more coal closures than any other US president That must be why he was just crowned "undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal” (10/10 no notes, I am not making this up) www.carbonbrief.org/...

Including an entire worldbuilding essay before the first chapter of your magnum opus is such a power move.

Y'all excited about the yellow and purple above the line, and I love that for you and for all of us, I really do. But I have a confession. It's the blue below the line that really makes me happy.

Climate win: In Naperville, IL, which gets its power in part from a coal plant that's one of the top 10 climate polluters in the country, city councilmembers just voted to stop negotiations w/ the agency keeping them hooked on coal. I first wrote about this here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Holy shit theme parks are expensive now. $880 for a family of three for two days. More than the hotel (or airfare, if we needed it). And that's the Florida resident discount!

Ominous bird valentines.

Wait we have the technology to make AI video of SCOTUS justices reading things and we're using it to just have John Roberts read some opinions, and not to have Gorsuch and Kavanaugh perform Nate Dogg and Warren G's 1994 hit "Regulate"?

Update: FAMU says banning the word Black from a law student’s Black History Month flyer was a mistake, and the result of an “overly cautious interpretation” of Florida law www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/10/b...

This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!

Strongly suspect administration officials are going to stop appearing before Congress, if not before the midterms then certainly after. Obvious and utter contempt for Congressional oversight. If so it's very bad, though it does at least accurately show the state of things.

1. This amounts to breaking the judiciary's reading glasses to make it harder for judges to see something important. 2. The suggestion that the authors of the manual have an agenda other than informing decisionmakers of true things is absurd. Like, LOL.

Render unto Caesar's Palace

"cooled by the vacuum of space" - huh, neat. hey does anyone know how thermoses work

The US EPA confirms that the Trump administration this week will overturn the scientific finding that serves as the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Tomorrow I will testify before subcommittee of House Judiciary Committee against the proposed "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act," which would authorize exclusion/deportation of all or most non-citizen Muslim immigrants. My written testimony posted here: reason.com/wp-content/u...

JUDGE JOHNSTON: “Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same .. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

San Bruno, gas explosion and Aliso Canyon well blowout coming home to roost. I look at this figure and worry that the gas system death spiral is may be closer than all of us think.

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Reposting this analysis now that it seems likely EPA will finalize its withdrawal of the GHG endangerment finding. It's both less and more than it seems.

I would love to see Death of Stalin become a "Knives Out" style mini-franchise. Death of Caesar, with Ryan Gosling getting stabbed?

I think "experience rating" seemed sensible when first proposed in the 1930s - but the empirical effects are bad, and everything we've learned about macroeconomics in the last century makes it look less sensible.

oh heck yeah

The current situation in one graphic. ProPublica is tracking the volume of habeas petitions by state and court, as they overwhelm legal advocates and government attorneys. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

Alligator Alcatraz Archipelago

Call for papers! www.law.uchicago.edu/form/uchicag...

Post a banger that isn't in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNT8...

An outrage, High Lord Gaga will hear of this!

Apparently the zombocom domain expired yesterday and was presumably bought out by some other jackass who launched this vibe-coded IMPOSTOR

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

Everybody: That show was beautiful. Me: OVERRULE THE INSULAR CASES TOMORROW FFS

Levels of surveillance honesty: 1) We do not tap Americans 2) Of course we do counter-espionage taps, don't be stupid 3) You idiots are supposed to find dirt on libs, not us 4) The deep state and the people are one

Now, I know what you're thinking: "CPSC, why does this look like the room where the bad guy from SAW makes his podcast." The thing you need to understand is that we're not like other agencies. We don't "have things" or "go to the store." We make our own way. We get what we get and we don't get upset

Some of the best environmental economists I know, with decades of experience, on the Trump EPA's decision to value costs but not benefits. It "could lead to suboptimal decisions", they soberly understate. Economically illiterate and actively harmful, I'll add. www.resources.org/common-resou...

Do you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.