The stock market is not the economy.

Scientific understanding of eye evolution has advanced significantly in the last 25 years. Creationists claimed the eye was too complex to evolve by chance, (irreducible complexity). And again, as science un covers more information, their claims crumble. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

Just the season?

This is the first time I’ve ever seen this pattern on ISO New England. Is this the effect of the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line? If so, Maine is saving big when it’s impact on congestion pricing is driving the cost down.

Even the thought of converting crop land in the data center for AI plumbs new depths in irony. #WhoNeedsPeople

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Please like, follow, and repost. Let's help the #Resister community grow.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Just imagine a White House with the slightest modicum of civility.

This is the problem with the ultra wealthy. Problems that derail a normal person’s life are easily surmounted by great wealth. They can afford a complex legal defense for a charge that makes conviction nearly impossible. Seeking equality can mean bringing some people down while raising others up.

Conservatism is really about preserving privilege and power. The party lost me decades ago.

What is the purpose of an economy if not to provide for the widespread well-being of people?

I take issue with "something big is happening" AI hype machine viral blogs. The more time we spend panicking about work obsolescence, the less time we spend on a grounded policy agenda for the majority of workers. The movers, the makers, the builders, the fixers, the teachers, the carers.

#NoKings #Trump

From the incredible @jamestate121.bsky.social …. #AreWeGreatYet? #Norway #healthcare #college #parentalleave #cancer #taxes #GoFundMe #math

Spite tariffs to further burden the American people. 🤔

Imagine his reaction if a lowly woman said “no” to him.

Styled the Keep Proselytizing Out of Public Schools (KPOP) Act, or less whimsically the Student Secular Bill of Rights (SSBOR), the model bill seeks to codify long-standing Establishment Clause case law into state statutes. ncse.ngo/model-bill-s...

We are all on the front lines. Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

One minute into this article confirms we all should know by now. Corporations and capitalism have no concern for the well-being of individuals or society. Profit is their only guiding light. We need to end that. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Correct. Now is the time to be very clear on the fact that you don't give a fucking inch to fascists. Not on anything. Not ever. Everything they are doing is per se illegitimate. The very minimum you demand is an immediate, across-the-board return to regular democratic order and norms. Nothing less.

This is another strong issue for Democrats. The party should back efforts to protect citizen privacy as a core plank. Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

What corroborating evidence do we have that inflation is stable or easing that is not produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics? There’s no reasonable basis to trust numbers produced by the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/b...

“military officials deployed that technology earlier this week against what they thought was a cartel drone, but which turned out to be a party balloon.” “That operation was carried out without proper coordination with the F.A.A. “ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

the most radical science fiction is the kind where we choose to stay on earth and repair the damage we’ve done

Air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes 100,000 to 200,000 avoidable American deaths per year. At the EPA's statistical value of life of $10 million, these deaths cost America $1 to $2 trillion per year, every year. These costs far outweigh the costs of transitioning off of fossil fuels.

OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥

Reminder that the centers of both the Harvard and Yale campuses are named for Trump donors, as is the main branch of the New York Public Library. bsky.app/profile/step...

Providence, Rhode Island has at least one group advocating to opt out of deliveries of Venezuelan LNG. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

If Trump wants to rename the Kennedy Center or renovate the White House, he does it in a weekend, but the Department of Homeland Security needs six months to put body cams on ice agents in Minneapolis.

Going back to my past lives at Platts and as an oil & gas analyst at an investment bank (2014-18ish) - two things always taken as true on EVs: 1) Will be broadly limited to a middle class European rich country trend 2) Will be a small passenger vehicles only trend Doubly wrong.

The US has renewed a trade agreement with 32 African nations, allowing duty-free access to US markets even as we continue to use tariffs to coerce former allies. www.france24.com/en/americas/...

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him https://theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551/

Recent assessments have found the last glacial maximum implies a climate sensitivity of 2.4C (1.4C to 5.0C): www.science.org/doi/... And the Pliocene implies a sensitivity of 3.1C (2.3C to 4.7C): www.pnas.org/doi/10.... Paleoclimate evidence generally provides the strongest constraint on high ECS.

Corruption, plain and simple. Steve Witkoff, David Sacks, and Howard Lutnick must testify in front of Congress. And Congress needs to grow a spine and put a stop to Trump’s crypto corruption.

See Slide 34 docs.google.com/presentation...

Let's call this #ClimateGate

As Donald Trump wrecks this country, literally, it’s a good time to ask what do we want to build from the ruins? Not what was before. What is a better America that breaks down divisions for everyone?

In a genuine upset, Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for Texas State Senate District 9. Trump carried that district in 2024 by 17 points; it is ruby red. But the GOP lost...by 14 points. That's a 31-point swing. The kicker? Rehmet was outspent ~ 10 to 1. Dems turned out; GOP didn't.

Followup: this thread is getting re-posed in German, Swedish, Norwegian and French because apparently governments across Europe are contemplating contracts with Palantir. Europe, do me a favor and don't contribute to a worldwide tyranny machine.

MAJOR UPSET ALERT: Democrat Taylor Rehmet has just been projected the winner of the Texas SD9 special election — flipping a district that went Trump +17 and hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1991. Trump personally endorsed Leigh Wambsganss and spent days hyping this race… and still lost.

We’re paying “crown” prices for stems now. Time to start bringing a knife to the grocery store.

Unionizing is our right! Education is our right! That is why we have to fight! Faculty, students, staff & the Texas A&M community are ready to fight against government censorship and for a better university. @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @movetexas.bsky.social

One of my dad's *lesser* achievements was helping get the fraudster Andrew Wakefield struck off the medical register. But Wakefield's murderous legacy is growing.

Insulation and air sealing are king in a long winter power outage. A snug home will hold its temperature longer. They also reduce demand for heat and cooling all year round, reducing utility bills, and lessen strain on electrical infrastructure throughout the grid.