This is true economy-wide (e.g., not just the renewables industry). A WH that refuses to carry out the law stapled with a court that shows far too much deference to the Executive is how you convince people not to invest in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/b...

Painesville is using funding from EPA to replace its coal power plant with solar and batteries, not because it's "out of fashion," but because it's the single most expensive power plant in the country to operate ($1400/MWh), and it's so polluting that it put Lake County in nonattainment for SO2.

NEW: I spoke to the owner of a solar grazing business in the US to find out why agrivoltaics is getting big over there. Plus, solar panels are increasingly coexisting with crops, too. atmos.earth/climate-solu...

These Kavanaugh Stops keep seeming to be a lot more invasive than Kavanaugh tried to pretend they would be. The extent to which Justices just make up facts, history, psychology, etc etc etc to get the outcomes they want, and the legal community as a whole just shrugs is … legit appalling.

"China’s move to stop buying US soybeans underscores how Trump’s ambitions to use tariffs as a lever with Beijing have repeatedly backfired... "Agriculture exports to China were down 53% in the first 7 months of 2025, compared with the same period last year" www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice," Trump said. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.'" Almost ... a glimmer ... "am I in an anti-reality bubble populated by sycophants?" ... and gone.

The $170 billion in funding going to Miller’s agenda could build more than 7,000 new elementary schools, pay for more than 1.5 million young Americans to attend an in-state public college for four years, or fund the Head Start program for nearly 14 years: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

Dear John Roberts: Please force Donald Trump to give us our Guard back. He was watching too much Fox News, again.

They (Stephen Miller and the whole Fox Gang) have taken the fabrication of facts and truth to the new level of not just deceiving the public but also DT in pursuit of the Project 2025 goals. They need a pretext for militarization so they are making one up. DT the useful idiot of his own idiocracy.

A grotesquery of false equivalence. Trump officials should/will be prosecuted because of their crimes, not because Trump established the precedent of prosecuting people because of their politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u...

Pro tip: If you don’t want to be compared with Nazis don’t behave like Nazis.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

There is no world in which masked and armed agents of the state running down delivery drivers makes us safer. That our information environment and political leaders have convinced people otherwise is a massive failure.

"Sunday 'Long Arm/Small Man' Toons" bradblog.com?p=15514 — THIS WEEK: Dumb Vengeance ... Last Laugh ... Bad Medicine ... Epstein Coverup and more in our latest toon collection!…

LOL "I spoke to the governor, she was very nice. But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.' They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place... www.kgw.com/article/news...

A fantastic guide to the current terminology & thinking of the Silicon Valley bros, who are riding high at the moment. (I really can not exaggerate how aesthetically & morally repulsive I find every bit of this.)

So exhausting..

This is of course the exact reason for the Forced Mourning of Charlie Kirk, to fabricate a bipartisan endorsement of this bigotry and hatred www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is actively spreading misinformation about the cleanest forms of energy we have.

Hey @kaitlancollins.bsky.social Next time you get the opportunity, please ask Zeldin or Wright why exactly they think China is doing this: China is meeting most new power demand with renewables www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Some journalist should ask Zeldin or Wright why exactly they think China is doing this.

If I invited federal officials to an event & they took advantage of my hospitality by telling a bunch of demonstrable lies, this is not the headline I would write.

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

So when grand juries indict Trump, that is Biden “weaponizing the justice system” despite the fact that he said nothing about it. When Trump demands an indictment & appoints his personal lawyer to get it after his first MAGA appointee refused, that is “how our system works.” bsky.app/profile/atru...

As nations struggled during Climate Week to increase their emission-reduction pledges to slow the alarming rate of global warming, Brazil stepped forward to showcase a novel, innovative plan of its own design to incentivize the protection of carbon-absorbing tropical forests around the world.

I admire @billmckibben.bsky.social 's ability to seek the bright side and push it, without denying the critical nature of the current moment.

“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... #ScienceUnderSiege

Thune desperately avoids acknowledging that Trump’s tariffs are directly causing these huge losses for US farmers, with crops rotting in South Dakota fields, because China said nope and took their business elsewhere

This is all a delusional lie

This man is a buffoonish shill for the fossil fuels industry. The stupidity here is staggering.

Ty Cobb: "The simple theme is rewriting history. Trump wants to rewrite history so the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection... America needs to learn from the mistakes that we've had. And one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was reelecting President Trump"

“We can’t help poor people because that will help black people” is an unusually honest expression of Republican policy goals

In a violent weekend in a country awash in guns, deadly shootings shattered lives in Michigan, North Carolina, Texas and New Orleans “As of Sunday, the 271st day of 2025, there had been more than 320 mass shootings in the US” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"A GOP-affiliated PAC is sending PA voters a mailer warning that the state Supreme Court 'gerrymandered our congressional districts to help Democrats win.' The issue? The pictured map was not drawn by the Court; it was drawn by legislative Republicans and thrown as an unconstitutional gerrymander."

This is a demonstration of how powerful the right wing misinformation machine is. They take a phrase or a word some Democrat said, attach the worst possible interpretation to it, and repeat their view of it THOUSANDS of times until even liberals remember it the way conservatives want them to.

one way you could describe lincoln's approach is of never getting ahead of the public on its attitudes, but holding an immovable set of principles on where the country ought to be and where he hopes to lead it

Trump DOJ: -overruling career prosecutors to indict Trump's political opponents -suing states to get sensitive voter data -urging SCOTUS to gut Voting Rights Act -helping GOP states gerrymander mid-decade A 5 alarm fire on every front www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.

The grainy video is really something. But life finds a way “There were “astonishing” signs of new growth sprouting from the stump, prompting hopes it will be nature that decides what comes next”

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

When Republicans hold power, they hurt people, tank the economy, and then distort our democracy to preserve their power because hurting people and tanking the economy is unpopular.

This is just about as perfect a hurricane as you'll ever see in the Atlantic. Category 5 Humberto:

Rake the drains in your neighborhood now and make it a commitment via adoptadrain.sfwater.org. There are programs like this everywhere (hydrants and snow, too). And if there isn’t one in your city, start one.

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

The Trump regime is simultaneously: a) spreading conspiracy theories about January 6th in an attempt to scapegoat the FBI for political violence directly incited by Trump himself, while b) claiming the entire American left is solely responsible for political violence. Regime gaslighting.

Fleeing immoderately from suspicion of involvement, Musk crosses over to implying he knew enough of what was up on that island to “REFUSE” but told no one and did nothing to protect the victims.