My habit of giving each of my devices a unique, elaborate password that I don't write down, and then going years without trying to log into them, might finally be coming back to bite me.

Lee Atwater did, in fact, pay a lot for that muffler.

Like, duh. But whatever. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...

"Stardust" ... Hmmm, where have we heard that project code name before? m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUW...

🚨'The worst environmental setback in Brazil's history.' Just a week after COP30 ends, it looks almost certain that Brazil's agribusiness dominated Congress will strip almost all oversight of damaging projects. My report from Brasília. www.politico.eu/article/braz...

Stardust. The Israeli-U.S. company with a strange and totally real plan to block out the sun and reverse global warming. Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about the climate future. w/@corbinhiar.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Arriving in Brazil after a messy fight over new emissions targets, the EU salvaged some of its climate pride at COP30. Final dispatch from Belém w/ @karlmathiesen.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/how-...

Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...

“If we had been involved as a pro-climate United States, it would not look like this at all,” former U.S. climate negotiator Sue Biniaz said of where things stood Friday evening. #COP30 www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Maybe we should fire our football coach more often? #PennState #WeAre

What was the most iconic moment of #COP30? Was it the fire that interrupted negotiations about how to stop the Earth's burning? www.politico.com/news/2025/11... The scuffle between protesters and UN security? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Earlier: "Deal or 'meh' deal"? Sara, Karl, Zia and Zack on the #COP30 agreement that didn't call for a faster abandonment fossil fuels or a quicker infusion of climate finance for vulnerable countries. But it did ... uh, say other stuff. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

#COP30 "exposed the world as it is — haltingly and slowly tackling climate pollution, and fragmented by rising economic nationalism and protectionism, rather than the united, optimistic community of nations that produced the Paris climate agreement 10 years ago." www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Two weeks of climate negotiations hardly ended in triumph Saturday. But they did end, with a deal that even critical delegates said shows that a divided, leaderless collection of nearly 200 nations can make some progress. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

"Lizards crawl into your kitchen" is every house in Florida

Flock of Dimes on 11/11 at @theatlantisdc.bsky.social — my first time seeing Jenn Wasner perform since the Wye Oak show in March 2020 in Baltimore that was the last concert I attended before the Covid lockdown descended. A few things have happened since then.

Activists and UN security clashed tonight at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. It's the most serious unrest seen inside one of the annual climate gatherings in years, unlike the summits held in authoritarian states such as Egypt and Azerbaijan. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

"REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY": Trump rails against air traffic controllers who missed any shifts at their unpaid, high-stress, overtime-laden jobs during the shutdown, and threatens to replace them with "true Patriots." www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including: -Rudy Giuliani -John Eastman -Mark Meadows -Sidney Powell -Ken Chesebro -Christina Bobb -Kelli Ward -Jenna Ellis www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Can we talk about the self-checkout machines at Giant?

The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.

City buses are already free in Alexandria, Virginia. Just saying.

We Pennsylvanians are proud of our prothonotaries.

This is now the second year in a row that an anti-transgender message flopped among Virginia voters. And Winsome Earle-Sears pushed it even harder than Trump did.

At WH press gaggle right now, JD Vance keeps saying airline pilots aren't being paid during the government shutdown. Why would that be ... since the pilots don't work for the government?

This situation is less NIMBY and more NOPTIO(AENBTCTOWZRO) "Not On Property That I Own (And Especially Not By The Current Temporary Occupant With Zero Regulatory Oversight)"

Trump's not done trying to kill international climate rules: Just days after stopping a UN body from taxing shipping's carbon pollution, the U.S. warned the EU to back off from a rule on corporate pollution — or risk higher prices for "critical energy supplies." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The Scottish government doesn’t want to pay the bill for Donald Trump and JD Vance’s summer trips — and London doesn’t want to stump up the cash either.

Were there 99 of them? And were they luft?

“Put America first”: GOP senators are fuming at Trump’s idea to import Argentinian beef to lower US prices. Lawmakers face blowback from angry ranchers who were already alarmed by Trump’s $40 billion bailout of Argentina — even as the country undercuts US soybean farmers over trade with China.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh ruled that ICE could consider race in LA raids & that citizens shouldn’t be concerned about being swept up. He was wrong. Reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social found more than 170 citizens have been detained, sometimes for days, without charges or with flimsy premises.

Probably unintentional, but Trump's AI-generated video of himself piloting a bomber and dumping excrement on No Kings protesters has some parallels with the Minutemen's video for the 1984 song "This Ain't No Picnic," featuring Ronald Reagan. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... youtu.be/UDr25zjd4yM?...

The Trump administration has blamed renewable energy for driving up electricity prices. But our analysis of federal and industry data shows shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power costs.

Green power is sometimes the cheapest power — despite what Trump says. The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but our analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power costs.

Scoop by @zcolman.bsky.social for @politico.com: A Trump administration plan to boost civilian nuclear power would harvest the plutonium "pits" manufactured for nuclear weapons — raising concerns about the impact to U.S. defenses: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“Please ensure that every member of your team is aware that this is the latest list of words to avoid — and continue to be conscientious about avoiding any terminology that you know to be misaligned with the Administration’s perspectives and priorities." www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Attorney General Pam Bondi explaining the scope of the Justice Department's criminal investigations: "...whether you’re a billionaire funding organizations to try to keep Donald Trump out of office, everything is on the table." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

‘It’s the threats that are the point’: How Brendan Carr exerts the FCC's (limited) power against Trump's enemies. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Ben Storrow, @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social and I are out with a different look at the misleading Trump administration climate science report. It's more than a fact check. We show the sleights of hand they employ - fake debates, manipulated data, fossil fuel-funded experts - to reach a desired outcome.

By my colleagues Ben Storrow, @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social, @scottpwaldman.bsky.social and Paula Friedrich: A detailed, accessible deconstruction of the Energy Department report that the Trump administration is using to justify rolling back environmental regulations. politico.com/interactives/2…

How an Energy Department report on climate change cherrypicks research, uses partial quotes and leans on outdated studies to try to obscure the overwhelming consensus among scientists that the Earth is warming, humans are responsible and harm is occurring. www.politico.com/interactives...

“The whole thing is just bizarro. … This case should never go to trial because it’s obvious from the four corners of the indictment that there’s no case.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

"That is cool." Abraham Lincoln, February 27, 1860 www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

"I'm no linguist, but I've been told that in the Russian language there isn't even a word for freedom." Ronald Reagan, October 29, 1985 www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...

Trump implausibly announces that Uzbekistan is "purchasing 22,787 Dreamliners" from Boeing, as opposed to buying 22 Dreamliners (a plane also known as the 787). At the Dreamliner's reported list price of $239 million, buying 22,787 would cost over $5 trillion. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Trump's ICE crackdown in DC drives up the costs of child care, home improvements and food delivery for the middle class. Though of course, billionaires will still be able to afford private islands, superyachts and mega mansions, especially after getting tax cuts. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

No access to Pentagon for journalists who publish info that hasn't been "approved for public release," Trump's Defense Department says. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Here's the optimistic take on the future of the United States as the nation nears its 250th birthday: "American democracy might be more resilient than you think." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

What's that rule about never demoing something live that you have not tried before?

Politico's John Hendel wrote this insightful story nearly five years ago about how Trump's first term had brought about a big change in the GOP: "rising support for government intervention in the marketplace of ideas." Of course, things have evolved since then. www.politico.com/news/2021/01...