The US leads the world in methane emissions from oil and gas production. And the total amount of emissions keeps going up based on the data from the IEA.

With the US on the brink of war with Iran, Fox's biggest stars are more focused on the left being mean to the US men’s hockey team. Fox aired 19 minutes of coverage on the Iran war the last two nights -- and 48 minutes on their newest culture war. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/us-...

NEW: How special tariff exemptions benefited Trump's family and corporations that funneled cash to the MAGA Inc. super PAC and the White House ballroom.

this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Cops lie.

respectfully tapping the "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" sign again

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...

Every major metropolitan area deserves its own cryptid

characteristically good work from Serwer. again saying: we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

2025 data quietly released by EPA shows harmful increases in dangerous air pollution attributable to Trump, personally, with 6 TX power plants that Trump exempted from stronger safeguards, for example, experiencing an astonishing 48% increase in sulfur-dioxide emissions collectively in 2025. 1/

This organization will be using its mutual aid fund to defray the cost of new licenses ) and new birth certificates, eventually) for trans Kansans! lgbtqks.org/donate/

This is giving me serious flashbacks to grad school! This was early 00s and I worked on a satellite to observe gamma-ray bursts. I carried a pager and got beeped whenever a GRB was detected -- or (much more often) whenever there was a false positive.

New forecast from EPRI: data centers will consume 9% to 17% of U.S. electricity by 2030, up from 4% to 5% today. This is a 60% increase from last year's projection. Under existing policies, "incremental [power] supply is dominated by natural gas." powering-intelligence.epri.com

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money. In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it. Taxation without representation.

Yes, This Latest Trump Revelation Out of the Epstein Files Seem Big talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yes-t...

Trump recalled the 2025 Texas floods but neglected to mention the oil and gas pollution that supercharged those storms. Instead, he continues to enrich the very Big Oil companies and executives who are fueling this extreme weather. It’s time to Make Polluters Pay for the damage!

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Trump: "The only way they can get elected is to cheat." Also Trump: I need you to find me 11,780 votes. Also Trump: "we are entitled to five more seats" in Texas. - TN

One of the craziest things about Musk-era twitter is that because linking to anything is penalized by the algo, no one uses links and you have NO IDEA where any of the info you see is coming from. It's madness!

Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%). But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)

The biggest news of the night is that Trump’s effort to steer control of CNN to a lackey by threatening the corrupt use of regulatory power is moving closer to reality. www.mediamatters.org/cnn/trump-es...

A bit late to this, but this graphic by @amywestervelt.bsky.social is **extremely** important. It's another reminder that "just stop mentioning climate change" isn't an option, as advocates, analysts and communicators. drilled.ghost.io/yes-climate-...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Under President Trump, the FTC and FCC are “engaged in a hostile takeover of the marketplace of ideas,” writes the editorial board.

Me. I'm a mad scientist. (Paul Noth cartoons)

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

zohran increased the number of snow shovelers from 500 to 1,400 for this blizzard, paying them $30/hour to shovel sidewalks with at least a four-foot berth so that wheelchairs and strollers can get through. he didn't overhaul city government to do it, he just used the power given to him and did it!

It's not surprising that right-wing commentators have tried to shift the conversation about Friday's #SCOTUS ruling in the tariffs case to the alleged inconsistency/hypocrisy of the *Democratic* appointees. But those charges are based on a decidedly superficial relationship with the relevant facts:

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

Holy shit. The fossil-fuel industry wanted "permitting reform" (ie, gutting the National Environmental Policy Act) so badly that the Trump regime went ahead and did it illegally. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

I'm legit amazed that no one ever just snaps and calls him a liar when he does stuff like this (every day). Maybe SOTU will be a real disaster this year.

We murdered three more people in boats today

A former ICE instructor is expected to testify that new agents are trained to run roughshod over constitutional rights, including the right against a home invasion, and that the federal agency is “broken."

Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds. Five countries responsible for 75% of world’s coffee supply record average of 57 extra days of coffee-harming heat a year www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Video shows forcibly displaced Palestinians in Gaza breaking their fast during the holy month of Ramadan amid the widespread destruction caused by Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave.

“The last time Trump’s disapproval touched 60 percent was shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.”

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

Important article by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social. Red states governors like Stitt & DeSantis are destroying higher ed. They are enemies of free speech & inquiry. It’s shortsighted & bad for their states. @aaup.org will challenge their attacks on the first amendment. newrepublic.com/article/2068...

No, the SAVE Act won’t solve rampant noncitizen voting—because it’s not a problem in the first place. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I don't really know what to say anymore but I know that it will take decades, if ever, for higher ed to recover from the deep, deep cowardice of these institutions.

As the Trump administration cracks down on climate change activism, members of environmental groups, like Extinction Rebellion, fear they are being targeted.

Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him

There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange

Of course, there’s no prospect of the consumers who ultimatetly got passed 95% of the cost of the tariffs getting a refund.

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...