Rebecca Solnit and Robert Reich are calling it. Did orange potus jump the shark this week?

I love a good environmental succes story!

Happy 105th birthday to the 19th ammendment!

Sometimes the beaches are full of birds watching the sunset. I don't have a picture of the dolphins swimming by, but they were there too.

Batteries are becoming affordable and transforming how we think about grids and solar. Such good news! www.volts.wtf/p/solarstora...

How climate messaging should be done

Nobody knows anything braddelong.substack.com/p/macroecono...

I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago. I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell. Give it a watch and share it.

I … worked on this story for a year and she just … said it from the bench

If I told you that President Trump just announced a 40% tariff on South Korea because he thinks BTS has too many members you wouldn’t know if I were joking, would you

She’s right.

“Sludge”: When incentives are aligned to create kafkaesque customer service experiences. Sigh. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Is it really possible for a single bill to increase energy costs in every single US State, with 5-30% increases for all but a handful of states? All the way dumb. www.noahpinion.blog/p/would-you-...

It’s probably not great to wake up this pissed off. Then I think of how pissed off Justice Jackson must be.

When it stops being a dog whistle, can we call it racism yet, or so we need to be genteel on the subject of white supremacy and other revanchist notions of race?

It's #ShowYourStripes day--a striking way to visualize amount of #climate warming that has occurred. In this short thread, I present "warming stripes" two ways for 3 major California cities (Sacramento, San Francisco, & Los Angeles), & reflect on context. #CAwx #CAwater #CAfire

Important to remember that attacking science research is very much eating next year’s seed corn: the ROI on research is extremely high, so that gutting it is a direct attack on future US prosperity. Imagine a world where none of the world’s leading technology companies was based in USA.

TIL that all food taxonomies are now settled: cuberule.com

St. Upid!

Wonderful primer on birthright citizenship. Let's continue to celebrate how the fourteenth amendment overturned Dred Scott!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Curious about how US financial plumbing is handling puerile clowns flushing M80s into works? You may not be as alarmed as Krugman and Tankus are, but perhaps you should be:

They mean it.

There are concentration camps now in America

These guys think they're spewing cutting-edge posthumanist theory and it's all just the corniest, shittiest science fiction that actual writers wouldn't waste a minute on.

Trump has no concept of the nation or of its security. This is not an insult to his intelligence. These are just not cognitive categories for him. He can’t care about national security because it’s not a thing in his world.

More evidence that Bluesky has replaced the bad place:

Krugman & Brynjolfsson: GDP is an amazing measure, but it is limited when it comes to goods that have zero price (e.g. Bluesky, other zero price). Perhaps new measures like GDP-B will be helpful. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-should...

Living in a Terry Gilliam movie is so much stranger than I thought it would be.

'If we accept that the executive branch can simply deport anyone they call a "foreign alien terrorist," then none of us has any rights.' snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...

DeLong reminds is that bond markets can be swift and brutal:

Latkes > villainous cookies. www.lifeisasacredtext.com/hamentash-la...

New obscurantism:

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. Nonetheless, holy shit. What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.

We are nodes in a murmuration, our hearts parched in an attention desert, our minds desperately doomscrolling, searching for stories that make sense in the information storms of the twenty-first century:

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

Hmm… GDP Now is negative. Fragile payments systems may be under attack. Starting to feel like there are a lot of storm clouds over town…

So many antecedents! What’s old is new again (shocking, but not surprising):

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Tariffs coming up 700 times in earnings calls is not a good data point:

"There is no evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship between airline accidents and pilots from historically excluded populations."

Last night @60minutes.bsky.social opened an otherwise superb segment on Germany’s approach to online hate speech by saying “in the U.S., most of what’s said on online [social media] platforms is protected by the First Amendment.” No.The First Amend protects us against GOVT infringements on speech.

“I will say I feel like it’s always a bad sign when I’m reading Lawfare a lot.”

Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre. Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.

So how expensive is the chaos we're seeing going to be? DeLong thinks Brexit is a good place to start, suggesting that the terrible foolishness we are witnessing will come at an extravagantly high price: braddelong.substack.com/p/note-to-se...

Professor Manne has put together a handy review of the literature on preferential hiring:

It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.