I get sad whenever I see a brand new gas vehicle on the road with the paper California dealer tag. There is nearly zero use case to invest in new machines of this inferior type anymore. Governments should be offering gas vehicle buyback programs to get more people into EVs.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

This is a winning campaign platform.

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement. www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

👇🎯 An easy way to see which Democrats are wildly unfit for leading the party or competing for the presidency in 2028 is to notice who is still identifying not focusing enough on Doing A Popularism or not using Funny Words as the primary message & problem in 2026: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The only way we unfuck our country is through a puritanical anti-corruption drive. We need to rip out a vast substrate of corrupt elites and marginalize an even larger contingent of mere incompetents and cowards. Ppl need to be terrified of the white-collar criminal laws of the United States again.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

i dont understand, 2 days ago i was told there was a deal, i was told it was over and we got everything we wanted, i was told the strait would never be closed again, i was told all this just as markets were hitting their stride on friday afternoon

Ratboys! (Do I love "Singin' to an Empty Chair"? Yes, I do.)

Another way of saying this is that the regulations would have had a cost of zero. They would not have required the power sector to do anything it wasn't going to do already. Roberts said it would be the most expensive reg ever (because he heard that on Fox). But it cost nothing.

Really gotta emphasize this: the targets & requirements in the Clean Power Plan were *so* modest, *so* conservative, *so* unambitious that *the power sector met them anyway, in the course of normal market operation*. The regs would have had basically no effect at all relative to the status quo.

All right, this piece has triggered me so I have to yell a bit (though this is bluesky, so I realize I'm just preaching at the choir):

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I am not a lawyer, but am I reading correctly that the majority opinion cited the concern of “irreparable harm” to the coal industry (which employs ~40,000 people) with no mentions of the “irreparable harm” higher CO2 emissions could bring to the population of (at the time) ~7,500,000,000 people?

Absolutely crazy that this is a key norm breaker for BOTH the shadow docket AND the major questions doctrine

This is looting of a government by its leader and his family in such a bold and open way that a Boss Tweed or Huey Long would have stood righteously opposed and explained to underlings that they should dare. It's stealing in plain sight. And everyone involved will need to be one day prosecuted.

Is mandating an increase in the amount of corn and soy we burn in vehicles good for food security? No. Is it good for nature? No. But is it at least good for the climate? Also no. Read the latest from @mikegrunwald.bsky.social 👇🏻

spoiler: none of these opportunistic extraction class weirdos support universal basic income, equitable tax reform, or any other functional counterbalance to the rise of automation because they are liars who only tell people what they want to hear hope this clarifies things

Despite the extreme and well-deserved unpopularity of the Catholic Church in recent decades, the fact that the pope acts like he’s not scared of Donald Trump and politely tells him to go fuck himself has made the pope very popular. I wonder if there is any lesson to learn from this.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

Annals of price discrimination

For the cost of one Harvard Professor of the Constitution Only Applies to White People, you could endow 10 professorships of any less commonly taught language at any university in the USA

The news is so weird. Top stories are: War Going Badly, President's Lies Not Working Energy Supply Crunch Continues, Deepens Stocks Reach Record Highs, Investors Optimistic Optimistic about what? Is this like a mirror image of vibecession stuff, decoupled from reality but in the other direction?

Last month in The Onion:

I keep saying, as a Trump biographer, that this man holds deeply deranged beliefs—on almost every subject—he cannot be talked out of by experts, to the point that it can accurately be said that he lives in his own warped reality. 25th this man immediately.

It has always been interesting to consider why US companies do not push for universal healthcare. This makes clear that for the ruling class, control over workers takes precedent over profit. Tethering healthcare to employment forces people to stay in situations they would otherwise contest or exit.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

Some governments still intrinsically get this - but no sign that any of them are in the US, where policy conversations are focused on gas tax suspensions, which diminish rather than expanding state capacity. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

Reminder to self that I have to get my son to sign in to Apple Music with his own ID so that our listening doesn't collide in the replay summaries. However, he doesn't play full albums so this tracks - and not unlikely features the top 3 for this year's Pazz and Jop Ripoff Poll ballot.

"In power, solar plus storage now costs below $60 per megawatt hour (MWh) at a global level. The variable cost of LNG-fired power in Asia, at $20 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), exceeds $160 per MWh – nearly three times the cost of never needing fuel again." Any questions?

anything could happen but, hypothetically, if the Strait being blocked drags on until Trump is out of office, this will be the biggest forcing function toward renewables ever in history, the (positive) consequences will reverberate for a thousand years

Shorter Ed: (i) If we don't fix the oil situation by midsummer, we're really screwed. (ii) There is no way to fix this mess by midsummer unless peace breaks out today.

harris campaigned with liz cheney and talked about owning a gun. the right said she spent billions on transgender surgery for prisoners and that message overwhelmed any appeal she sought to make to center-right voters. instead she should have fucking stood up for more progressive shit.

If you’re wondering why I’m doing so much #ttrpg posting lately, it’s because otherwise the news would have me posting shit I would 100%’be going to prison for.

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See, in the US we just let the President take those home and store them in his pool house. Because freedom. BTW if I don’t believe this is the vibe you will create in the Trump White House when elected, I’m not voting for you for President.

We have many decades of verified, repeatable, consistent research showing that is exactly how mass media works. Several enormous industries are built on the idea of media affecting attitudes and beliefs. Reporters who deny this in a fit of pique at facing down their own behavior just look unserious.

Happened to look at Polymarket last night (make of it what you will). They have D Senate control as very slight fav. GA/MI/NC 6:1, AK 2:1, ME ~3:1, OH ~3:2, TX/IA ~2:3, NE huge dog. Favorites=>pickup 4, with TX/IA next, NE distant. Given Fetterman situation, I think Ds need 5=>win ME + TX or IA.

This is a brilliant analysis by Lisa Friedman, with eye-popping graphics by @harrystevens.bsky.social, on how the language of the EPA has changed under the climate-denying Lee Zeldin. Everyone should read it carefully! 🧵 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

EVs are winning. They're obviously going to win. The US is punching itself in the dick by clinging to ICE vehicles.

Send him to Moscow.

Reupping this cause it’s evergreen and I feel better knowing someone out there called him out like this

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the funny thing about sending jd vance out to do sensitive diplomatic negotiations is he has literally no experience. like, none whatsoever. he doesn't even have related experience in lawmaking or some executive role.

We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline

There’s a part early on in Adult Braces where Lindy says something like “yes I believe in public transit and cutting emissions but also I love my car it protects me from the world vroom vroom” and that sums up the American liberal resistance to ending fossil fuels in a nutshell