Clean energy is cheap energy. While China’s massive investments are driving down the price of solar and wind by up to 90 percent, the Trump administration is killing federal clean energy support and pushing fossil fuels instead, costing America jobs, leadership, and money.

A great many of the (wonderful) stories about Ireland's (wonderful) UBI plan for artists tend to bury if not duck completely the hard cold fact that it was funded largely by Google's billion-euro settlement of tax-evasion charges. TAX BILLIONAIRES RUN THEM DOWN LOOT THEM IT WORKS

This is a drum I've been banging for a while -- if it were true that higher taxes made rich people flee for low tax areas, there would be no rich people living in CA or NYC! It's a claim that's used a lot by anti-government types and it's long been visibly and demonstrably false.

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

They just never said it to your face, Dinesh DeDouche. Your orange messiah made it okay.

he wanted to provide us a helpful visual metaphor for what he's doing to the country, the least we can do is run on it and unlike other Trump scandals this doesn't require you to memorize details, you can just show people a picture of the fucking half-demolished White House

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A new poll shows Americans blame Trump and Republicans over Democrats for the shutdown 53%-37%. (Independents blame Trump by a nearly 3-to-1 margin, 58%-21%.). People aren’t dumb.

Why the fuck are so may people burning their credibility over this guy?

Then why did he lie about it in the first place? He said it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing structure.

None of this is legal! People are choosing to break the law! Other people are choosing not to hold them accountable! What the fuck!!!

Also: Dem leadership HAVE to do more to talk about this. It's not just an abstract symbol; he's desecrating the East Wing so he can dominate history for sport. Make people feel that loss.

NYT Confirms: Trump will DEMOLISH the ENTIRE East Wing of the White House. The Times says the East Wing is expected to be fully torn down by the weekend to make room for Trump's ballroom for billionaires — despite the fact that Trump pledged the White House would not be touched.

Bill Kristol: i will personally back the candidate that calls for the demolition of the illegal construction by the evil usurper Trump John Fetterman: don't be mean by prolonging the shutdown :( 2025, man

NEW WRITING: It's aimed at students, with some specific examples for astro/physics folks, but I think other people may find it useful too. 🔭⚛️🧪 "Knowledge is worth your time because of how it shapes your mind. And the authoritarians may take many things from us, but they cannot take our minds."

"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

So Trump bulldozed a third of the White House complex. And they’re trying to keep the photos off limits.

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Thread below is yet another take on what I broke down in minute detail, including the origins behind the problems, in this piece: www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

I’m skeptical that a court can or will do this, but i think it has to be tried, because the GOP has descended to full lawlessness, and we don’t have any kind of government if the majority party can just refuse to recognize others.

We have to support and “see nuance” despite the fact that, if he’s not another Fetterman & with this level of stupidity he probably is, he will 100% lose to Collins. If he can’t even think of covering a deathshead tattoo before announcing a run he can’t handle the GOP machine IN ANY WAY.

If being against a guy with a Nazi tattoo makes me a purist I guess I'm an anti-Nazi purist. If you think that makes me an anti-Nazi single issue voter, you're wrong, but also it's a pretty good single issue. There is more than a year. Go get another real progressive who doesn't have a Nazi tattoo.

"the president is literally stealing $230 million of taxpayer money to pay himself and knocking down a wing of the white house in order to build a giant ballroom" I dunno I feel like staggering levels of corruption could still be an effective campaign message

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.   During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

In the past 16 weeks, Republicans have only bothered to show up to work for 20 days. We were elected to serve the people. Republicans need to end their vacations and get back to work.

This is an unmitigated disaster, not just for Harvard but for Higher Ed and the state of human inquiry more generally.

So I realize I’ve reposted this all day, but I cannot understate the scale of this story. If Anthropic is spending this much on Google Cloud - or even 25% - the costs of running their business are never coming down. It’s a huge scoop, and the first real discussion of the true costs of AI anywhere.

Just insane thing for a NYT editor to say publicly:

"Research has shown that, inside some companies, workers begin to see their colleagues who use generative AI as less creative, even less trustworthy."

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

I'm tired. We're all tired. This isn't hard to understand. You can't inflate prices of basic necessities like food and housing to ridiculous highs while keeping wages at poverty levels, then act surprised when luxury goods/services and large purchases become unattainable or payments unaffordable.

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

I have left Substack. It is a scary move financially, and I urge you to consider signing up now for my newsletters. The Ghost Era is off to a good start. Check out some of these pieces from the last week. There's this morning's newsletter, for example... www.drewmcweeny.com/how-to-prepa...

you’re telling me that another thirtysomething republican has nazi beliefs. wow

*pounding table* SENATOR PELTOLA SENATOR PELTOLA SENATOR PELTOLA

Not sure why this image is so shocking, given everything he’s done but: it’s shocking! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump has launched seven deadly strikes in the Caribbean Sea. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

Grijalva not being sworn in means she doesn’t have access to funds as a member of Congress, which means she can’t help her constituents. She has repeated this multiple times and Mike Johnson knows this but he’s going to keep lying about it anyway. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/a...

We. Told. You. So. But also, that "May Rely" in the significance section ( 👇🏾 ) is *way* too… let's go with "generous;" lexical associations and statistical priors are what these systems are literally made of, and all that they do. Literally. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

The massive No Kings protests may mark a new American political posture | Moira Donegan

Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again? I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale. That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?

What is “satirical” about shitting on the American public, Mike? What “point” is that proving? Why do you have the moral fiber of a weasel on meth, Mike?

Excellent article. Worth reading. Vaclav Havel says that one of the hallmarks of living in a totalitarian society is that people cease to be able to “live in the truth”, ie their public behavior is part of a heavily compartmentalized, dishonest, but expedient charade.