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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

In some areas, electricity prices have jumped 110% in five years. A new case study from Ohio finds that deregulation didn’t boost competition as promised — it added middlemen who don’t offer discounts, and default rates set through auctions with too few bidders to keep rates low.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

"High levels of mercury exposure cause human health harms, including impairment to the nervous system, brain damage and developmental delays in children. Coal plants are responsible for nearly half of the United States’ mercury emissions, according to the EPA."

But that’s ok, see, because it will be outsourced to a Trump donor who will send kickbacks to King Donald.

#HigherEd #AcademicSky *Please* amplify this risk. The US DOE wants to implement an earnings test on all undergrads and grads--if grads of your programs do not earn a specified amount upon receiving their degrees, your programs risk losing federal funding. The earnings tests begin *this October*.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed E.O. 9066, authorizing the forced relocation & incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans, solely because of their heritage.

Yes, yes they were.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Unlike a lot of people putting out hazily sourced allegations, @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social is a serious journalist and old colleague of mine. I trust he did the legwork to establish these connections. And now DOJ disappeared the evidence. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/doj-remove...

"The Shadow President," @andykroll.bsky.social's deep dive into Russell Vought, has just won a George Polk award for political reporting. The piece chronicles Vought’s rise from the Senate mailroom to his position as one of the most influential players in the Trump administration. Read it here:

OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

Good thing we’re eliminating air pollution regulations! apple.news/A2HIhmBJMTQ-...

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Still murdering people on the high seas, i see. ground.news/article/us-m...

One of my former grad students was involved in this. Really cool.

I’d guess that after the Bitcoin crash he stopped taking crypto so now it’s back to bags of cash. Maybe the color of bag matters?

AI Astroturfing. Great. apple.news/AKNVslx7uSeC...

If you’re interested in billionaire brain rot, please have a listen: pca.st/episode/a5b2... Enough, with Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social

This is one of those areas where California can (and will) hold the line, simply due to how many cars get sold in this state. I remember the smog as a kid, and I’m sure plenty of others do too. We’re not going back to that.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction billionaires dueling with dildos Is also great And would suffice.

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

The stupidest and most fearful way to run a professional military.

🚨 For-profit prison company: “CoreCivic’s revenue from contracts with ICE skyrocketed in 2025, but some participants on today’s quarterly earnings call expressed concerns that ICE had not detained as many immigrants as investors hoped.” #Divest #$CXW theappeal.org/ice-geo-grou...

New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS.

There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

I’ve said it before I’ll say it again I’ve been genuinely astounded at how quickly & effectively RFK Jr & his allies—Drs Prasad, Bhattacharya, Makary, Høeg, Oz, & Kulldorff—have been able to dismantle the US vaccination system, including vaccine R&D I thought guardrails might slow them, but nope

We only wanted Democrats rights violated!

Yep.

Lying is correct.

The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.

*drowning in a flood because an explosion on the moon has obliterated 10 miles of coastline*: I bet Deutsche Bank feels real silly now.

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

😂 DOGE was about data theft and protecting Elon’s business empire, not actually cutting the budget. You’d have to whack the militarized police state hard to make a dent in that.

On Trump, Epstein, and their social circle of pedophiles. From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, written in 2019, before Epstein was indicted. "The story of Jeffrey Epstein is one that will define our era..." us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

We don't know what's happening, but there's no good news here. As long as we keep burning fossil fuels, the world will continue to become more dangerous and chaotic.

Where have I heard this argument before? 😇

Politicizing drug safety. It starts here with this one review and one excuse. But it will spread. It always does.

That should sell a few more books! 😀

Fossil fascism.

Removal of minority soldiers from Medal of Honor site made it pretty clear a year ago.

Good story on University of Exeter and financial thinktank Carbon Tracker Initiative research

Absolutely worth watching with @jkbjournalist.bsky.social youtu.be/7awbgL_BP_k

One of the many ways the 1970s is a foreign country is how marginal this vision of space was. Common heritage of mankind, site for international cooperation, frontier of research. The fight to make it a “perfect playground for libertarian billionaires” was a long one.

Bea Kim is an Olympian, @protectourwinters.bsky.social member + climate advocate. “The world is changing. Glaciers are melting that we’re riding on. Each year we wonder if there will even be enough snow for us to do what we love. I couldn't watch it happen and not say anything about it,” she says.

So the Trump regime fired a third of the workforce, stripped the rest of civil sevice protection, are reclassifying thousands more as political appointees, and eliminated cafeterias, gyms, and libraries… nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi...

I won’t say never but it ain’t happening on the current Artemis timeline.