FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Trump’s Affordability “Con Job” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Hegseth's "fog of war" claim is nonsense, if this account of what video shows is correct: The two men obviously were visible. Tom Cotton's claims also in doubt: Rep Smith says drugs not visible. The decision that the men were still in the fight looks very shaky: newrepublic.com/article/2039...

Can I let you in on a little secret? Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity. It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.

Warning! This colorful chart is censored by IPCC - mailchi.mp/caa/warning-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...

This phenomenon, where red states use far more electricity per capita than blue states, has been know for 40 y, as shown by Evan Mills and Art Rosenfeld in 1987: escholarship.org/content/qt59... It is due to the lack of efficiency standards and conservation programs in red versus blue states

Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

Since trump’s re-election a year ago, warnings that his use of the presidency to advance his personal interests is corroding American democracy have grown ever louder. #TheTrumpCrimeFamily is currently operating a corruption system for their own benefit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments. 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich. Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent) www.wsj.com/world/russia...

GOP and Independent support dropping: news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

Remember, a Trump pardon is worthless at an international war crimes tribunal

Wind is now the largest single electricity generator in 7 U.S. states (for the year from Oct 1 '24 - Sep 30, '25): SD, IA, KS, WY, OK, ND, NM Providing up to 85% of demand (in SD)

Good morning with good news: ERCOT (Texas) solar rose 36X, from 1 GW in 2017 to 36 GW in 2025! Solar may be ~44 GW in 2026 & ~58 GW in 2027! Battery capacity surged 15X from ~1 GW in 2021 to ~15 GW in 2025. It may be 24 GW in 2026 and 32 GW in 2027! WOW! H/T @douglewin.bsky.social #energysky

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

but their work continues: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114. This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️

"Too little was done too late”: New commentary with PIK director Johan Rockström warns of rising planetary risks after a missed decade of action. Climate & biosphere pressures keep increasing, but stabilising the Earth system is still within reach. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

The US now has the Thiel-Vance foreign policy, the Steve Witkoff foreign policy, the Jared Kushner foreign policy, the Marco Rubio foreign policy, and once in a blue moon the Donald Trump foreign policy... and Putin and Netanyahu plus Saudi, UAE & Qatar drive most of it.

Vaccines DO NOT cause autism - there is extensive research showing this. Resurrecting old, discredited, fraudulent work is shameful. Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms. This is dangerous & disappointing.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Interesting paper 🔌💡

Even in the house of horrors that is vaccine-preventable illnesses, polio stands out as particularly terrifying. But the darker chapters of public health history do not seem to faze anti-vaccine activists. Now, it’s polio’s turn to be downplayed.

“In America, this risk [of wrongful conviction] is not only a defining feature of the modern death penalty, but it also results in the disproportionate conviction and execution of innocent Black people.”

“Veterans have done our part for democracy,” he concluded. “We should be at home watching sports and taking naps, not fighting fascism.”

Elizabeth Kolbert is a national treasure.

"The best hope we have of improving our scientific understanding of the tangled realities of sex in humans is to look within and across cultures, bodies, and life histories and remember that we, too, are part of the rich breadth of biological sexual diversity on this planet"

I should also mention that the Rs and the media so effectively beat up Biden that the Dems were scared to talk about their indisputable economic successes: the longest period of low unemployment in 70 years, the fast pace of real wage growth at the bottom in 50 years www.epi.org/publication/...

To put this in perspective, the entire growth of data center energy in the US in 2020-024, combined, is less than half the solar energy China deployed *last year alone.* American energy policy is crippled by trying to keep petrochem relevant. It's embarrassing, it's ridiculous.

Powerful.

"Former utility executive Mark Ellis estimates the average American household overpays utilities by $300 per year, because the companies extract 3 to 7 cents more on every dollar of investment than they ought to."

As Texas’s water supplies dwindle, the state continues to woo thirsty industries. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/texas-water-wars

Excellent video - watch! Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.

About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.

A #WhiteHouse correspondent asked Karoline Leavitt: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?" The silence was deafening

“You can almost hear the Justice’s editor pleading for something—anything—more in return for a reported $2-millon advance.” Ruth Marcus writes about Amy Coney Barrett’s new memoir. https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-the-supreme-court-defines-liberty

In Sept, @homelandgov.bsky.social raided a Chicago complex and took dozens of immigrants — under the cover of darkness. Officials called it a victory against terrorism. A team @propublica.org set out to check the claims, and find and talk with the Venezuelans: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.

"The lawmakers — with solar arrays on a California villa, a $3 million Utah manse and an off-the-grid Kentucky homestead — all supported ending the perk this summer that sliced thousands of dollars off the cost of installing their panels." #energysky www.eenews.net/articles/mee...

“After the gringa left, the guards came in to beat us,” said one detainee of what occurred after a visit from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students. Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students. (Published Dec. 2024)

Our top story, from @candicebernd.bsky.social: State regulators don't want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. (Published January)

Wood Mackenzie confirms new natural gas generation is expensive! $126/MWh in 2030! New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas! New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas! Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky

However bad you think Schumer is, he is worse prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

If Schumer actually does this insane deal, it’s fair to wonder if he’s making Republican bets on Fanduel. This is Terry Rozier-level politics.

Toyota's 40-Year Solid-State Battery Could Change Everything We Know About EVs - InsideEVs insideevs.com/news/778354/...

Insurance companies aren’t just players in the fight with doctors over money; they’re also the referees. They produce their own guidelines on when to pay claims. If a doctor appeals a denial, insurers make all the initial decisions. (Published April) By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social