How hot are global oceans? Compare the 1982-2025 global sea surface temperature average, to this year:

The Statesman is too busy with local austerity sensationalism to investigate the link between these headlines. But idk maybe we should tax the *trillionaire Austin resident* who spends his days inciting racist riots abroad so my kids school can have a fucking librarian next year….

US solar generated more electricity than coal during May! US solar generation rose 17%! US coal generation fell 11%! Solar & storage were 91% of new capacity in first quarter. Solar is vital to USA, but Secretary Wright & POTUS constantly attack it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)

Bullsht federal fee for EV drivers in bipartisan house bill. $130/yr growing to $150/yr. Twice as much as what gas car owners effectively pay. insideevs.com/news/796222/...

The success of the U.S. vaccination system depends on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Under RFK Jr., both are in peril. (Published March)

We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Solar Panels can be Strategically placed, I am not sure how useful data centers will be…. I find it odd that the same people who complained about solar panels being a waste of land have no issue with opening data centers 3x the size.

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

The president’s crypto partners are offering World Cup box seats to high-ranking coin holders.

Utilities know distributed energy resources are the future, so they're attempting to do the thing that's worked for them for the last century: convince policymakers to let them monopolize. This op-ed argues for a different path: www.utilitydive.com/news/competi...

Over the years, Al Gore pivoted significantly toward a climate justice framework, increasingly calling out the role of political & economic systems/injustices: "We cannot have climate justice without racial justice." The Climate Reality project is an also important part of his legacy and lessons.

I've been following this project for a few years and it's fun to start seeing hard results. Covering irrigation canals with PV solar panels is turning out to be one of those awesome win-win-win scenarios where there's less water loss and less algae growth www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/s...

Congress is still debating reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a law the government has repeatedly abused to spy on Americans without a warrant. If passed without meaningful reforms, all of our rights are in danger. Congress must vote NO.

As civil rights historians we can do nothing but stand in (this sounds contradictory, but completely unsuprised) astonishment as the South re-disenfranchises Black people in a matter of weeks. -OS

John Roberts has been dismantling the country’s most important civil rights law for over 40 years.

What is the term usually associated with people that say things like what she said, Oh I remember: LIAR!

The investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center is yet another example of the Trump administration’s extreme attempts to silence its critics. Weaponizing institutions to target organizations speaking out against the administration’s agenda harkens back to the McCarthy era.

In his second administration, some of the president's family members are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest. https://to.pbs.org/4tTfPdh

There's only 1 one problem with the reports of Trump supporters fleeing the MAGA plantation: The narrative is like the 2020 election victory, the definition of DEI and the great replacement theory. It's just something white people made up. www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-report...

📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

A federal judge forcefully struck down HHS Secretary RFK Jr.’s attempt to impose far-reaching restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors, ruling the policy unlawful and blocking its enforcement in the states that challenged it.

Confidential memos by Supreme Court justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how they decided to bypass time-tested procedures and create the modern “shadow docket,” a rushed and secretive new way of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

Donald Trump claims he “saved historically Black colleges.” According to college administrators, HBCU presidents and the actual data, Trump is overseeing the worst attack on these institutions in American history.

Looks like our planet’s climate sensitivity is much higher than most climate scientists realised. Looks like Dr James Hansen was right.

Three Southern California residents were sentenced to jail after masterminding a scheme in which they staged fake bear attacks on their luxury cars, then collected more than $141,000 in insurance payouts, officials said on Thursday.

A small cohort of ("prominent"?) law professors are trying to portray John Eastman as some kind of innocent victim of viewpoint discrimination, and his disbarment as some kind of assault on the First Amendment. That's complete and utter bollocks. As usual, @gabrielmalor.bsky.social brings receipts:

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

Hard to imagine why anyone would want to buy a petrol-powered vehicle after seeing this #energysky elitre.com.au/dollar

Illiberalism is not Inevitable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Failing to recognize the global span of security issues is exactly how states can stumble from a limited war of choice into a world war they did not intend."

The agency released long-delayed data that confirmed a steep drop in prosecutions of misconduct like insider trading and fraud.

His worst lie yet which is saying something.

Our top story: This is not a failure of prediction; the science has been consistent for decades. It is a failure of alignment. The climate is changing faster than the infrastructure built to manage it.

The grid is under pressure, water is an open question, and Texans are left holding the risk.

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A Texas university censored an art exhibition about being Latino in the United States — due to concerns about its "anti-ICE messaging." Let's be clear: Silencing artwork displayed on campus just because officials don’t agree with what is expressed is wrong.

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years. That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

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Trump’s anti-birthright citizenship policy would plunge the country into an “unclear, contingent, and chaotic experiment in exclusion.”

“a vast new sub-caste of children who might forever remain ‘stateless.’ That would evidently apply both to those brought here through no fault of their own and those born here.” Gee this sounds an awful lot like slavery

I Am Here to Watch the Birthright-Citizenship Arguments but Not in a Threatening Way www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Unbelievable any lawyer will stand up and tell the Supreme Court that the US constitution is not the Constitution. That the 14th amendment does not say what it says about birthright citizenship. A disgusting, infamous day.

Out today: "Castroville, 'the Little Alsace of Texas,' was founded in 1844 by colonists from that region of France. The 'native sons' as I’ve heard them called, occupied a caste to which I, a Puerto Rican and Greek ... from the city, would never belong."