Both incompetence and malicious compliance seem to be equally plausible explanations for this clusterfuck.

Well, they've finally found their excuse for blocking all offshore wind: a Defense Department report says they create problems. What problems? Sorry, it's classified! I wish I were making this up.

What I think a lot of people don't quite understand is that a lot of what has passed for "the media" for the past 15 or so years has just been outlets recycling the content of a dwindling group of reporters doing actual, original, on-the-ground journalism

Yet another indication that when your only criteria for hiring someone into your operation is their personal loyalty to you, you don't end up with very competent people, especially if the operation involves committing crimes.

This thread, written by an Illinois Representative and still being added to as I share this. Is utterly fantastic. Accurately describes the complexity of energy markets, and utterly shreds the "I'm just being reasonable here" punditry it's responding to. Really shows how superficial punditry is.

New AMS Statement: Dismantling NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research would weaken U.S. leadership in weather, water, and climate science, putting public safety at risk. For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: https://bit.ly/4q6eChn

Please write to your congressional reps about the NCAR budget cuts

WTAF?

If they want to ensure future power supplies, the best thing that tech companies could be doing right now is... Lobbying Republicans to stop the attacks on wind and solar.

Newt is speaking, so that tracks.

Just going to point out that it would take less than a half of a percent of Bill Gates' estimated worth to float NCAR until a new administration can restore funding.

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

This is going to be a catastrophic loss, and all because a handful of people refuse to accept reality.

At 2pm Eastern today, 3 of the CDC officials who resigned due to RFK's interference will be chatting live on Ars about the current state of the CDC and what might be done to recover from it. Please join us for it.

Worth reading. This person is an ethical vacuum, and she holds a position of significant power.

These people ostensibly work for the US public, but it's quite clear they hate the US public, and view it as an impediment to their dreams of cosplaying tough law-and-order types.

The same people who speed every time they're behind the wheel will also turn around and complain incessantly that bicycle riders don't obey traffic laws.

In the Atlantic's ongoing effort to find contrary takes on everything, we now have "maybe racism shouldn't have consequences?"

Very excited about this. Next Tuesday, you'll have the chance to have the CDC's former leadership answer your questions about how the changes there are putting the public's health at risk.

Stop printing lies in the newspaper. There need to be consequences for printing lies in the newspaper. He literally says and believes exactly this, several times per day and on camera.

It's racism guys. Racist is the word you're looking for.

This is an EPA spokesperson's response to a question from E&E News about why the agency deleted references to human-driven climate change. These people are just nuts.

Imagine the narcissism involved in doing this on camera and thinking it would make you look good. Now imagine that same narcissism applied to his fringe ideas on all things medical/health. It's why he's constantly overruling all the people who actually know better than him.

Judge in the case that rejects the admin's moratorium on wind power permitting drops this beauty: "Whatever level of explanation is required when deviating from longstanding agency practice, this is not it." Also accuses admin's lawyers of "tilting at windmills". Coverage tomorrow.

If Nuzzi is a post-truth antivaxxer, she should say so. If she isn’t, she should say so. But you don’t get to work hard to elevate RFK Jr and then just gloss over what he has done. Certainly not in your memoir that is purportedly about what you learned from the whole ideal.

"The party is the state" coming from the people who somehow think they're anti-communists.

Shorter @mattyglesias.bsky.social here: I'm going to weaponize my lack of understanding of a complex topic to enable me to misinterpret the motives of everyone who does understand it and try to make them all look bad.

What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again? Cutting sections on a cryotome.

I'd like to think that I grew up at a time where, if you said something that made it clear you were a complete dipshit, there'd be consequences of some sort, like people no longer allowing you to occupy positions of consequence. If that ever was the case, it's over now.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

We're now living in a world where the Centers for Disease Control are making it more difficult to control disease. The number of agencies that will need top-to-bottom reform when Trump leaves office is going to be a massive challenge to overcome for whoever follows him.

Interesting attempt to make someone pay for the externalities that are being spread across society.

If we renamed Puerto Rico "Trumplandia", he'd make it a state tomorrow.

The most recent two Republican administrations made torture and now war crimes/murder official policy. And, as an American citizen, these actions have been done it in my name.

I'm old enough to remember sitting in a 1970s station wagon as my mother took her place in a line of cars waiting to buy rationed gasoline. That era ended for very good reasons.

At a time where most outlets are delicately avoiding naming things like racism, war crimes, and unconstitutional actions, huge props to Ars' @bethmariem.bsky.social for calling it like it actually is.

The blatant racism really needs to be front page news everywhere tomorrow.

This, to me, sounds right. In my experience, if you know the material, 90+% of the time you have no problems finishing within the allotted time. Having more time only helps in those edge cases where the exams are poorly structured. Having more time won't help those who don't know the material.

Waiting for all the gamergate folks who supposedly cared about ethics in journalism to notice the whole Nuzzi fiasco.

The deck here may be Axios' finest work to date.

Every major newspaper should give the blatant racism front page treatment tomorrow. But they won't.

Probably says a lot about my musical tastes, but I think The Kink's Father Christmas is my favorite secular, and I love Oh Come all Ye Faithful in part because of Bad Religion's cover of it.

Nobody should be putting Mullin on TV precisely because they know he's going to say stupid, inflammatory shit like this. But he keeps getting trotted out because someone thinks that stupid inflammatory shit makes for great TV.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

While US courts have not taken up the issue of whether all the "gifts" Trump has received are bribes, it look like the Swiss legal system might weigh in.

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It shouldn't be shocking that the same political journalists who feel that they shouldn't face consequences for massive ethical and professional lapses find it quaint that anyone wants politicians to face consequences for ethical and professional lapses.

There's a classic joke list of how different programming language handle shooting yourself in the foot. In the spirit of that, I'm going to make a collection of how the current media landscape would handle Trump shooting himself in the foot. I encourage you to submit your own.

If you _do_ want to know the true science on the environmental consequences of offshore wind development, we did a story based on two different systematic reviews, plus a bunch of other studies, in this piece: hakaimagazine.com/news/offshor...

Next year, solar energy will likely displace natural gas as the largest source of generation on California's grid.