In 2025, the U.S. added 53 GW of new electricity capacity, the most since 2002. In 2026, it's on track for 86 GW, mostly solar/storage. To put that in perspective, the U.S. is expected to add more capacity in the next two years than it did in an entire decade of the 2000s combined.

Don't let your eyes fool you; this is exactly what it looks like... a modern-day American Gestapo. The USA is an absolute disgrace of a country.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Sharing is caring #dogsofbluesky #bestfriends #doglife #dogvideo

AI tools have gotten quite good at cleaning, merging, and analyzing large datasets. They can seamlessly operate with more niche filetypes like NetCDF, as well as help put together a clean and well-documented file management system.

ZELENSKY: “I hope to come here with Trump one day, so he can see what this war is really about… Putin is this war — the cause of its beginning and the obstacle to its end.” Powerful message to the resilient 🇺🇦 people from their president. Full: x.com/zelenskyyua/...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

“This study reports that in utero SARS-CoV-2 viral exposure was associated with decreased cognitive skills in toddlers at age 2, and this association was mediated by cortical gray matter volumes in the newborn brain.” The consequences of denialism are mounting.

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron. 10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

Kash Patel says he now has a lead that Savannah Guthrie's mom is being held at either the NCAA Final Four or the Masters golf tournament, plans to personally investigate.

This week @jamellebouie.net had some questions for me about where the US is at now and why the term "concentration camp" might be a useful way to think about the crisis. (He interviewed me eight years ago for Slate on a similar topic. Let's hope we don't end up having the same discussion in 2034.)

Q: “What about people who are extremely passionate about the proper storage and organization of cookware?” A: “You’re thinking of pansexuals.”

It is hard work being so cute #dogsofbluesky #doglife #dogs

🧵 THREAD: Energy Empire — The Podcast Clean Energy Needs 1/ For most of my career, people asked why I stuck with solar when it was fringe. My uncle said it was a career mistake. Turns out it wasn’t.

We made news in Manila! www.gmanetwork.com/news/pinoyab...

The blank sections near the top right are for the crematoria.

Build it

Is torrential floodwater a pollutant or is it something you drink?

It is hard work being so cute #dogsofbluesky #doglife #dogs

COLLEAGUE: The meeting was awful, they hated it. ME: I think they're just British. FEEDBACK: They loved it. They are, in fact, just British.

The funny thing about modern economic discourse is that The Wealth of Nations is very clear that market failure requires regulation. I am a capitalist because “planned economy” vs “lawless markets”‘is a false choice. A smartly regulated economy is literally what Smith articulated.

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Love to see some accountability for ex-prince #Andrew. But: when he was allegedly "just" raping girls his "punishment" was a farmhouse in Norfolk - but now it looks like he's sold financial secrets, arrest time. Hurt all the little girls you like but don't mess with the money, eh? #RoyalArrest

As the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis are ordered to release people they've kidnapped, they do it in the dead of night to make sure it's as cruel and brutal as possible. Fortunately, compassionate Patriots are there to meet them and make sure they're ok and driven to their homes.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” Grid-scale storage. Desalination. Heat pumps. Solar windows. AC clothing. Carbon-free concrete & steel. Green hydrogen. Individualized mobility devices for the elderly/disabled.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Some fun news to read right after the Trump administration announced it wouldn't be taking health costs into account when regulating air pollution www.sciencealert.com/the-link-bet...

Ramadan Mubarak! Kung Hei Fat Choi! Laissez bon temps rouler! Hodesh Adar tov! Y'ALL ⭐

Tomorrow, I’m leading a deposition of Les Wexner for oversight dems. Wexner was Epstein’s largest benefactor and contributor of wealth. Why? And what does he know? I have a bunch of questions, and I bet you do too.👇🏾

Whoopsy, @ewerickson.bsky.social

Trump’s propaganda czar Brendan Carr and Trump-controlled CBS refused to let Colbert air his interview with James Talarico. You can watch the interview here, and it already has 1.4M views. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Biden/Harris 2028 Hunter Biden and Neil Patrick Harris

Essential thread for anyone interested in #AI, #climate, #gridresiliency, and #energyprices

Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

Hillary Clinton: "Give the Ukrainians Tomahawks, give them more missiles for their Patriots, allow them to inflict more damage beyond the border into Russia. That’s when they actually started thinking about coming to the negotiating table—when Ukraine was able to reach targets inside Russia.

Of all things to criticize AOC about, boilerplate on Taiwan gets people upset? Sorry tankie leftists, she didn’t say everything bad in the world is America’s fault, and indicated that deterring Chinese imperialism could be good. Sorry, fake China hawks, she was measured instead of fire-breathing.

While at war… ‘Ukraine installed ~1.5 GW of solar power in 2025…~800 MW was added in 2024…takes cumulative capacity to in excess of 8.5 GW…commissioned its first megawatt-scale projects with BESS last year…2026 projecting >1.5 GW of new solar and more than 3 GWh of BESS by the end of the year’

⚠️ Rep. Thomas Massie: “I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I'm a pretty good swimmer.”

Very optimistic question really. If we're worrying about concrete impacts of Vance vs AOC for POTUS it means: a) Trump is gone b) We're having an election c) We don't know in advance who is going to win. Which means we already won the hardest fight. (Also, excellent profile pic.)

for better or worse, this will probably be the most successful and compelling argument by communities against ICE concentration camps being built: (from this piece: archive.is/eGsQf)

FDRbros…we’re so back

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

It's not a bathrobe, it's a cape with sleeves

“In a shocking interview with LBC, Lady Victoria Hervey, who briefly dated the former prince Andrew in 1999, said if you’re not in the Epstein Files you”re “a loser”.”

If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.

The BLS just released the *final* CES benchmark revisions with this morning's jobs report. The 2025 labor market was dramatically weaker than originally reported... and for 12 straight months, job growth was never statistically different from zero. A deep dive with charts in the 🧵 #EconSky