This is only a big deal if you’re into food.

On this day in 1935, FDR signed an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Of 2,000 WPA posters known to exist—publicizing community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs—the Library's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

Someone check on Jane Fonda 😢

California’s batteries are covering a larger share of peak evening grid demand, supplying up to 40% of energy needs. That shift has helped solar (the cheapest source on the market) power more households and businesses even after the sun goes down. tinyurl.com/49h5hkvj/ via @insideclimatenews.org 🔌💡

Every single majority Black state is calling for redistricting Almost no one in print has called that out but @elienyc.bsky.social The shift we are about to see in Black organizing behavior is gonna knock some people for the loop of their lives

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

Remember this? boltsmag.org/jeff-landry-...

Landry’s career has been a crusade to limit the power of the state’s Black residents. boltsmag.org/jeff-landry-...

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

i think there's a misconception that "recess" is vacation. it is for some, but lots of members are doing district work. the point is just: the people who control Congress do not even consider this their responsibility. The 119th congress in a nutshell.

Congress still in recess, btw

*sobs in Southerner*

The US attacked military targets across Iran’s Kharg Island as President Donald Trump reiterated his threat to unleash a massive new bombing campaign if Tehran doesn’t strike a deal to end the six-week war.

I saw some magnolias today.

#EliteEight reminder:

GBO! 🍊

The Trump administration's emergency orders to prevent the retirements of five coal plants and a gas plant have cost utlity ratepayers more than $230 million, Sierra Club estimates: www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-202...

Fun fact: Congress doesn’t have to ask the President for permission to pass legislation

lmao

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker acknowledged his rapid weight loss, joked about former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel — another 2028 presidential hopeful — and thanked the press during a speech before Washington journalists and dignitaries on Saturday.

GBO! 🍊

My article @climateconnections.bsky.social today examines how, despite their polar-opposite politics, California and Texas became leaders in solar, wind, and battery deployment. The most important thing you need to know is that I came up with the headline – I'm very proud of it 😅 🧵 follows [1/8]:

All rural culture is "The South" and that's very bad. For the obvious reasons, of course, but it also treats The South as a monolith.

a lot of discussion about how "cosmopolitan" urban dwellers are, but a really underdiscussed trend is the homogenization of culture across *rural* areas of the USA - replacement of once-distinct regional cultures with generic "redneck" accent and culture, regional religions with evanglicalism etc

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

Right now, there are US politicians in office who were already adults before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made integration the law of the land, and who spent most of their upbringing in segregated white communities. Just something I think about in 2026.

All but one US president lived both their childhood and part of their adulthood before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

This is a climate nightmare, honestly.

From @mlavelle.bsky.social and me, with cool charts from @cooljerk.bsky.social:

1/3 CA news. "The State of California was to some degree powered directly by solar and indirectly via batteries, starting at 4:05 am on January 31st through February 2nd at 12:30 am for a total of 44 hours and 25 minutes straight." Check out the charts. 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/02/17/w...

Talen plans pivot after Pa. gas plant rezoning proposal for data center development fails www.spglobal.com/market-intel... 🔌💡

And the Lancet's editorial that goes with it www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This week's cover @thelancet.com

I ADORE the DC Metro. You always know exactly where you are in the world, the branding is impeccable. Even the suburban stations that don’t have that coffering, you see the tile and you know exactly what system you’re using.

“greatest privilege of them all, voting”

Al Green is escorted out as Republicans yell "USA USA"

Anyway, calling Venezuela a friend is wild.

There’s a through line between the President sharing this and Google’s BAFTA “mistake”

There are 2 alt events tonight, one on the Mall and the other at the Press Club, we will be covering both in addition to the SOTU.

Good evening as we near the time for the State of the Union. Trump has left the White House and the motorcade is on the way to the Capitol. Lawmakers are coming in the House chamber. Our @statesnewsroom.com DC reporter @jennifershutt.bsky.social is in the House press gallery.

Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a "supply chain risk", if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday (Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Sen. Marsha Blackburn just now.

In the most recent episode of Tiny Matters, two #SciComm awardees, @samjscience.bsky.social and @fieseler.bsky.social, explore the fascinating science and history of wind power. 🌬️ 🎧 Listen here: www.acs.org/pressroom/ti... #WindPower

WHERE ARE THEM PEOPLE'S TARIFF MONEY???????

👁️👁️ www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...