Just doing Jerry tonight. Real simple like. Live now on WORT 89.9 FM Madison and www.wortfm.org!

You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution. That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk. Wow.

Trump waging war on churches because Miller and Vance are mad at Pope Leo. This is straight up sicko shit

This guy's family made their money selling scooters to Medicare recipients.

JFC. Fucking ghouls.

This guy is a shithead, as are all the bullies that voted for him.

Fuck em both.

Electricity hungry hyperscale data-center pushing tech companies out here confusing the clean energy buildout language and morphing it into rapid demand growth response. Really gonna help build support for wind and solar in rural Wisconsin. Or not.

"Landman" is straight-up fossil fuel propaganda, being piped into millions of homes a week. Is there anything similar for renewables? Is anyone even pondering such an idea? [tap tap] Is this thing on?

Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

i'm sorry but we really should just grind the entire country to a halt until we break this fucking monstrous apparatus. this shit is insane. it's insane to go to work while this is happening

In this house, the blue cheese, honey butter, and port can come before the main course.

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

Fuck you Apple.

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

This is big: elected Republicans in a deep-red state saying NO to Trump even after his personal plea. The balance is shifting - and we have to keep up the pressure everywhere.

Related: @bandcamp.com, why you skimp on your broadband bills?

I don't know if it is the cause or not, but I do blame my ADHD for my "Gotta have them all" collector impulse. Ehh, I guess it could be worse.

This has so many quotable phrases and its so damn awesome, stop what you are doing and watch it please.

Can’t pardon this away.

Another way to reduce electricity prices? Shifting from for-profit, investor-owned monopoly utilities to municipal utilities or member-owned co-operatives would save about 15% on electricity bills, averaged over locations and customer classes.

Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.

Here we go

At this point we have to assume that if the Epstein files are released they will - end the Trump Presidency - implicate many other prominent Republicans - destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.

Excited to go with the family to see two IIHF World Juniors games in Minneapolis. Definitely a bit more expensive than I would have thought but should be a good time and a unique experience. Checking out Latvia vs. Canada and Czechs vs Denmark. Hoping some international fans will be there.

I think there’s a non zero chance Epstein helped Russia blackmail Trump. Would tie everything together in a nice little bow

The New York Times had this information about Epstein and Trump a year before the 2016 election, and said "but her emails is a more interesting topic." It was misogyny—the publication actively helped derail Hillary Clinton's campaign—but it really does look like catch and kill, too.

American bishops reminding me why I have nothing to do with the church anymore.

Do not under any circumstance hand your phone to law enforcement.

Epstein Files gonna shake the tree HARD. Let’s see what the fallout is.

Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.

The Uninhabitable United States

New at Can We Still Govern: The IRS is a key agency and its decline is emblematic of Trump-era mismanagement. @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Eliis Chen lay out the questions that Democrats should be asking its new leader. Incredibly informative piece. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...

Hmm

I need all you people to understand that the world of clean energy politics in rural America is the wild wild West

Of course we have cloud cover here in Madison for Aurora night.

This is the “to be read” stack of books on my nightstand. My name is Rick and I have a problem. (Also, thoughts on what I should read next?)

Former President Obama greets Wisconsin veterans on Badger Honor Flight www.wkow.com/news/to... #wipolitics

Senator Johnson just voted to have *you* pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars for a routine collection of records.

Charlie Berens bringing his comedy magic to the fight against data centers. The substantive argument is there, wrapped in laughs.

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Well, the one upside of the coming Republican fuckery on healthcare is it will likely pave the way for Medicare for All.

CHICAGO: Ald. Rodriguez is asking people to meet tomorrow (Tuesday) in Little Village from 9-12 at 26th and Pulaski. Have an inflatable costume? He wants you there, too. Bovino has said they will be back tomorrow. Please repost for visibility. We need people on the ground to keep the community safe.

who are the comms people letting the cavers and their supporters get this much media time/thread posting? They somehow managed to lose the left, the center, third way, and Cilizza in the same moronic play and we're supposed to listen to how quite literally everyone is wrong actually?

In the after times, we’ll fix the fucking red state, rural red gravy train. Free markets for me? Free markets for thee.

Ah, creating a legal entitlement for $500K for some elderly millionaires because they being investigated for their role in an insurrection *in exchange for* a show vote to make health care affordable.

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

Performative opposition is no opposition at all.

Right answer Governor Evers. Right answer.