please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures

"Do you think taxes should be raised on billionaires?" Democrats: 🟢 Yes: 95% ⚫️ No: 2% Independents: 🟢 Yes: 75% ⚫️ No: 12% Republicans: 🟢 Yes: 48% ⚫️ No: 32% Read it here: usapolling.substack.com/p/americans-...

It's pretty clear that a major tactic from US tech companies, data centre developers and lobbyists is trying to present data centres as clean tech virtually identical to batteries, solar panels, transmission lines. That creates a framing where community backlash can be dismissed as hollow NIMBYism

'“The wind was like a tornado, and water came through every crevice,” Ms. Hue said. “But we didn’t lose any solar panels, and the next morning, the sun was shining bright and early,” she said. “We had our power back.”' www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...

The obvious bad faith of the admin and “dept of war” is further seen in the fact that *if* any boaters are ferrying drugs, they are simply low level “mules,” probably poor people down on their luck or who have no choice. Wouldn’t it be better to catch the ringleaders actually behind the operations?

Not enough people realize how bad air pollution is for our health (and the Trump admin is of course helping make more of it) www.wired.com/story/one-of...

This is wild and maddening www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPd...

I can't believe how good the Pistons are this year

What are the best books about AI?

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

the ~5 tons of CO2 emitted on this hourlong flight is roughly equivalent to what the average EU citizen emits in a year

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

SLOW HORSES on Apple TV is great

Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621

A must-listen!

This Q&A asks all the important and thoughtful questions about the future of batteries and and energy storage systems, local resistance, and what’s next.. #EnergySky #GreenSky #EnergyTransition 🔋🔌💡 #MossLandingFire

i know there are a lot of insane epstein stories out there right now but i promise you guys this one is EXTRA NUTS

no I’m not surprised, just imagining (among other things) an opposition party that took this population seriously and devoted itself over the many years it would take to make this country actually livable for them

New research out today with my colleague Jacob Udell on financial distress in the multifamily market. We focus on the impact on tenants, who have little say over their landlords’ financial decisions but bear the brunt of the consequences of this escalating crisis. Check it out!

This is excellent www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

An estimated one-quarter of IRS tax evasion agents have been repurposed to immigration enforcement. Instead of tracking high-end tax evaders, they are looking for metro fare evaders. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...

Today's new @publicenterprise.bsky.social report is a comprehensive analysis of the capital structure of the entire AI sector: data center real estate, GPU markets, private credit, you name it. It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers! publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

This person was the President of Harvard University, the US Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director of the National Economic Council of the United States.

New from 404 Media: ICE plans to spend as much as $180 million on bounty hunters to physically locate and stalk immigrants. I spoke to multiple private investigators/skip tracers. Some horrified. Others said they will do this work. "Money is money." www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

It’s a real bummer that the collapse of insurance markets keeps getting covered as if it were the fault of individuals rather than logical outcome of an industry focused more on profit than protection. climateandcommunity.org/research/pro...

The only players in NBA history with 40+ PTS, 10+ REB, 10+AST and 5+STL in a single game: Michael Jordan. Cade Cunningham. End of list. H/T @statmusefc.bsky.social

Maybe it's just me, but I find the positive tone of posts like this infuriating. It isn't "good" news. To limit warming to 2 (not 1.5) degrees, emissions must fall by ~8% p.a., every year, from NOW. Fossil fuel use GROWING for ~5 more years would be an unmitigated disaster.

I think it’s now safe to call this race. Progressive urban planner Katie Wilson defeats centrist incumbent Bruce Harrell and will become Seattle’s next mayor.

A lot of people truly don't believe anymore that reading and writing on a mass scale are foundational to democratic society. They think video and streams on corporate platforms can replace that.

“Climate-related disasters forcibly displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 displacements every day, according to a report by the UN refugee agency.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts

Utilities are a major source of bottlenecks for clean-energy development because fewer transmission lines mean more profits for them.

During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals. Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists

"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people" Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->

This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here. bsky.app/profile/mand...

That's a solid epitaph for this moment in history

"A member of Reddit’s r/crochet, he’s watched the group spiral into the depths of AI paranoia as images of phony crochet projects and impossible-to-execute patterns flooded the feed." www.thecut.com/article/woul...

Insightful thoughts here on why capital owners may oppose decarbonization. It's like opposition to unions: it's not about wages necessarily but about who has the power in the workplace

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

This is an entirely uncontroversial view in international law and usually taught in 101.

Gas stoves emit methane, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulates at levels known to contribute to asthma and cardiovascular disease. 🧪 NEW STUDY: The annual indoor health cost of a single gas stove = $5,258 A big part this is from childhood asthma. www.zmescience.com/medicine/gas...

"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."

You deserve a better society. Join DSA today and win it. Read the full statement on our website: www.dsausa.org/statements/d...

i dont think there’s ever been a point where corporate america has had a sincere sense of morality but it is probably a sign of the times that the culture at most major firms does not even pretend to encourage ethical behavior anymore. the transformation is really stark in tech.

Sadistic, marauding fascist monsters having a tourist moment. “The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, ‘Everyone say, “Little Village!”’”

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

The amount of money that just four companies—Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta—have spent on AI projects in the past year could fund the entire SNAP program for four years. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... by @shiraovide.bsky.social