Solar is going to surpass coal in ERCOT this year. Times ... they are a'changin'. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

this means it's working and we should keep doing this shit btw

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

maybe a hot take but I think that announcing you’re running as a vote-splitting “independent” two days after the Dem primary is sus as hell

Why is a 76-year-old man doing all the hard work in this moment? Where are the Millennial/Gen Z artists (ahem, Taylor Swift) to shake their audiences into sobriety about what is going on? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

“Harassment is bad regardless of who the target is” is not “manosphere gripery”

Between Jake Slaughter and Trey Smack Florida Gators had an all time name team

"we're willing to trade kidnapped children for POWs" is a completely insane admission of guilt

Discovering there's a tier below "As Seen on TV"

Texas law has an exemption barring the release of information on donors to state schools. Texas gives out sideline passes for football to donors who give over $1 million. Texas law does not have an exemption blocking the release of who got sideline passes. www.foiaball.com/p/texas-long...

I saw the greatest van I have ever seen today

Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people. No court or politician can change either of those realities.

he takes the freebies seriously and I appreciate that

Trump Unwittingly Breaks Chinese Taboo Against Napping Facedown In Soup Bowl

I grew up surrounded by Republicans in a deep red part of the South. Trump is NOT who they’ve always been. They have changed and abandoned most of who they were in order to join a cult of personality that has transformed them. MAGA was a transformative event that has altered their beliefs.

One thing that I’m convinced of: when you give groups of people permission to indulge in their darkest prejudices, you aren’t just revealing what was already there. Many also develop NEW prejudices. I think history and present experience both suggest people become Nazis, often abruptly.

an example of this: the anti-vax movement used to be a *very* fringe thing. that's not something that many people were raised with or were serious about even like ten years ago. people can be convinced to hate things they never would have if they'd been left to their own devices.

Why would Pittsburgh give up so many years of club control for a washed-up veteran? They’re not even in win-now mode.

that patient was incredibly lucky to escape with his dick

If your primary goal in an election is "making myself feel good and morally righteous about my vote" rather than "will my vote lead to the outcome of more or less human death and suffering in the world" I don't think you're a very good person

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

He really puts the “sac” in sacrifice

inside your driverless car there are two wolves

Like you have to remember that these people's idea of a trustworthy person was Donald fucking Trump

every extra dollar you pay in groceries this summer is the fault of donald trump specifically and the republican party generally and if you don’t understand that, you’re the sucker

we got rid of the president of unavoidable high grocery prices to elect the president of avoidable high grocery prices

I wish someone would corner these chuds on "only when the sun shines or the wind blows." It's spectacularly embarrassing that the ENERGY secretary doesn't know how storage batteries work.

Chat, look at who's president right now. You are allowed to complain about prices and blame it on him. Not only is it fine, it is your patriotic duty

For my part I think that the open fascists currently sending my neighbors to concentration camps are worse than Pete Buttigieg but to be fair to McKay I’m a millennial and so was exposed to substantially less environmental lead during brain development

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

in woke 2, as part of the re-reconstructioning, the DOJ is going to have to hire an entire battalion of white collar prosecutors who are more afraid of seeking too lenient punishment for insider trading than they are of seeking maximum 20 year federal sentences

"gentlemen, everyone who can secure 5,000 years' cumulative incarceration across their entire caseload within a year will get to keep their jobs"

just for reference, the number below is about twice what the largest American nuclear power plant generates, which is one reason I’m extremely skeptical that anything like what they’ve permitted is actually going to be built

any piece that’s like “people aren’t having kids because the present is bleak and the future is uncertain” has to tell me what’s different from any other time in history people felt that way

“Your strategy of ‘raising $73k for Palestinian children’s relief’ pales in comparison to mine: ‘complaining about you’.”

Portland bar and club managers talk about "It" happening like medieval Europeans talked about Prester John. Times are bleak now, lads, but one elderly man's failing organs are all that stand between us and 150 million Americans launching a drinking binge.

it’s gonna be like the end of prohibition here when it happens

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

I don’t hold it against average citizens at all for just voting their ideals and not being a strategic, but if you are putting out a voter guide it’s absolutely on you to know ball and not be a fucking idiot making a Bass-Pratt runoff more likely.

it rips how the war is basically like a self imposed sequestration because of how OUSD(C) went "uuuuhhhhh grandpa said we're doing a war with zero Congressional prep and pete said to worry about paying for it later so I dunno services figure it out"

What if Bluesky doesn't have to be Important. What if social media doesn't have to be Important. Remember less than 20 years ago when social media didn't exist and we just hung out on forums and anyone who suggested the forum was Important would have been referred for a wellness check.

Hey @nytimes.com, is it fair to say that your "reporter" isn't even trying to report the news? Because it seems pretty obvious he's using the news as a pool of material from which he can selectively draw, to populate a prewritten narrative that he finds politically satisfying. You cool with that?

Texas is banning students from writing on LGBTQ topics and removing any references to gender identity and sexual orientation. You'll never guess what the author here hasn't covered but then immediately wrote this piece.

you literally cannot read. at no point did I scold anyone for being on bluesky, a site I also post on, instead of twitter, a site I do not post on. I just think the de facto exile of many of the country's most active progressive voices to an insular forum that few people read is Bad, Actually

Good morning.