If there’s a water shortage, don’t subsidize showers. If there’s a blackout, don’t make AC cheaper. If there’s an oil shortage, don’t cut gas taxes. Prices are helping signal scarcity. A gas tax holiday weakens that signal right when it matters most.

I found an interesting analogy between biology and political science. Search or feed this into your favorite LLM AI: ”biology effective number of species as a function of population size vs seat product model”

"I'm not a radical. The moment is." Exactly this. The moment demands fundamental institutional reform, & it is a good sign that these conversations are beginning to happen now in earnest.

one absolutely fascinating dynamic is that just by using the number of seats and type of seat (FPTP/multi-winner PR), you can predict the number of parties that an electoral system will allow to be relevant: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...

The answer is proportional representation. Proportional representation enables equal representation to minority voters as a structural feature, not as a litigated favor any future court can take away.

NYC study shows men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. When protected bike lane coverage is high, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s. When protected lanes are limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops sharply. Good bike investments give women choices.

Today in “Presidentialism was a grave mistake” The legislative solution is impeachment, not a commission to do the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments’ job for them. In a normal functioning democracy, there would just be a simple majority no confidence vote & we’d be done already.

This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

All countries take note: Oil and nuclear are no longer just climate risks; they are also geopolitical risks.

Donald Trump threatening the destruction of an entire civilization is madness. He is completely unfit to serve as President of the United States. Invoke the 25th Amendment. Or Republicans must stand up with us to impeach him. We cannot allow him to set fire to the world.

Trump just threatened to slaughter 100 million people. It's clear he's unfit to be president, the 25th amendment must be invoked. If Vance, Rubio & the others continue to be spineless cowards, Congress must do everything possible to stop Trump & this war. www.spectator-index.com/tweet/breaki...

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

Trump said today that “a whole civilization will die tonight.” This is insane.  He is openly threatening massive escalation in Iran. Congress needs to immediately vote to put a stop to this. It is a constitutional duty to vote on war powers and both sides should demand this.

Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY! The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.

The President is threatening genocide and possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran. It’s clear the President has continued to decline and is not fit to lead. The members of his Cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment immediately.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Block US military activity from all EU ground man, and close US bases while we are at it. no taking off, no intelligence sharing, no refilling, no transit stops for arms to Israel and US bases overseas we will allow you to off-load your casualties for humanitarian reasons and that is it

The US military has 22 sites in the UK. Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran. This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more. The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh

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EU: EU stands with the people of Cuba in their hour of need. We are stepping up our humanitarian aid to Cuba to help deliver food and safe drinking water, and to provide logistical support to humanitarian partners delivering urgent relief to the most vulnerable.

It’s actually possible to write headlines that don’t obscure who did what. Thanks, AP.

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I’ve waited my whole life for Europe to stand up against senseless American wars.

I think this is SUCH an important discussion, and she was so great. Reupping so people know this is out there. I raved to my husband about it all evening— she was fantastic.

People do not appreciate what a vast, fundamental sea change batteries are bringing to the electrical system.

Spain closes its air space to US aircrafts that attack Iran! Spain based.

Presidential systems are inherently unstable and prone to collapse. A winner-take all electoral system (i.e each voter having just one representative) is not the only option for legislatures — in fact, it’s almost certainly a bad system.

A widely unknown fact about voter registration: The USA didn't have it for several decades. States started adopting it in the mid-1800s largely to disenfranchise city dwellers, immigrants, poor people, etc. Even today, North Dakota lacks voter registration—eligible voters just show ID when voting

We should be clear-eyed about the fact that European countries have similar levels of support for basically-fascism as the United States. Their institutions just contain it more effectively (so far). We should be trying to add to that institutional resilience at the int'l level.

”Slår vi ihop alla kategorier (politiker, ledarskribenter och opinionsbildare) får konservativa, borgerliga eller liberala företrädare 70 procent av talartiden, mot vänstersidans 30 procent. […] För opinionsbildare och ledarskribenter får högersidan hela tre fjärdedelar av talartiden.”

A strong case to abolish the European Council. This summit of national leaders was never meant to be as overbearing as it has become.

The runaway presidency isn't new, Trump has but laid bare all its built in failures. It needs to be curtailed and reformed. Congress must be made the 1st branch again and more representative as soon as we get the chance. My piece and video 👇 at @liberalcurrents.com

Spain seems to be on a good streak with the Social Democrats (PSOE) and coalition partners at the helm. I really think the green revolution is the way to end the oil wars once and for all. www.politico.eu/article/spai...

If every top Democrat doesn’t immediately condemn this threat of war crimes and collective punishment, without any ‘process’ BS complaints, then they should be primaried instantly. They’ll be complicit in this crime if they don’t speak out. Tainted forever.

Someone a few months back pointed out that the no-confidence vote and snap elections were both innovations in the generation or two after the Revolution, but toppling British officials before that still meant ginning up fake crimes for impeachment. Bad timing on our part!

"Gotta compete with China!" they say ... about everything but this.

Very good article by Michael Latner on city council reform. open.substack.com/pub/mikelatn...

Maybe we will look back on this as the period of time that clarified for all of us that fossil fuels are truly over and post-WWII universalist liberalism is absolutely worth preserving because the alternative, the alternative is… this.

Can we impeach now?

Britain’s electricity is currently 69% zero carbon, largely thanks to domestic renewable energy. Those ‘windmills’ sure are effective at insulating us from the effects of Donald Trump’s Iranian disasterclass.

The aspects that I think are genuinely different (which all pre-date Trump) are: 1. Christian nationalism, which I do not see in Europe outside of some Eastern orthodox countries 2. Endemic tolerance for violence up to and including frequent mass shootings 3. War as a tool of foreign policy