I’ve done it before and dammit I will do it again

Sept. 29, 1925: Paul MacCready, who invented the first working human-powered aircraft, the bicycle-plane Gossamer Condor, is born in New Haven, Conn. The engineer also designed the first pedal-powered plane to cross the English Channel and a solar-powered wing for NASA.

It’s true ACA funding expires on the last day of 2025. But this isn’t an on/off switch you can play with in late December. Insurers are filing premiums in the coming weeks, open enrollment begins Nov 1 and any action after that gets messy (at best). MORE: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

The opposite of antifascist is fascist.

People don’t want to buy coal anymore. Get over it. Start a solar factory instead. The solution isn’t to just subsidize coal.

You first.

JUST IN: Judge Simon sets a restraining order hearing for *tonight* on Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Oregon. Suggests he could issue a very quick order.

Don’t worry Amy, Trump is putting gold all over the White House and is building a $200 million ballroom. That must help lower grocery prices. No?

Assuming they still have farms next year.

More winning ... just not for us. This is the way, and the US will be losing out for years.

Bullies hiding their faces playing tough guys. Shameful.

Putin has signed a law pulling Russia out of the European anti-torture convention.

The number of cancelations Disney saw in the week after suspending Kimmel was 436% above baseline subscriber churn.

With government funding set to expire Tuesday, Speaker Johnson refuses to bring the House back. He knows seating Adelita Grijalva, just elected in Arizona, would trigger a vote on the Epstein Files. Putting politics ahead of governing is reckless and wrong.

listening to Trump incoherently ramble for the last 30 minutes gave me a concussion

As a climate reporter in Australia, where 1-in-3 homes have rooftop solar, I can say people here love stories about saving money on solar, electrification, EVs and how it all helps them. Batteries are taking off here now and it’s the same narrative.

Lithium batteries in written-off #EVs now hot property at salvage auctions. Demand for secondhand electric vehicle #batteries is surging across Australia, as buyers repurpose them for everything from #solar storage to off-grid #energy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Deadline coming up very soon. “Federal EV tax credits in 2025 top out at $7,500 if you're buying a new car and $4,000 if you're buying a used car, while the bank or the automaker's finance company can take a $7,500 tax credit for EV leases but may discount your lease accordingly.”

Meanwhile…

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

#climate 🌎🌍🌏

Now on the Energy Dept’s banned words list: “Climate change,” “green” and “emissions.” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

“As heart rings to heart those voices rang, and for a moment, in the bright hush of the morning, the two stood silently but ardently eying each other, beholding mutual reflections of a boundless admiration and love.” Pierre chapter I, Herman Melville #melvillemonday #naturesky #booksky #nature 🌙 ✨

Good morning from #PuckAndMartha.

Yes they are. Here's my first shop dog, Hershey the Lab of Everyday Cycles.

This. Just this.

Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends! Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳 “Crowding all sail, we braced the yards square; and, the breeze freshing, bowled straight away from the land.” Omoo (last page)

"African Americans played a tremendous role in the establishment, history, & growth of Punta Gorda. Nearly half of the city’s original setters were African American. Despite Jim Crow norms, the pioneers created a society where shared prosperity & mutual respect prevailed." Blanchard House website

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.” Emile Zola, who died on this day in 1902

“Named in honor of Mary ‘Stagecoach Mary’ Fields—the first African American woman to work for the U.S. Postal Service and a fearless legend of the American West—the museum reclaims the often-overlooked history of Black Cowboys and their role in shaping America.” #Hartford #horses #history

The great myth that conservatives perpetrate is that idea that renewables are more expensive than fossil fuels when the opposite has been true for a while now.

Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳  Moby-Dick Chapter 43. Hark! „There again—there it is!—it sounds like two or three sleepers turning over, now!"  #AmericanReadalong Gevorg Bashinjaghian Meerlandschaft mit Schiff im Mondlicht Sotheby‘s

“For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.” Miguel de Cervantes

“He married an African-American woman, Elizabeth P. Farmer, in 1844 and raised mixed-race children with her. Tragically, he was lost at sea in 1861, but his legacy lives on as an example of the 19th-century whaling industry, where Black and Indigenous peoples found kinship and financial autonomy.”

Wood River, Rhode Island

The will, that never can relent— The aim, survivor of the bafflement, Make this memorial due. Herman Melville #MelvilleMonday

Good night

“Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy... censorship. When any government. . .say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.” — Robert A. Heinlein

Sunset timelapse - only four seconds because balancing on the bow had time limitations 😅but the clouds are cool.

Moonlight South Texas, Julian Onderdonk 1912

And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am. Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

Republicans would rather bring the entire government to a halt than risk bringing a pedophile to justice.

UK artist and illustrator: Natasha Newton

“…our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” Herman Melville

About to be the family that owns TikTok.

If they do go through with both the military deployment to Portland and the government shutdown, I’m sure all of those NG troops will be thrilled that they are pulled out of their day jobs and also that no one is paying them

We cannot normalize militarizing American cities and suburbs. Make sure you know your rights and stay alert.

This would track my observation that they didn't really have any imminent plans in place for Portland until Trump randomly sounded off and they were left scrambling to come up with some token deployment plan.

"What creature but a madman would not rather do good than ill...?" —The Confidence-Man