Geothermal is broadly popular, but still tricky to finance and develop. @zeitlin.bsky.social has the story on a brand new coalition led in part by the governors of Colorado and Utah aiming to bridge some of those barriers in the Mountain West: heatmap.news/energy/mount...

200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social

President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on this day in 1862. The law offered western lands to qualified settlers but also land loss for American Indians & environmental degradation. In this short article, I argue it was important for cohesion among early Republicans before the Civil War.

Same policy has just been implemented in Germany and it props up margins at the expense of tax payers.

Trump is very deliberately & visibly killing the US wind power industry. Nobody even seems to be putting up a fight. As far as I can tell, the ACP -- the utterly fucking useless, spineless, compromised clean-energy trade association -- is responding with sternly worded letters.

Roger B Taney be sitting in hell and laughing his ass off

US spending on data centers & computers has grown so much that it's larger than basically all other physical investment categories—more than all single-family housing construction, factories, power plants, industrial equipment, apartments I'm running out of points of comparison

My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao) The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution static1.squarespace.com/static/59dc0...

Using 180 years of US data to show that tariff increases reduce imports, output, and manufacturing, with effects operating through both supply and demand channels, from Tamar den Besten, Regis Barnichon, Diego R. Känzig, and Aayush Singh www.nber.org/papers/w35102

The worst human beings in the country should not be running the country.

i will vote for any democrat who promises this

The president celebrating the morbidity of the nation.

Happened to be teaching this essay last week, seems relevant these days www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Happy Appomattox Day to all who celebrate, and even those who don’t.

Great article on railways and wider urban planning challenges worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ja...

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

The US has caused $10 *trillion* worth of climate damages since 1990, including $2.5T domestically, $500B in India, and $330B in Brazil

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 115 years ago tomorrow, galvanized a century's worth of workplace safety laws that are now getting shredded.

""Rather than slinking into a quiet retirement, Adams did what no American president before or since has done: he returned to Congress." Good to be reminded of committed public service at the founding. @lmchervinsky.bsky.social for @inpursuitusa.bsky.social www.inpursuit.org/lessons/shor...

A blockade is an act of war, and in this case, a crime against humanity.

In a buried report, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water. Then there were 1,400+ wells that had operated for decades without any limits at all — grandfathered in from an earlier era. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

This is how you destroy a country. The has-been or wannabe jocks in the White House are probably too stupid to even realize.

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

The WSJ 😯 Go off king

I don't ever want to hear that it's wrong to call them Nazis again.

Geopolitical turmoil in the Middle East once again shows that reliance on volatile oil and gas exposes economies to price shocks. Renewables, electrification and storage offer more stable long term energy costs and stronger energy security.

Trump is continuing his crusade of erasure at our parks. This time, removing films that tell the history of women and immigrant labor organizing against terrible conditions at the Lowell Mills. Trump cannot erase the truth. Watch one of the films now on my YouTube: youtu.be/PhfN-c_Qv3o

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy" should get a lot of use

Once again so mad that 3+ decades ago a small group of loud reactionaries derailed a meaningful Enola Gay exhibit that would have shed light on the unfathomable hell of aerial bombing wars and reminded the US public that human beings exist in other countries

Trump promised that new factories and jobs would pour into the US, but spending on manufacturing-related construction actually decreased last year (after booming under Biden). My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

"...taking a great financial burden off the people that I love." To be specific, billionaires.

This man has never taken the Amtrak

Every story I read about the revocation of TPS for Haitians makes me shake with rage. I am no longer surprised at the cruelty of this regime, but it is deeply shameful that our country is doing this. This is simply ethnic cleansing.

Venezuelan oil has the highest average methane intensity among oil and gas producers globally — its operations are the most wasteful and polluting, losing more gas than the entire nation of Ireland consumes in a year. https://ow.ly/acGH50Y4UUw

Everyone should read every last line of Judge Biery's ruling

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

This year, even more so than other years, we should remember Fred Korematsu.

Harrowing www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

This is the legacy of ICE. This is Trump's legacy. This is also what American society voted for. We need to take a hard look at ourselves. www.wfaa.com/article/news...