The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

#OpenAccess from July 2025 - The Politics of Small Business Owners - cup.org/3GSWFBd "experience of being a small business owner leads people to adopt conservative views on government regulation" - Neil Malhotra, Yotam Margalit & Saikun Shi

My brother, you have to keep charting. What happened next?

David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

5 days in NYC. 1 bag. 😎

icymi republicans increasingly hate battery storage

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... This is a great piece. Would love to run into some of these people in NYC this week.

Nature Climate Change Focus "Cities & Climate Change" in collaboration with @natcities.nature.com As hubs of human activity, cities are both contributors to climate change and essential actors in the fight against it. This Focus highlights content on this dual role www.nature.com/collections/...

Check out the chyron -- they are shilling their merch store during a funeral. The sheer vulgarity of these petty-hucksters-gone-big is wild to me. Government by fashy used car salesmen, I swear to God. It will never ever not be fundamentally strange to me that their own base find this appealing.

Good morning with good news: Plug-in EVs hit 55% of China's auto sales in August. They are 51% for January-August 2025. Full electric (BEV) was 34% of August sales and up 17%, compared to August 2024. Plug-in hybrid sales fell 7%. Will 2030 be 90% EV? cleantechnica.com/2025/09/20/b... #energysky

Occasionally, to add some clarity about the scale of the problem before us, I do a calculation like "How many acres of solar to replace the output of the Gibson coal plant? (31k, 9.6% of my county). Or electrify a typical blast furnace steel mill? (100k, 31% of my county)

It was foretold and it has come to pass!!!!!

“Eggs were the symbol of inflation in the last election. Now, as electricity bills spike, they are becoming a symbol for consumer frustration in 2026. Eighty million Americans are struggling to pay, four in five feel powerless, and politicians are scrambling for someone to blame."

What kind of food wrapper would your bribe come in?

My Eritrean geology prof in undergrad was not impressed with the quality of MN college town coffee. So for a lab he brought green coffee beans. As TAs our job was to tape plastic bags over the smoke detectors (#safetyfirst) while he roasted beans by an open window over a Bunsen burner. Spectacular.

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My review of Dan Wang’s bestselling Breakneck foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/19/b...

Now that I live in New York I’m like: This is just great. What a perfectly splendid idea. All these nice people are coming to visit me!

people fucking hate this shit and we haven't even fully revved up stagflation yet, or seen the effects of tariffs on holiday season

AP-NORC poll | 9/11-9/15 President Trump approval Disapprove 60% (+7) Approve 39% (-6) (shift since last poll) apnorc.org/projects/pes...

is this bad?

A leader of the Federal Communications Commission is blasting Disney’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show in the face of “government pressure” that she says violates the First Amendment and endangers free speech. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Sen. Andy Kim is introducing a bill to end profiteering by Trump, lawmakers, and the Supreme Court, so we don’t have “an egotistical, narcissistic, and corrupt government." EXCLUSIVE: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Jay Jacobs actually cost National Democrats the House and he's STILL in power, LOLOLOLOL

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore. Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.

I have a new article out in the Journal of Democracy comparing mass protests and government collapse in 2025 Nepal, 2024 Bangladesh, and 2022 Sri Lanka: www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Creatives and Disney+ Subscribers Call for Boycotts Over Jimmy Kimmel Suspension

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

“The FCC under Brendan Carr uses mergers and business interests of media companies as leverage to extract concessions, extract bribes, and extract censorship.”

I know it's hard to make demography sexy, but Bloomberg: "we're hurtling toward peak urban population" ... in 2080. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

One way of understanding the current moment is that Trump II is just 'more of the same,' representing longstanding strains of autocracy & supremacism in American life. Though such strains obviously exist, it's simply untrue that Trump changed nothing. The GOP of the VRA/CRA era was a different beast

Everything has a history =/= nothing ever changes

@lurabardley.bsky.social sees this for what it is www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

It takes both real effort and enormous bad faith to turn the openness of universities to a wide range of perspectives into evidence that progressives have a bunker mentality but these two lifelong pundits have found a way to do it

this is now the second time someone has threatened to blow up the car of a man that doesn’t own a car

""But so long as the President identifies a cause, the determination of “some cause relating to the conduct, ability, fitness, or competence of the officer” is within the President’s unreviewable discretion."" If the Supreme Court agrees, the Fed is at-will and under control of the President.

Maybe social media was a bad idea.

one of the fine distinguishing features of Bouie as a columnist is that he very much Does The Reading

just saw an ad for summer camp for 2026 and 1) too soon but also 2) so you're telling me there will still be a summer next year and we won't be locked up in detention centers? i'm listening

Speaking of being rich and brave does anyone want to move to beautiful northern Iowa and start a film festival for <$500k www.reddit.com/r/zillowgone...

Stop treating pretextual claims seriously

Wildfire smoke is an insidious and growing public health threat

I think this is a slight misstatement. It is simultaneously true that a) an average American will not experience the levels of misery that a Bangladeshi resident, say, does from climate change and that b) climate getting worse will kill a lot of Americans, mostly indirectly

California passes bill curbing utilities use of ratepayer money for political spending energyandpolicy.org/california-l...

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

anti-anti-fascist feels like it should have a one-word synonym

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Trump's cleantech Carthage @opinion.bloomberg.com bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Don't sleep on the good news, folks. It's rare these days. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-ind...