That is completely contrary to the historical record of what happened

The Inflation Reduction Act was the single most aggressive investment in rural America since the New Deal. Direct investment, high wage jobs, energy security, you name it. It was all there. Too bad it happened 200 years ago and all the records of it are lost forever.

Ossoff: I don’t know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week. Don’t worry—no one showed up. The stadium was empty.

I’ve been joking for years “when do I become the cool and edgy one for not having tattoos?” and folks I think my time is finally coming

Matt has never worked a real job in government or the private sector, so I wouldn't expect him to understand the reality here, but it's underrated the extent to which gov't execution also suffers from rotating in too many strivers from the ranks of consulting. It's not just an academia/NGO problem.

I can't believe we're already a week away from the start of early voting in Georgia.

Entirely predictable outcome here. www.axios.com/2026/04/18/i...

Like a Prayer is her only good album don't @ me

Delta has now suspended 6 routes and cancelled 2 in the past couple days due to high fuel prices and ostensibly more marginal demand. 🔌💡

Before this is all said and done, I give it 50/50 odds we're going to find out Trump or his team at least tried to force a non-disclosure clause with snapback penalties into any sort of Iran deal...to help him present the deal as more favorable to the US.

I think an acceptable position, specific issues notwithstanding, is "the Pope is right, but I'm an American before a Catholic and therefore will stand by my president here." But that's not what these people are doing. They're declaring (or weighing declaring) their own spiritual leader an apostate.

Wake up babe, it’s back on like Donkey Kong

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

FWIW...Spirit is obviously a much higher profile and higher impact case, but I've seen several cries for bailouts/rescues from distressed manufacturers come through the Biden and Trump admins. None entirely w/o merit. But every instance, by the time the conversation happens, it's far too late.

Knew this was coming. But I just don’t see how a capital infusion saves them now. Their business was broken and headed into the abyss even before jet fuel spiked. This admin had a year to broker a merger/salvage op and didn’t. I suspect it isn’t viable. viewfromthewing.com/spirit-airli...

folks I'm starting to think the President of the United States is not being entirely forthcoming with us about the state of things

Joe Biden’s second term in office is breaking all kinds of records. I’m glad Satya Nadella uses 5 x Copilot agents as his chiefs of staff.

They don’t teach this in schools but we fought the War of 1812 over this

Get him Kirk Cousins' agent and he'll be starting for the Mets in no time at all

Anything that can be returned to its status quo ante...should be. Anything that can't...should be razed to the ground.

I told y'all there is no deal happening without getting a trophy out of it. It's either a cut of toll revenues, or physical uranium. That's how his melted real estate brain operates.

Logistics are woke.

"But they were all of them deceived, for another arch was made."

The Street Fighter movie looks terrible but to be fair the original Van Damme version was also terrible. So pretty low expectations are in order here. Whereas the Mortal Kombat reboot had to live up to a solid-if-schlocky original.

Hogg failed my sniff test from the very start, and national Dem party leadership was correct to snub him last year.

Never even once forget how every single one of these disingenuous assholes responded to Liz Cheney going far more out on a limb that MTG ever has and saying that Donald Trump was such a threat to our democracy that fellow Republicans should vote for Kamala Harris

WSJ now confirming what Reuters reported back in February, that there will be no more company-specific price floors on critical minerals projects. This is the correct move. 🔌💡 www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

NEW: Circular financing, anyone? SpaceX accounted for more than 18% of the Tesla Cybertrucks registered in the US during Q4. And Cybertruck sales have really cratered. Finally, some hard numbers to the reporting that @fredlambert.bsky.social did months ago! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hearing Redwood Materials did a major restructuring today, with a round of layoffs and effectively scrapping its battery recycling business with a pivot to second-lifeing and ESS deployment. Would be another blow to America’s critical minerals supply chain efforts. 🔌💡

Nope. It can only be the fault of the guy in office. Them’s the new rules and I don’t make them. Trump take Spirit.

Trump take budget airline. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/s...

It's almost like having a robust and competitive commercial industrial base is an asset for defense production.

Saw Pet Cemetery at 5. Looked under the bed of every room I walked into for years after

As the guy who made #KeishaCash a thing on Twitter during the 2017 mayoral campaign, it warms my heart to see this. www.foxnews.com/politics/con...

This is like walking into a sportsbook and putting $50,000 on the Jets to win the next Super Bowl. I'm honestly speechless.

please clap

Caterpillar Inc. has acquired self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor, sometimes called the "Tesla of agriculture." Climate tech startups like Monarch have struggled to commercialize their carbon-cutting solutions. Scoop with @cocojournalist.bsky.social for @bloomberg.com:

I have been in DC since Sunday night and I have yet to see a single other person wearing seersucker. It's absolutely disgraceful and you should all be ashamed of yourselves.

maybe the fines are too damn low

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2090...

This was a solid overview that highlights so much of what has gone wrong with attempts at commercializing battery technology and supply chain projects in the West. The common thread? Venture capital. 🔌💡 christopherchico.substack.com/p/why-14-wes...

ProPublica demonstrates once again it is probably the most important journalistic institution in America today. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I guess after Noem got shitcanned there was no further work for them

Coming to Bill’s defense here. Grunge is in fact terrible and honestly so is most of the post-Grunge that defined GenX’s college years. Millennials OTOH were rescued from an Emo existence when Indie Rock/Pop blew up. Mr. Brightside saved our souls. GenX is stuck staring into a Black Hole Sun.