We know there are hundreds of good Americans at the FBI and DOJ who also want to see justice for Epstein’s victims and survivors. To anyone who worked hard on the files and is now seeing their work being hidden by their own DOJ, there are whistleblower protections.

NEW: They filed a report about Epstein with the FBI 30 years ago. No one believed them, but now the report has been RELEASED. Are there additional reports mentioning Trump that are missing? I speak with survivor Annie Farmer TODAY at NOON PT on @meidastouch.com: www.youtube.com/live/IToZ_0r...

I am not saying that refugees ALWAYS arrive with no resources. But recent refugees to the US often have. If you have little money and no job, there is no way for the market to provide you with housing you can afford. You can afford nothing!

The Department of Justice has pulled more than a dozen images, including one containing photos of President Donald Trump, from the thousands of files related to financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that it released Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

george costanza-ass punditry

HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that? HASSETT: Uhh --

The Epstein Transparency Act required the release of ALL Epstein files yesterday, not just some of them. Pam Bondi has broken the law. Arrest Pamela Bondi now.

BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law? MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.

An extremely satisfying set of videos is coming in a few years.

Andrew Tate and Jake Paul losing the same weekend. Sad.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

bro's gonna be visited by three spirits who all look exactly like Mark Milley

“Maybe if I just stare ahead while the president goes on another political rant right in front me with cameras on, I will be apolitical”

Live look of the apolitical military professional (they just happen to be standing right there):

For those keeping track at home: in addition to ruining every industry by monopolizing markets, taking over small businesses, and making homes unaffordable, venture capitalists also target college students directing death threats their way. It’s not the first time either.

DOJ has meticulously obscured and scrubbed the files in an effort to sanitize the role played by Trump friend and former cabinet officer Alex Acosta in giving Epstein a sweet heart deal. This is repulsive, and unsurprising.

The Epstein Files: The Biggest Political Coverup in Modern History The DOJ just scrubbed 16 Epstein files from its website, including a photo of Donald Trump, intensifying concerns that Trump is actively trying - & failing - to protect pedophiles. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-epstei...

when you have to release the epstein files while also trying to selectively omit the guy who's in them more than anyone else

Surveillance pricing is a term that sounds right out of some dystopia, but that’s exactly what instacart’s “smart rounding” is. It’s more than inflation, imagine pretty soon having surge pricing for shopping at the grocery store

Guam's Attorney-General is anti-choice and has repeatedly tried to reinstate the island's abortion ban, which has an injunction against it. He asked for a rehearing at the Supreme Court, but many doctors and healthcare groups have formally opposed this, and now the Governor has too.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

sean casten dragging yglesias for 35 posts and counting is a great sign for dems, honestly we need these sorts of dipshit arguments not to be taken seriously by the party and if there’s one thing the thread makes very clear it is that he does not consider yglesias a serious person

Sean Casten: -Won his first primary by 2000 votes -Won the general by 53-46 -Demolished progressive Marie Newman in a primary after redistricting He should be Yglesias' core supporter, instead he just called Matt a toddler when it comes to politics.

Not quite sure how we find a way to create a "Centrist Dem Policy Wonk" to "Hater Par Excellence" standard process but man if we could make a ray gun out of it...

Sean Casten woke up today, took one look at Yglesias' latest nonsense about energy, and chose ultraviolence

49. The game isn't over by far. But make no mistake: we are winning. That's something to be proud of. It's something to accelerate. It's nothing to take for granted. And it's certainly no time to take Yglesias' advice and fumble the ball so the other team won't feel so sad. /fin

48. That exception of course is the fossil fuel producer. They are hostile to energy productivity for the same reason John Henry didn't like the steam shovel. They can't compete with it. Wins for consumers come at their expense. Wins for the climate come at their expense.

47. As Amory Lovins has said for years, no one wants a lump of coal, or a barrel of oil. All we want is a hot shower and a cold beer. And if we can get that heat and light and chilling without paying for (or burning) fuel, we're all happier... with one notable exception.

46. We are, in a word, investing in energy productivity, getting more economic value out of less input. That is great news, for the same reason that higher returns on capital are good or increases in labor productivity good. Make more useful stuff with less input and we all get richer.

45. Specifically, we've decoupled economic growth from fossil energy consumption. Coal demand has collapsed. Oil use is flat. Natural gas use is growing but < GDP, even as standards of living have gone up. That's happened because of higher efficiency and decarbonization.

44. I've spent my entire adult career in the energy industry. As a consultant, as a manufacturer, as a power plant developer/owner/operator and now as a legislator. There is something really optimistic about the moment we're in that pundits like Yglesias said was impossible 20 yrs ago.

43. If you're still reading at #43... thanks, I guess? But also this. :) Anyway, a final thought to wrap up. youtu.be/QbJelY1kZNU?...

42. Point is, markets and existing regulatory structures also know that no source is available 24/7/365 and manage the grid accordingly. They don't learn anything from Yglesias insight about nighttime and you didn't either.

41. Not shown here, but also a big deal is transmission to connect different parts of the system so that the wind in Iowa can power Chicago, or the sun in Florida, or the geothermal in Nevada, or the hydro in Oregon, etc.

40. So yes, we have a grid with lots of stuff. The most reliable backup in that PJM analysis was nuclear and load sited demand reduction. Diesel gen sets. Pumped hydro. Battery storage is a big deal and a bigger one as costs fall and longer durations are available. Gas peakers too.

39. Moreover, wholesale power markets include variable time of use rates and in some cases capacity payments to pay a premium to sources that can ramp up on a moments notice. Here is a list of what PJM used last year (% is the likelihood that the given source would be there when called.)

38. Every utility manager and operator knows this. NERC standards explicitly require that in any given utility control area you cannot have a coincident failure mode that affects more than 10% of your load. The scary scenario (night time blackouts!) doesn't happen and won't.

37. I will concede. Night is real. Some days I can't fly a kite. It is also true that sometimes coal trains are stuck, gas pipelines fail, warm weather derates thermal power plants and unplanned outages happen.

36. Finally this. The mark of the fossil fuel shill who never loses the arrogance to walk into a room, say "the sun doesn't shine at night and its not always windy", drop the mic and leave, confident that no one else knows what they just discovered.

35. Source for that graph if you want to get into the details: www.research.howarthlab.org/publications...

33. That's even more true for exported natural gas which also has to be liquefied since the liquefaction process is so energy intensive. Roughly speaking, you need nearly 120 units of gas to make 100 units of LNG. So more CO2 and magnified impacts of upstream leaks.

32. That's of course not the norm. And because methane is such a potent greenhouse gas (>80x as bad as CO2 for the first 20 years after release) even a minor leakage rate in the collection and distribution makes natural gas worse than coal from a global warming perspective.

31. On natural gas, his arguments are just as bad. Yes, it is true that at the burner tip a unit of natural gas emits less CO2 than a unit of coal. And if you have a coal mine and a gas well in your back yard, both of which are hooked up to your furnace that is a relevant comparison.

30. Which means that if you're making the argument that US oil production is cleaner, you have to be honest about where the marginal production is happening. And in OH, PA and those other swing states he describes, it ain't from conventional drilling.

29. Now look at the US bars on that chart. Yes, bars plural. Because US production is not monolithic. Conventional oil production (offshore gulf, southwest) uses relatively little energy to lift the oil to the surface and as a result is much cleaner than "other US" (aka fracking).

28. Recall that the oil industry (and the GOP) demonized Obama for blocking Keystone not because they were looking out for US producers but because they had spare refining capacity and wanted to make money exporting the resulting finished products. So again, this is about producers v consumers.

27. Back to the chart. Look at how much dirtier Canadian oil is than US oil. (Because tar sands are very energy intensive to extract). You know who pushed to stop imports of dirty Canadian oil into the US? Obama! Google "keystone XL pipeline" if you've forgotten that history.