Very relevant to 2025.

The world was less dumb once.

Thing is: this should have been obvious BEFORE regulators greenlit Waymo. Having business be the tail that wags the dog of government--as neoliberal ideology would have it--simply privatizes gains and sticks ordinary people with the costs of being corporate guinea pigs.

At least five FUBARed Waymo robots: Market & Guerrero, SF One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how. Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO. OP: tiktok.brahmsstan

Oh that's horrible news. Great man.

Heartbroken to hear about the passing of amazing Howie Klein - founder of the progressive blog @downwithtyranny.bsky.social. He was a brilliant blogger (from OG netroots) who made his mark as a big time music exec. Most importantly he was a kind human & a good friend. Rest in power Howie.

Demands for Data Center Moratoriums Surge prospect.org/2025/12/22/d...

In all, Dayana, a U.S. Citizen, was stopped three different times in roughly the same area of Key Largo and around the same time of day NOV 7: Dayana is stopped, her husband, the passenger, is detained and taken by #immigration agents NOV 15: Dayana is stopped, then let go DEC 3: This happened 👇

The Transphobic Mask Is Off prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

A Happy 2025 By-Product: Revulsion at the Rich prospect.org/2025/12/22/h...

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax. Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

But John Roberts and his 5 MAGA colleagues on #SCOTUS are most likely cool with all of this as long as it serves Trump. #ballsandstrikes ↘️

This is a pretty shocking mass exodus. Heritage's legal department is basically a ghost ship at this point. And I have to imagine they'll really have to dredge the absolute bottom of the barrel to restaff it at this point. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Criticizing Democrats from the left does not reinforce right wing arguments. (indeed, fwiw, it makes Democrats seem more moderate!) Criticizing Democrats from the right reinforces MAGA criticism.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

He was who we told you he was. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Why would anyone think Trump did something shady and repulsive with young woman while hanging with Epstein? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment. The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.

watched part of a pod save interview with rahm emanuel and that guy is genuinely delusional if he thinks he is going to go anywhere in a democratic presidential primary

Weiss spiking the episode is covering up the administration's crimes against these men

Bari Weiss’ CBS is what the tech fascists mean by creating “parallel” journalism. Create new fake brands (“The Free Press”) or hollow out existing brands and replace with right-wing clones. Or both! That’s why I included her in the “Mirror World Mafia” last year.

Donald Trump just rejected two requests for major disaster declarations made weeks ago by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D). Sen. Michael Bennet (D) called Trump's denials "malicious and obscene." Polis accused the president of playing "political games." Are they right? They have a strong case! 🧵⬇️

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

"I think Bari Weiss deserves the benefit of the doubt."

How it started. How it’s going.

I do not trust anyone who has had a good relationship with Bari Weiss. Full stop.

Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...

Waymo pauses robotaxi service in San Francisco after blackout chaos — Musk says Tesla car service unaffected cnb.cx/4pJsT3b

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.

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.

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.

22. Speaking of climate. Let's now pick apart this word salad of stupidity. Specifically the assertion that US oil is "cleaner" than other countries and therefore it is environmentally virtuous for us to drill baby drill.

21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!

18. Because natural gas is used for so much of US power generation, increasing gas exports = higher gas prices = higher electricity. One climate negative impact of that is that after years of decline, we now are seeing an uptick in domestic power generation from coal.

17. It's worth reading the entirety of what DOE had to say about the impact of that 2022 outage on domestic prices. These are massive price swings - and therefore massive wealth transfers from US consumers to US producers!

16. This is the reverse of getting off middle eastern oil in 2012. Now, instead of decoupling from global volatility we are absorbing it. That gets quantified whenever a major US LNG export facility has an outage & domestic NG prices fall. Who ya rootin' for, Matt? www.eia.gov/todayinenerg....

15. As such, when US producers can swap European/Asian markets for the US markets and make a higher margin, even after accounting for shipping costs it puts significant upward pressure on previously land-locked domestic prices.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

What a half! Leeds have really grown into the game, and fully deserve that HT lead, courtesy of two from the red-hot DCL Leeds looked a real threat on set-pieces all night. Aaronson playing very well & is everywhere. Should have been a penalty too, and I do NOT understand how VAR cleared that. #LUFC

Khanna: Congress is talking about possible impeachment. They're talking about inherent contempt for the attorney general or deputy attorney general—any justice department official who has obstructed justice could face prosecution in this administration or a future administration.

Letting the 1/6 guy act like a king: bad?

Schiff: "Part of this is a consequence I think frankly of Chief Justice Roberts giving the president absolute immunity when it comes to his instructions to the DOJ. He can pretty much order them to do what he wants and know that he will never be held criminally liable."

🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. " h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social

Yikes!

Crypto queen also cutting and running from the Republican senate conference in DC.

sidling up to Trump, morphing into a MAGA die-hard spewing the great replacement theory didn't exactly work out