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I s'pose that's one way to cut nuclear costs: "Trump administration secretly loosens nuclear safety rules" www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

Guess my Big Ag handlers were late with their payments https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/opinion/manure-population-rivers-water.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1A.Bj4J.00uUE5DZ6cjY&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”

Lots of guys with backwards ball caps and truck nutz never gonna listen to Philip Glass again

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

The Trump administration has “virtually stopped enforcing the Clean Air Act,” lodging just one consent decree in a relatively small case since Trump’s inauguration, compared with 26 in the first year of Trump's first term, & 22 in Biden’s first year. peer.org/under-epas-z... 1/

For sale: Nazi coat, gently worn (Size small)

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

“You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple.” — FBI Dir. Kash Patel

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

This administration would defend Tim McVeigh if they thought he was a Trump voter

This is ok tho

Today I am publishing what I believe to be the most detailed available map of Trump's job approval rating. Powered by over 12,000 interviews for our Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll. I hope this generates many stories, and hours wasted exploring data! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-very-det...

NEW: New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas oil executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public. A 2024 ProPublica and @capitalandmain.bsky.social investigation uncovered some of their companies’ business dealings.

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

NEW PAPER! We know that lead exposure is bad, but where is it all coming from? We show that used lead-acid battery recycling is likely much more important than previously thought - perhaps 1/3 of exposure in LMICs. LINK: www.cgdev.org/publication/... w/ @theomitchell1.bsky.social & James Hu

my kingdom for an e-camino

NEW from me: DOGE is officially the largest one-year cut in the federal workforce since the end of WWII, with 279k jobs lost—though it didn't come close to its supposed goal of reducing the deficit & cut some of the federal government's most effective programs 🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/the-econom...

No fucking way. The Pope just called in some massive favors for that one.

The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!

Tough break for Goolsbee

Gonna use this to teach the midpoint formula

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Glyphosate Use, Water Contamination, and Neonatal Health in the United States" by Tzu-Hui J. Chen. Read it here: buff.ly/PhCSHrH 📈📉 #Econsky

Trump administration: “they should learn the language and assimilate” Also the Trump administration: “lets fire everyone in the English Language Acquisition office”

This is my least favorite path to a democratic majority, but it is a path to a democratic majority

Air pollution is incredibly bad for human health. It causes a large share of chronic disease and deaths. This is one of the strongest empirical findings in all of economics and epidemiology. The EPA saying it's "uncertain" is not based in science. It's a pretext.

“Blood in, blood out” but it’s a jammy Pinot poured into a to-go cup. They’re super nice and honestly kind of a hoot.

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

Also, by their own standards, the cops protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 should have opened fire all over.

For those interested in energy and environmental econ, here’s a good place to start if you’re looking for people to follow

A headline to sum up our times:

New Census Working Paper: "Trapped or Transferred: Worker Mobility and Labor Market Power in the Energy Transition" by Minwoo Hyun www.census.gov/library/work...

All 13.5 million jobs in Texas, visualized by sector with block-level precision. The just-released 2023 LODES data is one of the most underrated public datasets.

It's all very Prospect Theory—overweight negative, take the positive more for granted. Consumers get really mad when prices rise above $3.50/gal, and TV news coverage both reflects and further juices that rage. I've always loved this research here: www.briefingbook.info/p/bad-news-b...

State regulators are reviewing a proposal to expand sand mining over the Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer, despite Oklahoma’s moratorium on new mines in the area.

Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...

I know there's terrible breaking news and these pictures say so much more than what I'm about to say, but as someone who studied sheriffs' responses to COVID, it is just remarkable how suddenly law enforcement can all wear coverings above their noses.

The 30-50 million barrels of SANCTIONED OIL thing is so dumb. Even now in a low price environment that’s like 3-4 days of average US production at max. Sold at “market prices” it’s worth about as much as Kansas legislators are wasting on a new Chiefs stadium.

In 1947, the Richmond Exploration Co struck oil at the supergiant Boscán field. 79 years and 3 nationalizations later, what’s now Chevron is still standing—waiting for another *apertura petrolera* and the next big payday. My oil history thoughts for @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...

Coming home from a run in the cold and cracking open an Athletic makes me so proud to be a middle-aged millennial. Yes, that’s right, my consumer segment did this

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

I happen to know quite a bit about Venezuelan oil. TL;DR it’s hard to extract, notoriously investor-endangering, isn’t needed (global crude is oversupplied to the tune of 3.3 min bpd) and isn’t easily refined (it’s too dense so always sold at a heavy discount) www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

It’s only socialism if you nationalize your own domestic industry, not someone else’s. This is just sparkling capitalism 🥂

If you grew up an iCarly fan I have something incredible for you… A Spaghetti TACO 🍝 🌮 www.axios.com/2026/01/02/t...

Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170

I’m fine with this, especially if our politicians do it too. Markwayne Mullin can’t even spell SAT.

Being a “back in my day” guy about Texas Tech-Oregon being a defensive brawl instead of a 73-67 game with 1,400 passing yards. Kids these days wouldn’t understand. They never had iPods. They don’t realize Subway footlongs are supposed to cost $5