1. Public utility commissions rubber stamping rate increases 2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry 3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up Solutions: 1. VPPs & efficiency 2. Build clean energy 3. Accountable PUCs

When I chose to study politics for a living I had no idea that politics would get this dumb.

and also from environmental* orgs on “overpopulation” *they’re not in the environmental movement, they’re in…another movement

You know that’s right! Aaron Judge is your 2025 AL MVP, winning 17 of the 30 first-place votes.

ALL RISE!

New REPS Lab paper published today in the American Political Science Review @repslab.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Unreal. Many of us have had elderly relatives be misled by Fox, but none of them have the power to deploy the military inside our own country.

There was an NYT piece last week about the Sierra Club, and (by extension) the current state of the climate movement. I think they got three big things wrong. davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...

no aurora views for me, but I am getting to watch the Knicks beat up the Grizzlies

the north will rise again [11.11.25]

DEUCE FOR TRES 🧡💙

Back at the Garden. LFGK. 🧡💙

Ethiopia last year banned the import of new gasoline-powered cars. Nepal reduced import duties on EVs so much that they are now cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines. Brazil raised tariffs on car imports to compel Chinese automakers to set up plants inside Brazil. Etc

Excellent write-up from my friends at @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social—my second home—on my article in @poqjournal.bsky.social that questions the validity of the canonical liberal–conservative measure for studying Black Americans’ political attitudes and behavior. cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/news/black-c...

Cowards gonna coward.

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."

The current U.S. government made solar power more expensive and added more red tape to get solar power built. Your electricity will now be more unreliable and more expensive for at least several years.

Watched 5 seconds of this game and I'm now blind. WHO CAME UP WITH THIS COURT DESIGN?

This is how Pres. Obama responded when Karmel Allison fainted on stage. He caught her and said: “You’re OK. I’m right here. I got you." The idea that the president could -- as a natural impulse -- display genuine concern and empathy for another person feels completely unrecognizable today.

Democrats have spent the last nine months wringing their hands about how now one cares about climate or energy policy, blah blah blah. Meanwhile, HIGH ELECTRICITY PRICES were key to Democrats winning in Georgia, New Jersey and Virginia. Maybe, uh, people do care? www.axios.com/2025/11/05/n...

This is turning into that episode of the Sopranos where the police track down AJ because of his pizza order "My pizza never hurt nobody!"

the dumbest timeline

Knicks have been on a run this quarter. Maybe it was the halftime Hamilton performance!

KAT!

Kat is doing his best Charles Smith impression.

Got a partial Knicks season package for the first time. The view for my first game of the season. LGK! 🧡💙

Cool new working paper on why and how cable news threw gasoline on the culture war fire. The culture war isn't optimal for electoral candidates, but it's optimal for cable news companies. ungated: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/27v4x...

NYT couldn't find someone to defend the Gates memo who wasn't a former *Gates scholar*??

has anyone asked a George Springer what it feels like to have a championship snatched away

one of my all time favorite sarcastic Homer lines, and I get to use it all day today because the World Series is going to Game 7

I’ve written an entire book showing how centrist economists & techno-optimists provide a permission structure for climate propaganda, creating an overlapping false consensus that we can keep using fossil-fuels and still deal w climate change anyway. Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇

my letter to the CEO, President, and COO of Services Corporation International, the owner of Dignity Memorial, which manages the cemetery in which my mom is buried that was being used as an ICE staging ground this afternoon.

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

Guy traveled so far that he almost made it to Chicago

bought pandan leaves (frozen), gonna try incorporating pandan into some cakes/pastries in the next few weeks. Anyone with experience/suggestions working with frozen pandan?

ICYMI, in March the US pulled out of the new fund established by wealthy nations to compensate low-income countries for loss and damage due to climate change. Despite being the largest historical emitter, the US had pledged only $17.5 million. Melissa alone will likely cause billions in damage.

Wow, sweeping coverage of how the oil and gas industry is seeking to kill lawsuits by states and cities to recoup the costs they've had to spend to deal with climate change-worsened disasters. The oil majors knew the dangers of their products, and lied to us. insideclimatenews.org/news/2610202...

Trump has never been supportive of green technologies, but in his second term he has made a concerted effort to wreck climate policies. The world now has a carbon bully, as one expert put it. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

thrilled to announce that the Knicks have won a game before the Jets

KNICKS WIN! GO NEW YORK GO NEW YORK GO 🧡💙

The first "BANG!" of the season from Mike Breen means the NBA is officially back.

DEUCE!!! 🧡💙

U-Va. excluded Black people until the 1950s, and kept numbers low for years after. If it wanted to correct for decades of policy by recruiting a student body that looked more like the state, _that was a logical remedy_. Black people's 'spots' were stolen for decades. Fixing that ≠ discrimination.

i feel the same way. what do you mean i took someone’s spot? i worked my ass off to get to UVA and i worked my ass of when i was there. sorry some dipshit couldn’t hack it enough to do the same

I'm serious re: the _personal_ offense I take to this. I went to U-Va. on a merit scholarship for high-achieving, heavily recruited Black students. I worked my ass off, racked up AP credits, and devoted evenings + weekends to extracurriculars to get in. Whose fucking spot did I "take"? Whose?