Has the right tried to recast Timothy McVeigh as a brave martyr for Christ? This seems like something that has probably already happened in the swamps and I just didn't clock it.

Whenever I need a little emotional pick-me-up bc of the state of the world I go back and listen to this. Ty @volts.wtf

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Updates from the nazi bar.

Doing politics the right way!

I am far from the first to point it out but, man, Jesus would absolutely *hate* these fuckers.

Happy Refusal to Memorialize a Hateful Shithead Day to all who celebrate!

Everything is gender.

5 days in NYC. 1 bag. 😎

lol

Disappearing people, the way good countries on the right side of history do.

Just scheduled a Lyft to the airport at 5am. 😱😭

the magic is real

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Today I learned, thanks to @matthew.flux.community, that in 2014 Ben Shapiro appeared as a guest on a show run by a neo-Nazi. It was an entirely friendly conversation about how liberal Jews who hate white people, straight people, and Christians took over Hollywood and have brainwashed the nation.

David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

How does one dress for 72 degree weather in NYC? In Seattle that would be crisp & right on the verge of chilly. You'd have to pack 12 different layers.

Hey @dieworkwear.bsky.social: I'm looking for a corduroy sport coat, but I want the old-school version, with wide-wale corduroy & a slightly looser, more casual fit. I have searched quite a bit and can't find anyone making these new. Am I just consigned to searching thrift stores?

Nothing is more embarrassing going on right now than all the pundits who made their careers whining about cancel culture trying to explain how the fascism they helped usher in is really just the same thing on the other side ... if you squint just right.

I will say though: the shitheads understand that if you pull someone into your epistemic bubble, you can lead them anywhere, get them to believe anything. They consciously & deliberately build those bubbles around powerful people. The left just yells at & alienates them.

Not for the first time, I wonder ... how is a man supposed to work in these conditions?

All the establishment Dems & pundits who are going around telling you how f'ing pragmatic & realistic they are *do not understand voters* and are counseling strategies doomed to fail.

If a guy were to land at JFK at 4pm on a Sunday, and need to get into central Manhattan in a relative hurry ... what's the best way to do it? Just suck it up and get a car?

I greatly enjoyed this and you will too. Particularly the bit about where LFP batteries will or won’t lead us. But the whole thing is great.

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

China’s EV surge is on another level. ⚡ By 2024, nearly 40% of its 25M+ car sales were electric—numbers that make Norway’s early lead look like a footnote. 2025 on track for 60%. What was once a Nordic experiment is now a Chinese-scale transformation reshaping the global auto industry. 🌍 #EV #BEV

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

A generational talent and godsend to Connecticut has been harassed and hounded by the GOP and utility executives until it was too much. Everyone has their breaking point CT is a better place thanks to Marissa's steadfast work Everyone should queue up this @volts.wtf podcast from a happier time

Is... this originalism?

Thank you David. You also motivated us to create a Bluesky account. Here we are!

I have completed The Cycle. Any time a professional event approaches: 1. I realize I have no clothes. 2. I go shopping, hate it so much that I enter a weird fugue state, buy a bunch of random shit. 3. Hate all the shit, return it. 4. Have no clothes. 5. Repeat when next event approaches.

"Don't say critical things about the shitheads, it will just make them more shitty." It is honestly astonishing how often arguments of this form pop up. They are *everywhere* these days.

Leave the tender widdle men aloooooone!

So, the Substack dashboard has a new feature that shows you where your referral traffic is coming from. After "direct" (which is, I assume, people just going straight to your site), the biggest source is Google search, then the Substack network, then X (where I barely post any more) ...

The authoritarianism is here. The red lines have been crossed. If you're going to fight, fight.

This very cool pod @stepchange.bsky.social just does one giant, deeply researched episode every six months or so. This time around it's a subject dear to all our hearts: data centers! Take four hours (!) & learn the crucial context you need to understand today's debates:

The thing is, I just really fucking hate bullies, and what's getting me down is that I thought other people did too.

Today on Volts: Historically, Africa's natural resources have been plundered with little consideration for its indigenous people. Will the rush for critical minerals like copper & lithium reprise that history? I talk with an advocate about how to avoid the resource curse this time around.

God fucking dammit. Marissa Gillett is a hero. She pushed back against piratic, insular, greedy utilities and so they went after her -- badgering her, slandering her in the papers, suing, complaining to her boss. And they won. The utilities won. She has resigned. Fuck this world.

10 years of @volts.wtf in one tiktok

It has happened numerous times now that I come across a Charlie Kirk quote that is so extreme I'm convinced it's fake, then I check and it's real. ca.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-c...

This is deranged.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

c. 2020. I just dropped this kid off at college. 😢

Here's lookin' at you, kid.

Luckily all those who were right are now being rewarded for their good judgment by being elevated to powerful media positions!

Having an affair with Kennedy will do less damage to her career than criticizing Charlie Kirk will do to dozens of public media figures.

Whoever writes the headlines and tweets for the New York Times is one of the most powerful media figures in the world, but the paper will not tell us who it is or why they make the decisions they do. No visibility, no accountability.

Catch our free #ClimateWeekNYC event: Catch a live recording of the @volts.wtf podcast with David Roberts, who’s talking with Carlos Araque of @quaise.bsky.social and @doreenharris.bsky.social of @nyserda.bsky.social. It’s next Wednesday afternoon — RSVP here:

Looking forward to this, along with energy bills being cut by 50%!