Great read (and supremely depressing) on the impacts of Biden’s IRA. Emissions were expected to decline as much as 48% by 2035. That means fewer preventable deaths, fewer kids with asthma, and much cleaner air. Instead we’re getting an increase in annual energy costs: “$68 to $430 per household”

I’m doing my part (eating as much plastic as possible)

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This is just so infuriatingly stupid. Every time they post about oil prices, I know I am going to read Dune-sized brain worms. The Democratic Party enacted the largest investment in clean climate in global history. The Republican Party repealed the IRA. Not a single Democrat voted to do so.

How can you not be romantic about hockey?

When you get mad my posts, just know that this is who you’re getting mad at

A fictional scene. King Charles: "Why do these D.C. license plates say 'End Taxation Without Representation'?" Guide: "Well, your majesty, it's because they're taxed and unrepresented." Charles: "Wait, like we did to America before it broke free?" Guide: "Yes." Charles: "Ironic, no?"

Me describing Luna to people who have never met her: So imagine a series of triangles that look ferocious, but are actually marshmallow

I’m not sure that non-industry folk understand the magnitude of investment that data center developers are pouring into decarb tech right now. Those dollars scale barely proven, lab tech into something you can deploy in mass around the world. Clean data centers are how we drive global change.

44% of Americans are very worried about climate change — among the highest levels since 1989 — and 63% believe the US government is not taking enough environmental action, the highest since @Gallup.com started polling the question in 1992.

I cannot tell you how many policy conversations I’ve been privy to where the central dilemma is “we need to incentivize private actors to do something, but for unclear reasons they cannot be permitted to earn any sort of profit by doing it.“

Cool story covering Biomason, a Danish clean cement startup. I am absolutely stealing some of Pogue’s generic messaging (we consume 12 Hoover Dam’s worth of concrete EVERY SINGLE DAY) If you lined up all those concrete mixing trucks, they would stretch from DC all the way to Seattle

Touching grass [ocean]

look I support NSF but I don’t think they should have been funding a decades-long chimpanzee civil war

Aliaksei is just shy of 12 ft tall. When you go to Caps games you can see his head is way over the glass when he’s skating/on the ice Sometimes he’ll make direct eye contact with fans and whispers to them: “I will grow”

This could’ve been me and my brother If we were collectively like 300 pounds heavier, 2 feet taller, and also generational hockey talents

What a beautiful moment.

Seattle cut a million tons of emissions just by letting people live closer together — no subsidies, no mandates. San Diego's housing shortage pushes people further out, which means more driving and more emissions. Building more homes is climate policy. www.sightline.org/2026/02/12/s...

Context here: JLG has not been an effective housing advocate on the council JLG wrote an incredibly dope oped recently: ggwash.org/view/102946/... The DMV New Liberal influence in DC is literally nothing Hell yes boosting DC, but let’s be honest about this city too

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i wonder if they make human versions of this dog vest

After missing its recruitment goals, the U.S. Army is now raising its max enlistment age to 42 and removing its waiver requirement for a single marijuana possession. Gosh... if only thousands of highly qualified trans soldiers hadn't been kicked out last year for no good reason.

Said goodbye to Cleo on Thursday. The last few years haven’t been easy, but this $50 rescue needed walks, food and love. She saved my life and I like to think she knew and didn’t care. Give your pet a hug and an extra treat today.

"The goal of having soldiers on land in Greenland – with as many different flags on their shoulders as possible – was, according to six of the sources, so that the Americans would be forced to take a major hostile action...to occupy Greenland militarily." www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Cole Hutson's leaving his NHL Debut with a souvenir! 📸

dawg if you cornered me on any transit infrastructure, let alone WOODLEY, I would be donating to your opponent before you even finished speaking

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Terrible day for cement decarbonization. And no, there is not a magical Other Thing capable of replacing federal spending. Cement is very capex heavy. The EU has its own issues and philanthropic dollars (also in a downturn) are not capable of replacing grants/loans.

Wow, I totally forgot my constitutional rights are subject to the whims of some dipshit failson New Yorker.

The Biden Admin directed hundreds of billions to clean energy/manufacturing. Did these investments shift public opinion? We find that these projects are visible but not traceable: People notice nearby investments, but connect them to Governors, not Biden. Thread 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

As someone who spent almost a decade working at the Hawk (the old one, not the new one), the Tune Inn component of this has been extremely amusing. If you aren't from DC and happen to visit, do not eat at any restaurant on that block. Only drink.

"Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces... Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft... 'It does seem like it’s a pretty comprehensive effort,'" an official said.

God, some of the quotes on this. I get that Senate rules and general parliamentary procedure can be arcane, but 53>47 and Tillis being in the majority are not impossible to discover facts. This site is plagued with high engagement, low info political and policy posters.

It's looking increasingly likely that California's Diablo Canyon nuclear plant — once slated to close in 2025 — will keep running through at least 2045: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @blancabegert.bsky.social

As someone that was on the people mover and flew out of the D Terminal like 6 hours ago, can I say something without anyone getting mad

Thoughtful piece from the Ecocem CEO on the levers available to the EU to expedite cement decarbonization. I disagree with the CCUS write off, but performance-based standards and his other policy levers (in the US, gov is 50% of demand) would pave the way for an almost immediate emission reduction

All of Canada right now:

you don't have to like it, but this is what peak progressivism looks like the left will go so much farther if it embraces patriotism and joy as a rallying cry to aspire for the country to be better

Sweden looking so dang good this last period. Can't even be mad if we lose in OT

#GraphicOfTheWeek: Advances in geothermal technology mean it is no longer limited to volcanic regions like Iceland. 43 GW of geothermal capacity is already cost-competitive with coal and gas, and up to 42% of EU coal and gas power could be replaced. ember-energy.org/lat...

In light of the finalized endangerment rulemaking, I think back to this poll. Biden and his administration did more to clean our air and reduce preventable deaths, while juicing our economy and providing hundreds of thousands of jobs across the US. Decades of progress have been undone. Sad day.

My favorite of these, No Excuses PAC, originally founded to primary Manchin and Sinema and then pivoted to ejecting Biden. Spent 92% of its receipts on operating costs in a single cycle. Screenshots all from fec.gov

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was

I love when people discover that there is, in fact, a county in Virginia named Goochland. A decade ago, it was pretty rural, now it has a bunch of retirees and Richmond commuters. Also the county has a small stream named Lickinghole Creek. You really gotta hand it to the freaks in Goochland

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

It's just baking limestone and then adding a few other things, babe, I swear. And then boom you got the most ubiquitous substance on earth (outside of water) and 8% of global carbon emissions, not to mention other other air pollutants which end lives much faster. Babe pls the Romans made it

How normal people look at me when I am talking about cement:

The difference being that Texas voted for Greg Abott but Washington DC did not vote for Rick Scott.

Politics is establishing, contesting, controlling, or using the state’s monopoly on the use of violence to make people do things they do not want to do. Rest is noise.