this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy.

I guess I’m the only weirdo whose publisher reached out to me five months before the book came out and was like your Bluesky people seem really pumped, we should do stuff specifically for them.

🔌💡 Read this for bit of optimism. I can't remember whose metaphor this is, so I can't credit it, but plug-in systems feel like adoptable, nimble, fast rodents scurrying around the feet of dinosaurs, destined to transform the world. @dague.net @lissaharris.bsky.social

i didn’t anticipate the national opinion columnist for the philly inquirer saying my reporting will be josh shapiro’s biggest issue should he run for president but life comes at you fast

*Foghorn Leghorn voice* Come on, I say, come on now son!

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

I, too, would like to get out of stuff by just sending an email, but that option isn't open to me. Important reporting by Mark Olalde:

The rate at which Trump's war on Iran is fulfilling UN and Obama/Biden energy policy goals is just breathtaking. Check out the latest Zero pod with @akshatrathi.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“it is useful to interrogate why the justices continue to put on their bravest faces and make this case in public. They like making bad decisions, and want to continue doing so unabated.” Also notice who is NOT defending the court

Thank you!

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

if it seems like i post a lot about renewable energy lately, yes it's because i am betting the entirety of what hopes i have left for a better world in my lifetime into that basket

@staceyabrams.com: “Do not abandon the South. They incubate evil here, but they farm it out everywhere” Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams joins The Weeknight just after Tennessee Republicans fast-tracked a new gerrymandered map that wipes out the state’s only Democratic, majority-Black district.

"I shoulda bought, when I saw it at Maaaaardens!"

Justin Jones. Your name will be in history books.

Future LNG projects will be much more expensive than the ones being built today Cost of liquefaction will ~double from now -> 2030s This will happen against a backdrop of falling costs from zero-emissions sources In other words: LNG is pricing itself out of the energy transition

BIG SCOOP: Energy industry reps tell me the Trump administration is now extrajudicially blocking all new wind projects in the United States Apparently the Pentagon is refusing to sign off on once routine FAA airspace clearances even when military assets aren’t around My latest for @heatmap.news

ANALYSIS: Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began 😎 Record-high wind+solar output 🔥 Record-low gas generation ❄️ First ever winter with wind+solar out-performing fossil fuels 🏆 Wind+solar beating gas for 15 straight months 1/5

You know how if you’re hit by a truck, the impact is 10 times harder than from a car going the same speed? Well, EV trucks are about to upend the freight industry, and the impact will be 10 times bigger than from EV cars. The scale of what is coming is HUGE: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I completely agree that Democrats should run on ripping out the diseased roots of corruption.

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

FDA officials yank two studies of Covid vaxx after they were accepted for publication and forbid scientists to release one study of shingles vaxx. Both Covid studies were large, w/ 11M+ total subjects; both showed vaxx was safe, as did the shingles study. No real explanations given for these acts.

There is not a pit deep enough for the ghouls who made this happen.

increasingly feels like there will be a political window of opportunity to do something big on climate/energy post Trump. Here's a great look at what a progressive response might be

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Preparing post-Kessler contingencies feels... prudent.

*Picard sighing head in hands dot meme*

This is really important. There's a tendency to conflate 'free speech' with 'uncurated speech' but they're different. Social signalling is how we avoid having to criminalise and enforce many difficult to define but terrible behaviours. The choices reputable institutions make shape that signal.

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“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Never seen a picture of him before, I always assumed he wore glasses

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

“I’ve worked on Wall Street. I’ve worked in the government. I’ve worked at a nonprofit trying to pass tougher rules on banks and Big Tech. I joke that I’ve cased the joint, and now I’m ready for the heist—except it’s not a heist, because it’s our money. They stole it first.“

This whole thread.

My vision, for what it's worth: Clean electricity powering almost everything. Denser towns and cities with easily accessible food, transit, parks. Cities ringed not by car-dependent sprawl but green belts of parks and farms: solar, wind, food. Fast electric trains between city centers.

fascism works by painting terrifying visions of the future, and then positioning strongmen as the only ones who can protect you. if progressive movements are also leading with fear, where are people supposed to turn? this is why we need to paint a beautiful vision of a BETTER future:

you don't need a study to know this is bad for kids. that's why school admins have zero excuses for signing these deals

fighting drought by harvesting energy. you love to see it

Oh neat, it me.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Then in the early 2000s the same kids latched onto an animated series about a bunch of diverse kids coming together to defeat fascism with a kindly emotionally mature grandpa who told us we could break cycles of familial trauma

Slightly diminish a book: School Project Hail Mary

Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.

The suckers are the whole business. That’s it. The whole ballgame. If there are no suckers there’s nothing for sharks to eat.

Residents of an Atlanta suburb learned that Flock had been accessing cameras in the town—including in a children's gymnastics room—to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police departments around the country. The city renewed the contract anyway. www.404media.co/city-learns-...

Go give this indie animated project all the LOVE & SUPPORT it needs!🩵✊🏾 This looks so ✨BEAUTIFUL✨ and it needs your support to help this indie project!

I cannot believe I have to add this to my 'stuff used for greenwashing' map but here were are

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.