All across the country, radical Dems and avowed socialists are sweeping primaries and elections, as voters realize that Blue No Matter Who will doom them to eternal torment in the Manchin-Synematic Universe: prospect.org/2026/02/11/p... 54/

Trump is succeeding where Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and AOC failed: he's making the case for Democrats to defenestrate their useless, sellout, Epstein-poisoned leaders. 53/

The fortunes fossil fuel companies are reaping from this shortage is their last windfall. The writing is on the wall. Trump opened Alaska for drilling and oil companies noped out because they couldn't find banks to would loan them the money to get started. It happened again in Venezuela. 39/

When the oil-captured Texas leg introduced a bill to force electric companies to add a watt of fossil power for every watt of solar their customers installed, furious ranchers from blood red GOP rural districts flooded their town hall meetings, decrying the plan as "DEI for fossil fuels." 36/

Now Australia has so much solar that they're *giving away electricity*, with three free hours of unlimited energy every day. Stick your dishwasher, clothes-dryer and EV charger on a timer, invest in a battery or two, and fill your boots: billmckibben.substack.com/p/free-elect... 29/

The advantages of an ebike commute over a car commute are legion, but my favorite little pleasure is the ability to easily make a stop at a nice coffee shop halfway between home and work, rather than being stuck buying shitty chain coffee near the office. 20/

But, thanks to Comrade Trump, Pakistan was *first* in line to become the world's solar capital. The country's LNG terminal - built with Chinese Belt-and-Road money - is now a stranded asset, because no one there needs gas. 10/

Pakistani bridal dowries now routinely include four panels, an inverter and a battery: billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-... This is an inversion of the normal order, in which rich countries get all the good stuff first, and countries like Pakistan get scraps after we've gorged ourselves. 9/

Pakistani solar installers learned their trade from Tiktok videos set to Tamil film soundtracks, and unwired the country so thoroughly that today, the national power company is in danger of going bust because no one buys their electricity from the grid anymore. 8/

This was really bad for America, of course, but those solar panels had to go *somewhere*. Mostly, they ended up in Pakistan, dumped there at such a massive discount that the country solarized virtually overnight. 7/

Indian-type designer Erin McLaughlin’s fun IG https://www.instagram.com/erin_type

"The last time we put Republicans in power, they made gas juice 10$ a gallon" is the kind of stuff that might as well be designed in a lab to absolutely obliterate the low-info, low-propensity coalition the GOP has relied on for most of the Trump era.

A Scots-German and a European Jew cosplaying as a failed empire, on the semiquincentennial of us overthrowing it: bone-deep losers

Even if a $18,000 BYD car is sending data back to Shenzhen I don’t really care because by that point I’ll be in the Chinese Car Hackers Discord channel sharing PCBs that prevent it from doing that along with 3D printing STLs of cup holders in the shape of Luffy from One Piece.

Half the T••••ers I know don’t follow the news at all, to the point where they don’t know what a “Bibi” is. The other half only absorb it from right-wing middlemen. All are info-lazy, never seeking original sources.

How is The Onion still in business

T•••• inevitably f—g over the sheikhs who fund his lifestyle is so very funny, he’s a fable made real. Shitass Midas

We’re gonna end up with a T•••• toll on top of the IRGC toll, lol https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-tells-aides-to-prepare-for-extended-blockade-of-iran-da3be7a4

One thing the Kimmel incident, the Comey incident, and the ballroom obsession have in common is that they're all things I might do if I were an old man freaking out about reminders of my own death.

Altman: We trained too heavily on the fantasy-novel corpus

The suffering of the Gulf states is the only redeeming feature of this whole mess.

They don’t even care about the US economy, why would they care about anyone else’s

Has anyone asked the Saudi royal family how they feel about losing their entire national income for six months and what that’s gonna do to the professional golf circuit and jareds sovereign wealth investments

when danger occurs the secret service cannot get the principal out quickly because he is too old and infirm to move but refuses to allow them to use a wheelchair or a stretcher. the entire thing is this giant stack of pretenses

the guest of honor at the gala is a declining old man (the president) that is incredibly unpopular and barely awake. the people at the gala are members of a declining institution (mainstream journalism) that want to suck up to him and will claim after he disappears that they were actually rebels

you couldn’t really find a more apt metaphor for elite politics in Trump II. Something absolutely crazy occurs, there is a momentary burst of panic, and then the people present at the gala go back and pretend like nothing happens. the gala itself is an attempt to paper over crazy

WHCD runner may have fired, but it may also have been Sec Svc hitting Sec Svc https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/trump-assassination-attempt-cole-allen-charges.html

“Que será, será…”

Re: radicalized centrists. “Is Preet Bharara gonna have to choke a b—?”

Dems’ Loser Protection Agency 🤝 T••••’s whole thing https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/house-lawmakers-urge-trump-to-prohibit-chinas-automakers-from-building-cars-in-the-u-s-a4b2fb8f

Next, the ghost of Meat Loaf addresses CIA on the Ukraine war

More of Elon’s transparent grandiose woo, but I assume he’s beseeching the judge for a loss since Musk ❤️️ destroying charities

GOP slavishly follow T•••• because even before politics they aspire to landing a no-show lickspittle job via connections to a small biz tyrant’s idiot failson. T•••• is no downgrade

“Howl’s Moving Castle,” the original book: Clever, engaging, reminiscent of “The Wizard of Oz” with a scarecrow come to life. Like a lot of YA, sunny tone, never gets dark. Always love space-folding / magic zippers / portals.

Dubya abusing a crisis: Let’s invade some random country over a petty beef T•••• abusing a crisis: Let’s look faaabulous and say it’s nat sec

“Hamlet” (2025): Riz Ahmed’s style is restrained, usually comes off flat; but here he acts his ass off as a princeling in mental anguish, finally deciding upon revenge.

“Michael”: Bad / sanitized biopic, electric concert film with MJ’s nephew who can really hit the moves. Whole movie should’ve been the scene of perfectionist Mike developing the dance routines. Leaving out the you-know-what is very sus.

First iPhone cost more than flip phone

More voters foregoing passports → more GOP, smart ;) apnews.com/article/pass...

Ebike mods are half the fun. No room on the bar, so I sliced the end off the grip for a bar-end rearview.

First 2 days of ebike, still learning: Meh I’d rather have taken the Ioniq 5 Day 3 on: Looking for excuses to ride it anywhere, especially when sunny, and after getting mirror, lights, frame bag and chai holder

On the ebike I heard an electric motor whine like a bat outta hell, Erik Buell’s e-moto. Rider in black helmet felt my gaze, waved, pointed at their boot. I’d forgotten I was wearing hot pink running shoes, but got it later. Le esprit de l’ebike

Emotional support lawspam

Is T•••• dumb enough to hand out billions of our $ to abandon wind gen while simultaneously spiking gas prices? Of course he is. Is he demanding kickbacks? Also definitely yes

Should’ve seen it coming, the man paid $130K to not have sex https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climate-interior-02a1fa04b750809bbe035a70256c734d

US passport. Kind of him to supply so much flammable material for the protests https://www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-state-dept-finalizing-plan

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