There is more than enough blame to go around for the OEMs, the Biden Admin, and the Trump Admin. You simply can't look at the US EV product lineup in 2024 and say the market turn in the past year and a half was entirely Trump's fault.

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Lfg

When the penalty of ignoring pedestrians in a crosswalk is the same as failing to curb your dog, societal priorities are clear.

NEWS: A federal judge has saved the 15th Street protected bike lane (for now), saying the decision to remove the lane running from Constitution Avenue to the Tidal Basin was "arbitrary and capricious and not the result of reasoned decision-making." It was to be removed this week.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

There is already blatant Sinophobia in energy spaces and nothing good will come from deepening and encouraging that. Not the least because of backlash against anyone who looks Asian in an already deeply racist country.

Thinking a lot about how I started my career in water resources and how everyone talked about how cyber unprepared we were then… and how little has been done in the intervening years

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

Honda shifts power back to car engineers to reignite innovation Rise of Chinese rivals forces Japanese automaker to carry out drastic reforms trib.al/S2fqGHz

The Treasury Department is working on a plan to gut its office that researches financial market risks. Because the office is funded by fees on the financial industry, this won't save taxpayers money. But it will make it harder to spot and prevent the next crisis. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

The walls have been breached. Just went for walk in my Austin neighborhood and spotted this Chinese BYD EV. Second BYD I’ve seen in a week.

Bloomberg scoop: Chinese EVs could be built in the Stellantis plant in Brampton, where a planned Jeep production line was cancelled last year and moved to the US. Stellantis has discussed with Canadian officials the idea of building Leapmotor EVs there www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Electricity prices are essential to the US economy. But it’s very hard to get recent, granular data on them. We’re changing that. Today, @heatmap.news and MIT released the ELECTRICITY PRICE HUB, a new tool breaking down local power rates and bills going back to 2021. electricity.heatmap.news

Philadelphia is the greatest city in the world (sound on).

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

rock therapy

Peak DC is listening to your friend testify to congress while walking the dog.

The commitment to wasting taxpayer dollars on destroying perfectly functioning pieces of infrastructure (bikes lanes, the economy, the Kennedy Center, etc) verges on being one of the few consistent policy pillars.

Get your tubs ready y’all.

This is not how I wanted industrial chemicals to get some supply chain attention.

NEWS: @mayorbowser.dc.gov has very unexpectedly released a report @ddotdc.bsky.social finished five years ago on what implementing congestion pricing in D.C. would look like. She had refused to make it public since it was done, but now calls congestion pricing "the wrong policy at the wrong time."

who could have known the global economy was such a complex multi-dimensional system ??

DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For CDE Acquisitions, LLC 412 Acre, 6 Building, 5 Million Square Foot A.I. Data Center Campus In South Whitehall Twp., Lehigh County [PaEN] tinyurl.com/yjxvz3ma

In tandem with pursuing accountability & rooting out corruption, it will be crucial to resuscitate the value of expertise. Years of punditry, mgmt consulting, ignoring the reasons for public mistrust of experts, etc. has led to a gov’t operating purely on vibes. The horrors of stupidity.

Just stating the obvious here, but we have to build a government that doesn't starve and bomb the planet for kicks.

China automates while America hesitates. I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that America's strategy to compete with China in manufacturing is fundamentally misconceived — and that we're heading toward a reckoning we're not prepared for. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

DC Statehood yesterday

Ebike Tasting Party is BACK! Visit us at Healthy Homes Fair on Saturday, March 21, 1pm-5pm. Test ride LOTS of different ebikes, family bikes and scooters - and score a free food truck treat! #bikedc #cargobike @electrifydc.bsky.social

Money is policy: you can’t give ICE a budget larger than all but 15 militaries worldwide and expect the agency to demilitarize its behavior. Jeffries and Schumer expect us to believe otherwise. www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...

Pennsylvania GOP state rep. Joanne Stehr on the concentration camps being built in her area: “I’m saying ICE has a job to do, and it’s going to get done. We are taking out the trash.”

A Republican-led resolution could trigger tax season chaos, potentially pushing D.C.'s filing deadlines into the fall, depriving the city of almost $700 million in revenue, and eliminating tax credits for low-income residents. 51st.news/republican-b...

Branch Trail is NE DC's highway. Today it was clear, safe - and crowded! Hugely grateful for our @ddotdc.bsky.social that genuinely prioritizes mobility beyond the car @dcdutchiedude.bsky.social @bikeshare.bsky.social #bikedc

POCs, women, children & other groups that are routinely victimized know that it is your *sheer existence* that is the threat. You can do everything “right” & still face violence; your story can be “perfect” & it will still be twisted. You will always be at risk when the telos is control/domination.

I do not give a shit about sports beyond Philly Team Spirit ™️ but so help me god if this admin makes me.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Good news on the hometown front. Josh is really great for the Valley.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The best part is that as with a slot machine, the outputs of similar prompts will yield similar results. If you use those results verbatim, it will be painfully obvious… and there are going to be a lot of consulting companies with deeply cringe names lol

And when we talk about sanctions, the EU may very well be better partners in accountability than the current Democratic leadership. While the US paused and then softened enforcement of anti-corruption, the EU formed a task force in March to fill the gap.

I sure hope Ford & Stellantis know the deal they made with this admin — and subsequent corporate realignment — was never secure & will constantly need to be renegotiated.

Given the nature of North American supply chains, this also bodes well for the US — contingent on if and when it finally decides to pull its head out of the sand.

I think all we have to do is recall the bundy standoff; both as real context for a conservative response to government agents & the approach by those in power now.

BREAKING: Dan Ceisler, the new sheriff of Pennsylvania's Bucks County, just announced he has terminated his county's 287(g) contract with ICE. Ceisler defeated GOP sheriff who'd joined the ICE program in November, & ran on quitting it; we reported then:

“We continue to receive warning signs for our future”… feels way more universal than it should these days.

Know who profits from ICE's cruelty. https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/ice-businesses-boycott-campaign/

If you're taking to the streets to protest, know your rights.

We had a good run

here’s hoping 2026 is just one year

It didn’t need to be either/or! As the New Yorker recently reminded, 2015 was the height of PRC-US “amity in science.” We could be reaping the rewards of US innovation (batteries, solar, wind, nuclear) to lower costs & pollution & rebuild our manufacturing base through collaboration & competition.