It's not that complicated: folks should be able to be free to live their lives as themselves without harassment from the government.

That's right. What's more alarming is ~97% of the current highway storm drains in the United States were designed using rainfall information that was published in *1961* using 1930s-1950s data. We're using infrastructure built for the rainfall of nearly a century ago. engrxiv.org/preprint/vie....

This is a great example of local actions that both reduce carbon pollution (climate mitigation by enabling carbon free active transportation) and also increase the resilience to climate impacts (climate adaptation by designing systems to handle increased amounts of rainfall due to climate change).

we're all all we got and that's enough tbh

the only quad chart you need

NOAA provides an array of products & services to help local-level officials understand and act to prevent adverse impacts of climate change. The precip data are moving fwd (so far). We also need to protect other things. Reauth of Digital Coast Act can help. Get the word out and support that!

Just like NOAA provides weather info for communities, NOAA should provide free, credible, & actionable information about a range climate impacts. For some climate hazards, they do. But not yet for future rainfall. Our new paper provides a workaround until they do. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Been streaming ekko astral and pup basically around the clock this week

1) New paper! Replacing US fossil-fueled vehicles & appliances with electric versions could improve health & climate outcomes, but could cost up to $790 billion in distribution grid reinforcement. Strategic demand-side management could cut 2/3 of those costs.🔌💡 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Instead of scientific peer review, here comes political peer review

Idea: E Pluribus Unum

You: clean energy policy should only aim to exactly internalize the marginal damages of the social cost of carbon using hyperbolic discounting across a range of time preferences. Me: we’re gonna built party lakes with tiki bars powered by geothermal energy.

Breezewood, PA is the halfway point of the 4 hour drive from Pittsburgh to DC. I’ve stopped in Breezewood…a lot. I’ve been to this Kabob restaurant, it’s great. The family that runs it is great. Immigrants are great. Breezewood is great.

It’s a whole lot. Take care of each other.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Previous CEO of the local transit agency pulled me aside after a hearing and said me showing up and being eloquent and on topic (and implicitly, not a crank) made a lot of impact and thanked me for my service. I now testify every time.

okay @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social won the email subject line game today, this is 🤌 (good excuse to plug the very good @heatmap.news newsletter too!)

WaPo: No Clear Answers On Whether Hamburglar Stole Hamburgers

I don't want a save button I want a delete button

Support your colleagues at TAMU, who did not choose this

out: pity-fav in: pity-save

I logged onto bsky from my machine, only to find this? Mods!?Jay? Paul? Grimace? If I wanted ads from @jcsalterego.bsky.social I'd go on the Discover tab.

Organizing and/or going to a local community meeting and saying "things should be better, somewhat" has the policy impact power of sending a 100,000 posts.

In the Fourth Republic, we're going to resurrect the Postal Service with postal banking, public email accounts, and neighborhood post offices that provide constituency services and free legal advice. It's going to be so good.

Sabrina Carpenter says TRANS RIGHTS at the VMAs

The very serious natsec think tanks, columnists, & editorial boards basically said nothing this year when our own government threatened to annex Canada--our NATO ally and neighbor--Canada! It's insane, and career-ending. Everything is much worse than folks know-- BUT THE MASTHEADS COULD SAY SO.

I get that for folks who see it at a distance or through the prism of the media perhaps do not understand how bad it is, but the federal government's state capacity is dying on the vine in front of everyone's eyes

over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone

Less freedom, fewer rights, terrorized communities, higher costs, fewer jobs, more pollution. My political analysis: this sucks

The Administration’s cancellation of a near-complete wind power farm will raise the cost of your electricity bill. Every month, look at your bill. It’s too high and it’s going to go up because of this. For what?

While the Trump administration tries to cancel offshore wind for "national security" reasons, here's the CEO of Ukraine's largest private energy company

U.S. policy decisions made by the Administration are degrading our economy and our national security.

Q —> Q* so fast it’ll make your head spin

Elon Musk has made false statements about how white people supposedly face discrimination in systems where we actually have tremendous privileges for years. I have shown the facts that debunk him, so have others- but he’ll always do this it seems. www.cnbc.com/2023/02/26/e...

my one public (for now :)) reflection from attending the Abundance 2025 conference last week is that i met a lot of medium-to-mostly-offline people who have a very positive view of what they're trying to accomplish (more housing, more transit, more clean energy, etc)

Analysis: A shutdown has risks and real impacts. These risks are smaller than going along with where things are and where they are going. Recommendation for Decision: Shutdown

rule by the person who posts the best pictures of the bread they made, call that a doughligarchy

rule by the person who can do the best skateboard tricks, call that an olliegarchy

Are other people having trouble getting pediatric covid vaccines? I'd love to see reporting on this. The pharmacies I've checked don't have them, and last I checked my kids' pediatrician didn't either. I never see covid vaccine fairs anymore (and they didn't always have kids' shots anyway).

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

We’ve been bringing PDFs to a quote post fight.

the msm at this point is complicit in hiding what’s happening in dc from the country. such a startlingly few number of people on our tour so far even know what’s happening. i’m having to educate concertgoers about the checkpoints from the stage

You don’t see MySpace Tom feeling the need to grovel at the WH. He’s unbothered, living his best life somewhere.

I have 51 articles in the data that trained Open AI. Now you know why it makes mistakes.

Renewables Are Like a Good Neighbor Wind Power to Community: You're in Good Hands Solar Panels: 15 minutes of our output can save you 15% or more on your billz

Become ungovernable

Read Saabira Chaudhuri on the fascinating history of disposable plastic: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/o...

Here's a question for Congressional Oversight, etc: where is that money coming from? Moving money appropriated for one purpose to pay for another purpose is straight up against the law (Anti-Deficiency Act). Anyone involved has legal exposure. If it's coming out of DoD A&S funds, what is being cut?