the bipartisan deal industrial complex seems to promote deals for deals sake despite all the evidence anyone could ever want that MAGA wants to destroy renewables.

it would really behoove Matt to do the thing in journalism where you call experts who have different points of view and interview them about the current reality and state of play in energy rather than posing as a knowledgeable person and regurgitating goofy Breakthrough Institute talking points.

Incredible - balcony solar, for owners or tenants, is ready to go. The tech is there; all that's missing is the legislation. Delighted to to learn Maryland is one of the states queuing up laws that would make it possible for anyone to pop down to Costco or Ikea, buy a panel and plug it in.

Everyone's panicking, saying we need more grid capacity to accommodate data centers, but ... current grid utilization is under 50%! Isn't the obvious first step to more efficiently use the grid we've already built? This & much more covered in my latest solo pod:

Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol

Notice that when it comes to climate & energy, Yglesias, again and again and again, reflexively punches left, using vapid, reductionist conceits that distract from what he omits: Any reference to the noxious power, influence, and harm caused by the fossil fuel industry.

"Don't listen to the pod I'm linking to, which addresses this. Don't examine the details of utility dynamics shaping the grid, the physical characteristics of data centers, or any of the actual on-the-ground questions. Instead, retreat to this tired ideological frame I use for everything."

This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.

Georgia O’Cringe www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas

in a world of Sarah Hurwitzes, be a Rabbi Moishe. Remarkable… mishpacha.com/the-kingmake...

Average electricity cost increase since Jan: Missouri ⬆️ 37% Iowa ⬆️ 30% North Dakota ⬆️ 30% Oklahoma ⬆️ 30% New Jersey ⬆️ 27% Nebraska ⬆️ 25% Montana ⬆️ 25% Wyoming ⬆️ 23% NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11% Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.

I am never going to talk about permitting reform again without bringing up the “trump bottleneck” 😎🔥🔥🔥

You’re about to hear many in the commentariat claim a permitting bill, the SPEED Act, will help all energy sources. The thing folks like Matt Yglesias don’t mention is that SPEED would fail to do anything for renewables without addressing Trump’s bottleneck. That’s not “sources say” — it is fact.

Very strong “subprime crisis begins boiling over” vibes under every headline!

this piece is super

I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.

when its definitely not a hostage situation

Guys IDK, if a Jew who has been very critical of Israel going to Israel to tell Israelis to their faces that they’re doing bad things is a violation of BDS then I don’t know what the goal is

i have a story coming today that explains how this tweet is… unacceptable levels of weirdly inaccurate

Democracy dies in dampness

Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is. There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

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Donald Trump is reposting calls to hang Democratic politicians on his Truth Social account. This is the type of deranged behavior you might expect from an internet troll, not the President of the United States.

Honest question: does Breakthrough do actual work or policy analysis or is it just a trolling operation ?

WWJD www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

I’ve reported on so many regular people being threatened and villified by conspiracy theories and hatred for people, many times spread by MTG. It’s awful when anyone has to deal with harassment and threats and I wonder if the congresswoman can look inward, too

Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

While park rangers and other employees go without pay, Doug Burgum is in Athens spouting nonsense about climate and hobnobbing with energy executives. "There is no energy transition, there’s only energy addition,” Burgum said, apnews.com/article/gree...

Mixed feelings about Shapiro but this is admirable and adult.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

The White House has posted a photo that shows Bari Weiss was in the room for the 60 Minutes interview of Donald Trump. Weiss is obscured, but she's just to the right of Norah O'Donnell.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

HOT TAKE: Sherrill's victory clearly shows that prioritizing RTO governance weeds is a winner.

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

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Unbelievably extraordinary - Trump admin personally threatening EU delegates to IMO regarding climate shipping rules. www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

From being banned by Uber to getting credentials to cover the world's biggest military. The "Department of War" just Loomered itself @scottnover.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

My premise, starting w Duffy being named to this job and confirmed by every utterance or action since then, is that he knows nothing about aviation. Would be like appointing me to judge the world lumberjack championships. (At which Duffy was the speed-climbing winner, in 1994.)

people like this get security details to make themselves feel important

I started calling him out privately in 2011, then more publicly in 2012. He bad mouthed solar regularly mostly because he talked to advisors that were historians, not energy/technology experts: www.solarplaza.com/resource/113...

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

NEW: *24 known corporate donors to the East Wing ballroom have recent gov't contracts *14 face federal enforcement actions and/or have had actions suspended by Trump *Ballroom funders have spent $1.6B on lobbying and campaign contributions tinyurl.com/45rfxmxv

Our latest report breaks down who is donating and exactly what they have at stake: www.citizen.org/news/corpora...

The 24 corporations funding Trump's ballroom have received $279 billion in government contracts in the past 5 years. Most of them are facing federal enforcement actions. These are not random donations. It's a clear as day effort to kiss up to the Trump admin.

Why do young liberals love Zohran Mamdani? We talked to 3 elderly Staten Island conservatives who can’t correctly say his name.