So much trash in this Matt Yglesias NYT rant but this specific bit where has has a go at @doctorvive.bsky.social is absurd even for him. Eliminating fossil fuels is basic fundamental science shit, not environmentalist shit archive.ph/02ze4 www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

Matt Yglesias gets a guest essay in The NY Times to push oil industry propaganda. And he is no different from the likes of Stephen Miller in his approach to the facts. But let's start with his big idea! "Liberals should support America’s oil and gas industry."

Tax the Dells instead. Tax them.

McGovern: "When billionaire CEOs need something, Republicans move at lightning speed. But when it comes to working people needing affordable health care, suddenly the story changes. There's hand wringing and the money is gone. My friends, if you are ok with that, we do not share the same values."

I love how Republicans — including Trump and Vance, when it suits them — sound like me and The Nation circa 2002. (Or more properly, Ron Paul.)

He’s been this since the 1980’s. And I have *never* understood the appeal. But maybe this will work?! Trump makes more aggressive use of the bully pulpit than any recent D president. He understands the double-down; they didn’t. It’s just completely deranged!

All of this is because our media industry has collapsed. All of this insanity.

I honestly don’t think that $12,000 in campaign cash cinches the deal for the special interests. In our statehouse, it’s the lobbying and information bombardment in an area where it seems like the chairs — and probably their staff — don’t have the expertise and commitment on climate/energy. #mapoli

Reminder that Trump solicited & received a massive bribe from Big Oil & Gas, and our billionaire media treated it as a one-day A12 story never to be mentioned again Maybe worth mentioning again now that he’s explicitly sending our kids off to die so Big Oil & Gas can profit?

The holy family’s flight to Egypt in Matthew 2 would indeed make them refugees. (Please reclaim scripture, and biblical scholarship, from the right wing. Thank You for your attention, etc)

Markey still on point with the alternate initialisms

My best case dream scenario: National politics ends up looking a lot like California politics, post Prop. 187. A massive re-alignment against bigotry and stupidity, out of self-defense if nothing else: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Ca...

This is the winner. Ironic detachment is the favored aesthetic of an entire generation; and earnestness of any kind is vulnerable and “cringe”. Silver gambles and does probabilities in politics as a way to avoid commitment *to* politics — which disappointed him. Cynicism then leads to gullibility.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

I know we're not at the end yet but if I can define my climate experience for 2025 under one theme it is this: the complete and wholesale deletion of climate, emissions and urgent decarbonisation as a priority in what was once known as the 'climatetech' or 'cleantech' world, and is now just...tech

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

"Many voters who spoke with CNN [about their opposition to Trump's map] said they did not want to be named because they feared being vocal about the issue could also subject them to threats." Remember, the threat of violence is key to Trump's power.

The difference is not cultural or moral or social. It’s that Australia is a democracy, with electoral, legislative, & judicial <institutions> that translate the preferences of majorities into policy. We, too, could have those, but we have to stop ignoring the problem: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

MAHA, apparently In all seriousness, this is mass death and huge wasted money and life potentia, for the benefit of just a few evildoers. Environmental protection is life, health, and dollars.

Susan Collins helped harm cancer research via her votes for RFK Jr. and Russell Vought. #mepolitics

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four. I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation. 🧵

NATO chief Rutte: "Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured." 😳

Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot: “The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”

Some people have asked what I mean when I talk about the need for anti-corruption reforms. Here are some ideas.

Huh. Democrats seem to be winning a lot of elections these days.

This report should have panicked everyone on the left into concerted, coordinated effort to address the information asymmetry. But as far as I can tell it just came & went & Dems are still in "buy TV ads about affordability" mode.

Would go for US too.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Evil. And almost certainly illegal. #mapoli

"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."

Or, more pointedly: The right-wing temperament is based on having an Enemy. Could be: ✅ Commies (had to make them up bc they couldn’t find enough); ✅ Muslims; ✅ Gays; ✅ Immigrants; ✅ Ehhh, whoever else is around (rummages through drawer) — Antifa, Deep State, scientists, doctors, lawyers, etc

Households face annual costs of roughly $400–$900 from climate change—mainly from disasters, higher insurance, and energy costs—with lower-income families and certain regions hit disproportionately, from @kclausing.bsky.social, Knittel, and @cwolfram.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34525

its honestly remarkable the extent to which Roberts is going hell for leather to match and exceed Taney as the word chief justice in american history

From Dedham, a light shines #mapoli

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

What absolute stupidity. Yes, bring back the 70's, the "choice" to buy a crappy, polluting car. No one asked for this. Just pure spite from the worst human being on the planet.

Be happy about the momentum. But: Why is the district ”ruby red” in the first place? How did it get like that? Even gerrymandered, it’s not an inherent natural state, like geology.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

We pay too much attention to the NYT. Tell me what media/narratives are reaching the misinformed middle; what’s softening the MAGA hard-core, discouraging the committed. Tell me about Cuban- and Venezuelan-Americans in FL who thought they were voting vs dictatorship. They’re not reading the NYT.

Watched @aoc.bsky.social YouTube short, attributing MTG’s turnaround vs Trump to personal factors, Trump discouraging her Senate run, therefore not real, etc etc Who cares? Who cares what factor made a political opponent decide to change their minds? Take the W! Encourage more!

One father, a U.S. citizen, walked into a green-card interview with his wife & 4-month-old baby. He walked out with the baby in his arms…& his wife in ICE custody. No criminal record, just families being separated. Trump said he would only go after violent criminals, he lied.

I checked the GasFriend app to see how much sunshine costs. Still free.

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.