In an exceptionally good year, corn ethanol provides 100-101% of the energy that was input as fertilizer, tractor fuel, pesticides, and distillation. In an average year, it’s 98 to just under 100%. In bad years, turning petrocarbons into corn to turn into carbohydrate fuel is a waste of petroleum.

the president lying about high level peace talks taking place with the country were at war with, all to juice the stock market, is a gigantic scandal but also its just kinda another monday

This whole thread is beautiful and true, but yikes, this part hits home.

I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)

Let's gooooo!!!

future generations are going to look up "what happens when you stick your dick in a wood chipper without being asked to" and find an account of this war

It feels like we’re playing Jenga with the underpinnings of society. There‘s the peaceful transfer of power norm. There’s the norm against antisemitism. There’s the stable global energy market. Idk how long this is sustainable before something breaks for good.

Everyone wants to burn it all down and nobody has a plan for what to do when our house is ashes and we’re covered in soot and need a roof over our heads.

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I'm a member, and you should be too! Here's a thread of so many reasons:

A lot of us in USA would be well served to recall that when we look back on that era we don't call it Germany With Some Nazis we call it Nazi Germany. We don't distinguish between people who silently disapproved or didn't like it but accepted it. We lump them in with the Nazis. And that is correct.

Thread!

I wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post with Allie Cannington – at The Kelsey, a disability-forward affordable housing developer – about how America's elevator accessibility rules backfire for small buildings, and about how a clarification from HUD could fix it www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I just like to go on little walks that end in little treats.

the whole piece was fun but this is the part i am still thinking about tonight

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Read the whole thread, and also read the article. But this analogy is so good!

Thread.

THIS THIS THIS!!!

Happy Calvin's Dad day to those who celebrate

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

swapping in a series of increasingly larger, hotter stoves to touch

Brilliant timing, absolutely brilliant.

Strait of Hormuz is why various advocates of opposing Iran urged against all out war. Yet another instance of refusing to believe warnings that the stove is hot. Wasn't even a debate between hawks and doves, but between hawkish types who value smart strategy and stupid hawks who say it'll be fine.

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Thread. Yikes.

This one in particular is so important. I'm stunned by the number of people who don't understand that homelessness is a housing problem!

every sunday night is the eve before an unknown week's battle

Oh noooooo, she has to face the consequences of her actions! How awful!

Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."

TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops. CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

The Paradox of Trump: Military operations are highly competent* yet strategically inept *they are not highly competent

I too have fond memories of the happy innocence of america when I was a child (a meatgrinder war in Vietnam, huge constitutional crisis with watergate on the horizon, gas shortages, inflation, political assassinations, etc etc)

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this is like the thesis statement of our times

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it. 15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.” @jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

“My total and utter victory over my ex-wife will be signified by her moving in with that guy Rick.”

@warren.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov The ROAD to Housing Act could be a really great bill! But you need to change the 7-year disposition rule on build to rent, so you don't unintentionally *reduce* the number of new homes built!

@durbin.senate.gov, I'd really love to call your office and ask you to support a change to exempt new build-to-rent construction from the disposition mandate while keeping the ban on institutional purchases of existing homes intact. But your office doesn't take phone calls, so I'm saying it here.

Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, Rahm.

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This whole thread (on Platner's tattoo) is good, but this in particular stood out to me.

yes i am worried about a nazi tattoo, i’m super fucking weird like that. i don’t like nazi shit. but i realize bernard sanders will admit a mistake right after the heat death of the universe. he’s never made a single mistake in his entire life.

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes: Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

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East Central IL has been classified as being in Extreme Drought for months. We're actually getting some rain this week (although not enough to make up for our huge precipitation deficit), and I love listening to the rain and the thunder. I really missed this!

In the modern era, no American president has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump. None.