More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
How can one define one's self in a box? Interested in all the things: anti fascist, pro environment, pro sensible economic development incl small biz, car free transit, regenerative ag. Dinosaur juice should stay buried.
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More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Definitely a lost battle under this admin, but if we do eventually return to normalcy, would really appreciate a hard requirement that every announced use of force by the state be accompanied by stating the authority under which it occured
*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
Cheyenne Mountain is the most hardened, survivable C2 facility in the country. It is built for nuclear scenarios. Keeping USSPACECOM nearby leverages that resilience. Why scatter assets 1,200 miles away when NORAD + SPACECOM synergy in Colorado Springs already works? Trump is a moron.
So #RFKJr is a liar. He's a charlatan. @kasie.bsky.social catches him here and it's wonderful to watch. We need more of this. Do not give this man any credibility. He's a huckster with famous name and is destroying public health and science in America. Spread the word.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Is the Giuliani news designed to distract us from the Trump is dying rumors which are supposed to distract us from the Epstein files which are all a distraction from kitchen table issues?
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nationâs public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
This is my shocked face. And isn't the fed constructed to not have political meddling? Can we talk about that?
It was gorgeous out there tonight.
By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trumpâs tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling wonât go into effect until October 14, thoughâwhich gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection â diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
FINALLY, someone pushing back on the e-bike moral panic: âWhat Connecticut needs is a Safe Systems approach â a philosophy that accepts people will make mistakes and designs the transportation system so that those mistakes donât result in serious injury or death.â www.ctinsider.com/waterbury/op...
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns donât kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
So far, the main businesses that have been financially benefited from AI have been the producers of blue books www.wsj.com/business/cha...
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape peopleâs reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Rangappa: Do you believe that Ghislaine Maxwell is guilty? Ferguson: Yes Rangappa: She denied her guilt the interview. Ferguson: Most criminals lie, newsflash. That's, like, not shocking. Rangappa: Then why on Earth would you believe anything she said?
We'll see if this causes as much agita among the elite classes as the proposal for a few state-run grocery stores in poor parts of NYC.
The only thing worth saying on Maxwell: sheâs denying her own criminal conduct for which she was convicted & sentenced. So she has zero credibility & her statements on Trump doing nothing wrong are meaningless. DOJ in any semi-normal time would say that (well not interview her in first place butâŚ).
Hereâs what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwellâs sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
What a surprise, said no one. $WMT
Fact-based, deeply researched, and essential. This is worth a bookmark. And a reminder for grownups--get your vaccinations. Everything from COVID to HPV to Shingles to Tetanus to Flu. Especially now, get current, stay current.
Perfect.
The irony here, which would be lost on a vapid Klan influencer like Benny, is that racist urban renewal practices immediately preceded and probably helped precipitate the massive 20th century urban crime wave.
Gov. Newsom to Trump: "You are playing with fire, risking the destabilization of our democracy, while knowing that California can neutralize any gains." "If you will not stand down, I will be forced to lead an effort to redraw the maps in California to offset the rigging of maps in red states."
Oh, we're all trees now, I guess...
Fossil fuels are the horse and buggy of energy sources: IEA: Renewables will be worldâs top power source âby 2026â www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...
Trump's takeover of the U.S. capitalâs police force is a distraction from his own rampant wrongdoing. Take his crypto scams, which prompted Harvard political scientist Steven Levitsky to tell The Guardian, âI have never seen such open corruption in any modern government anywhere.â trib.al/QfcnzZq
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC⌠he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
Clearly this is not about making DC, or any of us, safer.
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
NEW: Sen Whitehouse is asking for the following info on the sex offender status waiver and subsequent transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell. I got some of these answers in my reporting. If you work at BOP & have the answers, my signal is in my bio. Iâll keep you anonymous. open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
Mark Kelly: "I hope we got something out of this. Putin is a war criminal. This is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States to land here to negotiate with our president."
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
The bad guys are winning, everywhere, on every front, and I'm tired of reading about it, so I think I'm just gonna log off for the day. đ
A special prosecutor? Not Senate confirmed? Like Jack Smith? Didn't Trump, Clarence Thomas, and Judge Aileen Cannon say that was unconstitutional?
Paxton lays out a legal standard for abandonmentâ"[t]he failure to perform the duties pertaining to the office ... with actual or imputed intention ... to abandon and relinquish the office"âthat absolutely cannot be met here. Again, the legislators are actively *using* the powers of their offices!
![Although Texas law on this issue is sparse, the common law has long recognized abandonment as a ground for vacatur of public office. See also Annunciation House, 2025 WL 1536224, at *5 (explaining that Texas adopted the quo-warranto doctrine, derived from âthe Common Law of Englandâ from its early days as a Republic). At common law, a public official abandoned his office by ârefus[ing] or neglect[ing] to perform the duties of his office for such a period as to warrant the presumption that he did not intend to perform them.â The American and English Encyclopedia of Law 562c* (John Houston Merrill, ed., Long Island, N.Y., Edward Thompson Co. 1887). Such a refusal required more than a âmere temporary accidental or excusable failure to exercise the functions of the office for a short period or in a single instance.â Id. at 562c*-562d*. But âif the officer refuses or neglects to exercise the functions of the office for so long a period as to reasonably warrant the presumption that he does not desire or intend to perform the duties of the office at all, he will be held to have abandoned it.â Floyd R. Mechem, A Treatise on the Law of Public Offices and Officers § 435, at 278 (Chi., Callaghan & Co. 1890). An office may be abandoned through ârefusal, â particularly âwhere [the officer] is bound to attend upon request, and refuses.â Id. § 435, at 278 & n.3 (discussing Earl of Shrewsburyâs Case, (1611) 77 Eng. Rep. 798, 804-06; 9 Co. Rep. 46b, 50a-50b).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q3dycka5ce2gybcbau5gfehd/bafkreigevzlt4axpqgnjmr2ypbi2gscvspqqhwhnuv72nv67nmhu2i4u3y@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Nothing helped me understand how much energy a car uses like having solar on my roof. On a good day my house generates enough for my house + a comparable house -- or my house + my car going 200 miles. 200 miles in an EV = an entire hot summer day of AC, hot water, dishwasher, dryer, etc.
The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: âIt makes me sick that she is claiming to be a victim. This is the same woman that grabbed my arm and forced me into a room to be raped by Jeffrey. She had this evil smirk on her face. And she enjoyed it.â ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social
Are these the same people who could be Olympians if they only tried a little bit?
Wow. I used to be like this but then I met a brilliant engineer and married him 29 years ago, so you might be missing out. I am a queen who gets everything around me customized and fixed up nice, but don't ask him to spell it.
New research confirms what election experts have said all along: Noncitizen voting occasionally happens, but in minuscule numbers, and not in any coordinated way.
Not a drag queen
I see we're wearing gold ties now to match Dear Leader
The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and itâs been there since.
đ§ľIntroducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today Iâm launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarianâstyle actions from Trumpâs second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Take a long hard look at this graphic, the longest continuous direct measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This is the famous Keeling Curve from the station atop Mauna Loa, Hawaii. Trump and the GOP are closing the observatory. scripps.ucsd.edu/bluemoon/co2...
Sure is getting hot around here. Wish we could do something about it.
All self inflicted. So dumb of us.
Oh look another one trading on inside info from the government
What happened in the intervening four months between this Bondi statement and the DOJ report on Epstein?
Under-appreciated point. I was talking with a friend last week who watches TV news, is active on social media & considers herself politically aware, but had no idea her Medi-Cal coverage is in fact Californiaâs Medicaid.
Murder. USAID cuts may cause 14 million more deaths in next five years, study says www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
âWhen somebody is in labor or having a pregnancy-related emergency, every second counts, and with these hospital closures, people are going to have to travel further and further to get the help that they need.â
the Senate's small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she's supporting will harm the nation's 339 million other residents.
Senate Ds did fight every step of way, made the bill toxic, forced Tillis to retire, made them vote in broad daylight as bill got worse, nixed some truly awful parts. They need more members. In 2026, vote out every R. That is what the lesson is here.
ANY one R senator.
But do they write to their relatives about the lake effect snow in January??
Went for a lovely bike ride today at the beach in the Great Lakes town where I grew up. Noted the varied languages and dress, due to this region welcoming immigrants to grow the population in recent years. Thankful for parks and public spaces for all to enjoy our community's beauty.
That specified hard mode is Boy Hard Mode.
In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.
There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems
Basic structure of strategies that undermine democracy. 1) Micro-target 2) Enflame grievance 3) Entrench in belief systems 4) Monetize 5) Radicalize From my testimony to EU Parliament this week. Audio excerpt available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3QK...
When Connecticut loses a congressional seat in 2030 I would like everyone to call it the "Lamont Loss."
Confirmation they did not destroy the uranium stockpiles. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
This is so dangerous and stupid
Five things to remember about war:
And why would anyone negotiate with us in the future?
I remember infrastructure week during his last term coming "in 2 weeks" and then Biden got it done. Is that the kind of 2 weeks we're talking here?
going to keep saying: a society that would like to maintain its basic functions has really got to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by people in positions of authority
"We are also a strategic alternative to more distant and politically divergent energy producers. So, we will do deals for our prosperity. The only question is with whom," [Tinubu] adds." well gotta hand it to Tinubu
So Starship Ship 36 just detonated *before* the static fire test - fueled and waiting for the test. Looks like the top tank lets go and sets off the whole stack. It would be bad enough if it let go during the static fire test, but it just blew up. And it's cooking off the fuel tanks on the pad.
There is no indication in that quote that the president knows why he would call the governor of Minnesota now.
One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.
Dinosaur state park!
NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
Where the Genessee River meets Lake Ontario yesterday as storms rolled down the lake. The color of Great Lakes water is always amazing.
Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law. This 147-year-old law embodies an American tradition that sees military interference in civilian affairs as a threat to both Democracy and Personal Liberty.
Here is a community refresher on the Natl Guard that I co authored in 2020. Even more relevant today. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
If martial law is what Trump resorts to to distract from the Musk catastrophe what will he do to change the subject from the martial law catastrophe?
Good point about the wrong-dated video. This could also happen with still photos -- and of course, we saw AI-generated material being posted, after the hurricanes hit the SE US.
In itself it's not the biggest thing but Congress specifically passed a law requiring ICE to allow access to members of Congress because of Trump's antics in the first term. This isn't even norms. It's violating black letter statute law.
The pull between Efficient Markets and everyone wants to be at the party but no one wants to be the last to leave?
The gutting of US biomedical research with loss of ~2,500 grants affecting research for cancer, Alzheimerâs, infectious disease, global health and much more www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I've been looking for a good book on the Haitian revolution. Any recommendations?
CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House. - Revenue âŹď¸ by $3.7 trillion over 10 years - Spending âŹď¸ by $1.3 trillion - Debt âŹď¸ by $2.4 trillion over 10 years - Uninsured pop. âŹď¸ by 10.9 million in 2034 Full analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...
Devastating across so many areas.
NYT, Page One: âWithin hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to âany city, any university I want,â he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.â @nytimes.com
If youâre wondering if US climate researchers are freaking out, yeah theyâre freaking out.
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
NSF is planning to cut the number of people doing science by roughly 75%.
I am freeeeezing. I keep telling myself that I will miss this *crisp* air in July.
Side note--we need to find new acronyms. I couldn't tell if this was talking about the Irish Republican Army or retirement accounts or ? But I think we're talking about the Inflation Reduction Act.
There will never be enough planes.