Federal Judge Breaks Trump’s Permitting Blockade The opinion covered a host of actions the administration has taken to slow or halt renewables development.

NEW: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that key actions Trump took to delay solar and wind projects across the U.S. were illegal (me for @heatmap.news)

Simple rule: the Senate should not confirm any appointee to any post who can’t say clearly who legitimately won the 2020 presidential election. Not just who was “installed”, but who won the vote and the electoral college.

I legitimately routed a recent layover outside of the US because of this insanity. It's embarrassingly dumb.

It's only inflation when the Fed does it. Otherwise it's from the sparking price increase region of France

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This is so much better than my post saying Walsh's reply was stupid.

This is...stupid.

This is the Trump Administration's attempt at soft power.

After so many misplayed geopolitical moves, I see the administration is scrambling for new ways to project American influenza.

Lucifer's Bonobo?

Why did the conviction of the corruptibility of men and the vulnerability of states-and the consequent idea of America as experiment - give way to the delusion of a sacred mission and a sanctified destiny? The original conviction was rooted in realistic conceptions of history and of human nature-conceptions that waned as the republic prospered. The intense historical-mindedness of the Founding Fathers did not endure. Though the first generation came to Philadelphia loaded down with historical examples and memories, its function was precisely to liberate its progeny from history.

[dj khaled voice] cursed by success

I'm saving this for a flight tomorrow and I am SO looking forward to it.

*This isn't really what Habermas meant by "performative contradiction," but the University system's response to reactionary centrism is both performative and contradictory. Plus, it's Habermas: he dealt with this isht already.

It is easy as a climate person to get in the habit of scoffing about trees bc so much greenwashing is blanketed in promises related to trees. But trees are real-deal incredible climate assets, and it is a travesty that only white/rich people in old neighborhoods get to have them.

I felt this was hyperbole until the NYT piece today on the 2016 Clean Power Plan emergency stay.

The boring explanation is that solar + batteries get less attention because they haven't created enormous capital concentration, partly the nature of the tech and partly because so much is China-driven. AI, on the other hand, does portend a radical capital concentration and labor-to-capital shift.

On the other hand, I really believe folks are sleeping on the economic structural implications of solar + batteries. It's the industrial transformation in plain sight.

A more historical view is that this is just the Nth wave of electrification.

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

CASAR: You've met with CEOs, you've met with billionaires. How many have you met with that have lost their health insurance?

RFK Jr: I've met with the advocacy community on virtually everything

C: Have you met with any of the 1.4m who lost their coverage?


K: They're almost all illegal immigrants

They could be ER doctors too. Gaming, it's almost just like real life.

🎶Graham'll tease you, he'll unease you
Served on a platter just to please you, but...🎶

destruction of the voting rights act by a partisan court that thinks the blacks have it too good is on par with the ignominy of the courts that gutted the 14th amendment and killed the 1875 civil rights act

We are.

If this happens, I really believe it is the sleeper game changer of EV penetration and oil demand destruction.

I see your Drake, and raise you my Geese.

Gas Industry Front Group Targets Democrats in Pennsylvania - Inside Climate News The industry group pays politicians to convince voters that natural gas is the “most affordable and reliable energy source.”

The fossil gas industry is buying up Democrats.

Urea-ly went there.

Come for the historical materialism, stay for the lived experience.

We're fooling ourselves to think this is "just the internet" or "twitter isn't real life." Look around. Look at the f'ing US government! Twitter is more real to the people running it than "real life" is! All their, ahem, lived experience ia mediated & shaped by it. Demonstrably, luridly so.