crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

Ending ENERGY STAR Would Strip Consumers of Information on Cost-Saving

"If you wanted to raise families’ energy bills, getting rid of the ENERGY STAR label would be a pretty good way." Our response to reports today that EPA may end the ENERGY STAR program.

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.

I miss Bidenomics

Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender NEW YORK—Stressing that the memory seemed so fresh and vivid in their minds, the confused nation announced Monday that they could have sworn British entertainer Russell Brand was already a convicted s...

Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender

20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

Yawn

Top tier ear game! Congrats

In some countries this position is known as a Political Officer.

Nice! Makes me glad to already be a paying subscriber too!

Mauna Loa Observatory’s Lease May End Because of NOAA Cuts NOAA, the nation’s leading climate science agency, may lose dozens of offices, including one that is key to the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

Shutting down Mauna Loa CO₂ observations while atmospheric CO₂ keeps skyrocketing is like turning off a fire alarm because you don’t like the noise

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/c...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

"forced discrimination programs" = EPA programs that made it slightly more difficult for industry to turn Black neighborhoods like Pleasantville in Houston or Africatown in Mississippi into cancer havens polluted with unregulated toxic waste

That’s right. 🇺🇦

In an episode that highlights how cursory and haphazard their efforts appear to have been, Marocco and Rubio ordered the cancellation of contracts, including for cellphone service, at an office they do not control. The move stranded people in war zones without phones, according to multiple officials and internal correspondence obtained by ProPublica. On Wednesday, AT&T received a termination notice for a $430,000 contract with USAID’s Office of Inspector General. That office is meant to be independent from USAID so that it can effectively audit the agency.

There's much more in this piece abt Marco Rubio getting USAID contractors robbed, but he also cut off USAID Inspector General's phone.

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Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics

Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? Search our map by ZIP code. From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.

ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area:

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They’re his SS

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Jan. 20 event name ideas:
- Unauguration
- Ignorguration
- Disauguration
- Misauguration
- Malaguration
- Blahguration
- Counterauguration
- Fauxguration
- Nullauguration
- Shamguaration
- Disgraceguration
- Rotguration
- Fraudguation
- Felonguation
- Doomguration

I donated — join me if you can, or just help spread the word?

This handbasket seems more congenial than the other ones on the same trip so far

He's not a (D) democrat, he's a chump libertarian sellout. At least the charade is over.

Building on Jimmy Carter's Energy Efficiency Foundation He laid the groundwork for decades of progress in reducing energy waste in homes and businesses

Jimmy Carter laid the groundwork for decades of progress in reducing energy waste in homes and businesses. Now, using the same energy-saving tools he initiated is more critical than ever, but progress could be threatened.