It’s about damn time.

If another country did this we’d call it a crime

Great NEPA "permitting reform" article with a bunch of zingers that ring true.

My favorite: "they want to shrink NEPA so that they can drown it in a bathtub” by @anauc.bsky.social.

@riogranderift.bsky.social also has good points to make!

Great work, @hannahstoryb.bsky.social.

For people who don't NYC is a tidal estuary. It has currents. The "safe to eat" designation is both because *decades* of cleanup has reduced PCB levels and because the fish they've selected are migratory.

Texas losing a billion dollars a year on data center tax break The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.

Texas is losing $3.2 BILLION in tax revenue over the next two years to the tax incentives it's handing out to data centers, and this is probably an underestimate. Meanwhile, the state is struggling to fund things like education and disaster response.

This is so embarrassing.

Who could have predicted that a bunch of ICE agents standing around in airports would do nothing to help the long lines caused by Trump blocking any deals to fund TSA?

Everyone with a basic capacity to think critically. That's who.

'Starfleet Academy' Will End After Season 2 The latest 'Star Trek' show, which was renewed for its second season back in 2024, will now come to an end once it's released.

After Steven Miller expressed his contempt for this show, the Ellisons canned it. This is how the entertainment industry now works. gizmodo.com/star-trek-st...

Trump rejects off-ramp to fund DHS as airport delays worsen Under a proposal pitched to Trump, Republicans would offer to reopen all of DHS except ICE and fund the controversial enforcement agency under a separate party-line budget bill.

Same play, over and over. He tells himself he has the advantage. Do as I say, Democrats, or the people get it. He has no concept of mind -- that the people are gonna blame him. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Bernie Sanders has pulled one out for the books.
He has suggested a reading of the Epstein files as a filibuster to the Save Act.

“.. A similar pattern was observed in oil markets.”

@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/v...

Nope.

should be "is" and "fixes". not ie and fits.

Also maybe don't complain about civility and condescension when your posts drip with it.

The complaint about needing better comms ie evergreen. The assumption is Dems control the media and better messaging fits everything. They don't. The GOP does. In some places, the only way to get that message out is physical presence and the Dems don't do 50 state organizing. They should.

As long as you can pay attention enough to read it, which I struggle with these days. So many books piled up on my shelf.

Its truly bizarre when some Americans react to this by pretending that when the Democrats take over Congress or the Presidency, everything "will go back to normal"
Thats incredibly minimizing of what the US has done so far.

Remember those big outliers that have been happening more & more lately? This week is one of those.

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One of the things that baffles me - I remember taking a bus from upstate NY to DC for the anti-war protest in 1992. Why isn't there one now? I think maybe people have come to the conclusion that it's not effective or they're just tired. I don't know, because I think protest matters.

This is such utter nonsense. Compared to Trump? This was the Dems message the whole fricking time. It was the raison d'être for the Biden presidency. You explain then, why people voted against it.

Quite literally, this is what Kamala Harris & Democrats were selling in 2024. You can read the platform, rewatch the debates & convention or ~every interview with her. You can remember Tim Walz existed & spoke. Etc. Etc. Folks said no, but it wasn't that stability & predictability weren't on offer.

When I get a new phone the FIRST THING I do is turn off most of the notifications. News especially, but apps (Uber why), app notifications.

No one needs this! You can't LIVE this way, both in terms of producing writing and in terms of just being present in your own life.

Compared to anti-war and other protests of the past, I feel like the public just isn't engaging this way. To be sure, the data - more protests in more places, more distributed actions - may say otherwise. But as a DC person, we simply don't get really big protests anymore.

Sam Alito’s Latest Reversal at the Supreme Court Is an Absolute Embarrassment Alito offered no justification for his reversal.

New for @slate.com: our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social writes that Justice Alito's conflicts of interest go deeper than we knew in an upcoming case. Alito recently broke from precedent and failed to recuse when granting oil companies' petition against Boulder in a long-running climate liability suit...

So awful.

Glad you clarified that. Because ivy and kudzu in the US is a menace and very definitely kills trees and native ecosystems.

Paul Ehrlich: 'Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades' Fifty years after the publication of his controversial book The Population Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich warns overpopulation and overconsumption are driving us over the edge

Prof Paul Ehrlich has died at 93

I interviewed him in 2018, 50 years after the publication of The Population Bomb

“Too many rich people in the world is a major threat to the human future, and cultural and genetic diversity are great human resources.”

www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...

Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change YouTube video by carlsagandotcom

If you haven’t watched this before, you really should. The brilliant Dr. Carl Sagan testifying before the United States Congress in 1985 on #ClimateChange.

We should have listened then. Will we now?

Remember, climate change isn’t an on & off switch. It’s an exponential dial. We’re making it worse.

From nursing homes to newspapers, the obsession with squeezing every last time out of businesses that claim to serve the public good is destroying America.