It’s important to remember that these people, though dangerous, are also stupider than dirt

TL;DR they killed FL oranges with pesticides that weakened the trees and then the disease took them out. And the hurricanes started pounding them. They're basically done...and they're building houses on orange groves. Houses in FL. Climate change disaster central.

Update: 1200 years of climate data now safe with next caretaker!

Opinion | Prescribing in a 'Black Box' of Prior Auth Decisions An excerpt from 'Coverage Denied'

Thanks to @medpagetoday.com for highlighting an excerpt of my book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality, which hits shelves this Thursday! www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

“Is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment?” No, the Tea Party was an astroturf campaign bankrolled by the Koch brothers, you’re thinking of something else I guess

This war is so damn confusing. It’s why we shouldn’t let drunks and dementia patients run it.

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:

Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...

This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.

State AGs must step in and block it.

New Documents Undermine Trump Administration’s Claims About Offshore Wind Deal There was no new investment required from TotalEnergies, according to newly disclosed terms.

The US government paid $1 billion to kill a wind farm just because. Just absolute idiocy in every direction heatmap.news/energy/total...

Turkish author and illustrator Feridun Oral (born in 1961 in Kırıkkale).

As a fire scientist, I am devastated for my many good friends and colleagues who will be affected by the mass closure of so many research stations and offices. Many will leave the agency.

USFS has pioneered so much foundational fire science. The consequences of this will be catastrophic.

Tim Kaine should immediately file a bill to prevent the Department of War from receiving Department of Defense funds.

the culture thing is what people keep glossing over. same orgs were shipping broken stuff before LLMs existed, the tool just removed the friction that used to slow down the dysfunction

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80

When I was in graduate school discovering creative/narrative nonfiction, Tracy Kidder was one the giants in that world: observant, compassionate, astute. I read and learned from all his books.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

I believe it is time to tax the richest New Yorkers. My opponent does not. There was just a major victory with the new proposed tax on luxury second homes. That’s tremendous progress. Now we need to keep pushing for a state budget that invests in working families & allows them to afford life in NYC.

Life comes at you fast

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Sunrise NYC endorses Brad Lander for Congress.

Donald Trump has been taking a sledgehammer to clean energy infrastructure and putting the interests of Big Oil executives ahead of working people.

This is a time for Democrats to fight aggressively for climate action. (1/3)

JD Vance only converted to Catholicism in 2019. He's been Catholic just as long as a class of second graders who just took their First Communion.

If Vance disagrees with the actual pope, he's free to fuck off and find a yet another faith he can cynically exploit for his own political career.

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

Mamdani moved to the U.S. at seven because his father accepted a position as the director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. His award-winning international film-making mother was already educated at Harvard. Ogles is a racist idiot.

Warner Bros specifically has had THREE utterly disastrous mergers in the last two decades that ALWAYS result in layoffs, price hikes, shittier products, and everybody losing their shirt, but I want you to notice how the U.S. outlets covering this story don't think that's worth mentioning

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

they're saying that all traces of Viktor are being erased so thoroughly that he's now just an orban legend

I wake up each morning thinking about the carnage this Administration has inflicted on men, women and children in the US and around the world. The short and long-term effects should secure #Trump, #Vought, #Vance and the rest a solid reservation in one of the lower circles of hell. 1/

Pope Leo on an airplane, standing in the aisle, holding a baseball bat.

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

Battery recycler Ascend Elements files for bankruptcy | TechCrunch Ascend Elements said that it will be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the wake of a canceled government grant and a challenging market for lithium-ion batteries.

Ugh. This is the GOP's work.

It may be some small consolation that this is the Times of London, not NYT.