In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas In March, for the first time, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the transition to clean power. However, rising power demand is complicating the shift away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many aging coal power plants.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

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.

This is the political version of “if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying “.

Spanberger is a great example of how even centrist Dems can rack up major coalition wins just by not triangulating to the right. There is nothing super left wing about removing a tax exemption for slavery nostalgia, it’s just mainstream policy. By not pantomiming bipartisanship she gets a nice win.

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

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"AI Populism" is a term that obscures more than it reveals. Can we just not?

Desperately hoping we can settle on a better term for the various forms of AI backlash than "AI populism."

The Yudkowsky stan throwing a molotov cocktail and the Sierra Club member at a community meeting aren't parts of the same movement at all.

davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/ai-populis...

This is reminding me that when Scalia died, Erick Erickson floated Mike Lee as a "compromise" nominee Obama should appoint.

Khanna: They’re saying this technology is going to be bigger than nuclear, bigger than electricity, bigger than aviation.

Last I checked, we have an FAA for aviation, nuclear energy is regulated, and electricity is regulated.

“Why does it take victims of SA years or decades to speak out?”

It’s because society keeps protecting horrible men from consequences.

NEW: Raskin, w/ 50 House Dem co-sponsors, formally introduces a bill which would create a commission to assess Trump's fitness for office under the 25th Amendment.

Bill text here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Story TK

A woman named Lonna Drewes at a news conference just now accused Eric Swalwell of drugging her drink and sexually assaulting her. Here's part of her statement.

It says nothing great that all of this defense of Platner's shittiness seems motivated entirely by "he's a white dude who has the aesthetics of being working-class"

It's all the wrong of thinking working-class people can't help but be bigots, but without actually defending someone working-class

America’s New Tax Mantra: ‘The IRS Isn’t Going to Catch Me’ The battered Internal Revenue Service shed thousands of enforcement employees—and more taxpayers appear eager to cheat.

"'They have defunded the police,' said Matthew Rappaport, a tax lawyer at Falcon, Rappaport and Berkman in New York. 'There’s no more succinct way to describe what’s happened.'"

Dedicated Online Pseudo-Economist: “lived experience doesn’t matter because that’s just your perspective, you aren’t the protagonist”

Normal person: “isn’t consumer sentiment below 50%?”

DOPE: “yes, but those consumers are also wrong about the economy so we should ignore them, I’m the protagonist”

Oracle cutting 30,000 jobs to fund AI data centers for OpenAI feels like the tipping point for mainstream backlash and awareness of AI-driven layoffs.

People aren’t going to sit quietly while AI takes jobs and wait for UBI. AI companies and employers should expect serious pushback.

I've written before about how USAID was the first government agency killed by conspiracy theory. This confirms it.
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They aren’t going to give you your funding back — you don’t have to do this. You choose to.

Exclusive: Trump’s son Eric to join father's state visit to China By Reuters April 14, 20263:33 PM GMT+1Updated 16 mins ago U.S. President Trump departs the White House in Washington U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Eric Trump as they walk together to depart the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 10, 2026. REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump ​and his wife, Lara, will ‌accompany the president on his May trip to China, a ​spokeswoman for Eric Trump ​told Reuters on Tuesday.

I hate to whatabout, but this was literally the core of what right wingers wanted to impeach Biden over.

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Media outlets have infrastructure to support such investigations — experienced reporters and editors, newsroom lawyers, resources to fend off lawsuits. The content creators had none of that. Both women said they independently took out umbrella insurance policies to protect their houses and other assets in case they got sued. At one point Fodor, feeling increasingly overwhelmed, sent a message to Hunt: “I think we have bitten off more than we can chew here.” The influencers agreed that specific allegations needed to be broken in a news story. While reporters dug into the allegations, they kept up a public drumbeat, insisting that Swalwell was a shady character and promising the details would come out soon. The tease infuriated many on social media, who accused the influencers of being irresponsible by lobbing accusations without backing them up. But the threat of a soon-to-drop news story was enough to dry up Swalwell’s fundraising and unnerve supporters. Political operatives of all stripes were disconcerted watching the influencers play by their own set of rules, different from the norms of media outlets, and wondered if this would become a new normal in campaigns — a prospect that even unsettled the influencers. “I have a lot of fears about the blurred lines between content creators and journalists,” Hunt said. She knew her personal familiarity with Swalwell’s reputation would never have been sufficient basis for a reporter to write a story. “It was enough for me to feel confident in not getting sued, and to want to let other women know that they weren’t alone, and only from that place would we be able to break his story in a traditional news media outlet,” she said. “I don’t want this to be a green light to creators who think that they should be breaking sensitive news.”

The series of events that resulted in Swalwell's downfall bring up a really interesting (and depressing) conversation about traditional media vs. independent and how money in journalism controls who has the safety to tell the truth

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But imagine if angels sat on pinheads. Imagine that. The Fed needs to pay attention to that.

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.

"Best practices for using AI" at work today. A job based on face-to-face interactions and relationship building.

Couldn't possibly be sicker of this shit.

The average American spends about $290 to file. They also spend about 13 hours, often giving the government information it already has, which works out to another $486 worth of time assuming the average BLS hourly wage. The Trump administration says that Direct File was too expensive. Compared to what? Direct File cost IRS $16 million in its final year of operation. Between 2021-2025 Intuit also got almost $500 million dollars in federal tax credits.

Trump said Direct File was too expensive to operate. This feels like an indictment of our willingness to build things.

Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, had *more lobbyists* than the Direct File team had employees. The cost of Direct File is a fraction of the tax breaks given to Intuit.

Bold of him to replace himself first, I guess. If the important thing about a billionaire founder is the capital, then go ahead and give a chatbot the bank balance and eff off into the sunset.

Graph showing Trump has pardoned more criminals in his second term than every other president since 1981 put together.

Trump has pardoned more criminals in his second term than every other president since 1981 put together…

… But it’s the *Pope* who’s weak on crime?

It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.

The point of a blockade is to control a waterway. If you do not control the waterway, your blockade has not succeeded.

Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.