Everything Trump Touches Dies!
Hoping we can start Fixing this soon…

I’m running — for the Board of Trustees at Wesleyan University. If you’re a Wes alum, please check your inbox for an emailed ballot. I humbly request your vote.

Wesleyan was a transformative experience for me. I feel an obligation to pay it forward. Here’s why: www.wesleyan.edu/alumni/assoc...

It is DEEPLY important to get non-millionaires, non-tech-industry-hacks, and non-Wall-Street people onto Boards of Trustees of Colleges and Universities. I've seen @syed.nyc in action in the Working Families Party and hope you'll vote for him if you're a Wesleyan grad.

Virginia, don’t forget to vote YES tomorrow(4/21)!

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service

never really had a doubt they were going to end up owning that stupid thing, no matter how long it took (also today is 27 years since columbine)

Once again "the death of the West" meant "the death of my secret bank account."

Three women out. Not a single dude

So Many Flaws in this Post!
Lacking a Considerable Amount of Knowledge….

Apparently Patel believes he is going to be Fired and is Very Paranoid about it.

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

The Iranian government’s depiction of LEGO Kash Patel is lit.

She is awful and should be fired but man that is three women out of the Cabinet and not a single guy

Ben might not agree with me, he is a holy man.

This is holy work for a holy cause. That's what this is.

I think we should say so.

How The Onion Won the Infowars Sale — and Shut Up Alex Jones for Good YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

Watch the whole episode here:

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

There’s No Such Thing As A Protest Vote We’re in the season of protest vote advocacy, with writers of all political stripes making arguments for third-party candidates (Jill…

I always like to share this:

"There's No Such Thing As A Protest Vote" (2016)
medium.com/@cshirky/the...

Some solace:

"Every bit of personal income he generates for the rest of his life,” Mattei adds, “is going to go towards paying off this debt” thanks to a Texas bankruptcy court’s holding “that his debts are nondischargeable because he acted with such intent and malice towards our clients.”

"Thus far, the Sandy Hook families have not seen a dime of what’s owed to them." Jones is why there's firing squads.

We aren’t talking enough about Jon Ossoff as a 2028 POTUS candidate.

He needs to win his reelection in GA first.

But if he does….scoot him up to the top of the list.

He has all the presidential vibes of Gavin Newsom without the moral vacillation that leaves the progressive wing cold.

He has IT

👀 Mark DeSaulnier, the top Democrat in the House Ethics Committee, pushes for a "zero tolerance policy on sexual harassment and workforce discrimination" in the House.

"For too long, the system has made it too hard to come forward, too easy to avoid accountability,” he said on X. “That has to end.”

Who is the person in the Trump admin who is supposed to be the adult in the room to make sure senior Trump appointees don’t do dumb shit like this? Susie Wiles? Scavino? Anyone? Bueller? bsky.app/profile/macf...

Trump’s Not Paying Attention to His Own War But then again, do we want him to be?

"But it isn’t just that Trump low on options: He barely seems to understand what’s going on in the conflict. His pronouncements—whether threats, triumphant announcements, or descriptions of what’s underway in the strait—resemble reality less with every passing day." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Trump’s Not Paying Attention to His Own War But then again, do we want him to be?

WSJ: "Aides kept the president out of the room."

"It’s worth dwelling for a moment on this remarkable detail. Aides—presumably senior military officials in particular—believed that they had to exclude the president from the decision-making if it were to succeed."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Renewable energy gets a boost from the Iran war Early data suggests fossil fuel power generation is down and solar and wind are up.

Yes, countries are responding by plowing money into renewable energy.

The New Twin Fossil Shock | Ember How the energy crises of the 2020s speed up the electric age

Trust your common sense: yes, a series of massive fossil fuel supply shocks is, in fact, going to radically accelerate the process of electrification & decarbonization.

Iran closes Strait of Hormuz once again, fires on tankers A U.S. official told Axios that at least three attacks on commercial ships have occurred so far Saturday.

I know this isn't funny, but ... it's a little bit funny. The Trump administration is getting clowned on a positively cosmic scale. It's genuinely difficult to think of how the humiliation could be more comprehensive.

Cheap Batteries Are Taking Over the World’s Power Grids Falling costs, rising electricity demand and the Iran War are nurturing a boom in energy storage.

Batteries won the war.