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The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

POV: it's fall in Indiana and you're about to be trampled by 250 teen boys with spiked shoes. Manchester Regional Cross Country Meet #Indiana

Neil Bush, brother of George W. Bush and son of George H.W. Bush, has posted a political message on Facebook for the first time, saying he voted for James Talarico for US Senate over Ken Paxton. Bush says he isn't just opposing Paxton, he has come to admire Talarico.

Insanity

A 1.3GW solar installation, the largest in the US (for now), is now fully online in...Indiana! believe it or not. solarbuildermag.com/news/mammoth...

Whether it's Bill Clinton using tax-payer money to pay for the postage on letters back to people who wrote to his cat or Donald Trump steering hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts to his son's companies, both presidents engaged in corruption on an unprecedented scale.

“An American president shouldn’t call for a nuclear attack on an American city.”

What’s even wilder is how VT (where I live) & WY are such mirrors: tiny population, hard weather, heavily armed, little policed, rural mountain states that are big on hunting and make a big deal of their cow heritage but survive on tourism.

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

Lake Superior, one week of surface currents, hour by hour (16 to 23 September 2026), colored by water temperature. An eddy spins beside the Keweenaw Peninsula all week. Data: NOAA Great Lakes Operational Forecast System (model)

Thread on solar vs. farmland debate: 1/n Enviro writer Bill McKibben: "“If you care about the future of agriculture on this planet,” he added, ​“you should be focused on driving down carbon emissions so we will still be able to grow things.”" www.canarymedia.com/.../lowell-v....

"We asked the local[s], ‘Why do you call it tilcayo?’” says Nogales-Ascarrunz, who is herself from Bolivia. “And they said, ‘I don’t know! My grandpa called it tilcayo, so I call it tilcayo.” (The name does not appear to mean anything particular in Spanish or the Quechua language spoken in Bolivia.)

Have I mentioned one of my favorite facts that just MAKING the fuel for an ICE is about as polluting as completely fueling an EV on a moderately clean grid?

After years of testing, USDA has just approved releasing GMO American chestnut trees, potentially giving us the chance to bring back an iconic species destroyed in the early 20th century by an imported disease. (Chauvinistic note: I've had American chestnuts, and they are better than European ones.)

Some selections this morning from "A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1999". Wendell Berry (1934-2026)

things have changed a bit in Paris since the pandemic— Notre Dame looks squeaky clean, l'As du Falafel fell off hard—but it all pales in comparison to the the total victory in the War On Cars car traffic has been crushed and the city is so obviously better off that nobody could possibly complain

My friend transformed a tiny strip of lawn grass into a pollinator paradise with native plants accumulated from hither and yon. You get one shot... why lead a sterile life? (featured: caterpillars of the Milkweed Tussock Moth)

Friend is shopping hybrid vs EVs. Didn't realize he had variable electric rates. Charging overnight (11 pm - 5 am) his fuel costs would be 83% less than gas in Indiana... so think $0.56 / gallon. #DoTheMath #EnergySky

Indiana DNR wetlands program found out of compliance by federal government

justin bieber deserved a red card for that performance

Curious where plug-in solar legislation stands, state-by-state? Our tracker is linked in this article! Updated daily by Bright Saver---we work directly with the bill writing and coalition efforts. 🙃 www.techradar.com/home/energy-...

Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt

Visual representation of how much U.S. farmland is occupied by solar panels. Some fraction of that yellow also has grazing sheep, pollinator plantings, etc.

EVs are the marquee climate subsidy. They also have one of the lowest returns per dollar spent. New MVPF analysis: wind production tax credits deliver $5.87 in social benefit per $1 spent. Residential solar: $3.86. EV subsidies: $1.45.

they are embiggening

I wasn't aware that the USDA program had stalled out... hopefully this can get going again!

Adam, out here Wrenmaxxing cc @adamwren.bsky.social

This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

... Destroyer of Dew Point

One of the things that’s obvious about Trump is that he has no long-term memory, no ability to say “This didn’t work before so I should try something new.” So when he talks about striking/invading Iran it’s often because he’s drifted back to the idea of threats, despite it previously failing.

At the risk of stating the obvious: when reactionaries say elections are "rigged," what they mean -- in their hearts, in their guts -- is that their opponents are illegitimate and it only counts if they win. That's what they've always meant.

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi. And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face." Then he lied about it. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

215-208 It passed! Cheer erupt in the House chamber.

"The Schahfer plant in Northwest Indiana has been offline for repairs for three months and likely won’t come back online until fall. As one critic put it: The coal-fired units “couldn’t produce electricity for an emergency even if one existed, which it doesn’t.”" www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...

Full Month #4 for the off-grid solar array. First month to top 1,000 driving miles powered. Covered 94% of my miles... the warm temps also helping driving efficiency. Each unit of energy takes me >25% further than in February.

A first for me... watching barn swallows appearing to gather mud for nesting materials. Although still widespread and thought of as abundant, Barn Swallows have experienced a 38% decline in population since 1970. #BirdSky journal.afonet.org/vol95/iss3/a...

When people get upset with younger generations for posting videos in the middle of an emergency/ disaster I think about photos like this. You might not like it, but documenting your disaster experience is not unique to one generation -- we've always done it to the extent that technology allows.

8 months later, despite *clear mathematical errors*, Neurology still doesn't have the guts to retract it! N.B. This study went VIRAL. Global news coverage, all over social media. And it's bullshit. Worse than bullshit. It's dangerous health misinformation. www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people 3 people are producing most toxic content Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive and amplified by engagement based algorithms. The other 97 quiet voices disappear thenoisyroom.com