Matt R

This often shocks and motivates my students when I teach this part of my course. Last I looked, cost of solving energy poverty in low income countries is ~3-5% of annual energy infrastructure spending. That would electrify ~600-700 million people *and* provide clean cooking to>2 billion.

Private equity firms call this “harvesting.” You stop investing in the business and extract everything you can before the foundation gives way. newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Gives a whole new meaning to the Nest thermostat

no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders

Honestly, Bill should do it. I’d apologize for the one time I saw him at a hotdog stand in DC in 2007 and called him a miserable little asshole

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

Wait till we get to read his Iran prompts …

Well done Cuba….🇨🇺

my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h...

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

On the Almost World War. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...

What a day! Ended up in my hometown newspaper in some WILD company…

This is how I looked, and felt, during those sublime, turbulent days

I’m sorry folks, but if you are among those who both understand how insane the Rationalist AI Sex Cult currently running the U.S. AI industry and who can explain it to others, you have a patriotic duty to do so now. Even though reading their writing absolutely does cause brain damage.

There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.

And let's reground ourselves in the overall political economy. The US can muster a grand investment stimulus in data centers, or building a genuinely green economy. The Green New Deal is the only real alternative to the AI development machine. Eyes on the prize, people!

And btw, once you anchor yourself in reality, you can let go of the negative polarization frenzy of AI-centric debates. Instead of "owning" AI overlords by pretending their technology is a scam, focus on concrete fights to take away their power, while taking that power seriously.

And we can notice the oldest story ever at the core of AI ideology: it's a mystification machine. It is misdirecting attention from an objectively given material emergency, which AI itself is worsening, to a completely vague and abstract debate about a fictional future.

25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.

Toby Ord, Cofounder of the Effective Altruism movement, longtermist who believes humanity's goal is to create vast amounts of digital beings to colonize the cosmos, is the one advising your lawmakers on "AI".

NEW podcast series explaining the fundamentals of personal climate strategies, by answering some of the questions I get asked most often. If my workshop is the graduate seminar, this is office hours. It's not paywalled; feel free to share it. alexsteffen.substack.com/p/do-i-even-...

If you missed it live, and are interested in this year's extreme El Niño event and its potential to bring major California impacts, I'd strongly encourage you to check out the recording! I even created some custom graphics just for this session... youtube.com/live/2v4k0nb...

john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s under appreciated just how drunk these people are, always

I'm thrilled to share our new chapter on green social housing, looking at Vienna *and* Uruguay. It was super fun to put state- and movement-led housing projects in dialogue. It's in the brilliant @joobilly.bsky.social's new book, Building Postcarbon Futures.

The default judgment rural voters will make when this happens is that it must be the Democrats' fault. But that isn't written in stone. Which is why Dems must do something they never do: Go to rural America and attack Republicans. Not just listen and express empathy, but ATTACK.

Yolo Minneapolis

The Democrats who are talking about Hasan Piker more than Donald Trump are just proving us lefties' case that these folks care *far* more about disciplining us than defeating fascism.

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

Update: This morning, 724 individuals—including 101 foreign nationals—were rescued by helicopter, and 200 people were rescued by ground teams from the flood-affected areas. 🙏 #News Source: Nepal Army

The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan

Warning - extreme climate catastrophe and loss of life

A massive flash flood in the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and ‌China's Tibet. Initial report say it may have been caused by a glacial lake rupture.

You have a right to document, photograph and video record any law enforcement officer in public spaces including their vehicles, badge numbers and license plate numbers. This includes local police, federal agents. The Stopice Plate Tracker - stopice.net/platetracker

the ball-knowing trans women will continue until league morale improves

My pick for AOC’s running mate

I love Minneapolis

No amnesty. No mercy. No fucking plea deals. Nothing but relentless pursuit and vigorous prosecution for every last one of these fucking monsters

That’s right

Close the Camps. Free the Families. Bring Them Home.

Californians, email your Assemblymember and tell them to support SB 1259 from @apen4ej.bsky.social. It's a common sense law requiring that refineries plan for what happens after they close. actionnetwork.org/letters/refi...