Brendon Slotterback

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

fucking dying to know what the president thinks a soybean is and what it’s for

[middle-aged white pundit begins writing another column about how there's been a culture-wide 'vibe-shift' and everyone is into nazi tradwives now and anyone who doesn't see this is stuck in an echo chamber]

i'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me / they'd think that i'd finally lost it completely / i'd show them the east wing and the market cap on openAI / they'd shut me away, but i'd be all right

Billie Eilish Told 'WSJ' Awards Attendees To "Give Your Money Away, Shorties" (Mark Zuckerberg Did Not Clap) Did you know that the Wall Street Journal holds an annual awards show? It does. The newspaper’s Innovator Awards have been happening since 2012. Per the newspaper itself, this particular awards gala “...

Billie Eilish told the billionaires in attendance at the @wsj.com Awards to "give your money away, shorties," not eliciting applause from Mark Zuckerberg

No one should have to put up with this shit but in particular kids should not have to put up with this shit

Outside Chicago, a father of seven was too embarrassed to tell his family last Christmas that they might lose their home to foreclosure. A debt collector was demanding he pay almost $30,000 to settle a $10,000 second mortgage he said he hadn’t heard about in 15 years. Another homeowner, near San Francisco, faced foreclosure this year over a $121,000 second mortgage — even though he’d received a tax document from his lender in 2009 showing the debt had been canceled. And in suburban Washington, DC, a couple got a demand for more than $86,000 in back interest on a loan for which they hadn’t received any monthly statements in nearly a decade, despite laws that preclude any such interest charges during periods when regular statements weren’t sent.

This is a tangible example of how regulatory agencies matter to people in practical ways. The CFPB had been investigating and blocking these abuses of the law, until Russ Vought and Trump stopped them from doing so.

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I think because of new data center demand, this issue is now white hot.

Protocol committees, building code councils, zoning boards, permitting offices, PUCs: @volts.wtf is always working to make bureaucracy sexy, which we need a lot more of

They have a loan programs office just sitting there and they aren't using it

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

it's almost like they've created an enviro group strawman for their own purposes!

This new obsession w/ banishing “climate doom and gloom” from political messaging really feels like standard-issue left-bashing.

Smart climate comms ppl have known for yrs that leading with co-benefits is key. That’s why we’ve consistently talked about jobs, affordability, Econ dev, and health.

Innovation is great! And the brutal logic of climate change means speed is critical

he is free to pick a highly risky strategy for progress over a more proven one, but then he shouldn't be looked to as an oracle

He admits in that heatmap piece that China is beating us on nuclear because they focused on deployment of proven tech. He's still looking for the next nuclear breakthrough. It is highly objectionable to me that he spends so much of his money on "innovation" and then gets quoted as a climate expert

Kentucky utility, AG challenge PJM’s regional cost allocation plan for DOE ‘emergency’ orders Load-serving entities shouldn’t be required to pay for costs they didn’t cause, East Kentucky Power Cooperative and Kentucky’s attorney general told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Kentucky Attorney General: we shouldn't have to pay for DOE's dumb "emergency" coal order. www.utilitydive.com/news/kentuck...

Record Vietnam Rains Kill Nine, Forcing Thousands to Evacuate Widespread flooding across central Vietnam killed at least nine people and damaged more than 100,000 homes in the tourist hubs of Hue and Da Nang, as the Southeast Asian nation endures another bout of...

Hideous flooding in Vietnam, where five feet of rain in 24 hours nears world-record

Life and death on an overheated planet

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oh cool

The former, I think. But in this case you’d know what the ultimate decision was, right?

House of Dynamite is cool because all other anxieties about current political leadership fall away when you think about how they might make decisions in a nuclear standoff

The funny thing about the invention of the wheel is the guy who invented it died penniless. It wasn't until much much later that pennies were invented

COUNT I

Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.

COUNT II

The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

cool, bookmarking!

Government Shutdown of Food Aid Is Unprecedented “We can’t use hungry children as a bargaining chip,” a MAHA leader says.

Cutting off SNAP benefits and blaming the shutdown is, like so many events recently, unprecedented.

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In the next 36 hours, millions of Northern Illinois will find out if they will be able to keep getting to work or be totally fucked over.

That's the decision.

Don't blow it, IL lege. Lend a hand and make sure they get it done @govpritzker.illinois.gov.

"Gob" is separated from "whoopie pie" by a mountain range

is this coming from your city govt?

A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back

Nature is resilient!

“Demolition on the last dam was completed in October of 2024. Just days later, salmon were swimming upstream, passing through the former dam sites and heading for Upper Klamath Lake, the last stop before the smaller tributary streams where they would spawn.”

It can't even be a bridge from a climate perspective, because it doesn't actually reduce any emissions, if you accurately count methane kevinjkircher.com/wp-content/u...

Texas and Pennsylvania are the #1 and #2 producers of gas in the US. Since fracking took off in PA (late 2000s), electricity prices have been ~20% higher than in Texas. Texas has added a ton of renewables and some gas, while PA has only added gas