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Supporting Rational Evaluation over Preconception by Facilitating Comprehensive Quantification of Costs and Benefits www.costbenefitgroup.com envirovaluation.org. Adjunct Prof NYU Schack Institute for Real Estate
To stabilize our climate, we must remove massive amounts of CO₂ from the atmosphere.
RMI’s paper shows how a government-led advance market commitment (AMC) can jumpstart carbon removal by creating jobs and building a global market for climate solutions.
Read more: https://ow.ly/MXYN50XkuLT
Utilities can deliver more electricity through current infrastructure with advanced transmission technologies (ATTs) that route power more efficiently through existing power lines.
New state laws encourage ATT deployment. Now it’s time to implement them: https://ow.ly/UcOC50Xiqja
Guided by advice from RMI, deep retrofits to The Empire State Building helped Empire State Realty Trust save $17 million and reduce energy consumption by 50%.
🏙️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0dMwf2m1oA
#ClimateWeekNYC
Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government.
Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.
The perverse consequences of the easy A
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NEW: Trump pardons the husband of GOP Rep. Diana Harshbarger.
Bob Harshbarger pleaded guilty to fraud & distributing kidney drugs from China that weren't FDA approved.
His wife was an officer in the company, but claimed she wasn't involved.
The WH says the pardon was not related to his last name
"Alexander Smirnov, the ex–FBI informant who admitted to lying about the Biden-Burisma connection, has been released from prison just months into his six-year prison sentence."
In yet another slap in the face of law, the corrupt PsychoPrez admin pardons another convicted Federal felon. Disgusting.
"The notion that NATO is the spear that protects Western values and that the European Union is possibly the West’s best modern political creation, a vast center of free people and free markets, stabilizing a continent that was known for tribal and religious wars for millenniums, is alien to Trump."
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It's genuinely funny to look back now at the shit the media called a "scandal" under Democratic presidents.
I believe one of the big hits on the Clintons, for instance, is that they set up a charity.
This is a good article, worth reading.
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Holy shit. This company claims it has developed an air-source heat pump with a COP of *7* (3-5 is considered good). For you non-nerds, that basically means it produces 7 units of heat for every unit of electricity it consumes. How are they doing it? You're not gonna like this answer, but: it's AI.
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New report on the benefits of offshore wind for grid adequacy & reliability.
08.11.2025 20:56 — 👍 165 🔁 38 💬 3 📌 3There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
08.11.2025 20:37 — 👍 1811 🔁 580 💬 110 📌 124The administration is deliberately starving poor people so that Dems will agree to radically slash the healthcare available to poor people.
Do not let its familiarity dull your outrage. This is monstrous, unforgivable shit.
America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.
10.11.2025 20:55 — 👍 776 🔁 255 💬 30 📌 18We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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A White House official said Thursday night that Trump approved the pardons for Casada and Cothren because the Department of Justice under Trump’s Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, “significantly over-prosecuted these individuals for a minor issue.” The official spoke on background to discuss a pardon that had not yet been publicly released, but said the case against Casada and Cothren involved constituent mailers, which were billed at competitive prices, and that the case was brought despite prosecutors not having received a complaint from legislators. The scheme also resulted in a net profit loss of less than $5,000, said the official, who noted that the case featured an armed raid, perp walk and the potential for lengthy prison terms — things often more appropriate for federal cases involving frauds worth multiple millions of dollars.
Why is the Associated Press letting a White House official speak anonymously about why Trump pardoned a corrupt Tennessee Republican politician? And for 3 whole paragraphs, providing the defense that he only got $5,000 from his illegal scheme, which makes it OK In Trumpworld.
07.11.2025 12:59 — 👍 804 🔁 244 💬 31 📌 13Cannot overstate how unhinged and insidious what Candace Owens is doing with Charlie Kirk’s assassination. (Short version: a lot of huffing and puffing and “just asking questions” to lead people to believe The Jews Did It)
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You don't think there's a way in which your show also sits behind the Trump filter? It's as if you're saying it only works one way. Yeah, but there's a key difference here. I may think you're wrong; you might think I'm evil. The teasing and the ridicule is not "You're Hitler" or "You're a fascist." If I insult you over the top, it's obviously a joke. I don't put a target on your back. I think you're being a little disingenuous. Am I really? I read all your books. The most blatant counterexample to what you're talking about is, you literally use the phrase: "The left are dumb fascist mothereffers." What book was that? Your most recent one, "The King of Late Night." I'll have to look back at that. What was the context?
Life is short and days are precious, so I’m not going to *recommend* you listen to this interview with Greg Gutfield, but it really is fascinating. One of the best moments comes early:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/m...
California is here for the long haul.
While the Trump Administration makes this country unrecognizable, California remains a stable, reliable partner in the fight for a clean energy future.
Here’s your daily reminder that, about a week ago, the president straight-up admitted he had no idea who he was pardoning—only did it because his sons told him to.
There’s a lot going on, but I still think that’s one of the biggest scandals in the country right now—and the media is just silent.
UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
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Know this:
*REPUBLICANS* STRIPPED MILLIONS OF AMERICANS OF THEIR HEALTHCARE &/OR CAUSED PREMIUMS TO SKYROCKET.
They refused to budge & for 40 days the govnt was shutdown.
They have also continued to refuse to swear in Grijalva who would cast the vote to release Epstein files.
FACTS MATTER.
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First Trump is trying to expropriate $230M from DOJ for himself, now this
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“.. demonstrates how Mr. Trump’s handling of pardons and commutations has allowed some convicts to return to criminality.”
@nytimes.com
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