Thomas Catan

GOP effort forms to stop redistricting war between California's Newsom and Texas' Abbott Democrats are skeptical of Rep. Kevin Kiley's bill to ban mid-decade redistricting.

Fire with fire is the only way to change the equation www.axios.com/2025/08/04/c...

Judge Finds Government Acted Illegally in Russian Scientist Case

Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

History always has a lesson.

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

“Department of Government Efficiency.”

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

What a front cover...

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Didn't expect the leopards to give our kids their spots

Your regular reminder McConnell could have taken care of this in January 2021

It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business.
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This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

Imagine if the entire DC media was reporting on Musk and Trump with the *ferocity* and *velocity* of WIRED these past three weeks.

IMAGINE what we would know now that we don’t.

To be clear, I 100% believe that the primary barrier to Elon Musk gaining control of the Treasury payments system is COBOL

Costco Increases Pay to Over $30 an Hour for Most Store Workers Costco Wholesale Corp. is raising pay for most of its hourly US workers to more than $30 an hour amid contract talks with unionized employees.

Costco is raising pay for most of its hourly US workers to more than $30 an hour amid contract talks with unionized employees

I have a new paper in Dialogues on Climate Change exploring climate outcomes under current policies. I find that we are likely headed toward 2.7C by 2100 (with uncertainties from 1.9C to 3.7C), and that high end emissions scenarios have become much less likely.

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France has generated most of its electricity from nuclear for half a century and they still appear to have schools and healthcare

We don’t say: Sorry we can’t build city subways because bicycles are way cheaper. Obviously, they do different and complimentary things. Should we stop building offshore wind farms when solar panels are cheaper? No. They compliment each other and you can’t manage a grid with one source alone

Well, we could spend a dollar more on nuclear and a dollar less on coal. Why should it be to the detriment of solar? Do we need to choose between solar and wind? Of course not.

It’s like: Should we have bike lanes or more trains? Yes!

Why choose?

We all know we’ll need every clean electron we can get from complimentary technologies that do different things well.

Why not welcome a reliable source of carbon free electricity? It won’t stop people from building more solar. Setting different sources of clean energy against each other has been a huge boon for fossil fuels for 40 years.

He’s just now figuring this out

I Traded My News Apps for Rumble, the Right-Wing YouTube. Here’s What I Saw. After watching 47 hours of video, I found an alternate reality curated for Trump supporters.

"I Traded My News Apps for Rumble, the Right-Wing YouTube. Here’s What I Saw."
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UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.

Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.

www.propublica.org/article/unit...

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Why I Left the Network Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made thei...

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