Nico Halecky

King tide wave crashes on the rocks on Monterey Bay coastline

Today, the California coast we cherish and the delicate ocean ecosystems just beyond it face a renewed threat from offshore drilling. We oppose the Trump Administration’s 5-year oil and gas leasing program and will continue to defend our coastline, wildlife, economy, and health from this threat.

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Awesome. Very much looking forward to d-ing around with a solar array install on a future property. One day...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Four-panel chart grid: a) scatter plot of mpg vs. wt; b) box plot of mpg vs. cyl; c) line plot of mpg vs. disp; and d) bar chart of carb count.

Announcing Plotnine 0.15.0: The Python package for Grammar of Graphics gets a massive upgrade!

A new feature is Native Plot Composition: combine multiple independent plots into one figure, no more layout managers for multi-panel #Python graphs!

Read the post: posit.co/blog/plotnin...

This is a wildly creative set of customizations for Claude Code, using the new plugin system they just released. There are SO many fascinating ideas in this! Strongly recommend reading it and then spending some time exploring the accompanying repo github.com/obra/superpo...

Yes, and they have bottom up servings of craft beers and margaritas. Knock yourselves out, it doesn't get more authentic than this. 😁

Just what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing, looking forward to the read.

Which in particular?

Oh that's nice—look forward to trying it out!

A friend at Cato just did some great work quantifying this and his main point was to underscore how relatively rare it still is, to throw a bit of a cold water on the panic. But he also found, as any serious methodology inevitably does, right-wing outnumbered left-wing several times over.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Where’s the economic productivity in America?

On vacation this week, reading “Orwell’s roses” by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, and so appreciate the reminder that we need to seek & celebrate joy, even in times of pain, struggle & devastation. We have to keep reminding ourselves of what we are fighting for, not just what we are fighting against.

Good thread! Will comment: working hard != working long hours. We have other levers to control for eng org output, and much more importantly, impact.

Beautiful commuter — ❤️ Brooks!

pyx: a Python-native package registry, now in Beta pyx is a Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.

astral.sh/blog/introdu...

Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project

My oped in the NYT today, as we mark the 80th anniversary of the Manhattan Project and the end of the World War II, Trump is undoing the model of innovation that powered US prosperity ever since. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Can Bluesky say every word in the dictionary?
I dunno but I plan to find out!

I made a website that tracks every single word said on bluesky (as of yesterday).

The f*cked part is that this is a totally rational thing to do in an autocracy. Businesses know His Royal Majesty can make doing business inordinately difficult, so they lavish him with gifts and praise his greatness and etc etc

I passionately hate that we're here

PBS was for everyone

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

I swear to fucking god knock this dumb bullshit off and stand against fascism and offer some actual solutions to make peoples lives better or get the hell out of the way for people who will.

Just painfully embarassing and infuriating.

Science and Democracy Under Siege Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions

We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting.

Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience

Sadly the people who most need to watch this whole thing won’t. But we sure will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

(Mehdi is not the one you want to bring the weak sauce to)

‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts President’s assault on science –particularly climate science – has led to unprecedented funding cuts and staff layoffs

US scientists describe the effects of Trump's cuts.

“If you cut the funding to the people who are doing the work right now, you don’t know what they would have innovated in 10 years or 15 years or 32 years like Rosalind Yalow. We don’t know what we’re losing.”
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."

h/t @msnbc.com

The fascists seek versification of art and entertainment to create a populace with no north, reduced to soundbite ad-hominem attacks divorced from reality. AI/social media/TikTok are our versificators. h/t @simonwillison.net for reminding us of Orwell's prescience 🙌 simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/n...

Superman has been firmly anti-shitbird for a long time.