David Amrock

It's not just the scale of the new company that you have to get your mind around; it's that plus the fact that it's likely to be MAGA minded and could include TikTok— along with CNN and CBC. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions.

They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength Research cuts aren’t about shrinking government, they’re about killing science

"two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses."

Tapper writes this without acknowledging that Milk himself served in the US Navy during the Korean War, or that Milk was assassinated while serving honorably in public office

WIRED is doing such vital reporting right now

A student doing work this shoddy for a class presentation would fail. Shouldn't the standards be even higher for people making decisions about the health of all Americans?

YouTube video by The Historic New Orleans Collection The Gay Panic That Brought the LGBT Rights Movement to New Orleans

Great footage of the first gay-rights march in New Orleans history — in 1977, circa peak Anita Bryant.

(Via the Historic New Orleans Collection, hnoc.org)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmrd...

“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”

Do moderate candidates really do better in elections? Three new papers make the answer to that question more complicated.

The advantage of moderate candidates is declining & clearer for incumbents & is only enough to make a difference in a small number of swing districts where there is not usually a close primary between a moderate & extremist:
goodauthority.org/news/do-mode...

The economics associated with weather / climate hazard research, data collection, and building codes should never be considered as a "spend".

This is an investment.

The more we learn will directly translate to saved lives and reduced loss costs because we've proactively taken mitigative action.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

People don't miss manufacturing jobs. They miss the effects of having 30+ percent union density. And we can build worker power again, with good policies, for the jobs most working class people actually have today rather than hoping mumbo jumbo will make it 1955 again.

If Kristi Noem can march in there to film a TikTok in a Rolex watch, they can get this man (or any man) released, and we all know it.

Important note about this breakthrough:

Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing.

Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

Few hours ago I did an interview with a local NY TV where I highlighted how dangerous this slow (not so slow...) degradation of observational capacity will lead to less reliable weather predictions and more risks across the board. The journalist had not heard this before, but was pretty shocked.

just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there

New York Times headline "Trump Called for I.V.F. to Be Free, How Would That Work?" August 30, 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/health/trump-free-ivf-treatment.html

CNN headline "Trump proposes making government or insurance companies pay for IVF treatments." August 29, 2024. https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/29/politics/trump-ivf-treatment-proposal/index.html

Washington Post headline "Trump says he wants to cover IVF costs as president." August 29, 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-says-he-wants-to-cover-ivf-costs-as-president/2024/08/29/d480c9ec-d495-4ee7-a1fe-9142ab0334d0_video.html

NBC News headline "Trump says he wants to make IVF treatments paid for by government or insurance companies if elected," August 29, 2024. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-wants-make-ivf-treatments-paid-government-insurance-compani-rcna168804

How could that Trump voter have believed electing him would make IVF free? She must've been into fringey alternative media, maybe saw it from some influencer, professional media outlets would never oh no.

The richest man in the world has seized control of federal spending and is demonstrably lying to the whole cabinet on television.

Basic authoritarian stuff: the government revolves around protecting the President and punishing his enemies. Completely inconsistent with democratic norms, but will barely be a blip in the news in our new regime.

Latest from YouGov (n=6,129 US adults, fielded today). People hate this.

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

A Trump-Musk memo telling US government employees to hide what’s happening from the public is a sign that:

1) Public legitimacy is a constraint for them, they know it, and will at times alter their behavior accordingly

2) Reporters should focus on it, revealing more of what they’re trying to hide

10 minutes ago Jonah Bromwich The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation has resigned from the federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan rather than agree to file a motion seeking to dismiss the corruption case against the mayor. In his resignation letter, Hagan Scotten wrote that any federal prosecutor "would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials." He added: "If no lawyer within earshot of the president is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."

Not exaggerating when I say that the path back is going to be built on people in positions of influence regaining their sense of self-respect.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

A side note to the DOGE team and their identifiable info being available everywhere…they haven’t thought through even the most *basic* threat model for online security. And clearly Elon Musk, Susie Wiles etc had not prepared them for this inevitability either . These are not ‘skilled operatives’

A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

Nobody Elected Elon and LEAVE MY DATA ALONE! signs

HANDS OFF OUR PRIVATE DATA & TAX MONEY sign

Coalition of Labor Union Women hoodie

Members of Congress speaking outside of Treasury

Signs. Of. Life.

Protest outside Treasury Dept. tonight.

No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.

i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!