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Reskeeting this for my NZ friend trying to convince his partner to ditch the petrol car for 2 ebikes. They can live with the EV they already have and 2 ebikes.

Hello this dropped very late last night but it's definitely worth reading

Platner is worse than Fetterman because Fetterman is a lazy fuck at heart and will quit as soon as the pension is vested. Platner will be the next to wear the contrarian mantle in the Democratic party and turn everything to shit in Congress for the next 40 years.

You just aren’t gonna have this much fun in a vehicle, sorry … #yycbike

I rarely ride downtown at rush hour these days, but was happy to see it's still just as satisfying to pass all the cars stuck in gridlock on center street. #yycbike

doing everything you can to kneecap renewable energy development and then immediately launching an illegal war that threatens non-renewables and may result in a catastrophic increase in energy prices is the republican party in a nutshell

And now the third crane is almost deconstructed, phase 1 of Sen̓áḵw is nearing completion.

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

I should explain that CA drivers licenses are transitioning to Real ID. People with old CDLs must prove identity to get a new Real ID CDL.
She has a non-driver CA ID, which is not Real ID. She cannot get a new non-driver Real ID card.

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1. She doesn't have a valid passport because she doesn't travel internationally due to age-related frailty.
2. It took a year to get a copy of her birth certificate from NY & the name doesn't exactly match her CDL due to a CA DMV typo.

How many others have similar stories?

A LWV member in Hawthorne, CA (one of the first women admitted to the bar in Los Angeles County), will not be able to vote if the SAVE act is passed. 🧵

"The veteran journalist resigned, citing burnout from near-constant internal fighting to get important climate stories on air—stories that he says were routinely deprioritized, buried late in newscasts, or cut entirely." #Climatesky #journalism

Dry electrode architecture design to push energy density limits at the cell level - Nature Energy Conventional slurry electrodes limit high-energy lithium batteries. This work shows that dry-processed electrodes with molecularly coupled carbon–binder networks enable high mass and active material loading, supporting stable high-voltage operation and enhancing battery energy density.

Ying Shirley Meng and team show that dry-processed electrodes with molecularly coupled carbon–binder networks enable high mass loading, supporting stable high-voltage operation and higher battery energy density.

Sorry, but more sustainable farming isn’t more natural farming. It’s farming that doesn’t overrun so much of the earth. That means higher-yield farming that makes more food per acre, so it doesn’t need so many acres to make food.

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NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

Yes, newsrooms are laying off climate reporters left and right. (Our podcast producer was recently laid off by CBS News)

But our story today shows that layoffs aren't the only way climate coverage gets suppressed.

More often, it's death by 1000 cuts

53 U.S. Senators just voted to do nothing to stop an executive branch doing this.

Another legal observer loses her Global Entry clearance Losing My Perspicacity, February 10, 2026

Here’s the second piece:

On our last transit adventure, we took Metro from South Pasadena to Long Beach to learn about LA County watersheds and where stormwater goes after it hits our streets.
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I sent a naked man out on stage because I couldn’t find the jock strap we used to keep him SFW in the scene where Coriolanus rents his clothes

With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.

Randall on Mississippi: "One of the perpetrators of that fraud? Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre, who received $1.1m from the govt for speeches he never made. Congressional Republicans' response was to invite Favre to testify about how we should strengthen oversight of federal welfare programs."

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

“This is the best healthcare that many aliens have received in their entire lives.” This is how the DHS ends their press release announcing the death of Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes in ICE detention in California. @lataco.bsky.social

Why Rep. Greg Landsman thought talking on the phone with Isaac Chotiner was a good idea still baffles me.

I would've immediately resigned from Congress and retreated into the abandoned Cincinnati Subway, never to be seen again

This is why I write so much about pavement parking

Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

One surprising side effect of the US war in Iran: American farmers are staring down soaring fertilizer prices at the worst possible time.

From @mollytaft.com

Wouldn’t FEMA say something about how her job is exploding in workload because of climate change?