Kevin

Can you tell me who your favorite Union General is and if it isn't William Tecumseh Sherman explain how you're not wrong?

These are concentration camps.

An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

The chad "just do stuff you think will work" civil law government vs the virgin "we cant make any changes to the built environment without conducting 5000 studies to cover our ass for future lawsuits" common law government

🎉 Celebrate the end of minimum parking requirements in Denver with @yimbydenver.bsky.social 8/19, 5:30 p.m @ Dulce Vida (1201 Cherokee St)! This is a HUGE win for housing & a more people-friendly city. Share stories & toast a Denver with more homes and fewer parking lots. RSVP: bit.ly/RIPminimums 💪🥂

I think what Sotomayor is saying is PACK THE COURT

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."

whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

Monarez did not provide any additional information about the suspect's motives during the call. However, a briefing some CDC employees received Saturday from senior agency leaders said the gunman left a note, according to one employee who attended. "We were told very clearly that this was targeted, directed at CDC," the employee said. "But we were also told that this was an isolated event." There has been speculation among CDC employees that officials may have known about possible threats. When Monarez was at the CDC this week - her first week on the job - she was accompanied at all times by armed security guards, the employee said.

During Monarez's call with staff Saturday, another CDC senior leader, Daniel Jernigan, who heads the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, or NCEZID, estimated there were about 40 bullet holes in CDC buildings on campus. He did not mean it as a complete account, but rather an indication that "it will take a bit before the buildings are 'fixed' again," said an employee who listened to the call and, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive information. The shooting was "way worse than what was initially reported," the employee said, adding that gunfire continued for about 15 minutes and that "it's a miracle more people weren't hit."

Feel like this needs a spotlight: employees were told that the shooting at CDC, which left an officer dead and buildings riddled with bullets, was targeted at agency, @lenasun.bsky.social, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and @tobiaraji.bsky.social report

Years of anti-CDC rhetoric has consequences

Zoning Capacity Needs to Be Much, Much Higher If you follow on Twitter, you’ve probably seen the graph below showing how much building capacity was lost due to downzoning in Los Angeles. The number of people that could be reasonably accommodat…

The concerning monopoly in housing is the zoning passed by homeowners.

letsgola.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/z...

The president trafficked & raped underage girls. The evidence is overwhelming at this point.

Wall Street Sees Decline in Dealmaking for Oil and Gas Clients Today’s newsletter looks at the decline in lending for fossil fuel projects. Plus, a scoop on the return of a key federal database that the Trump administration killed. For unlimited access to climate...

"Wall Street has seen a significant decline in its financing of fossil fuel projects, as markets prove more powerful than net zero goals in shaping loan and bond portfolios."

I drove some Chinese cars. Here’s what I thought. Western automakers are doomed if they keep trying to hide behind tariff walls

Chinese cars are taking the auto world by storm. But the US and Canada are being left behind.

On a recent trip to New Zealand, I decided to see what we’re missing by taking a few for a spin. US automakers won’t be able to hide behind tariffs for long.

I’m sorry, I was reliably assured that Trump had finally decided to get tough on Russian

The thing about Bluesky growth and engagement is it's real.

Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s

This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.

Here's why.

Oops! The Times has had to issue an embarrassing correction over supposedly "sluggish" EV sales 😳

❌ It said EV sales to private buyers fell 10.8% this yr
✅They actually GREW…by 62%

Yet Times articles still claim a "big fall", "collapse" & "slide" in private EV sales 🤔
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concentration camp

The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know it And they don't want you to notice.

Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down.

That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.

Again, a lot of people are going to need to go to prison once this regime is finally dislodged from the White House.

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why After an avalanche of data last week, there are more signs of a slowing economy.

Job growth has slowed down and instead of attacking the BLS, we should be talking about why.

It’s a mix of supply and demand shocks, but an unsurprising outcome given policy changes this year, including tariffs, less immigration, and gov't downsizing. stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/job-growth...

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Trump says undocumented immigrants do farm work "naturally" because "they don't get a bad back."

Mississippi's Declaration of Secession similarly said slavery must be protected because "by an impervious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun."

Congrats to Denver for eliminating parking mandates citywide! Council passed the measure by a 9 to 3 vote last night.

Some of the best people in Denver.

The Texas redistricting. No, the other one. All this has happened before, and it all will happen again

New at Tusk: Texas Republicans did the exact same thing in 2003 and paid no price for it. So here we are again.

Strikingly, the memo says straightforwardly that what happened in Los Angeles is the sort of operation that may be necessary "for years to come."

As one expert told me: "They see Los Angeles as a model to be replicated."

newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Climate change and insurance: a growing fustercluck Climate change is breaking the insurance market, and state governments can't afford to pick up the pieces

The Insurance Industry and the #ClimateCrisis: How climate change is breaking the insurance industry, why insurers are fleeing high-risk states, the limitations of government backstops, and the looming political and financial crisis. Via @volts.wtf www.volts.wtf/p/climate-ch...

How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

I have a new post over at The Climate Brink on how the recent DOE report on climate science and the EPA's proposed overturning of the endangerment finding used and misused my research: www.theclimatebrink....

Nazis hanging from ropes for starters.