Tom Rooney

I drive an EV at my workplace and love driving it. I think this clip explains why.

Everyone should consult the Google machine and read Malcolm X's speech The Ballot or the Bullet, and read it through the lens of 2025.

a little girl is making a funny face while sitting at a table with potted plants . Alt: a little girl is making a funny face while sitting at a table saying why not both?

Why not both?

IEA's mid-year electricity review is out. Some highlights below:

First time in 100 years, renewables are set to overtake coal in global electricity production as soon as this year (or latest next year).

Wind + Solar contribution to global grid mix will reach 20% by 2026, up from 4% in 2016.

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The wizards were overworked. Between searching for new types of magic, mentoring acolytes, and managing creeping duties from the tower administration, defending the tower never made it to the urgent/important quadrant.

One thousand ways to experience loss: A systematic analysis of climate-related intangible harm from around the world A situated and socially engaged science of loss arising from climate change takes people’s lived experiences with risk and harm as its fundamental sta…

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Opinion. You are using AI as a search tool and your written code is not AI code. You aren't using AI in a prohibited way.

I interviewed neuroscientist Nicholas Wright about his upcoming book WarHead on brains & conflict. He said something that struck me. We didn’t stop Nazis by changing their minds. We oppressed them. We occupied Germany. We tied their hands. It was a generation before Germany agreed Nazis were wrong.

It’s the inversion of Gibson’s famous quote “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”

The past is still here, just unevenly remembered.

I'm mostly speechless, but I can't even imagine losing your supply line when you are face to face with a wildfire with no food, fuel, or medical supplies. A Polaski is versatile, but not that versatile.

"Nearly 25 million naturalized citizens live in the U.S., and we are accustomed to extra scrutiny...But I had never doubted that my U.S. citizenship was permanent, and that I was guaranteed the same rights of speech, assembly, and due process as natural-born Americans. Now I’m not so sure."

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared. Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.

NEW: Of the 230+ Venezuelans deported to El Salvador:
• Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided
• More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings

These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.

Donald Trump's crude drawing of a naked woman raises new questions about Joe Biden's artistic abilities.

As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...

Ann Coulter & @AnnCoulter We didn't kill enough Indians

Yall don’t get it. You don’t. Get. It.

It’s so sad. You don’t see us and never have. And until you do, you’re doomed too. It’s not “at first they came for us.” It’s that they’re still coming for us, and have, since 1492.

When it comes to discussions of race, white people continue to fail the assignment.

Is the media going to do its job and tell Americans the SSA email breaks government rules, is likely illegal under the Hatch Act, and is packed with lies? Or are we just normalizing state propaganda because it’s coming in serif font from a .gov address?

a man wearing a sombrero is laying down in a classroom and says i 'll allow it Alt: TV character Professor Chang wearing a sombrero is in a classroom and says i 'll allow it.

Exploiting the base rate fallacy to make a good point.

Masked Terror At this point, we have all seen the videos.

One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Christianity Today Editor: Evangelicals Call Jesus “Liberal” and “Weak” A former evangelical leader is sounding the alarm about the direction his religion is headed in.

The editor in chief of Christianity Today is warning that evangelical Christianity is moving too far to the right, to the point that even Jesus’s teachings are considered “weak” now.

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.

If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

If your conscience troubles you... you may have options Published 23 Jan 2025 by girights In recent years, we have gotten calls on the GI Rights Hotline from service members concerned about having to police the US-Mexican border and/or police demostrations in the US. Others feel disturbed by US support for specific overseas operations, like Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank. Many call us with a troubled conscience, and some ask about applying for a conscientious objection (CO) discharge. Military regulations spell out very specific criteria for military members to qualify as a conscientious objector. Keep reading to see if a CO discharge may be appropriate for you. Even if you don't meet the definition of a conscientious objector, you may still qualify for a different discharge. You can call us on the hotline to discuss your options: 877-447-4487.

If you are a member of the US military and have questions about conscientious objection, you can reach out to the GI Rights hotline:

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The same way a lot of people didn't realize how big the QAnon problem was until those fuckers literally stormed the capital, I fear we're a year or two away from a shocking discovery of just how many "seemingly normal" people have lost their minds "talking" with ChatGPT.

He's right. "Nothing short of devastating"
By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
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* US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO RESTORE AMERICORPS PROGRAMS IN 24 STATES, DECLINES TO BLOCK AGENCY JOB CUTS

@reuters.com