What's the deal with sodium-ion batteries? Landon Mossburg on beating lithium-ion on cost and safety with a grid storage system that has no moving parts.

Today on Volts: sodium-ion batteries! They are lower in energy density than lithium-ion, but cheaper, safer, & made from abundant domestic materials. What are they good for? Peak Energy is using them for grid-scale energy storage. I dive into the business case with CEO Landon Mossburg.

Abrego Garcia indictment led top federal prosecutor in Tennessee to resign: Sources

Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up.

"Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons"

Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

NYT, Page One:

“Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.”

@nytimes.com

In Florida no less! Kudos!! We all need to be calling pur representatives!!

I agree with this. I will also add that usually well-informed non-academic progressive voters I talk to have absolutely no idea what is going on in higher education and research and the long-term repercussions+

Colbert: Mike Johnson and Russ Vought have said no one is going to lose their Medicaid. Is that something you would describe as true?

NC Gov. Josh Stein: Untrue. I would use true, but I would add "un" in front of it. You cannot take $700 billion out of the system without people losing coverage.

Faraday Institute Summer Course 2025: Science, Religion and Justice | Faraday

A very timely offering from the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, which I serve as an international advisor for. It's a broad cross-section of discussants and topics!

Training shows climate justice a moral imperative for churches Exploring how churches can do more for climate justice, the World Council of Churches (WCC), in cooperation with the National Council of Churches in Bangladesh, organized a climate litigation training in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 11 April.

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Training shows climate justice a moral imperative for churches

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Infuriating head in the sand behavior. How do we combat this??

The rationale for this cancellation is climate denial.

There is no dressing it up, there is no tiptoeing around it.

Yet climate change doesn’t care if we believe it. It will destroy our homes, multiply insurance rates, wreak economic havoc and more — regardless of our opinions or voting record.

Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."

We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad:

- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally

It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.

Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."

No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

I had no idea about this! (I was born in Edmonton and then also went to university there) such a cool project and it was delightful to hear the accents, too. ❤️

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

WOW: Thousands are currently protesting in Boston. This is just one of more than 1200 'Hands Off' protests underway today across the nation as people rise up against the Trump-Musk regime. (via Rob Way)

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.

This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

Dark Pence is back.

“We must dissent because America can do better.” Good to hear Wisconsin Judge Susan Crawford quote Justice Thurgood Marshall in her victory speech tonight.

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

HIGONNET: Yale must save climate science What will our grandchildren say to us about this pivotal moment in history, when Yale had the chance to help save global climate science in the middle of a climate crisis that threatened humanity?

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Yale must save climate science

This is not the time for doomscrolling and despair.

Find out more: yaledailynews.com/blog/2025...

#ClimateAction

We are currently living in The Age of Incompetent Hypocrites.

Renewables accounted for 93% of global power capacity growth in 2024 Renewable technologies now comprise 46% of world-wide power generating capacity, up from less than 30% in 2015.

Renewables accounted for 93% of global power capacity growth in 2024

Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and other renewable technologies now comprise 46% of world-wide power generating capacity, up from less than 30% in 2015.

theprogressplaybook.com/2025/03/26/r...

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

The biggest threat to our national security is the current administration!!

April 5 we protest. Join the People’s Movement at www.FiftyFifty.one.

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The CIA Director testified today that he is not sure a reporter was on the unclassified national security group chat that recklessly disclosed military plans in Yemen.

The whole world is aware of who was part of Signalgate.

These people cannot be trusted with America’s national security.

Some breaking news in my latest. Others pointed out that Witkoff appeared to be in Moscow when he joined the Houthi PC Group chat. Sky News has a detailed story on his timeline in Moscow. I ran that against the timeline from the Atlantic article. Witkoff was waiting for Putin when he was added.(1/2)