Ben Jones

Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act in an image.

❌Health care
❌Clean energy
❌Education
❌Food assistance
❌Natural resources

All slashed in order to pay for tax cuts to the wealthy.

Six GOP governors activated the National Guard ahead of #NoKings because they claimed the protesters may be violent. 5 million of us marched. And so far all actual violence seems to have come at the hands of counter-protesters, Christian nationalist terrorists and law enforcement.

From me:

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka.

They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

Here's my new hobby. Seeing how many people lose their health coverage if Republicans pass their $880 billion in Medicaid cuts. In David Valadao's district 67,000 constituents lose their coverage. 67,000!

YouTube video by Nick Spears Sopranos - He is Risen

youtu.be/CpWeRgbPW1Q?...

Big crowd for AOC and Bernie at U of Utah

Huntsman center full, already a big crowd outside for AOC and Bernie at the U of Utah

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Horrifying

Is he running in the 13th district? Google "Karl Malone 13"

Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.

This is really great www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...

Moved from a house with the cheapest induction range you can get to one with a nice Bosch gas range. Gas is so much worse! It doesn't go nearly as low or as high as the induction range

"Disagree Different" huh?
"...Lee referred only to an earlier Tribune article about the bill.
“Learn to read a bill instead of pushing dishonest click bait [sic] headlines,” he wrote in a text message to a reporter. “Go pound sand you Communist piece of trash.”"

Trans flag that says don't tread on us on U of U campus

The kids are all right

Congratulations to the measles virus for its victory in the US Senate today!

Four measles cases in Texas over the last couple weeks - all among unvaccinated people, including two children. www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

At the risk of sounding like a shitlib: an oldies radio station dj intro'd a song he played by talking about the huge impact that "Soul Train" had by giving black artists exposure to audiences that wouldn't have heard them before. Brightened my day a little bit

Print edition of the onion

My week just got a little less shitty!

More fear mongering that harms public health and as always, the impact will be greatest on those with the fewest resources who already struggle to access dental care!

Utah lawmakers advance bill to ban adding fluoride to drinking water • Utah News Dispatch The Legislature is considering banning adding fluoride to public water supplies, while detractors worry about public health effect.

The Utah legislature loves taking away power from the people: this time banning fluoride in the water. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/01/30/u...

This review in JAMA Pediatrics is a good overview: there is null relationship with IQ at 1.5mg/L or less (US allows 0.7mg/L). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39761023/

Lol

The Case for Resistance In this analysis, we explore what to expect from Donald Trump's second term and how we can prepare to confront it.

If you feel despair, if you feel defeated, if you catch yourself dissociating or focusing on what our oppressors are doing rather than on what you can do yourself—that is territory that the enemy has claimed within you.

Give them nothing. Focus on your agency. We are in a fight that we can win. 🏴🏴🏴

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

Shocked, SHOCKED! To hear that Sean Reyes was involved! www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

University of Utah leaders instruct all departments to prepare for budget cuts — including one up to 25% Emails from University of Utah President Taylor Randall and other senior leaders give a behind the scenes look at how the school is preparing for anticipated funding reductions from the Utah Legislatu...

Instead on focusing on how to grow our programs and serve our students better, our deans and department chairs have been asked to spend their time thinking about multiple budget cut scenarios to address an increasingly negative political environment toward higher ed. #AcademicSky

Disassembled and modded lite bright

Lite bright working with a USBC charger

Might fuck around and mod my toddler's lite bright to power it over USB instead of AAs

Jesse Pinkman saying "he can keep getting away with it"

Merrick Garland's standing policy toward all Republicans