An important consideration to remember when thinking about the economics of various green energy proposals:

It's easier to get to a full-employment economy when energy price spikes don't happen anymore because we've reduced our reliance on volatile priced commodity based energy

My latest for The Guardian, On the political significance of cosplay and LARPing theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Now that we lost our power, it's time for healing.

If I had lost thousands of followers the week that Twitter cracked down on QAnon accounts, I would simply not call attention to that fact

there is 'a lot going on here'

Glenn, he held back military assistance to Ukraine to force a political favor against Biden. He twice ordered the withdrawal of US forces from Syria, ceding territory to Russia & Iran. He refused to blame or call out Russia for 2016 election interference, Navalny poisoning 1/

we gotta get this goddamn vaccine

This woman may be the greatest physical comedian of our time.

I just learned that Scotland names their entire snowplow fleet and the names are incredible

The Republicans rallying support to a lawsuit to destroy the union and end American democracy as we know it, show, among other things, that if Donald Trump REALLY wanted a relief bill, he could get one.

Brown University’s Cost of War Project finds that Trump’s “Bomb The Shit Out Of Them” airstrikes in Afghanistan increased civilian casualties by 330 percent from 2016. “In 2019 airstrikes killed 700 civilians - more civilians than in any other year since the beginning of the war”

Funding education via property taxes

.david chang says that the most important thing Americans can do to support their local restaurants other than directly through takeout orders is to contribute to the Georgia runoffs and flip the Senate.

Amazing that we're squabbling over $2k in paid (scroll-by-able) Facebook _ads_ when the real way to win elections is _organic_ Facebook groups. 🧵

I'm not sure if you're noticing, but there's been a recent shift in the anti-anti-Trump defense of Trump's deranged behavior from 'these lawsuits might have merit' to 'hahahaha this is revenge for the 'Russia hoax' and impeachment.' This is absurd, for many reasons. /1

Man, if you want to know anything about the essential nature of social media platforms, just check out what happened to Vine when the people on the service suddenly saw themselves as workers instead of users.

From “Kids These Days”:

the funny thing is you can find this exact newspaper column in every decade dating back at least a couple centuries

yep this is basically where we are i think. unsustainable and maybe an existential threat.