Remember when stories like Kristi Noem's wd sink a politician? No more. Given that lies Trump told while in office were enough to cover Mar-a-Lago 60 feet deep, one little “error,” as an AP headline labeled Noem’s Kim Jong Un fabrication, probably won’t cost her a single vote.

I am intrigued by the idea of a global 'macrogrid.' The benefits are obvious to anyone who understands electricity networks. The barriers are obvious to anyone who has ever brushed up against politics.

Is there anyone who could speak to this subject w/ some rigor on the pod?

Sorry, still nobody from out there coming to rescue us from ourselves. phys.org/news/2024-05-w…

It's taken a while, but I've finally figured out that when a political candidate's campaign team announces that their current fund-raising email will be the very last one they will send me, they're lying.

If the SupCt rules that a president is immune from prosecution for assassinating a political rival as long as it's an official act, does that mean Joe Biden could solve any GOTV problems he has by taking the Justices at their word?

AP misses key element in its headline: 'Hush money trial live updates: Judge finds Trump violated gag order.' Nothing about warning him new violations mean jail. But at least they got that fact in the lede, unlike the original AP story that didn't include that at all.

It has come to my attention that I have done insufficient self-promotion & some of you don't even know I have a podcast.

I do! It's called Volts & it's about clean energy. And -- if I may say so myself -- it's been on a bit of a roll lately. A 🧵.

We cannot be silent as riot cops storm college campuses to arrest, often brutally, peaceful protesters and profs

It's the final push of the right's war to destroy higher ed. And police-state violence is priming the pump for the horror to come

Gift link inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

Was rooting around in my archives when I came across this. It's an instructive artifact of just how long the Christian nationalist/evangelical campaign has been demonizing and scapegoating the LGBTQ community.

It was a mailing from Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority in 1981. 1/4

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy

'Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia & DR Congo produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar or wind'

independent.co.uk/tech/renewable… The Independent

So while Sarah Huckabee Sanders was telling reporters the Karen McDougal story was ‘fake news’ as WH Press Secretary she was in fact colluding with David Pecker to keep McDougal silent.

27 states allow local governments to auction off tax lien certificates (equivalent to delinquent property taxes) to investors, who can then charge the homeowner interest and fees, or take over the property. Andrew Kahrl explains:
prospect.org/economy/2024-0…

So, John Roberts is pondering a remand of the immunity case back to the DC appeals court or the trial court. This would just about guarantee what already seemed likely, that the election interference trial in Judge Chutkan's court won't happen before Nov. 5. Beam me up, Scotty.

That Clarence Thomas, exposed a year ago this month by ProPublica for undisclosed “gifts$,” still serves on the SupCt, refusing to recuse himself despite his wife's PARTICIPATION in the attempted coup, says about all one needs to know about the state of U.S. jurisprudence.

JFC, this is such a common instinct among weak-ass libs: 'the right has polarized this, I guess we should stop talking about it.' They're just going to polarize the next thing, dipshit. The slogans aren't the problem.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

America's campuses are in utter turmoil, but one group stands tall: the student journalists who've been on the air or out at protests around the clock, gathering facts to counter online BS and showing the true meaning of free speech

My column (gift link) inquirer.com/columnists/att…

'...the single defining characteristic that binds all Conservatives together -- the Reagan wig and Confederate flag clown pants big enough fit both Andrew Sullivan and Sarah Palin ...

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If Trump is convicted in the cover-up of hush-money payments, when the judge is considering punishment, I hope he takes into account the ex-prez's relentless violations of his gag order and doesn't merely go for probation, conditions of which Trump will inevitably violate.

Bullseye. Plus, the months-long delay in sending the aid in this one piece of legislation the Speaker allowed to be voted on cost hundreds of Ukrainian lives. twitter.com/whstancil/stat…

Alas, I was hoping President Biden would take the occasion of this 54th Earth Day to declare a climate emergency as activists have urged for the past three years. Not a panacea, to be sure. But it would be another step in the right direction, of which Biden has taken several.