Sean Hecht
@seanbhecht.bsky.social
Personal account, opinions my own. Angeleno by birth and by choice. Managing attorney at a major environmental law NGO. Former UCLA law prof/climate institute co-director.
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under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime
February 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime
Robert Downey Jr. is the correct answer, but this question is no longer a fun one for anyone who graduated from my high school in recent years
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Robert Downey Jr. is the correct answer, but this question is no longer a fun one for anyone who graduated from my high school in recent years
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Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
February 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
Maybe this goes without saying at this point, but in any other presidential administration, this one thing, by itself, would’ve made headlines for weeks, prompted multiple investigations, and been a potentially presidency-ending scandal.
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
February 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Maybe this goes without saying at this point, but in any other presidential administration, this one thing, by itself, would’ve made headlines for weeks, prompted multiple investigations, and been a potentially presidency-ending scandal.
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In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint
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February 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill
Tomorrow I will testify before subcommittee of House Judiciary Committee against the proposed "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act," which would authorize exclusion/deportation of all or most non-citizen Muslim immigrants. My written testimony posted here: reason.com/wp-content/u...
reason.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:47 AM
The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill
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Total crickets from Ezra Douthglesias & the rest of the Do An Abundance Of Moderate Populism crowd. Expectations & demands, but only for Democrats.
Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Total crickets from Ezra Douthglesias & the rest of the Do An Abundance Of Moderate Populism crowd. Expectations & demands, but only for Democrats.
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This proposed act is so evil.
Tomorrow I will testify before subcommittee of House Judiciary Committee against the proposed "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act," which would authorize exclusion/deportation of all or most non-citizen Muslim immigrants. My written testimony posted here: reason.com/wp-content/u...
reason.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:32 AM
This proposed act is so evil.
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In the old stories, the convention was that the troll demanding ransom for safe passage had to live under the bridge in question.
Trump threatens to hold up opening of Gordie Howe Bridge
LANSING — President Donald Trump threatened Monday to not let the Gordie Howe International Bridge open until the U.S. is "fully compensated" by Canada "for everything we have given them," also floati...
www.crainsdetroit.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:14 AM
In the old stories, the convention was that the troll demanding ransom for safe passage had to live under the bridge in question.
[Charlton Heston voice, in a fit of agony]: Lays is Potatoes!
February 9, 2026 at 2:41 AM
[Charlton Heston voice, in a fit of agony]: Lays is Potatoes!
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The Unitary Executive Theory arguments in the new Schedule F rule really are some of the most terrifying words ever recorded in the Federal Register. The kind of thing future historians will point to if the shit really goes down.
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donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
Trump's Schedule F Rule Finalized
A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The Unitary Executive Theory arguments in the new Schedule F rule really are some of the most terrifying words ever recorded in the Federal Register. The kind of thing future historians will point to if the shit really goes down.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
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The energy & tech industry are working hard to secure "permitting certainty" legislation.
Such legislation would prohibit future administrations from rolling back Trump's plans in expand coal mining in New Mexico through 2068-2136.
This is the policy logic wrought by "Abundance."
Such legislation would prohibit future administrations from rolling back Trump's plans in expand coal mining in New Mexico through 2068-2136.
This is the policy logic wrought by "Abundance."
February 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
The energy & tech industry are working hard to secure "permitting certainty" legislation.
Such legislation would prohibit future administrations from rolling back Trump's plans in expand coal mining in New Mexico through 2068-2136.
This is the policy logic wrought by "Abundance."
Such legislation would prohibit future administrations from rolling back Trump's plans in expand coal mining in New Mexico through 2068-2136.
This is the policy logic wrought by "Abundance."
On one side of the family, fleeing pogroms. On the other side, fleeing Nazis, including their neighbors who turned their backs or helped their more active persecutors when they turned up the level of horrors.
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 6:53 AM
On one side of the family, fleeing pogroms. On the other side, fleeing Nazis, including their neighbors who turned their backs or helped their more active persecutors when they turned up the level of horrors.
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Getting away from nazis — which worked, for a while
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Getting away from nazis — which worked, for a while
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A judge ruled that the Trump administration's preposterously fake climate science panel violated federal law, flouting public meeting and open record requirements: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social
Trump administration's climate skepticism effort violated federal law, judge rules
The administration staffed up a new group that published a report downplaying the severity of global warming. The EPA leaned on that report in its proposal to repeal the endangerment finding.
www.latimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:54 AM
A judge ruled that the Trump administration's preposterously fake climate science panel violated federal law, flouting public meeting and open record requirements: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social
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Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
February 2, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
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"The solution to technology is not more technology. The solution to loneliness is each other, a wealth that should be available to most of us most of the time." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in @theguardian.com with a must read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:13 PM
"The solution to technology is not more technology. The solution to loneliness is each other, a wealth that should be available to most of us most of the time." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in @theguardian.com with a must read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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The Justice Department’s prosecution of the reporters Don Lemon and Georgia Fort is “best understood not as law enforcement but as propaganda,” Quinta Jurecic argues: theatln.tc/fcStyVnv
January 31, 2026 at 2:00 AM
The Justice Department’s prosecution of the reporters Don Lemon and Georgia Fort is “best understood not as law enforcement but as propaganda,” Quinta Jurecic argues: theatln.tc/fcStyVnv
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In Maine, masked federal agents stopped a car that contained a baby, and smashed a window. "Glass sprayed over the baby’s car seat." They took the baby's father who was driving, leaving the mother who does not have a driver's license alone in the car with the baby. On video:
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:14 PM
In Maine, masked federal agents stopped a car that contained a baby, and smashed a window. "Glass sprayed over the baby’s car seat." They took the baby's father who was driving, leaving the mother who does not have a driver's license alone in the car with the baby. On video:
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President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:56 AM
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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A few hours ago the msm unquestioningly repeated the White House spin that Trump had changed his “tone.”
Um, holy shit? This has gotta be up there in the most crass & worse things Trump has ever said
January 28, 2026 at 4:48 AM
A few hours ago the msm unquestioningly repeated the White House spin that Trump had changed his “tone.”
The “horror of the Holocaust” was made possible by Germany’s Nuremberg Laws *legalizing* (& socializing) depriving Jews of civil & human rights and removing them from all aspects of public life. “Abiding by the law” is not a moral test, & suggesting it is a moral test cheapens the horror of Nazism.
January 27, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The “horror of the Holocaust” was made possible by Germany’s Nuremberg Laws *legalizing* (& socializing) depriving Jews of civil & human rights and removing them from all aspects of public life. “Abiding by the law” is not a moral test, & suggesting it is a moral test cheapens the horror of Nazism.
Hard to imagine any imaginable reason they would choose to publish this, when they just could have not expressed an opinion—besides rage bait for clicks.
From the Editorial Board: You don’t need to share the Vances’ political views to be happy for them.
Editorial: A baby at 1 Observatory Circle
A new life is a reason for hope, a moment that invites optimism about the future. We wish Usha and the Vance family well.
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January 27, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Hard to imagine any imaginable reason they would choose to publish this, when they just could have not expressed an opinion—besides rage bait for clicks.
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I just want to point out that Bovino's response to Bill gives away the underlying worldview: Sympathizing with (black and brown) immigrants over (white) American citizens makes you a (race) traitor, which makes you a part of the "problem" (and thereby deserving of same treatment as the immigrants)
Honored that in his last days of fame and fortune at CBP the disgraced Gregory Bovino chose to attack, among others, me.
January 27, 2026 at 4:53 AM
I just want to point out that Bovino's response to Bill gives away the underlying worldview: Sympathizing with (black and brown) immigrants over (white) American citizens makes you a (race) traitor, which makes you a part of the "problem" (and thereby deserving of same treatment as the immigrants)