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stevevladeck.bsky.social
This is the fourth time we've seen the 5-4 #SCOTUS lineup with Roberts and Barrett joining Sotomayor, Kagan, & Jackson in the majority:

1. Ghost guns;
2. Razor wire;
3. Trump NY sentencing; &
4. Foreign aid.

All four have been w/r/t emergency applications; all four have had rule-of-law undertones.
March 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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ricoconnell.bsky.social
#ERCOT has been running at 85% clean today: 75% wind and solar and 10% nuclear. You would have been laughed out of the room if you predicted this 10 years ago. But the smallest interconnection in North America is cranking away at 75% variable resources. Beautiful sight.

@gridstatus.io

#EnergySky
March 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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theworkeragency.com
The influential @volts.wtf spoke with Muhammad Mustafa Amjad of Renewables First and Waqas Moosa with the Pakistan Solar Association about Pakistan's extraordinary solar boom.

Give it a listen. It's a whirlwind of a story about a bottom up energy revolution:

www.volts.wtf/p/pakistans-...
Pakistan's solar boom
Pakistan's massive solar boom is creating a bottom-up energy revolution that could become the blueprint for developing nations worldwide.
www.volts.wtf
February 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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josephfasano.bsky.social
I'll remember this email my entire life.
February 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
On the first three weeks of Trump being back in office, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/donald-tru...
The anti-birthright citizenship order has been blocked by preliminary injunction three times now; Lamberth blocked enforcement of the order that would force trans women in federal prison to be housed with men and end all trans-related medical care; the Office of Management and Budget grants and loans “pause” was blocked and then rescinded and then blocked again, even under any other name; the USAID “administrative leave” directives have been blocked; access to Treasury systems has been restricted; and a judge on Monday evening blocked the indirect costs rate cap issued February 7 by the National Institutes of Health, as applied to states that sued over the act on Monday morning. And yet, if you look around, that is not the general understanding of the first three week’s of the second Trump administration. Instead, the general views seem to be either that what Trump is doing is fine and good or that it is unconstitutional, illegal lawlessness — but, in either event and whether implicit or explicit, the end result is inevitable and Trump is winning. That’s wrong, and I want to explain why — not because I think we are safe from the very dangerous consequences being discussed but because those consequences are not inevitable even though Trump and Musk and their allies want you to think they are
February 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.
Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.
www.lawdork.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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404media.co
You can’t post your way out of fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them

🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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seanmmcbride.bsky.social
2/n @stuartbuck.bsky.social lays out a compelling case and identifies the key statute that makes what NIH is attempting to do ultra vires (Title II, Division H, Section 224 of Public Law 118-47). The plaint text of Section 224 forbids this type of adjustment. goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
Indirect Costs at NIH . . .
I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:
goodscience.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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ostrichson.bsky.social
The sound of Jell-O getting shredded is one of the most disturbing noises I ever heard in my life. This is something straight out of hell. DO NOT LISTEN WITH HEADPHONES ON!!!
December 31, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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polarocean.bsky.social
It appears as if the authors put in 10 times as much freshwater (0.4 Sv) as observed for the freshwaterflux from Greenland (0.04 Sv) (see below). If 10 times more freshwater is needed to bring the model in agreement with the observation-based AMOC slowdown estimate, maybe this estimate is wrong?
November 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM