Ben Ecko
@benecko.bsky.social
Energy Nerd // Music Connoisseur // Turntablist // Fmr Kansas Citian
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if the Biden Irrelevancy had one clear lesson it's that you can't retake democracy from those who would destroy it and then spend years slow-rolling the arrests of those responsible while failing to explicitly change the rules to keep them from power
Something I wonder about for real is what comes after this, whenever that is. Because it can't be this again, right? Like if this is what the presidency is now then we can't ever have another president
September 4, 2025 at 4:12 AM
if the Biden Irrelevancy had one clear lesson it's that you can't retake democracy from those who would destroy it and then spend years slow-rolling the arrests of those responsible while failing to explicitly change the rules to keep them from power
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It’s pretty simple:
- AI is driving electricity demand up
- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built
- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
- AI is driving electricity demand up
- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built
- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.
Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built
The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy.
nyti.ms
August 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s pretty simple:
- AI is driving electricity demand up
- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built
- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
- AI is driving electricity demand up
- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built
- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
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trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether
July 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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When we get through this despicable period in America—and we will get through it—Americans will have learned why and how important government is to making life better.
May 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
When we get through this despicable period in America—and we will get through it—Americans will have learned why and how important government is to making life better.
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A plea.
Can we stop declaring this a “constitutional crisis?”
It’s bigger.
It’s a crisis about fundamental American ideals and structures.
“Constitutional crisis” makes it sound like an abstract lawyerly crisis
It’s bigger.
Can we stop declaring this a “constitutional crisis?”
It’s bigger.
It’s a crisis about fundamental American ideals and structures.
“Constitutional crisis” makes it sound like an abstract lawyerly crisis
It’s bigger.
April 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A plea.
Can we stop declaring this a “constitutional crisis?”
It’s bigger.
It’s a crisis about fundamental American ideals and structures.
“Constitutional crisis” makes it sound like an abstract lawyerly crisis
It’s bigger.
Can we stop declaring this a “constitutional crisis?”
It’s bigger.
It’s a crisis about fundamental American ideals and structures.
“Constitutional crisis” makes it sound like an abstract lawyerly crisis
It’s bigger.
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
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Trust was America’s superpower in the business world as in international affairs. There are huge costs to us and to the world that will come from our loss of that trust. And make no mistake, it is gone and will take many years, perhaps decades, to recover…if that’s even possible.
April 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Trust was America’s superpower in the business world as in international affairs. There are huge costs to us and to the world that will come from our loss of that trust. And make no mistake, it is gone and will take many years, perhaps decades, to recover…if that’s even possible.
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I have to be honest. I think the people in power are so stupid, sheltered and insane that there's no real overriding goal or strategy to any of this.
April 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I have to be honest. I think the people in power are so stupid, sheltered and insane that there's no real overriding goal or strategy to any of this.
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Each day of Trump’s second term brings more “outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold,” David Remnick writes.
Trump’s Disgrace
David Remnick on the temper of Trump’s Presidency—the threats and firings, the multiple DOGE fiascoes, the proposal to cleanse the Gaza Strip of two million Palestinians, and his showdown with Volodym...
www.newyorker.com
March 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Each day of Trump’s second term brings more “outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold,” David Remnick writes.
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getting worried that our Mad King might not be operating according to traditional rules and norms
March 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
getting worried that our Mad King might not be operating according to traditional rules and norms
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See: Climate.
Normality bias - ‘the tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a potential hazard, based on the belief that things will continue as they have in the past’ - is a very hard habit to break.
March 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
See: Climate.
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"May you live in interesting times"
Me:
Me:
March 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"May you live in interesting times"
Me:
Me:
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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941
February 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941