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our solar costs are significantly higher
our infrastructure costs are significantly higher
our elevator costs are significantly higher
our healthcare costs are significantly higher
our housing costs are significantly higher (for far lower quality)
i wonder if we'll ever address this
our infrastructure costs are significantly higher
our elevator costs are significantly higher
our healthcare costs are significantly higher
our housing costs are significantly higher (for far lower quality)
i wonder if we'll ever address this
The US suffers from unnecessarily high "soft costs" that render rooftop solar 3-5X more expensive than in comparable economies. Here's a report on how much money US consumers could save if those costs were brought down:
permitpower.org
October 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
our solar costs are significantly higher
our infrastructure costs are significantly higher
our elevator costs are significantly higher
our healthcare costs are significantly higher
our housing costs are significantly higher (for far lower quality)
i wonder if we'll ever address this
our infrastructure costs are significantly higher
our elevator costs are significantly higher
our healthcare costs are significantly higher
our housing costs are significantly higher (for far lower quality)
i wonder if we'll ever address this
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The ability to remove your post when a hostile account quote-tweets you is a great feature of Bluesky.
To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.”
It shows up as “removed by author.”
To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.”
It shows up as “removed by author.”
October 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The ability to remove your post when a hostile account quote-tweets you is a great feature of Bluesky.
To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.”
It shows up as “removed by author.”
To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.”
It shows up as “removed by author.”
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in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
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Ah, NESO Winter Outlook day. That wonderful time when even though the *actual report* states barely anything of concern, grifters get to invent totally made up scenarios that imagine all ICs are unavailable at once because a lack of wind turns off French nuclear....or something.
October 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Ah, NESO Winter Outlook day. That wonderful time when even though the *actual report* states barely anything of concern, grifters get to invent totally made up scenarios that imagine all ICs are unavailable at once because a lack of wind turns off French nuclear....or something.
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Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
October 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
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More good work by Greg Sargent
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
More good work by Greg Sargent
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Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Since there have been too many documented instances of ICE murdering people in the street or illegally grabbing or beating US citizens the Trump regime has an innovative solution; you can no longer film ICE and fuck your first amendment, buddy.
September 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Since there have been too many documented instances of ICE murdering people in the street or illegally grabbing or beating US citizens the Trump regime has an innovative solution; you can no longer film ICE and fuck your first amendment, buddy.
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Agreed! In today’s Supreme Court, Jimmy Kimmel would have an extremely strong First Amendment claim against Trump’s FCC for pressuring Disney and ABC to censor fully protected commentary by firing Kimmel. Either 8-1 or 9-0.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Opinion | Jimmy Kimmel Should Have Strong Odds at the Supreme Court
He should sue the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Agreed! In today’s Supreme Court, Jimmy Kimmel would have an extremely strong First Amendment claim against Trump’s FCC for pressuring Disney and ABC to censor fully protected commentary by firing Kimmel. Either 8-1 or 9-0.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
September 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
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We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
September 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
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reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.
September 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.
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An insightful piece on gaslighting and hagiography, by @mmasnick.bsky.social, worth your time…
“these aren’t actual debates in the classical sense of trying to persuade, they’re spectacles designed to set up bad faith dipshits with the opportunity to dunk on others for social media clout…”
“these aren’t actual debates in the classical sense of trying to persuade, they’re spectacles designed to set up bad faith dipshits with the opportunity to dunk on others for social media clout…”
The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was engaging in good faith. Perhaps the perfect example of this is Ezra Klein’s silly eulogy claiming that Kirk was “
www.techdirt.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
An insightful piece on gaslighting and hagiography, by @mmasnick.bsky.social, worth your time…
“these aren’t actual debates in the classical sense of trying to persuade, they’re spectacles designed to set up bad faith dipshits with the opportunity to dunk on others for social media clout…”
“these aren’t actual debates in the classical sense of trying to persuade, they’re spectacles designed to set up bad faith dipshits with the opportunity to dunk on others for social media clout…”
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all my online time is spent on pants, so im only given to pants extremism
What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart
September 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
all my online time is spent on pants, so im only given to pants extremism
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These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?
September 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?
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I don’t give a shit if JD Vance doesn’t give a shit about the Constitution. Striking civilian boats in international waters is both unconstitutional and a war crime. The party of “law and order” clearly doesn’t care about respecting it.
September 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I don’t give a shit if JD Vance doesn’t give a shit about the Constitution. Striking civilian boats in international waters is both unconstitutional and a war crime. The party of “law and order” clearly doesn’t care about respecting it.
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Phase one involved taking no action against Russia for the first 8 months of the Trump presidency. Phase two will involve taking no action against Russia for the remaining 3 years and 4 months of the Trump presidency.
September 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Phase one involved taking no action against Russia for the first 8 months of the Trump presidency. Phase two will involve taking no action against Russia for the remaining 3 years and 4 months of the Trump presidency.
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I think it's cool in a vacuum but trying to solve the housing crisis with single family homes in the exurbs is a category error, not to mention the faulty economic assumptions that labor and speed are the limiting factors
idk about the economics of it but the houses are really cool looking 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
‘Can You Print a House?’: God, Robots and the U.S. Housing Crisis
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I think it's cool in a vacuum but trying to solve the housing crisis with single family homes in the exurbs is a category error, not to mention the faulty economic assumptions that labor and speed are the limiting factors
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Imagine attacking the victims, instead of the people who made them victims.
September 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Imagine attacking the victims, instead of the people who made them victims.
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The Pentagon is blocking Ukraine from using long-range missiles to hit Russian military targets.
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine’s Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia
The Defense Department has withheld approval for attacks as the White House has sought to entice Moscow to open peace talks.
www.wsj.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The Pentagon is blocking Ukraine from using long-range missiles to hit Russian military targets.
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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This is fucking crazy!
The offshore wind farm is almost finished!
The offshore wind farm is almost finished!
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Kills Massive Offshore Wind Project
The DCNF has learned that the Department of the Interior (DOI) is halting all activity on a massive offshore wind project on Friday effective immediately.
dailycaller.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
This is fucking crazy!
The offshore wind farm is almost finished!
The offshore wind farm is almost finished!
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I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
August 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
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Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
August 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.