@timothyolson.bsky.social
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This piece from @tnorris.bsky.social is about the only sensible thing NYT has published on the subject of electricity prices.
Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This piece from @tnorris.bsky.social is about the only sensible thing NYT has published on the subject of electricity prices.
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Trump’s claim he can order strikes on foreign civilians is unconstitutional
Nowhere in the Constitution is he given this power, it's a violation of multiple US laws, and there is no precedent in American history
I laid it out on @newsnation.bsky.social w/ @chriscuomo.bsky.social👇
Nowhere in the Constitution is he given this power, it's a violation of multiple US laws, and there is no precedent in American history
I laid it out on @newsnation.bsky.social w/ @chriscuomo.bsky.social👇
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Trump’s claim he can order strikes on foreign civilians is unconstitutional
Nowhere in the Constitution is he given this power, it's a violation of multiple US laws, and there is no precedent in American history
I laid it out on @newsnation.bsky.social w/ @chriscuomo.bsky.social👇
Nowhere in the Constitution is he given this power, it's a violation of multiple US laws, and there is no precedent in American history
I laid it out on @newsnation.bsky.social w/ @chriscuomo.bsky.social👇
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If Epstein’s claims are true, Trump lied about his involvement & knew about the abuse
Bondi & Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyers in DOJ, ignored their duties to the Constitution & victims
This is corruption, plain & simple
I broke it down on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social👇 - TN
Bondi & Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyers in DOJ, ignored their duties to the Constitution & victims
This is corruption, plain & simple
I broke it down on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social👇 - TN
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
If Epstein’s claims are true, Trump lied about his involvement & knew about the abuse
Bondi & Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyers in DOJ, ignored their duties to the Constitution & victims
This is corruption, plain & simple
I broke it down on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social👇 - TN
Bondi & Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyers in DOJ, ignored their duties to the Constitution & victims
This is corruption, plain & simple
I broke it down on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social👇 - TN
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I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
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An Air Canada flight right now
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
An Air Canada flight right now
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Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"
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Neuroscientists have long believed that our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep to prevent us from acting out our dreams, and the twitches we make are movements that slip through the cracks—but recent research tells another story.
What Are Dreams For?
Converging lines of research suggest that we might be misunderstanding something we do every night of our lives.
www.newyorker.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Neuroscientists have long believed that our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep to prevent us from acting out our dreams, and the twitches we make are movements that slip through the cracks—but recent research tells another story.
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The East Wing’s very plainness came to symbolize the functional modesty of democratic government: a space for staff, not spectacle; for the sustaining rituals of civic life, not the exhibition of personal glory. All of that is now gone, Adam Gopnik writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/p_9guI
October 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The East Wing’s very plainness came to symbolize the functional modesty of democratic government: a space for staff, not spectacle; for the sustaining rituals of civic life, not the exhibition of personal glory. All of that is now gone, Adam Gopnik writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/p_9guI
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Trump’s act of destroying the East Wing is exactly the point, Adam Gopnik writes. It’s “a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.”
Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing
The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.
www.newyorker.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Trump’s act of destroying the East Wing is exactly the point, Adam Gopnik writes. It’s “a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.”
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“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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Read @andykroll.bsky.social's report on how Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy.
Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball
Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy—firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law.
www.newyorker.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Read @andykroll.bsky.social's report on how Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy.
This interview by #AmandaPetrusich of #jefftweedy of #wilco about his new album #twilightoverdrive touches closely on several interesting ideas about music, art, meaning and the passage of time podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Jeff Tweedy on His New Triple Album, “Twilight Override”
Podcast Episode · The New Yorker Radio Hour · 09/09/2025 · 28m
podcasts.apple.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This interview by #AmandaPetrusich of #jefftweedy of #wilco about his new album #twilightoverdrive touches closely on several interesting ideas about music, art, meaning and the passage of time podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
A descent of the #HornbeinCouloir on #Everest had eluded the ski world for decades until… www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ar...
Jim Morrison is first to ski down Everest’s Hornbein Couloir
After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an achievement that has captivated skiers and alpinists for decades.
www.nationalgeographic.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
A descent of the #HornbeinCouloir on #Everest had eluded the ski world for decades until… www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ar...
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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.
September 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.
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In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.
September 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.
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Many media types and Dems continue to operate as if Trump is a politically invincible figure, a "Teflon Don." But in truth he's becoming an increasingly weak, failing, diminished, unpopular, naked-emperor figure, and it's time to treat him as such. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So
It’s possible for Trump to be an inept buffoon—but still extremely dangerous. And it shouldn’t be so hard to make that case.
newrepublic.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Many media types and Dems continue to operate as if Trump is a politically invincible figure, a "Teflon Don." But in truth he's becoming an increasingly weak, failing, diminished, unpopular, naked-emperor figure, and it's time to treat him as such. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
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In the 80s, a fact checker found that an unedited issue of The New Yorker contained 1,000 errors. (This figure itself wouldn’t survive a fact-check, but never mind.) Zach Helfand delves into the history of the vaunted department.
The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department
Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.
www.newyorker.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
In the 80s, a fact checker found that an unedited issue of The New Yorker contained 1,000 errors. (This figure itself wouldn’t survive a fact-check, but never mind.) Zach Helfand delves into the history of the vaunted department.
Amory Lovins of @rockymtninst.bsky.social remains true to form on the perils of nuclear power - see: www.utilitydive.com/news/nuclear...
Nuclear power is failing, and AI can’t rescue it
Nuclear generation is expensive and slow to develop. Claims that past failures won’t recur have convinced politicians to socialize investments rejected by private capital markets.
www.utilitydive.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Amory Lovins of @rockymtninst.bsky.social remains true to form on the perils of nuclear power - see: www.utilitydive.com/news/nuclear...
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Is the only way to find yourself to get completely lost?
Tomorrow on the podcast, I'm joined by Craig Mod @craigmod.com, who fled to Japan at 19 after his best friend's murder.
Tune in for a conversation that made me rethink the relationship between movement, attention, and healing.
Episode 913✌🏼🌱
Tomorrow on the podcast, I'm joined by Craig Mod @craigmod.com, who fled to Japan at 19 after his best friend's murder.
Tune in for a conversation that made me rethink the relationship between movement, attention, and healing.
Episode 913✌🏼🌱
June 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Is the only way to find yourself to get completely lost?
Tomorrow on the podcast, I'm joined by Craig Mod @craigmod.com, who fled to Japan at 19 after his best friend's murder.
Tune in for a conversation that made me rethink the relationship between movement, attention, and healing.
Episode 913✌🏼🌱
Tomorrow on the podcast, I'm joined by Craig Mod @craigmod.com, who fled to Japan at 19 after his best friend's murder.
Tune in for a conversation that made me rethink the relationship between movement, attention, and healing.
Episode 913✌🏼🌱
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What happens when you walk far enough for the noise in your head to quiet?
This week on the podcast, I'm joined by Craig Mod (@craigmod.com)–artist, author, and photographer.
We explore memory, movement, and how making space can heal what you thought was unfixable.
Now available. Episode 913✌🏼🌱
This week on the podcast, I'm joined by Craig Mod (@craigmod.com)–artist, author, and photographer.
We explore memory, movement, and how making space can heal what you thought was unfixable.
Now available. Episode 913✌🏼🌱
June 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
What happens when you walk far enough for the noise in your head to quiet?
This week on the podcast, I'm joined by Craig Mod (@craigmod.com)–artist, author, and photographer.
We explore memory, movement, and how making space can heal what you thought was unfixable.
Now available. Episode 913✌🏼🌱
This week on the podcast, I'm joined by Craig Mod (@craigmod.com)–artist, author, and photographer.
We explore memory, movement, and how making space can heal what you thought was unfixable.
Now available. Episode 913✌🏼🌱
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Technology teleports us out of the moment and out of discomfort.
Episode 913 with @craigmod.com
Watch the convo here: https://bit.ly/CraigMod913
✌🏼🌱 – Rich
Episode 913 with @craigmod.com
Watch the convo here: https://bit.ly/CraigMod913
✌🏼🌱 – Rich
June 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Technology teleports us out of the moment and out of discomfort.
Episode 913 with @craigmod.com
Watch the convo here: https://bit.ly/CraigMod913
✌🏼🌱 – Rich
Episode 913 with @craigmod.com
Watch the convo here: https://bit.ly/CraigMod913
✌🏼🌱 – Rich
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Trump's insane beef with clean energy is going to wreck both planet and economy
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How Long Will Trump Be Able to Deny Reality with His Energy Policy?
The Administration’s irrational dislike of solar and wind energy imperils both the environment and the economy.
www.newyorker.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Trump's insane beef with clean energy is going to wreck both planet and economy
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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If this is how deranged he is and they are 217 days in, what is the madness 1,242 days from now? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
What, Exactly, Was That Cabinet Meeting?
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
If this is how deranged he is and they are 217 days in, what is the madness 1,242 days from now? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
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OK, y'all, as I mentioned, I went to see Paul Simon play last night. I found it unexpectedly moving, quite profound actually, and I want to do a short thread about it.
I'll start by saying that, for a whole bunch of reasons, aging & mortality have been much on my mind lately.
I'll start by saying that, for a whole bunch of reasons, aging & mortality have been much on my mind lately.
August 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
OK, y'all, as I mentioned, I went to see Paul Simon play last night. I found it unexpectedly moving, quite profound actually, and I want to do a short thread about it.
I'll start by saying that, for a whole bunch of reasons, aging & mortality have been much on my mind lately.
I'll start by saying that, for a whole bunch of reasons, aging & mortality have been much on my mind lately.