This view of things is supported by a new analysis from @leahstokes.bsky.social. Where IRA moved fast enough to put benefits on the ground, it *did* shift things, including vote shares! It measurably improved Harris's vote totals in those areas. Just not enough for her to win!

Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think

Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

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El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

stop. making. people. feel like. chatbots. are "conversational" and their friends.

Mark Follman@markfollman.bsky.social · yesterday

My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵

El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

If you do the math* you discover that: One acre of macauba fruit = one hour of 737 flight Yeah, super sustainable, that. YOU CAN'T FLY JETS ON FRUIT *math below www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Jet Fuel Made From Tropical Fruit Gets $3 Billion Backing

A Brazilian company owned by Mubadala Capital plans to make sustainable aviation fuel out of macauba fruit, which grows on palm trees.

bloomberg.com

It. WORKED!!! The calling and comments and yelling! It works. It's a temporary stall but it can be made permanent. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sena...

U.S. senators push against giving political appointees control over science funding

These proposed changes have seen significant bipartisan pushback and have been criticized by scientists across disciplines

scientificamerican.com

A federal court says the Trump admin improperly terminated $20B in "green bank" funds — a big win for the nonprofit groups fighting to restore clean-energy and climate lending. But a likely Supreme Court appeal may delay them from getting their money: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cli... #energysky

Court rules against Trump EPA’s freeze of $20B in ‘green bank’ funds

A federal appeals court finds the EPA acted improperly in terminating grants to boost clean energy projects. The Trump administration may appeal to the…

canarymedia.com

hahahahaha "The judge hearing the antitrust case seeking to block the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger has scheduled the trial for March 2027. The scheduling matters a lot to Paramount, which will begin paying Warner Bros. shareholders $7 million a day on Sept. 30 until the deal is complete."

Judge Sets Paramount-Warner Bros. Antitrust Trial for March 2027

The judge hearing the antitrust case seeking to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger has issued a preliminary scheduling order, with a trial set to start in March 2027 -- considerably lat...

variety.com

THE $168 BILLION WAS TAKEN ILLEGALLY AND THE GOVERNMENT DIDN’T WANT TO GIVE IT BACK. Kill me I’ve wasted my life.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."

This has been a pretty central tension in this primary all along www.tiktok.com/@abdulelsaye...

Happy Taylor wedding…err, July 4th weekend!

TikTok video by Abdul El-Sayed

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Oh shit I never seen El-Sayed in action, that's a good looking man why is he wasting his time in politics. Leave this shit to the uggos

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · yesterday

“My guy wants to put a data center in your backyard either to give himself gender-affirming care and make a muscle video, or to portray me as a…hero?" Abdul El-Sayed reacts to Republican Mike Rogers' AI ad showing him, Mamdani, AOC, and Bernie as communists inside a Trojan Horse:

Why does 90% of the news I read about the White House sound like it was written by the writers room of The Office?

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Great journalism. Well needed exposure of next gen influencer Merchants of Doubt!

Emily Atkin@emorwee.bsky.social · 6d ago

Alexandra Fasulo runs one of the most prolific anti-solar campaigns online, regularly telling over 2 million followers renewable energy is threatening farms and wildlife. But how much of her rhetoric is actually true? @alexhannaford.com spent months parsing through the nuance for HEATED:

so there's been this big Clear Channel digital countdown to the world cup billboard in Oakland for the last six months, except the world cup is over, and they haven't found someone new to buy the billboard space, so right now it just says: "-51 days till all eyes are on the Bay Area!"

I mean, this is it right here. Your account is your online home. The standard for blocking need not be toxic hostility. It can just be someone who is mildly annoying or who messes with the vibe you were enjoying. No need to keep them around. Surround yourself with friends, allies and cool strangers.

Michael F@michaelf617.bsky.social · 2d ago

K and I throw backyard cookouts a lot and they're awesome because we've spent our whole adult lives curating a perfect guest list, even as individuals come and go, there's always a ton of great folks we love. it never occurs to us to "get out of our bubble" and open the yard up to shit heads

Yeah, sorry, but some folks on here just got straight-up outrage farmed by the Verge. This is fine!

Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d ago

Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

A group of Democratic senators urged the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to rein in prediction market trading on wildfires, expressing concern that individuals could be tempted to commit arson to make their bets pay off New story @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Prediction Market Bets on Wildfires Draw Scrutiny From Senators

A group of Democratic senators urged the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to rein in prediction market trading on wildfires, expressing concern that individuals could be tempted to commit arson to...

bloomberg.com

i started this train of thought as a joke but now i do think there's something to the idea that the way to sell the green revolution to the US public is that we're being denied Good Deals on cheap chinese cars and solar panels and there's nothing more unamerican than saying we can't have a good deal

Unfortunately Hochul has no upstate to downstate transmission project in planning nvm construction at this time. She killed/delayed the Clean Path project. As a result, we’re paying more for electricity that is also more polluting. 👎👎👎

Right now NYC is getting 1,164 megawatts of clean hydropower electricity from Quebec via the newly-built CHPE transmission project. 🎉 ✅ lower energy bills ✅ less pollution ✅ good jobs Two big offshore wind projects are under construction right now… coming soon! 👍

confirmed: renewable energy developer clearway is pivoting away from developing a gas fired data center on federal lands in nevada, days after i exposed their internal plans my latest scoop on @heatmap.news and the impact journalism we provide

Scoop: Clearway Cancels Plan to Swap Solar Farm for Data Center and Gas Plant

The energy developer is backing off after a Heatmap report.

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At 8:44pm CHPE - the big transmission project that just got built - is delivering 700 megawatts of clean electricity to NYC. ✅ lower electric bills ✅ less pollution ✅ more good jobs Empire wind and Sunrise wind, two large offshore projects, are under construction now! 👍

FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.

Sobbing

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 4d ago

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

Once the cost to the “grid” for storage is less than $100/kwh it is flat flatly cheaper to run the grid differently than building more power plants for 400 hours a year of run time. It also gets more out of transmission and distribution wires. Here I am talking about the contribution by the “grid”.