Believe it or not, Direct to Consumer.

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe@garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 2mo ago

shits fucked up man

There is more than enough blame to go around for the OEMs, the Biden Admin, and the Trump Admin. You simply can't look at the US EV product lineup in 2024 and say the market turn in the past year and a half was entirely Trump's fault.

a man sitting at a table with a glass of wine says honestly i don t know where to start

ALT: a man sitting at a table with a glass of wine says honestly i don t know where to start

media.tenor.com

Too Big to Fail@toobigtofail.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Ranking Member Lofgren Reacts to Latest Trump Scheme to Undermine Science | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

democrats-science.house.gov

Lfg

EV ownership at ‘tipping point’ in many parts of the world, experts say

Data shows momentum shift under way in Europe and emerging markets

giftarticle.ft.com

When the penalty of ignoring pedestrians in a crosswalk is the same as failing to curb your dog, societal priorities are clear.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I say it a lot, but it's hard not to see the parallels with gun violence. Children are being killed and no one wants to address the obvious solutions.

NEWS: A federal judge has saved the 15th Street protected bike lane (for now), saying the decision to remove the lane running from Constitution Avenue to the Tidal Basin was "arbitrary and capricious and not the result of reasoned decision-making." It was to be removed this week.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

Thinking a lot about how I started my career in water resources and how everyone talked about how cyber unprepared we were then… and how little has been done in the intervening years

Andy Greenberg@agreenberg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As Trump threatens scorched-earth attacks on Iran, a joint advisory from US agencies warns Iran-linked hackers have hit US critical infrastructure: "In a few cases, this activity has resulted in operational disruption and financial loss." www.wired.com/story/iran-l...

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

What’s next: Quarto 2 – Quarto

We’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.

quarto.org

Honda shifts power back to car engineers to reignite innovation Rise of Chinese rivals forces Japanese automaker to carry out drastic reforms trib.al/S2fqGHz

Honda shifts power back to car engineers to reignite innovation

Rise of Chinese rivals forces Japanese automaker to carry out drastic reforms

trib.al

The Treasury Department is working on a plan to gut its office that researches financial market risks. Because the office is funded by fees on the financial industry, this won't save taxpayers money. But it will make it harder to spot and prevent the next crisis. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Treasury moves to gut financial research office

Documents seen by POLITICO show plans are underway to reduce the data agency’s workforce, ahead of bigger proposed budget and staffing changes.

politico.com

The walls have been breached. Just went for walk in my Austin neighborhood and spotted this Chinese BYD EV. Second BYD I’ve seen in a week.

Bloomberg scoop: Chinese EVs could be built in the Stellantis plant in Brampton, where a planned Jeep production line was cancelled last year and moved to the US. Stellantis has discussed with Canadian officials the idea of building Leapmotor EVs there www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Stellantis in Talks to Make Chinese EVs at Idled Canadian Plant

Stellantis NV is discussing options for building electric vehicles in Canada with its Chinese partner, Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology Co., according to people familiar with the matter, a sign of how qu...

bloomberg.com

Electricity prices are essential to the US economy. But it’s very hard to get recent, granular data on them. We’re changing that. Today, @heatmap.news and MIT released the ELECTRICITY PRICE HUB, a new tool breaking down local power rates and bills going back to 2021. electricity.heatmap.news

Philadelphia is the greatest city in the world (sound on).

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

rock therapy

Peak DC is listening to your friend testify to congress while walking the dog.

The commitment to wasting taxpayer dollars on destroying perfectly functioning pieces of infrastructure (bikes lanes, the economy, the Kennedy Center, etc) verges on being one of the few consistent policy pillars.

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Trump administration is removing a protected bike lane that runs along 15th Street from the National Mall to the Tidal Basin. Officials say it causes traffic; bike advocates say it actually makes everyone safer. 51st.news/trump-admini...

Get your tubs ready y’all.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“.. Estimates from Bloomberg: Strait of Hormuz being closed for 3 months would get Brent crude #oil up to $164/barrel.” (via Schwab) ⛽️

This is not how I wanted industrial chemicals to get some supply chain attention.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 5mo ago

Gulf disruption chokes sulphur flows supporting swaths of global industry ft.trib.al/l6VowZS

NEWS: @mayorbowser.dc.gov has very unexpectedly released a report @ddotdc.bsky.social finished five years ago on what implementing congestion pricing in D.C. would look like. She had refused to make it public since it was done, but now calls congestion pricing "the wrong policy at the wrong time."

who could have known the global economy was such a complex multi-dimensional system ??

molly taft@mollytaft.com · 5mo ago

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For CDE Acquisitions, LLC 412 Acre, 6 Building, 5 Million Square Foot A.I. Data Center Campus In South Whitehall Twp., Lehigh County [PaEN] tinyurl.com/yjxvz3ma

In tandem with pursuing accountability & rooting out corruption, it will be crucial to resuscitate the value of expertise. Years of punditry, mgmt consulting, ignoring the reasons for public mistrust of experts, etc. has led to a gov’t operating purely on vibes. The horrors of stupidity.

Laura Rozen@lkrozen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New: No imminent threat: Experts dispute Trump admin claims for attacking Iran open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...

Just stating the obvious here, but we have to build a government that doesn't starve and bomb the planet for kicks.

China automates while America hesitates. I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that America's strategy to compete with China in manufacturing is fundamentally misconceived — and that we're heading toward a reckoning we're not prepared for. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

Opinion | America Has an Edge Over China. Why Won’t We Use It?

American manufacturing prowess won’t be restored without bringing new technologies to the factory floor.

nytimes.com

DC Statehood yesterday

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Today President Trump signed the resolution approved by Congress that repeals a D.C. bill that decoupled the local tax code from some provisions of the federal tax code. It's only the fifth time in the last 50 years that a D.C. bill has been repealed by Congress.

Ebike Tasting Party is BACK! Visit us at Healthy Homes Fair on Saturday, March 21, 1pm-5pm. Test ride LOTS of different ebikes, family bikes and scooters - and score a free food truck treat! #bikedc #cargobike @electrifydc.bsky.social