This is so badass its an RPG plot. Your band of German liberals gets beaten, imprisoned, and exiled by the Prussian aristocracy, so you go to the shining beacon of freedom over the sea, only to discover its actually an even worse place: no kings but slavemasters everywhere. 1/3

One of my least favorite humans, Indiana AG Todd Rokita , is suing to keep the Rockport coal plant from closing at the end of 2028. It was to close as part of an agreement that they either had to close or add 1.4B in scrubbers because their dirty plant exists in violation of federal law.

I was going to do off-grid solar, but now that I don't need a Title IV permit looks like off-grid coal is back baby

Erik Nordman@eriknordman.bsky.social · last wk.

"The EPA said if the power plants are not supplying electricity to the grid then they would not be subject to the federal Clean Air ​Act's Acid Rain Program, which has been key to the ​dramatic reduction of smog and soot pollution from industrial ⁠facilities." www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Wonderboy? I call mine "Nuncio"

New illustration of popular constitutionalism just dropped

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

the wine-dark C

Trying real hard to be the shepherd here, not an annoying prescriptionist gatekeeper....but calling the World Cup "FIFA" is really getting to me.

It’s a recommendation, you idiot, based on medical information that could safeguard your health. Go run around and breathe deeply as you choose. But don’t try to censor information that helps people protect themselves.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 3w ago

MAGA cultist Eric Metaxas was outraged by seeing an air quality alert triggered by the Canadian wildfires that suggested people limit outdoor activity: "How dare they say that. Who has the right to tell me or you or anyone anything? It's a free country. I can do whatever I want."

Is inhaled popcorn salt PM2.5? Asking for a friend.

NEW from us: China's traffic-related air pollution levels dropped sharply after the Hormuz crisis, as fuel consumption fell and EV use surged. This is more evidence that the fall in China's oil import isn't just inventory drawdown but real consumption cuts. 🧵

Building the coal plants the Trump administration is supporting would be more "than double the cost of building a natural gas plant with carbon capture, and more than four times the cost to establish new solar"

Trump wants new coal plants built in the US. The price tag could be astronomical | CNN

It’s been 13 years since the last new coal-fired power plant was built in the US. Now, the Trump administration wants to build two, but experts say even federal support likely won’t make that feasible...

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Trump’s war on science comes for bikes and Vision Zero. Proven Safety Countermeasures are a set of street design tools that FHWA career engineers judge to have been proven to improve safety. They delisted Bike Lanes, Road Diets, and three speed management tools. highways.dot.gov/safety/prove...

Before you complain about the tiresome discourse about why the USMNT can't get past the R16 and why it's down to flaws in the American youth soccer system, imagine if all the olds complaining about campus politics were doing soccer discourse instead. Would be much better!

I guess my fun classroom question of whether Babbitt v. Sweet Home was a Chevron step 1 or 2 decision is suddenly the only thing standing in the way of widespread critical habitat destruction. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...

Trump Allows Habitat Destruction in Endangered Species Rollback

Destroying an imperiled species’ nest or habitat is no longer illegal unless it’s intentional under the Trump administration’s rollback of the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act fin...

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A great post by @zekehausfather.com that addresses the denial chestnut that warming in the early 20th century, when CO2 hadn't increased that much, somehow disproves modern warming. As you probably can guess, that argument is BS.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 4w ago

Folks skeptical of human-driven warming like to point to a period of somewhat less rapid warming from 1900-1945. In a new analysis at TCB, I dig into the different factors driving it, and find that humans, natural factors, and variability all played an important role: www.theclimatebrink....

My alma mater, The University of Chicago Law School, has issued an new strategy statement for "ensuring that we teach our students to think with, without, and about AI." Would love to know how BlueSky Lawyers & LawProfs view this new policy. www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-stra...

“Hey guys, photosynthesis, amirite? Who wants to do the Calvin cycle with me?”

stunning Paris was how this whole mess got started

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago

‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.

Have we started calling the AI TR "Teddy Ruxevelt" yet?

Did not expect using CVS' terrible website to hunt down panini stickers for my kid would lead to terrifying flashbacks of trying to schedule vaccine appointments.

Big news: The Eleventh Circuit just upheld the injunction blocking enforcement of Florida's Stop WOKE Act, affirming that professors have some First Amendment protections in the classroom. Judge Britt Grant wrote the opinion.

This is a really important asymmetrical impact of Trump v. Slaughter. Effectively, future Democratic presidents who want agencies to function will face a Hobson's choice. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court Just Helped Trump Hamstring the Next Democratic President

Donald Trump has another weapon he can wield on his way out the door.

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If you want to learn more about quorum issues created by Slaughter, we have a paper for you: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Todd Phillips@tphillips.bsky.social · 4w ago

@nicholasbednar.bsky.social and I raised the Vacancies Act issue in an amicus brief. We were ignored. I think the answer is that firing officials such that the agency cannot function is not taking care that the law is faithfully executed, and should be undone, regardless of Slaughter.

interlude: guys stop RTing that smug norwegian public benefits boast, those guys are basically oil barons, even if we swedes do love our little brothers, those rascals

🇨🇿 Czechia planning 42km district heating pipeline to replace 110 fossil fuel boilers with steam from the Dukovany nuclear plant Decarbonized heating for an entire town! www.obnovitelne.cz/clanek/4734/...

statehood now

Rav@rvbdrm.com · last mo.

Air quality over Washington, D.C. right now

Skill sets students should acquire: - think critically and evaluate lines of evidence - write and present creatively and professionally - negotiation, collaboration and healthy group dynamics - what Computer can/can’t/should/shouldn’t do - domain expertise - when/how to post vs. touch grass

I wrote a whole paper about the EPA shrugging at the giant loophole created by their "exceptional events" waiver for Clean Air Act rules and they just tweeted it out

Celeste Headlee@celesteheadlee.bsky.social · last mo.

The dangerous air quality will last for 24 hours. When asked about the health impacts of the excessive and unnecessary display, an EPA spokesperson said, "Fireworks are awesome."

Soccer is my favorite sport and always will be, but Jesus Christ they've got to do something about this VAR issue. Every exciting moment devolves into legalistic nitpicking and standing around. For a match like this to end with Zapruder analysis and trigonometry is simply not fun!!!