Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

ok how many GOP members of congress are secretly dying/dead? this is getting out of hand

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

😳 Rep. Pete Stauber indicates there's something gravely wrong with Tom Emmer's health: "You have no idea what Congressman Emmer is dealing with right now. If you did, you would've never made that comment. He's fighting for his damn life today!"

I have been putting The Handmaid's Tale series on in the background recently, and this is legit indistinguishable from any of the scenes where Bradley Whitford would be making pained expressions at some guy in a suit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

RAJU: Sen. Moreno is calling for Max Miller to resign. Do you side w/Moreno? THUNE: It's a family matter &, um, I don't have any observations beyond that Q: If a member of Congress is facing domestic abuse allegations, should they continue to serve? T: It's a House matter. It's a family issue too

*BESSENT: 'I GET SICK OF HEARING ABOUT THIS K-SHAPED ECONOMY' GFY

ICE agents raided the family dormitories at the Dilley detention center and snatched this Bluey coloring page from a child before they could finish. I sued ICE to get these drawings back. You can what they sent me here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

I love the coverage of this stuff, as if a corrupt fascist kakistocracy is capable of building a useful "framework for AI"

White House finalizes AI framework behind closed doors

The White House said it met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models — but it won't say what the framework contains.

axios.com

Bernie Sanders: "The immediate issue of the moment is whether or not we continue to put tens of billions of dollars into the extremist Netanyahu government which has killed 75,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children ... "

FEDWATCH: “.. If yields break above 5%, interest costs of debt would surge toward $1.7 trillion, double the defense spending budget ($857 billion) ..”

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

wapo.st

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

When you ask states to reduce payment errors—but only count overpayments and underpayments as errors—guess what happens? States reject applicants they're unsure about because wrongful denials don't count against them.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-snaps-new-rules-make-eligible

“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center

The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity

burnsfilmcenter.org

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

The NYT writes about rubber stamped consolidation under Trumpism but it takes until the 10th paragraph to even introduce the idea of harms to real people, and even then it's framed as dismissable opinion in a "both sides" debate this is not journalism, it's extraction class agitprop

Companies Rush to Close Daring Deals Under Trump

nytimes.com

Prosecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping

Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.

latimes.com

I can only imagine the spin on this one in their promo packet.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Zuckman does an excellent job on this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGa.... Really hard for me to watch this and not think the default position is really "Man, it would just be so hard to try to tax billionaires, its so hard I don't think we should really bother".

Rory Stewart Challenges Gabriel Zucman on Wealth Taxes

YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics: Leading

youtube.com

When your "mediators" are cutting their own deals:

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 7d ago

PAKISTAN SECURES SAFE PASSAGE FOR LNG SHIPMENT WITH IRAN DEAL

Sen. Ron Johnson: "Dr Fauci fear-mongered, scare-mongered just like he did with AIDS. Remember that? 'AIDS is gonna be household transmission.' No, that's not it. But he did that the same way because he's a vaccinologist."

“You will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science” - Neil deGrasse Tyson — It’s already too late.

Important piece by David Pressman and Arne Duncan. "Boards of trustees are composed of people with agency. The foes of government intrusion must demand accountability from people with maximal power, resources and protection. So we address Yale’s trustees directly.” wapo.st/3RW4HPo

Opinion | Yale’s trustees face a decision with profound consequences

A lesson from Hungary: Boards don't capitulate to authoritarians. The people on them do.

wapo.st

And another #Vermont public education one: thebridgevt.org/2026/07/comm...

Surprised and pleased that many of the news sources in the state I were willing to publish commentary and letters to the editor on #Vermont education: vtdigger.org/2026/07/28/o...

Vermont schools are on the slide - VTDigger

Vermont has spent a decade comparing its schools only to itself. Set against the rest of the country, that comfort disappears.

vtdigger.org

We can verify the daily physical status of a specific Seattle raccoon but apparently we're completely unable to determine whether a United States Senator is alive or dead.

ContempraInn 🌹@contemprainn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jimothy the racoon from Seattle keeps getting spotted

"They know this is TV, right??" a CBS News senior staffer texted me about this news. "I hate it here," another CBS reporter said.

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.

Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.

Alex Jones, who has not paid a single cent to the Sandy Hook families despite owing them $1.4 billion, has been in a $3,000 per night suite in Hawaii for the last few weeks illegally using the InfoWars accounts to boost his traffic. Today he said there's going to be a national draft in three weeks.

What a thoughtful and enjoyable review of The Odyssey by Emily Wilson in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

lrb.co.uk