wrote about gas for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2076...

Blue Governors Are Tacking Rightward on Fossil Fuels

Governors like Healey, Hochul, and Lamont portray their backtracking as a pragmatic solution to affordability issues. Others say it doesn’t make economic sense—and betrays key constituents.

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www.curbed.com/article/wind.... Wrote about the offshore windmills for @nymag.com

A Mighty Wind

Gigantic turbines off the coast of New York could soon power tens of thousands of homes, unless Trump gets his way.

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a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u... I don't care what anyone says, this is the most important news story of the day. The CEO who went on a Virgin Cruise and was so revolted by garden variety middle class behavior that he tried to murder a guy.

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos

The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.

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so good nymag.com/intelligence...

The Man Who Went to Fake Prison Also Went to Real Jail

A crime that became a prank that became a crime.

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Needless, stupid, and cruel

Ari Drennen@aridrennen.bsky.social · last yr.

Cuckoo star Hunter Schafer has reportedly been given a new passport with an M for the gender marker, outing her as trans to anyone she shows it to. The model and actress says her previous passport was stolen in Barcelona, leading her to apply for a replacement.

this is right. wokeness, a term nobody can agree on—but that the Harris certainly did *not* campaign on!—is just a fall man. If anything, the Dems' failure to defend policies associated with "wokeness" allowed the right to decide how negative connotations would be. nymag.com/intelligence...

This piece by @quinnslobodian.com is the best analysis of DOGE out there. Quinn is spot on that what we are seeing with Trump/Musk/DOGE right now is "the convergence of three strains of politics that have never simultaneously been this proximate to power." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Speed Up the Breakdown | Quinn Slobodian

For the last month, the US opinion-making class has stared agog as Elon Musk and his minions have stormed the engine room of the federal government. Young

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fitting that the first big air disaster after years of loud, insistent warnings that understaffing would cause exactly this outcome, happens at the airport named after the guy who crushed the ATC union

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2y ago

NYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

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Hard to believe but 18 years ago, I sent the great Alfonso Cuaron an advance copy of The Shock Doctrine and asked if he might be willing to write a blurb. He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me. Share with whoever you think it might help. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...

The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein and Alfonso Cuaron

YouTube video by Michael Price

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Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 2y ago

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

Before "Mommy Meanest" was a Lifetime movie, an exasperating cyberbullying case in a small Michigan town stumped all the authorities. Some suspected the culprit was all too close to home. My latest for @NYMag and @TheCut  www.thecut.com/article/kend...

Who Was Cyberbullying Kendra Licari’s Teen Daughter?

For a year, parents and school officials searched for the person behind the vicious, relentless texts. The culprit was under their noses all along.

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This piece on how the civil disobedience squad from @climatedefiance.bsky.social is thinking about Trump ends with hope and a challenge: "One silver lining of an administration that [doesn't even pretend] to care about climate change. Barriers bw the factions of people who do care tend to fall. "

How Do You Confront an Administration That Can’t Be Shamed?

Climate Defiance made a name for itself confronting and shaming its theoretical allies: Biden officials. Now it faces a very different set of opponents.

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Wrote about Climate Defiance and the role of action-oriented environmental advocacy after Biden.

How Do You Confront an Administration That Can’t Be Shamed?

Climate Defiance made a name for itself confronting and shaming its theoretical allies: Biden officials. Now it faces a very different set of opponents.

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An Alabama mom hit by the Bourbon Street attacker's truck then shot in the attack, who still has a bullet lodged in her foot, told a @nolanews.bsky.social reporter that the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence.

Alabama mom hit by truck, then shot in Bourbon Street attack: 'It's just so disturbing'

A night of revelry was coming to a close for Alexis Scott-Windham and her friends in the early hours of New Year's Eve after they came from Mobile, Alabama to

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At some point liberals are going to start saying, okay there was a genocide but it’s really the fault of the left for how annoying they were about pointing it out

Great overview of how the effort is going by @willpeischel.bsky.social (from last year)

Inside the rough-and-tumble race to clean up America's abandoned oil wells

With a little art, a little science, and a lot of luck, the niche oil-well-plugging industry is hoping to pick up steam.

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Italian anarchists were not on my centennial bingo card.

If something is going to ruin my life it better have a way cooler name than Lot-Less.

I wrote about how two potential targets are preparing for the promised revenge tour. nymag.com/intelligence...

What It’s Like to Be on Trump’s Enemies List

“Revenge does take time.”

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Now I can finally share that the real reason I stopped tweeting was because I forgot my account password.