What was in the news this month? Let's see... The Fox/Dominion law suit came to its disappointing anticlimax. Tucker Carlson was fired (though it looks as though I have nothing at all about that here!). On the other hand, there is so much about Clarence Thomas and other forms of Supreme Court corruption. There were multiple mass shootings, followed by Republican backlash against democratic and Democratic attempts to do something about them. Trans people, elected and unelected, were under attack by the Right, elected and unelected. And oh yeah, Trump was indicted in New York.
Everything below the line is quoted from the attributed account. Tweets are in reverse chronological order except some of the images, which I sometimes move up or down to get better visual balance.
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Antwerp is banning non-residents from parking on the street downtown — and also setting parking *maximums* for new developments. Yet another European city adopting parking policies that are hard to fathom in the US.
David Zipper
“Work requirements [for SNAP] did not increase employment or earnings 18 months after their reinstatement… We also found that work requirements disproportionately led people who had faced great economic hardships, such as those without housing or earned income, to lose benefits.”
Dr. Julia Raifman (quoting from a Harvard Kennedy School graduate student's report)
The federal inability and unwillingness to confront DeSantis and all these tinpot wannabe-dictators is a disgrace. There are millions of people facing oppression by untalented buffoons and this absence of pushback is an absolute travesty.
Jared Yates Sexton
“Woke mind virus” is the new “Gay Agenda.” It’s a boogeyman term used to scare the majority about minorities asserting their full humanity.
Leah McElrath
Opening a small coffee shop or a hair salon here is illegal. It would wreck the "character" of the neighborhood:
@FuckCarsReddit
fun fact, Asian elephants are more closely related to Mammoths than to African elephants
Eliza Pallas @Pallas_ca
Word of the morning is ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th century Scots): finding yourself still in bed long after it’s time to get up.
Susie Dent
Yesterday was the first day CO₂ at Mauna Loa was 425 ppm. This is:
-likely the first time in the past 800,000 years.
-possibly not seen in over 3 million years (mid-pliocene warm period).
-A CO₂ forcing equal to 2.5-4°C of warming and 5-25 meters higher global sea level.
@LeonSimons8
I'm having really icky health issues because I've given birth so many times, and honestly, what pregnancy does to your body is absolutely bonkers, and we absolutely do not talk about it enough, nor is there enough support for what folks go through.
âpihtawikosisân
Housesit for your neighbors and receive pictures of the happy plants they come home to:
comotrekker
Blocking democratically elected representatives from participating in government because they’re Black or trans (or any other reason that isn’t criminal) is actually pretty fascist in case anyone was wondering
Dr. Mia Brett @QueenMab87
Conservatism in a nutshell: "The last thing I predicted would destroy society? I was wrong. But the next thing? Hoo boy this one is really gonna tear it all apart."
Michael Hobbes @RottenInDenmark
The Airman Teixiera story is not confusing, friends. It is about online radicalization and infiltration of the Armed Forces, and a shocking lack of either monitoring of this problem (which the DOD has known about at least since the early 1980s) or stopgaps to stop such breaches.
Kathleen Belew
Our rich kids do very well in international comparisons. Our poor kids do not. The schools aren’t failing. Our society is by allowing deep poverty, then expecting kids to get high scores when they are hungry, lack medical care, basic security.
Diane Ravitch
Two EVs in California. During peak traffic times, their trip times would be about the same. One weighs over 5000 pounds, the other 55 pounds:
@kar_nels
Every North American city says they have a parking problem or a traffic problem. Let’s call it what it is. Every North American city has a car problem.
Strong Towns
Inclusion and exclusion criteria for ‘womanhood’ are nonsense. Because of cancer treatment I can’t get pregnant, don’t menstruate, had ‘top’ surgery, am on hormone blockers, & have short hair - am I a woman? Nobody should get to decide that except me. #translivesmatter
Karen Sugrue
i do not think the founders envisioned us being ruled by an unaccountable council of nine who get to take bribes
Andrew Lawrence
I no longer care about possible government waste when it comes to public goods and services. If a library is open 24 hours a day, and the only person that uses said library is a little old lady who reads "Pride and Prejudice" from 3:15-4:45 on Tuesday, that is not waste. Waste are the people who die because they can't afford their medication. Waste is the countless homes that we have in foreclosure or unsold (just sitting there!) While people die of hypothermia on the street. Waste is buying a social media app with your daddy's emerald mine money and then running it into the ground. Waste is the oil companies knowing they are killing us all and not caring. So yeah, I don't care about "government waste" when all that is is ensuring equity.
@BigSquishyDM
Not just the Warren court but the whole liberal turn to litigation as a driver of policy in 1960s onward is a big force in Democratic party, with regrettable results.
Jeet Heer @HeerJeet
A lot of people have a REALLY strange definition of “freedom.” #CarDependency:
Brent Toderian
i don't think many liberals realize how common it is for conservatives to oppose no-fault divorce. it's not some fringe belief. Ross Douthat has written Times columns implying we should get rid of it.
Law Boy
Why did the last IPCC report say so much about carbon dioxide removal? Not because scientists wanted to say it. It was because “Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries were most insistent that CDR and CCS should be included and emphasised.”
Dr. Jonathan Foley @GlobalEcoGuy
Tax cars by weight. Tax commutes by VMT. Build housing where amenities are abundant. Build amenities where housing is abundant.
Dianne Martinez @EmeryvilleDi
If people with power were serious about protecting rights they’d be talking constantly about investigating all these corrupt Supreme Court Justices who are all lousy with billionaire bucks and sweetheart deals. That they aren’t tells you everything you need to know.
Jared Yates Sexton
Your semi-regular reminder: 
Brent Toderian
Harry Belafonte set the standard for engaged, principled, and informed celebrity activism. His wisdom, courage, generosity, and consistency has been a model for so many of us. He was truly one of one. Rest Well, Mr. B.
Marc Lamont Hill
When all you have is a hammer, everything tends to look like a car. That’s how the saying goes, isn’t it?
Brent Toderian
Weird how doctors and wellness gurus are allowed to say that people should eat less meat for cancer prevention and heart health, but climate communicators are discouraged from saying people should eat less meat to prevent planetary catastrophe. Why is that?
Dr. Genevieve Guenther @DoctorVive
Suburban sprawl costs 38% more public money upfront and 10% more ongoing public cost than compact infill growth, with only 1/10th the created tax revenue, according to the report discussed in this City Lab article. Sprawl is REALLY expensive for everyone.
Brent Toderian
Still laughing at someone on here calling Moms for Liberty "Klanned Karenhood"
Mrs. Betty Bowers
so is mitch mcconnell dead or what. just put all the good news on one day
@RubyGraceLevine
It's wild how climate planners throw around numbers of actual risk/exposure from e.g. flood and fire risk that are multiples of the entire California state budget, and meanwhile, our cities still throw down to defend parking and single-unit housing. Just a total disconnect.
Matthew Lewis @mateosfo
For a fun bit of context, the dominion lawsuit cost Fox the rough equivalent of the entire city of Saint Paul’s budget for a year and a half. I can’t imagine the kind of chaos I would have to create in order to achieve such lofty heights.
Tom Basgen
Honestly, I don't think a lot of Democrats see the big picture with public education. The GOP wants it to fail. They want to choke the life out of it. They see that it has created a generation that has completely turned on them. They are furious. This is retribution.
Joel Montfort
The Northern Lights and a meteor over Stonehenge this morning. Photo credit Stonehenge Dronescapes on Facebook:
Stonehenge U.K
"Forgive me, but a Bannon-backed, Tucker-platformed, anti-vaxxer... is perhaps not the progressive, principled, anti-establishment, liberal Democratic Party champion that he might want you to think he is." Mehdi Hasan breaks down RFK Jr.'s presidential bid.
The Mehdi Hasan Show
The concept that teaching is something we can reduce to scripts and playbooks is indicative of our cultural disrespect for the field as a whole. The reality is that teaching is a deeply difficult profession that requires immense preparation.
Jamie Lipp, Ph.D.
”In America, there are now 290 million vehicles on the road, or more than one for every single adult. Three-quarters of Americans get to work by driving alone.”
Martti Tulenheimo @tulenheimo
Twitter had the best influencer program in the world. The company created an incentive structure where the most famous people on the planet created content on the site, daily, for free. Destroyed in one day because the new owner thought Stephen King should pay to write for him.
Ben Kuchera
Today I also learned: There are almost twice as many child spouses in America than trans kids diagnosed with dysphoria. WHERE ARE THE 400 NEW LAWS TO PROTECT THESE VERY REAL KIDS AGAINST VERY REAL GROOMERS AND PEDOPHILES THE FUCK
Fort Wayne Crime Erin @CriminalUnionFW
If you really want populism, you need a large, robust administrative state. There's no other way to counteract the inexorable concentration of power -- the drift to oligarchy -- other than with transparent rules and a professional civil service. The core, essential right-wing lie is that if you tear down the administrative state, purge all the "bureaucrats," that power would somehow devolve to "the people." No. Power would just be reconfigured along traditional lines of class/ethnicity/clan/religion etc.
David Roberts @drvolts
I love the human need to create stuff but I don't get rebuilding roads and highways and suburbs exactly as they are now (or even bigger) and not taking the climate opportunity to start over with infrastructure that makes people happy and healthy rather than rageful and sick:
Mary Morse Marti
Somehow people “needing” a massive truck to haul a boat around a few weekends a year is socially acceptable, but not having 100% bike lane utilization year-round is reason to oppose them.
Alex @mplsalex
What does it say about humanity's self-esteem that almost everyone assumes a sufficiently intelligent AI would decide to wipe us out?
David Roberts @drvolts
“One day all these cars will be electric”:
Brent Toderian
At the very least it should become crystal clear that "parental rights" was never about parents' rights to determining their children's education. It was always about targeting LGBTQ kids and teachers, and other forms of bigotry.
Mitchell Robinson @mrobmused
So sad, Mush can make a car that blows up and a rocket that blows up but still can't write a tweet that blows up.
@daniel_barker
The state with the highest drug addiction rate in the US: West Virginia
The state with the 7th lowest homelessness rate in the US: West Virginia
Housing doesn’t solve drug addiction, but it does solve homelessness
Armand Domalewski
I hate that this is apparently controversial, but children shouldn’t be getting married, children shouldn’t be working night shifts in the factories, gun violence shouldn’t be the leading cause of death for children in this country.
@SketchesbyBoze
This graphic (apologies to @TheHustle, I just found it on this site) is a pretty good illustration of why a lot of new American pickup trucks are really just luxury SUVs and not actually that useful:
Daniel Knowles
Someone smoking on the train sucks. It really does. But you know what sucks? People skipping stop signs. Passing you at 50mph on a 30mph neighborhood street. blocking bike ways, forcing you into traffic
Wes Burdine @MnNiceFC
Here is a sheriff and a county commissioner caught in secret tape discussing “hanging Black people by a creek” and digging holes to bury journalists after hiring hit men who would “cut no mercy.” Because it’s America, the sheriff is investigating whoever recorded the tape. I’ve talked to 100s of judges, prosecutors, legislators, attorneys general, mayors, etc in the last 15 years who acknowledge in private the far right control of sheriff and police departments. No one privately thinks answer is better training and more $$$ for surveillance.
Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec
New study demonstrates that energy consumption by a growing number of millionaires means their collective CO2 footprint by 2050 would require 72% of remaining carbonbudget for 1.5C.:
Alexandre @AChausson
america: kids can work in factories now
america: if an active shooter comes into their class, kids should just hide in a big metal box
america: lmao why would preschool be free
america: why aren’t people having KIDS ANYMORE
@jzux
Senate Dems refusal to force Feinstein out is a remarkable display of their allergy to truly wielding power. You think McConnell would've let something like this drag on? She'd have been out a month ago if this were the GOP.
Keya Vakil
Dominion had Fox by the absolute neck and let them go for 787.5 million dollars. WHICH IS A LOT OF MONEY for a corporation. But also not a lot of money when weighed against Fox's damage to American democracy. I get it. And it's bullcrap. Two things can be true at the same time.
Elie Mystal
I'm not sure if this trial would have crippled Fox News, but I do feel a bit silly for thinking that a company like Dominion had any higher aspiration than their own bottom line.
Matt Goldberg
Last week, USDOT released data showing that 7,341 people were killed walking on our roads in 2021. This 12.4% increase is both higher than predicted and illustrative of the urgent need for a better approach to gathering and collecting this data:
Beth Osborne
The Republicans and the NRA have basically returned us to a Hobbesian state of nature where life is nasty, brutish, and short.
Elie Mystal
Some years back my ex inherited some rifles, and it amazed me how having those things in his possession seemed to up his fear of the drug traffic going on on our street – he started talking about maybe having to use his weapons, etc. Just having the guns made him more afraid.
simeon shepard chadwick @simcha1972
If drag shows are our biggest problem, we don’t have any.
@SteveThomsonMN
Clarence Thomas: Sorry about my ineptitude filling out these forms. Fixed it! nbd.
Also Clarence Thomas: Too bad your lawyer was incompetent but you made a mistake filing your appeal so that death sentence is still good. Sorry!
Anthony Michael Kreis
Begging people to realize that many big American cities aren't that far apart and compared to infrastructure abroad our intercity passenger rail genuinely does suck.
@JosephPolitano
There was a ton of news this week. But don't let this get lost in the shuffle. Trump made up to $160 million from foreign countries while serving as president. That's an enormous scandal.
Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew
If you’re incapable of understanding financial disclosure forms, you shouldn’t be interpreting the constitution:
Mueller, She Wrote
Every few months, the New York Times runs an article on how GOP strategists have absolutely manufactured some bogus political crisis to get their rabid base energized…and then the Times will just keep reporting on the bogus story as if it’s real
@BenariLee
Nobody cares what I think about the "is it fascism?" debate but I would just say that, more important than determining the exact right word for it is persuading mainstream institutions to stop normalizing it, to stop treating it as though it were still normal politics.
David Roberts @drvolts
what bothers me about the "AI will replace every artist in X months" type posts is less that i take the threat seriously than that it suggests there is a group of people centered in tech who view the natural human creative impulse inside every person with a seething resentment
@NotABigJerk
With new Inflation Reduction Act funding, the IRS was able to provide 87% of customer calls this tax season with live support, up from 15% last year. The average time on hold decreased from 27 minutes to just four. Government works when you let it work:
Steven Rattner
really seems like at this point that a sustained investigation into clarence thomas’ finances will reveal something much worse than what we’ve already found
@jbouie
this image [from the NRA annual meeting] is just begging for inclusion in a US history textbook:
Ted McCormick
Conservatives in 2021: $600 weekly unemployment insurance will entirely change the behavior of millions of workers.
Conservatives in 2023: How dare you suggest that hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts could influence a single belief of Clarence Thomas.
LPE Blog
A Tennessee bill that allows students to report professors who teach "divisive concepts" passes House and Senate. The list of "divisive concepts" bars discussions on biases, white privilege and racism's role in slavery
philip lewis
Rob Hopkins @robintransition
They’re going to keep hurting trans people worse and worse until enough non-trans people stop trying to change or avoid the subject and say they won’t stand for it anymore
Will Stancil
My students won’t use page break and hanging indent features in Word but hit return or tab over and over. But Republicans think I can change their entire worldview.
Paul Thomas @plthomasEdD
In 1917 it was Clemenceau’s ambition that one day a French child should be born and live for 70 years without fighting a German: something which had not happened for centuries.
That ambition was realised 8 years ago in 2015.
Jonathan Boff
SCOTUS decided Citizens United 5 to 4 — except the part upholding disclosure, which it decided 8 to 1. The lone holdout was Justice Thomas, who wrote in his concurrence that SCOTUS “should invalidate mandatory disclosure and reporting requirements.” Hmm.
Stephen Spaulding
The only realistic positions now are structural reform of the supreme court (term limits/ more justices/ etc.) or "20 years of unalterable religious fascism" and guess which one is the median position of the democratic party
Hamilton Nolan
@johnfbrowning37
I've been sitting here all night getting increasingly pissed that Clarence Thomas is going to overturn affirmative action and when he does it he will couch it in "black people don't need help" language and all the while this guy has been taking land deals from rich white folks.
Elie Mystal
Why does it seem like red states are in a panic to pass awful bills as fast as they can? Why are they suppressing the vote? We know why…the kids are of voting age and they don’t like Republicans.
Jess Piper @piper4missouri
The cleverest bit of illustration I've seen in a while!
Nicholas Gruen
You know that version of US food history everyone just knows? The one where the food system used to be local and built on small family farms that were self-sufficient and virtuous? Nope! It's global exports and human trafficking all the way down.
Sarah Taber
A great encapsulation of this is reading some of Jefferson's letters where he talks about the virtuous agrarian farmer and how we should keep manufacturing in Europe to keep its evilness away and maintain our virtue, all while owning slaves.
@jekcarter
One of the great secrets of copaganda is that most violent harm is NOT perpetrated by strangers. This basic myth underlies a lot of the political support for much of modern policing policy.
Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec
The remedy here is that Thomas leaves the bench in disgrace. It is the only remedy. Nothing else will cure the stain of this corruption. No retroactive tinkering with SCOTUS rules will fix it. He's got to go. And if you're a Democrat and you don't say that, you're screwing up.
Will Stancil
NEW: While secretly accepting undisclosed billionaire gifts, Clarence Thomas pushed to kill all political spending disclosure laws in America, insisting that billionaires have a right to anonymously influence public officials.
David Sirota
I was recently zapped by a police speed gun, doing 26mph in a new 20mph stretch of a 30mph road. On the speed awareness course, I learned something: driving at 20 in many urban areas gets you from A to B in roughly the same time as 30. AND it's safer.
Paul Waugh
If only we were prepared to tackle catastrophic climate change the way we are in the off chance everyone on the planet drives to the same mall on the same day:
Tom Flood
How do you write an article about Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas without mentioning that Crow gave $500K to start Ginni Thomas's consulting agency, much of which went directly into her pocket as salary? This is not just about vacations or eccentricity.
Peter Manseau
Every day I return to this website with more, and then somehow even more, hate in my feed. Yes, it’s ugly, and personal, and saddening, and mostly really really mean. But, at the end of the day, I just think: whatever. I’ll snack on it and move on, the stronger for it.
Leigh Finke
Respectfully disagree with this framing. Tokyo isn't "anti-car" — it's just that transit, bikes, and walking typically offer faster and cheaper (and nicer) ways to get around. That should be our goal: Flourishing cities where people *prefer* not to drive.
David Zipper
Republicans work so hard pushing abstinence-only education when they could just tell the truth about how many pregnant women’s teeth fall out.
Aubrey Hirsch
Congratulations to the Maryland General Assembly, which just passed the Wind Power Act. The bill will ramp up the state's offshore wind targets, facilitate shared transmission infrastructure, and strengthen labor standards. This is what Democrats do when they get power, while Republicans are inspecting children's genitals and denying pregnant women health care.
David Roberts @drvolts
when i say “bring back traditional masculinity” i’m specifically referring to this 1760 portrait of a boy wearing traditional 1700s boy’s clothes while holding his pet squirrel on a chain leash:
@mattxiv
If I had a dollar for each time a city used “Fire Trucks!?!” as an excuse to NOT build safer streets I’d have enough money to buy the city smaller fire trucks
Nathaniel Hood @natehoodstp
Sustaining the American narrative of meritocracy requires a whole culture industry, novels and later movies that constitute a kind of state religion for Americans - and like all religious tales, the American faith tradition is riddled with gaps and contradictions.
Cory Doctorow
A mass shooting in a US bank today — a bank where there were armed guards, including one who was shot in the head and required brain surgery — might shed some light on whether armed guards in schools is the answer to mass shootings in US schools. It’s the easy access to guns.
Brent Toderian
It’s almost like there is a pattern of ridiculous right-wing conspiracy theories being astroturfed to delegitimize investigations into actual existing networks that victimize women and children.
Leah McElrath
Gapminder has an interesting graph of the number of people dying from natural disasters, which thankfully, as so many things, is going in the right direction! 
Niclas Thelander
What we’ve messed up on big time in city planning is the ridiculous micromanaging of things that don’t really matter and under-delivering on things that do. Like, strict signage ordinances and corner side-yard setbacks, and not just running the buses more frequently and reliably.
Nathaniel Hood @natehoodstp
Absolutely love that ‘signed copy of Mein Kampf’ is now supposed to be off-limits for criticism.
@IssueFortyFive
as a general rule, if a guy you've never heard of before comes under public scrutiny, and then 100 of the weirdest right-wing freaks on earth immediately jump to his defense, it's time for more scrutiny
Law Boy
Holy shit…How are we okay with this but fight tooth and nail whenever anyone brings up building ANYTHING but a highway?
HOUrbanist
“I keep it as a reminder that evil exists”... oh yeah must be nice
Adia Benton @Ethnography911
March was the 529th straight month hotter than the 20th century average. If you're younger than 44, you've never seen a cooler-than-normal month
Bill McKibben
If Democrats can criticize a Supreme Court Justice for traveling aboard yachts and private jets belonging to a right-wing billionaire who collects Hitler memorabilia, imagine what they can do to you.
New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
The US can clearly be 100% powered by renewables: The solar, wind and storage projects are there already, waiting in line to be connected. But the grid is built for fossil fuel power and its revamp is being slowed by fossil fuel vested interests
Assaad Razzouk
Republicans spent the past 2 weeks exaggerating and distorting financial ties between George Soros and a DA in Manhattan he’s never met. Now they’re feigning outrage over the mentioning of actual financial ties between Harlan Crow and a Supreme Court Justice who he is very close to! Also, one of the ways in which they smear Soros is to suggest he was sympathetic to the Nazis. And along comes Harlan Crow with his signed copy of Mein Kampf! Remember, for the modern GOP, ‘every accusation is a confession!’
Mehdi Hasan
Putting limited-access highways in the cores of major cities is a bad idea for many reasons, but the main one is that is concentrates traffic at access points, when the goal should be to disperse traffic throughout the network (and put your expressways outside the city core).
Rik Adamski
Wall St Journal, holding back tears: “whomst amongst us hasn’t summered at a billionaire’s hitler particle accelerator”
James Medlock
In 2004, the LA Times wrote a front-page story about Clarence Thomas and the many gifts he had reported receiving: $1,200 in tires. $100 in cigars. An $800 jacket. More than any other justice. Since that story ran, Thomas has reported just two gifts.
emma brown @emmersbrown
In Opinion: "One in 25 American 5-year-olds now won’t live to see 40, a death rate about four times as high as in other wealthy nations," writes David Wallace-Wells. "Firearms account for almost half of the increase."
The New York Times
Among the features that distinguish the U.S. from other rich countries: more religiosity + more guns. Not surprising, then, that religion underlies the push for greater access to even more guns. Related point: When you compare states, the number of gun *deaths* is also positively correlated with religiosity.
Alfie Kohn
We're not prepared for Baby Boomers aging. Up to 40 million 80 year-olds are going to be driving everywhere because that's the only option. Missing middle housing, transit options, traffic safety -- these are massive Boomer issues whether or not they realize it.
Andy Boenau
Our Observation of the Day is this exquisite Lavender Sphinx Moth (Batocnema coquerelii) spotted by laurentdemada in Madagascar on Wednesday:
iNaturalist
To recap this week's news: Donald Trump and Clarence Thomas were both accused of public corruption but it's okay because neither of them used a bullhorn so Tennessee expelled two black guys who want to stop the NRA from murdering children Texas forces people to give birth to.
Elie Mystal
Sincerely wish we would stop pinning racism on specific states or locales and recognize it as the very cornerstone of the entire nation.
Mary Annaïse Heglar
[Finland being the happiest country] "comes down to a number of factors including lower income inequality (most importantly, the difference between the highest paid and the lowest paid), high social support, freedom to make decisions, and low levels of corruption."
Judy Martin @southernrata
One thing about the Republicans: When they win they do all the bigotry and sexism they promised.
Elie Mystal
When three adults and three 9-year-olds were massacred in Nashville, Tennessee Republicans took quick action: They kicked two Black men out of the legislature for protesting gun violence.
@MarkJacob16
A beautiful common waxbill. (Photo by Ian Whyte):
Weird Animals
Housing shortages allow land speculators and property owners to inflate property values via scarcity. That scarcity is caused by excessive zoning, parking, and permitting laws, which curb development. Solving housing shortages has to start at the root by reforming those laws.
Strong Towns
Having a small unelected council of corrupt religious fanatics decide our law with no possibility of redress or change seems bad. As I’ve been saying for a long time, democrats need to come up with a plan to fix the Supreme Court that does not rely on holding the presidency for 16 years without a break (though that would likely do it).
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
A dynamic worth watching: the oil majors think they can make money in decarbonization, but basically all the techs they are betting on (CDR, hydrogen, biofuels) are premised on the limitations of electrification. If electrification ends up going farther than currently predicted -- as I believe it will -- that correspondingly shrinks the space for the techs that oil majors believe will keep them alive. So I won't be surprised if Big Oil becomes more explicitly anti-electrification.
David Roberts @drvolts
This week NHTSA released its 2021 report on road crashes: 42,939 dead, 10% higher than 2020. The report shows that the US road safety crisis is an increasingly urban one. City residents are paying the price for NHTSA's failures:
David Zipper
As Republicans around the country scramble to pass legislation ostensibly protecting students from "woke indoctrination," they bring in an untrained Christian nationalist historian who LITERALLY wants the state to help evangelicals indoctrinate children.
Samuel Perry @profsamperry
If I had a magic wand, I would erase the phrase “culture wars” from what is a backlash to civil rights gains. Nothing “cultural” about racial anxiety and organized fear-mongering.
Maya Wiley
Twitter branding NPR "state-affiliated media" literally conflicts with its own policy: "State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media..."
Ben Pauker
This website is turning into Elon's personal MySpace page. If he wants to decorate it with nonsense, then nonsense it will be.
max asher miller
Trump's warmup music tonight includes Bowie's "Rebel Rebel"
Aaron Rupar
The song "Rebel Rebel" is literally about a young boy who dresses in women's clothing. "You got your mother in a whirl / She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl"
Seth Cotlar
New cover:
David Gura
Just one B-52 bomber consumes about as much fuel in 1 hour as the average car driver uses in 7 years. Four B-52’s made the 15 hour flight from Louisiana to Guam. Climate action includes shuttering huge sections of this war machine.
@ggjalliance (responding to a Stars and Stripes report that "four B-52 bombers arrived last week at Andersen Air Force Base on Guam as part of the Air Force’s ongoing bomber task force missions intended to project U.S. air power in the region."
I think with both vehicle deaths and gun deaths there is obviously a degree of macho entitlement that really is hard for us to confront politically. There’s a lot of deference to, generalizing here but, men and things they like in politics even when it’s tremendously destructive.
Angie Schmitt
High firearm homicide rates in the South are not specific to urban areas. This shows relative rates in non-urban counties:
Andrew Morral
Walkable cities are great for kids learning to cycle, teens wanting to hang out, and seniors meeting friends or picking up a few groceries. The car-trap negatively impacts at every stage of life.
Jennifer Keesmaat
I'm increasingly frustrated by the gun "debate," which is not a debate but the frustration of common sense and public opinion by minority rule. This would not be happening in a full democracy.
Anne Lutz Fernandez
The most important part of the marital vows are not “till death” but rather “love honor and cherish.” Those are the component features that make relationships viable
@solomonmissouri
Stronger than any helmet!
Louder than any bell!
Brighter than any colour!
More effective than any tech!
It’s...Concrete!*
Yes that’s right folks and the good news is this product already exists:
Tom Flood *political will sold separately
Once I was walking a parent to a 6th grade class (during home room). She was going to talk to the classes about her home country of Chile. The National Anthem came on and the handful of children in the halls froze in place, found a flag to stare at and put hand on heart. The woman looked horrified. She looked around and said out loud (to no one) what is happening? When the anthem was over the kids continued on. She looked at me and said she couldn’t believe what she just witnessed. The reason she wanted to talk to the classes was because of what her daughter told her they had learned about Chile. It was explained to the class as if it were a Third World country, and she wanted to set the teacher and the class straight. This experience cemented for her the BS they taught in our schools.
@Sisyphus38
I feel like in the early 2000s the most right wing immigration opinion you’d hear expressed in public discourse would be “I support legal immigration, but we need to crack down on illegals,” but nowadays folks will just straight up oppose all immigration, period
Armand Domalewski
Extinction Rebellion Global
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