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Min(Distributional impacts) + max(Just transition); vibing out in Brooklyn, born x raised in Los Angeles :) probably to the left of my employer, so YMMV @davidamanfu on twitter.
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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

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I could have imagined a lot of things in American politics but not a normalization of Nazi salutes and such tentativeness by the media to call them what they are. They are Nazi salutes. It’s not owning the libs. It’s not joking. It’s fascism. If you give a Nazi salute, you’re a fascist. Just say it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 12 comments

Someone is going to have to put in so much work redacting these

submitted 14 hours ago • 16 comments

They do Nazi salutes because they’re Nazis.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

purges...

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

The arrival of authoritarianism is bad for climate action

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JAGs AND the Joint Chiefs Chairman???? On a Friday night???

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

White House claims authority over FERC, other independent agencies

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

Creeping authoritarianism is bad for climate action

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Massive reorg at DOE??? What’s the sitch?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

From a month ago btw

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Between DOGE, the Supreme Court, and this new EO, Trump is dismantling all corporate oversight and turning our regulatory agencies into the legal and policy equivalent of decorative gourds this WILL kill people at scale, but every story I read about it puts you to sleep by the fourth paragraph

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Creeping authoritarianism is bad for climate action

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submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

What is happening right now is not just a targeting of minority groups and our integration into society. It is the targeting of minority groups as part of remaking the United States government and the theory of democracy that has organized it for over two centuries.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Lol

submitted 3 days ago • 158 comments

oh word? lemme fill out my apology form, Kathy, you go Gov.

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Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Dawoud Bey Asks, Can Landscapes Hold Traumas? The point is: We remember traumas, and it’s crucial that we do, and not foist off our responsibility onto mute things that do not answer when we call. #BlackHistoryMonth hyperallergic.com/990588/dawou...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Have a listen to @charlesxhua.bsky.social discussing crucial work of his new org, @powerlines.org, in educating folks about role of state-level public utility/service commissions in the energy transition, and promoting advocacy of a wider range of stakeholders. (1/2) heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I think the DOGE madness will start hitting state employees hard very soon too, yes.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Historically, suddenly forcing massive numbers of highly educated and well paid people into unexpected mass unemployment has not led to *stability*

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How completely jealous am I of Brazil right now

submitted 4 days ago • 174 comments

I know that lisp he’s packing a lip Forsure

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

if no one else in your life says it to you today: you deserve love

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

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The cast member who displayed the Palestinian, Sudanese flags during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show will not face charges, New Orleans police said

submitted 12 days ago • 70 comments

[even while I'm on vacation] Creeping authoritarianism is bad for climate action

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Creeping authoritarianism is bad for climate action

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Why get mad at Calvin Johnson cause YOU want to run the triple option? I’m not CJ I’m just Allen Lazard? POINT STILL STANDS. [metaphor]

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Creeping authoritarianism is bad for climate action

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

- racist DOGE guy (redundant) canned - federal judge upholds birthright citizenship - another judge blocks voluntary resignation - NY state going to court over treasury business - patel put on ice for at least a week

submitted 16 days ago • 112 comments

putting out this call again: folks at DOE, EPA, FERC, OSTI, EIA etc who want to securely chat with a reporter.......my signal is mollytaft.76 (perhaps goes without saying but don't use work networks or devices to reach out)

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

if you're asking yourself: what is going on with government permitting under the trump administration right now? you're not alone

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Guys this is not hard… don’t be wicked… and we won’t cheer

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments