@arvindpawan1
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin Co-Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis (CEESA) studying greenhouse gas emissions measurements and carbon accounting across global energy supply chains.
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Every single individual involved in this should be criminally tried and put behind bars for the rest of their lives.
What can you even say? These people deserve their inevitable humiliation and the nation deserves journalists with more self-respect.
if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying
So let’s think about this.
A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands.
The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it
I think much of the next administration will be spend repairing relationships with allies and begging them to engage with us again through apologies/incentives.
Given how moronic and anti-America the current administration is, it is likely our relationships have been damaged beyond repair.
Really do think its under-discussed how much the popular position in Europe and the UK isn't just becoming anti-American but actively pro-China by extension.
Yes, and the fact that TX intensity is ~flat/declining despite the load growth is important. To put it differently, TX would have overtaken CA in decarbonizing its electricity sector if not for load growth. And if roles were reversed, I'm not so sure CA would have been able pull of what TX did.
I think if this keeps up (flow is good, stock is bad), the stock problem will take care of itself. TX stock is also high because it has the highest concentration of mining/manufacturing industrial activity.
I'll still post here but people talk about it like that's their job.
Haha, I don't think that's particularly useful. Back in grad school, all of us students sat in a bull pen. Those random conversations now become skeets, and like then as it is now, neither particularly interesting nor useful.
All this manufactured debate about X vs Bluesky, and yet no one talks about the most important aspect of social media:
Saying nothing is free and fabulous.
What's even more important here is that 40% of solar and 53% of batteries will come online just in Texas.
It would be pretty silly to dispute that Texas is the clean energy leader in the US. Lot of states talk about clean energy. Texas deploys them.
This thread shows a deliberate defunding of U.S. science, engineering, social science, innovation, and education excellence. It’s a U.S. national security, competitiveness, and economic disaster.
A tweet from iky_fwjett that reads "hard to find the balance between educating yourself on current events and not making yourself so indescribably sad that you can't properly function"
Sometimes all you have to hold on to is that you're not the only one feeling this way.
There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.
The corollary is that what helps current voters most is likely to be adaptation because we have emitted enough that some harms are already baked in. I think being transparent about who benefits and who bears the cost is important - politicians owe at least that to voters. 3/
Of course, this doesn’t happen overnight. We will need to increase investments in research & clean tech of all stripes so they’re available for future generations, knowing that most current voters may not benefit from this innovation. That’s ok. And I think Americans will be receptive to that. 2/
One thing politicians don’t convey clearly on climate action is that emissions mitigation is a benefit to future generations - specifically, children and grandchildren of current voters. It’s in service of humanity’s moral imperative that we give more to our children that we ourselves had. 1/
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
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On January 10, 2026, while driving back to work after getting lunch with his father and cousin, a car quickly passed O., sped up, then stopped in front of him. (Id. ¶ 3.) A few men in civilian clothes stepped out of the car and asked for his identification. (Id.) The men threatened O.—if he did not get out of the car, they would force him out. (Id.) O. exited the car and was told he was under arrest. (Id.) The men handcuffed him and did not allow him to bring his phone. (Id.) O. felt like he was being kidnapped. (Id.) The men detained O., his father, and his cousin, taking them all to Whipple. (Id. ¶ 4.) At Whipple, there was “food scattered on the floor, the floor was sticky with mud, and everything stuck to your shoes.” (Id. ¶ 5.) The space was so cramped that sometimes there was no space to sit on the floor. (Id.)
The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
We will never be able to wash away the moral stain of this administration and the depravity of the people that take glee in the suffering of children.
There is no punishment in our laws harsh enough for these ghouls.
Recent CBS News news:
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude