Of this awful list, isn't "31 Republicans leaving Congress" a good thing?
06.03.2026 19:32
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
Of this awful list, isn't "31 Republicans leaving Congress" a good thing?
In fact, experts predict that "between 2025 and 2030, more than 90% of new electricity capacity anywhere in the world is expected to be renewable."
Before heading into the weekend, enjoy this uplifter from David Wallace Wells in The NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...
(Photo by Karsten Würth)
Good News Friday:
In January, just seven fossil-fuel-powered cars were sold in ALL of Norway.
(Fun fact: That's only one more than the number of times Donald Trump's businesses have declared bankruptcy.)
All optics to the contrary, the green transition is moving forward globally.
Learn more at "Friends of Brooklyn Story Lab" in the BSL monthly newsletter: conta.cc/4rLBp2B
And if you're interested in being featured for your book, film, podcast, art exhibit, social good effort, or other project (and if we're connected on LinkedIn), DM me!
With no food snobbery and no guilt about guilty pleasures, Cox celebrates good taste in its broadest form. From high-end indulgences to lowbrow delights, the guiding principle is simple: eat with curiosity and pleasure. It’s a joyful antidote that enthusiasm belongs at the center of the table.
Friends of Brooklyn Story Lab Spotlight:
Writer Tara Cox's Substack, "The Promiscuous Palate," is for the classy, the trashy, and the hungry.
Someone ought to look into that...
(Photo: Scott Tobin)
(4/4)
If only there were an energy source that:
• did NOT rely on shipping lanes
• did NOT depend on geopolitics
• did NOT heat the planet
• created millions of jobs
* and the fuel supply of which is effectively infinite — as long as the sun rises and the wind blows.
(3/4)
So tankers stop moving. Insurance spikes. Markets panic. Governments scramble. And energy prices soar.
All because the global economy still runs on a finite fuel that must funnel through a few fragile chokepoints.
Sigh.
(2/4)
DIRE STRAIT
About 20% of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
Which is a problem when there’s a war in the Middle East, and the backup route via the Red Sea passes uncomfortably close to Houthi missiles.
(1/4)
Jacquelyn Francis, Executive Director/Founder of Climate Curve, breaks it down here in the Aspen Daily News:
www.aspendailynews.com/opinion/clim...
(Photo: Ricky Beron)
Yes, this winter has had some record-breaking snowfalls, and it's been colder than in winters of the recent past.
But of course that does that mean that global warming is a hoax — it simply is a symptom of climate change, which means exactly what is says.
" 'Weather' is what one experiences when one steps outside. 'Climate' is the long-term pattern playing out over decades and centuries. Conflating the two is one of the fastest ways to show a scientist that you have no idea what climate change actually is."
Okay, I'm seeing I'm not the first person to point out this homophone. Sigh
Read the full piece at Brooklyn Story Lab: www.brooklynstorylab.net/blog/olympic...
Buried there are 3.6 million pounds of radioactive waste. Stored in aging casks. On a beach vulnerable to destructive king tides. In a region so seismically active it has earned the nickname “Earthquake Bay.”
Roughly nine million people live within a 50-mile radius.
What could possibly go wrong?
Unlike the 2024 Paris Games, which sent surfers halfway across the globe to Tahiti, Los Angeles will keep its surfing competition closer to home: San Onofre Beach, one of Southern California’s most iconic breaks.
San Onofre is also home to the retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).
The 2028 Summer Olympics promise spectacle and pageantry, with representatives from nearly every nation on earth (at least the ones whose governments have yet to be toppled to distract us from the Epstein Files).
But taken together, the Games once again captured the global imagination, reminding us how powerfully a single flame can unite us and hold the world’s attention.
In two years, that flame will be lit in Los Angeles.
OLYMPIC TORCH, MEET NUCLEAR WASTE
The 2026 Winter Olympics have just concluded in Italy — dazzling performances on ice and snow, punctuated by the occasional over-confessional athlete (see Norway) and embarrassing governmental official (see U.S. and ... U.S. again).
With friends like these…
* Emoluments: see Amazon's $35m budget for the "Melania" documentary
* AI: Her plagiarized convention speech was ahead of its time in fakery
* Even Obama's tan suit: see Melania's "I don't really care" jacket
2/2
Is Melania the vortex of ALL political issues?
* Immigration: how did she — and her parents — get visas? (Answers: "Einstein" visa — seriously! — and "chain migration")
* Epstein: how did she meet her current husband? (Ask author Michael Wolff)
1/2
Now I can say why
Thx Martin! Been in a mini Easy Riders-era marathon.
I liked elements of Klute & Fonda was a revelation, but I feel like I figured out whodunnit pretty quickly (and I'm no genius).
There were parts of McCabe that I adored & I generally like Beatty, but found him problematic in McCabe & Shampoo.
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Problematic titles?
* "Klute" was less about Sutherland's Klute & more about Fonda's Bree
* Source novel for "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" was just "McCabe" — but the character names are not as interesting as McCabe's quandary
* And ... "It's Chinatown, Jake"
#FilmSky
In an NFL players' survey of the overall quality of the teams they play for — including facilities, work conditions, etc., the Pittsburgh Steelers came in last.
The Steelers' locker room was graded an F. Players reported that it "has only five bathroom stalls for the entire team."
No spoilers but I very much enjoyed today’s Wordle
We don't HAVE to be doom-and-gloom: We can take action. But first we have to recognize that this is NOT a hoax, and we ("the U.S.") have to invest wisely in renewables and clean sources of energy, creating green jobs and not letting other nations take the lead on solar, wind, and other safe sources.