MatttttttttB

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e.g. Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader

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Some nice copy here …apparently California now has batteries roughly equivalent to 5 Diablo Canyons (in capacity, not run time…)

"No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler is more clean energy, especially solar, and above all, battery storage..." 😀

California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteriesthinc.blog No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler …

Exclusive: Humiliating photo

Academic conference-attendees everywhere find themselves involuntarily wincing in sympathy.

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If you're concerned about misinformation and/or corporate ownership and influence over information, this is the kind of thing that is worth your support. givebutter.com/The51st

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Awesome new report on Chicago transit filled with fascinating maps & insights from @humantransit.bsky.social

We've been busy in the Chicago area, including work for Pace and a new report for CTA. Here's my take on where the region stands on public transport. humantransit.org/2024/07/chic...

Chicago Area: Rethinking Both Pace and CTA — Human Transithumantransit.org As the State of Illinois engages in a complex conversation about how to fund public transit into the future, our firm has been doing planning work with two of the three big agencies in the Chicagoland...

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This is not good. We're going to pay companies who claim to be making "clean hydrogen" but cause emissions to go up. Sigh. Good piece about bad news by @emilypont.bsky.social heatmap.news/economy/hydr...

The Hydrogen Tax Credit Rules Are Effectively Deadheatmap.news The “three pillars” are crumbling.

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A reminder that @notalawyer.bsky.social and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social covered this weirdo's book on @ifbookspod.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3lWy...

lol, lmao

Hillbilly Elegyopen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from If Books Could Kill on Spotify. In 2016, J.D. Vance informally launched his political career with "Hillbilly Elegy," a memoir that blames the relative poverty of Appalachia...

media will never understand him this way but Vance is like Thiel (and Trump tbh), a product of elite political/legal/financial circles with fascist inclinations

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The fully loaded 2025 Dodge Viscera

at least they have margin of error bars. if i'm reading it right. but not gonna log in to check lol.

Peak NYTimes The margin is the same in both places but Biden is "trailing" in PA and "only slightly ahead" in VA.

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Here's the money quote: Int: Can you describe your own social life? What clubs are you in? Putnam: That’s a really embarrassing question. [Laughs] I write about and talk about the importance of connections, but my wife actually does it. She is actually the one who joins everything.

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This is from the Facebook page of the bystander killed in the shooting on Saturday, for the "Lower the temperature" crowd to ponder.

If at first

Loved climbing these trees

this is maybe not the most neutral-pov in the world but i find it very touching that the editor of this wikipedia article clearly loves these trees as much as I do

Only people I trust are the ones who understand that “fuck off” or some equivalent can actually be a very healthy and even polite thing to say

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Stephen West

Thomas is today memorialized in a historical marker at Fort Stevens, as part of the Brightwood Heritage Trail. A section of Quackenbos Street NW south of the fort was designated Elizabeth P. Thomas Way in 2012. You can read more about Thomas and the site at: www.nps.gov/articles/fea...

“It’s not just your garden” lol the imagined reader here

“This might be the best year for hydrangeas that I’ve seen in at least the last decade,” one Massachusetts gardener said. The flowers have become a quintessential attraction for many towns on the Eastern Seaboard. Here’s what to know before they’re gone.

It’s Not Just Your Garden: ‘Hydrangea Hysteria’ Blooms in the Northeastwww.nytimes.com Here’s why hydrangeas are having a banner year on the East Coast and how you can enjoy them.

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23 MYTHS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN SCHOOLS ... "takes on a host of tall tales, ... It will affirm the truth that its readers are as entitled to think critically about schooling as anyone else." Coedited with David Gamson Royalties to US Hist of Ed Soc. Ask your library to buy it!

23 Myths About the History of American Schools 9780807769263 | Teachers College Presswww.tcpress.com Teachers College Press

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Y'all remember this show about the class of 2000? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fblr...

YouTube- ABC's My Generation - Trailer.mp4www.youtube.com

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Can we air condition our way out of extreme heat? A primer on air conditioning from The Climate Brink www.theclimatebrink....

Can we air condition our way out of extreme heat?www.theclimatebrink.com part 1: a primer on air conditioning

We serious here?

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

Has the shape of a Silicon Valley bit

Eric Adams opened this morning’s press conference by rolling a garbage bin up to the podium, placing a bag of trash in it, and saying “welcome to our trash revolution” while Empire State of Mind played in the background

Straight up fantasy

If you care about criminal system reform, Project 2025 would allow the DOJ to prosecute reform-minded district attorneys.

“The Hearst newspapers were smeared” no!

Also, Lyn Nofziger, the future Reagan aide who was put in charge of using the government to go after Nixon's enemies, cut his political teeth in 1946 by trying to get one of his high school teachers fired because she was supposedly a red. North Hollywood Valley Times, 17 October 1946.

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The silver lining, to the extent there is one, in Grants Pass: www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

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Here are a few books to help understand what subversion from *within* the loyal states looked like during the US Civil War. On insurrection plots by Northern Dems: Weber's Copperheads. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A 🧵 on political strategy at a time of max threat to democracy (such as it is/was): In 1860, Lincoln was elected on a Republican platform that pledged to prevent the expansion of Black enslavement into western territories, but claimed impotence in assailing slavery where it already existed. 1/

goddamn. bit about romantic anti-politics is very on point i think, singles out what frustrates me about Moyn types. who posture about doing politics but i think actually have a disdain (an elite disdain??) for politics

S Holmes is pretty good here i think www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stephen Holmes · Radical Mismatch: Cold War Liberalismwww.lrb.co.uk Samuel Moyn doesn’t really believe that his four Cold War liberals (Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Lionel Trilling and...

saw a few people making this point and it seems so empty. "oh were you not aware that the president can do anything already?" guess the whole GOP legal apparatus is confused about the groundwork it needs to lay, then!

to me this particular interjection is just like saying there was practical prez immunity anyway, since we can all see there were live questions for the courts to consider. so no big deal.

Appending "Is there anything funny that has resulted from this?" to all of these instead of just number 16 is kind of fun

Came across a questionnaire explicitly designed *not* to foster intimacy between two people and it is a flashback of all the worst first dates I've ever had www.stafforini.com/docs/Aron%20...

God seriously

I am so tired of the already elected saying that things hinge on the next election. Do more now and run on it. If I was president the day I learned that crimes were legal for me I might act on that knowledge and get the Supreme Court in line.

lol I watched this the other day it’s so great

I actually have nothing against Canada except jealousy of their healthcare. But I’m proud to have written this sketch and song. Eh.