Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.
The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.
The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BELIEVES OIL PRICES WILL NOT BECOME A POLITICAL ISSUE FOR THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS, ACCORDING TO A SOURCE CLOSE TO THE WHITE HOUSE CITED BY POLITICO #BREAKING
Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
"...reflects growing concern among some Republicans that Democrats are successfully framing Trump's immigration policy as overly sweeping and indiscriminate."
From where I sit, people are seeing what ICE and CBP are doing with their own eyes, they're not responding to Democratic talking points.
I quote this all the time!
it is so DEEP.
OBSESSED with this description of why Boston can't do big things like the World Cup: “There is this Catholic, Brahmin, and Puritan combination of guilt, arrogance, and frugalness that is a deadly combination for events like this. Too many people take a perverse joy in killing things.”
I can't compete with this.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThvukYp6/
he his hands down the best actor of my lifetime and I will die on this hill (and watch anything, literally anything, he is in)
Krugman, before the last 24hrs of wild oil prices:
"The situation in the Middle East is essentially the worst-case scenario for world energy supplies.
In a dangerous world, it’s infinitely safer to rely on the sun and the wind than to depend on fossil fuels that must be transported long distances."
"The voters said one thing. They wanted an audit of the Massachusetts legislature.
You would think that people whose salaries are paid by taxpayers would oblige to their wishes. You would be wrong." #mapoli
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/09/n...
A former aide to Barney Frank once told me Frank told you your question was stupid (a frequent personal experience) when he didn’t want to answer it
I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
Get ready for some "warflation": higher prices for oil, gas, food (lots of fertilizer passes through Hormuz), goods made with petrochemicals (umbrellas, shampoo, toys, etc.), and pretty much anything that needs to be transported anywhere.
Affordability! open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Perhaps the occasion of this jobs report is a good time to reup my NYT op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Between the decline in employment in February and the downward revision to December, job growth has now effectively slowed to zero. #numbersday
Trump take Dow 50,000
passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'
people.com/trump-says-i...
Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
Tell me you've never read Orwell without oh just nevermind
Hands off our Dunkin' the patriots yelled as they manned the barricades
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/05/n...
NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED
Hey FOIA nerds. We made the educational puppet video you didn't know you needed about how awful Massachusetts is on public records. #foia #masspoli
You're welcome :)
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
A plurality of Americans think ICE should be abolished. Would you support abolishing ICE?
✅Support 47%
❌Oppose 44%
The Economist/YouGov
Keep hearing commentators/Hegseth saying a version of "this is not Iraq, we are not doing nation-building, it's a decapitation, the people will handle it."
That's what Iraq 2003 was supposed to be! Nation-building, de-Baathification, disbanding of Iraqi army, it all came *after* things went wrong.
Sen Mark Warner stunning words after briefing from Trump regime: "Let's bc clear. There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."
