Supercritically excited that Einstein’s Shadow has made the New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice list
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Author, Einstein's Shadow, . Chief features editor . Past: Bottled Lightning, editor
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California? No, mid-Hudson Valley, NY. Minnewaska State Park is ablaze. #climatechange
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Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys goes on an epic rant against MAGA grifters with no lies detected and the Boston accent is the chefs kiss
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I love that restaurants used to be called "Dave's Diner" and now they're like "Dishrag & Alchemy: a restaurant experience from the FIREFUCK group"
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Here's the problem for the elite political media: To cover the threat to the republic truthfully, they're going to have to write/broadcast things that have collateral benefits to the Democratic Party. No way around it. The point is not to worry about that.
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Super bummed out by NPRs analysis of Biden’s speech, which focused entirely on how it might alienate republicans in November and not even a single goddamn mention about the substance of the speech. The media is not up to this.
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I'm sure he just conscientiously and securely shredded the documents that were in those empty folders, to make sure they didn't fall into the wrong hands.
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Here's two paragraphs editors should insert into articles about how partisan Biden's speech is tonight:
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You often hear people who claim that all these EV batteries "will end up in a landfill" because they can't be recycled.
They won't. And the opposite problem is taking shape: there's more recycling capacity coming than there is battery scrap available
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Former president now admitting the Top Secret/SCI docs in the photograph were found “in cartons”
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the lede to this story belongs in a museum
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AG Loretta Lynch offers better confirmation.
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According to the testimony of the Attorney General in the IG report, nine days before the election she and the FBI Director discussed how a “deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton” by a cadre of senior NY FBI agents “has put us where we are today” w/r/t the Weiner laptop.
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I’m pretty sure the former president just confirmed the theory that fear of FBI leakers in SDNY was the reason James Comey sent that October letter re the Weiner laptop and admitted that the letter got him elected.
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I would watch a Netflix comedy about all the different foreign spies who infiltrated Mar a Lago and the wacky hijinks that ensue when it turns out the entire staff are spies who don't know how to run a hotel.
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The ability of Yashchyshyn — the daughter of an Illinois truck driver — to bypass the security at Mar-a-Lago shows how easily someone with a fake identity and shadowy background can get into one of America's power centers newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/anna-de-rothsc
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Same. I've been looking at Twitter this week thinking wait, could *I* have somehow gotten a $5 million PPP "loan"??
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I guess this is not the point, but I would be interested to hear why so many members of Congress had PPP loans, and whether they actually met the standards of payroll support that were required for forgiveness.
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Kind of amazing that in Obama years the government simply lending money to clean-tech firms was borderline scandalous (SoLyNDra!), & now we have straight-up industrial policy thanks to…Joe Manchin. And it seems like one of the least controversial things the Biden admin has done
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I look down at the face of my sleeping child and I vow: If this baby’s life is even one particle easier than mine was, I will burn this whole place down!
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Re-upping my thread from May on the road from Kent State to the $1.75 trillion student debt bomb
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1. Tomorrow is the 52nd anniversary of a tragic watermark in U.S. history, the government killing of 4 students at Kent State. I just dropped this piece on an important, little-discussed part of that story. It's so critical that I'm also doing a thread inquirer.com/columnists/att
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Even if you knew it was coming, this is quite a headline
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SO BASICALLY I OWN TEN PROPERTIES BUT “LEGITIMATELY” ONLY TWO HOMES. A HOME IS JUST ANYTHING IN NEW JERSEY, WHERE I LIVE... MY MANSION IN FLORIDA IS JUST A VACATION HOME, SO THAT DOESN'T COUNT, AND THE ONE IN MAINE IS TECHNICALLY UNDER MY WIFES NAME SO IT'S NOT LEGITIMATELY MINE
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I’ve found the dumbest moment in music history:
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This shows how a lot of the rebates and incentives are stretched out. That big block at the top is for cleaning up the grid. The nuclear spending is /mostly/ to keep existing plants operating at full capacity.
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"upbeat about prisoner exchange"
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Bill Richardson Upbeat About Prisoner Exchange politicalwire.com/2022/08/16/bil via @politicalwire
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The exponential growth of solar and wind energy is astonishing
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Voila: The newly unsealed (and lightly redacted) search warrant, attachments, and property receipt for the search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco
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*The far right is constantly threatening violence if it doesn’t get its way. Does anyone truly believe that giving in to its blackmail will make it less aggressive?"
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HERE’S THE PART WHERE I TURN ON CAPS LOCK AND SAY TRUMP’S OWN MENTOR ROY COHN SENT THE ROSENBERGS *TO THE ELECTRIC CHAIR* FOR SUPPOSEDLY PASSING NUCLEAR SECRETS
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FBI searched Trump’s home looking for nuclear documents and other items, according to people familiar with the investigation washingtonpost.com/national-secur
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Anyone who defends this is a traitor and a nihilist: “Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to sources.”
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Hard to think of a story that’s melted down more quickly and spectacularly than that Newsweek article.
Merrick Garland is gonna roll in here 30 minutes late with an iced coffee.
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Wondering how deep Europe's drought is?
Here's the Loire river today, east of Nantes, via
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New books on intelligence, medicinal cocktails, galactic history, and more
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I just watched a hummingbird land on the hummingbird feeder, then fly away because, oh right, we haven't changed the hummingbird water since before vacation and by now it must be absolutely disgusting.
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In Katy Perry's hit song California Gurls she says "California girls - we're undeniable"; what could she mean? Was anyone previously under the impression that there are no girls in California before the decisive evidence of this song had been produced?
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Pretty clear argument here that Manchin ruined the EV tax credit for several years starting in 2024.
By far the best bus bench ad I’ve seen in 11 years living in Boise
“Doug”! Nailed it
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It really do be like that
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The argument that nothing the US does on climate will matter without China is a lot less compelling when you realize that China already spends well over twice as much as we do annually on building clean energy technologies: assets.bbhub.io/professional/s
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FYI nothing the West does to reduce emissions matters if China is not on board
It is a literal lost cause
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I’m generally pro black hole but this game sucks
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