Does it?

Our team spent long hours reporting on and around Columbia’s campus on Thursday & Friday. I want to clear some stuff up. I didn’t see a single instance of violence or aggression on the lawn or at the student encampment. The student-led protest was peaceful and often very quiet…

Kevin McCarthy: still a dissembling, sniveling snot-weasel. So glad he's gone from Congress.

The press has mocked Biden for visiting his son’s grave “too often”, they have made fun of his speech, they have spread right wing lies and conspiracies about his family. They even once asked him if he was going to have his dog put down. I’m glad he’s giving you the cold shoulder

“The main obstacle to cycling is not hills or the weather: it’s inequality. Equality and cycling are cause and effect.

The existence of cycleways reflects how egalitarian and democratic a society is, and high-quality infrastructure for cycling produces a more inclusive society.”

Classic philosophical debate about words masquerading as a debate about reality.

There's no Maggie Haberman because Biden isn't a bottomless hole of human need so thoroughly terrified of being alone with his thoughts that he'll dump his entire twisted subconscious to any reporter who'll nod, transcribe and save the most incriminating stuff for a book.

When she's right she's right.

We talk about how climate will force 'managed retreat' from the coasts, but we talk less about how economic developments & population movements are going to force managed retreat from numerous small-town & rural areas in the US. We're not ready.
economist.com/briefing/2024/…

Stunning new report on the backup in interconnection queues: 'Nearly 12,000 projects representing 1,570 gigawatts (GW) of generator capacity and 1,030 GW of storage actively seeking interconnection.' (95% of that is solar, storage, & wind.) emp.lbl.gov/sites/default/…

Interesting that Climeworks is pivoting from offering only its own industrial DAC to offering all kinds of (supposedly high-quality) carbon offsets. Seems like an admission that there just isn't enough affordable industrial DAC to supply demand. climeworks.com/press-release/…

Seems crazy that you'd need to argue this, but yes, author Stephen Markley (of The Deluge fame) is correct that a Trump reelection would be a disaster for the climate. nytimes.com/2024/04/20/opi…

Interesting/growing startup making fabrics out of ... brewed protein. Whatever that means. Apparently it's way easier to recycle. spiber.inc/en/news/spiber…

I appreciate hannah gais laying out the way that 'anti-woke' is just a thin contemporary veneer on venerable RW racism, sexism, etc. But it's hard not to think that this is all very obvious & that centrist elites fall for it because they *want to*.
forummag.com/2024/04/16/the…

I have to confess that I no longer understand exactly what is going on in Shogun.

Happy sleepy Sunday.

A sitting U.S. Senator named Cotton incited his audience to brutality and murder against peaceful protesters. He is in no way alone in his murderous desires.

The desire to kill fellow citizens is everywhere in my country, if we look.

Let's look. the-reframe.com/americans-who-…

I’ve seen critiques of the poor methodology and cherry-picking in The Bell Curve but I haven’t seen much about the absolutely deranged fever dream of predictions about the coming decades in its closing chapters. It has been 30 years, so let's review. 🧵: