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Joel Kaser retweeted
remember when a bunch of teenagers working for Elon cut the funding to Sesame Street a year ago because America was on the verge of financial collapse or something?
Joel Kaser retweeted
Atmospheric scientist here. Let me tell you what was actually "slashed" today.
Slashed: The Endangerment Finding — a 200-page scientific review upheld by the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and reaffirmed by the National Academies of Sciences in 2025.
Slashed: The legal authority to regulate carbon from cars, power plants, and factories. All of it. Gone in one afternoon.
Now here's what you're "saving":
Yesterday Trump ordered the Pentagon — the largest energy consumer on Earth — to buy coal electricity.
Coal costs $69–$169/MWh.
Wind costs $27–$53/MWh.
Solar costs $38–$78/MWh.
99% of U.S. coal plants cost more to run than replacing them with brand-new solar or wind.
That's your tax dollars buying the most expensive electricity on the market. By executive order. While the Peabody Energy CEO stood in the room.
And the human cost of what you're "saving"?
460,000 American deaths linked to coal pollution in 20 years. Coal PM2.5 is 2.1x deadlier than other air pollution. (Henneman et al., Science, 2023)
All to protect an industry that employs 44,000 people total. Clean energy employs 3.5 million.
Joel Kaser retweeted
I got two pizzas tonight (couldn't decide) for dinner for $14. Total. They were insanely good. They are going to have to throw me out of this country.
Joel Kaser retweeted
the fact that we’re watching american citizens getting shot and killed like game tape, as if the stakes were “did he keep both feet inbounds” shows how desensitized we’ve become to violence
Joel Kaser retweeted
Trump in Davos, Switzerland:
"Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German".
German is the main language of Switzerland.
Joel Kaser retweeted
The stock market is down but at least everything is more expensive and services are getting shittier. On the other hand we have more measles. To be fair, they are finally delivering the reductions in FAA and National Parks staff that people have been demanding.
Joel Kaser retweeted
There’s a note from Conan under every #Oscars seat with a snack box of water and a pretzel.
Joel Kaser retweeted
"The United States of America joined Russia, Israel, North Korea, Hungary and Belarus in voting against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
I still can't wrap my mind around this sentence. It gets more surreal each time I read it.
Joel Kaser retweeted
After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in.
Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then.
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It's Monday. @DOGE is the laziest, most overpaid bunch of incompetent, unelected bureaucrats we've ever seen.
Joel Kaser retweeted
People should be infinitely more mad at this than anything the Dodgers have done
Joel Kaser retweeted
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Joel Kaser retweeted
Chinese Tik Tok (Red Note) has allowed me to preach the good word of American Culture…. I am a diplomat.
