the narrative that iced up wind turbines are behind the Texas blackout is total bullshit. in fact wind was overproducing estimates yesterday arstechnica.com/science/2021/0…
one expert "estimated that about 27GW of coal, nuclear, and gas capacity is unavailable, in part because the cold has driven up demand for natural gas for heating" theedgemarkets.com/article/frozen…
Biden so far is like two orders of magnitude better than Obama on climate and the environment. still not good enough but a huge change wsj.com/amp/articles/i…
remember this?
and it was true! under Obama's watch the US became the world's largest producer of oil and gas
few people more profoundly evil than predatory hospital executives. straight up stealing almost $13,000 from somebody on Medicaid nytimes.com/2021/02/01/ups…
some places pay close attention to police records so they don't miss any potential victims nytimes.com/2021/02/01/ups…
"Republicans are going to double down on Trump, culture war grievance politics, violent insurrection, and conspiratorial insanity for the indefinite future." theweek.com/articles/96363…
notable how Republican insurrectionists have to camouflage their agenda of violent authoritarianism, even from themselves theweek.com/articles/96363…
NB that Citadel Securities, who fills the order flow for Robinhood, and Citadel the hedge fund that bailed out Melvin, are different companies (though Ken Griffin founded both of them) theverge.com/22251427/reddi…
anyway the whole point of Robinhood is for Wall Street to swindle naive retail investors by getting ahead of their orders. that's why Citadel Securities pays a huge premium to do it cnbc.com/2020/08/13/how…
who knows how this will all turn out but man is it depressing. millions of activists and ordinary people bust their asses to get Dems the Senate and they are *instantly* betrayed by the party right wing
I will say I'm glad this fight broke out just 5 days after Biden took office. it took almost 5 years to get to a similar place under Obama