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[🚽 🤴JRR ToiletKing @toiletkingcap]

king toilet h/t @cowboybeeshop https://t.co/5dcMpuUqW4

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Great piece from @NathanTankus taking on @edzitron's claim that AI bond issuance is somehow akin to subprime mortgages. https://t.co/WeG1Wd78AD

[Sina Toossi @SinaToossi]

Never forget: Trump chose this path. He tore up a working nuclear deal in 2018, in large part to satisfy major pro-Israel donors like Sheldon Adelson, then followed Netanyahu and the Israel lobby’s lead on Iran. The result is the catastrophe we are witnessing today.

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

“Where is Vader today?”
“He’s paying the Rebel Alliance $300 billion dollars after defeating them completely, every day for the last four months, sir.”

[MTS @MTSlive]

CRÉMIEUX | TIM HWANG | ELI LILLY | POPE AI ENCYCLICAL https://t.co/1EWXfI8T3b

[Steffan Szumowski @UnoMasReactor]

Fusion company starts building fission reactors 🧐

The first thing that came to my mind...

[Laurie Kilmartin @anylaurie16]

I’m so disgusted by the United States.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Almost one month ago to the day, Trump pardoned a drug trafficking president from Latin America. https://t.co/slrWhKiHjq

[Johnny AGI @JohnnyAGI]

I just torched my Bill Clinton hat.

Yep, after seeing him in the Epstein files I'm done.

Got rid of my Bill Clinton Bible, Bill Clinton Playing Cards, Crypto, and NFT's.

Tossed out my Bill Clinton mock Credit Card, Commemorative Coin, and $400 golden sneakers.

And if my Bill Clinton Freedom Phone ever arrives, I am NOT using it.

[Rep. Adelita Grijalva @Rep_Grijalva]

Well, that was awfully quick.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

[Redacted @SMediaMoniker]

@BrookhavenLab @SecretaryWright @ENERGY Tricycle and an autograph, the stuff of sincere, steadfast, investigative science. Thanks for keeping Chris distracted for the day.

[Redacted @SMediaMoniker]

@SecretaryWright BREAKING: DOE's Loan Programs Office has officially canceled another loan guarantee, this time a $716 million loan guarantee for transmission and substation upgrades for Jersey Central Power and Light. This loan was expected to save JCP&L ratepayers $150 million.

[Betsey Stevenson @BetseyStevenson]

My fear is that ordinary Americans are not experiencing the firing of an experienced, non-partisan, leader of a statistical agency as the major earthquake for the United States that it is.

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission provides a powerful legal barrier against antinuclear forces in the USA who seek to delay and destroy nuclear energy through legal uncertainty.

But now the NRC is under full-scale attack from a bunch of folks who don't seem to understand the crucial role the NRC plays in protecting nuclear energy from endless, arbitrary legal attack and investment-killing uncertainty.

Just a few minutes ago Republican Annie Caputo, perhaps the most pro-industry NRC commissioner of them all, resigned. @AlexCKaufman has the scoop. Caputo apparently resigned rather than be compromised by politics of NRC independence destruction.

The NRC helps ensure that there is only a tiny, extremely tough attack surface for antinuclear legal efforts to target. Running a reactor for 60 years? 80 years? There is very little that antinukes can do to stop it when the NRC says yes (and the NRC has agreed with its engineers and has said yes over and over).

Balkanizing nuclear regulation by handing it over to overworked and unqualified national or state-level bureaucrats and politicians radically expands nuclear's legal attack surface while making it thin and penetrable.

If I were at the Sierra Club or another antinuclear lobbying organization, I'd be delighted by the openings to attack nuclear energy this creates. You don't have to win your lawsuit against nuclear, you only have to delay it and add uncertainty to kill off a nuclear plant project. This was the playbook that the NRC killed off over time.

Does the NRC need to be reformed? Yes! Can it move faster? Yes! And this reform was happening and so is the speed-up. I've not met any serious, seasoned pro-nuclear expert who doesn't agree. But not a single one thinks the Commission itself should be politized or eliminated.

The NRC in the past has sharply limited the influence of antinuclear politicians from hurting nuclear.

Texas, for example, is attacking the NRC both from a "pro-nuclear" AND an antinuclear position! And we want to trust Texas non-technical lawyers and politicians to not abuse their nuclear power to hurt nuclear if it's politically expedient, as is happening now by trying to block a spent fuel storage facility?

And the vast majority of delays in developing and deploying new nuclear reactors have causes OTHER than the NRC. Developing nuclear reactors that function well is really hard! Building nuclear plants is hard! Blaming the NRC from the outside is easier than learning nuclear engineering or deployment history!

I hate seeing the current nuclear renaissance be jeopardized by ill-considered attacks on perhaps the most nuclear-friendly major regulator in the world.

I work on nuclear energy around the world and though the NRC isn't perfect, for those of us who love nuclear energy and want to expand it, it's better than pretty much any other regulator in a democracy.

I will be speaking out more publicly about this attack on nuclear energy's legal basis in the USA and I ask those who know the truth about this issue but who have not spoken out publicly to make your voices heard.

[Jonathan McDowell @planet4589]

Jonathan's Space Library will be moving to Bromley, south of London, at end 2025.
Still to do: - Complete purchase of property
- Planning approval for renovation
- Construction, and shipping!
https://t.co/UyzEdJzXKw
Funds still needed

[Noah Gordon @noah_gordon_]

"You find the level of hypocrisy you're comfortable with", says @MikeGrunwald of eating chicken (but not beef) while writing a book about food and climate.

I love the quote and the honesty. A lot of people who work on climate have feelings like this about beef, flights etc.

[Nani 🏹 @lenubienne]

It took me 2 attempts, 4 years of being undocumented after 9/11, and $30k (now closer to $40k, with inflation) to get my US citizenship. And that was with the privilege of access to attorneys and non-marital sponsorship. Please shut the entire fuck up about how “easy” it is.