Joel Kaser

Lord beer me strength.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

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 @joelkaser]

@weatherchannel @JimCantore @StephanieAbrams @Paul_Goodloe @dpshow @PaulPabst

[allison wiseman @alwiseman_]

Queue????????? OPEN THE SCHOOLS

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

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.

[Britt Ghiroli @Britt_Ghiroli]

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 @joelkaser]

@JordanSteele @weatherchannel @JimCantore @dpshow @PaulPabst @HiMyNameIsSeton you guys started a trend…more Cantore snow pushups

[Julian Nicholas @JNicholasNYC]

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

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Trump in Davos, Switzerland:

"Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German".

German is the main language of Switzerland.

[Jesse @d0wnsideofme]

holy fucking shit

[Joel Kaser @joelkaser]

@MisterRedlegs Team doctor. But still, 100% Texas

[Joel Kaser @joelkaser]

@PettusWX How visible is it with the naked eye?

[Joel Kaser @joelkaser]

@RedsDaily4 Any game! 🤞

[Joel Kaser @joelkaser]

@NashSevereWx Maybe an odd question, but how far in advance do we know about fog advisories? I’d love to have some advance notice so I can head downtown to take some photos

[Joel Kaser @joelkaser]

@CarlosGuevara58 Lol amazing image choice here

[Joel Kaser @joelkaser]

@dotsonc Make it happen, Chad. It is indeed amazing.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

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.

[Ramin Setoodeh @RaminSetoodeh]

There’s a note from Conan under every #Oscars seat with a snack box of water and a pretzel.

[david ehrlich @davidehrlich]

Conan O'Brien is the best american we have.

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

OSCAR WINNER

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

"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.