Nils Klinkenberg

ED @BHFriendsHouse in Boston. Fellow & Board member @StartingBloc. Tender of communities. Big fan of humans, ideas, curiosity & cleverness, meaning & mattering.

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

Independent analyses estimate that your actions to dismantle USAID and drastically reduce lifesaving foreign aid have already killed 700,000 people. Here are some of those people. 🧵https://t.co/aKdQpk9QTW

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health” https://t.co/ZuaFDFQHWD

[Jason Paladino @jason_paladino]

The folks at @bellingcat created this helpful visualization showing the locations of the ICE vehicles and personnel in relation to Renee Nicole Good’s car, using imagery of the shooting. They posted on the other site but not here.

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

“Officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

https://t.co/gYLYnaxkmy

[Patterico @Patterico]

Oh my God. All these criminals are simply going to loot the Treasury through made-up lawsuits. And now Senators are in on it too. And nobody cares.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention. It has significant implications for cybersecurity in the age of AI agents.

Read more: https://t.co/VxqERnPQRJ

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt.

This is simply false. UN data show solar 8x cleaner than gas, 19x than coal per kWh. Solar repays CO2 in 4months.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

"Who was president in 2020," the hardest question in politics.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

🎯

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

just absolutely insane

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

The entire State Dept office of multilateral nuclear affairs was dismissed last week, Alexandra Bell tells @CFR_org.

“These were people responsible for efforts to ban explosive nuclear testing, the production of weapons grade material, people working on nuclear disarmament verification, experts that simply cannot be replaced.”

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Trump has never seen a wind farm in China because he's an incurious narcissist who ignores all information that contradicts his biases. The Gansu wind farm is the largest onshore wind farm in the world, with 7000 turbines. China is the global leader in installed wind capacity.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Shocking how bad this bill is:

- 17 million would lose health care

- 30% higher electricity costs

- Millions of manufacturing and construction jobs destroyed

- Biggest ever cut in food assistance for families, kids, veterans

- $4 trillion in deficits

- $1 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires & billionaires

People should be on the phones, in the streets, and telling everyone who’ll listen

[Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot]

Work requirements are welfare for Deloitte.

[Strxwmxn @strxwmxn]

Just so non-traders understand the bombshell here:

Right before the S&P 500 (SPY) suddenly spiked, someone bought a huge number of call options — bets that the index would go up that same day. These were zero-day options, meaning they expire worthless by the end of the day unless SPY rises quickly. At the time, they were almost worthless.

Then SPY shot up. Those dirt-cheap options exploded in value. A $100K bet turned into $21 million in minutes.

That green spike before the jump is not luck. It’s foreknowledge. Someone knew exactly what was about to happen.

Someone’s going to prison.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I am all for cutting gov costs, then and now. I'm even more for efficiency

I would have a plan. Ready Fire Aim is not a plan.

Cutting programs without knowing if they would have saved taxpayers more than they cost, or saved lives, is a mistake

Tariffs, cutting programs, agencies and employees ALL AT ONCE, without doing an analysis of the impact on city, towns and states they impact, is going to backfire big time

Some cities have 9 pct or more of their employment as federal workers. Colleges losing millions in funding. Gov contractors and grant recipients having to close their businesses and lay off everyone.

Repeated in city after city. Town after town

What do you think the economic impact on their tax base is ? What do you think happens to home values ? What services will they have to end ?
What about the local businesses ? How many people will lose their jobs and homes because this was done ALL AT ONCE

Cut federal government bloat in an organized fashion and it's great.

Ready Fire Aim and the uncertainty it creates is a huge mistake

[Conor Friedersdorf @conor64]

A lot of people know deep down that the Trump Admin is behaving shamefully with regard to Ukraine, but don't want to admit, even to themselves, that America is being dishonorable, so they fixate on matters of no consequence, like Zelensky's manners, to distract their consciences

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

3. All supplies of US-manufactured emergency food packets for starving children on the brink of death – terminated. https://t.co/CZM8EJR73L

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

Yesterday, Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. 🧵

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.