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[Catherine Tinker @catherinetinker]

i am a single issue voter and the issue is nuking prediction markets

[Nathan Strang @NavyStrang]

Ok, so lets learn a little about the electrical grid because this is not the fist politician, or even mayor of NYC, to make a request like this. You can find instances from every state and every city no matter the political affiliation.

So first of all, NYC doesn't make its own electricity, a public company (Con Edison) does. That electricity is comes from all over the northeast. That utility has capacity to make electricity for a "normal" amount of usage with some surge capability. No grid, anywhere, is designed for worst case situations.

In a normal day in NYC the difference between the outside temp and desired inside temp is like 10-15 degrees and only for 2-3 hours. In those times only a percentage of ACs run at any given time so the maximum demand is spread out and the grid is able to stay balanced.

In a heatwave the temp difference is 30+ degrees and lasts 6+ hours meaning almost all ACs are running all of the time. That demand is now 2, 3, or 4 times higher than the planned maximum.

So what does ConEd do? Well it will bring in more power from the grid by buying it from other providers... BUT if the whole of the region is under the same heatwave, it can't do that as there is no excess power. Even if it could the "pipes" are only so big so you can't push all the power needed.

I get that electricity is magic and Americans assume they can have an infinite amount of anything at any time and never have to pay for it or suffer the consequences. But that belief and being mad that you can't have everything you want whenever you want it is far closer to socialism than saying "hey everyone, we need you to accept some personal responsibility for the group."

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses. https://t.co/uYom4BthnT

[Ravi Mangla @ravi_mangla]

Just black holes of energy, water, and tax revenue

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

AI videos require approximately 10,000x the computing power of a Google search.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

While I disagree with it being unclear, if you’re struggling with “is he left wing Antifa or a right-wing Groyper?!” Two things are clear:

1) He was mentally unwell.

2) It was too easy for him to access guns.

Solving these problems require more investment in mental health services, and better gun control regulations.

[Mike (not a) Rothschild @rothschildmd]

The ATF is already backing away from the "transgender ideology engraved bullets" claim, per the NYT.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Law enforcement now noting that the claims of “transgender and antifascist” slogans:

-“has not been verified”
-“conflicts with other evidence summaries”

Exactly as I said, it was suspiciously convenient to the irresponsible podcaster-FBI leadership and didn’t match the behaviors or other released facts of the shooter.

Even if they end up FULLY denying this claim over the coming days and saying it was incorrect - the most extreme of MAGA is going to run with it anyways.

This is why having professionals investigate and not release partial information matters!

[March For Our Lives @AMarch4OurLives]

Gun violence spares no one.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk makes clear that this crisis doesn’t care about ideology or politics — it endangers us all. We know the solutions: stronger background checks, extreme risk protection orders, accountability for the gun industry, and more. What stands in the way is not a lack of answers, but political obstruction. Every day of inaction costs lives.

It’s long past time for leaders of every party to choose people over politics and act.

[KB @MindOfKB]

We interrupt the shooting at a college to bring you news of a shooting at a high school.

This is America.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Iceland is the world’s biggest consumer of SSRIs. They’ve had less than 10 gun homicides since 2020; in the US, there have been over 90,000.

Japan is one of the largest video game markets in the world. They have 10 gun deaths per year; the US has nearly 50,000.

It’s the guns.

[Ron Iver @ronnui_]

The fact that it's funded by private donors doesn't make it any better. It shows that the wealthy are actually willing to spend money on public resources, but just not if it helps people.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

The Diocese of San Bernardino has suspended the Sunday Mass obligation due to fear of ICE raids.

This is what the Trump-Vance agenda looks like in real life:

Catholics too afraid to go to church.

The MAGA assault on the Catholic Church isn't theoretical. It's happening now.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

I hate to say it, but something’s not adding up.

ADP said we lost 33,000 jobs in June. Trump’s Labor Dept claimed we gained over 100,000. That’s not a small miss—it’s a red flag and it's happened multiple times already since he took over.

When someone lies about $2 gas and everything else, why would we blindly trust their jobs report? At some point, you have to ask: are they cooking the books? They have earned the scrutiny.

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

Pay close attention to what Tillis is saying here. They delay the deepest Medicaid cuts until after the 2026 midterms... so voters wouldn’t notice until it’s too late.

[Matt Fuller @MEPFuller]

Sen. Kevin Cramer saying the bill “doesn’t get any easier” if it hangs out there during recess is pretty revealing.

If what you’re passing is popular, why wouldn’t you want people to know what you’re passing?

[Brian Rosenwald @brianros1]

It's just funny that the same people who lost their everlasting shit over Biden's student loan program are like cool, cool presidents can just bomb stuff with no congressional authorization.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Marco Rubio, immediately after saying he's pausing all student visas, celebrated the University of Florida winning a national basketball championship.

Does he know that that team included key players on student visas from Nigeria, Australia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Serbia, and Canada??

We are such a deeply stupid country it actually hurts.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

We are going to lose an entire generation of scientists.

NSF, one of the largest federal funder of STEM education has seen an 80% reduction in funding, including support for trainees, so far this year.

“You can’t have science without scientists”