Jimmy Neckbeard
@jjsands.bsky.social
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin
I am YIMBY, but I believe we can keep environmental laws and shouldn't ally with fascists.
I am YIMBY, but I believe we can keep environmental laws and shouldn't ally with fascists.
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The fact that we already have Health Savings Accounts and the most marketized health care system in the world, and it is also the most expensive system does not seem to put a dent in these guy's theories of health economics
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The fact that we already have Health Savings Accounts and the most marketized health care system in the world, and it is also the most expensive system does not seem to put a dent in these guy's theories of health economics
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UPDATE: 3 things I learned today
1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals.
2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas
AND…
1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals.
2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas
AND…
Here at the US Capitol to talk with some senators about the risks and harms of carbon capture and storage, which is mostly used to extract more oil from ground, enjoys taxpayer subsidies, is prone to escape, threatens drinking water and public health, and is generally scammy.
Science belongs here.
Science belongs here.
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
UPDATE: 3 things I learned today
1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals.
2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas
AND…
1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals.
2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas
AND…
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Please note that oil and gas are allowed to claim the 45Q tax credit without any verification that they actually captured the CO2 they said they did — and certainly without having to sequester the carbon 🤡
UPDATE: 3 things I learned today
1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals.
2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas
AND…
1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals.
2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas
AND…
Here at the US Capitol to talk with some senators about the risks and harms of carbon capture and storage, which is mostly used to extract more oil from ground, enjoys taxpayer subsidies, is prone to escape, threatens drinking water and public health, and is generally scammy.
Science belongs here.
Science belongs here.
December 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Please note that oil and gas are allowed to claim the 45Q tax credit without any verification that they actually captured the CO2 they said they did — and certainly without having to sequester the carbon 🤡
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Whole of the American economy is now piracy.
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Whole of the American economy is now piracy.
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anyone else feel like a lot of recent news stories were pushed to exhaust us so we'd be too tired to say much about the recent designations of civil rights groups as terrorist organizations and people being compiled into fbi watchlist groups for expressing anti-christian and pro-lgbt views?
December 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
anyone else feel like a lot of recent news stories were pushed to exhaust us so we'd be too tired to say much about the recent designations of civil rights groups as terrorist organizations and people being compiled into fbi watchlist groups for expressing anti-christian and pro-lgbt views?
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i will again note the slight of hand here. “respecting” public opinion is defined as being subservient to public opinion. but you can respect where the public lies without making yourself a slave to its whims.
This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
i will again note the slight of hand here. “respecting” public opinion is defined as being subservient to public opinion. but you can respect where the public lies without making yourself a slave to its whims.
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ACP’s Grumet, by playing a centrist game by being risk averse not joining litigation against Trump & now aligning with fossil fuels to endorse the SPEED Act has pissed off a major wind developer as well as three powerful U.S. senators including Heinrich, Whitehouse, and Schatz.
#PoliticalSkillz
#PoliticalSkillz
E&E News reporting that offshore wind developer Ocean Winds yelled at the head of American Clean Power, the largest clean energy trade group, this spring because they refused to join the lawsuit against the offshore wind ban
December 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
ACP’s Grumet, by playing a centrist game by being risk averse not joining litigation against Trump & now aligning with fossil fuels to endorse the SPEED Act has pissed off a major wind developer as well as three powerful U.S. senators including Heinrich, Whitehouse, and Schatz.
#PoliticalSkillz
#PoliticalSkillz
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Amazing how many people heard “the problem with the Iraq War was that it wasn’t brutal or rapacious enough” and concluded “Donald Trump is the peace candidate”
You call it "piracy," I call it "Trump finally fulfilling his campaign promise from 2016 to seize another country's oil."
Trump's plan to seize Iraq's oil: 'It's not stealing, we're reimbursing ourselves'
Strategy of taking oil in Iraq and from areas controlled by Isis presents huge issues from almost every angle and ‘would amount to a war crime’, experts say
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Amazing how many people heard “the problem with the Iraq War was that it wasn’t brutal or rapacious enough” and concluded “Donald Trump is the peace candidate”
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it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society
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E&E News reporting that offshore wind developer Ocean Winds yelled at the head of American Clean Power, the largest clean energy trade group, this spring because they refused to join the lawsuit against the offshore wind ban
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
E&E News reporting that offshore wind developer Ocean Winds yelled at the head of American Clean Power, the largest clean energy trade group, this spring because they refused to join the lawsuit against the offshore wind ban
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Admit it: if you were writing a fictional account of a daft, mad authoritarian president, you wouldn't put in there that he *brags about passing basic cognitive tests meant to screen for dementia*. It's simply not realistic! Reality is simply not that absurd!
December 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Admit it: if you were writing a fictional account of a daft, mad authoritarian president, you wouldn't put in there that he *brags about passing basic cognitive tests meant to screen for dementia*. It's simply not realistic! Reality is simply not that absurd!
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Bring me your rich, your wealthy, your privileged masses yearning to take over the world.
December 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Bring me your rich, your wealthy, your privileged masses yearning to take over the world.
These are people who will actually buy several homes, too.
An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
These are people who will actually buy several homes, too.
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In case people forgot, Dokoupil is the guy who got circumcised twice as an adult convert and very publicly posted and wrote about it constantly in the New Republic
Bari Weiss Reportedly Taps Tony Dokoupil as Anchor of CBS Evening News- This is same Tony Dokoupil who slammed Ta-Nehisi Coats on CBS morning show for his book that spoke of Palestinian humanity. This is why Ellison hired Weiss- to feed us right wing propaganda. Turn the channel!
December 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In case people forgot, Dokoupil is the guy who got circumcised twice as an adult convert and very publicly posted and wrote about it constantly in the New Republic
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at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it
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jimmy fallon has a knack for embracing scams
December 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
jimmy fallon has a knack for embracing scams
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This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
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I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.
Couple of things here:
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.
I am coming back from the holiday break with a Chris Gaines wig and a soul patch.
December 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I am coming back from the holiday break with a Chris Gaines wig and a soul patch.
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journalists need to stop. AI cannot give you the opportunity to speak with your dead grandmother. this is just data slop. someone doing an impression of your grandma with a sock puppet would be considerably closer to what this headline is suggesting than anything AI can or will ever be able to do.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
journalists need to stop. AI cannot give you the opportunity to speak with your dead grandmother. this is just data slop. someone doing an impression of your grandma with a sock puppet would be considerably closer to what this headline is suggesting than anything AI can or will ever be able to do.
"AI should be in your battle rhythm every single day."
December 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"AI should be in your battle rhythm every single day."
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What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy
Since when do employers expect references to answer ten written questions or navigate some crappy web app? Just call me and ask me questions. This is terrible.
December 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Since when do employers expect references to answer ten written questions or navigate some crappy web app? Just call me and ask me questions. This is terrible.
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Of course she picked Mr. Katy Tur---he accused Ta-Nehisi Coates of being no different than a Hamas suicide bomber
a man in a suit says wow that was racist in yellow letters
ALT: a man in a suit says wow that was racist in yellow letters
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Of course she picked Mr. Katy Tur---he accused Ta-Nehisi Coates of being no different than a Hamas suicide bomber
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I would like to formally challenge the argument that government would be worse at spending billionaires' money than billionaires
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I would like to formally challenge the argument that government would be worse at spending billionaires' money than billionaires