Robinson Meyer
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
Founding executive editor of Heatmap News. Contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times. Cohost of the Shift Key podcast. 📍NYC
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How EVs Can Actually Help the Electricity Crisis
Rob and Jesse touch base with WeaveGrid CEO Apoorv Bhargava.
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There’s 40 gigawatts of spare capacity sitting around in Americans’ driveways. Why aren’t we using it to keep down electricity rates? On this week’s episode of Shift Key, @jessedjenkins.com and I chat with the cofounder and CEO of a company trying to do just that: heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
To the degree the response to Mamdani-Trump has been especially deranged, it may be because it reveals the relative unimportance of whatever it is we’re all doing here
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
To the degree the response to Mamdani-Trump has been especially deranged, it may be because it reveals the relative unimportance of whatever it is we’re all doing here
not an eucatastrophe, but definitely the first eumisdemeanor our country has gotten in a while
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
not an eucatastrophe, but definitely the first eumisdemeanor our country has gotten in a while
Only in New York baby only in the USA
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Only in New York baby only in the USA
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The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 59k as manufacturing industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction & transportation has nearly zeroed out
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 59k as manufacturing industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction & transportation has nearly zeroed out
The Center for Public Enterprise wrote about this last year, fwiw: publicenterprise.org/report/smoot...
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Center for Public Enterprise wrote about this last year, fwiw: publicenterprise.org/report/smoot...
“A key House panel this afternoon advanced a bipartisan permitting deal that would include language appearing to bar Donald Trump or any other president from rescinding permits for energy projects.” heatmap.news/energy/speed...
House Permitting Bill Would Block Trump From Pulling Permits
It was approved by the House Natural Resources Committee on Thursday by a vote of 25 to 18.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“A key House panel this afternoon advanced a bipartisan permitting deal that would include language appearing to bar Donald Trump or any other president from rescinding permits for energy projects.” heatmap.news/energy/speed...
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Manufacturing consent
MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In the documents, Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend."
Epstein emails show close connection with MIT's Noam Chomsky
MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In t...
www.wbur.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Manufacturing consent
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People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
Essay | How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party
We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.
www.wsj.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
State-level Democrats have embraced affordability as a new theory of how to win.
That approach is reshaping some of their climate policies. Across the country, Dems are slow-walking GHG mandates or accepting more fossil supply to help stabilize energy prices. heatmap.news/politics/dem...
That approach is reshaping some of their climate policies. Across the country, Dems are slow-walking GHG mandates or accepting more fossil supply to help stabilize energy prices. heatmap.news/politics/dem...
Democrats’ New Affordability Message Is Complicating Climate Policy
The transition to clean energy will be expensive today, even if it’ll be cheaper in the long run.
heatmap.news
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
State-level Democrats have embraced affordability as a new theory of how to win.
That approach is reshaping some of their climate policies. Across the country, Dems are slow-walking GHG mandates or accepting more fossil supply to help stabilize energy prices. heatmap.news/politics/dem...
That approach is reshaping some of their climate policies. Across the country, Dems are slow-walking GHG mandates or accepting more fossil supply to help stabilize energy prices. heatmap.news/politics/dem...
frankly not a given and a big relief nymag.com/intelligence...
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
frankly not a given and a big relief nymag.com/intelligence...
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
On this week’s episode of Shift Key, we talk to @advaitarun.bsky.social about the financial anatomy of the data center boom and what its unraveling — or continuation! — could mean for clean energy and electricity innovation. heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
How Clean Energy Could Prepare for an AI Bubble
Rob and Jesse talk data center finance with the Center for Public Enterprise’s Advait Arun.
heatmap.news
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
On this week’s episode of Shift Key, we talk to @advaitarun.bsky.social about the financial anatomy of the data center boom and what its unraveling — or continuation! — could mean for clean energy and electricity innovation. heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
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I'm on @heatmap.news Shift Key this morning to talk all about "Bubble or Nothing" and the fragility of the data center investment boom!
heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
How Clean Energy Could Prepare for an AI Bubble
Rob and Jesse talk data center finance with the Center for Public Enterprise’s Advait Arun.
heatmap.news
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I'm on @heatmap.news Shift Key this morning to talk all about "Bubble or Nothing" and the fragility of the data center investment boom!
heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
In the new Ken Burns documentary, they have a historian talking about the significance of the Boston Tea Party demonstrators dressing like Indians, and I was like, ok, that’s smart, but who is this guy. It was Philip Deloria.
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In the new Ken Burns documentary, they have a historian talking about the significance of the Boston Tea Party demonstrators dressing like Indians, and I was like, ok, that’s smart, but who is this guy. It was Philip Deloria.
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Cuts to NIH grants have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, with infectious disease research hit especially hard. A stark example of the real-world repercussions of Trump and co.'s health policy 🧪 my latest:
NIH grant cuts have disrupted hundreds of clinical trials, study finds
The second Trump administration has been defined by widespread cuts to federal spending, including at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). | The second Trump administration has been defined by wid...
www.fiercebiotech.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Cuts to NIH grants have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, with infectious disease research hit especially hard. A stark example of the real-world repercussions of Trump and co.'s health policy 🧪 my latest:
if the Washington Post editorial board is now perceived as Bezos stooges, that actually opens up a massive opportunity in the district for a credible, 'good government' local interview and endorsement operation
washpost's ai-generated comment summaries continue to deliver
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
if the Washington Post editorial board is now perceived as Bezos stooges, that actually opens up a massive opportunity in the district for a credible, 'good government' local interview and endorsement operation
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More broadly, the 2024-2025 pro-Democratic shifts seem to be biggest in the poorest areas while in the richest towns the electorate got more Republican, ruining many a narrative
NEW: New Jersey’s township data is (mostly) in, so
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJ’s blue shift/pendulum swing
The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governor’s race
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJ’s blue shift/pendulum swing
The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governor’s race
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Maps Show How Latinos Who Shifted Right in 2024 Snapped Back Left in 2025
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
More broadly, the 2024-2025 pro-Democratic shifts seem to be biggest in the poorest areas while in the richest towns the electorate got more Republican, ruining many a narrative
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I can feel it happening. It is involuntary. It is beyond me or my ken to resist. I am beginning to talk myself into a very expensive digital camera purchase.
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I can feel it happening. It is involuntary. It is beyond me or my ken to resist. I am beginning to talk myself into a very expensive digital camera purchase.
It feels like the WSJ is the last outlet that can do this kind of sports story — interesting, reporting-driven, and accessible to casual fans who follow the sport but don’t work in the industry. www.wsj.com/sports/footb...
The Big Ten, SEC and the Battle Over the Future of College Football
The two athletic conferences effectively rule the sport. But they disagree on critical points about its future.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
It feels like the WSJ is the last outlet that can do this kind of sports story — interesting, reporting-driven, and accessible to casual fans who follow the sport but don’t work in the industry. www.wsj.com/sports/footb...
If you're curious about this topic, a good starting place is our recent Shift Key episode about China’s grid with @michaeldavidson.bsky.social. China’s energy policy is much closer to ‘all of the above, but with a geo-security twist’ than we sometimes imagine: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
November 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If you're curious about this topic, a good starting place is our recent Shift Key episode about China’s grid with @michaeldavidson.bsky.social. China’s energy policy is much closer to ‘all of the above, but with a geo-security twist’ than we sometimes imagine: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
“‘A man is created not for peace, but for war, and Russians—for victory,’ Vladimir Solovyov, a TV anchor close to Putin, told a gathering of young adults in Moscow last fall. That is resonating with thousands of Russian children who have lost relatives in Ukraine.” www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Putin Is Turning Eighth-Grade Classrooms Into Army Training Grounds
A vast militarization of the education system is gathering pace in Russian classrooms, where students are trained to handle weapons by active soldiers.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“‘A man is created not for peace, but for war, and Russians—for victory,’ Vladimir Solovyov, a TV anchor close to Putin, told a gathering of young adults in Moscow last fall. That is resonating with thousands of Russian children who have lost relatives in Ukraine.” www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Just as pizza was not perfected until it left Naples for New York, the pasty was not perfected until it left Cornwall and became the Uncrustable
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Just as pizza was not perfected until it left Naples for New York, the pasty was not perfected until it left Cornwall and became the Uncrustable
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just a reminder that King folded in September. don't believe he ever voted against cloture.
not sure he really is the guy to talk to re: what the people who moved their votes were thinking.
not sure he really is the guy to talk to re: what the people who moved their votes were thinking.
Straightforward confirmation from Angus King that the gang of eight made the deal out of earnest concern for the filibuster. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
just a reminder that King folded in September. don't believe he ever voted against cloture.
not sure he really is the guy to talk to re: what the people who moved their votes were thinking.
not sure he really is the guy to talk to re: what the people who moved their votes were thinking.
Straightforward confirmation from Angus King that the gang of eight made the deal out of earnest concern for the filibuster. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Straightforward confirmation from Angus King that the gang of eight made the deal out of earnest concern for the filibuster. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/13/w...