🧵We KNOW Donald Trump is a criminal. But not enough Americans know what happened to the criminals around him. You’re not going to like the answer. What if I told you that the New York City mob never disappeared, and it’s alive and well in the GOP? /1

Claims that the US might become Nazi Germany if Trump is elected may seem a little far-fetched (though the analogy is striking), but not nearly as far-fetched as Elon Musk's claims that the US nay turn into Venezuela if Kamala Harris is elected. I'd say it's more likely that the

The world just had its warmest recorded day ever.

Athan Koutsiouroumbas The findings were not "terrifyingly bad." The average decrease in employment was 15 minutes per day. And that average hides the fact that childless adults and those over age 30 didn't work any less than the control group. More in this thread: x.com/scottsantens/s…

Do you remember this voice?

How can we reframe the debate over divisive topics like like capitalism? Here's an experimental video format that tries to bridge that gap. It's part of a series called "Faces of X" that tackles hot culture wars issues like gender, race, abortion etc by steel-manning the

Actually, it functions quite well under coercion. That’s what laws are, and most businesses stay within the law while being very innovative and productive. Think of it like the rules of a board game.

Elon Musk Press freedom ranking: 1. Norway 🇳🇴 2. Denmark 🇩🇰 3. Sweden 🇸🇪 4. Netherlands 🇳🇱 5. Finland 🇫🇮 6. Estonia 🇪🇪 7. Portugal 🇵🇹 8. Ireland 🇮🇪 9. Switzerland 🇨🇭 10. Germany 🇩🇪 ~ 13. Lithuania 🇱🇹 14. Canada 🇨🇦 16. Belgium 🇧🇪 18. Iceland 🇮🇸 21. France 🇫🇷 23. UK 🇬🇧 30.

I Sverige går utvecklingen i diametralt motsatt riktning. I augusti minskade antalet elbilar med 31 procent. Förklaringen är att regeringen slopat stöder till elbilar och istället lagt 17 miljarder på att göra fossila bränslen mer konkurrenskraftiga.

Den här ska vi ha.

To have a functioning democracy we need functioning democratic media. In this day and age, that means democratic social media.

Millions of heat pumps have been installed in the Nordics with almost all new individual heating systems installed being heat pumps today. How have these countries achieved such a remarkable transition? More in my piece for Carbon Brief 👇 carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how…

I had a look at the party program of the AfD, that's the party that Musk supported. They're old-fashioned climate change deniers of the most idiotic kind. They still claim (in 2025!!) that the "The question for the human contribution [to climate change] is not settled." We left

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

And there you have it. From the guy who says elections are rigged AND wants to stay in power forever.

Bad. Very bad.

Is this the ”free speech” you’re rooting for DHH?

In today's Vatnik Soup, I'll discuss extensively why the West is losing the information war. The format is a bit different from earlier ones, but here goes: The West is losing the information war Countries like Russia and China have spent years turning disinformation into a

I'm about to do something I think I've never done before, which is assert every bit of whatever authority I have as the person who discovered and wrote down the rules of open source. After ten years of drama and idiocy, lots of people other than me are now willing to say in

Europe is back! The Finns from Donut Lab announced the First Solid State Battery in production and available in vehicles from today! Amazing numbers! 400Wh/kg, 5-15 min charging, charge to 100% discharge to 0 without degradation, 100k!! cycles, extremely safe, -30Celsius to