Jake Higdon

Also, Greenblatt’s view here seems to be that every Jewish person mentioned by the mayor — here, it’s Chagall, who is being *celebrated* — must be identified as such. That seems like a very dangerous position for the ADL to take.

In the rush to build data centers, companies are starting to use their own off grid gas generators. This results in much higher emissions – 60% to 80% – compared with using their local electricity grid and risks locking in longer-term fossil dependence. www.theclimatebrink....

Example #7,012 of a tech billionaire being incapable of having a normal human relationship with their child

We can and will reclaim control over our own destiny. We can and will meet our obligations to our children. And that begins with victory this fall.

A traitor to the American people

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

In the coming century, there will be very few people who have seen a coral reef or a glacier.

second time in two years that the president authorized billions of dollars in bailout money for farmers harmed by his administration’s own policies www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/b...

Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcxkt

refs should have to explain why that was a holding penalty on camera

This is awful, and the terrorist behavior captured in videos like this — where the masked settler hurling rocks is indistinguishable except for his tzitzit — will only serve to further endanger Jews around the world

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Insane corruption out of this administration day after day

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

We often hear that states are supposed to be the "laboratories of democracy." But that phrase doesn't mean much when states and regional development authorities don't have adequate liquidity to invest in their priorities!

More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d

AP-NORC poll shows about 6 in 10 U.S. adults believe Trump is either illegally profiting or unethical but not illegal. Only about 2 in 10 think Trump is doing nothing wrong, while a similar share say they don’t know enough to say. apnews.com/article/ethi...

THE GREATEST PLACEHOLDING PERFORMANCE IN NFL HISTORY

when football is good football is SO good

“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85

Just two days before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, President Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX, a major federal contractor run by Elon Musk, according to ethics filings made public on Thursday. https://cnn.it/4rRrZU0

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

The NY Fed examines how tariffs affected inflation and finds that, without them, goods prices would have declined as of last February. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/10/how-...

From @theathletic.com: LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting the Polymarket prediction market as he will from playing basketball. The deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions.

This is a meaningful NYT ed board piece, filled with specific principles and calls to action www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...

NEW CPE REPORT on the urgency of building an interregional transmission macrogrid! @cthelala.bsky.social and I argue that only the federal government can get it built; no other actor on the grid is capable of doing so! Really, this is a paper about the theory of transmission as an asset class:

Every new consumer tech release in the last 5 years has felt like “99% of the time this will be used for scams and otherwise degrade social trust, but 1% of the time it’ll do this other thing, and that’s pretty cool/useful”

NEW CPE report on building an interregional macrogrid! @advaitarun.bsky.social & I argue that the U.S. lacks the mechanisms to turn national and regional planning into a pipeline of interregional transmission projects. Federal leadership is critical to close this gap.

Interesting paper just dropped in the great data center debate and it's not great news. Data centers seem to raise the yields on local govt debt since they have a very low long term multiplier and large perceived externalities on public infrastructure. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We also work with @jakehigdon.com and his Advanced Industrial Zones initiative - just the sort of thing you’d need when a large development necessitates marshaling resources, infrastructure, and state capacity. publicenterprise.org/advanced-ind...

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Important to note that "consensual, mutually beneficial exchange" is basically "having an economy".

Trump family crypto earnings: $1.4 billion $TRUMP meme coin: -98% $MELANIA meme coin: -99% “Perhaps the most blatant example of corruption in the history of American politics.” — Bilello

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis, with EVs and public transport among the key factors. Oil consumption fell by 9% overall and by 16% for transport. 🧵

The corruption never ends. One of the energy companies that agreed to cancel an offshore wind farm has promised to instead buy a $900-million stake in a natural gas project from a Trump mega-donor's private equity fund: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...

DEVELOPING STORY: A Florida grand jury investigating the Hope Florida scandal found that key members of the DeSantis administration engaged in a “sophisticated scheme” to divert $10 million of a Medicaid settlement into a political activities and the Republican Party of Florida.

They’re robbing us in broad daylight www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)

WELKER: Do you think democratic socialists have a place in the Democratic Party? VAN HOLLEN: Yes they do as part of the debate. I think that those in the Dem Party who are afraid of a healthy debate are missing the point, because Democratic voters do not want a return to the pre-Trump status quo

An experimental cancer vaccine kept melanoma from coming back. It’s the first successful late-stage mRNA study validating decades of custom-treatment research.

It's insane. Like you can tell people how the water rights system works and they literally will not believe it could possibly work like that because it's so stupid bsky.app/profile/high...

The guy who oversees the U.S. Forest Service called in a ton of extra federal firefighting support for a small fire near his mega-ranch in Idaho, even as many larger blazes burned elsewhere. Rage-inducing @washingtonpost.com investigation: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

Trump says he has a good relationship with Kim Jong Un, asks the lifeguard he's honoring to co-sign his attacks on the press, and then snaps at a woman reporter: "Be quiet! Be quiet!"