Andrew Nieman

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@RHPeel It will be remembered as a classic and generational case of a half-measure not being sufficient.

What should drive ppl crazy is not striking while the iron was hot and impeaching and removing him on January 7. That was the opportunity. But the people's elected representatives chose to abdicate responsibility.

Cassidy (R-LA) ahead of the Senate's return next week when it's expected to begin work on the Republicans' reconciliation bill funding ICE, postponed by GOP leaders:"Today, the only policies out of Washington are partisan reconciliation bills or executive orders destined to be reversed by the next Democrat administration...These challenges are too large and require too great a sacrifice for one party to go it alone."

Please stop. I don’t want an AI summary of my Google search. I don’t want an AI summary of the text message from my friend at work. I don’t want an AI summary of the email I’m about to read. Please just stop.

Honestly, I’m sick and tired of grown adults calling the climate crisis a hoax. It’s not even a debate, the science has been settled for decades. Your ignorance is not just embarrassing, it is actively destroying the planet and every living thing on it.

It’s tragically comical how all the hyper evil fictional corporations from 80’s and 90’s media like Skynet and Shinra now sound indistinguishable from real world billionaires and corpo heads

I'll say this much, if Republicans nominate Rubio, Democrats have to think long and hard about who they run. A lot of the anti-Trump previously Republican-leaning suburban vote could snap right back to Rubio under the wrong circumstances.

Tactically (in GA), shackling himself to KLB and trying to drag her dead-weight to a win costs Ossoff more political capital than he gets in return. But nationally, it scores him points with the Black voting machines of the party that he'll need is he runs against Harris

Iran is getting into junk fees

@vitaliyk He’s someone who has threatened contractors for his entire life and gotten away with it, and is now surprised he can’t just threaten other world leaders and have them fold in the same way.

Trump is objectively the worst negotiator I've ever seen. Preannounces deals before they're signed, locks himself into weakness, the other side smells desperation and reneges. Count the Russia/Ukraine "deals" he's announced. Count how many closed. A good chunk of the country bought the "Art of the Deal" myth. Turns out he's teaching the opposite: a masterclass in what not to do. There is no art. Just a guy with the temperament and IQ of a chipmunk negotiating for 330 million people.

@DastDn “Mandatorily requesting” ????

250 years building a space shuttle of a country, only to put a crackhead chimp in the cockpit.

Need a deaths vs life years lost comparison on this one

He's a quintessential example of a cult leader. Once people overlooked the sex crimes and pedophilia that's all it became.

“Who is the worst president in U.S. history?” quickly becoming a rhetorical question with as obvious an answer as “is the Pope catholic?” and “does a bear shit in the woods?”

The stock market is decoupled from economic sentiment because investors are assuming every company will soon have mostly AI employees.

Megyn Kelly: “You look across the board at the Trump family, I’ve never seen a family get so rich off of a presidency. I don’t think we want our presidents or their families getting rich off the presidency. I really want to know more about these trades happening on Iran right before he makes the announcements. This is not the way it’s supposed to be”

In his first term, President Trump was constrained. This term, he has surrounded himself with people whose chief qualification is fealty. The result is reckless policy and the brazen pursuit of enrichment. My take:

Remember, Paramount said canceling Colbert was “purely a financial decision.” Give me a break. Paramount has apparently been trying to keep Trump happy for months to get its takeover of Warner Bros. past regulators. This AI video bragging may just be more evidence.

Twenty years ago today, An Inconvenient Truth made its debut in movie theaters across the U.S. I’ll be honest: I was skeptical that my slideshow about the climate crisis could become a successful movie. But thanks to our immensely talented director, Davis Guggenheim, Jeff Skoll, who made the ultimate decision to make the movie, and the incredible team behind the film — Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, Lesley Chilcott, Ricky Strauss, Diane Weyermann, and so many others, the film was a huge success, and opened the eyes of millions around the world to the threat posed by the climate crisis. While I wasn’t sure that there’d be widespread public interest in a science-based slideshow, I have never doubted humanity’s ability to solve this crisis. We know we must act, and Mother Nature is making that clearer and clearer every day. We’re already feeling the rapidly worsening impacts of a warming planet. Those impacts are evidence that our cause is even more urgent than it was 20 years ago. And as a result, the global movement for climate action has grown into the largest morally-based movement in the history of the world. We also know now that we can act. Indeed, in the past 20 years, we’ve made tremendous progress: The world came together in 2015 to forge the historic Paris Agreement, which despite the recent U.S. withdrawal, continues to drive global action and ambition. Incredibly, last year, renewables made up 86% of all the new electric power installed around the world. In the U.S., renewables were 92% of all new power capacity! Electric vehicles are now 25% of all new car sales worldwide and the sales of gasoline-powered vehicles have been declining since they peaked in 2017. Unfortunately, however, the crisis is still getting worse faster than we are deploying the solutions — solutions that are now way cheaper than the dirty and dangerous fossil fuels still spewing heat-trapping pollution into the sky as if it is an open sewer. So, while this is a natural occasion to reflect on the 20 years since the movie came out, I’m focused much more intensely on what we need to do now in order to shape what our world will look like in the next 20 years. I’m still presenting my updated slideshow all over the world, training grassroots climate leaders and working with partners in 194 countries and territories who are creating change in their communities, in their workplaces and schools, and in their nation’s policies. From what I’m seeing and hearing, I have no doubt that we will win this struggle. But it is still not clear that we will win it in time to avoid catastrophic damage and the dangerous negative tipping points that the climate scientists have long been warning us we must prevent. Will we muster the moral courage and political will to solve this crisis? Well, if you ever doubt our ability to do so, just remember that political will is itself a renewable resource. It’s up to all of us to renew it. Photos: Still from An Inconvenient Truth, 2006. Climate Reality Project training in Nashville, TN, 2026.

NYT out with a jaw dropping investigative report on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 60 Minutes reported last Sunday on some of this, too. The NYT report is a must-read, the 60 Minutes report should then be watched. 1/3