Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 10hI think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story. 8946178
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not. 631161173
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...newrepublic.comTrump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ HeelTrump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works. 792240642
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026*taps the sign* danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-reminder...danieldrezner.substack.comA Reminder that Launching a Trade War With Canada is Galactically StupidThis makes no economic sense, no political sense, and no strategic sense. 1113737
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Somehow we are in a shooting war with Iran and a trade war with Canada and we are losing both and international security and international political economy scholars are all at a loss because this is NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN 511079214
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Requisite Tony Judt quote about the single greatest institutional achievement in 250 years of the Republic: 721969
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialKing Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Wisconsin's Democratic primary to be decided by a game of euchre in Oshkosh. 26412
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways. 22681002174
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026When my Civ VI game gets really interesting 215605906
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialAngry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate 10156361504
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/07/2026It's Trump's fucking fault, in case you had any doubt. 7785255
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I always come back to Lincoln on Memorial Day 191052284
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Maybe the most depressing conclusion I’ve come around to in the past decade (and there are many) is that trying to teach & promote widespread “critical thinking” has been a complete and catastrophic failure. Most of the population is not capable of it, and it is socially disastrous when they try. 39901163
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I just noticed there's a giant fusion reactor in the sky. We could probably get some energy from that if oil is a problem 411082191
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026you know, this is why you should not elect people who have never once learned anything about anything 241857369
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialRyan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Most reservoirs are running at or above historical averages thanks to that science. A decade ago they wouldn't have been able to retain so much water this late in the season. But since forecast error went from 33% to 3% with lidar, we can hold onto more drops now! cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/Resco... 45616
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I actually don’t think you have to give them political cover for something patently illegal 948445
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/02/2026The administrators might have been conned by the AI hucksters, but the students, my friends, are all right. (The author is a history and economics major, I'll note.) www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026... 13760156
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/02/2026The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion. 10921371
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/12/2025This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result. 3705815757
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialRob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...interestingengineering.comNew recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteriesResearchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries. 18087932809
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 29/11/2025The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste 18882312331
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest. 1304255353762
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Heat pumps are the most efficiency heating technology ever invented. That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water. Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout. 1682921691
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what." 248245234698
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialGrant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 02/11/2025A wild-eyed Christopher Lloyd explaining that the only way to close the inter-dimensional wormhole from the Cubs winning the World Series is to play another World Series in the "null hour" when clocks are turned back. 131361309
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialRobinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Dig 10 feet underground, anywhere on Earth, and the ground temperature will be a balmy 50 to 60° Fahrenheit (10-15° C). When you tap that ambient heat and hook it up to a heat pump, it becomes the world’s most efficient form of heating and cooling. 2059396
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialColin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18/10/2025After all these years, & a politics degree, & decades trying to teach it, & about 3 million mistily-grasped texts, I’ve finally accepted that it’s a 10 word phrase from a superhero movie that most precisely expresses my political beliefs: “I don’t like bullies. I don’t care where they’re from.” 331385
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/10/2025“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.” 110110301918
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025A stable, functioning democracy is often unassuming, boring even. Easy to take for granted. But this - millions coming together in a shared public space to insist on their rights as democratic citizens - is a mighty reminder that a proper democracy is something quite incredible and inspiring. 8950240
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialErica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 16/10/20251. We earlier reported that the volume of protests in 2025 has been far greater than during 2017, that the movement remains overwhelmingly (and even historically) nonviolent, and that protests have been geographically far-reaching. But just how far-reaching have they been?wagingnonviolence.orgAmerican Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is acceleratingContrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful. 433798
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.” 400159383858
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10/10/2025Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams. 12345652301
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialEmily Cassidy @enviroem.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Simply reducing beef and lamb consumption to one serving a week -- as recommended by EAT-Lancet -- could reduce emissions by almost 3 billion tons CO2-eq. The equivalent of all of Russia's annual emissions. Thanks to @melinawalling.bsky.social for including my thoughts in this article. 24525
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 04/09/2025I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is. Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down! 13297152
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 30/08/2025There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life 612425877
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 04/08/2025say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage 402336950
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Motherfucking wind farms… 11234704117600
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future. 331591461
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/07/2025A lot of snitty responses that boil down to “billionaires make money so they must be right” and dear lord in heaven has anyone been keeping track of how that’s going or am I on drugs to think that’s exactly the wrong takeaway. 181200115
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18/07/2025I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy. 12749311322
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 08/07/2025People really don't understand the difference between the state and federal budgets. The federal government has a 7 trillion dollar budget and can deficit spend. A *big* state like NY spends 250 billion and can't. States can't pick up the slack. 14422113
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 30/06/2025This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte... 622055852
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 22/06/2025The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up. 261197313
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialJesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 19/06/2025‘Throwing us off a cliff': Megabill could derail hundreds of planned clean energy projects www.politico.com/news/2025/06... POLITICO analysis: 794 planned clean electricity generation facilities — 3/4 in GOP districts — that could lose subsidies under the House bill. The Senate is debating changes. 13309151
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/06/2025i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!nytimes.comEveryone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad? 688153321545
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Writing is thinking. 1163230379
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.social🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 16/06/2025But we were told by very smart people not to attack Trump on immigration because it was his superpower 251386191
Reposted by @nicklabinski.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/06/2025The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular? 27291202807