UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :

Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn

Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**

Don't believe the wind power haters

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Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

“Who controls every branch of the federal government in 2025?” is the new “Who was actually President in 2020?”

A core feature of our unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis is that the Speaker of the House is permitted to performatively lie in public with impunity from the podium every day & the assembled media in front of him offer approximately no pushback at all on the lies.

Like how can you believe Donald Trump has the absolute God given right to destroy the White House if the whim strikes him and also be able to use a fork or a microwave or dress yourself, or remember your own name and home address?

Intellectually I grasp that Trump's ardent acolytes view him as God's chosen vessel, and treat Trump's will as indistinguishable from the will of God.

Emotionally I have a next to impossible time understanding how anyone's brain can be so utterly broken.

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Trying to think if there’s anything this administration could do that publications like TFP wouldn’t treat this way.

Once you’re creating Overton space for extrajudicial executions, I’m not sure there’s much left.

Measles was eliminated in the US in 2000. Gone, with the exception of international travelers bringing it back in and causing small outbreaks. But now it's roaring back — it's incredibly contagious — thanks to guess who. Guess who!

Yup. Anti-vaxxers.

We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration.

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The idea that whoever and whatever emerges victorious from an election is therefore good and legitimate betrays an incredibly empty understanding of what democracy is supposed to be, stripped of all substantive commitments that actually make it democratic.

My man, the stated policy of your administration is that Canada should become an American state, but Canadians running an accurate ad is a threat to American sovereignty?

Intolerable. Americans are being treated like citizens of a conquered territory

There are many good science fiction novels. Not a single one that I have read delivers a happy vision of the future in which aged right-wing billionaires control the media.

The "theory" is "I've got big guns and the Supreme Court said I'm immune from any criminal prosecution, and Congress lets me get away with everything, so I'm gonna murder brown people with big explosions and tell the public I'm saving them from drugs."

Saved you a click.

Yer media's owned by Trump-loving billionaires.

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I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled

They abolished the House of Representatives ... solely to prevent the release of information about the president's best friend, the pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring.

That's the authoritarian dream

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.

I had it exactly backward.

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

Camps to cage 10,000 people at a time—all denied any due process and targeted because of their skin color and place of origin. Does this remind you of any other camps in times past?

People all over the country need to understand that federal agents are not in Chicago to prevent violence – they're in Chicago to cause violence.