IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages....
What Biden has done is to cut the issuance of drilling leases to the minimum required by law, pass the Inflation Reduction Act, enact a regulation to force vehicle electrification, and similarly force fossil fuels out of most power plants....
The cause was easy enough to identify: Data parsed by Kuhls and her colleagues showed that drivers were speeding more, on highways and on surface streets, and plowing through intersections with an alarming frequency. Conversely, seatbelt use was down, resulting in thousands of injuries to unrestrained drivers and passengers....
It’s pretty clear he doesn’t have the cash to pay the judgement in full, and will need to sell illiquid assets at a discount in order to pay the full amount.
The economy’s strength and stability — defying many of the most optimistic predictions — represents a remarkable development after seemingly endless crises...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Texas hospitals and doctors are not obligated to perform abortions under a longstanding national emergency-care law, dealing a blow to the White House’s strategy to ensure access to the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022.
“we’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions,” Woods told Fortune...
Physicians say they’re seeing an explosion of birth-control misinformation online targeting a vulnerable demographic: people in their teens and early 20s who are more likely to believe what they see on their phones because of algorithms that feed them a stream of videos reinforcing messages often divorced from scientific...
X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)
IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages....
MAGA Republican Pledges “End of Democracy” to Rabid Cheers at CPAC | Republicans at CPAC 2024 are openly vowing to take down democracy. (newrepublic.com)
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Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet (www.canarymedia.com)
Eat Less Meat Is Message for Rich World in Food’s First Net Zero Plan (finance.yahoo.com)
Biden says global warming topping 1.5 degrees in the next 10 to 20 years is scarier than nuclear war (www.cnbc.com)
What Biden has done is to cut the issuance of drilling leases to the minimum required by law, pass the Inflation Reduction Act, enact a regulation to force vehicle electrification, and similarly force fossil fuels out of most power plants....
Energy efficiency of active travel (walking, cycling, ebike) compared to an electric car (www.itf-oecd.org)
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The Supreme Court Has Itself to Blame for Texas Defying Its Orders (www.theatlantic.com)
It Is No Longer Possible to Escape What We Have Done to Ourselves (www.nytimes.com)
Missouri Rejects Rape Exceptions, Senator Says Forced Birth Can Be ‘the Greatest Healing Agent’ (jezebel.com)
Should Climate Protesters Be Less Annoying? (newrepublic.com)
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Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening? (www.nytimes.com)
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Why Are American Drivers So Deadly? After decades of declining fatality rates, dangerous driving has surged again. (www.nytimes.com)
The cause was easy enough to identify: Data parsed by Kuhls and her colleagues showed that drivers were speeding more, on highways and on surface streets, and plowing through intersections with an alarming frequency. Conversely, seatbelt use was down, resulting in thousands of injuries to unrestrained drivers and passengers....
To Fight ‘Shrinkflation’ France Will Force Retailers to Warn Shoppers: Merchants will be required to put signs in front of all products that have been reduced in size without a corresponding price cut (www.nytimes.com)
I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something New. (www.nytimes.com)
Fox News to Taylor Swift: ‘Don’t Get Involved in Politics!’ (www.nytimes.com)
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (www.nytimes.com)
Biden calls for broad new social programs, higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy (wapo.st)
Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student tracking her private jet (www.theguardian.com)
Trump Offers Court a $100 Million Bond to Pause a $454 Million Judgment (www.nytimes.com)
It’s pretty clear he doesn’t have the cash to pay the judgement in full, and will need to sell illiquid assets at a discount in order to pay the full amount.
Everyone expected a recession. The Fed and White House found a way out. (wapo.st)
The economy’s strength and stability — defying many of the most optimistic predictions — represents a remarkable development after seemingly endless crises...
Texas doctors do not need to perform emergency abortions, court rules (wapo.st)
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Texas hospitals and doctors are not obligated to perform abortions under a longstanding national emergency-care law, dealing a blow to the White House’s strategy to ensure access to the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022.
Exxon-Mobil CEO flips from "it's too soon to act on climate" to "it's too late" as a means of discouraging decarbonization (fortune.com)
“we’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions,” Woods told Fortune...
There is something wrong at the New York Times | From presidential polls to refusing to report on Trump’s stumbles, things aren’t adding up at the Gray Lady (www.salon.com)
Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion (wapo.st)
Physicians say they’re seeing an explosion of birth-control misinformation online targeting a vulnerable demographic: people in their teens and early 20s who are more likely to believe what they see on their phones because of algorithms that feed them a stream of videos reinforcing messages often divorced from scientific...
Scientists Are Freaking Out About Ocean Temperatures: “It’s like an omen of the future.” (www.nytimes.com)