Republicans first said the IRS was hiring 87,000 new armed IRS CI agents. Well, that was such a ridiculous claim that everyone knew it was false. Then they said it was 87,000 IRS agents. Nope, that’s a rubbish claim too.…

Sometimes figuring out WordPress errors is a fun, if sometimes frustrating, puzzle. A client reported her site was down. It had a 500 error – which to use highly technical language – means something is seriously borked. Pressable tech support…

Jail Guitars Doors brings guitars, songwriting and music classes to prisons. It was co-founded by MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, who served time in federal prison for drugs. So, he’s been there. Kramer started it based on a similar foundation in…

Iowa now gets 57% of its electricity from in-state wind energy, and it does this consistently. Texas produces way more megawatts of wind energy than other states. No other state is even close. Yes, I know, this is completely the…

Crazy Elon thinks banning links to other social media will somehow stop Twitter from self-destructing. It won’t. Instead,it will speed the process, as more advertisers and users leave. Mastodon in particular is thriving now. Lots of journalists there now. All…

White men ages 25-54 are leaving the labor force, because their wages are falling, and their social status along with it. This is not happening to women or other demographics. Why is it happening to prime working age non-college graduate…

If it’s anything like little Marxist parties in the US, crunchy to far-right recruiting is done through front groups and is quite deliberate and organized. Starts out doing your research on organic food, then proceeds through anti-vax to purity to…

Yikes, food production requires huge amounts of water and contributes mightily to eutrophication. It behooves us all to figure out ways to slow or reverse this. Because water and land are static resource. And this is all contributing to climate…