SCOTUSblog
• Rory Little
The orders docket, why it matters, and this term’s criminal law orders
SCOTUSblog
• Rory Little
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Sterling Whitaker
The tour just keeps getting bigger. Continue reading…
A new project is filming in Dutchess County and it looks like Emma Stone and Chris Pine are a part of the cast. Continue reading…
Coffee shop this morning has Dolly Parton on repeat. 🎶
Electrek
• Micah Toll

Bafang has never exactly been known for building timid e-bike motors, but its latest pair of high-performance e-MTB drives takes things to a whole new level. We’re talking up to 1,700 watts of peak power, 150 Nm of torque, and 800% pedal assistance.
At that point, “pedal assist” is starting to do some pretty heavy lifting as a phrase.
Electrek
• Peter Johnson

Hyundai Motor Company, including Genesis, is about to get very busy, with plans to launch more than 100 new or updated vehicles by 2030, including its first extended-range EVs (EREVs).
Electrek
• Fred Lambert

Tesla’s residential solar business has been shrinking for most of a decade, ever since the company absorbed SolarCity in 2016. Now, with electricity rates climbing across the US, Tesla is trying to revive it around a new in-house solar panel and Powerwall 3 — while quietly retiring the product it was once best known for.
Earlier this month, Tesla discontinued its Solar Roof, the glass solar tile it launched in 2016. It was always a tiny piece of the business, and its end says more about where Tesla solar is going than where it’s been.
Ars Technica
• John Timmer
Messing with the genetic code might have gotten a bit easier to do.
Remarkable People
• Guy Kawasaki
Every system has a hidden objective.
Berkeleyside
• Nico Savidge

Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is looking for more dirty laundry from his opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,” the Washington Post reports. “Talarico filed a motion Wednesday to make public two depositions in which Paxton testified for a case involving an energy firm where he worked… The petition says Paxton’s testimony raises ‘substantial […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ long-standing tensions with his party’s left flank resurfaced this week after news broke of his meeting with President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner,” Axios reports. “Jeffries will have to make nice with the left next year if Democrats win back the House with only a narrow majority. Blowups like this are […]
emptywheel
• emptywheel
It is not true that people are newly "defying" Donald Trump. It is true that by pissing away American hegemony, Trump has changed how so-called defiance will work both within and outside the country.
The post A Shoddy Analysis Was Written by Peter Baker appeared first on emptywheel.
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