Lenny Marlow
@lennymarlow.bsky.social
Liberal
Native East Tennessean from an old hillbilly family in the Cumberland Mtns since pre-Civil War
Upstate South Carolina currently
University of Tennessee alum
Vol fan!🧡🍊
Native East Tennessean from an old hillbilly family in the Cumberland Mtns since pre-Civil War
Upstate South Carolina currently
University of Tennessee alum
Vol fan!🧡🍊
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Lenny Marlow
@lennymarlow.bsky.social
· Nov 17
What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem
from "A Psalm of Life"
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem
from "A Psalm of Life"
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied)
What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.)
Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.)
Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
May 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied)
What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.)
Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.)
Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
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Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt #solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day. The unique approach to connecting the panels to the grid allowed it to sidestep a typically years-long connection process.
Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day, the two sharing wires until the last boiler dies in 2030 — and one retired coal unit will keep sp...
Retirement does not mean the old hardware stops working entirely, either. One of the retiring units is being converted into a synchronous condenser, a huge
www.autonocion.com
August 7, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt #solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day. The unique approach to connecting the panels to the grid allowed it to sidestep a typically years-long connection process.
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‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat
‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat
We spoke to Nick Bridge, a former diplomat who was the UK's special representative to the UN on Climate Change from 2017 to 2023.
www.channel4.com
July 27, 2026 at 7:33 PM
‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat
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NEW: on Fauci diaries
The story isn't what's in them — it's the method. "Selective disclosure": leak real documents stripped of context, let partisan media run, go viral before the fact-check lands.
Don't ask what's in the dump. Ask who it benefits, and why now. 👇
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The story isn't what's in them — it's the method. "Selective disclosure": leak real documents stripped of context, let partisan media run, go viral before the fact-check lands.
Don't ask what's in the dump. Ask who it benefits, and why now. 👇
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The Fauci diaries are a predictable bust
Rand Paul desperately applies selective disclosure methods in his latest attempt to sustain lab leak fan fiction for personal gain
open.substack.com
July 28, 2026 at 1:53 PM
NEW: on Fauci diaries
The story isn't what's in them — it's the method. "Selective disclosure": leak real documents stripped of context, let partisan media run, go viral before the fact-check lands.
Don't ask what's in the dump. Ask who it benefits, and why now. 👇
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The story isn't what's in them — it's the method. "Selective disclosure": leak real documents stripped of context, let partisan media run, go viral before the fact-check lands.
Don't ask what's in the dump. Ask who it benefits, and why now. 👇
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
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*Warning* The "lab leak zombie" is back & wandering around your neighborhood.
@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social calls out Rand Paul's "attention seeking twattery" (apologies The Thick of It) for what it is in this great read...
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social calls out Rand Paul's "attention seeking twattery" (apologies The Thick of It) for what it is in this great read...
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The Fauci diaries are a predictable bust
Rand Paul desperately applies selective disclosure methods in his latest attempt to sustain lab leak fan fiction for personal gain
open.substack.com
July 28, 2026 at 2:09 PM
*Warning* The "lab leak zombie" is back & wandering around your neighborhood.
@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social calls out Rand Paul's "attention seeking twattery" (apologies The Thick of It) for what it is in this great read...
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social calls out Rand Paul's "attention seeking twattery" (apologies The Thick of It) for what it is in this great read...
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
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What a weird way to report this. He is reviled by loons like Rand Paul. A motivated figure who was once told directly and correctly by Fauci that he did not know what he was talking about.
Anthony Fauci has made few public comments about the long campaign to obliterate his legacy—but tomorrow, Senator Rand Paul is forcing him to talk, @katherinejwu.com writes. She reports on what’s at stake:
The Unmaking of Anthony Fauci
He built an empire. It did not last.
bit.ly
July 28, 2026 at 2:16 PM
What a weird way to report this. He is reviled by loons like Rand Paul. A motivated figure who was once told directly and correctly by Fauci that he did not know what he was talking about.
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“.. he was met with applause from roughly half the room .. before turning toward new #WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich, who smiled .. and embraced the man who had just spent more than an hour assailing the work of those seated before him.”
@passantino.bsky.social
www.status.news/p/the-white-...
@passantino.bsky.social
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July 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM
“.. he was met with applause from roughly half the room .. before turning toward new #WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich, who smiled .. and embraced the man who had just spent more than an hour assailing the work of those seated before him.”
@passantino.bsky.social
www.status.news/p/the-white-...
@passantino.bsky.social
www.status.news/p/the-white-...
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Or, how many drones can the Iranians get to the Houthis?
I have no idea. But we'll probably find out pretty fast.
I have no idea. But we'll probably find out pretty fast.
“.. with Hormuz already disrupted, the Red Sea has become a critical alternative outlet for Gulf oil and other products. A serious disruption would mean both of the Middle East’s major oil export routes are shut simultaneously.”
@reuters.com #Houthis
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
@reuters.com #Houthis
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
July 20, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Or, how many drones can the Iranians get to the Houthis?
I have no idea. But we'll probably find out pretty fast.
I have no idea. But we'll probably find out pretty fast.
@phillipspobrien.bsky.social Listened to a series of lectures you gave a couple of years iago at ULB (maybe?) & you mentioned a study you were doing between St. Andrews & Johns Hopkins on the studies/analysis pre 2022 invasion on the immanent military victory by Russia. Did this get published?
July 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
@phillipspobrien.bsky.social Listened to a series of lectures you gave a couple of years iago at ULB (maybe?) & you mentioned a study you were doing between St. Andrews & Johns Hopkins on the studies/analysis pre 2022 invasion on the immanent military victory by Russia. Did this get published?
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Judge Kaplan just ordered the $5.8M released to E. Jean Carroll despite Trump’s lawyers trying a last-minute filing the night before to block it.
1/2
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
apple.news/AU4JMnjmNQlm...
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#USDemocracy
#Pinks
apple.news/AU4JMnjmNQlm...
US judge orders release of $5.8m Trump owes E Jean Carroll after court loss — Guardian US
Manhattan judge’s order frees funds from Trump’s 2023 sexual abuse and defamation verdict after supreme court appeal failed
apple.news
July 8, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Judge Kaplan just ordered the $5.8M released to E. Jean Carroll despite Trump’s lawyers trying a last-minute filing the night before to block it.
1/2
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
apple.news/AU4JMnjmNQlm...
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#USDemocracy
#Pinks
apple.news/AU4JMnjmNQlm...
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If you ever thought “Hey, I’d love to have my taxes raised $1,000 this year so I can help Trump payoff Iran for the Republican’s war”, this is your lucky week!
June 17, 2026 at 1:18 PM
If you ever thought “Hey, I’d love to have my taxes raised $1,000 this year so I can help Trump payoff Iran for the Republican’s war”, this is your lucky week!
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You can tell when people have no confidence in their ability to argue using facts & reason because they will inevitably steer any discussion, any exchange, as quickly as possible into who is the more beleaguered & marginalized, who's being mean to who, who is respecting whose "personal experience."
May 30, 2026 at 9:19 PM
You can tell when people have no confidence in their ability to argue using facts & reason because they will inevitably steer any discussion, any exchange, as quickly as possible into who is the more beleaguered & marginalized, who's being mean to who, who is respecting whose "personal experience."
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Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
April 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
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As far as I can tell from reporting, there's no breakthrough with Iran. There is only another classic Trump faux deal that leaves us and the region in a worse position than we all were prior to the start of this illegal, foolish, costly war. All hard issues are punted to the indefinite future.
May 24, 2026 at 1:22 PM
As far as I can tell from reporting, there's no breakthrough with Iran. There is only another classic Trump faux deal that leaves us and the region in a worse position than we all were prior to the start of this illegal, foolish, costly war. All hard issues are punted to the indefinite future.
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WELL NOW, would you look at that?
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
May 22, 2026 at 4:00 PM
WELL NOW, would you look at that?
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
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📣 Democrats have overperformed by 13 pts on avg across *105* Special Elections!
5/19: GA SD-07: TBD
5/19: PA HD-196: Ron Ruman
6/09: ME HD-029: Nancy McDowell
8/04: CA-01: TBD
8/04: AR HD-044: TBD
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5/19: GA SD-07: TBD
5/19: PA HD-196: Ron Ruman
6/09: ME HD-029: Nancy McDowell
8/04: CA-01: TBD
8/04: AR HD-044: TBD
Donate today! #Blue26
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May 18, 2026 at 1:49 PM
📣 Democrats have overperformed by 13 pts on avg across *105* Special Elections!
5/19: GA SD-07: TBD
5/19: PA HD-196: Ron Ruman
6/09: ME HD-029: Nancy McDowell
8/04: CA-01: TBD
8/04: AR HD-044: TBD
Donate today! #Blue26
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5/19: GA SD-07: TBD
5/19: PA HD-196: Ron Ruman
6/09: ME HD-029: Nancy McDowell
8/04: CA-01: TBD
8/04: AR HD-044: TBD
Donate today! #Blue26
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This, plus markets are by their very nature future-focused
The war has to end because it's untenable, unpopular, and unsustainable
It's the whole "Efficient Market Theory" (which I don't really prescribe to)
The war has to end because it's untenable, unpopular, and unsustainable
It's the whole "Efficient Market Theory" (which I don't really prescribe to)
I see we are getting confusion over why equity markets are not reflecting oil price risk again.
I've said this before but to reiterate, fear of PnL downside is just as significant as reality-based expectations. The perceived upside to betting on calamity is minimal, because it will also mean TACO.
I've said this before but to reiterate, fear of PnL downside is just as significant as reality-based expectations. The perceived upside to betting on calamity is minimal, because it will also mean TACO.
May 11, 2026 at 6:30 PM
This, plus markets are by their very nature future-focused
The war has to end because it's untenable, unpopular, and unsustainable
It's the whole "Efficient Market Theory" (which I don't really prescribe to)
The war has to end because it's untenable, unpopular, and unsustainable
It's the whole "Efficient Market Theory" (which I don't really prescribe to)
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Donald Trump just bragged about securing a ceasefire for Russia—but he didn't even make the deal. Putin is calling America for help because he's out of missiles. If Putin falls, Trump does too. Here’s why: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/putin-is-l...
May 10, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Donald Trump just bragged about securing a ceasefire for Russia—but he didn't even make the deal. Putin is calling America for help because he's out of missiles. If Putin falls, Trump does too. Here’s why: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/putin-is-l...
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Good debate: "I think the single biggest risk is if China overwhelms our auto industry and becomes dominant here..
China is so powerful and has so much leverage—low cost, high speed, good quality—that it could simply...obliterate legacy automakers. That’s the risk"
www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
China is so powerful and has so much leverage—low cost, high speed, good quality—that it could simply...obliterate legacy automakers. That’s the risk"
www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
What policy choices does the US face on Chinese clean energy investment? | Brookings
A group of experts examine how U.S. policy on Chinese investment in clean energy operates in practice.
www.brookings.edu
April 27, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Good debate: "I think the single biggest risk is if China overwhelms our auto industry and becomes dominant here..
China is so powerful and has so much leverage—low cost, high speed, good quality—that it could simply...obliterate legacy automakers. That’s the risk"
www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
China is so powerful and has so much leverage—low cost, high speed, good quality—that it could simply...obliterate legacy automakers. That’s the risk"
www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
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Me: This was a political problem, all of us failed.
Whiners: Wah wah wah wah, I want to outsource it to lawyers so I don't have to get off my ass.
That's how you lose. And I promise you, the far right did not outsource.
Whiners: Wah wah wah wah, I want to outsource it to lawyers so I don't have to get off my ass.
That's how you lose. And I promise you, the far right did not outsource.
*Garland was the chief law enforcement officer
*The law did not get enforced
*The law did not get enforced
May 5, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Me: This was a political problem, all of us failed.
Whiners: Wah wah wah wah, I want to outsource it to lawyers so I don't have to get off my ass.
That's how you lose. And I promise you, the far right did not outsource.
Whiners: Wah wah wah wah, I want to outsource it to lawyers so I don't have to get off my ass.
That's how you lose. And I promise you, the far right did not outsource.
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A room full of the most powerful people in politics and media presumed they were being attacked by an active shooter. They dove under tables and texted loved ones. They feared for their lives. And somehow, not a damn thing will be done by them to push for gun reform tomorrow morning. America.
April 27, 2026 at 2:23 AM
A room full of the most powerful people in politics and media presumed they were being attacked by an active shooter. They dove under tables and texted loved ones. They feared for their lives. And somehow, not a damn thing will be done by them to push for gun reform tomorrow morning. America.
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Trump going on 60 minutes and having to deny being a "rapist" and a "pedophile" was probably not how he hoped things would go.
April 27, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Trump going on 60 minutes and having to deny being a "rapist" and a "pedophile" was probably not how he hoped things would go.