90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

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Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

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This is pretty straightforward, and it's weird to me that people are against it.

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I’m honestly surprised Elon Musk’s attorneys had to file a lawsuit in Minnesota yesterday because also yesterday, Musk’s company had THREE separate lawsuits filed against it for allegedly creating child sexual abuse material and committing image-based sexual violence.

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Elon Musk is suing to block my law that bans nudificafion technology. It’s time to Rein in Big Tech. secure.actblue.com/donate/rein-... #ReinInBigTech #nudification #mnleg

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