This and that for your Thursday reading.

– Adam Serwer points out the glaring contrast between real accountability for bad actors in other countries, and the U.S.’ culture of absolute elite impunity epitomized by the Trump regime. And the Boston Globe reports on the Republicans’ deliberate trashing of institutional knowledge which served to benefit the general public. 

– Norm Farrell weighs in on the reality that clean renewable energy is also far more affordable than dirtier sources. But Carl Meyer reports on the Moe government’s determination to burn a billion dollars and large amounts of avoidable coal just to prove it’s above the law – even as the Libs show little inclination to enforce it. 

– Alexander Gazmararian, Nathan Jensen and Dustin Tingley study the Biden administration’s failure to promote or take credit for its green investments – making it far too easy for Republicans to both take power and reverse course. 

– Dean Baker discusses some of the factors which figure to cause the eventual bursting of the AI bubble. And in case public opprobrium wasn’t already high enough on the list, Clare Duffy and Leah Eadicicco report on Anthropic’s sudden dismantling of any binding guardrails against the misuse of its system.   

– Finally, David Dayen writes that Kalshi and other prediction markets are inadvertently conceding that their platforms create the potential for deliberate manipulation that far exceeds any innocent or neutral purpose.