The IRS has been gutted, losing a quarter of its staff www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcP...

“Harala faced criticism for signing an NDA on Google's proposed data center in Hermantown, a move for which she has since apologized. She said she now supports banning elected officials from signing NDAs.” www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/e...

At the NAIC spring meeting this week, insurance commissioners spoke of a goal of fortifying one million American homes, which a new report shows is less than the scale of what’s needed in Atlanta www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This would probably be a difficult gig. “Hello community! I am from [redacted] here to talk to you today about [redacted]”

“What I hear consistently, most often at the doors and talking to voters, is property insurance. It is a real crisis in this state. Rates have skyrocketed. It’s out of control. We need real, real reform.” www.dlcc.org/news/press/t...

Thanks to @kennystancil.bsky.social for producing this excellent breakdown of state capacity amongst insurance regulators therevolvingdoorproject.org/mapping-home...

"Yet capital markets increasingly fear that AI looks like a bubble set to pop. That’s because each new data center effectively bets against at least 10 plausible outcomes that make the investment unwise." www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...

"Project Jupiter, a data center proposed for southern Doña Ana County, would emit as many greenhouse gasses as Albuquerque and Las Cruces combined." sourcenm.com/2026/01/14/n...

If you want to feel small glimmers of hope at this dismal moment, this story captures it minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/30/t...

It is really hard to find a hopeful takeaway from this story, but having worked at Palantir is an electoral liability now so that's good.

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

I am scratching my head trying to think what the "joke" is here. www.adweek.com/creativity/d...

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair Also: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

It seems @repangiecraig.bsky.social wants me to believe she is the most competitive Democrat running for this Senate seat, but if this is what competition looks like to her, I think I'll pass. fischbach.house.gov/2026/1/emmer...

The corrupt ICE lover Henry Cuellar has to be removed from Homeland Security appropriations. He broke with Democrats to vote for the ICE funding bill last week. If you have a Democratic member of Congress - tell them this is non-negotiable.

Given how thoroughly @warren.senate.gov laid out the case that the AI debt bubble is teetering over into a financial crisis, it's disappointing more of her Senate colleagues did not sign on to this letter. www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." (Video: @dropsitenews.com )

From Clara Zetkin's 1923 "Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win."

NYT: FBI officer who tried to investigate immigration cop who killed Minnesota woman is now out of a job, agent "left her job as a supervisor in the F.B.I.’s Minneapolis field office after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry..."

"DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said he matched the description of two men with criminal convictions at Thao’s address, but Thao hardly looks like either of them...One of the men turned out to have been in prison since 2024." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/8-we...

From Playboy’s June 1972 profile of Ted Kennedy: “And then there are the responsibilities— the burden of being a surrogate father to Bobby’s bruised and troubled children.”

From the memoirs of theologian Robert McAfee Brown, appointed by President Carter to the US holocaust memorial council: Reagan ignores Elie Wiesel’s pleas not to visit Bitburg, acts to undermine him and other Carter appointees to the council.

The section that recaps Hortman’s final vote is especially heartbreaking www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

This is the ostensible *moderate* choice from the current short list of Fed chair candidates. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The fossil fueled insurance crisis is not just a coastal issue! www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

Good overview of why revenue matters and we must start embedding revenue into primary campaigns bharatramamurti.substack.com/p/the-tickin...

Exxon is happy to help the tech industry meet its greenwashing needs, claiming that 90% of emissions from fossil-powered data centers will be captured. Never mind that CCS has never been successfully deployed at a gas plant and no CCS facility has ever come close to 90%. @emorwee.bsky.social

The separation of banking and commerce isn’t some outdated relic. It’s about having a financial system that serves the public good, not one that merely subsidizes the most rapacious practices of Wall Street and Big Tech.

If the Trump administration gives a flood of Big Tech companies, fintech firms, and others their own ILCs/industrial loan banks these operators will be free to prey upon people with unfair terms, junk fees, and sky-high interest rates. ourfinancialsecurity.org/news/blog-bi...

The excellent @moira.bsky.social and @aaronregunberg.bsky.social point out that insurance policy is a climate and affordability layup newrepublic.com/article/2044...

Insurance represents more than half of the growing household costs from climate change. But property insurance is managed and regulated by states. What’s going on in the states? Answers here: climatecabineteducation.org/wp-content/u...

Data center politics have shifted very quickly www.newsfromthestates.com/article/whit...

A look underneath the hood of claims that 2022’s deregulation “healed” Florida’s insurance market prospect.org/2025/11/19/n...

Here was Warsh in March 2007 praising the “dramatic growth of derivatives markets.” medium.com/@sam_a_bell/...

Excellent overview of our report recommending policy levers for state governments to advance climate action and exercise economic power. As the conclusion notes, state leadership helped lay the groundwork for the New Deal institutions that fought fascism www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

State lawmakers can grow local economies, cut costs, and tackle climate. Our new report breaks down concrete tools like green banks, better pension fund management, and stronger insurance regulation to lower bills and build resilient communities. Read the full report today ⬇️

““Without protections, AI data centers could leave us holding the bag,” bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

This is an excellent rebuttal to the electoral theories of the abundance popularists www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

As our fossil fueled insurance crisis continues to escalate, FAIR plans should be considered an important plank of public policy. They should truly become “state run” rather than being operated for and by insurance companies. player.captivate.fm/episode/475c...

Great stuff here!

“And then Nordhaus and Schelling wrote….sweet talk [that] reframed the dangerous-sounding reports from scientists into an excuse to look away. Their narrative contributions may be among the most influential paragraphs in human history.” probablefutures.org/perspective/...

📣 Launching the Public Renewables Project! 📣 1/ We’re a new climate organization advancing publicly financed, publicly developed clean energy to accelerate the renewables transition, lower costs, and increase worker power. 🔗 www.publicrenewables.org

“Congress is on the verge of becoming totally irrelevant, in ways not imagined by the Founders.” prospect.org/politics/202...

Very well put by @nathantankus.bsky.social: “Powell must do everything in his power to compel the conventional wisdom of market traders to more adequately “price in” the degradation of the rule of law.” www.crisesnotes.com/powell-will-...

What were the DFL candidates for US Senate up to last Thursday? A contrast.

The fossil fueled insurance crisis is not just a coastal problem. I went on KUNM to discuss climate and insurance in New Mexico, the state with the nation’s highest rate of uninsurance www.kunm.org/show/lets-ta...

“At a military history museum, origami cranes from Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park are recycled into paper fans emblazoned with the Yamato, Japan’s “unsinkable” World War II battleship…” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...

Never forget Yglesias’ argument that Powell’s regulatory record should be overlooked because there are other financial regulators… like the FCC? therevolvingdoorproject.org/matt-yglesia...