The developer building a data center in the town of Jay (which Mills used as “cover” to veto the data center moratorium) is no longer even building the data center themainemonitor.org/jay-data-cen...

“The popularist case for climate hushing becomes even harder to accept in light of its neglect of popular opposition to AI data centers.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/why...

EIA's latest short-term forecast shows 66 GW of planned new gas plant capacity between 2026 and 2030 - nearly triple what it had projected just last year. Two drivers: the Trump regime's dramatic policy shifts and Big Tech's decision to use fossil gas to power the data center boom.

@jordanhaedtler.bsky.social on risks to the climate, consumers and the economy from a burst #AIbubble and what everyday citizens can do to help limit the damage. In short: elect good people and join local data center campaigns.

Trump’s endorsed pick for Kansas governor getting hit for his support for data center tax giveaways www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

“Remember: we’re less than three months in to organizations paying the actual costs of LLM-based services, and they’re clearly so outraged at the spiralling costs that both Anthropic and OpenAI are planning to cut the prices of an already-unprofitable service…” www.wheresyoured.at/brokenomics/

“”The greater risk to ratepayers,” she added, “the more reason to have a high standard for financial security requirements.” … Meanwhile, Oracle’s share value tumbled this week amid uncertainty about its data center investments.” civicmedia.us/news/2026/06...

The morning after Berkshire deepens its bet on AI through a $10B Alpjabet stake, Risk Market News reports they are “concentrating hard, physical, climate-correlated risk on the asset side just as the premium income meant to compensare for that risk thins.” www.riskmarketnews.com/the-first-po...

When does the “reconciliation and healing” part that @colorado.gov called for start? www.newsfromthestates.com/article/unap...

DeSantis pushing through property tax messure that will cost school districts $8.6 billion/year and devastate education in Florida www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-want-...

Landry’s first budget as governor proposed slashing funding for this program all the way down to $5. Things have changed! lailluminator.com/2026/05/27/f...

An underappreciated feedback effect: “That load growth is real, and it is happening in a service territory where ignition risk is already a systemic concern.” www.riskmarketnews.com/the-election...

“Although the experts I spoke to agreed that the specific emissions in RCP8.5 look implausible, the world could still experience RCP8.5-like climate impacts.” newrepublic.com/article/2108...

“In 1979, he read an Environmental Protection Agency report that, almost as an aside, stated that coal emissions could warm the planet to a ‘significant and damaging’ degree….He showed the report to a colleague and told her, ‘This must be the whole banana.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/s...

Andy Burnham’s campaign is dedicated to “rolling back the 80s” and his launch ad asserts that “Manchesterism is the end of neoliberalism” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yes and… prospect.org/2025/08/08/2...

Meanwhile, today’s Fed meeting minutes on markets: “In their discussion of financial stability, several participants noted that asset valuations remained elevated and that such conditions heightened the possibility of sharp corrections should adverse developments materialize.”

One of my favorite all time campaign slogans.

The moment when Schmidt says essentially “you feel anxious and angry about AI because of pernicious, manipulative social media algorithms” is just so perfect! www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

Public Citizen: “Senators who support Warsh to chair the Fed make a gamble that he understands threats from crumbling private credit markets, a crypto bubble, hollowed out bank safety rules and enforcers, war-induced inflation, climate change threats, and more.”

The expansion of the NAIC’s data collection is a welcome development but the data needs to be made public!

“the actual evidence is clear that AI is not liberating us as individuals but rather concentrating power in the hands of those who already have far too much control over our lives.” jacobin.com/2026/04/data...

I can see why this article ends by discouraging fatalism… prospect.org/2026/04/17/a...

Yellen: Kevin Warsh will struggle to establish credibility with colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee if he argues that productivity gains from artificial intelligence justifies lower interest rates. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It’s good to see this recognition that the insurance crisis is politically salient in Midwestern states as well www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

“The two new board members insisted that they control that review, according to people involved in the negotiations. Summers, with his network of political and Wall Street connections, seemed to lend it credibility.” 🧑‍🍳😘 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"technically" because this race is, to my knowledge, the LAST election in the country where 1 voter ≠ 1 vote. There are four At-Large seats where each voter gets one vote, but for the President, Vice President, and other 10 Board seats, voting is acreage-based. heatmap.news/energy/salt-...

It's Salt River Project election day! Huge thanks to the Clean Energy Team running to put families over data center profits and clean air over fossil fuel executives. As @sierraclub.org Grand Canyon Chapter's Political Chair, we're proud to stand with these candidates!

Strong statement from the Society of American Archivists condemning the White House OLC position that presidential records are personal private property. www2.archivists.org/news/2026/sa...

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.”