Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Federal energy regulators order the country's largest grid to make its rules make sense. Read more from @zeitlin.bsky.social: heatmap.news/energy/ferc-...

It’s really, really, really getting old that Marc Elrich repeatedly uses weekly county update emails that are supposed to be full of FYIs about events and what not, to push his anti housing agenda. The damage this man has done over the years and decades with his bully pulpit is staggering

Making critical infrastructure — that’s in the public right of way — subject to referendum is a recipe for failure. ggwash.org/view/101707/...

Incredible news. Thank you to my council member @natalifg.bsky.social for your leadership on this and other smart growth initiatives in Montgomery County! www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...

Johns Hopkins Medicine - which operates a major DC hospital - is officially out of network with United Healthcare. Time to change providers… www.hopkinsmedicine.org/united-cover...

Everyone who can, please go to MCDOT's onsite community meeting on Wed 9/24 5-7 pm, at the Clearbrook Ln/Cedar Ln, to support sidewalks within the one-mile walkshed of Kensington Parkwood ES. Don't let MCDOT not build sidewalks based on opposition from a small group of sidewalk-hating homeowners!

Every day I see cars take dangerous maneuvers to get on the minor roads surrounding Forest Glen Rd & Georgia Ave, so they can zoom through neighborhoods and save themselves from 30 seconds of traffic. @mcdotnow.bsky.social @natalifg.bsky.social

chat is it insensitive and smug to post about how much I love my wife

Big win for housing in Montgomery County! ZTA 25-02 will let more types of homes be built near jobs, transit, and amenities. Stay informed and get involved here: www.smartergrowth.net/affordable-h...

Compare the feel of walking on 16th St in DC, a four-lane, high-traffic road, to pretty much any comparable road in MoCo and it is night and day more pleasant for pedestrians. Why? Wide sidewalk buffered from cars by tree lawn, compared to MoCo’s no sidewalk or narrow sidewalk abutting traffic.

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EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name theonion.com/epa-to-...

Good check in on what normal people (well, redditors) think is causing electric rate increases. Spans from “Pepco is a Blackrock controlled monopoly” to “hey it’s actually PJM, and they’re captured by fossil loving states.” www.reddit.com/r/washington...

I once went here to buy gochugang for a dish we were making that night. They were out and the owner ran upstairs to give me some from her own pantry. Big loss for Mt P and DC.

For the first half of my kindergarten year, my family lived in a shitty little apartment complex somewhere in Central Texas. I forget where. I think Waco? Copperas Cove? We moved around a lot. If memory serves correctly, I attended three different schools that year. (thread)

TRAINS TO ANNAPOLIS TRAINS TO OCEAN CITY

Holy shit. 5:05PM

Outstanding news. There’s a lot of support NYPA will need, but a major public power advantage is it can make more credible commitments big capital projects. We already see it with the renewables deployment. Onwards to clean firm! Thanks to @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social for flagging this.

We're about to release a new Forecast Analysis app on @gridstatus.io, and I’m looking for users to test it. Not only does it make pretty visualizations, it helps you understand how forecast vintages evolve over time, compare their historical accuracy, and more. DM or reply for link!

Amazing capture!

I sent my emails 💪

New England, better than England, but not by enough. Anyway I’m from this town and it’s, uh, not shocking to hear people pulling this shit And yes it is very rich and white how did you know? ggwash.org/view/98201/w...

🔋 Who provides battery cells to which BESS manufacturers? www.energy-storage.news provides an answer through a handy graphic. #battchat #energysky #greensky 🧪🔌💡

This is heartbreaking. (via someone at the St. Paul rally)

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

Perhaps federal and local law enforcement should wear their names/badges and not cover their faces

Horrifying

FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large theonion.com/fbi-war...

This is unacceptable behavior for an adult

Remembering today the brave souls who stormed the beaches of Normandy and parachuted behind enemy lines to defeat the hateful tyranny of Nazi Germany on June 6, 1944. More than 4,400 were killed and more than 10,000 were wounded. Imagine what history would look like without their sacrifice.

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

🔌💡Did a climate thing last night I’m proud of & hopeful about: organized a meeting to help about 50 town supervisors, fire chiefs & planning officials in my county understand the value and safety of grid-scale batteries… so they’ll stop imposing moratoria on siting them. 🧵 (1/9)

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

JUST IN: President Trump nominates Vinson & Elkins LLP counsel Laura Swett to replace @ferc.gov Chair Mark Christie, whose term expires June 30.

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

DOE issues first order attempting to keep a coal plant online that was slated to retire. The JH Campbell plan in Michigan. www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...

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Driver hits 7-year-old child on kick scooter, child found at fault: "In Roadway Improperly (Playing)"

He literally swore an oath to do this, on stage in front of the American people

NEW POOL BEAR ALERT NEW POOL BEAR ALERT. it's not Patch. Never seen this big buddy before. If he returns he will get a permanent name.

Republicans should remember that our founding President intentionally limited his tenure to two terms because he cared more about democracy than himself. He easily could have been King if he wanted it.

This morning we published our longest blog to date, going deep on IESO in Ontario it nears the May 1st go-live date for its Market Renewal Program (MRP) 🔌💡 little 🧵 with some IESO background, check the blog for more figures and explanation of the MRP blog.gridstatus.io/market-renew...

New phone who dis www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I’m old enough to remember when the right to free speech was so strong that it entitled Nazis to march through a neighborhood of holocaust survivors and their descendants. www.aclu.org/news/free-sp...

Called my senators. My message to them was essentially “you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop!” @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov