An incredibly bleak night for democracy. One of the nation's top journalists was fired for standing up for journalism. Then SCOTUS decided: Hey, it's OK, Alabama. Be racist as you want to be. We won't stop your efforts to disenfranchise people. November's a start but it's going to be just the start

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Nick Bilton wasted no time confirming he’s a toady wholly unfit for the job. Rather than leading by managing and uniting a newsroom in turmoil, he took umbrage at the first protest, ran crying to Bari, martyred a legend and made a fool of himself

A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral.

Well, he had a good run

How dumb is the stock market right now? It's "one sentence from Jensen Huang is worth $50 billion" dumb. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Pulte is the crank who dug through mortgage records to weaponize the false fraud claims against Letitia James, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Cook. Trump just appointed him to the most sensitive intelligence position in the federal government. He'd have access to everything. On everyone.

The Pulte appointment is just about as tragicomic and dangerous as it can get. He’s rawly and vastly unqualified for the role. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Fuck me, this is Bill Pulte. The guy who was using mortgage data to launch DOJ investigations against Lisa Cook, Letitia James and Adam Schiff. He is being put in charge of national intelligence because of his track record of being willing to manufacture false allegations to target Trump's enemies.

The stupidity is the point. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Well, well, well fortune.com/2026/06/01/i...

Tomorrow: Futures go green after Trump claims for the 400th time that a deal is coming any minute now

Would be interesting to parse how much climate-driven insurance costs factor into this

So many misleading things in this sentence. Human-driven change isn't just "consensus," it's near unanimity. It's not a "big driver," it's THE driver. Only Republican Americans don't "buy" this; most Dems & independents do. Fossil-fuel-funded misinformation mainly accounts for those that don't

It’s telling how many of the large news organizations who are flush with money aren’t sending journalists to cover ICE (and now state trooper) violence overnight outside Delaney Hall and the independent outlets with far less financial and insurance coverage are braving it.

Texas is mismanaged so badly you can die by a flood and a drought in the same year 😔

Texas isn’t preparing adequately for the water demand created by the influx of residents and data centers into the state, @markgongloff.bsky.social says www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

My latest for Bloomberg: "We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 – a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030." about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

Great work, everyone: "High demand for electricity to power data centers has led to companies rushing to build new gas-fired power plants across the country. "The IEA expects US investment in fossil-fueled power plants to overtake China’s in 2026" www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...

Texas still lives by the Roman principle that if you own land, you're free to drain all its water & maybe your neighbors' water, Daniel Plainview-style. Despite a water crisis, the state thinks this is fine Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Sure, who needs a climate desk with a Super El Nino, hurricane season and record-high global temperatures on the way

America’s fastest-growing state is on track for nearly 500 data centers and turning into Arizona as the planet gets hotter. But at least it has no real plan for water www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Haha, oops www.wsj.com/tech/ai/corp...

Imagine getting turned down by Milli and/or Vanilli apnews.com/article/free...

How lucky for the correspondents of the most successful TV news show in history that Nick Bilton is taking the "unutilized" brand "into the modern age" www.wsj.com/business/med...

everything you need to know about Nick Bilton, the latest hopelessly-out-of-his-depth guy hired to eat shit at Bari's floundering failure factory www.gawkerarchives.com/nick-bilton-...

I pledge allegiance to any Democrat who promises to use every one of these bills as kindling to burn down the ballroom

Now *this* is a good commencement message: “I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

The GOP is a Death Cult, Climate Edition: "About 20% of Republicans said humanity causes climate change, across all educational levels." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Protest works, at least a little: Utah's GOP governor wants Kevin O'Leary's massive datacenter that everybody in the state despises to run at least partially on renewables grist.org/accountabili...

We need more of this energy

We should do all we can to mitigate the #climatecrisis by reducing climate pollution, but we're facing #extremeweather disasters well into the future from heating we've already baked into the climate. And that's making #resilience a critical priority for our #energygrid & other infrastructure.

Did you know you can get hantavirus from a dust storm? These storms used to be rare in #Albuquerque, now we get several a year!

Imagine if the mountains of tax money wasted and stolen from the people of the U.S. for Trump's misguided war and corrupt projects were, instead, spent to improve/replace/rebuild our power grid. The Iran war alone may cost us a trillion dollars before it ends. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Politicians, companies and pundits are never going to stop being cowards about this, apparently, but actual journalists shouldn't have that luxury in the year 2026

Power outages can turn natural disasters even deadlier. They've doubled in length in just the past decade, thanks to ... natural disasters. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

To be as fair as possible to Jimmy Jack, Elon Musk has claimed the Cybertruck can cross "rivers, lakes and even seas" www.fastcompany.com/91545514/can...

Like the Northeast US last week, France is getting deadly summer heat in May www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

While parts of the South have finally seen some beneficial rainfall in the last couple of weeks, the overall drought level in the CONUS is now at its highest point in more than a decade. Meanwhile, global warming is bringing more and more record warm minimum temps. tinyurl.com/47eftwuv

Even if Middle East tensions ease, futures markets are signaling oil prices will stay elevated for months — maybe years.⁣ ⁣ That's the "Iran tax." And it's not going away anytime soon, regardless of what the White House says about prices coming down.

Mood

65% of Texas is in drought Its cities are running out of water It has 461 data centers open or in construction, mostly along the heavily populated, growing & thirsty I-35 corridor So of course the state's official water plan doesn't even mention data centers www.eenews.net/articles/tex...

Between his energy-supply-squeezing war and attacks on clean energy, Trump continues to make China great again

Dirtnados and blood rain join the list of bizarre weather terms we have to know about now. What a time to be alive Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Another milestone in the (still too slow) clean-energy transition: Wind and solar produced more of the world's electricity than fossil gas for the first time ever in April ember-energy.org/latest-updat...

This is one of the weird side-effects of having July weather in May: Power plants are shut down for maintenance because they expect mild temps. So you can get infuriating, dumb shit like this happening (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

You don't need a cruise to catch hantavirus. Just stand in a Southwest dust storm. That's one of many health nightmares delivered by a climate phenomenon as damaging every year as the worst hurricane season Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Bezos retweeted the absolute worst slop infographic I've ever seen in my life.