Worked so hard to get this money... yet another thing to get canceled and erased

Bad Bunny's done it well for years. "El Apagón" criticizes the extended power outages on the island, the privatization of the power system in Puerto Rico, and gentrification on the island

Pennsylvania’s top legislative leaders and Gov. Josh Shapiro have agreed to a $50.1 billion state budget deal behind closed doors, according to two sources close to negotiations. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

The SNAP fight is actually a recapitulation of the entire purpose of the shutdown. There's a contingency fund, Trump is required to spend it, but he's not, usurping Congress's power of the purse, essentially so he can do it again with normal appropriations whenever he wants

Also, seeing new federal delays in the permitting for the Greenlink transmission lines that are designed to move power from Esmerelda 7 and other neighboring projects to where people and business need power in Nevada.

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status. It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

Yesterday, Russ Vought tweeted out that DOE is canceling nearly $8 billion in clean energy funding. Today, @latitudemedia.bsky.social @maeveallsup.bsky.social obtained the list of all 321 projects that are having their awards pulled. 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/scoop-t...

BRUSUELAS: “.. Domestic electricity inflation inside the July consumer price index increased by 9.5% on a six-month average annualized basis. .. it will most likely move higher.” #CPI ⚡️

As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.

Anyone seen a graph comparing Jan 2025 tariff levels by country with the changes since then? Supply Chain Dive had a good breakdown of rhe changes since April www.utilitydive.com/news/3-ways-...

Turns out forcing old, uneconomic coal plants to remain online when the operator wanted to retire them is expensive. Keeping Campbell running in MI has cost $29 million over 5 weeks: www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

the position of the roberts court is both that racism isn’t real and that the constitution mandates a colorblindness so strict that it neither recognizes nor can act on social inequalities. incidentally, this is essentially the court’s holding in plessy v. ferguson.

not to be too gloomy, but I think it's just very hard to wrap one's head around the fact that the liberal order that started with the new deal is basically just gone for the foreseeable future, and how to deal with that *as* a fact

a thing I think about, from reading about Chile, is that getting rid of an authoritarian who imposes draconian libertarian austerity is one thing, but building back the things that said authoritarian destroyed, after the fact, is a second and distinct thing and doesn't naturally flow from the first

Maybe my grad degree in Latin American studies and international economics will come in handy these days...

About to get positively Argentinian up in here

It’s hard to find a trend in the electricity system right now that *doesn’t* point to near-term rate hikes if not a broad affordability crisis. That’s a serious problem for climate policy, but also the American economy writ large. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/ele...

Interior issues new memo in response to anti-wind/solar Executive Order that requires any of 69 types of decisions/actions to go to the Office of the Secretary. This is the way you stall and kill projects. Intentionally red-tape projects to death.

According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans. President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

Wrote a thing (with @jakehigdon.com). Congress is killing IRA tax credits in an effort to look "tough on China." But the effect will be the exact opposite.

NABTU gets it. “Equivalent of canceling 1000 keystone XLs” "Biggest job killing Bill in the history of the country"

Not just summer blackout risk. Winter too. And likely increased risk in shoulder seasons when there are planned outages and decreased generation available.

It will raise electricity prices, increase the likelihood of blackouts and brownouts, and reduce investment & jobs across the country.

A sweeping victory to destroy hundreds of thousands of energy sector jobs, including for union workers, and raise electricity prices for every American.

Robbie is right. This is much worse than full repeal for wind/solar. Adds 2 new taxes on wind and solar: * new tax for wind/solar facilities (including rooftop solar) starting in 2028 * kills 5-year depreciation for wind solar

Another sign that the dollar’s dominance is in trouble: US importers are increasingly being asked by their foreign counterparties to settle transactions in currencies other than the US dollar, such as euros, RMB, Mexican pesos, and Canadian dollars.

BREAKING: Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Chris Hanson has been fired by President Trump. The NRC is one of the most independent agencies in the Federal Government. Statement from Hanson.

Exclusive: I have confirmed that the federal government is still refusing to process permit applications for land-based wind projects almost six months into the Trump administration. Not just offshore. It threatens untold billions of capital investments in the United States. via @heatmap.news

This headline is trash, though. Trump administration races to blame DOGE because Trump administration, of which DOGE is a key part, fired too many people. Subhead: The Washington Post went alone with their charade, allowing the Trump administration to act like DOGE is not them.

Accessibility and availability of federal data disappearing more day by day

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

So we're potentially facing down higher inflation + slowdown/recession. Fed has to choose which to care about more, based on murky data Making matters even worse, the (always somewhat noisy) econ data may be getting less reliable, as Trump kneecaps statistical agencies. apnews.com/article/infl...

When Trump encounters a demographic he doesn’t care for, he “disappears” them–in many cases, the very record of their existence. Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age. w/ @ashendruk.com

(Reuters) - Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

US gas-fired turbine wait times as much as seven years; costs up sharply www.spglobal.com/commodity-in... $2400/kilowatt for a combined cycle! 🔌💡

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

The GOP tax bill will significantly increase US carbon pollution over the next decade. In return, it will increase our dependence on foreign oil, blow up the deficit, raise interest rates, make the country’s energy supply more volatile, and weaken strategic industries: heatmap.news/politics/tru...

The reality of our government is that it's a sprawling and occasionally inefficient system because you can't deliver services to 330 million people without having to deal with edge cases, and to someone who doesn't know the edge cases, that looks like waste or fraud www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

There's a lot of chatter around the proposal being inserted into a budget bill that would put a moratorium on any AI legislation being passed by the states for the next 10 years. I thought I'd say a bit about why this is an absolutely disastrous move. www.404media.co/republicans-... 1/n

very clear that official policy of the united states right now is to accept any white person abroad who claims asylum status

NEW: As the Trump admin is flying Afrikaners here today to be resettled as "refugees," @Sec_Noem is terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan — meaning they may start deporting women and allies who protected our troops to the Taliban to be persecuted or killed!

Any changes to de minimize tariff rates/exemptions in the US-China deal?

So, if I’m reading this right: They gutted the office that runs the government’s award-winning, in-house HR and staffing software, and now they’ve inked a sole-source, no-bid contract so that a private company on proprietary software can do what the office of civil servants did on in-house software

BREAKING: Federal judge in Vermont orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be released from detention "immediately" and on her own recognizance with no travel restrictions. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

FEMA chief, yesterday: “I do not believe it is in the best interests of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency”. FEMA chief, today: Unemployed www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

“DOGE doesn’t care what we do and will treat us the same as all other agencies: with contempt,” an Energy Information Administration staffer emailed her bosses this year. “Shame on you for falling in line and giving up without any perceptible effort to fight.” By @peterelkind.bsky.social

So much respect for @migrantinsider.bsky.social and @dcmigrantmutualaid.org both.

Stand up to him, get rewarded. Try to placate, he'll just demand more. The way is clear

NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...