This is insane.

THIS... is what's needed

Bond villain.

The National Transportation Safety Board has called on NHTSA to mandate Intelligent Speed Assist, which would prevent reckless speeding of the kind that just killed two people in Seattle. NHTSA has ignored it.

#AirQuality bad/orange in #Chicago region now, as well as most areas around #LakeMichigan up to Door Co WI and Sleeping Bear Dunes in MI.

Yesterday the U.S. Senate shot down a Democratic-led attempt to stop the Trump admin. from loosening power plant brain-damaging mercury emissions standards. S.J. Res. 188, failed to advance 46-53 along party lines. All Democrats voted in favor of advancing and all Republicans against. #fishing

Man, tough to #breathe in #McHenry County recently. Worst #AirQuality site in #Illinois last week or so. And predicted to be Orange/Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups again today. Could make 6 days out of <last 2 weeks. Be careful out there, take precautions. #Asthma #COPD

Nasty air today. Orange/Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups in Chicago region, into Milwaukee, & Indy, Cincy & other areas around the lower Midwest. Take your inhaler with you, make sure children have theirs, follow your doctor's advice. Good day to take it easy, stay cool and confortable.

Many thanks to @tomflood.bsky.social for this great tee. I plan making good use of it. Also I just ordered the reckless pedestrian and the Cas in style of Jaws poster t-shirts. I look forward to jaywalking with the first one on. #thewaroncars #bikeTO

The Supreme Court allowed Alabama to hold upcoming elections using a congressional map that a lower court found discriminates on the basis of race and dilutes the political power of the state’s Black voters.

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

🚨BREAKING: All I can say is this is fucking so cynical I have no words. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Separate But Equal Docket strikes again.

It’s gone. Will be just a useless husk.

The SCOTUS has become so bold that they went from "This is the outcome we want, so we'll pretend/twist the law to fit the decision we want to get to" to "This is the outcome we want, so we're not even going to consider lower court rationale, apply the law, or pretend like laws matters for our side."

“There was a man who has Stage 3 lung cancer, not getting medical treatment. He wants to leave, go back home, spend his final months...with his family. But they just won’t let him go.”

Put a solar panel on your balcony or in your yard and just plug it in? Nothing simpler for #CleanAir & lower bills. But it ISN'T ALLOWED in Illinois! SEVEN states allow it. How long do we have to wait here? (Thread-you can send a letter to your public officials) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#AirQuality now re: bottom of Lake Michigan. Ozone smog blanketing Chicago suburbs from S. of Joliet to N. of WI/IL border + IN/MI too. Take it easy, stay cool/confortable/hydrated. Chronic medical condition like lung/heart disease? Follow advice from your medical professional.

FYI - IDEM forecast an Air Quality Action Day (AQAD) for Wed, May 27, 2026 for NW Indiana. Ozone levels are expected to be in the Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups range (Orange) in the following area: Crown Point, Gary, Hammond, LaPorte, Michigan City, Portage & all other cities within NW IN region.

Last week 854 megawatts of new solar generation, that uses no water and emits no air pollution, was approved in Will Co Illinois, near Chicago. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/21/w...

NEW: Records released tonight show that Reynolds, makers of Vuse vapes, gave $5 Million to MAGA Inc. days before the FDA wrote a policy that could allow them to make millions selling flavored vapes. Via @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet.

Such utter distain of the ‘little man’

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

Eeeeeeeels.

12% more on top of everything else. Why? Big AI data centers sucking up HUGE amounts of electricity. Want to go to Springfield May 30 & tell your elected officials to make the billionaire AI kings to pay the costs they are imposing on everyone else? message me. chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-aff...

Well maybe this helps explain this e-beastee still putting on the miles! insideevs.com/news/795603/...

Saw #Nikola electric semi on Montrose Ave/Chicago THIS WEEK Still moving things around with #ZeroEmissions! Old pic 8/2023 (coming at me from the opposite direction too fast this time). Kudos to #KochFoods for keeping it in operation! #CleanAir

Copenhagen's bus fleet now 100% electric. Hamburg's, 39% electric (plus 590 more soon too). Chicago's CTA & Pace slowly moving towards thier 2040 goal of having 100% electric bus fleets but long way to go & momentum will have to accelerate here. Eyes on the prize. cleantechnica.com/2026/05/08/2...

Fun Facts: Mexico+Nigeria>USA population. Indonesia+SouthAfrica>USA population. Pakistan+Iran>USA population.

Low-carbon electricity sources grew faster than demand in 2025, pushing fossil fuels into decline— Solar and wind energy have grown quickly in recent years, but global electricity demand has grown faster.

I wish reporters would stop saying stuff like 'Scientists say we need to rapidly decarbonise to avoid catastrophic global heating' And simply say 'we need to rapidly decarbonise to avoid catastrophic global heating' It's not an opinion, it's a fact

Coal fell to its lowest Q1 Level EVER in Australia's main grid. Gas generation fell 24% in Q1 2026 from Q1 2025 to lowest level since 1999! Why? Record-high Q1 Renewables! Battery capacity doubled! Average wholesale power prices dropped 12%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky

Saw this and thought a headline of “Kennedy Endorses Eating Raw Bird Heads As Antidepressants” just would just be another day.

A.R. Ammons 🫡✨️

Mauve Morning. Today's start in Chicago.

Get ready. on Wednesday Tesla announced that the first Tesla Semi rolled off the new production line (capacity 50,000 electric semi tractors a year). Two trims: 325 mile & 500 mile range. $260,000 for 325 version & $290,000 for 500 mile variant. electrek.co/2026/04/29/t...

Can't really blame them for bald faced lying. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Ironically making the case for #EVs where the cost to charge does NOT wildly increase with wars of choice. www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/p...

The Trump administration is trying to save dying coal power plants that are unneeded, hugely polluting, & more expensive to run than other ways to make electriciy. Forcing them to run RAISES electric bills for all. It doesn't care about people digging the coal either. e360.yale.edu/features/bla...

Blocking off and charging to access PUBLIC beaches is one of the dumbest and most anger inducing things the Chicago Park District has done. $25 to go the beach that WE OWN? F that. What's next, charging admission to look at trees? playground subscription fees?! www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

This is the problem they want to fix.

Even every right you enjoy regardless of whether you work or not. People died for your right to vote, for example. Remember and honor the people without whose actions you would not enjoy all the rights you do.

Despite Hollywood’s best efforts to support the deadly tobacco industry for a very long time by doing everything they could to make it look “cool”, smoking has always been dumb, disgusting and deadly. It makes you gross. It killed my older brother after hooking him, because that’s what what it does.

Higher exposure to NO2 & ultrafine particles (vehicle exhaust) during first trimester delayed speech development at 18 months. For premature babies, impact was worse: delayed development of their ability to speak + also found to have impaired motor skills www.theguardian.com/environment/...

...Long-term exposure to high levels of PM2.5 was also associated with a 12% increase in the overall risk of dying from cancer by 12%, and specifically a 20% higher risk from breast cancer, 14% from liver cancer, and 12% from lung cancer. www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

At Union League Club roundtable Wens on release of Comprehensive Climate Plan for Greater Chicago w/CMAP, ComEd & Rolling Meadows. Talked health benefits from transitioning away from fossil fuel combustion & many challenges to making continued progress on the way to 2050 @resphealth.bsky.social

Insanity.

Today Pete Hegseth removed req. that soldiers get #flu shots. in 1918, 45,000 - 50,000 U.S. soldiers died from influenza. 675,000 Americans; 25-50m worldwide. It started in Kansas & from what is now Fort Riley spread wordwide through US Army mobilization. www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...

In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years. Renewables: 33.8% Coal: 33.0% Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.

Good bill being championed by @repfaverdias.bsky.social ! Protecting vunlerable children from pesticide spraying by ensuring paretns and staff are given sufficient public notice BEFORE it happens. insideclimatenews.org/news/1804202...