Fantastic piece from @leahstokes.bsky.social, with several practical ideas about how to reduce electricity prices.

1. Cars are the biggest source of climate pollution in the country. 2. Transportation is the biggest household expense after rent/mortgage. 2. State and local gov't could cut these numbers by about 25% in five years without any federal policy. Somebody solve this for me, what should we do? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

I was sworn into the SCOTUS Bar in person on Monday and @ericconradfl.bsky.social made a little sketch of me standing before the Court and it’s the best thing.

I'm so grateful for my job, my amazing colleagues, and for all who work to make the energy transition happen—including the generous donors that make it possible for @canarymedia.com to carry out its mission. Be a part of that mission, and give today! www.canarymedia.com?form=donate&... #energysky

There’s a bunch of ICE and FBI at the Giant grocery store in Northeast DC, by the Home Depot

An excellent, short piece from Dr. Rita Baranwal on separating hype from reality in microreactors: www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Bumping this great article again now that Judge Boasberg is reopening his contempt investigation into the El Salvadoran flights.

It is nice to see that the excellent team at LPO is still getting hard things done. This loan was started with the Biden Admin (as was most actual federal nuclear investment $), and the first loan that had a simultaneous conditional commitment and close. www.energy.gov/articles/ene...

“Our first point of contact with most information is rarely the information itself but some lossily compressed derivative that’s already been processed and strained through a dozen layers of reinterpretation.”

There was another incident tonight where a Homeland Security agent shot at someone in D.C., the second such shooting in a month. For context, MPD has had five officer-involved shootings in the *entire year* thus far.

Wow. We gave the ROK nuclear submarines and reprocessing all in one go?!?! www.reuters.com/world/china/...

who keeps calling it twitter instead of crashoutApp

WHOA. Via @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social, it looks like Democrats just flipped BOTH *statewide* Public Service Commissioner seats in Georgia. That seems...significant.

Very insightful podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

NEE & GOOGL announce nuclear partnership built around restart of Iowa's Duane Arnold reactor, where GOOGL is making a 25y offtake commitment. DA was shut down in 2020 and is planned for reopen by Q1 2029.

Only 7 out of 71 employees at the Los Alamos NNSA field site are working, the rest furloughed. At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81. "The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns" sourcenm.com/2025/10/22/n...

Zohran Mamdani just said he'd support new nuclear plants in New York at tonight's debate. Mamdani: “I think it’s something worth exploring.” Cuomo: “Is that a yes?” Mamdani: “Yeah.”

Please consider giving to and volunteering at Capital Area Food Bank this holiday season. They are already seeing unprecedented demand from federal families in the region.

Watching the Lilith Fair documentary and feeling (1) very lucky to have gone to something so special and (2) very old.

FINALLY. One of the most trusted energy assistance organizations in the country issued a call for a total ban on utility shutoffs TODAY. It's about time. neada.org/wp-content/u...

Interested to see these forthcoming RFPs for the Janus program. Wrote a piece on it here: www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-...

Might as well be called Smaug Enterprises

It is just an extremely wild time to be a nuclear energy lawyer.

🚨New nuclear tech alert! So proud of the DISA and Pillsbury teams for getting this license. This game changing process will revolutionize the ability to treat over 15,000 abandoned uranium mining sites in the west including many on the lands of the Navajo Nation. www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-...

This! If you have the means, pay for your journalism. Buy subscriptions for everyone for the holidays!

US solar module prices up following safe harbour deadline rush #energysky -- via pv-tech:

I agree with just about everything from this piece from the NYT Editorial Board, though they skip over how the costs of transmission is a significant contributor to price rises, however the gist of the piece—that we need all forms of power to keep prices down and this Admin is doing the opposite. 💯

SCOTUS might take up a Price Anderson Act nuclear liability case and this is fair warning that I will be insufferable about it my niche issue being before the Court.

The Deferred Resignation Program runs out today, we are going to start seeing real financial strain in the DMV region. Our federal workers who were once among the largest donors to those in need, may soon be in need themselves. www.capitalareafoodbank.org

Twelve or more grand jurors did not concur in finding an indictment against James Comey as to Count I. Lawyers of Blue Sky: What does the attached filing mean? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Meanwhile…

Trump & Vought are using federal workers as hostages in this shutdown and SCOTUS has given them the pathway to do so. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

[email protected] and @mwcog.bsky.social have launched DMV Monitor, which will assess the impact of cuts to the federal government on the Washington area. So far: fed jobs down, unemployment up, more homes for sale, more households showing signs of financial distress: www.brookings.edu/articles/dmv...

My father-in-law made me earrings. Nothing if not on brand.

The money -- and the potential bill savings!-- is in the wires! Just like @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and I discussed on Shift Key here heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

Per NGS: "Eagles defensive tackle Jordan Davis, who blocked a potential game-winning field goal and returned it for a touchdown as time expired, reached a top speed of 18.59 mph on the return, the fastest speed by a player over 330 pounds since at least 2017."

“.. Their roundup and the .. video showing some Korean workers shackled with chains around their hands, ankles and waists have caused public outrage and a sense of betrayal in South Korea, a key U.S. ally.” @apnews.com #Hyundai apnews.com/article/sout...

The highest court in the EU just reaffirmed that nuclear energy meets the scientific and environmental standards to be included in the EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy.

Our Polish friends deserve much better from us.

Seeing Golden performed live at the Oscars is my new superbowl. Going 2.5 octaves in a song and then belting an A5 is professional athlete level.

The oaths taken by U.S. lawyers in order to practice law should be expanded in every state to include a "commitment to upholding democracy and the rule of law" an American Bar Association task force said on Wednesday.

"Samsung Heavy Industries has obtained Approval in Principle from the American Bureau of Shipping and the Liberian Registry for a 174,000-cubic-metre liquefied natural gas carrier powered by a small modular molten salt reactor." #nuclear #news […]

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

This entire article is worth the read.

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There’s so much more to say about SCOTUS, but one thing I hope came through in this convo is what a winning streak Trump is on at SCOTUS right now - & how insane it is that the court is blessing many of his assertions of executive authority w/o a word of explanation @strictscrutiny.bsky.social