I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say

Maybe it’s because I recently watched Oh, Mary! but the former confederate states sending troops to DC does not sit well with me

Negative anecdotal economic indicator alert: I got an email from my alumni finance club stating that many summer finance interns did not get return offers, and asking for assistance to place these students. I’m sure they’ll be fine, but it’s not a good sign for the job market…

Frank Seddio taught Eric Adams everything he knows about politics. I mean, Adams’ Brooklyn campaign HQ is *in* Seddio’s office!! Adams says, “It was the place that shaped and made me. It was the place that taught me.” ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

Electricity bill crisis in NYC - “In the past five years, more than 40% of New Yorkers have fallen into arrears, and 23% of households were disconnected at least once” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“What those woke Quakers seem to forget is that we live in a free country. If I can no longer decapitate whales to harvest their cranial fluid for candlewax, then democracy is dead.”

20yo Purdue student from Korea with valid visa, detained by ICE at visa renewal hearing then transfered to Louisiana, released after protests. “It’s not [just] Soo in this situation,” Rev. Kim, her mother, said. “There are more, maybe, those in need of support.” pix11.com/news/local-n...

Wish more US journalists shared this spirit.

Larry is Gossip Girl you heard it here first

"The current conditions in [PJM's] capacity market are almost entirely the result of large load additions from data centers" -Independent Market Monitor for PJM, June 2025 🔌💡 www.monitoringanalytics.com/reports/repo...

every now and then i overhear my girlfriend muttering to herself “my haters will be my waiters at my table of success” should i be worried

= chaos for planners. With 4 GW of OWF cancellations + delayed transmission planning, DPS and NYISO must reassess short- to mid-term adequacy risks. NYISO’s 2024 Reliability Needs Assessment flagged downstate shortages as early as 2026–2027. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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.

The Israel-Iran war was mostly a political distraction in Israel and the U.S., but it’s been devastating for Iran’s 4-6 million Afghans, the world’s largest refugee population. More than half a million have been deported just since the war, scapegoated as being Israeli collaborators. Gift link:

Via Tom Donlon, former NYPD commissioner: “A coordinated criminal conspiracy has taken root at the highest levels of City government…This enterprise - the NYPD - was criminal to its core.” Note that this is a different lawsuit from the one filed last week! bsky.app/profile/noah...

This is so strange for a meeting about business in NYC. “The topic of Israel was a focal point for several of the business leaders…Albert Bourla, the chief executive of Pfizer, pushed Mr. Mamdani about the meaning of genocide and defended Israel’s war in Gaza” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/b...

Exciting changes coming to Montague St in Brooklyn! Will “calm traffic, improve visibility and safety for vehicles and pedestrians, better manage commercial loading and delivery needs, and expand and improve public space for pedestrians and cyclists” per the BHA. Hurrah! www.nyc.gov/html/dot/dow...

The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They aren’t pretending to try. There isn’t even the veneer of law.

In April, U.S.-made bombs destroyed a detention facility that held Ethiopian migrants in Yemen, crushing bodies and shredding limbs. Few answers have emerged, and the U.S. has not claimed responsibility. Amid official silence, the survivors are left wondering why.

whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

What the actual

“expensive and unreliable energy sources like wind and solar” gtfo

Grok blaming “Jewish executives” for pervasive propaganda in Hollywood. Yikes. Did an antisemite train that model? Who owns that website anyway?

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

A few years ago, I talked @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about transit costs. He was engaged, inquisitive, and motivated to help! Love the new bill in the assembly re: utility relocations: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/02/h...

Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!

The IBEW thinks the One Big Horrible Bill sucks too. “Make no mistake, this bill will cost hundreds of thousands of good-paying construction jobs, billions of work hours, and hundreds of billions in lost wages and economic benefits to America’s middle class."

Damn, Lucy Fato, who's hosting this dinner for Gillibrand is the lawyer for Ackman's Seaport Entertainment Group and gave $100K to Cuomo's superPAC.

Tagging in @newkingsdems.bsky.social and @repyourblock.bsky.social doing the yeoman’s work of trying to reform the Brooklyn party machine

The DNC should hire everyone who ran his campaign immediately

If the current senate version of the bill passes, we will NOT meet load growth projections. Regular consumers will not be able to compete with AI data centers’ ability to pay for power. Prices will skyrocket and shortages during peak periods are a real possibility as well.

The house version would have increased US carbon emissions by 20%… and this one is *worse*!! If you have any connection to a state with a GOP senator, this is the time to contact them. Find your reps and suggested language here: www.solarpowersamerica.org/campaign/def...

A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible

Exclusive 🚨 Rank-and-File Members Push Their Union to Rescind Cuomo Endorsement Ahead of the NYC Democratic mayoral primary election, members of 1199SEIU say union leadership endorsed Cuomo without member input My latest for @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2025/06/23/r...

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Doing my part for The Grid by air drying my sheets **even though** they will end up all crunchy **and** I will drop at least one pillowcase in the dirt. You’re welcome!

TOMORROW'S Election Day, and we created an interactive demo where you can rank your choices and see how your vote counts! zellnor4.nyc/rcv REMEMBER: * VOTE JUNE 24 * RANK ZELLNOR #1 * RANK UP TO 5 CANDIDATES FROM WFP SLATE * DON'T RANK CUOMO

You can thank Andrew Cuomo for the rolling brownouts (and increase in downstate fossil fuel use) by NOT ranking him on Tuesday

Reposting for the New Yorkers out there. Similar advice for others across the region. 🔌💡

The line to vote at Brooklyn Borough Hall took an hour. They ran out of I Voted Early stickers. Never seen a line for a non-presidential before. People must be excited!

Be prepared for radically expanded accusations of national security threats.

Mission Accomplished! (?)

"Build as much clean energy as possible as fast as possible" should be our No. 1 national priority in the coming decade. All our national resources should be bent to the task. The president should talk about it every week in a national address. It should be the moon shot X100.

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

RCV question: if I convince someone ranking Cuomo to rank him lower, say by adding Adrienne Adams and pushing Cuomo down a slot, is that a win? Or does it not matter as long as Cuomo is on their ballot somewhere?

I’m urging all New Yorkers to support Immigrant Arc, the legal services organization I’ve been volunteering with. Even $10 helps provide asylum seekers with the legal resources and support that are so desperately needed. Please donate if you can. 🙏 secure.givelively.org/donate/immig...

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

That’s a tough question. Resisting masked armed thugs in any circumstance can get you beaten or killed by the armed thugs. If the masked armed thugs are agents of the U.S. government it will also get you prosecuted for “assault on a federal officer” or “resisting arrest.” /1

If this guy said he was a federal agent and tried to handcuff you, particularly after two other lawmakers were just murdered by someone impersonating a police officer, what would you do? Take his word for it?