Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers

Another day, another op-ed in @nytimes.com that misinforms people about our #climate crisis. FYI - understanding something is an issue and purposefully downplaying it is intellectual malfeasance.

In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more.

New York governor orders US immigration agents to unmask. The move is likely to be challenged by the Trump administration after courts overturned a similar effort in California u.afp.com/SRk4

UAE to leave Opec in blow to oil cartel ft.trib.al/xZSeej7

Um... today in weird news: Do we really need every aspect of our lives to be enmeshed with technology - even sub-par pasta sauce? futurism.com/future-socie...

Acting Director Todd Lyons will leave the job May 31, DHS said. The announcement comes within hours of a public hearing on the record number of detainee deaths in ICE detention centers.

This vote in the Senate is going to devastate the #BoundaryWaters. It's no surprise that the Chilean billionaire who owns the mining company, Twin Metals Mining, gave a kickback to the Trump Admin, more in the article, gift Link>> www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...

Geeking out that my survey quote was included in today's @internationalintrigue.io. So just who wants to be tied to the #energy of war anymore? Goodbye #oil, hello #renewables. If you're not getting this newsletter, you're missing half the news. archives.internationalintrigue.io/p/three-econ...

How TF is this OK? Generations of WWII documentaries taught America nothing.

Pete Hegseth removed 4 decorated Army officers—2 Black, 2 women—from a promotion list. The Army Secretary refused, calling their records exemplary. Hegseth overrode it. Possibly illegally. They gave decades to this country. He erased them & called it meritocracy. This is white Christian nationalism.

Very good analogy:

#ICYMI: Noem denied that aide Corey Lewandowski was involved in approving DHS contracts. But DHS staffers say Lewandowski had approved numerous contracts at the agency and often needed to sign off on large contracts before any money went out the door. ➡️ More: https://propub.li/3Nh7wZd

It's hard to read this headline about the #USA and think this approach to foreign policy is inspired by anything else than mafia extortions.

Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Periodic reminder that we are in a global #WaterBankruptcy and the #AI being shoved into our lives will hasten a very real #water crisis for us all. unu.edu/inweh/news/w...

NEW: In 2023, ProPublica revealed that Columbia University had ignored women who accused OB-GYN Robert Hadden of sexual assault, enabling the doctor's abuse for decades. Survivors say they hope school officials will now be held accountable.

Camp East Montana was supposed to be the Trump administration's model for a new breed of large-scale, makeshift immigrant detention centers. Eight tumultuous months, 60 violations and three deaths later, ICE is preparing to close it. New from me: t.co/jOIIRAMJCo

It's bots vs. reporters at the AP www.semafor.com/article/03/0...

Everything is about to cost even more, in addition to a war no one wanted and Congress never approved - all so one small man can make himself feel above everyone and everything while distracting from the crimes he’s committed against children. #ImpeachAndRemove #Iran

BREAKING: UK to cut international finance on climate & nature Seemingly under cover of the war on Iran, out comes some bad news Reminder that govt were warned last year by UK’s spy chiefs that collapse of ecosystems could seriously impact national security www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The climate crisis is making insurance unaffordable for many – and it should worry all of us, even if we think we’re safe from floods, wildfires and hurricanes 😡😡 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Renewables Hit Record Share of US Power Despite Trump Rollbacks Wind, solar and other green sources generated 26% of US electricity in 2025, a record high, federal data shows. Falling costs mean renewables now outcompete fossil fuels in much of the market. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"More than 200 employees from Google and OpenAI have signed an open letter stating their solidarity with Anthropic in limiting the use of advanced AI for domestic surveillance or fully autonomous warfare."

The @washingtonpost.com now has a reliably antiscience editorial page. publichealth.gmu.edu/news/2025-06... #ScienceUnderSiege

FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the ouster of least 10 employees involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, four people briefed on the matter told CNN. https://cnn.it/4r7IXMc

4 sides, if you count the ground. Miami sits atop the Biscayne Aquifer. Is where the drinking water comes from. The higher sea level rise - the smaller the fresh water layer in the aquifer. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨 NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space. The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!

Making Americans poor again. Typical predator behavior, SCOTUS says no, so you do whatever unlawful shit anyway. We literally divorced ourselves from England for less in #tarrifs. 25th amendment, anyone? Here he is fulfilling his promise to ‘destroy the country’. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Pretty sure we’re unpopular at best & a threat to everyone at worst. Why would anyone want to invest in a country terrorizing citizens at home & threatening war abroad? Plus #tariffs, $ depreciation, etc. Just another sign the #TrumpEconomy is all about bankrupting the #US.

Some 88 countries and regions, including the U.S., the U.K. and the EU, today endorsed an India-led declaration on artificial intelligence with little commitment to keep the technology safe.

The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury. See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...

A win for the constitution, looks like even this Supreme Court still recognises it. #tarrifs #SCOTUS

I spoke with the NYTs about how climate activists are increasingly being targeted by the Trump Administration, why, and what is the likely outcome (which didn't make it into the piece). @xrglobal.bsky.social @xrnyc.bsky.social @climatedefiance.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/n...

👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Looks like AI is already stealing some white collar work that would otherwise go to an actual reporter and editor. #Jobs #AI

The Democratic chief election officials of six states are denouncing two new voter suppression bills making their way through Congress — underscoring how the legislation would place a huge burden on voters and election administrators just as midterm election season kicks off.

Native families were promised free solar. Trump took it away. #Climate

“A complete total assault on all our environmental progress.” At the Munich Security Conference, California Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov did not hold back when speaking to #WeDontHaveTime about Donald Trump’s latest attack on science. Share this interview if you agree.

One way to reconcile climate goals with the terrible toll batteries are taking on communities is simple, writes Nicolas Niarchos: We should listen to the people who live in the places where we get our minerals. https://bit.ly/4bNxCwE

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com wired.com/story/social...

Avian influenza is a global threat to animals, people and food security. The current outbreak is an unprecedented crisis, reaching more species and regions than ever before. Learn how @fao.org is helping countries fight back in our interactive story: https://buff.ly/dcah18D

Activity of immigration agents has left no part of the state unscathed even as border czar says surge would be ending

Trump promised to lower costs on Day One. Instead, he cost you $1,000 last year.

One of the administration’s more brazen and alarming assaults on democracy: trying to criminalize speech by legislators from the opposition party.

Just going to leave this here. SAVE Act 2.0 is next level Jim Crow.Have you heard? It will make it harder to vote, and force ICE and DHS to have voter rolls. Join @standupamerica.bsky.social in urging Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act: act.standupamerica.com/letters/no-o...

Maybe if billionaires could pay #taxes, Americans could have #healthcare instead of trying out snake oil shit. ICYMI - #ACA subsidies are still not happening.

Narrator: "And they're BOTH in the Epstein Files"

#ProjectVault, #US #CriticalMinerals manifest, sounds a lot like #China's econ policies. www.reuters.com/world/china/... Remember when #IRA incentives were 'too much' for the right, but manipulating an entire commodity market is OK now. None of this is for #renewables. It's all about big tech & AI.