Bitcoin + AI will drive data centre growth in the US such that in every scenario in this study, power prices and total emissions increase substantially (even when you resurrect Biden-era clean tech policies or assume expensive gas) news.ncsu.edu/2026/05/data... iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

It's 100 degrees in May, time to moderate your views on the environment, Democrats

Louisiana's SCOTUS-enabled racial gerrymandering will bring the tyranny of toxicity without representation to the mostly Black folks of heavily polluted 'Cancer Alley,' who'll lose a seat in Congress Voting rights die, environmental racism thrives. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/raci...

Thomas describes the mailing of mifepristone as a "criminal enterprise" and says providers should face federal felony charges rather than obtaining relief from SCOTUS. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

no dude has ever rocked harder than this, I judge. how has this not been made into a movie

Wake Up and Smell the Court Reform

What is #ElNiño, in a nutshell, from an atmospheric and oceanic perspective? The 60-second version:

Jared.

A bit of exciting news! My "Undocumented Underground" series looking at mass deportation and the activists fighting it in New York City just won the NY Press Club's Rev. Mychal Judge award. I am really stoked! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tpm-w...

You have my pitchfork and my torch

As we dirtbag enviros used to say, there are no jobs on a dead planet But, y’know, there’s an awful lot of profit on the way

Just got tossed out of the Xavier Becerra town hall in Oxnard, video coming soon and news at 10 pm?, AMA

The dumbest, vilest, most self-harming administration in US history.

Brooke Rollins: "Farmers are moving into hopefully what will be a golden age under this president"

Making insider trading great again. Every time Trump has signaled that the Iran war might be ending, insiders with advance knowledge have made killings by shorting oil futures. There needs to be full investigations and accountability. @pkrugman.bsky.social

absolute heater from @jamellebouie.net one of those pieces where I find myself saying MMHMM repeatedly while reading www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...

The most important English-language poet of the early 18th century was a chronically-ill disabled person who was part of a legally-sanctioned religious minority and yet also built by reputation a patronage network and was able to persuade his publisher to go above and beyond every contemporary norm.

One in four of our fellow citizens shouldn’t be trusted with a plastic spork

@gabygoldstein.bsky.social: What's coming next "is a redistricting war unlike anything we have seen, fought not primarily in Congress, but in state capitols, where the stakes are higher and the spotlight dimmer." talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/we-aren...

This, for every employee of every federal agency with jurisdiction under environmental law. You’re presumptively fired for collaboration with this traitorous regime.

Welcome to the future

“We're going to go find your entire family your network anybody you spoke to on a phone,” CBP’s Rodney Scott said while talking about surveillance. He also described third-country removals as “funny” but walks it back “well maybe not funny but it doesn’t mean they’re deported to their own country.”

Final section for the "East Wing Modernization Project" - aka the ballroom Here's the section so you can read, but it provides $1 bn for security-related aspects of the ballroom It makes clear it can't be used for non-security parts of the ballroom Nonetheless, taxpayer dollars for the ballroom

Text of Judiciary part of the reconciliation package is out. This is the filibuster-proof bill where Republicans are planning to give around $70 billion more to ICE and CBP. Will go through it here.

read theory.

This is why I just went and explained why I'm voting for Steyer, based on all my reporting. There is no climate editorial board anywhere, so I felt like I had to write this. Totally fine if you disagree but at least read the thing before telling me. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/california...

Idiot assholes, like always www.times-standard.com/2026/05/02/p...

Me, driving south to Mendocino County “nice, only $6/gal here”

Tell me you’ve never lived in Humboldt County without telling me you’ve never lived in Humboldt

The ballroom, the arch… I have a PhD in Egyptology and I know a mortuary temple complex when I see one.

Here’s the original study, published in the last couple of days: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 2/3

You remember last year when 500 South Korean battery production experts were kidnapped from a Hyundai plant in Georgia and mass-deported? This single act completely destroyed the willingness of foreign EV experts to work in the US to advance American battery and motor manufacturing. 7/x

Re: the ballroom as a symptom of weakness youtu.be/eWJjKh_20jw?...

Mayday! You can send the activist to lawyer school, but he’s still gonna be embarrassing at protests.

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In the past we had “Jim Crow“ laws. The next phase should be called “John Roberts” laws

This is my home -- and we've been watchdogging for years. Great reporting by @insideclimatenews.org! insideclimatenews.org/news/2904202...

Alito: the Voting Rights Act has to go because enfranchising voters would interfere with the state’s ability to disenfranchise its voters www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/alit...

31 states allow utilities to shut off electricity to force people to pay their bills and 25 have no federal bill assistance programs to step in the gap. This summer's heatwaves and nonstop rising rates are forecasted to increase everyone's bills by ~9%. neada.org/wp-content/u...

There are thousands of liberal law types (some of them deceased) who are in part to blame for this current Supreme Court. And I'm not victim blaming. The overt attack on liberal values and jurisprudence is almost 50 years old now. We had decades of get-along behavior with FedSoc ppl, for what?

The Republican Party is trying to kill your kids

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

"Where California refineries were making about 50ct/gallon in profit just two months ago, the crack spread has ballooned to an estimated $1.50/gallon. [I]t accounts for more of the recent run-up in state gas prices than the hike in crude oil costs, which is adding roughly 66 cents per gallon."

Here's the conclusion of my post on the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais, gutting the remaining pillar of the Voting Rights Act:

People are catching on

We are going to have to deNazify the entire federal government

Alito flatly ignoring congressional intent in Callais — Congress specifically clarified that you do not need to prove racial intent when bringing a racial vote dilution claim because it's so hard to do. If the effects of the map are discriminatory, that used to be enough. No longer

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.