After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Good review - adding to my reading list.

I have now read the first 4 chapters of John Cassidy's "Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI" and it is indeed very good. One of the interesting aspects of Cassidy's approach is that he combines criticism of capitalism by authors who are usually assumed /

The shut-offs are meant to prevent more fires from igniting because of downed or damaged equipment.

This is actually the situation literally everywhere, and will accelerate for the next forty years. I do not think people have anywhere near the capacity to understand how much needs to change and how fast.

OK so I'm not entering the a/c debate but this post about Chicago reminded me of something. Warning: it doesn't have much of a punchline. About 1000000 years ago I lived in Chicago's North Shore as a high school exchange student. (To make clear: Chicago is a fabulous city with great people. Go!) 1/n

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Utility boss warns US faces blackouts due to power supply shortfall ft.trib.al/OYX3FMs

“I can’t guarantee your lights are going to stay on unless you pay us what we ask for” is a hell of a business model.

Interesting new analysis of Virginia's re-entry into RGGI from @rff.org. Well-designed revenue recycling can lead to GHG reductions AND lower utility bills. I've often suggested that Michigan should consider joining RGGI. I'd like to see an analysis of RGGI's potential for Michigan. #EnergySky

Excellent & important article Musk, like all imperialists, seeks to limit our imaginations to fit inside a reality he constructs, fooling us into thinking his vision of the future is the only one that makes sense h/t – @eriknordman.bsky.social

SpaceX's $1.75T IPO ties Musk's pay to building a million-person Mars colony. A sci-fi scenario has been encoded into an SEC filing. My new piece on materialized science fiction and the remaking of empire is now live.

"The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom Essential Lessons For Collective Action" Organizing the commons beyond compliance with state regulation or lack thereof to manage resources sustainably & improve the quality of life in a community or region. youtu.be/qlIvwc_QzKk?...

“Texas has one of the world’s most robust economies, but if sound, scientifically-based water management strategies are not implemented, it could face serious social, economic and environmental consequences.” @dylanbaddour.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2506202...

Follow up: Seems like Judge Varchetti has made a pretty thorough case. The fact the the dams would go to… checks notes… a private equity firm tells you much of what you need know.

Curious if Commerce gave Polestar their reasoning, especially re: how they interpretated “person owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of a foreign adversary” differently for Polestar compared to Volvo. Relevant final rule: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

While I am no fan of fossil fuel companies propaganda, this article conflates several very different things. No matter who came up with the term, “wedges analysis” recognizes the obvious fact that cutting climate pollution requires a suite of actions & policies. 1/ www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

I've never liked the Pacala & Socolow "wedges" paper, in part because it was one of the earliest efforts by academics to promote natural gas as a bridge fuel. Yet I'm still appalled to learn of BP's role in it (which does not seem to be acknowledged in the paper). www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

A quick note re: the alleged rift between co-called "moderate" Democrats and "left-wing" Democrats, as espoused by James Carville and a few other talking heads. /short 🧵

Hard to overstate how dramatic this European heatwave is. And then you zoom into other areas around the globe, and you realize there may, just may be something going on that links all these weather extremes around the world. @climatecentral.org's CSI: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Sen. Peters: "Yes or no, if a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule?" Postmaster General David Steiner: "Under our proposed regulation, no."

"Since the participants believe that those four central tenets are under threat from putatively democratic institutions...deviating from such norms is 'not experienced as a rejection of democracy by our participants [but] can be a logical response often driven by an impulse to restore democracy'"

Interesting new analysis of Virginia's re-entry into RGGI from @rff.org. Well-designed revenue recycling can lead to GHG reductions AND lower utility bills. I've often suggested that Michigan should consider joining RGGI. I'd like to see an analysis of RGGI's potential for Michigan. #EnergySky

Congress: prisons that want our money must consent to lawsuits if they violate incarcerated people's religious rights Prison: ok Prison guards: * forcibly shave a Rastafarian's locs, leaving him bald * Supreme Court: oh the guards didn't consent to be sued lol ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/lando...

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

Expert who pushed for Flint water study sues EPA after dismissal www.mlive.com/news/flint/2...

I have worked at NARA Chicago on S. Pulaski. The reading room is very small; the facility itself is not all that large. It's in an industrial park. It cannot possibly cost a significant amount to operate that facility. Closing it will deny people in the midwest access to their own records.

Worth reading this whole thread 👇.

She makes the case for a peoples-to-peoples 'environmental democracy' as the only way to sustain transition, as her native Colombia's climate action record is doomed for rollback following Sunday's election of the "drill baby drill" Trumpista. Watch 2/2

Jevan Cherniwchan and I have a new working paper—one we’ve been working on for a long time—on how energy transitions shaped societies in the past, and what they may teach us about the present and future. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

This looks really bad. theintercept.com/2026/06/18/p...

Join me and Mike Troupos for a discussion of electric utilities and affordability TODAY at 10:00 AM ET, sponsored by the Michigan Sustainable Business Forum. Register at the link below. #EnergySky us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"In other words, the central premise of DOJ’s submission is that xAI can be flagrantly breaking the law (and heavily damaging the environment), and only the executive branch of the federal government has the constitutional authority to do anything about it."

Join me and Mike Troupos for a discussion of electric utilities and affordability TODAY at 10:00 AM ET, sponsored by the Michigan Sustainable Business Forum. Register at the link below. #EnergySky us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

sky (Missile Command)

Make Electricity Cheap Again! Power needs to be cheap, clean, abundant and resilient. Here's my 8-point plan to turn the current Power Price Doom Loop into an Electrification Virtuous Circle. mliebreich.substack.com/p/make-elect...

From Lansing State Journal: Renewable energy company submits application to build solar farm near St. Johns One of the largest renewable energy companies in the United States has submitted its application to build a large solar farm in Bingham Township. www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...

We must protect GWAR at all costs

One company purchased both ferry companies that serve Mackinac Island. Predictably, the company increased its rates. The island's government wants to regulate the ferry company as a public utility. www.mlive.com/news/2026/06...

June's theme: Dads in Art DOROTHEA LANGE (1895 - 1965), “Grandfather and Grandson, Manzanar Relocation Camp, California”, 1942. Library of Congress, Washington DC. #arthistory #art #HappyFathersDay #photography #Manzanar

Call me Brinsley. #seashanty

Ninja Parade Slips By Town Unnoticed Once Again

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

"on June 10th a kilowatt-hour of Spanish electricity produced just 86 grams of CO₂ equivalent. In the American state of Georgia the figure was 442. On a sunny summer day at noon, only about 10% of Spain’s electricity comes from fossil fuels; around half comes from solar./

Sunday bump for my article interrogating the curious motives and pathologies of Martian dreams. (With all due apology to the space-nerds getting exercised on X and Reddit, many of whom are driven purely by a desire to save humanity from itself, I'm sure.) www.noemamag.com/the-mars-del...

Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)

Adding to my reading list. Polanyi is a moment!

NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet

Not only of interest to Grand Rapidians

This thread might be of interest to my Grand Rapidian friends.