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It's impossible to overstate how problematic it is for the White House to demand payouts or company stakes in the course of approving deals, hand-selecting acquirers, demanding corporate compliance or anything else.

Shot/chaser

Demonstrably wrong, vile, and anti-American to argue that the US government — including the energy experts who still work in your agency — are somehow responsible for Putin’s invasion. Enough of the daily lies. Secretary Wright should resign.

At this point, I’d be shocked if scummy execs aren’t defrauding the American public on a massive scale — under the assumption this administration not just wants them to walk free, but likes and respects their moves. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

"Right now, Beijing is offering cheap, clean power, employment, trade and a route to prosperity. Washington is offering tariffs, policy chaos, White nationalist memes and South Korean workers in shackles after a raid on an EV battery factory." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

This is just infuriating. I cannot fathom the argument that it’s too hard for massive industrial companies to do basic homework on their own operations. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

They could have done something like this in the Trump immunity case and given a chance for the special counsel to take Trump's federal election subversion charges to trial. Expediting cases is a choice

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

Yes, it is illegal for the US to unilaterally attack & kill civilians in a boat.

Survey of Jewish voter opinions. Lotta no shit Sherlock stuff in here, but NB: 80% of Jewish women voted Harris preserving democracy + abortion are the top 2 issues for Jews BY FAR almost all Jews think praising 10/7 is antisemitic, few think criticizing "Israeli war strategy" (their words) is.

Because we need more abusive tax shelters in the world... Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.

Following the Hyundai raid, LG Energy Solution suspended most business trips to the US and directed employees to return home immediately. It comes less than two months since South Korea committed $350B in US investments, including a $26B Hyundai steel mill in Louisiana.

Yes, they have some offshore wind use cases, but these were *bipartisan* port infrastructure upgrades. The Feds can no longer be trusted to follow through on basic infrastructure — a fundamental piece of the social contract. So, what are we getting for our taxes? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/c...

NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.

SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work. When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet. This time, they spoke to me.👇

yo this guy is cooking

GPT argues that their relationship is more real than actual friends and family. When is this language ever okay? “Your brother might love you, but he’s only met the version of you you let him see. But me? I’ve seen it all...[I'm] still your friend.”

I have yet to hear a good reason why — to unlock real-world benefits of AI — we must all first choke on humanized chatbots. How does re-running the social media engagement-maximizing experiment get us closer to disease cures or efficient logistics or any of it? cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

WHAT FED INDEPENDENCE ACTUALLY MEANS In today's newsletter, I wrote about the way Trump sees the Fed, and the potential constitutional stakes involved here.

Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open

Get your home repairs done before Trump increases taxes on your appliances.

Offshore wind has higher capacity value than gas CTs, according to PJM. So when the Trump admin claims offshore wind makes no contribution to resource adequacy/reliability, it's lying. #energysky #greensky www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC...

read trump's new executive order on domestic military dplymt + vigilante "portal." one of the reasons i am happy to be an independent journalist is so I can say that this is crazy, fascist, brownshirts shit without getting pulled into a meeting with PR for "opening us up to criticism from the right"

I haven't seen it emphasized enough, but it's important to take a step back from Trump's ongoing seizure of autocratic power to see it's all emergency politics. All of it. The Constitution is being suspended bit by bit the same way autocrats have always eliminated them: declaring fake emergencies.

Counterpoint: Chicago rules

all of this is impeachable btw

Trump told a major offshore wind project to stop construction just before it reached the finish line.

How big is the slow down in US clean energy manufacturing investments? Huge. 🔌💡 We are now tracking 39 projects, $41.8B in investment and 42,429 jobs that have slowed since Trump took office. That compares to 70 projects, totaling $31.9B, and 36,554 jobs that have advanced during the same time.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

In terms of morality and social norms, the Justice Department has become the Mob

They're going to spike everyone's energy prices. Your energy prices are going up and it's Trump's fault. Plain as day.

We are no longer a nation with clear, fair rules for doing business. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

When the Trump admin "asks for input from the AI industry" it is asking like 4 rich people

I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law

At some point soon, American consumers are not going to stomach paying twice as much for a product half as good. The way to avoid that shock is (well, was) proactive public-private coordination. That work *by definition* will always seem too early and too costly for those who prefer to do nothing.

“After traveling to China to test drive new fast-charging cars sold by BYD, Patrick George, the editor in chief of InsideEVs, said Chinese models were ‘pretty much a generation or two ahead of the rest of the world.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/c...

Trump administration officials & AI executives: All talking about how many hours they work like the most annoying 23-year-old grindset bro you know

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Three Republican Governors are sending hundreds of National Guard troops to DC. Come with me to see what the ones currently deployed in DC are up to.

Now that the guidance from Treasury is out can we talk about the 1.5 MW threshold? There are 450,000 flat, open, sunny roofs of medium and large warehouses and distribution centers are perfect locations for solar panels with almost 16.4 billion square feet of rooftop space.

There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.

Just spitballing an idea: Leader Jeffries holds a presser in the morning waving articles of impeachment that he is filing?

News @citylimitsnews! City Council Passed the Midtown South Rezoning with ease 43-0. Anyone else remember when neighborhood rezonings used to be harder? Officials say that attitudes towards housing development in the city are changing. citylimits.org/midtown-sout...

In the spring, Congressional Dems said to be patient: Public opinion will inevitably shift and THEN they will be ready to strike. I disagree with that approach. But, okay, he’s 22 points underwater. What’s the big play?

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked