Oooh spicy. Would Illinois be better off managing its own grid? I always thought the PJM and MISO split was weird. Plus required 6 GW of grid-level battery storage.

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities. The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

Mike Johnson: "I don't have any strategy"

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Its not monsters from outer space Its humans scraping the bottom floor and sucking up every life form that exists, leaving nothing Fish often in vain flee for their lives Also releases 370 million metric tons of planet-warming c02 every year, roughly same as running 100 coal power plants

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved. Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning. ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

Climate action is the only economic growth story of 21st century, says leading economist Lord Stern - Fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump has turned the US government into a host body for a cordyceps-like parasite: the fossil fuel industry. It will backfire horribly Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Chicagoland is a friendly, safe, vibrant, & fun place. I’m very happy my kids have grown up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of the city, & in Evanston. They’re both wonderful places. But ICE is attacking us. People are doing everything possible to protect their neighbors. But it’s hard.

For future reference, Chicago: bookmark this page thetriibe.com/2025/09/how-...

Looks different than the CPD helicopter one seen the last few weeks. Every day, constant helos over Chicago. Can't identify the markings.

Hrmm…

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating. - All 7 H2 Hubs - All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg - 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities - 10 of 38 grants for battery materials heatmap.news/politics/doe...

🔎Two out of three of the UK's worst harvests on record have occurred this decade after extreme wet weather, with the worst in 2020 and third worst in 2024. eciu.net/media/press...

As usual, one thing lost in the media coverage of the market for soy beans is that the vast majority of soy produced globally - including that bought by China, which is now buying more from Argentina and Brazil - is milled into animal feed to feed animals on factory farms. It's a dark business.

I feel way better about this team than I did last year. They are well constructed and have projected NBA-level talent. They have length and shooting, and I expect a more modern-day game. I hear their international transfer, Luka, can play. www.si.com/college/unc/...

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

$16 billion. That's how much the PJM market monitor estimates that electricity ratepayers will pay via increased utility bills to subsidize interconnection of data centers owned by Big Tech. A massive give-away to some of the most profitable companies in the world. www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Wake up Donald :D "China earns more from exporting solar panels, batteries, electric cars and other clean energy tech than the US does through fossil fuel exports" ⚡️⚡️⚡️🔋🔋🔋 #alwaysbecharging 🌞🌞🌞💨💨💨

We're gonna need a bigger Y-axis.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

MORGAN STANLEY: “.. it’s difficult to ignore the market’s reliance on AI capex. In market-pricing terms, we believe we’re closer to the seventh inning than the first, and several developments indicate we may be entering the later phases of the boom.” 👀 [Shalett]

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

Scoop: CarbonCapture Inc. has moved its 2,000-ton direct air capture project from the US to Canada, compelled by shifting political winds and a better policy environment in the north, CEO Adrian Corless told me: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

Carbon credits have been making a comeback after concerns over quality and claims of greenwashing, which are bot real issues. Expect a "four-fold increase in demand for carbon credits by 2030". High-quality projects are still a fraction of the market. 🎁 article www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Solar panels that can be assembled as easily as an Ikea bookcase and plugged into a regular residential outlet could be coming soon to New Hampshire and Vermont. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Good morning! Watching Humberto and Imelda getting ready to interact. Pretty cool satellite image. Have a great Monday!

This week on SHIFT KEY: A stack of electricity techs — solar, batteries, EVs etc. — seem to be displacing fossil fuels across China & the developing world. Is this the start of the "Electrotech Revolution"? Rob & I discuss the evidence with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social heatmap.news/podcast/shif... 🔌💡

New York's South Fork Wind, America's first large offshore wind project, is generating electricity as at the same rate as New York's natural gas generators. How's that for reliable power? (via @justingerdes.bsky.social) www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/trump-claims...

The Trump/UAE/AI/Crypto scam, graphically presented

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

I just called my Chicago Alderman to voice my strong support for ADUs. Took 2 mins. Lookup your ward and contact info below.

(Bloomberg) - President Xi Jinping’s export engine has proved unstoppable during five months of sky-high US tariffs, sending China toward a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Mandalorian and Grogu teaser trailer just dropped! This is the way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pa1...

Paris is transforming its landscape and climate by planting a large number of trees (native species) in the city to lower temperatures and improve rainwater runoff to reduce flooding and improve air quality in the city. This is the way intelligent humans change the cities they live in.

Excellent new video from PBS Terra about the long term climate change impact on the probability of death across the USA:

11) At the high end of the grid reinforcement cost estimate range, VPPs could reduce grid buildout costs by *$340 billion*. That's our estimate of the "money on the table" for deploying VPPs: The achievable societal value of avoiding poles-and-wires upgrades at the distribution level.

“.. Virtually all major grocery categories are now more expensive than they were a year ago, some substantially so.” @axios.com #ICYMI www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Monthly Coffee Retail Prices in the U.S. have been soaring. Given that more than a third of green coffee comes from Brazil (2024 data), tariffs of 50% (in effect since Aug 7) are likely to fuel prices even more.

Trump is gifting the world to China. But we have oil right? "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" 🎁 article www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE

"It is just mind-numbing that there's just so little attention on the credit side in terms of this [climate] risk in the municipal bond market," Tom Doe of Municipal Market Analytics told @scrawford.bsky.social #munibonds