Selling my parents house and moving mom into memory care. It goes by fast.

It's a busy news day but I'm taking the afternoon off to head to the ballpark, because it's important to enjoy the good things America has to offer ✌️

happy pride 💕

🌅 Beautiful evening. An almost-full moon rises later. Lows near 50; clear. Sunday: Hard to find a cloud. Highs in the 70s. 🌕 Blue Moon rises 9:17 p.m. Rare second full moon of May — only every 2–3 years. 📅 June opens well. Slight shower chance Tuesday. More @ CWG.Live 📸 Jeff Reardon & Brian Paeth

We are hiring a Senior Director, Decarbonization! Looking for a strategic operator who can help the commercial real estate industry lead on clean energy, moving from insight to action through practical tools, campaigns, and partnerships. Please share widely! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Hardiness Zone 7b

Second best time to start is today, California.

"America’s pro-democracy opposition is down, but not out. Success is possible under competitive authoritarianism. But you have to really compete." This piece gets it right on the balance that's now required between doing good politics/winning elections and scorched earth procedural warfare:

Another incredible #climatejob opportunity with the best team in climate policy and politics! We are looking for a passionate, strategic Michigan State lead! Remote in MI with frequent travel to Lansing! Join us!

it’s so crazy that Virginia voters amended the constitution to allow redistricting while Florida voters amended the constitution to ban gerrymandering… but the Republican hacks on both state supreme courts overturned the will of the voters to ensure that republicans get their preferred outcome

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

"They have it in their power to help unleash the construction of millions of all-electric, decarbonized homes in walkable, low-carbon neighborhoods at no cost to the public treasury and without anyone ever uttering the word “climate." www.sightline.org/2026/05/05/c...

As Tennessee Republicans voted Thursday to approve an unprecedented Congressional redistricting map that would divide Memphis, protesters and Democrats pushed back with walkouts, protests resulting in arrests and burning a printed Confederate flag in the Capitol. nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t...

Visiting John Prine’s former recording studio, The Butcher Shoppe, on my first ULI Product Council tour feels auspicious

*every meeting* of any kind, anywhere, should have a puppy park

Takoma Park Children’s Business Fair never fails to lift the spirits. My ten year old channeled her obsession with demogorgon and cookies. #tkpkcbf2026

Nine states are completely experiencing a drought. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

"How did the Confederacy finally conquer America?" "Gradually, then suddenly"

An administration run by zealots and oil-soaked sellouts, engaged in an epic act of national economic self-sabotage.

Tremendous economy, "the hottest in the world," they're saying, incredible economy, yes, we're buying cartel gold and selling it as our own, they're saying it's the greatest economy of all time.

Trump fired the entire board of the National Science Foundation: www.science.org/content/arti...

Read every word here from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social in today's NYT. I like the idea of a "national grid modernization fund," but would think more broadly about capturing surplus from the tech sector and broadly investing in America's physical layer. (1/2) 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A newly released manifesto from the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) and its partners lays out a 10-point plan to dramatically scale up cycling across the continent—positioning it not as a niche lifestyle choice, but as critical infrastructure in a time of crisis. momentummag.com/the-energy-c...

Worth noting that Raskin's daughter and son-in-law were at the Capitol on 1/6 and had to barricade themselves in an office so the mob wouldn't attack them.

We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.

#bringyourkidtoworkday

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia voters approve new US House districts that could aid Democrats in midterm elections.

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"America at the end of the Biden years was still a hugely unequal society, but less so than it had been for a generation." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-vindic...

CHRIS WRIGHT: Energy prices are still well lower than they were in middle of the Biden adminis-- CANTWELL: I want to stop you right there. There is nobody in the Northwest who thinks that. Not when they wake up & airline flights are being canceled because of high fuel costs. No one thinks it's okay

Happy Virginia redistricting ballot initiative day, Sickos!

open.spotify.com/episode/2rUl... Another enraging look at the straight-up illegal maneuvers hampering climate action - the damage done to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund

Eliminating parking minimums is not about eliminating parking. It's about moving beyond outdated, 1-size-fits-all mandates, originally based on flawed 1900s formulas, that no longer reflect how people live & that drive up the cost of housing in walkable, transit-oriented areas.

However low your opinion of the Roberts Court, it should be lower.

So the Clean Power Plan was never implemented. Now, want to hear something funny? The targets in the Clean Power Plan -- for growth in clean energy, for retirements of dirty energy -- were exceeded. Before the deadline. *Without the reg being passed.*

This bit right here. This is John Roberts basically admitting, explicitly, that he is dreaming up a legal doctrine out of nothing because he does not like or approve of Obama's policy:

All right, this piece has triggered me so I have to yell a bit (though this is bluesky, so I realize I'm just preaching at the choir):

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

The Boundary Waters is one of the rare places that still feels ancient and necessary. Millions of acres of lakes, streams, and boreal forest, it has been traveled by water for generations. It offers something increasingly scarce in modern life: silence, dark skies, humility. #boundarywaterscanoearea

A trio of Biden staffers who worked intimately to implement the Inflation Reduction Act have a big post-mortem out today looking at what worked, what didn't, and how to do it better next time, like... - fund implementation! - maybe don't base tax credits on LCA! more: heatmap.news/politics/inf...

Cauliflory! 😍

In other news, happy Ruination Day to all who celebrate www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

I just signed a bill to rename Minnesota’s community solar program after Speaker Melissa Hortman. Melissa was a true champion of solar and I was proud to sign this in honor of my dear friend.

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

When it comes to the energy transition I'm a glass half full person. I know: plenty of people would say that's terribly naive. They point to the scale of the challenge. They point to vested interests. They point to hard-to-abate sectors. And they're not wrong. But here's what they miss. 🧵

Affordability 🤝 housing 🤝 climate = 💋 zoning reform I wrote about how popular, pro-density land use reforms like legalizing ADUs and duplexes in single-family zones are spreading to the midwest this year... heatmap.news/politics/ill...