Joe Brulle 👊🏽🇺🇸🔋

I think, of all the slides in this report, this is the most important -- it's really worth examining closely. This illustrates why the triumph of electrotechnical is inevitable.

They should counter-sue Trump for 1 trillion dollars.

"This isn’t a maintenance bill. It’s a systems-building bill. And it positions Illinois to do something few American states have attempted: build a modern, frequent, interconnected railway network that treats mobility as essential infrastructure rather than a social service."

Living in Chicago as someone who is a shade a brown, and who has gotten mistaken for Hispanic (by both native and non-native speakers) more times than I can remember, it is scary. Doesn't matter if you are a citizen, they will disappear you.

The community reaction has been the glimmer of hope.

Illinois to add 3 GW of batteries, saving consumers $12 billion over 20 years Illinois is set to issue procurements for 3 GW of battery storage, under a bill expected to be signed by Governor JB Pritzker. Transmission improvements to speed renewable deployment are also in the w...

Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.

This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...

Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.

"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."

Phuck Phil

'Small-scale fishermen using low-impact methods are...forced out by industrial vessels "that take more in a day than we can in a season...we are not asking for special treatment, only for rules that protect the ocean, reward those who fish responsibly, + give our communities a chance to survive"'.

Don't forget tax cuts. Never had a problem a tax cut can't solve.

Such a funny word, grocery.

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

How does she portray the business case framing of the YIMBY model? Dense, walkable neighborhoods are inherently more efficient on both a revenue and expense basis. I would think this is something cash-strapped municipalities want.

Some happier moments for all the fellow Wizards/Bullets fans. The curse of Les Boulez lives.

When you do the math, its gets pretty obvious.

“emerging and developing economies would generally need prices at around US$ 3-5/MBtu to make gas attractive... But delivered costs for most new export projects need to average around US$ 8/MBtu to cover their investments and operation.”

If Musk left, maybe, just maybe I'd consider a Tesla. It has to fix its death trap doors first tho.

Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.

Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.

Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.

She was later released with NO CHARGE.

A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.

You decide…

YouTube video by The Daily Show Trump's Big, Beautiful Brain Takes on the Word "Groceries" | The Daily Show

Ah groceries. That old fashioned word.

youtu.be/2NKByZe7kZg?...

I follow that candidate and they treated her pretty roughly. There should be plenty of footage out there.

Trying to force JD as MAGA/Trump successor. We've all seen him. Nobody can keep the cult together after...

“.. for those of us who, in our younger years, revered America as a shining city upon a hill, .. this is quite a painful period.

“..’America has lost its moral bearings; as a result, it has also lost its moral standing in the world.”

@peter-wehner.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Yes, I realized I used the wrong wonton 🍜

Tear gas and Halloween costumes in America’s third-largest city Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago is out of hand

If you want to know how Operation Midway Blitz is going, this is a good summary from @dlknowles.bsky.social

Wonton use of tear gas around children and middle-aged dads going to Halloween parties while harassing nannies and construction workers.

🎁 article

www.economist.com/united-state...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322597121

At 185 mph maximum sustained winds, Cat 5 Hurricane #Melissa is now just 7 mph shy of what @michaelfwehner.bsky.social r.bsky.social & Jim Kossin have defined as the cutoff for a prospective "Cat 6" hurricane:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Give the man $1T for results like that

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

Ready in 2 weeks

Joe Kernan is a MAGA 🤡

Literally my neighborhood. No one wants them here.