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🚨NEW🚨: DOE has issued illegal orders forcing two Indiana coal plants, Culley Unit 2 (CenterPoint) and Schahfer Units 17 and 18 (NIPSCO), to stay open.

Both were scheduled to retire at the end of this month.

These costly orders will raise our bills. We can't afford this!

@bryancurtis.bsky.social can you unpack this (only in podcasting?) on a Press Box pod soon? Would love to understand why leaving ESPN to go to Omaha is cited as improving the podcast production. What are the real drivers behind and implications of these moves? amp.awfulannouncing.com/podcasts/bri...

I don't know if you are still taking button ideas, but after the Belmont, my vote is for "2025: The Year that Journalism Won... Once"

Gas industry trying to force higher energy bills loses!

Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration ta...

Carefully chosen instance to defy the courts. But if they get away with it, anything goes.
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the notion of “inherent power” is anti-republican in the lower-case r sense. runs totally counter to the notion of a divided government of enumerated powers

Is that which decade we're in now? It keeps changing... 😒

Okay so we’re doing the late 1910s again.

We're suing. Earthjustice is representing Inflation Reduction Act grant recipients & holding the Trump administration accountable for illegally freezing funds that were meant to benefit communities.

The USDA recently removed whole sections of its website that focused on climate.

Today Earthjustice, along with the Knight First Amendment Institute and other partners, sued the USDA for unlawfully censoring climate information that farmers, researchers, and the public depend on.

Thank you @ryanthoreson.bsky.social for lending your voice and expertise to this piece. This is wrong and it's on all of us to stand together and speak out for what's right.

@bennettpeer.bsky.social Zelden said that employees should not include any sensitive, deliberative, confidential, etc. information. I am concerned that this is intentional to allow for them to be selectively released and used against EPA employees ☹️

Inside EPA reporting that Lee Zeldin directed EPA employees to respond to the DOGE email: insideepa.com/daily-news/e... Great work by @bennettpeer.bsky.social to draw attention to this.

Definitely not on board with a "blame the voters" strategy

BREAKING: Earthjustice is suing to block Trump's illegal ocean drilling order. ​Today, we filed the first major environmental lawsuit against the new Trump administration. We’re challenging an illegal order by Trump to remove protections for vulnerable ocean areas from future oil-and-gas leasing.

Imagine if we had a prominent Democratic figure standing in as a "shadow" CFPB Director or a "shadow" USAID Administrator explaining what the agency should be doing and why its work is important

I was really happy to see that statement!

Casually homophobic and offensive? Yes. Idiotic? Also yes.

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This is stunning, even for this Administration

Great job on the show! Unfortunately “I wish the circumstances were less depressing” is a caveat that applies pretty much across the board these days. Thanks for the good content @917wvxu.bsky.social

Which Coal Units Are Retiring, and Which Plants Will Continue Operating Once the dominant source of energy in the United States, today, 401 coal units supply roughly 16 percent of the nation’s grid.

Coal plants continue to be uneconomic, and while some are seeing retirement dates get pushed back, the long-run trajectory of coal in the power sector is clear #energysky: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This hits too close to the present

I am finding this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social op ed particularly helpful for this moment we are in

A big night out at Carmelo's, NKY's newest Italian joint Named after the co-owner's great-grandfather, Carmelo's exudes old-world charm with a modern-day spin.

Billy Grise's great-grandfather opened a restaurant in Piqua, Ohio in 1915. More than a century later, he did the same thing in Covington, Kentucky.

This is... astonishingly bad

Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

NEW Public Resource

Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

A catalogue compiling all the legal challenges facing the #TrumpAdministration’s executive orders and actions.

Agree 💯.

But note: It will not happen on its own.

It will happen because we: Brawl to hold the line; Move in space to where we can make progress; and work across different advocacy sectors to build power for change.