@mattmcgovern.bsky.social
I post a lot about climate and clean energy, and Wisconsin sports. Marathon runner, husband, dad, Village Trustee and attorney. Pro-democracy. Let’s build safer streets, more homes and a greener Shorewood. Personal account.
Phew! I'm so relieved that my sunshine managed to slip through the Strait of Hormuz unscathed.
In fact, that sunshine went right into my car, without the assistance of an armed flotilla.
It's also free, so there's that.
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When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
I want him prosecuted for war crimes but I will settle for resignation.
Minnesota Frost fan on the zamboni has a sign reading No ICE, no war, no kings, which was immediately taken off the big screen once it was shown on camera.
Fans continue to let out cheers, but just began booing as a team official removed it on the ice.
Interesting comments from people who have purchased cheap used EVs. www.jalopnik.com/2122327/chea...
In my book The Privateers I explain how DeVos, Koch, and Bradley $$ created “soldier scholars”—right-wing political operatives with PhDs and campaign-style tactics to push right-wing policy priorities through courts and legislatures.
This week seeing new examples👇
Donald Trump won the 2020 election except for the votes and the electoral college. He won except for that.
Israel literally just bombed a demonstration in Tehran.
apnews.com/article/iran...
Weird that Putin would benefit from this war that seems beneficial to no one else
Trump, Mitch McConnell Clash In Oval Office Over Where They Are https://theonion.com/trump-mitch-mcconnell-clash-in-oval-office-over-where-they-are/
Imagine if Stephen Miller was the real president. Think about what a terror that would be.
It's 2026 and I am officially out of patience for people who still believe that Cheney endorsing Harris in 2024 was an example of Harris swinging right rather than Cheney correctly thinking that Trump was so dangerous she would rather stand with a person from across the aisle than promote him.
"Americans prefer a car-dependent lifestyle."
I can't tell you how much I hate this glib sentiment. The only way to determine someone's true, enduring preference is to give them full familiarity with their options. Americans have no familiarity with their options! They've only seen sprawl!
Quick, name an 85-year-old working any other job!
Your regular reminder that normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage - on the basis of total lies about nonexistent mass voter fraud - the central pillar of their policy platform.
That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
A future Democratic president could just send him to Guantanamo since they have presidential immunity, right?
☕ Discourse Coffee in Milwaukee just unionized — and nobody had to fight. The owners recognized the union voluntarily. Here's what that looks like and why it matters.
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One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.
Hyundai is still leasing the Ioniq 5 for $269 a month carbuzz.com/current-best...
There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
Think how much oil prices would drop if he resigned.
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I tried to tell everyone to get an EV and never vote Republican www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/o...
Historian here Greg Sargent is right. A war of obliteration without purpose one that tanks our economy and destroys American hegemony, even our allies are not happy to put it mildly. Trump was truly sent to destroy the republic.
Threading some stuff about oil & oil markets, just basic but hope it helps:
1/ oil markets are what you call “finely balanced”. Supply is usually very very close to demand/consumption. Demand is hard to shift *quickly* in response to supply hiccups.
So even small supply changes = big price effects
