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The Verge: “It follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else. The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country. The deletion was suspiciously timed, following Republican outrage over Mayor Zohran Mamdani asking New Yorkers to help …
The New York Times – Gift Article: “PJM, the nation’s largest electrical grid operator, on Tuesday released results of an electricity auction that would add $6.3 billion in costs to the bills of millions of households and businesses within the next three years, an increase driven by the power demands of data centers. During the …
ABCNetAU: “The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz almost immediately caused a fuel price shock felt in bank accounts around Australia. Even if the Strait returns to normal, that shock will keep sending prices up in a range of industries. Economic ripples will filter through to a plethora of products, such as plastics, fertilisers, building …
Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 10. This article is the tenth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici focused on the Trump administration’s unrelenting policy of attacking science, healthcare, public health and the rule of law. The cornerstone of this series are topical highlights …
“PowerOutage.us collects, records, and aggregates live power outage data from utilities all over the United States, with the goal to create the single most reliable and complete source of power outage information available. Most states have multiple electric utilities, many small, some big. With these large numbers of companies, it can be hard to get …
Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 4, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging …
Brookings Institute: As the country heads into its 250th birthday this weekend, more than 40% of American households are struggling to make ends meet, and the reasons why look different depending on where you live, what you drive, and how you get to work. To understand why, Brookings researchers delved into the details—how the rising …
ProPublica: “For more than 40 years, oil companies have been funding research at prestigious universities into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Among their favored fixes is carbon capture and storage. An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that boosters of CCS have ignored evidence …
Yet another example of government conducted on social media, X, owned by Elon Musk, via a posting by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, with the State Department completely absent. No American diplomats, translators, subject matter experts….just Kushner, Witcoff, Vance….and who else? This is the document posted on the OFAC site. And several notes – this waiver …
WSJ no paywall [click the down arrow in the lower right hand corner of the page]: “A senior Trump administration official read out President Trump’s memorandum of understanding to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and wind down the war with Iran in exchange for financial incentives for Tehran that will begin immediately. Another official, speaking …
“Some of you saw a thing I built earlier this year called Epstein Exposed. It was an attempt to make the Epstein files actually searchable instead of 2 million scanned pages nobody could use….I went looking for the next pile of public records nobody had bothered to make searchable. I found it on a drive, …
The Verge: “A proposed $2 billion data center has become a political flashpoint in the small city of Shelbyville, Indiana. And the controversy has only grown more intense after the mayor, Scott Furgeson, was caught on camera saying of the “No Data Center” signs going up that, “I’ve seen a lot of these all over …
