A panel of female journalists, including Kirby Adams of the Courier Journal, Sarah Ladd of the Kentucky Lantern || bsky @kentuckylantern.com, Amber Philpott of WKYT, and Kerri Richardson of C2 Strategic Communications, is speaking on the role of media in the current landscape, some of the most impactful and consequential

After violent deaths, children of Hortmans pray for peace at parents’ funeral  minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/28/aft…

'An irrational, infantile mania against clean energy.' eenews.net/articles/senat…

NEW: Sen. Lisa Murkowski stares me down for more than 10 secs after I ask her to respond to Sen. Rand Paul’s critique of the deal she struck to get her to a YES and pass the OBBB. “Do I like this bill? No. But I tried to take care of Alaska’s interests.” w/ Frank Thorp V

New Jersey removes mandate to publish legal notices in newspapers newjerseymonitor.com/2025/07/01/new…

Excellent run-down of behind-the-meter generation serving AI data centers, via NGI: Data Centers Going Off-Grid With Natural Gas to ‘Find Any Way to Get Power’ "Behind-the-meter power generation was getting scant attention before billionaire Elon Musk installed natural gas

As part of Richmond's fuel purchasing card program, employees are supposed to enter odometer readings to show there's no funny business. One employee was able to enter "12345" for 130 purchases. richmonder.org/audit-of-city-…

One of the weirder things to happen lately in the power markets: California has become a huge exporter during its peak season. Meanwhile the rest of the West has hollowed out its fossil capacity, leaning on Cali's battery/gas/renewable abundance. (thank you Cali ratepayers!)

BREAKING: A 27-year-old man has been killed after opening fire at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, authorities say. apnews.com/article/mcalle…

John Hooker, first of ‘ComEd Four’ to be sentenced, gets 1½ years in prison via @Capitol News Illinois capitolnewsillinois.com/news/john-hook…

AI data centers like the ones coming to Pa. are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill penncapital-star.com/2025/07/16/rep…

An under the radar thing about this bipartisan Governors letter to PJM: they say they are going to create their own organization to participate in PJM alongside OPSI (which comprises the state regulators). That would be a big change for PJM governance. utilitydive.com/news/governors…

One of the hottest days of the year so far in Texas: 53% of the power on peak is coming from solar & wind. Wholesale power is ~$20 per megawatt-hour or 2 cents per kilowatt-hour. No conservation calls, no energy emergencies. ~20 gigawatts of extra power just sitting around.

NJ attorney general blasts ‘outrageous’ claims lobbed by state senator newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/attorne…

Ozzy Osbourne has passed away at the age of 76. I still can't believe it. A few weeks ago he was giving his final concert. I hope you came home, Ozzy ❤️

Ozzy Forever!

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Glad to see Terrebonne keeping it 💯lailluminator.com/2025/07/23/und…

I expected this was coming: OpenAI announced they have developed a high performing mini versions of GPT-o4 that will run locally on a laptop or a phone. This will shift a lot of inference off of data centers & onto our local machines. When the model can’t answer a question