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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 13h

The sun came out long enough to shine on Beaumont Tower this afternoon. #MichiganState

Brick bell tower surrounded by trees in the afternoon sun.

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 10h

For academics ditching academia . edu, I am hoping this spot takes off: hcommons.org. Let's connect there.

Knowledge Commons – Open access, open source, open to all

hcommons.org

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 13h

The sun came out long enough to shine on Beaumont Tower this afternoon. #MichiganState

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Institute of Public Utilities at Michigan State University @ipu-msu.bsky.social · 17h

The US Dept. of Energy ordered the Michigan utility to keep its coal plant open despite its planned retirement in May 2025, citing an "energy emergency." But who is going to pay for it?
www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-do...

Groups challenge MISO cost allocation plan for coal power plant

Industrial, business and environmental groups say they should not have to pay to continue running a 1,560-MW, coal-fired power plant that doesn’t benefit them after the DOE ordered it to stay open.

www.utilitydive.com

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 23h

#OnThisDay in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h... #OTD #EdgarAllanPoe

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 1d

I recently wrote about how the US natural gas (methane) producers desperately need the world to get hooked on LNG imports. They need new markets for their gas. Why? From @ember-energy.org :

"global gas generation also fell (-6.3 TWh, -0.2%)"

The world is using less gas.

Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember

Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

ember-energy.org

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mikestarace.bsky.social @mikestarace.bsky.social · 1d

Data from the first year of operation at New York’s South Fork Wind installation undermines U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s claim that, “You don’t get wind power” in the winter. www.eenews.net/articles/wri...

Wright says it’s not windy in winter. Data says otherwise.

Stats from South Fork Wind's first year undermine the Energy secretary's assertions that offshore turbines don't operate well in the winter.

www.eenews.net

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 1d

Happening today!

Institute of Public Utilities at Michigan State University @ipu-msu.bsky.social · 1d

There is still time to register for the IPU Advanced Regulatory Accounting & Auditing class starting tomorrow (10/7).
*Increase your knowledge, skills, and abilities in regulatory rate case accounting and auditing
*Earn continuing professional education credits
*Network with utility professionals 👇

Advanced Regulatory Studies Program

www.canr.msu.edu

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Institute of Public Utilities at Michigan State University @ipu-msu.bsky.social · 1d

There is still time to register for the IPU Advanced Regulatory Accounting & Auditing class starting tomorrow (10/7).
*Increase your knowledge, skills, and abilities in regulatory rate case accounting and auditing
*Earn continuing professional education credits
*Network with utility professionals 👇

Advanced Regulatory Studies Program

www.canr.msu.edu

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 2d

Essential reading about the Trump administration's effort to control US universities through a "compact."

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 2d

Every trustee or regent or governor on every higher education board needs to read this.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 2d

Essential reading about the Trump administration's effort to control US universities through a "compact."

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 4d

You might like Bodkin.
Bodkin (TV series) - Wikipedia share.google/2OQcwZvbNye0...

Bodkin (TV series) - Wikipedia

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary
injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The
Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause
sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119
How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States
citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into
this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that
just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United
States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in
passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore
wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in
showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this
country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that
various limits on our remedial power independently require us to
reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one.
•It
is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even
more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the
need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court
again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied
"administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to
conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in
fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159
F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general
rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue"
because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to
"consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary,
without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be
wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our
established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to
make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather
than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact
of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332
U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break
with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than
does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong
Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or
Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S.
Code.
The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary
injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for
further consideration consistent with this decision.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5d

Months, and several rounds of authoritarian escalation later, we are still waiting for the urgent, loud, public collective action from university presidents.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Fire crews are battling massive flames at a Chevron refinery just outside of Los Angeles. California Gov.

Massive fire erupts at Chevron refinery near Los Angeles

Fire crews are battling massive flames at a Chevron refinery just outside of Los Angeles. California Gov.

bit.ly

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 5d

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity & collective action against this effort at federal control over higher ed"

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 5d

Brian is doing some EXCELLENT reporting on data centers and community resistance to them in Michigan.

Brian Allnutt @brianallnutt.bsky.social · 5d

I'll be repping @planetdetroit.org and talking about data centers with Stateside on @michiganpublic.bsky.social today at 3 pm and 8 pm.

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Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social · 5d

Future of arts in NYC? Queens!

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 5d

I’m old enough to remember when natural gas was the “bridge fuel.”

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 5d

Here we have the CEO of the largest solar and wind developer in the United States NextEra, calling renewables the bridge to natural gas.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

AI-Driven Demand for Gas Turbines Risks a New Energy Crunch

Orders for turbines to power natural gas plants are vastly outpacing supply, threatening the world’s ability to keep pace with rising electricity demand.

www.bloomberg.com

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 6d

The travel advisory is warning Canadians with the X gender marker on their passport that they might not get in to the US

WindsorNewsToday @windsornewstoday.bsky.social · 6d

An updated travel advisory for the U.S. and a fight over flooding in Harrow. These stories and more are in your morning news on the go.

Morning News for Thursday, October 2, 2025

An updated travel advisory for the U.S. and a fight over flooding in Harrow. These stories and more are in your morning news on the go.

www.podbean.com

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 6d

The painted turtle!
www.michigan.gov/som/about-mi...

www.michigan.gov

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 6d

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 12d

Michi-gator! 🐊
www.woodtv.com/news/michiga...

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 6d

I think this is the second Michigan alligator capture in the past week!

Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 6d

An alligator spotted in Detroit was captured by two vigilante animal rescuers.

Detroit’s Belle Isle alligator has been caught - Detroit Metro Times

Don’t worry, Detroit — the alligator recently spotted on Belle Isle has been caught. The gator sighting shocked Detroiters when it was spotted on the island park late last month. It was captured Wedn...

www.metrotimes.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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