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Trump’s deployment of federal troops has cost taxpayers nearly $500 million so far — and could surpass $1 billion for the rest of the year.
That’s after slashing SNAP and Medicaid, letting ACA subsidies expire, and gutting countless other federal programs.
Priorities.
That’s after slashing SNAP and Medicaid, letting ACA subsidies expire, and gutting countless other federal programs.
Priorities.
January 29, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Trump’s deployment of federal troops has cost taxpayers nearly $500 million so far — and could surpass $1 billion for the rest of the year.
That’s after slashing SNAP and Medicaid, letting ACA subsidies expire, and gutting countless other federal programs.
Priorities.
That’s after slashing SNAP and Medicaid, letting ACA subsidies expire, and gutting countless other federal programs.
Priorities.
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Two Texas Monthly journalists were driving through West Texas last week when they became the story themselves.
The Latino reporters were pulled over three times, first by a local county officer in Sanderson, then by ICE near Presidio, and finally by DPS outside of Marfa.
The Latino reporters were pulled over three times, first by a local county officer in Sanderson, then by ICE near Presidio, and finally by DPS outside of Marfa.
‘It just felt so targeted’: Texas Monthly journalists detail multiple run-ins with law enforcement
DPS, ICE and county officers stopped the two. They say the experience left them particularly unsettled after learning of the killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis.
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January 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Two Texas Monthly journalists were driving through West Texas last week when they became the story themselves.
The Latino reporters were pulled over three times, first by a local county officer in Sanderson, then by ICE near Presidio, and finally by DPS outside of Marfa.
The Latino reporters were pulled over three times, first by a local county officer in Sanderson, then by ICE near Presidio, and finally by DPS outside of Marfa.
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“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”
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January 24, 2026 at 10:22 PM
“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”
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I was asked to share this by a friend who a minister and activist in Minneapolis. Today ICE murdered a man in the streets for no good reason. It was an unhinged, immoral execution
Share this far and wide to help spread the word and to let Minneapolis know that we all stand with them.
Share this far and wide to help spread the word and to let Minneapolis know that we all stand with them.
January 24, 2026 at 10:45 PM
I was asked to share this by a friend who a minister and activist in Minneapolis. Today ICE murdered a man in the streets for no good reason. It was an unhinged, immoral execution
Share this far and wide to help spread the word and to let Minneapolis know that we all stand with them.
Share this far and wide to help spread the word and to let Minneapolis know that we all stand with them.
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This is the "gun" that Trump, Noem, Bovino, and every other administration official claims the victim was brandishing that justified him being pushed, tackled, shot, and killed.
A phone.
A phone.
January 25, 2026 at 12:23 AM
This is the "gun" that Trump, Noem, Bovino, and every other administration official claims the victim was brandishing that justified him being pushed, tackled, shot, and killed.
A phone.
A phone.
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Many thanks 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Please spread the word if don't mind. I'm fighting algorithms.😅
Please spread the word if don't mind. I'm fighting algorithms.😅
Your special caught me at an unexpected time and I made a little night out of watching it. Really cool to see. Truly a Comic. Excellent work. I had a blast with it 🙏
January 20, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Many thanks 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Please spread the word if don't mind. I'm fighting algorithms.😅
Please spread the word if don't mind. I'm fighting algorithms.😅
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MLK wasn’t asking for better speeches. He was demanding material dignity.
Democracy only makes sense when people can eat, learn, heal, and live without fear of losing everything.
We’re not there yet.
Democracy only makes sense when people can eat, learn, heal, and live without fear of losing everything.
We’re not there yet.
January 19, 2026 at 5:40 PM
MLK wasn’t asking for better speeches. He was demanding material dignity.
Democracy only makes sense when people can eat, learn, heal, and live without fear of losing everything.
We’re not there yet.
Democracy only makes sense when people can eat, learn, heal, and live without fear of losing everything.
We’re not there yet.
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Yep, a stealth heat tax. Also known as climate-flation, or the steadily rising costs of climate impacts. Talk to everyone you know about this and fossil-flation, the steadily rising costs of our dependency on fossil fuels, and you have the beginnings of a new kind of economic populism.
Temperature changes alone cut US incomes by 12%, between 2000-2019, per a new study - on top of disaster and insurance losses.
Call it a stealth heat tax
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
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Call it a stealth heat tax
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
A Stealth Heat Tax Has Already Cost Americans $1 Trillion
A hotter planet is making life more expensive. There’s the big-ticket stuff, of course, like the property losses and higher insurance premiums that come with supercharged natural disasters. But a deep...
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January 14, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Yep, a stealth heat tax. Also known as climate-flation, or the steadily rising costs of climate impacts. Talk to everyone you know about this and fossil-flation, the steadily rising costs of our dependency on fossil fuels, and you have the beginnings of a new kind of economic populism.
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Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
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It wasn’t until researching this article that I realized quite how bad the Big Beautiful Bill is for clean energy — reduced royalty rates for fossil fuels, a gutting of fuel economy standards, and subsidies for biofuels & coal, along with the IRA cuts we all knew
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‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy
The new federal law favors energy technologies that are already profitable and increase global warming over cleaner approaches that could use the investment support.
theconversation.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It wasn’t until researching this article that I realized quite how bad the Big Beautiful Bill is for clean energy — reduced royalty rates for fossil fuels, a gutting of fuel economy standards, and subsidies for biofuels & coal, along with the IRA cuts we all knew
theconversation.com/big-beautifu...
theconversation.com/big-beautifu...
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New paper with Chen Chen and Carrie Hashimoto examines how investments in power plants, transmission, storage, or efficiency would improve resource adequacy and reduce emissions in ERCOT
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Impacts of potential investments on electricity resource adequacy and emissions in Texas
Growing demand, an increasingly variable power supply, and blackouts during a 2021 winter storm prompted the Texas legislature to incentivize the cons…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
New paper with Chen Chen and Carrie Hashimoto examines how investments in power plants, transmission, storage, or efficiency would improve resource adequacy and reduce emissions in ERCOT
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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To see just how fast emerging car markets can pivot to electric vehicles, check out Vietnam's jump from zero to 54% in this report by CSIS's Ilaria Mazzocco
www.csis.org/analysis/ele...
www.csis.org/analysis/ele...
August 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
To see just how fast emerging car markets can pivot to electric vehicles, check out Vietnam's jump from zero to 54% in this report by CSIS's Ilaria Mazzocco
www.csis.org/analysis/ele...
www.csis.org/analysis/ele...
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There are two paths for AI data centers: hero and villain. Emerald AI founder & CEO Varun Sivaram and I talked through the two paths. If you want to understand how AI data centers can strengthen the grid and lower electric bills, give it a listen. 1/2
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
There are two paths for AI data centers: hero and villain. Emerald AI founder & CEO Varun Sivaram and I talked through the two paths. If you want to understand how AI data centers can strengthen the grid and lower electric bills, give it a listen. 1/2
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Texas severely lags on residential demand response, making reliability risks higher than they need to be; PUC Staff recommended higher profits for Texas' largest electricity utility; and Texas added 1.3 gigawatts of solar & storage in October. Link in reply. 1/2
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Texas severely lags on residential demand response, making reliability risks higher than they need to be; PUC Staff recommended higher profits for Texas' largest electricity utility; and Texas added 1.3 gigawatts of solar & storage in October. Link in reply. 1/2
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There are nearly 23 gigawatts of thermal plants offline for maintenance as Texas continues to have way above average heat.
To pick up the slack, batteries are deploying for longer periods; they discharged over 3,000 megawatts for 2+ hours Tuesday evening. 1/2
To pick up the slack, batteries are deploying for longer periods; they discharged over 3,000 megawatts for 2+ hours Tuesday evening. 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There are nearly 23 gigawatts of thermal plants offline for maintenance as Texas continues to have way above average heat.
To pick up the slack, batteries are deploying for longer periods; they discharged over 3,000 megawatts for 2+ hours Tuesday evening. 1/2
To pick up the slack, batteries are deploying for longer periods; they discharged over 3,000 megawatts for 2+ hours Tuesday evening. 1/2
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Have an energy or science technology that could become a startup? Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory, is recruiting its next cohort. Participants receive a two-year fellowship stipend, healthcare, and more: bit.ly/3jZhvOz
Apply - Chain Reaction Innovations
An energy and science incubator for transformative technologies
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October 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Have an energy or science technology that could become a startup? Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory, is recruiting its next cohort. Participants receive a two-year fellowship stipend, healthcare, and more: bit.ly/3jZhvOz
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"Oil and gas get most of the attention, but clean energy has been the Texas
economic boom’s secret ingredient. All but 6% of new electric capacity
added to the state’s grid since 2020 has come from renewables or batteries."
And energy use is up over 25% in that time! 1/2
economic boom’s secret ingredient. All but 6% of new electric capacity
added to the state’s grid since 2020 has come from renewables or batteries."
And energy use is up over 25% in that time! 1/2
August 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"Oil and gas get most of the attention, but clean energy has been the Texas
economic boom’s secret ingredient. All but 6% of new electric capacity
added to the state’s grid since 2020 has come from renewables or batteries."
And energy use is up over 25% in that time! 1/2
economic boom’s secret ingredient. All but 6% of new electric capacity
added to the state’s grid since 2020 has come from renewables or batteries."
And energy use is up over 25% in that time! 1/2
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Texas installed nearly 2 gigawatts of supply in July & 5 GW over the last 3 months; there's a 150% increase in gas plants in the interconnection queue. We'll need it: EIA projects 14% demand growth in Texas in 2026. Also, PUC reveals SB 6 large load plans.
www.douglewin.com/p/rapid-dem...
www.douglewin.com/p/rapid-dem...
Rapid Demand Growth Outpaced by New Supply in Texas: Grid Roundup #70
EIA projects 14% electric demand growth in Texas in 2026; Texas now installing nearly two gigawatts of supply per month; 150% increase in gas plants in the queue; PUC reveals SB 6 implementation plans
www.douglewin.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Texas installed nearly 2 gigawatts of supply in July & 5 GW over the last 3 months; there's a 150% increase in gas plants in the interconnection queue. We'll need it: EIA projects 14% demand growth in Texas in 2026. Also, PUC reveals SB 6 large load plans.
www.douglewin.com/p/rapid-dem...
www.douglewin.com/p/rapid-dem...
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Residential consumers' bills will go up >20% and manufacturers and other large consumers will see increases of >50% (!) according to Energy Innovation's modeling. Texas is also projected to lose over 50 gigawatts of solar and 100,000 jobs. More here:
www.douglewin.com/p/texas-bus...
www.douglewin.com/p/texas-bus...
Texas Businesses To Pay 54% More for Power
Residential consumers will pay 20% more & 100,000 jobs will be lost, according to Energy Innovation's modeling. Dan O'Brien breaks down the impacts of lost power supply from the federal budget bill.
www.douglewin.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Residential consumers' bills will go up >20% and manufacturers and other large consumers will see increases of >50% (!) according to Energy Innovation's modeling. Texas is also projected to lose over 50 gigawatts of solar and 100,000 jobs. More here:
www.douglewin.com/p/texas-bus...
www.douglewin.com/p/texas-bus...
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I was on Texas Public Radio yesterday talking about the federal budget bill; a Columbia study quantifies the significant damage to American manufacturing from the OBBB; data center rules and regulations start to take shape. That and much more here:
www.douglewin.com/p/higher-en...
www.douglewin.com/p/higher-en...
Higher Energy Costs From the OBBB: Reading & Podcast Picks, July 22, 2025
I was on Texas Public Radio yesterday talking about the federal budget bill; a Columbia study quantifies the damage from OBBB; data center rules and regulations start to take shape; and much more
www.douglewin.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I was on Texas Public Radio yesterday talking about the federal budget bill; a Columbia study quantifies the significant damage to American manufacturing from the OBBB; data center rules and regulations start to take shape. That and much more here:
www.douglewin.com/p/higher-en...
www.douglewin.com/p/higher-en...
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The President and Congress, with support from the DOE, are leading America into energy scarcity.
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Energy Scarcity
The President and Congress, with support from the DOE, are leading America into energy scarcity.
www.douglewin.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The President and Congress, with support from the DOE, are leading America into energy scarcity.
www.douglewin.com/p/energy-sc...
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