Federal Judge Breaks Trump’s Permitting Blockade The opinion covered a host of actions the administration has taken to slow or halt renewables development.

NEW: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that key actions Trump took to delay solar and wind projects across the U.S. were illegal (me for @heatmap.news)

Construction for Enbridge's Line 5 oil pipeline has started in northern Wisconsin.

Anishinaabe leaders are raising alarms about the threats to the water & covert police deals in the state.

A rally against Line 5 is being held today in downtown St. Paul outside the Army Corps building at 4:30 pm.

Observations showed that drivers provide an extra 1-2 inches of passing distance for every 10 mph of speed

That is not great

Striped bike lanes had lower passing distances than shared roads (but still greater than 3 feet)

Three foot law probably underestimates how much distance drivers provide

Down-facing recurved small white flowers on narrow tan stems over green and brown speckled leaves.

Very short yellow bearded Iris.

First gardening day at the St Anthony Park library in Saint Paul. Lots of Molly’s White hellebore blooming, but also these white trout lilies and the first miniature iris along the Como Ave edge. Trillium are up but not quite ready.

They not only won’t cancel; they’ve handed the entire event over to the fascists.

Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth are sitting at CBS’ table.

FCC’s Brendan Carr has actually been invited, while he’s trying to take away press freedoms.

No, probably not.

Today was such a good day. Soft open of Farina Rossa on Wednesday! 🤌 13 years in and we’re just getting started ✨

The feeling I keep having is that I’m really sick of boring people being in charge. Boring, bland, a complete lack of interesting. Want bold and exciting? DT Saint Paul is so small we could pedestrianize like 1/3 of it and the people would come.

The idea that Saint Paul could borrow Minneapolis’s concrete extruder to make a matching two-way bike lane on the north side of Como seems the most doable.

Two men in fatigues with their hands ziptied being arrested by Capitol Police

Dozens of people in fatigues lined up in the Capitol Rotunda with signage demanding an end to the Iran War

Dozens of US military veterans were arrested at the Capitol today during a protest against the Iran War.

Photos via @frankthorp.bsky.social

Nice! Too early here for those.

Yellow buttercup-like flowers over green divided leaves.

Long narrow pink-lavender tubes over frilly leaves.

White closed flowers on wiry dark stems.

White cupped flowers with yellow centers on wiry dark stems. Dark green leaves are flat and look like a pair of butterfly wings.

And more. Anemone seemanii, Corydalis solida, and twinleaf this morning after the overnight cold and this afternoon once it warmed up. #FlowerReport

Pink-lavender six-petaled flower with bronzy leaves.

White up-facing flowers with yellow centers. Unopened flowers are light pink.

A dark red almost brown triangular flowers with an open white center hides under a silvery green leaf just unfurling.

Three small white flowers like upside down inflated pants dangle above fine gray-green leaves in pairs.

Spring returns to Minnesota once again after taking a break for a few days (snow yesterday morning!). Yet one more example of rue anemone genetic diversity, this time a lavender flower. Bloodroot showing up later in a shady spot. The first wild ginger flower. Dutchman’s breeches. #FlowerReport

What If Cities Onboarded Residents Like Employers Onboard Employees? Authored by Aaron Hurst, Founder and CEO of the US Chamber of Connection I have hosted dozens of dinners in my home in Seattle over the past few years, bringing together people across backgrounds and…

A simple way to expand toward transit/biking trips in your city: Offer new arrivals a welcome package including a transit pass and free bikeshare trips. 

These are the moments when people form new travel habits, so it's a great time for nudges!

Great book!

Will this be enough evidence for @volts.wtf to finally invite me on his awesome show?

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.

Even Nixon.

And then kept electing presidents who continued similar policies until, arguably, 1980.

Virginia waterleaf leaves with a dusting of snow so the spots that look like water droplets are barely visible.

Virginia snowleaf. #NativePlants

how am I only just learning this stunningly apt word

So I know one of the people in this photo (not the professor)... and have eaten some of these products. Not bad!

There are a few billionaires and billionaire families that are literally ruining the country and the planet for everyone else in order to enrich themselves even further. The Koch brothers are among the worst.

Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Sarah Isgur QTing the NYT shadow docket story: In 2014 and 2015, the Court used the “shadow docket” to stop Texas’ anti-abortion restrictions from going into effect while the case was pending. The left was thrilled with the shadow docket at that point—years before this case even existed…

Isgur is such a fucking hack. the case she’s referring to is one where the 5th Circuit entered a stay and it was appealed to SCOTUS. the case in the Times story involved the Court intervening to stay an EPA rule while a lower court was still adjudicating the issue.

Spring is here, so this is going to become a full time Creeping Bellflower hate account.

Kill your hellflowers. Tell your friends.

👇🎯 Yes but it needs to go further:

- No shadow docket
- No clerks
- No building
- Riding the circuit

We can debate necessary structural reforms like more seats & such. But first, immediately, the next Congress needs to strip these Wizards In Robes of every perk & power not explicitly in Art. III.

Taylor Schlitz: If doulas matter, insurance should cover them This is not a debate over whether doulas are real professionals or whether their support is meaningful — we’ve already answered those questions. The real question is who gets access, Haley Taylor Schl...

I am so grateful for @haleytaylorschlitz.bsky.social’s voice. Covering doula services for all Minnesotans will save Black and Indigenous women's lives; stalling my bill leave more of us to die. This is not a 'niche' issue; this is about keeping parents and children alive.

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

This is an awful story.

A guy in a car straight up murdered a woman because she was pissed he was blocking the sidewalk and poured a bottle of water on his car.

So he drove over her *with his family in the car*, leaving her to die.