WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Chevron maxes out to Becerra, its first donation to a California gubernatorial candidate since 2014
I get asked a lot why I'm Team Never Becerra. Answer, in two parts.
SHOT
More reasons why #TomSteyer is qualified and ready to be the next CA governor. 🧵
Led the California Task Force on Business and Job Recovery under Governor Gavin Newsom, focusing on COVID-19 economic recovery.
The sudden surge in support for Becerra is big oil and health insurance funded. To avoid a GOP shutout, we need to coalesce — and it is NOT around Becerra.
If you support climate policies, low cost health insurance, and reducing corruption, it’s either Steyer or Porter.
I want to talk about the CA Governor's race for a moment.
We can all agree that Swalwell should obviously drop out.
But that doesn't mean Becerra deserves the votes of progressives in California.
Here's why. 🧵
THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.
Pauli Murray
On this day in 1964, Pauli Murray circulated a memo arguing that black and white women would “share a common fate of discrimination” unless Title 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited sex discrimination in employment as well as race discrimination. The memo helped keep the “sex amendment” in T7.
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
ERA-5 data is in. March was indeed the warmest on record in the US. What’s even more astonishing is the trend. Since 1940 March in the US has warmed 7.2°F (~9° per century & accelerating). The pace is remarkable. Imagine if it continues. Thanks @climatologist49.bsky.social for the great tool!
OK I'm back home from Metro HQ. Reception in there was absolutely horrible so sorry I wasn't able to post more from in there. Phone could barely load bluesky. Here's my take on the motion:
And yes: L.A. County Supervisor @lindseyphorvath.bsky.social wants you 🫵 to get to Metro's board meeting this Thursday, Mar. 24, if you can, to speak up against attempts to block the K Line. Full details below. ↘️
Call-in (SECOND BEST): 888-978-8818, 5647249# at 10am on Thursday, March 26. Press #2 when item 7 comes up to "raise your hand" for public comment. You'll have 30 seconds to speak.
Join me Thursday morning (I’ll be there at 8am) to support the staff proposed K line extension:
In-Person (BEST): Thursday, March 26, 10 AM (arrive by 9am to secure a spot to make public comment) at Metro HQ, 1 Gateway Plaza, 3rd Floor, Los Angeles 90012. Sign up to comment on Item 7.
Instead of selecting one of the twelve — 12! — routes studied at the behest of Bass when Metro staff was last ready to recommend a route, 18 mos. ago, the motion calls for staff to again "propose alignment options" after "meaningful engagement" and "minimization of residential subsurface impacts."
Based on the first LA Mayoral debate, it’s clear that between Nithya Raman and Rae Huang, Raman’s progressive policies, pragmatic skills, and grounded experience put her leagues above Huang. youtu.be/7sOH8zAu_bg?...
Hoping the leftist trend makes its way to California in June
read about an alternative reality where reducing reliance on oil & gas is seen as a national security imperative👇
Costa gets into it with this thread. It details how the Trump admin ended a Biden admin $1 billion program designed to give Puerto Rico energy independence with rooftop solar.
Bad Bunny also reminded me how energy colonialism in Puerto Rico has lined the pockets of Trump’s cronies since Hurricane Maria in 2017:
- $300 million contract to Montana-based Whitefish Energy w ties to DOI Zinke.
- $10 billion relief fund 3 years late to privatize PR’s grid w Luma Energy
The only thing more powerful than hate is love.
This made me cry.
in a welcome surprise, “we fucking hate taxes” apparently carrying the day in the tariffs case and it looks like they’re going down
I’m not used to this much good news in a row I don’t know what to do with my hands
Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.
Now let’s get to work.
transition2025.com
Tweet from NYC Board of Elections: We officially hit TWO MILLION votes - first time since 1969! Polls are open until 9pm. If you are on line by 9pm, you will be allowed to vote
NYC hits 2 million votes, breaking the 1989 record (1.9M) and taking us back to records set in the 1960s!
(1969: 2.4M; 1965: 2.6M)
By noon, with nine hours left of voting, we've already surpassed the number of New Yorkers voting in a mayoral election going back two decades.
Here's @thecity.nyc's first pass from the polls.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/n...
There's virtually no doubt left that Mamdani will finish first in the 1st-round of this primary, ahead of Cuomo.
NYC Mayoral election results are now live at NYT. LFG Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
Taps the sign👇
Direct File is live and having an incredible tax season. Taxpayers are able to successfully import info the IRS has about them and user satisfaction remains 🚀 high.
The product team is predominantly in house, increasing its ability to deliver an awesome product 👏
