Andy Dressel
@andydressel.bsky.social
Energy Stuff - primarily power system reliability, security, & resilience Recovering attorney Any views expressed are my own and are not representative of my employer
Europe is blowing up riverbeds as an extreme drought wreaks havoc on its economy
Europe is blowing up riverbeds as an extreme drought wreaks havoc on its economy
Severe drought is disrupting energy and freight across Europe as low Rhine and Danube levels raise risks for supply chains and economic growth.
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The state has surpassed it's acreage record just two months into wildfire season.
More than 2 million acres burned as Oregon sets new wildfire record
The state has surpassed it's acreage record just two months into wildfire season.
oregonlive.com
UPDATE: The federal government has awarded the contract to provide legal service for unaccompanied immigrant children to a boutique firm in Houston, Texas, that doesn’t specialize in immigration. This will include children in Connecticut. www.politico.com/news/2026/08... #nutmegsky
26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
None of the Burke Law Group’s lawyers list immigration law as an area of expertise, per the firm’s website.
politico.com
Joshua Eaton@joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 5d agoThe contract that provides legal services to these immigrant children in federal custody expires today — both nationwide and here in Connecticut. The Acacia Center for Justice, which holds that contract, told me yesterday they have not seen a plan to replace it.
As the Spokane community continues to face the devastating impacts of local wildfires, you can help your neighbors. We will continue to update this thread with more opportunities to help!
Water utilities in at least seven states were hit with cyberattacks last week. Revisit WIRED’s inside look at a closed-door war game simulating what could happen if hackers carried out a catastrophic hacking campaign against US water utilities. wrd.cm/45znDXl
What Happens if the US Water Supply Gets Hacked? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
Burst water mains. Evacuated hospitals. In a closed-door simulation, insurers played out their response to a mass disruption by hackers—and found a nightmare scenario.
wired.com
"On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."
There's a National Blood Supply Crisis Happening Right Now
Red Cross officials are pleading with Americans to donate blood, especially if they have O-positive blood.
gizmodo.com
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
futurism.com
“It’s quite impressive and even frightening. An evacuation on this scale has never happened before. All we really hope is that the firefighters can quickly get it under control.”
Tens of thousands of people flee raging wildfires in France and Spain, some escaping by boat
Large forest fires are burning out of control in southwestern France and central Spain, prompting authorities to evacuate an estimated 87,000 people.
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An updated government advisory warns that Iranian hackers are exploiting systems used by water and energy providers.
US government says Iran-linked hackers are disrupting American water and energy providers | TechCrunch
An updated government advisory warns that Iranian hackers are exploiting systems used by water and energy providers.
techcrunch.com
This incident should terrify everyone - an experimental OpenAI agentic model not only hacked into another system on its own volition, but escaped a purportedly safe and secure laboratory sandbox to do so. A wake up call on the risks of AGI research, and need for governance! Link 👇
Lake Powell and Lake Mead hit a grim milestone this week. The combined storage in the nation’s two largest reservoirs has dropped to a level not seen since 1956, when Glen Canyon Dam was under construction, according to a new paper from Jack Schmidt, Anne Castle and other Colorado River scholars.
The Colorado River’s 2 biggest reservoirs just hit a new record low
Total water stored in Lake Powell and Lake Mead drop to levels last seen before Lake Powell even existed.Lake Powell and Lake Mead hit a grim milestone this week.The combined storage in the nation’s t...
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The view of the Northern Ontario forest fire haze engulfing the Toronto Skyline from Humber Bay Park West. #ForestFire #TorontoHaze #TheBigSmoke #Toronto
"If we torture them enough, they'll just throw in the towel and abandon whatever legal case they might have." @timmiller.bsky.social & @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social on deadly conditions at Camp East Montana, where guards allegedly bet on detainee suicides and three people died in just over 40 days.
Here are some rad dinosaurs that we know about because the land they were found on was protected as Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Guess what land isn't protected anymore?
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
NEW: A 5-year-old girl spent months in federal immigration custody here in Connecticut while her family waited for her release. Her case isn’t unique, experts and court records show. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
5-year-old spent 118 days on her own in federal immigration custody in CT
On any given day there are more than two dozen immigrant children detained without a parent or guardian in programs run by Connecticut nonprofits.
ctinsider.com
"the American Astronomical Society said the endeavor cannot be considered to serve the public interest and would waste taxpayer $ by wrecking the work of federally funded astronomical facilities even as it brought untold risks to people and wildlife" Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry (Gift Article)
A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.
nytimes.com
Holtec says Michigan’s Palisades nuclear plant is nearly ready for a restart — and could pave the way for bringing other facilities back to life.
America’s first nuclear plant restart may be near the finish line
After a few missed targets, Holtec says the remaining tasks to bring Michigan’s Palisades plant back online are equal to restoring service after a routine…
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America’s first grid-scale sodium-ion battery factory is headed for Sacramento — a big step forward for a technology that can unlock safer energy storage.
A pioneering grid-battery factory is headed for this California city
Sodium-ion batteries promise cheaper, more durable energy storage. Peak Energy seeks to kick-start the next-gen battery market by building the first big…
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The judge gave Estrella 21 days to file an asylum application, but I don’t know how that’s going to work, since she doesn’t have a lawyer, she’s separated from her mom, and again, she’s three years old.
"The fact that the more-or-less-trillionaire owner of a major social media platform is cosplaying a James Bond villain obsessed with brown invaders and 'white genocide' really should scare us all." ICYMI Cathy Young: lnk.thebulwark.com/4v0DBUB
Elon Musk’s Race War Hobby
He doesn’t like brown people and he isn’t trying to hide it.
lnk.thebulwark.com
The #AspenAcresFire, still burning quite actively along southern Colorado Front Range & having destroyed ~200 structures thus far, has become an exceptionally complex & challenging event from a firefighting perspective due to a confluence of climate, weather, & geography. [Thread]
Today, the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, it’s important to reread the (brief) text of that revolutionary document. It was neither the start, nor the end of the Revolution, but the legal justification to end the unjust imposition of the crown. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum). The spelling a...
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That game was incredible. Cabo Verde lost on the scoreboard, but won the day.
Largest U.S. power grid PJM escalates emergency actions to avoid blackouts www.cnbc.com/2026/07/03/p...
Largest U.S. power grid PJM escalates emergency actions to avoid blackouts
PJM said it was under a federal alert to cut electricity consumption. It serves 67 million people in the Mid-Atlantic, South and Washington, D.C., area.
cnbc.com
Trump discloses 327 unreported stock trades made a day before his first tariff pause www.nbcnews.com/business/mar...
Trump discloses 327 unreported stock trades made a day before his first tariff pause
The disclosure, more than 14 months after the purchases occurred, is the latest revelation to fuel calls for greater scrutiny of the president’s financial assets.
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