My 2021 story on drinking water affordability for @planetdetroit.org that featured now Dem Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed. El-Sayed was working on the issue for Detroit Mayor Duggan. Affordability legislation in Michigan has failed to advance. planetdetroit.org/2021/11/dugg...

Duggan water advisor Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: Detroit focused on ending shutoffs, but affordability needs national attention

Newly re-elected Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s drinking water focus is clear, according to his point-person for shutoff and affordability plans.  “The

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What better way to celebrate the Line 5 decision and Abdul’s victory than a trip to the Straits? Why would anyone want to let an oil company tear this all up?

Hey btw, while everyone is paying attention to Michigan for just one night may i point out that for about a decade now a bunch of us have been trying to protect the Great Lakes from a menacing oil pipeline? Learn all about here: thecurrentowdm.substack.com

The Current | Oil & Water Don't Mix | Substack

The currents are swirling about us - will we listen to them before it's too late? Click to read The Current, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Alright, look, who the fuck are these people voting for Stevens? Jfc.

This whole spring and summer has been fucking horrible so this resounding victory feels extra good. Amazing news from the MI Supreme Court!!! bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

Michigan Supreme Court vacates key Line 5 permit - Bridge Michigan

The court ruled 6-1 that the Michigan Public Service Commission’s review of a key permit for the petroleum pipeline tunnel was overly narrow, failing to consider whether the tunnel will harm public tr...

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the Chinese are making EVs with batteries made from salt. meanwhile the best selling vehicle in the US gets 25 mpg tops.

CZEdwards@czedwards.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oooooo www.newscientist.com/article/2532...

Happy anniversary! It was on this day, July 25, 2010, that Enbridge's Line 6B ruptured in Michigan. But don't worry, it was only 17 full hours before they realized it so just a million gallons of diluted bitumen spilled into the Kalamazoo River.

well if we're doing Norton Library editions sell a million copies, I've also got a suggestion for Nolan's next adaptation of an epic...

Élika Ortega@elikaortega.bsky.social · 2w ago

Would Nolan be interested in an epic adventure where a person who borrows a book from the library realizes they *also* have to go to the computer lab to run the floppy disk *and* to the media center to watch a vhs to make sense of this new form of the book ca 1980-1990? If so, I have a book for him!

hey if you ever run into one of the anti-fossil fuel tree hugging lib types, just ask them if they drive a car or heat their homes. that'll really get 'em! they just crumble under the weight of their exposed hypocrisy!

There are seven Ojibwe Nations in Minnesota and five of these communities have embraced alternative energy sources over the last decade. And now, there are six. Bois Forte has made the leap to energy sovereignty through a program called The Solar Commons. www.greatlakesnow.org/2026/07/23/n...

No One Owns the Sun - Great Lakes Now

Building energy ingenuity through a solar commons in Ojibwe country.

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What’s the origin of this (recent?) online phenomenon where people like to say they’ve “done their own research,” which usually means they did a Google search, watched a YouTube video, and maybe asked ChatGPT something? I find it troubling.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of tomatoes. —Emerson

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another odd moment occurred when Musk insisted that work in the future would be "optional" because robots would do everything. Musk said people might still work in the future but compared it to people who grow their own backyard tomatoes. He said they could just go to the store for better tomatoes.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2w ago

He’s tweeting from prison about not having contact with the outside world. I think we’re all on Team Cannibal now.

Saginaw Bay might not be the best stretch of Lake Huron but it will do.

never would have imagined I'd spend a day writing about the Ontonagon Boulder

yet another reason why it's important to fund regional public universities. we've got lots of great stuff in our special collections.

Lauren Turek@laurenfturek.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Oakland University Archives and Special Collections has made available via JSTOR 23 oral history interviews that capture the history of Pontiac’s Black community and map the routes of the Great Migration. The post also includes a classroom activity for interpreting excerpts of the interviews! 🗃️

New on The Current ✏️ Just in case you think the tunnel is the solution to protecting the Great Lakes, we've cited our sources... - Read More at TheCurrentOWDM.substack.com

some Tuesday flowers and stuff

You know how sometimes you ask BSky a question and people send you helpful but very rough approximations of what you’re looking for? Well @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social was like, oh that? I’ve written 2 essays on EXACTLY that! 🤣

Nikki Hessell@nikkihessell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can anyone point me to good readings about connections between "extracts/extracting" in the literary sense (pulling out a quote or passage) and "extractive" practices in the environmental sense? I feel like there must be work out there, perhaps in environmental book history, that synthesises this?

fuck it. I’m making pesto.

Yep, we're pretty f--king pissed. Ask Governor Whitmer if she wants her legacy to be one of protecting our freshwater, or defending Canadian pipeline profit at the expense of our Mackinac Straits and all the lives that rely on that ecosystem. Protect our Great Lakes. #ShutDownLine5

Oil & Water Don't Mix@owdm.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you're as pissed as we are that @govwhitmer.bsky.social Gov. Whitmer and EGLE awarded Enbridge permits for its dangerous and unnecessary oil tunnel through the heart of the #GreatLakes - let her know here: www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/cant_see_str...

Great piece on the wildfires this week (they are of course terrible for the Great Lakes). Pleased also to see a little shout-out to my recent essay on Line 5 in here.

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · 2w ago

The MAGA response to wildfire smoke is like a CT scan of their raddled bellicosity open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

okay sorry but I had one more thing to say about the Line 5 tunnel permit, for all the "reasonable" people who think the tunnel is a prudent and "safe" alternative thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/one-more-t...

One More Thing About That EGLE Permit

In case you think the tunnel is the solution to protecting the Great Lakes.

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If there is a boxing movie on the tv I will stop and watch it no matter what.

so far I'm not very impressed with this Messi fellow

I'm about to watch a soccer match for the first time. I hear this Messi person is something to see. Am I supposed to root for his team?

Gotta eat as much Straits of Mackinac whitefish as possible now that our governor has chosen to hasten the species’ demise.

this is me resisting the urge to write a 1500 word essay about how the Line 5 pipeline prevented me from seeing John Mellencamp in concert last night

before the past couple days I had no idea how many members of the general public are experts in and such strong proponents of forestry management

open.substack.com/pub/thecurre... Another must read by @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social on the sanctioned destruction of the planet by the fossil fuel industries and their champions in the halls of our crumbling state. Make America 1953 Again indeed.

Welcome to 1953

A Permit for Desecration

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