Karlee Weinmann
@karleeweinmann.bsky.social
Researcher @energyandpolicy.org. Midwest exceptionalist, South Minneapolis specifically.
Consumers Energy dark money affiliates spent over a quarter of a million dollars in one Michigan state house primary to sink data center critic Steve Carra but it sure did not work
Chad Livengood@chadlivengood.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: Political groups tied to @consumersenergy.bsky.social target a vocal data center critic in the Michigan Legislature in the August 4 primary election. And "Soft Steve" Carra says bring it on. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p... via @craigmauger.bsky.social
This past weekend, former Mayor Eric Adams was in Wisconsin Rapids—population 18,654—trying to convince residents that they should allow a real estate developer to build a data center in the heart of their town. The public hearing did not go well. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...
On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer
The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...
minnesotareformer.com
Michigan utility interests are contributing big to a campaign to block a ballot initiative that would *checks notes* limit utility political spending... https://bit.ly/4c7HFvG
Michigan utility interests pump $100K into fight against political spending ban
Consumers Energy’s parent company and a dark money group tied to DTE Energy each gave $50,000 to the opposition campaign, new disclosures show.
energyandpolicy.org
A little on the nose that a DTE Energy-affiliated dark money group is bankrolling the opposition to restrictions on utility political spending in Michigan energyandpolicy.org/dte-consumer...
Michigan utility interests pump $100K into fight against political spending ban
Consumers Energy’s parent company and a dark money group tied to DTE Energy each gave $50,000 to the opposition campaign, new disclosures show.
energyandpolicy.org
Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Trump took office.
The EPA halted a study on gas stoves and asthma. But even partial results were striking.
Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...
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Michigan utilities have now pumped $115,000 into a campaign opposing limits on their political spending, per filings made public today. This includes $65,000 total from Consumers Energy parent company CMS Energy Corp and $50,000 from DTE Energy dark money offshoot Michigan Energy First.
MLive@mlive.com · 2w agoThe proposal could alter how cash flows in Michigan politics, banning monopoly utilities and large government contractors from giving to political campaigns and requiring new disclosures for "dark money" groups.
Bro, the monopolistic energy utility does not need to send me an email celebrating 4 years of service together. This is not an equitable business relationship. Be serious.
Glad to see this coverage but it's not "one expert" saying this, it's the scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels causes climate change
KARE 11@kare11.bsky.social · 2w agoClimate scientist Dr. John Abraham says we've contributed by releasing heat-trapping gases for years.
My old neighborhood in Milwaukee runs an awesome 24-hour bike ride, the Riverwest 24, each July. This year's ride will start with a memorial lap honoring Alex Pretti, the intensive care nurse who federal immigration cops murdered in Minneapolis this January. Alex used come down to ride in the RW24.
Man killed by Border Patrol agent in Minnesota rode in Riverwest 24 last year
Alex Pretti attended Preble High School in Green Bay
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This CCI report lays out, for the first time, exactly how the oil & gas industry created and pushed the myth of "clean," climate-friendly natural gas—a myth that persists to this day. This is an INCREDIBLE, meticulously-researched resource for anyone who works on climate.
Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 2w agoNEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.
An organizer from one of the largest food distros during OMS was recently stopped and arrested for an alleged busted tail light and is facing deportation. I’m so sad and furious. The organizer of this fundraiser is a friend of mine. Help if you can, babes. gofund.me/4962797c4
Donate to Standing with Carlos in This Difficult Time, organized by River Hollows
Beloved community, Our dear friend and family member, Carlos,… River Hollows needs your support for Standing with Carlos in This Difficult Time
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We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
heated.world
here's how to make an inexpensive home air filter youtu.be/RTRDZZddcXI?...
Stay safe and healthy during bad air days with these DIY air purifiers
YouTube video by UMN Climate Adaptation Partnership
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The Shadow at the center of issues; Palestinian Genocide and US’s continued involvement, expanding into Iran, war profiteering, fossil fuel/climate denialism, and MAGA. Meet Harold Hamm, get to know him. Put some attention on him. Bad guy.
How Trump’s ‘original oil guy’ boosted US-Israel ties and played down risks of Iran war
Fracking billionaire Harold Hamm is co-chair of a non-profit that has aggressively pushed for US energy dominance
theguardian.com
Love to see Council Member Stevenson making building electrification a priority in Minneapolis, where gas utility CenterPoint Energy still offers contractors luxury vacations and sports tickets in exchange for installing gas appliances www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
Revealed: US utility firms offer builders cash and trips to fit new homes with gas appliances
Utilities give rewards to house builders to install and promote gas appliances in homes – and enlist celebrity chefs to extoll the fossil fuel
theguardian.com
Soren Stevenson@sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 3w agoI've seen enough! In City Hall, I'm working on transit improvements and decarbonization buildings right now. We know that gas in buildings and oil from cars and trucks are the two biggest sources of carbon pollution. Transit and electrification of buildings are our way out.
A tangible thing Twin Cities residents can do to reduce carbon emissions *and* utility bills is get a home energy audit, which includes installation of basic energy-saving upgrades and help figuring out bigger efficiency improvements. Open to renters and homeowners: www.mncee.org/home-energy-...
Home Energy Squad: In-Home Energy Audits - Minnesota | CEE
Home Energy Squad helps you solve energy problems at home so you can stay comfortable and save money year-round. Schedule your Home Energy Squad visit today.
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It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.
jentrification@jentrification.com · 3w agoTwo Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
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...
This account has become very grim today
Lake Superior! Live!@lake-superior.live · 3w agoCurrent* conditions near Marquette, MI:
Climate change is real, climate change is making this worse, climate change can be mitigated if we stop burning fossil fuels
Aleesa@akuzee.bsky.social · 3w agoPhotos from the Gunflint Trail tonight amid wildfires shared with @mprnews.org Left 📸 by Liz Covey Right 📸 by Kerry Lane
The news should be covering ICE like a serial killer on the loose
Grudgie the Whale@grudgie.bsky.social · 3w agoI don’t think it’s good that ICE is on a murder spree
ICE is still in Minneapolis, and several families in our immediate neighborhood still need help covering housing costs after ICE forced them out of work and upended their lives. Contributions made here go to them: givebutter.com/stan-eric
Standish-Ericsson Neighborhood Fund
Help us keep our neighbors in the neighborhood. Support the Standish-Ericsson community today!
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turns out the cure for male loneliness might be invasive species control
MPR News@mprnews.org · 3w agoThe Buckthorn Removal Singles Club meets every Sunday at a Minneapolis park to remove invasive plant species and create connections.
I've been thinking a lot lately about this *horrifying* statement by O.H. Skinner, a key architect of the ongoing effort to shield fossil fuel corporations from liability for the effects of climate change, including lethal heat.
![Screenshot of a quote from O.H. Skinner, Alliance for Consumers' executive director, reading: "I'm not an expert on these cases, but you're starting to see them. And I think the first one was just filed as a civil case in Oregon based on the heat dome—I still don't know what a heat dome is, but it is apparently a bad thing—where the estate of a person who died sued energy companies claiming that they had caused a climate homicide because the effects of climate change had made the environment in this person's life so unlivable that their death was literally caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Now, we can all sit here and say, 'Oh, the train of causation,' but I think one thing that Justin [Anderson — ExxonMobil's Assistant General Counsel for Litigation] can probably explain in his discussion is, if that's a theory that gets legs, that's just thousands, a million cases over a long enough arc, right? And they don't need— they just need enough of them to slip past a motion to dismiss and start to be like, 'Well, somebody died at 52 instead of 82.' Anybody who's in here and has ever done an insurance litigation case, like, those numbers are gonna get big and they're gonna get big fast."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dx74sfer64nk32orddcx6yvj/bafkreigqaietyqjg3diqi23iiv2yqwx46tt5ujdv54xl2fmpwwqbtykuhq)
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w agoThe heat broiling Europe in recent weeks is thought to have led to thousands of excess deaths, officials say, and is posing an extreme risk of wildfires, which have already burned through parts of Spain, Portugal and France.
we are watching our treasures burn down and still having to convince people that now is the time to take climate action
Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · 3w agoWith dangerous heat and several wildfires burning, the U.S. Forest Service is closing the Boundary Waters starting Tuesday.
The AI rush is driving "the biggest-ever construction boom of natural gas-fired power plants, not to mention moves by utilities, power plant owners & the federal government to keep aging coal-fired power plants operating past their previously scheduled retirement dates." apnews.com/article/data...
As gas plants rise to power AI, renewable energy allies are fighting for cleaner alternatives
Renewable energy allies are trying to ensure that massive data centers will be powered by climate-friendly sources.
apnews.com
They're continuing to kill people because this administration has told them that the people they're apprehending -- and those who defend them -- deserve violence, that no amount of violence is too much, and that no matter how egregious the abuse, they'll never be held accountable.
ICE agents involved in fatal Biddeford shooting, lawmaker says
It's at least the 11th fatal shooting involving an ICE or Border Patrol agent since President Donald Trump took office last year.
bangordailynews.com
In Minnesota, girls sell lemonade on the street to help their sisters arrested by ICE. Stephen Miller’s goons are very much still here. Sign reads, “Please help us raise money for my sisters because they were arrested by ICE” & this has been confirmed by trusted community members.
This is NOT how we treat our neighbors. No one involved has been able to answer what "alternative housing" will be available for the people they are intentionally displacing in preparation for a Minnesota winter. Shelters are full, and not every shelter is suited for every person... Please help 💕💸
Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press)@frederickmelo.bsky.social · 4w agoBeginning Aug. 5, the city of St. Paul will start clearing ALL of its major homeless encampments on a rolling basis, beginning with Fish Hatchery Road/Pig's Eye Park. Here's why, and why some service providers say they're taken by surprise: www.twincities.com/2026/07/08/s...