Chris Bentley

Curious citizen🤔Radio guy & podcast dude for NPR's Here & Now: Making noise w/CDPROM, La Croix Mystique & more

[Chris Bentley @Cementley]

You got your farm in my solar plant! You got your solar plant in my farm!

Renewable energy and farms often compete for the same land, but they don’t have to be mutually exclusive. My story on #agrivoltaics in Illinois

https://t.co/EItHF8TbZe

[Natasha Korecki @natashakorecki]

“Hold up that f---ing Cubs s---. F--- them,’ Patti Blagojevich allegedly said as her husband, Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, bandied about a scheme to withhold state funds from the Cubs' parent Tribune Company unless the owner agreed to fire certain Chicago Tribune employees.”

https://t.co/jO6wxg9tjR

[David Dayen @ddayen]

BlackRock is poised to buy a major power utility in Indiana.
The law firm representing the utility gave $25k to Indiana Gov Mike Braun, who then appointed the head of the commission presiding over the case.
https://t.co/z0BAZQRy1Q

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Big blow to Stevens especially; UAW has become more left-wing as it’s absorbed grad student organizers, but Stevens’s campaign is a noun, a verb, and “Michigan manufacturing.”

[Natasha Korecki @natashakorecki]

Scoop: Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks to data centers after legislature failed to act. Goes into effect July 1.

Also, he's calling for development reforms to be hashed out in the fall's veto session.

https://t.co/RK925xPKyb

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

Statement from Chairman George H. McCaskey and President & CEO Kevin Warren:

[Bobby Allyn @BobbyAllyn]

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi.

And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face."

Then he lied about it.

https://t.co/3hZWckf54M

[Stuart Buck @stuartbuck1]

@TECleveland @cremieuxrecueil Despite some bogus grants, a lot of government is like this cartoon. I bet this "small team" would find a line item for "screwworm sterilization" and delete it, not knowing that they just devastated American farming: https://t.co/OAnAkxDSEK

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Needed to pull out an important part of the interview.

AI is often justified by comparing it to Amazon Web Services' ($57bn) or Uber's ($32bn) losses, when its costs/losses are hundreds of billions of dollars worse.

There'll also be little useful infrastructure left behind.

[David Dayen @ddayen]

This failed 49-50. Three Republicans joined the Dems to vote for it, but one Dem didn't vote, eliminating the opportunity to put JD Vance firmly on the record supporting keeping the slush fund alive.
I mean is there a more Dem thing

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

Trump is slated today to announce support for coal industry under the Cold War-era Defense Production Act, per @axios @Ben_Geman this morning

[Swaraj @swarajk_]

lmao banger

[David Pomerantz @DavidPomerantz]

If you are wondering who paid Rachel Bade for this ad… actually, you probably did!*

Utilities charge their EEI dues in your monthly bills. 🤷‍♂️

See * in next tweet…

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

A good part of Republican messaging is pointing at California in horror, and saying: “See? Elect Democrats and that’ll happen to you.”

The monthlong vote count is not helping Dems’ rep for competence, which Dems are saying out loud recently.

[Aurelia ⚢✨ @AuriBlooms]

Happy Pride if you're a guy, or you're a girl, or maybe you're something different

[kang @jaycaspiankang]

Wrote about the week I spent trying to get Claude to imitate Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and James Joyce. And the very weird but ultimately dead prose filled with ppl doing absolutely nothing that it produced. https://t.co/x1Fq3eKRzI

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

The account of Tom Kean — who hasn’t showed up in the Capitol for work since March 5, hasn’t cast a vote, or been seen in public; or given any indication why, where he is, or when he’s returning — thanks Trump for his endorsement. “HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!” Trump says.

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

reminder that blue states are less likely than red states to repeal their data center tax breaks lol