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“.. One New York City cafe owner who recently had to hike the price of a cup of drip coffee by 50% said: ‘We have held off on making this change for as long as possible, but… this adjustment is necessary.’” @semafor.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.semafor.com/article/09/1...
incredible
so this guy like 100% had a stroke right
If you honor a racist, in life or death, I'm going to assume you agree with their racism and are indeed racist yourself.
Lots of now-unfollowed connections for me
lol this is what they fired him for saying
Just this year, Spencer Cox signed HB 128, which made it legal to open carry on college campuses in Utah.
Violence is unacceptable unless you’re living in an encampment and then it should be acceptable for the Governor to drive an MRAP over you as a publicity stunt
Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota
Reminder: The Pentagon agreed to pay $200 million in tax payer funds to use this tool to enhance national security.
They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.
Gun control measures with bipartisan support have been defeated by the Senate filibuster. Name the issue, and it will be the case that our inability to move forward on policy is largely attributable to our anti-democratic insititutions, which are destabilizing the country.
"The darker agenda behind Trump’s obsession with windmills" [I originally titled this "Breaking Wind"] | My #ScienceUnderSiege -themed op-ed for the @bostonglobe.com: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/10/o...
GHISLAINE MAXWELL: here we go, boss. a big book of letters from all of your horrible best friends JEFF EPSTEIN: oh neat! look at this one from Donald GHISLAINE: that one's fake actually
SCOTUS: We stopped Affirmative Action to ban targeting based on race, but we allow legacy admissions, white Afrikaaner "refugees," targeting of Latinos, over-policing Black communities, & bans on Afghan refugees and South Korean workers—because its okay to target based on race to help white people.
The Supreme Court majority moves as fast or as slow as it wants in order to achieve its political goals.
I would love to see John Roberts saying “no this is unconstitutional!” as his ass is thrown into a prison pit
NEW: i took a look at new research from @oilchange.bsky.social which finds that taxpayers are on the hook for an additional $4 billion per year in fossil fuel subsidies thanks to the one big beautiful bill:
The current administration has claimed renewables are making the grid less reliable. If that were the case, I'd expect states adding the most renewables over the past decade to have the largest increase in outages. However, the opposite seems to be true!
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
This is why trends are more important to pay attention to than a blanket "but fossil fuel use is rising". That's the only way to anticipate the turning points. Falling fossil fuel use in the power sector and the WHOLE economy is now possible in China 🇨🇳
I know ppl say this a lot but I think it weirdly hasn't sunk in yet: once China's fossil fuel use starts to drop, our *entire species* usage of fossil fuels will mostly follow the same trajectory. Massive new @ember-energy.org report out today on China: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Do you really believe the guy who bragged to Billy Bush about sexually assaulting random women would write a perverted letter to his pedophile best friend? Does that sound like him
The Supreme Court just ruled this meme is constitutional.
Just so unbelievably exhausting that an entire mini-industry of punditry built themselves a following for "defending free speech" by yelling at college kids who don't think Nazis deserve to speak at the Harvard Student Union, only to disappear when real, top down cancellations actually materialized.
Crony capitalism in full swing
Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless
All of the U.S. military service academies are canceling lectures and ceremonies which feature speakers critical of President Trump. Dark times.
In a world of Matts, be a Derek.
The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
Or the JRoll walk off at CBP
More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance. Read more here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...
Yes, we already live in a fascist country. The President is mobilizing the US military against US citizens. The Vice President admits to the government committing war crimes and doesn't care.
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
"Chris Wright, the energy secretary, also said, “We don’t want to be in the race for the most expensive electricity in the world." And that's why we are shutting down construction on an 80% complete generation facility with zero marginal cost in a region that relies on expensive LNG
Secretary of Energy: “Climate change, for impacting the quality of your life, is not incredibly important. In fact, if it wasn’t in the news, in the media, you wouldn’t know.” The burning West, choking on smoke from worsening wildfires:
THEY ARE BUILDING A TENT CITY FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD SO THEY HAVE SOMEWHERE TO STAY AS THEY TEAR DOWN HOMELESS PEOPLE’S TENTS FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS A DAY
Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.
If you want to build a bunch of AI data centers, and also pull the rug out from under the wind, solar + battery industries that contributed **94%** of all new generation last year, you're gonna end up with an energy affordability crisis. From @asteephen.bsky.social: time.com/7312151/ener...
Michelle Obama: Sometimes it's nice to eat carrots. RFK Jr.: I want to bring back smallpox. The Atlantic:
The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
If Democrats cease to be a viable political force, it will be because of moves like this by Mayor Bowser in Washington—an abject failure of will and imagination to resist an obvious wrong. And now she's made it easier for 47 to justify doing this to other cities. #Baltimore #Chicago wapo.st/3VyXMcY
I’m a proud NIMBY when it comes to fossil fuel infrastructure. Say no Delco!
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
🧵New York could have 25,000 union jobs building a future for the next generation. Or we could let Kathy Hochul and Donald Trump pour pipeline poison on our planet. So if you're in New York, send a comment at publicpowerny.org/take-action to ensure we're leading. On Labor Day, and every day. ⤵️
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
Good ICE: glaciers, Antarctica, cocktails. Bad ICE: Trump's gestapo; internal combustion engines.
Prevention is now off the menu.😢 From: Dennis Goris #medsky 🛟😷🧪
2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"
Or Renaissance Guy
Renaissance man
I like this chart comparing ICE and BEV emissions because it makes clear that just producing the gasoline is about as polluting as completely powering the EV
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Newsom is example #5000 of why people should not conflate Democratic electeds with anti-fascism.
This is performative nonsense. There’s no reason to believe Minneapolis schools are in any greater danger from guns tomorrow than literally any other city in the state. This speaks volumes, though. We’ve given up on gun proliferation, so all we have are symbolic acts.
What people don't yet understand — what I am just coming to understand — is that Trump is not acting irrationally on climate & energy to "own the libs." Trump (and the GOP) are protecting the trillions of assets held by their fossil-fuel cronies, which would be utterly devalued if we decarbonized.
Offshore wind has higher capacity value than gas CTs, according to PJM. So when the Trump admin claims offshore wind makes no contribution to resource adequacy/reliability, it's lying. #energysky #greensky www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC...
Do you need to verify your age to talk to the suicide bot or is that just for sites where you might see a tit
Working families are already struggling to afford electricity and other household needs. And as the Trump administration continues to shut down clean energy projects and incentives, costs will only continue to rise. www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
'PJM has ~52 GW thermal plants w/15% capacity factors, 25 GW solar/wind projects, 19%/16% factors...underused interconnection at thermal support ~74 GW solar/5 GW of wind...adding ~23 GW/6-hour battery at renewable sites support additional 28 GW solar/25 GW wind — driving up capacity factors to 75%'
Interviewer: Why shouldn’t President Trump send the military to occupy your city? Big Important Democrat: I support and love the Police I really want to kiss the Police
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Well, the soldiers have to be quartered SOMEWHERE, right? Might as well be your home" - national political reporters next week, probably
If someone claims to be scared of the subway but isn’t scared of being in a car on the highway—which is exponentially more dangerous + deadly—they are not a serious person
Here's how prosecutors described Ghislaine Maxwell in a pretrial motion during her criminal trial: "The defendant's willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct … strongly suggests her true motive has been and remains to avoid being held accountable for her crimes."
i finally realized who his ass looks like it is glass joe from punch out
I can’t believe doing nothing but in the most annoying way possible isn’t working www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Okay, 3 days later, an incomplete list of Trump admin policy with direct connections to making electricity more expensive. 1. Passage of the OBBB, which stripped tax credits from wind and solar (wind, solar, batteries are now ~90% of the interconnection queue) www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
hey remember when he wrote his book about being sensitive to the appalachian poor and after losing the 2016 election, msnbc liberalism rushed to read it and turned him into a political figure? cause i do.
Trump's War on Clean Energy Could Be His Downfall... If the Dems Exploit It www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum... @billmckibben.bsky.social
Love this reminder, from Trump's "Slavery Wasn't That Bad" screed, that America's top universities have agreed to let KKK activists dictate their curricula www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
I believe this did happen to Lightning McQueen
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.
On most of the world’s land, solar can generate 100x more energy per acre vs biofuels A solar powered EV can go 300x as many miles as a biofuel powered vechicle per acre #EnergySky
Los Angeles, CA, Aug 15, 2025. Congratulations, America. This is what you voted for.
"but crime is a real issue, people are worried about crime and you have to take that seriously" No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time
DC is not a state and, therefore, in a unique predicament. But if they try this with a blue state, it should be considered a hostile invasion. I sound like a lunatic, but fascists are sending troops into U.S. cities. If you value democracy, it's go time.
Scum of the earth. Need to be identified, fired, stripped of benefits, and prosecuted at first opportunity.
Masked agents of the state are removing random people off the streets into unmarked cars while saying “liberals ruined the country.” I never want to hear anyone who supports MAGA claim to believe in freedom ever again.
[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Again: the Trump administration isn't opposed to clean energy. They are opposed to cheap energy. Upstream fossil producers make more money when prices rise and this WH will always put their interests ahead of US consumers. www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
There a new 2025 peak demand record in ERCOT at just below 84 gigawatts. Wind & solar are providing ~40% of power needs on peak and all day since 8:30 am. The cowboy hat curve in effect today with lower wind mid-day, picking up when the sun goes down. #txlege #txenergy
Kind of feel like it should be bigger national news that the poorest major city in the country is being forced to accept devastating service cuts to our public transit system because PA Republicans actively hate Philly and want to cause us pain
Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story. @nytimes.com #CPI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
It's crazy how embarrassing it is to be a fascist. You need bulletproof vests and guns to go watch people get a cupcake in Georgetown? Losers.
We’re not getting there. We are there. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Battery storage is booming in the Western US - even outside of California. - 7,200 MW of storage as of June 2025 - could have another 3,000 MW by year-end. Need to keep up this pace if coal is to close out West. #WesternGrid #EnergySky
Since I looked it up: The Bismarck was laid down by the Nazi government in 1936, christened by Hitler himself on Valentine’s Day 1939, and damaged so badly in battle by the Royal Navy in 1941 that the Nazis scuttled her. The ship never saw any other government of Germany.
Okay so this is where you do have to give Joe Biden and the Democrats credit for clocking this one ahead of time and rushing the Respect for Marriage Act out in 2022 before they lost the House.