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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4h

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 4h

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 6h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4h

important to remember that no matter how unpopular you think the regime is currently, this is actually the most popular they will ever be between today and any dat you pick in the future

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 18h

“Virtual power plants” are one of the cheapest, most equitable ways to make the grid more efficient, making costly infrastructure buildout less necessary.

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 24d

11) At the high end of the grid reinforcement cost estimate range, VPPs could reduce grid buildout costs by *$340 billion*. That's our estimate of the "money on the table" for deploying VPPs: The achievable societal value of avoiding poles-and-wires upgrades at the distribution level.

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NPR @npr.org · 9h

Heatmap News' Robinson Meyer explains why electricity bills are rising faster than inflation.

An energy expert explains why electricity prices keep climbing

Heatmap News' Robinson Meyer explains why electricity bills are rising faster than inflation.

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Sean Dague @dague.net · 9h

Last night we popped into NYC to see Beetlejuice on Broadway.

A short EV drive to the metro north train station. Trained in. 15 minute walk to the theater, and then back again. Lovely evening!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 18h

Weird how the Hatch Act never actually existed

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption.

My full statement:

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Sean Dague @dague.net · 2d

When we committed to get off gasoline we were totally willing to just change the kinds of vacations we could do.

But as I'm watching the fast chargers pop up month after month, I'm pretty sure every road trip I've taken in the last 20 years would be fine.

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Sean Dague @dague.net · 2d

Been writing @environmentalvoter.bsky.social postcards for this election! Finishing them up this weekend.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 2d

Video games are an incredibly influential right-wing force in US culture. Countless games push romantic views of a homogeneous past and conspiratorial views of govt - and they shape way more people's ideas about history than history education. This is extremely serious censorship!

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

A family member who is intentionally avoiding the news told me they thought the govt shut down was because of GOP infighting. They didn't understand the need for Dem votes, so I am not sure that Trump blaming this on Dems is working

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3d

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d

this is such an enormous story

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere

The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge

by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news

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Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.

heatmap.news

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Sean Dague @dague.net · 3d

Market design has problems, for sure, but moving electrons to L3 points en mass also has huge actual costs. If markets distort the actual costs of things too much, we get run aways on arbitrage that are counter productive, and work against your goals.

See: ethanol subsidies

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Sean Dague @dague.net · 3d

They wouldn't, they would just hoover up electricity, drive to the nearest parking lot, burn the battery on non road miles, and repeat.

Nothing requires L3 electricity to go into road miles. With V2L & V2H electricity is fungible (which is good).

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Sean Dague @dague.net · 3d

I think highly subsidized L3 creates dangerous arbitrage escape that makes the whole system even more expensive.

eTransit vans full of Bitcoin mining hardware kind of arbitrage escape.

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Sean Dague @dague.net · 3d

The unfortunate part of this NY Times visualization is that because NY Times staff doesn't understand electricity markets at all, they based this on state averages, and gives pretty wrong results for most people.

Utilities don't work that way. This should really be zip code based.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

www.nytimes.com

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