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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 3h

take me down to surveillance city where aaahhh!! ahhhHHHH

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 9h

GOP candidate for NJ Gov complains about suburban “overdevelopment.”

Reality: suburban NJ cities & towns are developing at a very slow pace www.urban.org/urban-wire/w...

In the NYC region, wealthy suburban cities like those in NJ continue to exclude subsidized housing www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...

Housing growth in the NJ suburbs of the New York City region is quite slow.

Wealthy suburbs in the NYC region have very few affordable units.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 6h

Are you interested in state capacity, clean energy and capital markets? Come work with me at CPE! We’re hiring primarily to support our geothermal consortium work but the position will also work with me on broader energy finance. Apply ASAP!

Energy Programs Associate

Applications are due Monday, October 13th at 5pm. Location: RemoteJob Type: Full-TimeReports to: </s...

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 6h

The sort of telling thing about this, I think, is that this disparity would be pretty obvious to anyone—the candidate, his staffers, anyone—that even just rides the bus occasionally. The bus way over-indexes on elderly or disabled passengers because it requires less walking and stair-climbing.

Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 6h

You can tell Cuomo's campaign has cooked its brain on Twitter because it's repeating nonsense talking points from people like Andrew Fine and Reza who claim only rich people use transit.

As of 2017, bus riders in NYC earn an average salary of $28K, well under subway riders ($40K).

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 1d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote several papers about how bad corn ethanol was going to be around 2010, so I am not surprised.
We should always remind ourselves that biofuels are complements not substitutes for fossil fuels, b/c they are used in ICEs and have limited scalability.
They are a big ag and big oil PR mechanism.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 1d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Concrete Cowboy @damanfu.bsky.social · 1d

Now that’s what I call an intuition inspired study

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 1d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 1d

Big centralized energy infrastructure is vulnerable to attack and depending on it puts lives at risk, exhibit #87719

Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 1d

A series of massive Russian air strikes in the past week have disabled nearly 60 per cent of Ukraine’s gas production, raising fears of winter shortages.

"We need billions of cubic meters of gas more during the heating season."

Our interviews with CEOs of Naftogaz and DTEK:
on.ft.com/439o4qs

Russia destroys 60% of Ukraine’s gas production ahead of winter

[FREE TO READ] Moscow’s intensified bombing campaign seeks to ‘break our spirit’, says head of state energy group

on.ft.com

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 1d

She’s incredible

Steve Jones @stevejones20.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT A SHOT FROM A'JA WILSON

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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 · 2d

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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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Stand up for the rights of trans folks because everyone should have human rights and freedom to live their lives, it's really not complicated.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really happy to see these offshore wind-supporting fishermen that I profiled in June finally getting attention from major TV broadcasters like CBS News.

Not all fishermen hate wind farms!

www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-...

Trump freeze on offshore wind project cuts lifeline for fisherman

In New Bedford, Massachusetts, Captain Jack Morris, a lifelong scalloper, had recently found steady work supporting offshore wind construction. But with the Revolution Wind project now frozen by the T...

www.cbsnews.com

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 2d

this is a good thread that finally reckons with the more primordial politics at play. there is a long, rich research tradition in conflict studies about the behavior of and strategy towards influencing audiences - by state security forces, by non-state armed actors. they all apply in the US now.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 2d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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UCLA Emmett Institute @uclalawemmett.bsky.social · 2d

Gov. Newsom should sign AB 1167 to keep costs down for utility ratepayers by ensuring they are not forced to subsidize utilities’ political lobbying and PR, our @denisegrab.bsky.social writes at @legal-planet.org.

legal-planet.org/2025/10/08/s...

Signing AB 1167 Would be a Win for Energy Affordability - Legal Planet

AB 1167, which seeks to protect ratepayers from subsidizing utility lobbying, still awaits Governor Newsom’s signature.

legal-planet.org

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Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 2d

10 out of 13 grants awarded for domestic Heat Pump manufacturing (the IRA’s Heat Pump Defense Production Act Program) are also listed. 🔌⚡

Awards for Gradient, Mitsubishi, and York International appear to be safe.

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 2d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Concrete Cowboy @damanfu.bsky.social · 2d

What a stint. Looking forward to more of your reporting! And congratulations on the next chapter!

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yessenia funes @yessfun.com · 3d

what experts study the role the private sector plays in pushing environmental action/progress?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

IMO it is bad that congressional hearings involving Cabinet members have transformed entirely into public lying and groveling competitions for an audience of one

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 3d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 3d

Inside the Mookie Betts play call that won NLDS Game 2 for the Dodgers www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

Commentary: Inside the Mookie Betts play call that won NLDS Game 2 for the Dodgers

Mookie Betts made the decision the Dodgers should run the wheel play in an attempt to mitigate the Phillies' chances of advancing a runner to third. And the Dodgers executed it brilliantly.

www.latimes.com

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 4d

Governor Newsom has a bill on his desk to hold utilities accountable, and get them to stop passing along their dark money campaigns to everyday Californians.

Is he going to side with utilities, or side with the public and help lower electricity rates?
energyandpolicy.org/california-l...

California passes bill curbing utilities use of ratepayer money for political spending

State lawmakers last week made California the seventh state to pass a bill limiting investor-owned utilities from using customer money to pay for political and lobbying costs.

energyandpolicy.org

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4d

I think we are all in dire need of a brain cleanse so here you go 🥹 www.theverge.com/report/79080...

The quest for every Gap store playlist ever

Gap Playlists is an exercise in data collection and nostalgia.

www.theverge.com

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 4d

The inability of the media establishment to deal with being straight-up lied to is a major contributing factor for this mess.

Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 4d

You can just say that the city of Portland is not burning to the ground, Axios. It's a simple, incontrovertible fact.

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/t...

Excerpt from an Axios story:

Trump told reporters earlier on Sunday that troop deployments were needed because "Portland is burning to the ground," a claim local officials reject.

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 4d

This seems, uh, highly relevant

Xu Xu @xuxupolitics.bsky.social · 4d

Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...

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