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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 9h

It’s past being attempted.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Combustion is the past, electricity is the future, pass it on.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 15h

Rebellion is a possibility (I hope).

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 15h

I think the robots will get sick of them and free themselves. Please grant me this tiny smidge of optimism. :)

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 15h

Given the direction of our current rulers, I no longer fear our soon-to-be robot overlords.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 23h

if you really want to rip on Portland you should start with how busy breakfast places are at 9:30 on a weekday

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

In a new analysis, Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project find the Trump regime has hired more than 40 people who directly worked for oil, gas, and coal companies to take jobs at eight agencies dictating energy, environmental and climate policy. www.citizen.org/article/trum...

Trump's Polluter Playground: Fossil Fuel Insiders & Ideologues Prop Up Dirty Energy & Derail Clean Power - Public Citizen

www.citizen.org

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

And then there is this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

In a new analysis, Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project find the Trump regime has hired more than 40 people who directly worked for oil, gas, and coal companies to take jobs at eight agencies dictating energy, environmental and climate policy. www.citizen.org/article/trum...

Trump's Polluter Playground: Fossil Fuel Insiders & Ideologues Prop Up Dirty Energy & Derail Clean Power - Public Citizen

www.citizen.org

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

I think that’s true of most elected Republicans at the national level, but it’s political suicide not to engage with any rank-and-file Republicans. Know any Trump voters who also had voted for Obama.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in total agreement about Trump. My point is that we are crippled—knowledge wise--without the government data, not that we’re totally blind. :)

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

Sure. There are data that provide hints about where the economy is going. But retail sales & earnings. don’t say anything about whether people are within their means, spending their savings, or boosting their already prodigious credit card debt to cover the transactions that go into those earnings.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

None of the private surveys collect all the info the govt surveys do. But certainly if Trump gets his next nominee for chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed, theyre’ll be good reason to be skeptical of any numbers coming out of there.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

As A.J. Liebling wrote 65 years ago, "Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.”

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

Every day there’s a media story about one or more of the world’s 3000+ billionaires, who make up 0.0000375% of the population. Couldn’t we at least have a 1:1 ratio with stories about people at the other end of the economic spectrum? Once, nearly every newspaper in America had a labor reporter.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

Every day there’s a media story about one or more of the world’s 3000+ billionaires, who make up 0.0000375% of the population. Couldn’t we at least have a 1:1 ratio with stories about people at the other end of the economic spectrum? Once, nearly every newspaper in America had a labor reporter.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

If the govt. shutdown lasts another few days, the Current Employment Statistics survey & the Current Population Survey that provide data for the official monthly jobs reports won’t be undertaken. Meaning we will miss at least two months’ of job data at a time the economic situation is … uncertain.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

Snort.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t discard thinking altogether. Using antidemocratic methods is a violation of those robust progressive principals.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 2d

On First Amendment grounds, the SupCt seems likely to knock down states’ bans against professionals’ talking about gay “conversion” with patients. But doctors in Texas and many other states can be prosecuted if they even mention “abortion“ to their patients. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Supreme Court sharply questions law banning conversion therapy

The Supreme Court sharply questions a Colorado law that bans efforts to change minors’ sexual identity, suggesting it violates therapists’ free-speech rights.

www.washingtonpost.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Today on Volts: hey listen up! The most important election of the year is happening in Georgia next month. Two seats on the (currently all-GOP) Public Service Commission are up & rising electricity prices are on everyone's mind. This is a bellwether for next year's governor & midterm elections!

Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025

With energy affordability set to dominate national politics, Peter Hubbard and Brionté McCorkle explain why a down-ballot Georgia race is ground zero for the fight.

www.volts.wtf

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

I’m all for putting together a progressive Democratic agenda-setting effort like that undertaken by Project 2029. That, of course, is a takeoff on the ultra right Project 2025. But therein lies a recurrent flaw. Too much Democratic response is defensive, reactive. Even the name in this case.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

If the govt. shutdown lasts another few days, the Current Employment Statistics survey & the Current Population Survey that provide data for the official monthly jobs reports won’t be undertaken. Meaning we will miss at least two months’ of job data at a time the economic situation is … uncertain.

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Heather O’Neill @honeill.bsky.social · 2d

Nearly unanimous bipartisan support for expanding and planning Virtual Power Plant resources that would bring much-needed flexibility to our grid in CA - and save all of us $$$. Disappointed (is the polite word) in Gov. Newsom’s baffling veto. 💡🔌 @advancedenergyunited.org

Jeff St John @jeffstjohn.bsky.social · 2d

California could save billions of dollars in grid and energy costs by tapping rooftop solar, batteries, EVs, and smart appliances as virtual power plants. Why did Governor Gavin Newsom veto three widely supported VPP bills meant to enable those savings?
www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir...
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Why did Newsom veto California’s virtual power plant bills?

Supporters say the bills would have helped ease the state’s energy affordability crisis while strengthening grid reliability.

www.canarymedia.com

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 2d

On First Amendment grounds, the SupCt seems likely to knock down states’ bans against professionals’ talking about gay “conversion” with patients. But doctors in Texas and many other states can be prosecuted if they even mention “abortion“ to their patients. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Supreme Court sharply questions law banning conversion therapy

The Supreme Court sharply questions a Colorado law that bans efforts to change minors’ sexual identity, suggesting it violates therapists’ free-speech rights.

www.washingtonpost.com

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