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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 9h

If Trump can do this to Comey and Letitia James, he can do it to anyone. This is authoritarianism. We cannot be silent.

Screenshot of headline reading: New York Attorney General Letitia James charged in fraud case after pressure campaign by Trump

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 9h

all the methane of combined-cycle gas plus double the CO2

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 9h

also with any remotely accurate accounting for methane pollution, simple-cycle gas is about the worst way to generate electricity

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 10h

"does the president know what is real and what is not" is a legitimate question that should probably get asked a lot more

Portland Is Burning on the Only Screens That Matter

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 8h

Can threats of violence help one win the Nobel prize? Let's hope not.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 18h

It takes 67 Senators to impeach a SCOTUS justice but only 51 with sufficient will to add 6 more justices

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17h

"Energy prices are likely to rise the most in states that have not prioritized clean energy". Glad to see NYT making the point I've been making for a decade+. Cheap energy is clean energy. And it's the economic issues that threaten incumbents, not the cleanliness. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up

www.nytimes.com

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

Steel and aluminium manufacturers are feeling the effects of high gas prices driven up by exports.

Australia Institute research shows gas exports have TRIPLED Aus gas prices and DOUBLED electricity prices.

📺 Deputy Director Ebony Bennett on ABC News Breakfast
@ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

Year's worth of British bread lost this decade as extreme weather bites
#climate
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Year's worth of British bread lost this decade as extreme weather…

New analysis suggests that wheat production is down by the equivalent of over a year’s supply of bread for the UK, after extreme weather hits harvests

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23h

Two graphs in today’s FT.

Notice the UK’s position on both graphs.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 21h

In Hungary today: Kyoto Group inaugurated one of world’s largest thermal energy storage units at KALL Ingredients. 56 MWh Heatcube → >30 GWh clean heat/yr, up to 8,000 tCO₂ cut/yr. Flexible, renewables-powered, 14 MW steam. Heat-as-a-Service model makes it scale.

www.kyotogroup.no/news/worlds-...

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 1d

By pouring money into Exxon and other oil & gas corporations, NYS comptroller Tom DiNapoli has financed our state’s destruction. That’s nuts!

And in the process he’s managed to lose the NY state pension fund many billions of dollars b/c those investments suck.

Why refuse to #DivestNY, DiNapoli?!

New York Communities for Change @nychange.bsky.social · 1d

Comptroller candidate @rgoyle.bsky.social roasts @nyscomptroller.bsky.social Tom DiNapoli for lighting both our pension money and our planet on fire by failing to #DivestNY from the likes of Exxon🔥🔥🔥

Check it out:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A plan to shake up the state comptroller's office

Podcast Episode · The Capitol Pressroom · 10/08/2025 · 10m

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1d

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 1d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Remember this as Trump goes on about being "tough on crime."

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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 1d

New study looks into stabilizing 100% renewable energy systems over multiple bad weather years.

It concludes that the best approach is a little more overcapacity (e.g. 3.5% extra) as that is much cheaper than excess seasonal storage.

Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 3d

1/ New research @lut.fi presents the first global analysis of inter-annual storage for #100RE systems in 145 regions doi.org/10.1016/j.ap.... Strategic generation overcapacity is a significantly more cost-effective solution than building massive storage.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

Fossil fuel industry is behind the UK's CCS push, but while oil & gas firms are pro-CCS in public they're sceptical in private 😈 revealing the wider "strategy to lock in a policy model based primarily on incentives and subsidies without regulatory accountability or science-based emission reductions"

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 1d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

If you want the longer version of this: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Electricity Crisis with Costa Samaras

Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 09/23/2025 · 56m

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 2d

The government’s own data rebuts Trump Admin claims that wind and solar are driving up electricity prices, Politico reports share.google/RTIXPPQMXrTH...
“[T]he data say pretty much the opposite” of Trump & Secretary Wright’s claims.

Among the 22 states that drew higher-than-average shares of their power from wind and solar, 17 had below-average electricity prices in June, according to EIA data.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 2d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 2d

Stop blaming windmills — it’s AI. No, literally: AI is why our power bills are up.

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

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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