Sarah Dougherty
@sarahdougherty.bsky.social
Economist focused on strategies to solve and survive climate change. Current @nrdc, former ATL Federal Reserve. e-bike evangelist. Atlanta, GA.
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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
Lots of clean tech can save money or improve lives (like keeping lights and heat on in this case). The Chattanooga utility is using tech to do both :)
Chattanooga’s municipal utility is using batteries to keep power flowing and electricity bills from rising.
Batteries are helping Chattanooga keep the lights on — and bills low
In Tennessee, municipal utility EPB is scaling up its battery fleet in order to improve grid resilience and also shave costs for its customers.
www.canarymedia.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Lots of clean tech can save money or improve lives (like keeping lights and heat on in this case). The Chattanooga utility is using tech to do both :)
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Revised news release dates will be announced as they are finalized. www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lap...
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Revised news release dates will be announced as they are finalized. www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lap...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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We have rescue pit mix that is THE kindest dog I’ve ever met: agree pit bulls are given a bad wrap. Bad owners are the prob (when there is 1 at all), not the bred. There is no other dog I would trust my kids with as much as I trust our pit mix. Kids take his bone, food and he just looks at them
How would @kristaldixon.bsky.social fix Atlanta?
Dog breed restrictions were born out of misinformation, stereotypes, and racism.
Let’s get rid of them.
how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-kristal-...
Dog breed restrictions were born out of misinformation, stereotypes, and racism.
Let’s get rid of them.
how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-kristal-...
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We have rescue pit mix that is THE kindest dog I’ve ever met: agree pit bulls are given a bad wrap. Bad owners are the prob (when there is 1 at all), not the bred. There is no other dog I would trust my kids with as much as I trust our pit mix. Kids take his bone, food and he just looks at them
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We’re hearing helicopters and word is spreading of massive ICE raids tomorrow and Friday particularly in Gwinnett. These excessive raids put all of us in danger. Spread the word, look out for each other, and remember your rights.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
We’re hearing helicopters and word is spreading of massive ICE raids tomorrow and Friday particularly in Gwinnett. These excessive raids put all of us in danger. Spread the word, look out for each other, and remember your rights.
About time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Lawrence Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
About time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
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Calling all middle TN (including Vanderbilt Univ) folks! Time to get you and all your friends and neighbors to help flip this seat for a candidate that will #standupforscience
BREAKING: Stand up for Science endorses @aftynbehn.bsky.social (TN-07) for Congress. From speaking at our Nashville rally in March, to advocating for our health and hospitals, Behn is a fighter for science!
Tennessee — election day is December 2nd! In-person early voting runs from now until 11/26.
Tennessee — election day is December 2nd! In-person early voting runs from now until 11/26.
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Calling all middle TN (including Vanderbilt Univ) folks! Time to get you and all your friends and neighbors to help flip this seat for a candidate that will #standupforscience
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Super good column in Bloomberg on the various soft propaganda ways that Big Oil shapes the cultural narrative on fossil fuels into something both manly and deeply romantic in a working class hero way as opposed to, you know, the thing that kills 91,000 Americans a year from air pollution alone.
Big Oil loves Landman's anti-clean-energy message so much that it's hijacked it to spread its own propaganda
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Big Oil Hijacked ‘Landman’ for Its Propaganda
I wasn’t planning on writing about the hit TV show Landman, about a Texas oil man, mainly because I haven’t actually, how do you say, watched it. That seems like kind of a prerequisite. But Landman ke...
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Super good column in Bloomberg on the various soft propaganda ways that Big Oil shapes the cultural narrative on fossil fuels into something both manly and deeply romantic in a working class hero way as opposed to, you know, the thing that kills 91,000 Americans a year from air pollution alone.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
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New suit by @healthygulf.bsky.social @nrdc.org @sierraclub.org @biologicaldiversity.org @earthjustice.org seeks to block federal sale of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Environmentalists Sue to Stop Oil Lease Sales in the Gulf of Mexico
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
New suit by @healthygulf.bsky.social @nrdc.org @sierraclub.org @biologicaldiversity.org @earthjustice.org seeks to block federal sale of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Libraries are the best of government. Love this local story here in ga about one measure of benefits. If anything, I would guess there are even more benefits than are captured in their study.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Libraries are the best of government. Love this local story here in ga about one measure of benefits. If anything, I would guess there are even more benefits than are captured in their study.
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Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
Muted my first word ever on Bluesky: Nuzzi. She does not need any extra attention and eyeballs, even on negative commentary about her. Any attention gives her relevancy she does not deserve. . Delighted to have her out of my feed.
November 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Muted my first word ever on Bluesky: Nuzzi. She does not need any extra attention and eyeballs, even on negative commentary about her. Any attention gives her relevancy she does not deserve. . Delighted to have her out of my feed.
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I always learn from @davekarpf.bsky.social . His response to the NYT piece on the Sierra Club is very enlightening, not just (or even especially) as media criticism, but more as a discussion of civic associations and progressive advocacy at this moment. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Every generation gets to recreate the environmental movement to suit its own purposes
Some big-picture reactions to a recent NYT piece
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I always learn from @davekarpf.bsky.social . His response to the NYT piece on the Sierra Club is very enlightening, not just (or even especially) as media criticism, but more as a discussion of civic associations and progressive advocacy at this moment. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
And lots of people don’t even realize how much transportation is costing them, or that we could do it differently: make streets more walkable and bike-able.
Transportation costs are the second largest burden on American family budgets (17%), after housing (33%)!
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
And lots of people don’t even realize how much transportation is costing them, or that we could do it differently: make streets more walkable and bike-able.
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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Trump relentlessly boasts he’s brought gasoline prices way down. The truth is they’re still slightly higher year on year and have spent almost all of 2025 solidly higher.
Somehow no one in media ever corrects him.
Somehow no one in media ever corrects him.
November 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Trump relentlessly boasts he’s brought gasoline prices way down. The truth is they’re still slightly higher year on year and have spent almost all of 2025 solidly higher.
Somehow no one in media ever corrects him.
Somehow no one in media ever corrects him.
That is a lot of loans 60+ days behind on car loan repayments.
(Reuters) - The share of subprime borrowers at least 60 days behind on their auto loans rose to 6.65% in October, the highest level on record, according to Fitch Ratings data going back to the early 1990s.
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
That is a lot of loans 60+ days behind on car loan repayments.
Not good. Politically motivated. Boooo.
Atlanta Fed President Bostic says he'll leave position when his term expires in February www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/a...
Atlanta Fed President Bostic says he'll leave position when his term expires in February www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/a...
Atlanta Fed President Bostic says he'll leave position when his term expires in February
Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic said Wednesday he will be leaving his position when his term expires in February.
www.cnbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Not good. Politically motivated. Boooo.
Atlanta Fed President Bostic says he'll leave position when his term expires in February www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/a...
Atlanta Fed President Bostic says he'll leave position when his term expires in February www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/a...
Whoa. I did not realize just how big the swing in VA House was!
Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Whoa. I did not realize just how big the swing in VA House was!
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Are you an Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) enrollee? Have your monthly premiums increased?
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/47tEo8n
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/47tEo8n
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Are you an Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) enrollee? Have your monthly premiums increased?
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/47tEo8n
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/47tEo8n
Certainly not a life goal of mine, fighting really hard to make sure people cannot eat.
It's unbelievable how hard this administration is fighting to keep millions of Americans hungry.
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Certainly not a life goal of mine, fighting really hard to make sure people cannot eat.
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WOLFERS: “.. I can’t tell you why the president lies, but I can tell you that everything he has said about prices being lower is a lie. .. I’m starting to think that he doesn’t actually care about the cost of living.”
@justinwolfers.bsky.social @svdate.bsky.social
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
@justinwolfers.bsky.social @svdate.bsky.social
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
WOLFERS: “.. I can’t tell you why the president lies, but I can tell you that everything he has said about prices being lower is a lie. .. I’m starting to think that he doesn’t actually care about the cost of living.”
@justinwolfers.bsky.social @svdate.bsky.social
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
@justinwolfers.bsky.social @svdate.bsky.social
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...