Stephanie Damassa
@shdamassa.bsky.social
Thanksgiving cooking opinions:
-cranberries, sugar, water is the best cranberry sauce. Let the cranberries taste like cranberry
-Apple crumble pie >>> 2-crust Apple pie
-a nice, bright salad is actually an essential piece of the meal
-cranberries, sugar, water is the best cranberry sauce. Let the cranberries taste like cranberry
-Apple crumble pie >>> 2-crust Apple pie
-a nice, bright salad is actually an essential piece of the meal
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Thanksgiving cooking opinions:
-cranberries, sugar, water is the best cranberry sauce. Let the cranberries taste like cranberry
-Apple crumble pie >>> 2-crust Apple pie
-a nice, bright salad is actually an essential piece of the meal
-cranberries, sugar, water is the best cranberry sauce. Let the cranberries taste like cranberry
-Apple crumble pie >>> 2-crust Apple pie
-a nice, bright salad is actually an essential piece of the meal
Having a real “hard-wired smoke detector that I can’t reach with a stepstool going off at 2:30 am” kind of week
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Having a real “hard-wired smoke detector that I can’t reach with a stepstool going off at 2:30 am” kind of week
I would love to see some independent investigative reporting on this - I honestly don’t know what to believe about this issue and I’m a Rad owner www.geekwire.com/2025/rad-pow...
Rad Power Bikes hits another roadblock as U.S. safety commission issues product safety warning
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said some Rad batteries "can unexpectedly ignite and explode," but the e-bike maker disputed the agency's findings.
www.geekwire.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I would love to see some independent investigative reporting on this - I honestly don’t know what to believe about this issue and I’m a Rad owner www.geekwire.com/2025/rad-pow...
Climate change is bad
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Climate change is bad
Some personal news: I was listening to 97.1 when they switched over to Christmas music
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Some personal news: I was listening to 97.1 when they switched over to Christmas music
I don’t want AI; I just want to be able to read the article on the news app I also have on my phone and pay for a subscription for
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I don’t want AI; I just want to be able to read the article on the news app I also have on my phone and pay for a subscription for
Since 2022, the average overdue balance on utility bills climbed from $597 to $789—a 32 percent increase tcf.org/content/comm...
Fueling Debt: How Rising Utility Costs Are Overwhelming American Families
As temperatures cool and Americans’ dissatisfaction with the economy grows, families across the country are staring down a winter season that will be more
tcf.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Since 2022, the average overdue balance on utility bills climbed from $597 to $789—a 32 percent increase tcf.org/content/comm...
Trees give us these for free!
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Trees give us these for free!
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It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
Society broke down and all, but you really still need to stop at red lights
I can't believe we need to explain this one, but it seems that we really do
nygroove.nyc
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd
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Today’s reporting reminds me of this recent picture from right outside one of our local high schools. We’re seeing a lot of youth use bikeshare to get to school these days—and in case you missed it, DC’s school attendance crisis is currently grave. Maybe we should be encouraging this!
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Today’s reporting reminds me of this recent picture from right outside one of our local high schools. We’re seeing a lot of youth use bikeshare to get to school these days—and in case you missed it, DC’s school attendance crisis is currently grave. Maybe we should be encouraging this!
I know a lot of feds — civic-minded experts in their fields — who, while happy to get a paycheck again, have been instructed to go back to the office 5 days a week to basically do nothing and certainly not the thing they were hired to do. Not great!
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I know a lot of feds — civic-minded experts in their fields — who, while happy to get a paycheck again, have been instructed to go back to the office 5 days a week to basically do nothing and certainly not the thing they were hired to do. Not great!
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There was an NYT piece last week about the Sierra Club, and (by extension) the current state of the climate movement.
I think they got three big things wrong.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
I think they got three big things wrong.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
Every generation gets to recreate the environmental movement to suit its own purposes
Some big-picture reactions to a recent NYT piece
davekarpf.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
There was an NYT piece last week about the Sierra Club, and (by extension) the current state of the climate movement.
I think they got three big things wrong.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
I think they got three big things wrong.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
In addition to her advocacy, Nancy Pelosi sewed a block of the AIDS quilt www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
In addition to her advocacy, Nancy Pelosi sewed a block of the AIDS quilt www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
👀 @climatecabinet.org racking up wins
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
👀 @climatecabinet.org racking up wins
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In a key race for energy policy, Democrats just won 2 seats on Georgia’s utility commission — changing the dynamic for first time in nearly 20 years. Here’s a quick hit on what it all means. heatmap.news/politics/ali...
Democrats Win 2 Key Energy Races in Georgia
A “seismic change” comes for the state’s Public Service Commission.
heatmap.news
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
In a key race for energy policy, Democrats just won 2 seats on Georgia’s utility commission — changing the dynamic for first time in nearly 20 years. Here’s a quick hit on what it all means. heatmap.news/politics/ali...
"What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points."
The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points."
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The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:
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A scoop that I’m not happy to report:
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
heated.world
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A scoop that I’m not happy to report:
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
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A data analysis found that by the end of September, U.S. Forest Service work to clear fire-fueling debris was down nearly 40 percent compared with the average over the past four years.
The Trump administration cited logistics, not job cuts, for the drop.
The Trump administration cited logistics, not job cuts, for the drop.
How Trump cuts may have hindered a key way of preventing future wildfires
U.S. Forest Service work to reduce wildfire fuel was down nearly 40 percent from where it’s been on average over the last four years, a new report shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A data analysis found that by the end of September, U.S. Forest Service work to clear fire-fueling debris was down nearly 40 percent compared with the average over the past four years.
The Trump administration cited logistics, not job cuts, for the drop.
The Trump administration cited logistics, not job cuts, for the drop.
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Help is on the way for families who rely on SNAP/WIC benefits to help feed their families: the
DC Government will use $30 million in contingency funds to ensure benefits are paid in November despite the federal government shutdown.
DC Government will use $30 million in contingency funds to ensure benefits are paid in November despite the federal government shutdown.
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Help is on the way for families who rely on SNAP/WIC benefits to help feed their families: the
DC Government will use $30 million in contingency funds to ensure benefits are paid in November despite the federal government shutdown.
DC Government will use $30 million in contingency funds to ensure benefits are paid in November despite the federal government shutdown.
great orgs to support here
I get paid tomorrow unlike so many of my friends and neighbors so I just made donations to Capital Area Food Bank, Bread for the City, and Critical Exposure, which makes sure the DCPS students in their afterschool photography programs have access to meals and snacks.
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
great orgs to support here