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The electricity system in the US that most closely resembles an actual, open market ... is stampeding toward solar, wind, and batteries. Conservative TX lawmakers have tried & failed to stop it because ultimately money talks.

www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

[ripping a mother apart from her three children because she cleaned hotel rooms without the proper paperwork] This is just like Master Chief

Getting 10 people in a room to try to work on something together is HARD in 2025. And if you haven't done this, you won't know how hard. I think everyone who can should try to get 10 people in a room together to do something. It is deeply humbling.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

i have literal scars from working in machine shops and factories, and after i worked up to a more white-collar role, a lady at a bar looked at my hands and said "you've never worked a hard day in your life"

i was on shift as a doorman and bar lackey as my second job to pay off my college loans 🙃

Here's a really great, clear explanation from @michael-thomas.bsky.social of what we know about why US electricity prices are rising. (No, it's not data centers, except in some very specific local areas.)

evergreen

It's a really long journey and still a long way to go

A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.

"For every meal that food banks distribute, SNAP provides nine. There is simply no way that we can make up significant gaps or losses to that program" www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...

like fuck 24yo me for believing in reform i guess. barely even warranting a footnote

even knowing the circumstances, it's incredibly frustrating to have advocated for years for gerrymandering reform, getting a watered down version, and then seeing that oh, they could've turned on a dime on the issue after all

really feels like what's the point of even trying

ch-ch-ch-ch-charges!

Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.

i know it's conspiracybrain thinking and giving the dems too much credit, but feels like it could really easily be turned into a honeypot

like folks submitting to this are gonna be giving metadata if not pii directly, right?

25th amendment when

Want to directly help local Charlottesville families who might be losing SNAP benefits?Donate to the food pantry at Pediatric Associates

"Eat the Rich"
Posters seen in Berlin

All these guys are fucking dweebs lmao