Ayn Craciun
@ayncraciun.bsky.social
Breaking eggs + making omelettes for #climateaction in #OC @sdclimateaction. Former Irvine Sustainability Commission Chair (elected 2X). Opinions are my own. @ayncraciun.bsky.social
The @californiapuc.bsky.social will SOON decide whether to force CA families to pay for higher utility profits. In March, Asm. Petrie-Norris led a 🔥letter signed by 38 lawmakers🔥 urging CPUC to reject this request. Thank you, lawmakers, for fighting for us. #CALeg
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November 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The @californiapuc.bsky.social will SOON decide whether to force CA families to pay for higher utility profits. In March, Asm. Petrie-Norris led a 🔥letter signed by 38 lawmakers🔥 urging CPUC to reject this request. Thank you, lawmakers, for fighting for us. #CALeg
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The CPUC Must Protect Ratepayers, Not Shareholders
California families are paying record-high energy bills while monopoly utilities rake in record profits — and now they want even bigger guaranteed returns, straight from your monthly bill. 1/2
California families are paying record-high energy bills while monopoly utilities rake in record profits — and now they want even bigger guaranteed returns, straight from your monthly bill. 1/2
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The CPUC Must Protect Ratepayers, Not Shareholders
California families are paying record-high energy bills while monopoly utilities rake in record profits — and now they want even bigger guaranteed returns, straight from your monthly bill. 1/2
California families are paying record-high energy bills while monopoly utilities rake in record profits — and now they want even bigger guaranteed returns, straight from your monthly bill. 1/2
Georgia voters just fired utility regulators over high bills and weak oversight in a race The NY Times calls a referendum on rising electric bills and a bellwether for next year.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Georgia voters just fired utility regulators over high bills and weak oversight in a race The NY Times calls a referendum on rising electric bills and a bellwether for next year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
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93% of CA voters agree that utilities should not charge customers for wasteful spending, including lobbying, PR, and marketing campaigns. AB 1167 & SB 24 deliver commonsense guardrails to protect customers. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, sign these bills into law! energyandpolicy.org/california-l...
California passes bill curbing utilities use of ratepayer money for political spending
State lawmakers last week made California the seventh state to pass a bill limiting investor-owned utilities from using customer money to pay for political and lobbying costs.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
93% of CA voters agree that utilities should not charge customers for wasteful spending, including lobbying, PR, and marketing campaigns. AB 1167 & SB 24 deliver commonsense guardrails to protect customers. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, sign these bills into law! energyandpolicy.org/california-l...
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How Newsom's California redistricting affects OC & Irvine:
CD 40 (Kim): +10.8 R ➡️ +19.6 R
CD 45 (Tran): +2 R ➡️ +2.4 D
CD 46 (Correa): +19.2 D ➡️ +15 D
CD 47 (Min): +0.6 R ➡️ +5.2 D
CD 49 (Levin): +0.8 D ➡️ +4.2 D
Robert Garcia's district (42) moves to OC:
CD 42 (Garcia): +33.4 D ➡️ +6.8 D
CD 40 (Kim): +10.8 R ➡️ +19.6 R
CD 45 (Tran): +2 R ➡️ +2.4 D
CD 46 (Correa): +19.2 D ➡️ +15 D
CD 47 (Min): +0.6 R ➡️ +5.2 D
CD 49 (Levin): +0.8 D ➡️ +4.2 D
Robert Garcia's district (42) moves to OC:
CD 42 (Garcia): +33.4 D ➡️ +6.8 D
August 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
How Newsom's California redistricting affects OC & Irvine:
CD 40 (Kim): +10.8 R ➡️ +19.6 R
CD 45 (Tran): +2 R ➡️ +2.4 D
CD 46 (Correa): +19.2 D ➡️ +15 D
CD 47 (Min): +0.6 R ➡️ +5.2 D
CD 49 (Levin): +0.8 D ➡️ +4.2 D
Robert Garcia's district (42) moves to OC:
CD 42 (Garcia): +33.4 D ➡️ +6.8 D
CD 40 (Kim): +10.8 R ➡️ +19.6 R
CD 45 (Tran): +2 R ➡️ +2.4 D
CD 46 (Correa): +19.2 D ➡️ +15 D
CD 47 (Min): +0.6 R ➡️ +5.2 D
CD 49 (Levin): +0.8 D ➡️ +4.2 D
Robert Garcia's district (42) moves to OC:
CD 42 (Garcia): +33.4 D ➡️ +6.8 D
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Trump's electricity tax hike is bad. @costasamaras.com explains on KQED Forum www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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Why Your Energy Bill Has Gotten So Expensive (and What Can Be Done About It) | KQED
We explore the steps we can take to make California's electrical grid more sustainable.
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July 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Trump's electricity tax hike is bad. @costasamaras.com explains on KQED Forum www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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Nobel Prize Laureate Kip Thorne speaking yesterday at the Albert Einstein Institute in Postdam, Germany:
"Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science]. We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️ 🧪
"Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science]. We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️ 🧪
June 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Nobel Prize Laureate Kip Thorne speaking yesterday at the Albert Einstein Institute in Postdam, Germany:
"Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science]. We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️ 🧪
"Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science]. We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️ 🧪
Join us at the Rally for Clean Air on June 6 in Diamond Bar, CA.
SoCal suffers some of the worst air quality in the US, and a major contributor is gas appliances used for space and water heating in our homes. Luckily, upcoming healthy air standards can change that.
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SoCal suffers some of the worst air quality in the US, and a major contributor is gas appliances used for space and water heating in our homes. Luckily, upcoming healthy air standards can change that.
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Rally for Clean Air - Our Health Can't Wait! · Mobilize
Everyone deserves clean, safe air at home. But SoCal families are stuck breathing some of the dirtiest air in the country, causing asthma, illness, and even early death.
This doesn't have to be our r...
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May 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Join us at the Rally for Clean Air on June 6 in Diamond Bar, CA.
SoCal suffers some of the worst air quality in the US, and a major contributor is gas appliances used for space and water heating in our homes. Luckily, upcoming healthy air standards can change that.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
SoCal suffers some of the worst air quality in the US, and a major contributor is gas appliances used for space and water heating in our homes. Luckily, upcoming healthy air standards can change that.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Every OC resident should be proud and grateful to Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Chair Cottie Petrie-Norris for this letter she and others signed and sent to the CPUC this week, urging regulators to “push back firmly” on utility profits at ratepayer expense. 1/3
March 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Every OC resident should be proud and grateful to Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Chair Cottie Petrie-Norris for this letter she and others signed and sent to the CPUC this week, urging regulators to “push back firmly” on utility profits at ratepayer expense. 1/3
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Just sitting here, waiting for Americans to put down their phones and wake the fuck up.
Just sitting here.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Just sitting here.
Waiting.
Waiting.
March 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Just sitting here, waiting for Americans to put down their phones and wake the fuck up.
Just sitting here.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Just sitting here.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Irvine will talk about its lackluster & years-delayed climate plan tonight. They’re also planning to leave OC’s only clean energy agency. 🙄 Sigh.
This slide shows some of the problems with that.
1. SCE’s basic product is much dirtier than OCPA’s
2. SCE’s “green rate” product is. Not. Available.
This slide shows some of the problems with that.
1. SCE’s basic product is much dirtier than OCPA’s
2. SCE’s “green rate” product is. Not. Available.
March 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Irvine will talk about its lackluster & years-delayed climate plan tonight. They’re also planning to leave OC’s only clean energy agency. 🙄 Sigh.
This slide shows some of the problems with that.
1. SCE’s basic product is much dirtier than OCPA’s
2. SCE’s “green rate” product is. Not. Available.
This slide shows some of the problems with that.
1. SCE’s basic product is much dirtier than OCPA’s
2. SCE’s “green rate” product is. Not. Available.
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The next Ladera Ranch Civic Council meeting is focused on the school board! Lisa Zollinger and Judy Bullockus (CUSD school board trustees) will be given most of the meeting time. If you are a concerned member in our community, this would be a good place for you to voice your concerns.
March 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The next Ladera Ranch Civic Council meeting is focused on the school board! Lisa Zollinger and Judy Bullockus (CUSD school board trustees) will be given most of the meeting time. If you are a concerned member in our community, this would be a good place for you to voice your concerns.
This school board member is VERY comfortable using the n- word. She also doesn’t believe humans have anything to do with climate change. She must resign.
March 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
This school board member is VERY comfortable using the n- word. She also doesn’t believe humans have anything to do with climate change. She must resign.
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NEWS: An Indian national teaching at Georgetown was arrested by immigration authorities in Rosslyn, Va. Monday.
His lawyers say he's being targeted for his pro-Palestinian views. His U.S. citizen wife's father was a Hamas adviser.
w/ @joshgerstein
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His lawyers say he's being targeted for his pro-Palestinian views. His U.S. citizen wife's father was a Hamas adviser.
w/ @joshgerstein
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March 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
NEWS: An Indian national teaching at Georgetown was arrested by immigration authorities in Rosslyn, Va. Monday.
His lawyers say he's being targeted for his pro-Palestinian views. His U.S. citizen wife's father was a Hamas adviser.
w/ @joshgerstein
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His lawyers say he's being targeted for his pro-Palestinian views. His U.S. citizen wife's father was a Hamas adviser.
w/ @joshgerstein
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• Tax billionaires into millionaires
• End Congressional lobbying & insider trading
• Reform SCOTUS
• Overturn Citizens United
• Rebuild what MAGA broke
• Universal healthcare
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Stop climate change
• NO COMPROMISE WITH NAZIS
• NO KINGS IN AMERICA
#ReconstructionDemocrats
• End Congressional lobbying & insider trading
• Reform SCOTUS
• Overturn Citizens United
• Rebuild what MAGA broke
• Universal healthcare
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Stop climate change
• NO COMPROMISE WITH NAZIS
• NO KINGS IN AMERICA
#ReconstructionDemocrats
March 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
• Tax billionaires into millionaires
• End Congressional lobbying & insider trading
• Reform SCOTUS
• Overturn Citizens United
• Rebuild what MAGA broke
• Universal healthcare
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Stop climate change
• NO COMPROMISE WITH NAZIS
• NO KINGS IN AMERICA
#ReconstructionDemocrats
• End Congressional lobbying & insider trading
• Reform SCOTUS
• Overturn Citizens United
• Rebuild what MAGA broke
• Universal healthcare
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Stop climate change
• NO COMPROMISE WITH NAZIS
• NO KINGS IN AMERICA
#ReconstructionDemocrats
Brave leadership from these young people.👏👏👏
Also, 1989 called and it wants Mayor Agran to try something new on climate. Talking about climate action while also leading efforts to try to destroy the local clean power agency is next level LOL, as the kids say. (1/4)
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Also, 1989 called and it wants Mayor Agran to try something new on climate. Talking about climate action while also leading efforts to try to destroy the local clean power agency is next level LOL, as the kids say. (1/4)
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Climate activists chant 'Stay in OCPA' in disrupting Irvine mayor's speech
With the future of the Orange County Power Authority in Irvine uncertain, activists drowned out Irvine Mayor Larry Agran's address to urge the city not to withdraw from the green power agency.
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March 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Brave leadership from these young people.👏👏👏
Also, 1989 called and it wants Mayor Agran to try something new on climate. Talking about climate action while also leading efforts to try to destroy the local clean power agency is next level LOL, as the kids say. (1/4)
www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...
Also, 1989 called and it wants Mayor Agran to try something new on climate. Talking about climate action while also leading efforts to try to destroy the local clean power agency is next level LOL, as the kids say. (1/4)
www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...
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Trump: “I think Russia has been acting very well.”
Russia:
Russia:
March 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Trump: “I think Russia has been acting very well.”
Russia:
Russia:
It’s time to stop allowing monopoly utilities to buy political influence to enable their spiraling rate increases. This is violence against every California family. Yes to AB 884
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Investor-owned utilities are buying influence in Sacramento—AB 884 will stop them
It’s time to end the corruption. It’s time to ban IOU political contributions. And it’s time for voters to demand politicians who won’t sell them out.
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March 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It’s time to stop allowing monopoly utilities to buy political influence to enable their spiraling rate increases. This is violence against every California family. Yes to AB 884
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This is why we fight. Well said @sciencemoms.bsky.social.
February 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This is why we fight. Well said @sciencemoms.bsky.social.
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Yay! We received our electronic ballot verifications in the mail today!!! We signed in and EASILY voted electronically for this marvelous progressive slate for #ADEM for California Assembly District 73. This district covers #CostaMesa #Irvine and parts or #Tustin
February 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Yay! We received our electronic ballot verifications in the mail today!!! We signed in and EASILY voted electronically for this marvelous progressive slate for #ADEM for California Assembly District 73. This district covers #CostaMesa #Irvine and parts or #Tustin
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For those of you who are registered Democrats in #Irvine #CostaMesa #Tustin #AD73 please vote for these super progressives for #ADEM. Registration ends on 1/31. I wish I could tell you how hard they have worked in our Democratic Party Club to keep our area blue! @demsofirvine.bsky.social
If you're a registered Democrat in #Irvine, #Tustin or #CostaMesa, vote for a better #CADEM by voting for us for #ADEM state party delegates in #AD73! Take 30 seconds to request your ballot before January 31st at ademelections.com/register/mail.
January 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
For those of you who are registered Democrats in #Irvine #CostaMesa #Tustin #AD73 please vote for these super progressives for #ADEM. Registration ends on 1/31. I wish I could tell you how hard they have worked in our Democratic Party Club to keep our area blue! @demsofirvine.bsky.social
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Happy Donald Trump sentencing day for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a payment to an adult film star - to those who celebrate.
January 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Happy Donald Trump sentencing day for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a payment to an adult film star - to those who celebrate.
SoCalGas has paid UC Irvine $2.5M to greenwash gas industry projects like gas/hydrogen blending. This is climate arson.
@ucirvine.bsky.social
@ucirvine.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
SoCalGas has paid UC Irvine $2.5M to greenwash gas industry projects like gas/hydrogen blending. This is climate arson.
@ucirvine.bsky.social
@ucirvine.bsky.social
Insightful article from Paul Mitchell of Political Data Intelligence (PDI) on the *constitutional* and legal reasons that Irvine’s upcoming special election MUST be city-wide, not limited to the 5th district. Irvine residents deserve full representation. Full 🛑.
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January 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Insightful article from Paul Mitchell of Political Data Intelligence (PDI) on the *constitutional* and legal reasons that Irvine’s upcoming special election MUST be city-wide, not limited to the 5th district. Irvine residents deserve full representation. Full 🛑.
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