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"We see Illinois as an inspiration for other states, taking action to address rising electricity costs and signaling that it will not allow the Trump administration to dictate a dirty energy future for its people." Learn more in James Gignac's blog:
Illinois Passed New Clean Energy Legislation—What to Look for in 2026
Illinois clean energy advocates are justifiably still giddy over the state legislature’s passage of the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act (CRGA, or surge-ah as we call it). The wide-ranging legislation contains several energy policy updates to help Illinois achieve its clean electricity goal
blog.ucs.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM
"We see Illinois as an inspiration for other states, taking action to address rising electricity costs and signaling that it will not allow the Trump administration to dictate a dirty energy future for its people." Learn more in James Gignac's blog:
“We are no longer in a normal time. We are now in a time when the [DOJ] has surrendered ... its independence and the president is directly commanding his [AG] and her leadership team to use their prosecutorial authorities against his perceived political adversaries.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
Ex-C.I.A. Chief Asks to Keep Justice Dept. From Steering Case to Favored Judge
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“We are no longer in a normal time. We are now in a time when the [DOJ] has surrendered ... its independence and the president is directly commanding his [AG] and her leadership team to use their prosecutorial authorities against his perceived political adversaries.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
"The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and the court has given us the worst of all worlds: an ultrapowerful presidency without an actual president at the helm."
#NoKings
#DumpTrumpAgain
#TermLimitsForSCOTUS
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
#NoKings
#DumpTrumpAgain
#TermLimitsForSCOTUS
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and the court has given us the worst of all worlds: an ultrapowerful presidency without an actual president at the helm."
#NoKings
#DumpTrumpAgain
#TermLimitsForSCOTUS
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
#NoKings
#DumpTrumpAgain
#TermLimitsForSCOTUS
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
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Kwigillingok, Alaska, has long grappled with erosion and flooding. Residents want to move to higher ground, further inland, especially after the remnants of Typhoon Halong damaged nearly every house. n.pr/4pDXQpz
Houses floated away in this Alaska Native village. Now residents want to move
Kwigillingok, Alaska, has long grappled with erosion and flooding. Residents want to move to higher ground, further inland, especially after the remnants of Typhoon Halong damaged nearly every house.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Kwigillingok, Alaska, has long grappled with erosion and flooding. Residents want to move to higher ground, further inland, especially after the remnants of Typhoon Halong damaged nearly every house. n.pr/4pDXQpz
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
#GoodNews for #PlanetEarth
"Wind, solar and other renewable power sources overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity this year."
When will the USA join the movement to #MakeAmericaGreenAgain?
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
"Wind, solar and other renewable power sources overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity this year."
When will the USA join the movement to #MakeAmericaGreenAgain?
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025
Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.
www.bbc.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#GoodNews for #PlanetEarth
"Wind, solar and other renewable power sources overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity this year."
When will the USA join the movement to #MakeAmericaGreenAgain?
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
"Wind, solar and other renewable power sources overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity this year."
When will the USA join the movement to #MakeAmericaGreenAgain?
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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Over a million Georgians will be forced to choose between an astronomical insurance bill and no coverage at all next year.
This shouldn’t be happening in the wealthiest nation on the planet.
This shouldn’t be happening in the wealthiest nation on the planet.
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Over a million Georgians will be forced to choose between an astronomical insurance bill and no coverage at all next year.
This shouldn’t be happening in the wealthiest nation on the planet.
This shouldn’t be happening in the wealthiest nation on the planet.
"Combined with the president’s unfettered pardon power, the authority to fire any government employee could effectively allow a president to run the federal government as a criminal enterprise."
#ThreeLegStool
#SCOTUSwatch
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
#ThreeLegStool
#SCOTUSwatch
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"Combined with the president’s unfettered pardon power, the authority to fire any government employee could effectively allow a president to run the federal government as a criminal enterprise."
#ThreeLegStool
#SCOTUSwatch
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
#ThreeLegStool
#SCOTUSwatch
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
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The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.
Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.
Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.
Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.
Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.
"It’s common sense that you cannot solve a problem by giving power to those who caused it..."
#ClimateActionNow
#EndOilSubsidies
#CommonSense
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
#ClimateActionNow
#EndOilSubsidies
#CommonSense
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
RELEASE: Fossil fuel lobbyists flood COP30 climate talks in Brazil, with largest ever attendance share | Kick Big Polluters Out
kickbigpollutersout.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"It’s common sense that you cannot solve a problem by giving power to those who caused it..."
#ClimateActionNow
#EndOilSubsidies
#CommonSense
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
#ClimateActionNow
#EndOilSubsidies
#CommonSense
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
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I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.
I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.
It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.
It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.
I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.
It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.
It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
"And it includes a measure that would provide ... for Republican senators whose phone records were seized as part of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to sue the government for at least half a million dollars each."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Government Reopens as Trump Signs Bill to End Nation’s Longest Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"And it includes a measure that would provide ... for Republican senators whose phone records were seized as part of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to sue the government for at least half a million dollars each."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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Danger doesn’t always look dangerous. It can hide in fish, face creams, or the air.
This week in Geneva, countries meet for @minamataconvention.bsky.social’s #MinamataCOP6 to step up action to #MakeMercuryHistory and protect people and the planet.
More: bit.ly/4qQZfKv
This week in Geneva, countries meet for @minamataconvention.bsky.social’s #MinamataCOP6 to step up action to #MakeMercuryHistory and protect people and the planet.
More: bit.ly/4qQZfKv
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Danger doesn’t always look dangerous. It can hide in fish, face creams, or the air.
This week in Geneva, countries meet for @minamataconvention.bsky.social’s #MinamataCOP6 to step up action to #MakeMercuryHistory and protect people and the planet.
More: bit.ly/4qQZfKv
This week in Geneva, countries meet for @minamataconvention.bsky.social’s #MinamataCOP6 to step up action to #MakeMercuryHistory and protect people and the planet.
More: bit.ly/4qQZfKv
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Affordable renewables, clean tech, sustainable transport, greener buildings and smarter cooling can cut emissions fast, power economies while creating jobs and keeping 1.5°C within reach: www.unep.org/resources/em...
#EmissionGap
#EmissionGap
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Affordable renewables, clean tech, sustainable transport, greener buildings and smarter cooling can cut emissions fast, power economies while creating jobs and keeping 1.5°C within reach: www.unep.org/resources/em...
#EmissionGap
#EmissionGap
Hoping for some #EnergySanity in Georgia soon!
Just say #NoDataCenters
#ClimateActionNow
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Just say #NoDataCenters
#ClimateActionNow
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
In an Upset, Democrats Oust Two Republicans on Georgia’s Utility Board
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Hoping for some #EnergySanity in Georgia soon!
Just say #NoDataCenters
#ClimateActionNow
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Just say #NoDataCenters
#ClimateActionNow
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
"His is a world in which autocratic leaders make deals over the heads of the people, extrajudicial force is legitimized, conflicts simmer so long as they are kept off screens and corruption intermingles with diplomacy."
#MightIsNotRight
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
#MightIsNotRight
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
Opinion | The Thread Tying Together Everything Trump Does
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"His is a world in which autocratic leaders make deals over the heads of the people, extrajudicial force is legitimized, conflicts simmer so long as they are kept off screens and corruption intermingles with diplomacy."
#MightIsNotRight
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
#MightIsNotRight
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
"The signature policy achievement of Mr. Trump’s second presidency benefits big business and the rich while cutting health care coverage, food aid and student loan programs for the poor."
#GovernFromTheCenter
#ThirdPartyAmerica
#ReformAndRebuild
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
#GovernFromTheCenter
#ThirdPartyAmerica
#ReformAndRebuild
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Opinion | How Democrats Became the Party of the Well-to-Do
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"The signature policy achievement of Mr. Trump’s second presidency benefits big business and the rich while cutting health care coverage, food aid and student loan programs for the poor."
#GovernFromTheCenter
#ThirdPartyAmerica
#ReformAndRebuild
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
#GovernFromTheCenter
#ThirdPartyAmerica
#ReformAndRebuild
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
"The dominant aesthetic of the administration comes not from antiquity but from A.I. slop, the tackier and more juvenile the better."
#PresidentalPoop
#YourMomDid
#Idiocracy
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
#PresidentalPoop
#YourMomDid
#Idiocracy
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
Opinion | Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"The dominant aesthetic of the administration comes not from antiquity but from A.I. slop, the tackier and more juvenile the better."
#PresidentalPoop
#YourMomDid
#Idiocracy
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
#PresidentalPoop
#YourMomDid
#Idiocracy
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
"There's definitely something unusual going on in the north Pacific..."
#ClimateActionNow
#CoolThePlanet
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#ClimateActionNow
#CoolThePlanet
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mysterious 'warm blob' breaks records in the North Pacific Ocean
Temperatures have surged across a large area of the north Pacific - and scientists don't know exactly why.
www.bbc.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"There's definitely something unusual going on in the north Pacific..."
#ClimateActionNow
#CoolThePlanet
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#ClimateActionNow
#CoolThePlanet
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice.
Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice.
Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice.
Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice.
Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.
Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice.
Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice.
Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice.
Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.
October 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice.
Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice.
Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice.
Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice.
Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.
Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice.
Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice.
Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice.
Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.
"A dual state is a legal artifice of authoritarianism, and under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court inflated the powers of the president in case after case, as critics warned that the justices were paving the way to autocracy."
#PrerogativeState
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
#PrerogativeState
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
www.motherjones.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"A dual state is a legal artifice of authoritarianism, and under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court inflated the powers of the president in case after case, as critics warned that the justices were paving the way to autocracy."
#PrerogativeState
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
#PrerogativeState
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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these guys haaaaaaate free speech
Johnson slams the No Kings protest march scheduled to take place in DC next week as the “hate America rally” that would draw “the pro-Hamas wing” and “the antifa people.”
Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering
Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.
www.politico.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
these guys haaaaaaate free speech
