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Lissa Harris🐀

@lissaharris.bsky.social

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pompe à chaleur. recovering local digital news reporter. volunteer firefighter. climate solutions and NYS policy watcher. feral rural sword queer. Gideon the Sixth your favorite deep state climate bureaucrat’s favorite shitposter she/her/bro

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · Apr 30

anybody know of any examples of people mapping out where federal funding is flowing in their town/city, and what the impacts are if it is cut off?

I’m talking small scale

I’d like to write up a report like this for my town of a few thousand residents

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Michael McLean @mclean.bsky.social · 6h

Not only does this torpedo billions of dollars of private investments, and thousands of American jobs, but it also means that future industrial policy won’t be effective because firms can’t trust the US government to honor contracts.

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 10h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

"this is not politics, it's about people"

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK POLITICS IS ABOUT!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

the silver lining to all this is we are, worst case scenario, committing a kind of national suicide that will leave us in the dust as the world marches on

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 10h

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 9h

sounds like it slaps

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 21h

I’m not leaving NYS Dems out of this 😝

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

my kid just sent me this old video of me making fun of the late, great Hector

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

would

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

I’m cry laughing so hard I’m gonna dehydrate

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

@aarnegranlund.bsky.social sorry we’re like this

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

Americans voting

🦇Zombatman🦇 @budbuddyguy.bsky.social · 21d

The reverb 🤌

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

check out the many reports I sent you guys that you never responded to

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

try it with absinthe next time 🔥

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

so did my ex wife

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

yo @dave.bzky.team can I bring His Majesty

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

behold: His Majesty

a magnificent china serving platter with a turkey striding boldly through a swamp

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

it makes my day every time

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

I’m in (the disturbing grandparent bed with the climate poaster quadrant)

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

behold: His Majesty

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

I have a magnificent china serving platter with a turkey striding boldly through a swamp

one time my ex-wife caught me having an intense conversation with it when I thought I was alone

that’s next up for me if bluesky shits the bed