marc-my-words
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Bad at writing my own bio, #PostcardsToVoters writer, East Lansing, Michigan
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The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished
December 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished
One of the USA's sunniest states is finally getting into solar, with agrivoltaics and consultations with neighbors part of the plan www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
Is Kansas on the cusp of a solar boom?
The sun-drenched state is a solar laggard, but that’s changing thanks to a slew of big projects — including a 270-MW installation that just landed a…
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December 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
One of the USA's sunniest states is finally getting into solar, with agrivoltaics and consultations with neighbors part of the plan www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
How a proposed New York state law and a 1936 federal law (Robinson-Patman) could help with food affordability prospect.org/2025/11/21/n...
New York Gets Serious About Food Prices - The American Prospect
A proposed state antitrust law has the potential to cut food prices in New York, a boon to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
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December 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
How a proposed New York state law and a 1936 federal law (Robinson-Patman) could help with food affordability prospect.org/2025/11/21/n...
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As electricity costs climb, Trump could try to avoid blame for the problem. He prefers to push an alternate reality in which the problem doesn’t exist.
I continue to believe there’s a qualitative difference between regular ol’ lying and self-defeating lying. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
I continue to believe there’s a qualitative difference between regular ol’ lying and self-defeating lying. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
The more Trump focuses on electricity prices, the more rising costs matter
As electricity costs climb, Trump could try to avoid blame for the problem. He prefers to push an alternate reality in which the problem doesn’t exist.
www.ms.now
December 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
As electricity costs climb, Trump could try to avoid blame for the problem. He prefers to push an alternate reality in which the problem doesn’t exist.
I continue to believe there’s a qualitative difference between regular ol’ lying and self-defeating lying. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
I continue to believe there’s a qualitative difference between regular ol’ lying and self-defeating lying. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Trump crony has embarrassing meltdown after more Kennedy Center performers quit www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Trump crony has embarrassing meltdown after more Kennedy Center performers quit
The Trump administration is lashing out at performers who have chosen to cancel performances at the Kennedy Center following Donald Trump’s recent decision to deface the cultural institution with ...
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December 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Trump crony has embarrassing meltdown after more Kennedy Center performers quit www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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"I wish I knew what Norman Rockwell might have said about Trump’s theft of his life’s work in service of state-sponsored terror. But even more than that, I wonder what he would have painted." ICYMI @crampell.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pU1xY5
The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell
Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"I wish I knew what Norman Rockwell might have said about Trump’s theft of his life’s work in service of state-sponsored terror. But even more than that, I wonder what he would have painted." ICYMI @crampell.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pU1xY5
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You're damn right Norman Rockwell was antifa.
December 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
You're damn right Norman Rockwell was antifa.
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This year, instead of lowering costs for you, Donald Trump has worked hard to make himself, his family, and his billionaire buddies even richer.
December 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This year, instead of lowering costs for you, Donald Trump has worked hard to make himself, his family, and his billionaire buddies even richer.
Truck "[o]wner-operators who've been auto-renewing 'with a minimal increase if anything' are this year "looking at hundreds of dollars more a month" www.truckpartsandservice.com/economic-tre...
More truckers expect to be priced out of health insurance in 2026
Results from an Overdrive survey of owner-operators suggests many will be priced out of health coverage unless Congress extends 2021's enhanced subsidies to middle-income purchasers on the Affordable ...
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December 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Truck "[o]wner-operators who've been auto-renewing 'with a minimal increase if anything' are this year "looking at hundreds of dollars more a month" www.truckpartsandservice.com/economic-tre...
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The weather outside may be frightful, but the time is perfect to help defeat the fascist MAGA movement. Here are 10 #PostcardsToVoters to help Democrat Mike Jones for VA State Senate.
Looking for a fun and convenient way to save democracy? Visit postcardstovoters.org.
Looking for a fun and convenient way to save democracy? Visit postcardstovoters.org.
December 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The weather outside may be frightful, but the time is perfect to help defeat the fascist MAGA movement. Here are 10 #PostcardsToVoters to help Democrat Mike Jones for VA State Senate.
Looking for a fun and convenient way to save democracy? Visit postcardstovoters.org.
Looking for a fun and convenient way to save democracy? Visit postcardstovoters.org.
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I think this will be my last batch of #PostcardsToVoters as 2025 comes to a close. One more action I’ve taken against the Trump/MAGA agenda.
To learn more about this important Get-Out-The-Vote program, go to www.PostcardsToVoters.org
To learn more about this important Get-Out-The-Vote program, go to www.PostcardsToVoters.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I think this will be my last batch of #PostcardsToVoters as 2025 comes to a close. One more action I’ve taken against the Trump/MAGA agenda.
To learn more about this important Get-Out-The-Vote program, go to www.PostcardsToVoters.org
To learn more about this important Get-Out-The-Vote program, go to www.PostcardsToVoters.org
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Share a great female villain.
December 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Share a great female villain.
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December 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Throughout 2025, A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs was brought to you by the generosity of Patreon backers from around the world.
Sign up before the New Year and gain access to a whole backlog of exclusive episodes!
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Not to do the thing again, but hard to imagine how Obama would have made it to year two in office if he raked in billions in year one.
December 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Not to do the thing again, but hard to imagine how Obama would have made it to year two in office if he raked in billions in year one.
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No laptop involved.
Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
December 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
No laptop involved.
"polling also shows a broad public turn toward progressive populism: the kind that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and wealth to our billionaires and to make life’s necessities affordable for the majority of the American people" prospect.org/2025/12/22/h...
A Happy 2025 By-Product: Revulsion at the Rich - The American Prospect
With Trump, Musk, Bezos et al. running amok, progressive economic populism is on the rise. Polling shows a broad public turn toward policy that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"polling also shows a broad public turn toward progressive populism: the kind that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and wealth to our billionaires and to make life’s necessities affordable for the majority of the American people" prospect.org/2025/12/22/h...
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My office has statutory authority to intervene on behalf of ratepayers and I’m sounding the alarm about DTE’s questionable proposal for a 1.4 gigawatt data center.
Michiganders shouldn’t be left wondering if our energy bills will go up to pay for this. We deserve transparency.
Michiganders shouldn’t be left wondering if our energy bills will go up to pay for this. We deserve transparency.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My office has statutory authority to intervene on behalf of ratepayers and I’m sounding the alarm about DTE’s questionable proposal for a 1.4 gigawatt data center.
Michiganders shouldn’t be left wondering if our energy bills will go up to pay for this. We deserve transparency.
Michiganders shouldn’t be left wondering if our energy bills will go up to pay for this. We deserve transparency.
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
I recently bought Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense Deluxe Edition", a 3 disc set with 2 CDs of the film music & extra tracks & a BluRay that's a pure audio Dolby Atmos version of the concert (my TV screen shows the track list). Is this a common practice for concert films or concert recordings?
December 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I recently bought Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense Deluxe Edition", a 3 disc set with 2 CDs of the film music & extra tracks & a BluRay that's a pure audio Dolby Atmos version of the concert (my TV screen shows the track list). Is this a common practice for concert films or concert recordings?
Connecticut Green Bank’s solar "installations are projected to save schools tens of millions of dollars in energy costs, and more than half are in low-income and disadvantaged communities". The bank can fund slow-payback projects that commercial banks won't touch
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
Connecticut’s pioneering model for publicly owned, small-scale solar
The Connecticut Green Bank goes beyond grants and loans to directly develop solar for towns and schools — a model other states could follow.
www.canarymedia.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Connecticut Green Bank’s solar "installations are projected to save schools tens of millions of dollars in energy costs, and more than half are in low-income and disadvantaged communities". The bank can fund slow-payback projects that commercial banks won't touch
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
(Not) Home for Christmas www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/23/n...
(Not) Home for Christmas - emptywheel
I didn’t expect to hear my dad swear about RFK Jr.’s gross mismanagement of HHS. Instead he said something worse.
www.emptywheel.net
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
(Not) Home for Christmas www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/23/n...
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Big AI companies are moving forward with building massive data centers all across America while calls for moratoriums are growing louder. A local rejection of data centers should have Big Tech worried. From @gurleygg.bsky.social:
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Demands for Data Center Moratoriums Surge - The American Prospect
Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Big AI companies are moving forward with building massive data centers all across America while calls for moratoriums are growing louder. A local rejection of data centers should have Big Tech worried. From @gurleygg.bsky.social:
trib.al/v6OSgWA
trib.al/v6OSgWA
Coming next month, EFF's discussion about online age verification www.eff.org/event/effect...
EFFecting Change: The Human Cost of Online Age Verification
Age verification mandates are spreading fast, and they’re ushering in a new age of online surveillance, censorship, and exclusion for everyone—not just young people. Age-gating laws generally require ...
www.eff.org
December 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Coming next month, EFF's discussion about online age verification www.eff.org/event/effect...
"As electric vehicles move ever further from niche toward norm, the focus for retailers like these could shift from which one offers the cheapest fuel to which one can make waiting for the car to fill up the best experience." www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-...
Some gas stations revamp to attract EV drivers
Fuel retailers are betting that fast chargers, clean bathrooms, and tasty snacks will draw EV driver.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"As electric vehicles move ever further from niche toward norm, the focus for retailers like these could shift from which one offers the cheapest fuel to which one can make waiting for the car to fill up the best experience." www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-...
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We're paying a high price for Donald Trump's obsession with killing windmills deanbaker22.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump Wants Us to Pay More for Electricity Because He Is Angry at Windmills
Air is cheap, the hot air from Donald Trump is very expensive
deanbaker22.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We're paying a high price for Donald Trump's obsession with killing windmills deanbaker22.substack.com/p/donald-tru...