Rob
@robisintexas.bsky.social
Climate tech/policy, elections, and legislative nerd
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permission to lib out, sir
April 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
permission to lib out, sir
Masterful gambit, Mr. Musk
Tesla sales in the U.S. have dropped 13% in Q1 to the lowest levels since 2022.
I love this for Elon Musk.
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I love this for Elon Musk.
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April 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Masterful gambit, Mr. Musk
Legislative procedure peeps: what would happen if a member of congress just started objecting to unanimous consent in the House? Obv some things would just be a 5 or 15 minute vote, but would other motions have to get kicked to a committee or placed on a calendar?
March 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Legislative procedure peeps: what would happen if a member of congress just started objecting to unanimous consent in the House? Obv some things would just be a 5 or 15 minute vote, but would other motions have to get kicked to a committee or placed on a calendar?
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What OMB is doing violates the constitution itself. The ICA fills in the details of how congress and the executive interact over the spending power, but finding the ICA unconstitutional and ratifying OMB’s action here would mean overthrowing the most fundamental constitutional design.
To play this out, there will be literally dozens of lawsuits challenging what OMB is doing on the ground that it violates the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. Trump’s DOJ will argue that the Act is unconstitutional. And this will quickly get to #SCOTUS, where it will be the biggest case of the term.
January 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
What OMB is doing violates the constitution itself. The ICA fills in the details of how congress and the executive interact over the spending power, but finding the ICA unconstitutional and ratifying OMB’s action here would mean overthrowing the most fundamental constitutional design.
Terrifying how muted the response has been from the press to the admin just straight up breaking the law. This and the Inspectors General firings are basically Jan. 6 levels of unconstitutional and they're framing it like a policy debate??
i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them
January 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Terrifying how muted the response has been from the press to the admin just straight up breaking the law. This and the Inspectors General firings are basically Jan. 6 levels of unconstitutional and they're framing it like a policy debate??
Please wait to tell big tech that AI and Crypto are just massive bubbles until AFTER they've fully bankrolled geothermal and SMRs. 🔌💡
Crypto: it's >90% speculation. Not an alternative currency. It's tulips (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_m...).
It's called cryptocurrency, but new FDIC data shows that most Americans don't use it as currency—they mainly hold on to it for price gains, not for transfers or purchases.
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November 24, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Please wait to tell big tech that AI and Crypto are just massive bubbles until AFTER they've fully bankrolled geothermal and SMRs. 🔌💡
🔌💡After a few days of digging into the legislation and policy, I can confidently say it is impossible to tell what will actually happen to NEVI (EV charging station grant program from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law/IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act credits (inc. $7,500 EV credit).
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November 15, 2024 at 4:09 AM
🔌💡After a few days of digging into the legislation and policy, I can confidently say it is impossible to tell what will actually happen to NEVI (EV charging station grant program from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law/IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act credits (inc. $7,500 EV credit).
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i would happily pay a few dollars a month to keep this place viable.
Here's how the Bluesky team has described future plans to make the protocol and platform financially sustainable: developing a subscription model for extra features like high-quality video and customizations, while keeping all basic features free bsky.social/about/blog/1...
November 13, 2024 at 5:31 PM
i would happily pay a few dollars a month to keep this place viable.
Energy 🔌💡 and environmental bsky, I have a question: if individual states/municipalities want to reduce their emissions enough for the entire US to meet it's climate goals, what would be the highest impact policies? Assuming places like TX also have reductions due to cheap renewables, EVs, etc
November 12, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Energy 🔌💡 and environmental bsky, I have a question: if individual states/municipalities want to reduce their emissions enough for the entire US to meet it's climate goals, what would be the highest impact policies? Assuming places like TX also have reductions due to cheap renewables, EVs, etc