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If you want to learn more about Bad Bunny’s music and activism, have to recommend this new book P FKN R. It’s awesome. I learned so much:

www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
How Bad Bunny Fuses Activism and Global Superstardom | KQED
Scholars Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau, also creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus,” join us to break down Bad Bunny’s music and activism.
www.kqed.org
February 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Will be listening to Trapped all day long — Jimmy Cliff‘s own version and Springsteen‘s.
November 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is a good listen for anyone but especially those of us in NJ
This week on Shift Key, I spoke with @skandaamarnath.bsky.social about how NJ’s power prices became central to its gov race, whether the nuclear industry is in an AI-fueled mania, and what lessons power companies should take from the dot-com boom: heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
The Lesson Nuclear Companies Should Take From the Dot-Com Boom
Rob talks New Jersey past, present, and future with Employ America’s Skanda Amarnath.
heatmap.news
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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NEW SHIFT KEY

What It’s Like to Run a Power Grid, Day to Day

@jessedjenkins.com and I talk to Mark Rothleder, the COO and longest-serving employee at California’s power grid. How do you manage power plants day to day? What’s it like in the nerve center of a grid?

heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
Shift Key Summer School: What’s It Like to Run a Power Grid?
Rob and Jesse quiz Mark Rothleder, chief operations officer at the California Independent System Operator.
heatmap.news
August 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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So excited about this. New Yorkers, come hear Peter talk about THE climate science (and also possibly economic and thermodynamic) book of the year.
The next night, August 28, I'll be in NYC and can't wait to talk to @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social about it at Powerhouse Books
August 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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We asked @jessedjenkins.com to teach a few lessons of his “Intro to Electricity” class for the pod. We call it SHIFT KEY SUMMER SCHOOL.

Today’s class: HOW WIND AND SOLAR BECOME ELECTRICITY

Listen for free at Heatmap: heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

Or wherever: shows.acast.com/65bac3af0334...
Shift Key Summer School: How Sun and Wind Become Electricity
Jesse teaches Rob all about where solar and wind energy come from.
heatmap.news
July 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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NEW SHIFT KEY:

Why you can’t talk about food’s climate impact without talking about LAND

We chat with @mikegrunwald.bsky.social about his new book “We Are Eating the Earth” and why land’s scarcity is so central to the food’s huge carbon footprint. Really enjoyed this: heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
How to Stop Eating the Earth
Rob and Jesse talk with Michael Grunwald, author of the new book We Are Eating the Earth.
heatmap.news
June 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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THE SENATE GOP’S SEISMIC OVERHAUL OF CLEAN ENERGY TAX CREDITS, EXPLAINED

We summarize the GOP reconciliation bill’s biggest changes to the Inflation Reduction Act’s landmark climate policies. It’s horrendous for wind, solar, and EVs.

by @emilypont.bsky.social and me

heatmap.news/politics/sen...
The Senate GOP’s Seismic Overhaul of Clean Energy Tax Credits, Explained
Wind and solar are out. Clean, firm power is in.
heatmap.news
June 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Please listen to Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley—American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years, did not hold back
May 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Today on SHIFT KEY: What happens to global decarbonization during a trade war? @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social & I discuss the climate geopolitics of Trump’s latest trade moves heatmap.news/podcast/shif... 🔌💡
April 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I am pleased to join Deborah Pearlstein, Suzanne Nossel, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz for this webinar Freedom from Fear: The Assault on the Rule of Law
April 10, 2025 from 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. EST
RSVP here:
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Freedom from Fear: The Assault on the Rule of Law
Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech (1943) Join The Court of History and our expert panelists for an urgent webinar discussing the administration’s assault on...
buttondown.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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NEW SHIFT KEY

We get deep into the bowels of China’s industrial policy with @jhelvy.bsky.social and @joannalewis.bsky.social.

What tools have worked the best? Has China used tariffs? And — when this crisis passes — what can the US learn about how to nurture new tech?

heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
How China’s Industrial Policy Really Works
Rob and Jesse get into the nitty gritty on China’s energy policy with Joanna Lewis and John Paul Helveston.
heatmap.news
April 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Today on SHIFT KEY: @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social & I talk with two experts, @joannalewis.bsky.social & @jhelvy.bsky.social, about how China's industrial policy really works—and what the US should learn from it. Hint: it's not tariffs! heatmap.news/podcast/shif... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
April 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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NEW SHIFT KEY

We sit down with Heatmap senior reporter @jael.bsky.social to chat about the new permitting landscape for US renewables, Trump’s all-out war on offshore wind, solar’s sunnier outlook, and how it all ties into the MAHA-adjacent anti-renewables movement.

heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
How Trump Has All But Halted Offshore Wind
Rob and Jesse talk with Heatmap senior reporter Jael Holzman.
heatmap.news
March 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Get ready, cause here he comes! Midnight Christmas Eve w/ @djrobertdrake.bsky.social is right around the corner. #XPNTNB
December 23, 2024 at 12:44 AM
A NYC writer pal in the 90s, “I have to pick something up in NJ.”
Me: “Where?”
“IDK. Jersey. Isn’t that where you live?”
That old @newyorker.com cartoon, “How New Yorkers see the rest of the world,” wasn’t a joke.
Can I just say, making fun of New Jersey was only ever a thing because the New Yorkers who wrote TV shows in the 90s only knew about three states.

New Jersey is great.
December 16, 2024 at 3:49 AM