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What if all civil society (academia, philanthropy, NGOs, churches, unions) come under existential financial threat based on their speech seems like a question it's not crazy to be pondering right now

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treat me like a sunk cost with vendor lock-in tied to value-add consumables, that’s that me Nespresso

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Some fucking guy: Hey what does this do. Scientist: Solves a problem. Some fucking guy: Hmm. No it doesn’t.

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"The emergency is here. The president of the United States is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison built for disappearance.... It is a prison where the only way out, in the words of El Salvador’s so-called justice minister, is a coffin." Ezra Klein sounds the 🚨: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

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Setting aside climate and local pollution, more LNG exports are bad for US consumers and manufacturers.

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Us PJM ratepayers want cheaper electricity! As the yinzers would say, the interconnection queue needs reformed. 🔌💡

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This. One of the strengths of U.S democracy against potential dictatorship has been the independence and power of civil society. Expect Trump to try to illegally tax universities, professional associations, churches, synagogues and mosques, and other non-profit orgs when they cross him.

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One year of emissions from tankers carrying LNG from the US negates all annual emissions reductions from driving all EVs on US roads Meanwhile US EIA forecasts domestic gas prices will rise 91% by 2026 largely due to LNG exports Climate loser, economic loser insideclimatenews.org/news/1604202...

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We are overdue for a reckoning with the kind of person we can imagine being elected president, and the powers we've granted the executive branch - @asharangappa.bsky.social

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if you live in the monarch migration paths, please please please take what action you can to improve monarch habitats and food sources in your area this is one area where local action is super tangible, and can be impacted by advocacy at your park boards and city councils (& even in your yard!

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I am not stupid or egotistical enough to think the regime cares about me, and I’m aware I’m a citizen (not Protestant white tho so, you know), but just as a mere thought experiment for empathy’s sake my wife and I — who I imagine are in a more comfortable position than Garcia’s family — just asked…

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Really important piece. You would think the El Salvadoran current tyrant’s corrupt deal to protect MS-13 from US law enforcement would be a bigger story, but apparently it doesn’t involve 10 trans college athletes so @nytimes.com and others not interested.

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1. This is a legitimately courageous stance in a moment when many elites are choosing the path of appeasement 2. Strategic alumni organizing will be crucial to make it stick. What I'm saying is: if you went to Harvard and you want everyone to know but in a humble way, THIS IS YOUR MOMENT

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There are actually other options besides unchecked growth in fossil gas burning and utility customer rates! 🔌💡

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Big news: Interior Secretary Doug Burgum just ordered his agency to shut down construction on the Empire Wind offshore wind project. This is not good for New York's chances of weaning off natural gas. heatmap.news/sparks/empir...

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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

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The Trump administration will soon simply declare that federal rules it dislikes are dead and stop enforcing them. Will industries make use of this radical license? Or will they think to the consequences of violating the will of the American people? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

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Evening

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A liberal is a neoconservative who has been mugged by reality

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"absent the necessary policy carrots or sticks, it’s arguably more likely that the oil and gas industry will deploy AI to discover new fossil-fuel deposits than to pinpoint methane leaks."

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The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump admin must facilitate the return of SMART Union Local 100 apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They need to quit wasting time and bring our union brother home NOW!

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"The Environmental Protection Agency is giving more than a third of U.S. coal-fired capacity two-year exemptions from the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule ..." Turns out you don't have to obey pollution laws if you just ask EPA nicely.

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ICYMI, very positive results from first 2 years of NYC's window heat pump pilot in public housing: - yielded 87% in energy savings - halved energy costs - “more consistent and comfortable” temps could be a game changer for electrification... from @smaldo.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/27/n...

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UPDATE: It happened. In an 11:15 meeting, employees were told that the office has been eliminated and their positions will be terminated.

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A fossil-fuel lobbyist (working for ExxonMobil at the time) directed the hacking of climate activists to unearth data that would foil lawsuits targeting fossil fuels companies for climate damages, U.S. prosecutors claim www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n... 🔌💡

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The loss of the land sink is bad and also a very important prompt to say: “nature-based solutions” for carbon removal are not available for carbon removal until we’ve restored the natural sinks. We don’t get to destroy something + then claim victory (and profit) from partially fixing it!

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Paul is not a rando, but one of the key architects of the Minneapolis 2040 plan, which dramatically overhauled the plan and zoning of the entire city, which is now seeing falling rents. Note that a group of wealthy homeowners, calling themselves an environmental group, sued to stop it. They lost.

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Judge says EPA must release Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund resources to NCIF and CCIA applicants. 🔌💡

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Solomon’s United Church of Christ in Pennsylvania installed 30 solar panels on the church’s roof. Now the panels are helping the congregation fight climate change – and they were also a smart financial move.

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www.newsweek.com/china-245-tr... Trump discovered a higher number. This will probably crush a lot of American businesses.

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The only time we get something saying methane emissions from fossil fuel production are lower is when it comes directly from the fossil fuel industry. Any independent work on this issue always reveals that quantification of methane shows the problem is much worse than we have been told.

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Keep saying it: we actually need more of some things and less of other things.

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I'll offer this for your reading list: a piece from LinkedIn (gasp) from Alvaro Sanchez arguing for the idea that #abundance is just one component of what ought to be the higher goal: shared prosperity. www.linkedin.com/pulse/instea...

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