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Great one-pager recap of some interesting stats about the CAISO grid - from @californiaiso.bsky.social www.caiso.com/documents/20... #energysky

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Climate action is up to states. Trump wants to stop them. #energysky -- via Canary Media: www.canarymedia.com/...

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uhhhhhhhh what

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Trump's executive order giving DOE Secretary Chris Wright unilateral power to keep coal plants open could be a climate and pollution disaster. It could also undo decades of commitment to force free-market competition into the U.S. power sector: www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... #energysky

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Good morning with good news: Solar grew from 100 TWh to 1,000 TWh in 8 years, and then solar jumped from 1,000 TWh to 2,000 TWh in just 3 years. Solar surpassed globally 2,000 TWh in 2024, reaching this level faster than any other technology in history. #energysky ember-energy.org/app/uploads/...

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Yesterday Donald Trump said he was going to keep Cholla Generating Station, a coal plant in Arizona, open. The utility that owns it, Arizona Public Service, told that it had already stopped generating and they had procured enough resources to replace it heatmap.news/energy/coal-...

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This admin is turning on the firehose hoping you’ll burn out and give up. But you don’t have to do it all. Do one thing, take one step each day. Put your phone down. Take a walk. Find the thing that moves you and focus. If we all find our one thing, we’ll build something better—together.

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For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

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Big story from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social — the White House has been suppressing and censoring pool reports. www.status.news/p/white-hous...

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✅☎️ Reportedly phone service back at #ssa.

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le sigh

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REPORTER: Can you explain more of the decision making on what feels like a reversal here? BESSENT: No

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The cowards at Paul Weiss own this most of all, but they are joined in disgrace by Milbank, Willkie Farr, and Skadden. Trump suggested there are other firms that have agreed to debase themselves, but did not reveal the names.

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Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

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According to IRS estimates, the internal sabotage by DOGE has already cost the U.S. Treasury more than $500 billion in revenues that otherwise would have been raised by April 15th. But it doesn’t stop there. DOGE is also in the process of closing down the Tax Division at the Department of Justice.

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It's a careful, well-reasoned opinion that rightly describes the exclusion of AP as retaliatory, viewpoint-based, and unconstitutional. And it reaffirms that viewpoint discrimination is off-limits even in nonpublic forums. An important opinion, especially right now.

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Oh god I didn't even think of this until now. FUUUU.

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Reddit is flooded with small businesses owners getting crushed by tariffs — devastated by the thought of raising prices, firing workers, or closing up shop entirely.

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There’s two parts to this, I think: 1) they don’t believe in clean energy, and 2) they don’t want middle-class people to have high-wage-paying jobs, they’d prefer to have a permanent underclass putting tiny screws in iPhones, to paraphrase Lutnick.

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The 2025 US Electricity Special Report from EMBER shows that the US grid is getting cleaner as coal is displaced by renewables & gas displace coal. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

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The Daily Show uploaded a video showing Fox News attacking Obama for golfing, but replaced him with Trump. Epic!

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CEOs in response to Trump tariffs: We’re in shock, losing money, thrown for a loop, Never imagined he’d go this far. Me, before Trump took office: He’ll do widespread tariffs and break the system of global trade. Just listen to what he has repeatedly said, and observe what he already did.

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This is unimaginablely cruel. LIHEAP was the closest thing we had to an energy-poverty social safety net. We could have increased it 10x and eliminated energy poverty in the US. Instead we gutted it.

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Good morning with good news: US utility-scale solar & battery storage still skyrocket. Both were zero in 2010. Large solar was 45 GW in 2020; 120 GW in 2024; and will be 180 GW in 2026. Batteries were 1 GW in 2019; 26 GW in 2024; and will be 61 GW in 2026. #energysky www.eia.gov/outlooks/ste...

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The rule of law, being destroyed right in front of us. "For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"

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More than half of utility-scale battery capacity in U.S. by the end of 2024 was installed in California. 🔋🔌💡 #EnergySky

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Good morning with good news: Portugal is rapidly pushing fossil fuels off its grid! Fossil fuels fell to 14.8% of its electricity in 2024 from 82% in 2005! It's reduced fossil fuels by an average of`3.6 points per year! Wind & solar skyrocketed from 4% in 2005 to 46% in 2024 #energysky #greensky

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Big if true

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In 2016, Wisconsin’s then-Attorney General Brad Schimel said that the state’s strict voter ID law helped Trump win the state. He’s running to join the state’s supreme court, which may be called on to decide the fate and shape of the law in the future. boltsmag.org/wiscons...

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(Forbes) - Measles cases in the U.S. neared 500 Friday, according to the CDC, as the highly contagious illness continues spreading in Texas after being reported in at least 18 other states. www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

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What's incredible about this order is the way Judge Jackson details a blow-by-blow of the Trump admin's efforts to dismantle the agency entirely, using information gained through discovery. Take this bit, showing their rush to fire people before she could stop them.

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