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Science reporter covering R&D in concentrated solar energy for solar fuels, CSP, and thermal storage for the IEA at SolarPACES.org Kiwi obsessing over my adopted nation going fascist but trying to let it go. I like finding out ways to make things better
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The Trump regime's ICE forces attacked a couple and smashed their window to abduct 29-year-old Juan Francisco Méndez, who hadn't committed a crime, while he waited for his lawyer. Regime forces can be seen attacking the civilians with a sledge hammer. #3E

The Trump Admin wants to eliminate the office that's enabling U.S. manufacturers of steel, cement, & aluminum to cut costs & pollution, boosting industrial competitiveness. Helluva manufacturing agenda you've got there.

Fire chiefs across Massachusetts told me their jobs are made harder by private equity hiking up fire truck prices and creating shortages and delays. That makes our firefighters and communities less safe. Senator Banks and I opened a bipartisan investigation to get answers.

The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.

"the worst and dumbest people in the world gloating about how they solved the ‘grift’ of sending lifesaving medications to dying babies...” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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As someone who knows how to read, I can tell you with certainty the Supreme Court did not say that.   The White House admitted it was an "administrative error" to deport Abrego Garcia and the Supreme Court called on the government to facilitate his return.

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Did you know we were founded by two women who are both native Mississippians? Help grow our impact and reach as we tell critical stories for Mississippi and the nation. buff.ly/tgXwUVB

Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

‘A wholesale repeal, or the termination of certain individual credits, would create uncertainty, jeopardizing capital allocation, long-term project planning, and job creation in the energy sector and across our broader economy.’ Four Senators is enough.

The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.

It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots. The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination. This should outrage every single Member of Congress.

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came. Why? Has the fear already taken hold?

Thank you, Senators Murkowski, Tillis, Curtis, and Moran, for singing the letter to Majority Leader Thune. Tax credits for clean energy are critically important!

Decimating the nation's clean tech lender, among other important DOE programs, is anti-abundance, anti-innovation, bad for the climate, makes our country weaker.

Central Asia and Europe Forge Green Energy Corridor Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan have secured agreements with major financial institutions to advance their plan to export renewable energy to Europe oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

SCOOP: DOGE is getting audited.

The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service resigned after the Treasury Department and Homeland Security reached an agreement to share tax data from some immigrants living in the country without legal status. (via @wbur.org)

Dozens of federal employees tell WIRED that Trump's federal return to office order has resulted in chaos (including bad Wi-Fi and no toilet paper), with productivity plummeting and public services suffering.

Trump administration makes emergency appeal to U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to strike down a lower court’s order that immigration officials return a Maryland man erroneously deported to a notorious El Salvador prison. @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/04/07/r...

Federal judges have the power to ensure compliance with their court orders — if they have the courage to exercise it, @david.noll.org writes. Learn more here.

🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...