Andie Wyatt
@andiew66.bsky.social
My special interest is reality, where everything is interconnected, humans are Nature, and right relation matters most. 🌎 also climate & energy
People do be very invested in categories being immutable and intrinsic. Kind of key to a lot.
I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 AM
People do be very invested in categories being immutable and intrinsic. Kind of key to a lot.
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People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.
February 1, 2026 at 10:26 PM
People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
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Your daily reminder: the far right has never stopped talking about climate change.
"Don't mention climate change" is a centre-right tactic designed to clear space for these people, not a good-faith piece of comms advice for the left.
"Don't mention climate change" is a centre-right tactic designed to clear space for these people, not a good-faith piece of comms advice for the left.
February 1, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Your daily reminder: the far right has never stopped talking about climate change.
"Don't mention climate change" is a centre-right tactic designed to clear space for these people, not a good-faith piece of comms advice for the left.
"Don't mention climate change" is a centre-right tactic designed to clear space for these people, not a good-faith piece of comms advice for the left.
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A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west
January 2026 temperature rankings compared to all Januarys since 1895.
February 1, 2026 at 5:16 PM
A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west
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Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
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A year ago, data center developers were focused on connecting to the grid. Today roughly 1/3 of all planned capacity is onsite power - and 72% of that planned capacity is fossil gas. Homer City PA's data center project could soon be one of the largest single sources of carbon emissions in the US.
Data Centers Ditching the Power Grid, Mark Carney's Viral Speech, and Some Joy
Here are some trends I'm following
www.distilled.earth
January 31, 2026 at 4:13 PM
A year ago, data center developers were focused on connecting to the grid. Today roughly 1/3 of all planned capacity is onsite power - and 72% of that planned capacity is fossil gas. Homer City PA's data center project could soon be one of the largest single sources of carbon emissions in the US.
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It’s not particularly sophisticated but I kind of think that the most straightforward way to understand trumpism is that we have a morally depraved group of fascists who have successfully persuaded a significant chunk of the public to accept their psychological projections as reality
January 31, 2026 at 1:51 AM
It’s not particularly sophisticated but I kind of think that the most straightforward way to understand trumpism is that we have a morally depraved group of fascists who have successfully persuaded a significant chunk of the public to accept their psychological projections as reality
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Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
January 31, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
JFC if there’s one thread in the history of social media I could force every clean energy industry person to read it might be this one (and it’s not that long!)
David makes an interesting point here, "Above all, punditry values glib cleverness. You have to be clever. You have to have a slightly different twist than everybody else."
In our culture, it's important to clearly link this valuation to how cleverness is racialized and weaponized. White men with
In our culture, it's important to clearly link this valuation to how cleverness is racialized and weaponized. White men with
Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
January 31, 2026 at 12:07 AM
JFC if there’s one thread in the history of social media I could force every clean energy industry person to read it might be this one (and it’s not that long!)
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Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
January 30, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
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During a DHS shutdown, ICE and CBP continue to operate, but we begin to use up their slush fund from OBBBA. We also aren't stuck w/ a Sophie's Choice situation where SSI and Section 8 hang in the balance. It's a place of maximum (albeit still weak) leverage.
We must ensure Dems do not squander it.
We must ensure Dems do not squander it.
January 30, 2026 at 8:59 PM
During a DHS shutdown, ICE and CBP continue to operate, but we begin to use up their slush fund from OBBBA. We also aren't stuck w/ a Sophie's Choice situation where SSI and Section 8 hang in the balance. It's a place of maximum (albeit still weak) leverage.
We must ensure Dems do not squander it.
We must ensure Dems do not squander it.
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So astrology in the sense of “planet alignments cause things” is obviously nonsense but cyclicality at different time spans seems pretty reasonable, and some of those cycles are going to happen to align with planet alignments. Anyway astrology is less BS than dude-astrology (orthodox economics)
1776+84=1860
1860+84=1944
1944+84=2028
not tryna do numerology here but it does seem like there’s a rough periodicity component to our big crises
1860+84=1944
1944+84=2028
not tryna do numerology here but it does seem like there’s a rough periodicity component to our big crises
January 30, 2026 at 6:54 PM
So astrology in the sense of “planet alignments cause things” is obviously nonsense but cyclicality at different time spans seems pretty reasonable, and some of those cycles are going to happen to align with planet alignments. Anyway astrology is less BS than dude-astrology (orthodox economics)
No one is more hateful of “Western Civilization” than these right wing nutjobs who define it as conformity with a patriarchal bootlicking absence of empathy
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
No one is more hateful of “Western Civilization” than these right wing nutjobs who define it as conformity with a patriarchal bootlicking absence of empathy
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legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards
January 30, 2026 at 2:14 PM
legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards
Good thread. And it doesn’t map 100% onto left-right ideology but: No conservative unconditionally loves their children, because they consider children property and only of value to the extent they replicate the parent’s rigid definitions and values. All-consuming hierarchy is taught as reality.
Is it possible that the reason we struggle to create a world that prioritizes the health and safety of every child is directly related to most adults (and parents) being formerly unprotected children, conditioned to make excuses, or be grateful for, the abuse and neglect they endured in childhood?
January 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Good thread. And it doesn’t map 100% onto left-right ideology but: No conservative unconditionally loves their children, because they consider children property and only of value to the extent they replicate the parent’s rigid definitions and values. All-consuming hierarchy is taught as reality.
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me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:25 PM
me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
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This is physically unsustainable for all life on earth.
The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point.
The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.
The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point.
The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:57 PM
This is physically unsustainable for all life on earth.
The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point.
The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.
The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point.
The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.
Smol bean fascism
The administration is insisting that its masked goons are so emotionally stunted that words can launch them into a murderous rage.
"Our professionals are just ordinary people so ordinary people better act professionally around them, or else."
"Our professionals are just ordinary people so ordinary people better act professionally around them, or else."
January 29, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Smol bean fascism
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The immanent contradiction of dominance masculinity is that it both claims absolute authority and strength and also cannot countenance even the slightest challenge.
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 28, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The immanent contradiction of dominance masculinity is that it both claims absolute authority and strength and also cannot countenance even the slightest challenge.
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An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 AM
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
While it’s probably true that all fascism is smol bean fascism, I hope this catches on. Fascists don’t mind so much being called plain old fascists because they think it sounds dominant. But trying to deny and out-tough smol bean-ness just reinforces the pathetic smol bean-ness of it all.
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 28, 2026 at 11:35 PM
While it’s probably true that all fascism is smol bean fascism, I hope this catches on. Fascists don’t mind so much being called plain old fascists because they think it sounds dominant. But trying to deny and out-tough smol bean-ness just reinforces the pathetic smol bean-ness of it all.
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desperately need dem politicians hell-bent on continuing to pass budgets and repealing section 230 to understand that they are giving their enemies more weapons to use against them
a lot of Democratic officials have asked the protesters to be careful to not "give Trump what he wants" and I think it's fair to ask them to do likewise
January 28, 2026 at 2:14 PM
desperately need dem politicians hell-bent on continuing to pass budgets and repealing section 230 to understand that they are giving their enemies more weapons to use against them
I propose an inverse Wilhoit’s Law: if you tolerate law that protects but doesn’t hold accountable in-groups, and that is weaponized against unprotected out-groups, you’re a right-wing conservative.
Anti-conservatives need to take over the Democratic Party. Too bad conservatives currently lead it.
Anti-conservatives need to take over the Democratic Party. Too bad conservatives currently lead it.
January 27, 2026 at 4:58 PM
I propose an inverse Wilhoit’s Law: if you tolerate law that protects but doesn’t hold accountable in-groups, and that is weaponized against unprotected out-groups, you’re a right-wing conservative.
Anti-conservatives need to take over the Democratic Party. Too bad conservatives currently lead it.
Anti-conservatives need to take over the Democratic Party. Too bad conservatives currently lead it.
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If you’re Dems, please coalesce around Stephen Miller not having a job anymore.
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:17 PM
If you’re Dems, please coalesce around Stephen Miller not having a job anymore.