DesignClimate
chrisrobertson.bsky.social
DesignClimate
@chrisrobertson.bsky.social
Long time climate and 😎energy work. IRA green tech investor🔋. LGBTQ🌈. Democracy defender. Cooking makes cleaning possible. Grow some veggies and flowers.
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The Republican budget will be a wrecking ball for rural Oregon and make your energy bills more expensive. All so Donald Trump can give his rich friends more tax breaks.
May 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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you guys that is 12.5% of the electorate of the united states lmao this is "grind him into the fucking dirt with no mercy" shit
May 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Not sure if democracy remains on the docket? My law firm is litigating 53 voting and election cases in 22 states.

When we fight, we win.
May 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Courage is contagious 😎

In a world full of Paul Weiss attorneys, let’s be like Harvard. #FightBsck
May 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions.

This is such a huge story.
This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
May 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Zelensky Stunningly Calls Out ‘Silence of America’ After Deadly Russian Attack https://twp.ai/4imjgp
www.mediaite.com
Zelensky Stunningly Calls Out ‘Silence of America’ After Deadly Russian Attack
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May 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @tinakotek.bsky.social

This thread by David Roberts is super important. It’s about the information and communication systems we need to create to counter fascism.
The political theory behind IRA was roughly as follows: We have lost control of the information landscape and can no longer win rhetorical or purely political battles; however, if we make substantive policy progress that directly touches voters' lives, they will notice and reward us.
May 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.

pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
pll.harvard.edu
May 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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The Interior Department announced late yesterday that it will fast-track approvals for coal, gas, oil, and mineral projects on public lands.
April 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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My name is Jonathan Treble. I'm a father, business owner, and the Democrat ready to flip Arizona's 1st and bring back real leadership to our district.

I can't do it alone. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help me take back this seat and take back the House majority?
April 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Republicans are counting on us to ignore what’s happening in the states they control. They are banking on us not having the resources or the will to fight for voting rights. They want us to be resigned and demoralized while their voter suppression machine grinds on.
The State of Democracy Requires Us to Expand the Map
From Marc | Republicans are counting on us to ignore what’s happening in the states they control.
www.democracydocket.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Billboard up! Chip in if you can. maddogpac.com/products/qui...
April 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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I'm hugely grateful for this incredible review of my book in the journal Environment, which calls *The Language of Climate Politics* a "tour-de-force of a book" — "engaging, fabulous, angry, hopeful, and helpful ... illuminating and even fun." 😭
April 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend.

“I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where? (Gift Article)
The immigrant does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts. He has essentially disappeared.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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This is the last time I’m going to post about this because it just makes me sob each time.

My brother died last year from cancer he got as a result of the toxic burn pits in Iraq.

That the same government that put him and others in harm’s way would turn its back on them now is treason and murder.
Keeping America's promise to our veterans is personal to me—from my dad's service during WWII, to interning at the Seattle VA during the Vietnam War, to the stories I hear each & every day.

By firing over 80,000 VA workers—Trump is breaking that promise.
April 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Strongly worded truth is painful but necessary
#magafools
April 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Trump now invoking the widely recognized “following the law is too much work” exception to due process. Courts usually HIGHLY sympathetic to this argument. 🙄
"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.
April 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Oh honey you could have helped stop it but you had to sell books. The Nixon Woodward you are not.
“Very frightening time for America citizens….”
Bob Woodward
April 21, 2025
April 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.
April 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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They're just thirsty as fuck on so many different levels.
April 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Harvard, founded when America had a king, fights the president who demands to be a king.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
Harvard University Sues Trump Administration
Harvard’s lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Many people boast of their faith. But how many can say that they dispatched a pope to Our Father on Easter Sunday?

by J. D. Vance
April 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Resignation clock starts ticking for Hegseth.

"Rep. Don Bacon, a prominent Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, became the first sitting GOP lawmaker Monday to suggest President Donald Trump should fire Pete Hegseth —"
April 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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This is who I want in charge of the nation’s security, a petulant plastic bitch who can’t even keep track of her own fucking purse!!

#NoemIsAJoke

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
Kristi Noem’s Purse, With Security Badge and $3,000, Is Stolen (Gift Article)
The homeland security secretary was dining at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. She also lost her passport and keys.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM