Daniel Convissor
@danielconvissor.bsky.social
Family man. Advocate for safe, efficient transportation, land use, and, well, everything. Director of @biketarrytown.bsky.social.
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NEW: New York’s flagship energy efficiency program, Empower+, is back on track with a major boost from a regional cap and trade program.
The new funding reverses steep cuts that New York Focus first reported over the summer.
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The new funding reverses steep cuts that New York Focus first reported over the summer.
nysfocus.com/2025/12/23/e...
New York Shores Up Funding for Key Energy Efficiency Program
The state plans to stabilize the Empower+ program with a record amount of money from the pollution pricing program RGGI.
nysfocus.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW: New York’s flagship energy efficiency program, Empower+, is back on track with a major boost from a regional cap and trade program.
The new funding reverses steep cuts that New York Focus first reported over the summer.
nysfocus.com/2025/12/23/e...
The new funding reverses steep cuts that New York Focus first reported over the summer.
nysfocus.com/2025/12/23/e...
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The Times Union editorial board on the renaming of “THE DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS”:
“We would say that this kind of thing is getting ridiculous, but it arrived at a state of ridiculousness quite a while ago.”
“We would say that this kind of thing is getting ridiculous, but it arrived at a state of ridiculousness quite a while ago.”
Editorial: Stop Trump-branding America
The renaming of the Kennedy Center is the latest example of the president's weird desire to see his name slapped on things.
www.timesunion.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The Times Union editorial board on the renaming of “THE DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS”:
“We would say that this kind of thing is getting ridiculous, but it arrived at a state of ridiculousness quite a while ago.”
“We would say that this kind of thing is getting ridiculous, but it arrived at a state of ridiculousness quite a while ago.”
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We stand w/ @governor.ny.gov, @massgovernor.bsky.social, Gov. Ned Lamont & @govdanmckee.bsky.social to ensure these projects move forward to provide power, jobs & grid reliability. www.governor.ny.gov/news/joint-statement-offshore-wind-governor-kathy-hochul-governor-maura-healey-governor-ned-lamont
Joint Statement on Offshore Wind from Governor Kathy Hochul, Governor Maura Healey, Governor Ned Lamont, Governor Dan Mckee
“The Trump administration’s announcement yesterday pausing offshore wind leases is its latest egregious attack on clean energy and it lands like a lump of dirty coal for the holiday season for America...
www.governor.ny.gov
December 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We stand w/ @governor.ny.gov, @massgovernor.bsky.social, Gov. Ned Lamont & @govdanmckee.bsky.social to ensure these projects move forward to provide power, jobs & grid reliability. www.governor.ny.gov/news/joint-statement-offshore-wind-governor-kathy-hochul-governor-maura-healey-governor-ned-lamont
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What Trump didn't proclaim yesterday was that "his" battleships will be built by South Korea's largest military contractor Hanwha. "Buy America" my ass. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
Trump says US will work with Korea to build ‘Golden Fleet’ of new Navy warships
The US president unveiled what he called the “Trump class” of ships, saying they would be “100 times” more powerful than any battleship built to date
english.hani.co.kr
December 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
What Trump didn't proclaim yesterday was that "his" battleships will be built by South Korea's largest military contractor Hanwha. "Buy America" my ass. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
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Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Russell Brand charged with further counts of rape and sexual assault
The alleged offences took place in 2009, the Crown Protection Service said
www.independent.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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The rest of the debate is:
Kavanaugh: We should make it easier for him to send the Army
Alito/Thomas: Trump can do whatever he wants because he said so.
Gorsuch: I don't like using the Shadow Docket when I lose, I only like using it when I win.
Kavanaugh: We should make it easier for him to send the Army
Alito/Thomas: Trump can do whatever he wants because he said so.
Gorsuch: I don't like using the Shadow Docket when I lose, I only like using it when I win.
December 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The rest of the debate is:
Kavanaugh: We should make it easier for him to send the Army
Alito/Thomas: Trump can do whatever he wants because he said so.
Gorsuch: I don't like using the Shadow Docket when I lose, I only like using it when I win.
Kavanaugh: We should make it easier for him to send the Army
Alito/Thomas: Trump can do whatever he wants because he said so.
Gorsuch: I don't like using the Shadow Docket when I lose, I only like using it when I win.
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NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Bari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy | Margaret Sullivan
Weiss ought to cut her losses, green-light the piece, and try to start acting like an editor – not like a cog in the machine of authoritarian politics and oligarchy
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
This is dictator level shit...
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
This is dictator level shit...
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Had missed that a Reddit commenter actually had the info that was needed to find the shooter.
newrepublic.com/post/204650/...
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Kash Patel Under Fire After Reddit Post Finds Brown Shooting Suspect
The case bungled by the FBI director was only solved thanks to a Reddit user.
newrepublic.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Had missed that a Reddit commenter actually had the info that was needed to find the shooter.
newrepublic.com/post/204650/...
newrepublic.com/post/204650/...
Good summary from an astute local observer...
Thread: Some thoughts about Rep. Elise Stefanik's departure - for now from the political stage in the US, NY, #ny21 and northern NY. First, I've written for more than a decade about Stefanik's political acumen. If she thinks it's time to jump ship, the GOP should take notice. 1/
December 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Good summary from an astute local observer...
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These assholes will be clerks for Neil Gorsuch in a few years, most likely.
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat...
www.thecrimson.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
These assholes will be clerks for Neil Gorsuch in a few years, most likely.
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At least five FUBARed Waymo robots:
Market & Guerrero, SF
One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how.
Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO.
OP: tiktok.brahmsstan
Market & Guerrero, SF
One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how.
Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO.
OP: tiktok.brahmsstan
December 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
At least five FUBARed Waymo robots:
Market & Guerrero, SF
One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how.
Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO.
OP: tiktok.brahmsstan
Market & Guerrero, SF
One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how.
Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO.
OP: tiktok.brahmsstan
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DHS said that accusations of abuses in Camp East Montana are “clickbait.”
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
Exclusive: 911 calls from migrant detention center highlight dire conditions
About 90 emergency 911 calls have been made from the Camp East Montana immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, during the 15 weeks since it opened.
www.elpasotimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
DHS said that accusations of abuses in Camp East Montana are “clickbait.”
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
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I wrote about how the Trump administration won’t let Black people use MATH to prove racism exists.
Apparently, only white self-reporting their own racism now counts as evidence of racism.
Apparently, only white self-reporting their own racism now counts as evidence of racism.
The DOJ Just Made It Almost Impossible to Prove Racism Exists
By rolling back “disparate impact" claims, the Trump administration is reducing courts to mere rubber stamps for the white supremacy written into the laws.
www.contrabandcamp.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I wrote about how the Trump administration won’t let Black people use MATH to prove racism exists.
Apparently, only white self-reporting their own racism now counts as evidence of racism.
Apparently, only white self-reporting their own racism now counts as evidence of racism.
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"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
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This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
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The pilot of a JetBlue flight reported on Friday that he narrowly avoided colliding with a U.S. military aircraft over the Caribbean after an Air Force refueling tanker passed in front of the commercial plane without broadcasting its position, according to air traffic control radio communications.
U.S. Military Plane and JetBlue Flight Nearly Collided Over Caribbean, Radio Traffic Shows
The Air Force refueling tanker was flying without its location transponder activated and could not be detected by air traffic control.
nyti.ms
December 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The pilot of a JetBlue flight reported on Friday that he narrowly avoided colliding with a U.S. military aircraft over the Caribbean after an Air Force refueling tanker passed in front of the commercial plane without broadcasting its position, according to air traffic control radio communications.
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How much of a wretch is anti-vax hoaxer and defrocked doctor Andrew Wakefield? Well, He was judged "guilty of some 30 charges, including four counts of dishonesty and 12 of causing children to be subjected to invasive procedures that were clinically unjustified."
www.bmj.com/content/342/... #autism
www.bmj.com/content/342/... #autism
How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money
In the second part of a special BMJ series, Brian Deer reveals a secret scheme to raise huge sums from a campaign, launched at a London medical school, that claimed links between MMR, autism, and bowe...
www.bmj.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
How much of a wretch is anti-vax hoaxer and defrocked doctor Andrew Wakefield? Well, He was judged "guilty of some 30 charges, including four counts of dishonesty and 12 of causing children to be subjected to invasive procedures that were clinically unjustified."
www.bmj.com/content/342/... #autism
www.bmj.com/content/342/... #autism
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
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Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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Did we really need another tiny violin profile of our most corrupt, delusional mayor who still
maintains he was heaven sent? Why do sick, self-dealing people like him get columns’ worth of ink to try to redeem their reputations @nytimes.com? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/n...
maintains he was heaven sent? Why do sick, self-dealing people like him get columns’ worth of ink to try to redeem their reputations @nytimes.com? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/n...
Eric Adams Swaggered Into City Hall, and Now He’s Swaggering Out
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Did we really need another tiny violin profile of our most corrupt, delusional mayor who still
maintains he was heaven sent? Why do sick, self-dealing people like him get columns’ worth of ink to try to redeem their reputations @nytimes.com? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/n...
maintains he was heaven sent? Why do sick, self-dealing people like him get columns’ worth of ink to try to redeem their reputations @nytimes.com? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/n...
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LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...