James Campbell
@jameshkc.bsky.social
Analytics & AI leader at Kantar (prev. Mavens of London). Montreal, Minnesota, and Brooklyn.
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Get ready for soaring electricity prices as the brakes are applied to 80-90% of the interconnection queue.
Huge: An internal Interior Department memo that I’ve reviewed shows the agency may soon subject *any* activities related to wind and solar to heightened levels of political review.
It threatens to delay renewables projects across the country, including those not on federal lands.
#greensky
It threatens to delay renewables projects across the country, including those not on federal lands.
#greensky
Internal Agency Memo Calls for Political Reviews of Solar, Wind Projects
The widely circulating document lists more than 68 activities newly subject to upper-level review.
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July 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Get ready for soaring electricity prices as the brakes are applied to 80-90% of the interconnection queue.
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Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer
Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer
July 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Alex Kydd
Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer
Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer
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look, it’s just a fired prosecutor and an inexplicable tape gap. since when has that ever indicated anything
July 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
look, it’s just a fired prosecutor and an inexplicable tape gap. since when has that ever indicated anything
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This is the sort of smoking gun connection between a decision and outcome that gets people fired in a normal government
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
July 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This is the sort of smoking gun connection between a decision and outcome that gets people fired in a normal government
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It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
July 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
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Shock announcement: NC Senator Thom Tillis just announced he is retiring, less than 24 hours after he opposed starting debate on his party’s mega bill.
His seat is up in 2026, and having it be an open seat sure changes the calculus and Democratic chances of flipping it.
His seat is up in 2026, and having it be an open seat sure changes the calculus and Democratic chances of flipping it.
June 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Shock announcement: NC Senator Thom Tillis just announced he is retiring, less than 24 hours after he opposed starting debate on his party’s mega bill.
His seat is up in 2026, and having it be an open seat sure changes the calculus and Democratic chances of flipping it.
His seat is up in 2026, and having it be an open seat sure changes the calculus and Democratic chances of flipping it.
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poll after poll shows that Trump's big bill is very unpopular
June 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
poll after poll shows that Trump's big bill is very unpopular
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Absolutely outrageous. 😡
June 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Absolutely outrageous. 😡
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*Democratic Party hastily commissions a study to figure out why so many people preferred the attractive, energetic, charismatic guy with the fun name to the disgraced vampire*
June 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
*Democratic Party hastily commissions a study to figure out why so many people preferred the attractive, energetic, charismatic guy with the fun name to the disgraced vampire*
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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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This is a pretty important point!
The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
June 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is a pretty important point!
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“Firing back”
Gotta wonder about the value and wisdom of "there is a shopping cart on fire" news updates in the paper of record
June 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“Firing back”
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In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children
June 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children
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Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.
May 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.
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Sen. Chris Murphy to NBC on Democratic opposition to the GOP mega-bill: "What we're standing in the way of is the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the rich in the history of the country."
May 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Sen. Chris Murphy to NBC on Democratic opposition to the GOP mega-bill: "What we're standing in the way of is the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the rich in the history of the country."
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.
RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria
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May 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.
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NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
May 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
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I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.
May 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.
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Trump cuts Energy Star program that saved households $450 a year - https://www.theverge.com/news/662847/trump-ending-energy-star-program-could-cost-homeowners-450-annually
Trump cuts Energy Star program that saved households $450 a year
Trump’s war on energy regulation claims another victim
www.theverge.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Trump cuts Energy Star program that saved households $450 a year - https://www.theverge.com/news/662847/trump-ending-energy-star-program-could-cost-homeowners-450-annually
Actually brilliant. Genuinely great metaphor
idea: public opinion is microwavable*
*thermostatic and broadly heats up in opposition to current leadership, but also unevenly and among unpredictable pockets of issues and segments of the population
*thermostatic and broadly heats up in opposition to current leadership, but also unevenly and among unpredictable pockets of issues and segments of the population
May 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Actually brilliant. Genuinely great metaphor
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