Rick Coelho (he/him)
@rickcoelho.bsky.social
Father, activist, rural renewable energy siting advocate, radio DJ, hockey player, photographer, music lover, book lover, and lover of food. Flyers, Phillies, Badgers. Proudly Madison, WI.
"It is darkest before the dawn."
*Opinions are my own*
"It is darkest before the dawn."
*Opinions are my own*
Related: @bandcamp.com, why you skimp on your broadband bills?
I don't know if it is the cause or not, but I do blame my ADHD for my "Gotta have them all" collector impulse.
Ehh, I guess it could be worse.
Ehh, I guess it could be worse.
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Related: @bandcamp.com, why you skimp on your broadband bills?
I don't know if it is the cause or not, but I do blame my ADHD for my "Gotta have them all" collector impulse.
Ehh, I guess it could be worse.
Ehh, I guess it could be worse.
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I don't know if it is the cause or not, but I do blame my ADHD for my "Gotta have them all" collector impulse.
Ehh, I guess it could be worse.
Ehh, I guess it could be worse.
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This has so many quotable phrases and its so damn awesome, stop what you are doing and watch it please.
Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
This has so many quotable phrases and its so damn awesome, stop what you are doing and watch it please.
Can’t pardon this away.
NEW: The Nevada Supreme Court has revived the criminal case against the Trump 2020 fake electors, ruling that AG Ford was correct to bring the case in Clark County. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Can’t pardon this away.
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Another way to reduce electricity prices? Shifting from for-profit, investor-owned monopoly utilities to municipal utilities or member-owned co-operatives would save about 15% on electricity bills, averaged over locations and customer classes.
8. For-profit utilities charge 14% more (13.3 c/kWh, 2023 average) than cities (11.7 c/kWh) and 16% more than rural coops (11.5 c/kWh). This trend is accelerating: For-profit utility prices rose 2.7 c/kWh from 2019-2023, 225% more than cities (1.2 c/kWh) and 270% more than coops (1 c/kWh).
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Another way to reduce electricity prices? Shifting from for-profit, investor-owned monopoly utilities to municipal utilities or member-owned co-operatives would save about 15% on electricity bills, averaged over locations and customer classes.
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Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.
7. Residential customers - aka you and me, aka voters - pay 28% more (16.5 c/kWh, 2024 average) than commercial customers (12.9 c/kWh) and 201% more than industrial (8.2 c/kWh). This trend is accelerating: Residential prices rose 27% from 2019-2023, vs. 21% for commercial and 19% for industrial.
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.
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At this point we have to assume that if the Epstein files are released they will
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
Trump has done enormous harm to the country.
He is a deeply corrupt and venal man.
He is wildly unpopular, his agenda more so. He's lost the consent of the governed.
He is old, infirm & clearly no longer mentally competent to run a nation.
It is time now to start talking about him moving on👇
He is a deeply corrupt and venal man.
He is wildly unpopular, his agenda more so. He's lost the consent of the governed.
He is old, infirm & clearly no longer mentally competent to run a nation.
It is time now to start talking about him moving on👇
Growing list of reasons Trump should step down:
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
At this point we have to assume that if the Epstein files are released they will
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
Excited to go with the family to see two IIHF World Juniors games in Minneapolis.
Definitely a bit more expensive than I would have thought but should be a good time and a unique experience.
Checking out Latvia vs. Canada and Czechs vs Denmark. Hoping some international fans will be there.
Definitely a bit more expensive than I would have thought but should be a good time and a unique experience.
Checking out Latvia vs. Canada and Czechs vs Denmark. Hoping some international fans will be there.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Excited to go with the family to see two IIHF World Juniors games in Minneapolis.
Definitely a bit more expensive than I would have thought but should be a good time and a unique experience.
Checking out Latvia vs. Canada and Czechs vs Denmark. Hoping some international fans will be there.
Definitely a bit more expensive than I would have thought but should be a good time and a unique experience.
Checking out Latvia vs. Canada and Czechs vs Denmark. Hoping some international fans will be there.
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I think there’s a non zero chance Epstein helped Russia blackmail Trump. Would tie everything together in a nice little bow
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I think there’s a non zero chance Epstein helped Russia blackmail Trump. Would tie everything together in a nice little bow
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The New York Times had this information about Epstein and Trump a year before the 2016 election, and said "but her emails is a more interesting topic."
It was misogyny—the publication actively helped derail Hillary Clinton's campaign—but it really does look like catch and kill, too.
It was misogyny—the publication actively helped derail Hillary Clinton's campaign—but it really does look like catch and kill, too.
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The New York Times had this information about Epstein and Trump a year before the 2016 election, and said "but her emails is a more interesting topic."
It was misogyny—the publication actively helped derail Hillary Clinton's campaign—but it really does look like catch and kill, too.
It was misogyny—the publication actively helped derail Hillary Clinton's campaign—but it really does look like catch and kill, too.
American bishops reminding me why I have nothing to do with the church anymore.
“U.S. Catholic bishops elected Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley as their new president on Tuesday, choosing a conservative culture warrior to lead during President Donald Trump’s second term.” … 1/ apnews.com/article/us-c...
US Catholic bishops select conservative culture warrior to lead them during Trump’s second term
U.S. Catholic bishops have elected Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley as their new president, choosing a conservative culture warrior to lead during President Donald Trump’s second term.
apnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
American bishops reminding me why I have nothing to do with the church anymore.
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Do not under any circumstance hand your phone to law enforcement.
Apple launches a Digital ID and says it’ll be accepted by the TSA
Apple launches a Digital ID and says it’ll be accepted by the TSA
A new way to present your ID.
buff.ly
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Do not under any circumstance hand your phone to law enforcement.
Epstein Files gonna shake the tree HARD.
Let’s see what the fallout is.
Let’s see what the fallout is.
🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Epstein Files gonna shake the tree HARD.
Let’s see what the fallout is.
Let’s see what the fallout is.
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Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.
We lose public education, we lose the long game, the short game, the whole goddamn game, people.
"Should the school privatization agenda succeed, our education systems would be beyond all recognition—exponentially more stratified, segregated, and sectarianized than they are now, further balkanizing an already bitterly divided nation."
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.
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The Uninhabitable United States
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Uninhabitable United States
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New at Can We Still Govern: The IRS is a key agency and its decline is emblematic of Trump-era mismanagement.
@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Eliis Chen lay out the questions that Democrats should be asking its new leader.
Incredibly informative piece.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...
@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Eliis Chen lay out the questions that Democrats should be asking its new leader.
Incredibly informative piece.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...
Five Questions for IRS CEO Frank Bisignano
The IRS has a new leader – maybe he can tell us whats happening
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
New at Can We Still Govern: The IRS is a key agency and its decline is emblematic of Trump-era mismanagement.
@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Eliis Chen lay out the questions that Democrats should be asking its new leader.
Incredibly informative piece.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...
@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Eliis Chen lay out the questions that Democrats should be asking its new leader.
Incredibly informative piece.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...
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Hmm
🚀 NOTICE: Federal US website newly registered.
https://trumpaccounts.gov
Action taken by the Department of the Treasury at or around 2025-11-12 06:13:07.
https://trumpaccounts.gov
Action taken by the Department of the Treasury at or around 2025-11-12 06:13:07.
trumpaccounts.gov
Federal US website registered. Content may not be visible yet.
trumpaccounts.gov
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Hmm
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I need all you people to understand that the world of clean energy politics in rural America is the wild wild West
(4/11) At the same time, across the Hudson River, a mirror-image political dynamic was playing out. In the Town of Ulster, a Republican Supervisor and Rep. board majority were supporting a battery facility, and Dems were running against it, trying to use the issue to flips the board blue.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I need all you people to understand that the world of clean energy politics in rural America is the wild wild West
Of course we have cloud cover here in Madison for Aurora night.
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Of course we have cloud cover here in Madison for Aurora night.
This is the “to be read” stack of books on my nightstand.
My name is Rick and I have a problem.
(Also, thoughts on what I should read next?)
My name is Rick and I have a problem.
(Also, thoughts on what I should read next?)
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is the “to be read” stack of books on my nightstand.
My name is Rick and I have a problem.
(Also, thoughts on what I should read next?)
My name is Rick and I have a problem.
(Also, thoughts on what I should read next?)
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Former President Obama greets Wisconsin veterans on Badger Honor Flight
www.wkow.com/news/to... #wipolitics
www.wkow.com/news/to... #wipolitics
Former President Obama greets Wisconsin veterans on Badger Honor Flight
MADISON (WKOW) — Eighty-eight Wisconsin veterans received a memorable surprise on Saturday when former President Barack Obama greeted them on their Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.
www.wkow.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Former President Obama greets Wisconsin veterans on Badger Honor Flight
www.wkow.com/news/to... #wipolitics
www.wkow.com/news/to... #wipolitics
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Senator Johnson just voted to have *you* pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars for a routine collection of records.
Senate Republicans secured a provision in the government funding package that could award Republican senators hundreds of thousands of dollars for having their phone records collected — a routine, normal process — during the Jack Smith investigation. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Thune secures provision in government funding bill letting senators sue for phone records seizure
The new legislative language is an escalation of the GOP’s efforts to discredit former special counsel Jack Smith.
www.politico.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Senator Johnson just voted to have *you* pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars for a routine collection of records.
Charlie Berens bringing his comedy magic to the fight against data centers.
The substantive argument is there, wrapped in laughs.
The substantive argument is there, wrapped in laughs.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Charlie Berens bringing his comedy magic to the fight against data centers.
The substantive argument is there, wrapped in laughs.
The substantive argument is there, wrapped in laughs.
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.