Sarah Dougherty
@sarahdougherty.bsky.social
Economist focused on strategies to solve and survive climate change. Current @nrdc, former ATL Federal Reserve. e-bike evangelist. Atlanta, GA.
Whoa. I did not realize just how big the swing in VA House was!
Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Whoa. I did not realize just how big the swing in VA House was!
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Are you an Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) enrollee? Have your monthly premiums increased?
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/47tEo8n
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/47tEo8n
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Are you an Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) enrollee? Have your monthly premiums increased?
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/47tEo8n
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/47tEo8n
Certainly not a life goal of mine, fighting really hard to make sure people cannot eat.
It's unbelievable how hard this administration is fighting to keep millions of Americans hungry.
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Certainly not a life goal of mine, fighting really hard to make sure people cannot eat.
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WOLFERS: “.. I can’t tell you why the president lies, but I can tell you that everything he has said about prices being lower is a lie. .. I’m starting to think that he doesn’t actually care about the cost of living.”
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November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
WOLFERS: “.. I can’t tell you why the president lies, but I can tell you that everything he has said about prices being lower is a lie. .. I’m starting to think that he doesn’t actually care about the cost of living.”
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Want more business leaders to see this! We can have more car free spaces AND more commercial activity. Seems no brainer in a time of many other challenging choices
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Want more business leaders to see this! We can have more car free spaces AND more commercial activity. Seems no brainer in a time of many other challenging choices
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JUST IN: USDA informs states they will comply with court order and release SNAP funds as court battle drags out. Funds could be available as soon as today.
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
JUST IN: USDA informs states they will comply with court order and release SNAP funds as court battle drags out. Funds could be available as soon as today.
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🌀 As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season winds down, join CCNow and @climatecentral.org for a special press briefing highlighting how climate change pushed this season’s storms into record-breaking territory... 🧵
Talking Shop: How Climate Change Fueled the Historic 2025 Hurricane Season — Covering Climate Now
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season winds down, join Covering Climate Now and Climate Central for a special press briefing highlighting how climate change pushed this season’s storms into record-bre...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🌀 As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season winds down, join CCNow and @climatecentral.org for a special press briefing highlighting how climate change pushed this season’s storms into record-breaking territory... 🧵
Quite the shift here in GA, running on the truth about affordability.
Georgia Republicans say they’d be foolish not to heed the lessons of the PSC races, when Democrats didn’t just run up the score in liberal strongholds. They outperformed their party’s 2024 presidential vote share in all but two of Georgia’s 159 counties.
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Quite the shift here in GA, running on the truth about affordability.
Spending less on a dying technology makes good business sense. Too bad the US is not investing for the future, just trying to hold on to a past that will never come back.
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Spending less on a dying technology makes good business sense. Too bad the US is not investing for the future, just trying to hold on to a past that will never come back.
Not lowest recently, near lowest EVER. And recent big drops. People are not feeling confident, well, unless you are rich and then your sentiment might have gone up.
Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown
A University of Michigan sentiment survey showed a decline of 6.2% on the month and about 30% from a year ago.
www.cnbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Not lowest recently, near lowest EVER. And recent big drops. People are not feeling confident, well, unless you are rich and then your sentiment might have gone up.
Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
Delighted that my tax dollars are working hard to make sure people DO NOT get food. 😞 (sarcasm, to be crystal clear. Would like my tax dollars to feed people here and around the world)
Trump administration mounts a legal fight to ensure Americans who need food aid won't get it.
JUST IN: Trump administration files emergency stay motion at 1st Circuit, seeking to block judge's order to pay full SNAP benefits for November. DOJ says the ruling 'makes a mockery of the separation of powers.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Delighted that my tax dollars are working hard to make sure people DO NOT get food. 😞 (sarcasm, to be crystal clear. Would like my tax dollars to feed people here and around the world)
Just because we don’t have the full employment data does not mean it is not bad
Had the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly nonfarm payrolls report for October, economists surveyed by Dow Jones expect it would have shown a decline of 60,000 jobs and an unemployment rate increase to 4.5%.
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Shutdown means another missed jobs report Friday. Here's what it probably would have shown
Jobs Friday won't be happening again this week as the record-long government shutdown has resulted in a lack of official data.
www.cnbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just because we don’t have the full employment data does not mean it is not bad
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
Agree
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Agree
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$39 a year folks. Thats what killing 600,000 to date will save you.
Would it be nice to live on a world where every country with the means worked to make the world a better place?
Yes. Of course.
In the meantime if you say preventing the deaths of millions isn’t worth $3 a month, fuck you.
Would it be nice to live on a world where every country with the means worked to make the world a better place?
Yes. Of course.
In the meantime if you say preventing the deaths of millions isn’t worth $3 a month, fuck you.
I dunno. I do like our government spending less money anywhere they can. I like even more if my taxes go down as a result. Since when is our job to be the world’s mom and dad? Did other countries step up to fill that gap?
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
$39 a year folks. Thats what killing 600,000 to date will save you.
Would it be nice to live on a world where every country with the means worked to make the world a better place?
Yes. Of course.
In the meantime if you say preventing the deaths of millions isn’t worth $3 a month, fuck you.
Would it be nice to live on a world where every country with the means worked to make the world a better place?
Yes. Of course.
In the meantime if you say preventing the deaths of millions isn’t worth $3 a month, fuck you.
💯. Horrific and we must stand together to stop this and many other atrocities by ICE. Despicable
Mother speaks out after ICE raids #Chicago day care center.
“They are coming for all our children!”
#immigration
“They are coming for all our children!”
#immigration
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
💯. Horrific and we must stand together to stop this and many other atrocities by ICE. Despicable
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Maybe a long shot but if anyone is going to be even tangentially involved in the negotiations at COP30 in Brazil and is willing to answer a quick question or two (anonymously if you prefer!), please reach out, Signal is davelevitan.26 or my email is easy to find.
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Maybe a long shot but if anyone is going to be even tangentially involved in the negotiations at COP30 in Brazil and is willing to answer a quick question or two (anonymously if you prefer!), please reach out, Signal is davelevitan.26 or my email is easy to find.
💯. Got induction because of air quality inside our home and climate benefits, but now I like it so much better for cooking. Like, I don’t ever want a gas stove again. Ever.
Faster, safer, cleaner, and easier: This is why you should consider switching to an induction stove. www.reviewed.com/ovens/featur...
Induction cooking—here's why you should make the switch
Induction cooking is superior to gas and electric in many ways.
www.reviewed.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
💯. Got induction because of air quality inside our home and climate benefits, but now I like it so much better for cooking. Like, I don’t ever want a gas stove again. Ever.
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SCOTUS is hearing case against Trump's tariffs. Listen along! I'll offer some thoughts as we go along.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
SCOTUS is hearing case against Trump's tariffs. Listen along! I'll offer some thoughts as we go along.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.
This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"
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November 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.
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November 1, 1965 – “Fortune” magazine covers carbon dioxide build-up
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November 1, 1965 - “Fortune” magazine covers carbon dioxide build-up - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty years ago, on this day, November 1st, 1965, Fortune magazine flags climate change in an article called “We can afford clean air” by Edmund K. Faltemeyer. “The tremendous rise in worldwide use o...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
November 1, 1965 – “Fortune” magazine covers carbon dioxide build-up
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Phew. Short term crisis for over 40 million Americans averted for now.
SNAP benefits must continue despite shutdown, judge tells Trump administration www.cnbc.com/2025/10/31/s...
SNAP benefits must continue despite shutdown, judge tells Trump administration www.cnbc.com/2025/10/31/s...
SNAP benefits must continue despite shutdown, judge tells Trump administration
The Justice Department argued that the food stamp program, which feeds more than 40 million Americans, effectively did not exist anymore due to the shutdown.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Phew. Short term crisis for over 40 million Americans averted for now.
SNAP benefits must continue despite shutdown, judge tells Trump administration www.cnbc.com/2025/10/31/s...
SNAP benefits must continue despite shutdown, judge tells Trump administration www.cnbc.com/2025/10/31/s...