Rebecca Smith
@8760.bsky.social
Working to lead challenging conversations around renewable energy development, decarbonization, and equity. #energytwitter refugee. Born at 331 ppm.
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🧵This is a terrifyingly real concern and I want people to understand that fully uniformed cops sexually assault women and girls all the time.
ACLU: "One study found that, over a 10-year period, a police officer was caught committing sexual abuse or sexualized misconduct at least every five days."
ACLU: "One study found that, over a 10-year period, a police officer was caught committing sexual abuse or sexualized misconduct at least every five days."
Jacobs: As a young woman myself, I’m really concerned about someone coming up to you in plain clothes, saying they’re a member of law enforcement, showing no identification, and you’re just supposed to submit.
July 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
🧵This is a terrifyingly real concern and I want people to understand that fully uniformed cops sexually assault women and girls all the time.
ACLU: "One study found that, over a 10-year period, a police officer was caught committing sexual abuse or sexualized misconduct at least every five days."
ACLU: "One study found that, over a 10-year period, a police officer was caught committing sexual abuse or sexualized misconduct at least every five days."
Bah hahahaha!
Forbes: The Qataris have been trying to get rid of that ostentatious luxury jet for five years, but no one would buy it. It costs too much to fly, costs more to maintain, and needs too big a landing strip. They had another one they unloaded on Turkey.
Delicious.
www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...
Delicious.
www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...
Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump
The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.
www.forbes.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Bah hahahaha!
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From the Department of Things Columbia Could Have Done
READ THE COMPLAINT: Harvard sues the Trump administration for its attempts to "coerce and control" the university in violation of the First Amendment, the APA, etc. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
April 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
From the Department of Things Columbia Could Have Done
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A new dam on the Klabava River south of Prague to protect critical habitat hit bureaucratic delays…but a colony of beavers took things into their own paws, building a series of dams in the same locations the engineers had planned, creating a wetland that saved the Czech govt 1.2M euros.
Read more:
Read more:
Critters taking climate action
Beavers are saving the day, but amphibians can’t take the heat—and how bird watching is a climate action
www.talkingclimate.ca
April 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A new dam on the Klabava River south of Prague to protect critical habitat hit bureaucratic delays…but a colony of beavers took things into their own paws, building a series of dams in the same locations the engineers had planned, creating a wetland that saved the Czech govt 1.2M euros.
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Hearing yet again that EERE and OCED at US DOE being shut down. While OCED was fairly new and created to implement BIL and IRA, EERE was formed in 1981 as the Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy.
April 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hearing yet again that EERE and OCED at US DOE being shut down. While OCED was fairly new and created to implement BIL and IRA, EERE was formed in 1981 as the Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy.
Only a ghoul like JKR could hear this and suggest John is a sell out arguing in bad faith.
"But the one thing I would ask of you is that you recognize the ugliness of how this issue gets discussed, and how it’s being cynically used by some to advance the eradication of trans people generally."
"But the one thing I would ask of you is that you recognize the ugliness of how this issue gets discussed, and how it’s being cynically used by some to advance the eradication of trans people generally."
April 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Only a ghoul like JKR could hear this and suggest John is a sell out arguing in bad faith.
"But the one thing I would ask of you is that you recognize the ugliness of how this issue gets discussed, and how it’s being cynically used by some to advance the eradication of trans people generally."
"But the one thing I would ask of you is that you recognize the ugliness of how this issue gets discussed, and how it’s being cynically used by some to advance the eradication of trans people generally."
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
I am gutted to hear of Rep. Raúl Grijalva's passing today. He was a real one and gave no quarter to fascists or corporate oligarchs. May he rest in power. 👊
March 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I am gutted to hear of Rep. Raúl Grijalva's passing today. He was a real one and gave no quarter to fascists or corporate oligarchs. May he rest in power. 👊
I feel a bit silly, after the fact, that I didn't see this admin criminalizing Habit for Humanity coming. newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
newrepublic.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I feel a bit silly, after the fact, that I didn't see this admin criminalizing Habit for Humanity coming. newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
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If Congress were to pass a law doing what DOGE is now doing, (1) the head of DOGE would have to be Senate confirmed; (2) by extension, that person would be eligible for impeachment; (3) its actions would have to undergo congressional oversight, including that related to annual appropriations; ...
February 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If Congress were to pass a law doing what DOGE is now doing, (1) the head of DOGE would have to be Senate confirmed; (2) by extension, that person would be eligible for impeachment; (3) its actions would have to undergo congressional oversight, including that related to annual appropriations; ...
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I would say remotely competent historians understand that major events in history are historically shaped by men born into wealth and power and lots of them were idiots. (Caligula: psychopathic dumbass!)
February 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I would say remotely competent historians understand that major events in history are historically shaped by men born into wealth and power and lots of them were idiots. (Caligula: psychopathic dumbass!)
🚨 Remember how we all downloaded and saved as many federal data sets and reports that we could last time around? You want to do that again - hearing from energy folks that things are already dropping off DOE websites. 🚨
January 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
🚨 Remember how we all downloaded and saved as many federal data sets and reports that we could last time around? You want to do that again - hearing from energy folks that things are already dropping off DOE websites. 🚨
Still processing all the terrible news from yesterday, but on the bright side, my new glasses came super fast and my Moo Deng figure.
January 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Still processing all the terrible news from yesterday, but on the bright side, my new glasses came super fast and my Moo Deng figure.
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Article I says Congress makes laws and has power of the purse.
Article II requires POTUS to faithfully execute laws.
Refusing to execute laws so he can usurp Congress’s budgetary authority is unconstitutional.
A self-respecting Congress would do a veto-proof resolution, and if necessary, impeach.
Article II requires POTUS to faithfully execute laws.
Refusing to execute laws so he can usurp Congress’s budgetary authority is unconstitutional.
A self-respecting Congress would do a veto-proof resolution, and if necessary, impeach.
January 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Article I says Congress makes laws and has power of the purse.
Article II requires POTUS to faithfully execute laws.
Refusing to execute laws so he can usurp Congress’s budgetary authority is unconstitutional.
A self-respecting Congress would do a veto-proof resolution, and if necessary, impeach.
Article II requires POTUS to faithfully execute laws.
Refusing to execute laws so he can usurp Congress’s budgetary authority is unconstitutional.
A self-respecting Congress would do a veto-proof resolution, and if necessary, impeach.
Congress approved the funding for clean energy and J40 in BIL and IRA! This is not how this works!
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Congress approved the funding for clean energy and J40 in BIL and IRA! This is not how this works!
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Look, it has been a long four-plus years of Trump being president and ten-plus years of him dominating American politics, but in terms of the breadth of immediate policy impact, I think this might be the most unhinged thing he’s ever done
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Look, it has been a long four-plus years of Trump being president and ten-plus years of him dominating American politics, but in terms of the breadth of immediate policy impact, I think this might be the most unhinged thing he’s ever done
Fed worker rumors on reddit that Black History month (next month) is effectively being shut down - events cancelled, webpages taken down, social media posts throttled.
January 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Fed worker rumors on reddit that Black History month (next month) is effectively being shut down - events cancelled, webpages taken down, social media posts throttled.
Why Project 2025-shaped if not Project 2025?
TIME: “.. nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued so far mirror or partially mirror proposals” from Project 2025 — “the blueprint he once dismissed.”
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Trump's Early Actions Mirror Project 2025
A TIME analysis found that nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued mirror or partially mirror proposals from Project 2025.
time.com
January 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Why Project 2025-shaped if not Project 2025?
Add it to the list of 2025 indignities...
January 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Add it to the list of 2025 indignities...