Aidan Bassett
@aidanbassett.bsky.social
Energy-obsessed policy wonk | Oregon Director, @fminus.bsky.social | J.D., Georgetown Law
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The Roadless Rule is one of the most critical policies that helps defend our forests. The Trump administration is proposing to rescind it, but we have until Friday, September 19 to speak up. Submit your comment today.
Tell the Trump administration to keep this landmark conservation rule in place
Protect forests from massive expansion of logging
earthjustice.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The Roadless Rule is one of the most critical policies that helps defend our forests. The Trump administration is proposing to rescind it, but we have until Friday, September 19 to speak up. Submit your comment today.
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Antonio Gracias’ firm manages funds where public union workers’ pensions are invested. How can he fulfill his fiduciary responsibilities while also working at DOGE to fire workers, infiltrate Social Security and support their mass deportation agenda?
AFL-CIO Report: Is DOGE’s Antonio Gracias Mishandling Retiree Investments?
Elon Musk’s replacement is busy with mass deportation, while simultaneously running an investment firm managing public union pension funds.
prospect.org
July 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Antonio Gracias’ firm manages funds where public union workers’ pensions are invested. How can he fulfill his fiduciary responsibilities while also working at DOGE to fire workers, infiltrate Social Security and support their mass deportation agenda?
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How do America's construction workers feel about this bill?
"The biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country"
"staggering and unfathomable job loss"
"another lifeline and competitive advantage to China"
"critical infrastructure projects ... sacrificed at the altar of ideology"
"The biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country"
"staggering and unfathomable job loss"
"another lifeline and competitive advantage to China"
"critical infrastructure projects ... sacrificed at the altar of ideology"
June 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
How do America's construction workers feel about this bill?
"The biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country"
"staggering and unfathomable job loss"
"another lifeline and competitive advantage to China"
"critical infrastructure projects ... sacrificed at the altar of ideology"
"The biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country"
"staggering and unfathomable job loss"
"another lifeline and competitive advantage to China"
"critical infrastructure projects ... sacrificed at the altar of ideology"
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Why are no Democrat senators placing a blanket hold on any DOE or EPA nominees until the agencies confirm that payments of contractually obligated grants and loans are resuming under regular process? Why would Democrats let any of these people be confirmed under current circumstances?
February 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Why are no Democrat senators placing a blanket hold on any DOE or EPA nominees until the agencies confirm that payments of contractually obligated grants and loans are resuming under regular process? Why would Democrats let any of these people be confirmed under current circumstances?
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I go back and forth between "but the model says we can't solve the whole intermittency problem with batteries" and "maybe the intermittency problem just gets solved with capitalism and batteries".
This is evidence for the latter.
This is evidence for the latter.
California batteries are getting paid to charge at negative midday power prices
November 18, 2024 at 7:34 AM
I go back and forth between "but the model says we can't solve the whole intermittency problem with batteries" and "maybe the intermittency problem just gets solved with capitalism and batteries".
This is evidence for the latter.
This is evidence for the latter.
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The @nytimes.com (or should I say @nytimes.wtf) reporting on the clean energy transition has reached bad parody level. Check this doozy out nytimes.com/2023/11/27/u... Thanks to US policy, solar manufacturing is finally booming in Ameroca. But... something something ... this is clearly bad for Biden
November 28, 2023 at 1:25 AM
The @nytimes.com (or should I say @nytimes.wtf) reporting on the clean energy transition has reached bad parody level. Check this doozy out nytimes.com/2023/11/27/u... Thanks to US policy, solar manufacturing is finally booming in Ameroca. But... something something ... this is clearly bad for Biden
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"100% clean energy makes Oregon more livable for everyone"
www.valleytimes.news/opinion/gues...
www.valleytimes.news/opinion/gues...
OPINION: 100% clean energy makes Oregon more livable for everyone
Clean energy advocates Meredith Connolly and Candace Avalos support Oregon’s moves toward decarbonization.
www.valleytimes.news
November 29, 2023 at 10:51 PM
"100% clean energy makes Oregon more livable for everyone"
www.valleytimes.news/opinion/gues...
www.valleytimes.news/opinion/gues...
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“This is the strongest lead rule that the nation has ever seen,” Radhika Fox, the E.P.A.’s assistant administrator for water, said in an interview. “This is historic progress.”
November 30, 2023 at 4:36 PM
“This is the strongest lead rule that the nation has ever seen,” Radhika Fox, the E.P.A.’s assistant administrator for water, said in an interview. “This is historic progress.”