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Khoi Huynh
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YES: water birds, show tunes, nice fonts, The Crystal Palace, Boba (Fett and/or tea), local journalism, libraries, woodpeckers, 50s kitchens, British folk, cold brew w/ oat milk, crosswords, topical playlists, pagan holidays

NO: gas-powered leaf blowers
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volts.wtf
Some simple moral clarity. Our country is run, and our public life is dominated by, wicked people.

I wish there were a party -- or christ, just a substantial faction of Americans -- who stood up for love, compassion, & decency with the same vigor these fucking ghouls celebrate murder.
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
I took inventory. It looked good.
In 2025 We Showed Up: Notes on Resistance to the Regime
Ayoung white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope speaking up again and again for immigrants. Furious judges dressing down the Trump administration and...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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canarymedia.com
Zohran Mamdani will take on a New York City where recurring floods and building emissions are among a laundry list of climate challenges.
NYC’s next mayor Zohran Mamdani has a big climate policy to-do list
The mayor-elect did not talk a lot about climate change on the campaign trail. But the city has major electrification plans that he can help accelerate.
www.canarymedia.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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canarymedia.com
This startup thinks it’s solved heat pumps’ installation cost problem. Here’s how:
This startup says it can halve the cost of a heat pump — here’s how
The Vancouver-based Jetson has a simple cost-cutting formula: lots of tech, no middlemen. Today, it’s launching its own heat pump product.
www.canarymedia.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
Important.
jonasnahm.com Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · Sep 12
1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering.

www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database
www.netzeropolicylab.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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abdulelsayed.bsky.social
My dad took a bet on an America that is big enough for all of us.
September 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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abdulelsayed.bsky.social
We need to be absolutely clear: there’s science and then there’s whatever brainworm ideology RFK Jr. is trying to inflict on us. It’s reckless and it’s disgusting. I stand with CDC leaders refusing to bend the knee to Trump and RFK Jr.
August 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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volts.wtf
You thought AI was a cool technological development, but ... have you heard about heating up sand?
The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland
Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...
newatlas.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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volts.wtf
Induction stoves are quieter, cooler, and produce less toxic pollution than gas. On the other hand, they also cook better, as a growing number of professional chefs recognize.
With Induction Stoves, Chefs Discover a Foolproof Path to Perfection
From Michelin kitchens to home wok burners, induction delivers consistency that gas can’t match.
www.bloomberg.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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mzjacobson.bsky.social
Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater

www.zmescience.com/ecology/japa... @zmescience.bsky.social
Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater
A renewable energy source that runs day and night, powered by salt and fresh water.
www.zmescience.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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volts.wtf
"They would rather do work assignments individually than in a group, despise playing team sports, and find the shared traditions or rituals of communal life – office parties, graduation ceremonies, even religious holidays – difficult and even baffling."

Hi. 👋
Don’t like joining in? Why it could be your superpower
Some people spend their lives feeling out of place in groups – but this tendency comes with unique opportunities
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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stephanewithane.bsky.social
Want some fresh mental oxygen? Read this from @billmckibben.bsky.social " Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world." www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
August 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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canarymedia.com
Coffee has a big emissions impact, but this Minneapolis shop is making your morning cup a little more climate-friendly with its all-electric coffee roaster.
Meet Minnesota’s electric coffee roasting pioneers
Minneapolis-based Coffeewomple is one of the first U.S. roasters to use a commercial-scale electric coffee roaster, navigating higher costs for climate…
www.canarymedia.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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volts.wtf
I've always found it incredibly telling that one of the sites the right wing hates the most is Media Matters, which literally does nothing but parrot their own words back at them.
June 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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fixthenews.com.web.brid.gy
301: The Fifth Monotreme
Payangko! Plus, the High Seas Treaty inches closer, a ton of new marine protected areas, global child labour is falling, great news on reproductive rights in England and Wales, and for the first time ever - the south pole of the Sun.
fixthenews.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
A short video about Juneteenth:
What is Juneteenth and Why Does it Matter: A Short History | Journey to American Democracy
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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June 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
I like this selection. From the essay on aunthood and the pandemic-era Auntie Sewing Squad in my new anthology.
paigevryan.bsky.social Paige Ryan @paigevryan.bsky.social · Jun 19
Rebecca Solnits “No Straight Road Takes You There” is currently keeping me sane.

Read for good perspective on solidarity, mutual aid, community, and pleasure/leisure’s ability to be a safety net.
Picture of a page in a book that reads: They formed a group they named Common Ground and chose as their slogan "Solidarity not charity," a phrase inspired by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano's statement "I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people." Picture of a page in a book that reads: “To put it more directly, what is mutual in mutual aid is not in the goods and services delivered; it's in the underlying belief in the deep connections between those who give and those who receive. It is a deep belief in and commitment to inseparability: that my well-being is inseparable from yours and that, in caring for yours, I care for myself and, more than that, for the larger whole that is us, because we are in this together. That is, we are not mutual because of the exchange of aid; we aid each other because we are already mutual. The word mutual is often used in this context to mean sym-metrical, as in a symmetrical exchange, a relationship of reciproc-ity, but mutual aid in the sense that ASS and Common Ground practice it isn't exactly this kind of mutual. It is more like the other meaning of the word what we have in common before and beyond exchange: mutual friends, mutual feelings, a mutual fate.” Picture of a page in a book that reads: “This means recognizing the indirect, long-term, and incalculable benefits of actions. One source of my thinking is anthropologist David Graeber's writing on debt, in which he notes that the old idea was that traditional societies bartered, awkwardly, until money smoothed the transactions. He makes the case that, instead, goods and services circulated in complex ways that knit people together as a community; the transactions were never finished in the way that a cash transaction is, and neither were the relationships. Money is, in his telling, specifically a way to terminate a connection, while the other models of circulation strengthened and perpetuated the connections.” Picture of a page in a book that reads: Organizations spring up suddenly—but, to use a fungal met-aphor, just as mushrooms are only the visible, fruiting bodies of the larger fungus that was long there, underground, so emergent disaster mutual aid often arises out of networks that have long ex-isted. In ordinary times, those organizations may exist for other reasons—as church groups or friendship networks; in extraordinary times, it turns out that the pleasure and leisure produced a safety net that can catch us when things fall apart. In those times of crisis, these networks often expand suddenly in ways that matter afterward. Other times, an emergent organization is like spores on the wind that may land in new places, sowing new life.
June 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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abdulelsayed.bsky.social
OPEIU nurses are fighting for better working conditions in the face of employers trying to squeeze them for profit. But nurses’ working conditions are OUR healthcare conditions. They’re fighting for us.

I spoke to one here:
June 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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abdulelsayed.bsky.social
I'm running for U.S. Senate.

Because in the state that built the American Dream, it shouldn't be this hard to get by.

Join me: abdulforsenate.com/go
April 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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mzjacobson.bsky.social
There is no "National Energy Emergency," only a climate and air pollution health emergency caused by fossil fuels.

Just completed my expert testimony.

THESE KIDS FOUGHT THE CLIMATE CRISIS IN COURT. NOW THEY’RE TAKING ON TRUMP
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
These Kids Fought the Climate Crisis in Court. Now They're Taking on Trump
Lighthiser v. Trump takes aim at three of President Trump’s executive orders.
www.rollingstone.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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mzjacobson.bsky.social
Stop saying it can't be done.

Can you imagine 74 straight days in 2025 with >100% WindWaterSolar on the California ISO grid?

Well it has happened.

Plus 115 of 147 (78%) days in 2025 have experienced >100% WWS, for an average of 4.9 h/day among all 147 days.
May 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
Just in general: colleges and universities are one of the best things about America. Smart people trying to pass on what they know to the next generation. This is good.
May 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love.

Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below!

We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚
A list of the most effective ways an individual can catalyze change at the scale we need to effectively tackle climate change, based on social science.
January 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM