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David Littell
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Innovator on clean energy and environmental challenges. Former Maine PUC commissioner; former Maine DEP Commissioner(s), former RGGI chair, officer and founder 2008-2015; chair @BernsteinShur climate group; energy and environmental attorney, expert.
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June 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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I hope none of these Trump advisors are working with numbers in engineering, like a rocket ship carrying astronauts or cars . . .
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 2
This is incredible. The "reciprocal tariffs" were calculated without actually looking at anything to do with tariffs.

This is the most amateur-hour crap you can imagine and it's going to straight tank the global economy.
hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social hi, no thanks @hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social · Apr 2
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Happy to report I was one of those 594,233 GM sales, 3rd EV. While not as efficient as #1 and #2, it nonetheless saves a lot in fuel costs vs. an ICE pickup to haul stuff + range covers my whole large state with limited public chargers in the north and Downeast.
April 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Devasting for the low-income LIHEAP recipients in Maine and New Hampshire + most of the Northeast and northern Midwest.
kwallace.bsky.social Kyle Wallace @kwallace.bsky.social · Apr 1
LIHEAP?! This is unbelievably cruel and shortsighted. Families across the country are still grappling with the impact of inflation on their utility costs and Covid-era challenges, and taking away this assistance is going to put so many more at risk of disconnection.
April 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump). • Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges. • Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side. • A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush. • The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Interesting to compare to the approaches taken by my alma mater, with its $500K/student endowment, and by our public land-grant university, with our $30K/student endowment.
Dear Rutgers Community, Over the last week, the executive branch of the federal government has taken actions that have understandably caused many members of the Rutgers University community to ask questions and express concern. During these uncertain times, know that the University remains profoundly committed to its public mission of research, teaching, and service, and to our students’ success. Yesterday, a memo from the Federal Office of Management and Budget directed all heads of executive departments and agencies to temporarily pause payments on federal grants, loans, and other programs. Details of how this pause will be executed, its legality, and its potential duration remain unclear. The federal government is a critical partner to Rutgers University, with federal funding for student aid, research, and public service initiatives accounting for a substantial part of our university’s budget.... Our guidance from yesterday remains the same. Please send any stop work orders or communication you receive from federal sponsors to xxxx. We will respond to you with guidance. If you have any questions, please forward them to the e-mail address, and the appropriate Office for Research staff member(s) will respond. You should not stop working on any sponsored awards unless you have spoken with and received guidance from your assigned grant specialist. A legal contract governs each sponsored award, and your grant specialist must confirm decisions regarding officially stopping work. Please continue preparing and submitting proposals according to the published agency deadlines in the relevant RFA. The University has contingency plans in place to deal with the pause in payment. You do not need to take any actions unless advised by your grant specialist. We will continue to provide updates as we receive them.
January 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Happy New Year from Lulea, Sweden! Mother nature was magnificent on New Years Eve and the first hour of 2025.
January 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated.

We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
December 13, 2024 at 1:38 PM