David Sacerdote
@davidsacerdote.bsky.social
Software engineer.
Mostly talk climate and related politics.
Mostly talk climate and related politics.
Helicopter that doesn't show up on flightradar24 circling over south Palo Alto. No idea what's going on.
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Helicopter that doesn't show up on flightradar24 circling over south Palo Alto. No idea what's going on.
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"Oil demand and emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere by 10%, as the production of plastics and other chemicals surged."
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
"Oil demand and emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere by 10%, as the production of plastics and other chemicals surged."
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
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Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
This is what they want to take from us by building ever-more oil extraction infrastructure
wapo.st/4p1sRTx
wapo.st/4p1sRTx
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This is what they want to take from us by building ever-more oil extraction infrastructure
wapo.st/4p1sRTx
wapo.st/4p1sRTx
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For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again.
Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
Fire The Consultants
The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems.
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...
www.burnsnotice.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again.
Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
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“...DHS is ignoring its own certification process and treating Real IDs as suspect. ...DHS is placing more weight on its profile of how an undocumented worker looks than it places on the fact that someone has an ID issued exclusively to people who have proved their legal status.”
I'm in WaPo today explaining why the administration's profiling of people for immigration stops based on their ethnicity and occupation is unconstitutional:
wapo.st/43W3haf
wapo.st/43W3haf
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“...DHS is ignoring its own certification process and treating Real IDs as suspect. ...DHS is placing more weight on its profile of how an undocumented worker looks than it places on the fact that someone has an ID issued exclusively to people who have proved their legal status.”
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Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
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It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.
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Just in time for #COP30, here's my new @carnegieendowment.org piece on the arc of green industrial policy from 2000 through the Biden era. My takeaway on lessons learned from the trenches: don't overpromise, and do be honest about tradeoffs. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
From Green Jobs to Bidenomics: The Arc of Green Industrial Policy
Energy transition is as important as ever—despite the current administration’s disruptive approach to U.S. energy production.
carnegieendowment.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Just in time for #COP30, here's my new @carnegieendowment.org piece on the arc of green industrial policy from 2000 through the Biden era. My takeaway on lessons learned from the trenches: don't overpromise, and do be honest about tradeoffs. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
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I waited a day to say this bc I respected everyone's right to vent some anger, but *remember to focus on what you can do*. Whether it's defending your community, taking action around what you've been venting about, whatever — but don't let all of your energy get captured in the social media space.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I waited a day to say this bc I respected everyone's right to vent some anger, but *remember to focus on what you can do*. Whether it's defending your community, taking action around what you've been venting about, whatever — but don't let all of your energy get captured in the social media space.
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Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
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These lease sales are required under the Big Beautiful Bill. The last Cook Inlet sale in 2022 was mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act; that one was overturned under the national environmental policy act. Now we’ll see what happens with a weaker NEPA. www.marinelog.com/offshore/boe...
BOEM moves ahead on Gulf of America and Cook Inlet offshore lease sales
Helping Maritime Professionals Make Informed Decisions
www.marinelog.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
These lease sales are required under the Big Beautiful Bill. The last Cook Inlet sale in 2022 was mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act; that one was overturned under the national environmental policy act. Now we’ll see what happens with a weaker NEPA. www.marinelog.com/offshore/boe...
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The other thing Kathy Hochul did on Friday afternoon: reversed the denial of an air quality permit to a fracked gas-powered BitCoin facility on shoreline of Seneca Lake.
www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/11/08/n...
www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/11/08/n...
New York reverses course, grants Greenidge new air permit amid fierce backlash | Fingerlakes1.com
New York State has approved a new five-year Title V Air Permit for Greenidge Generation in Dresden, ending years of litigation and reopening a fierce political and environmental battle over the future...
www.fingerlakes1.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The other thing Kathy Hochul did on Friday afternoon: reversed the denial of an air quality permit to a fracked gas-powered BitCoin facility on shoreline of Seneca Lake.
www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/11/08/n...
www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/11/08/n...
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Lots of folks correctly calling this racist, sexist, Nazi, etc.
But also, this MAGA Republican economy sucks shit for people who look exactly like this! They’re lying to young white men that fascism will benefit them, when their policies are designed to make them serf laborers for billionaires.
But also, this MAGA Republican economy sucks shit for people who look exactly like this! They’re lying to young white men that fascism will benefit them, when their policies are designed to make them serf laborers for billionaires.
If your patriotism relies on racial exclusion, it’s a problem. Labor Department social media campaign depicts an all White male workforce .
“The point of this is to recapture a sense of social and national solidarity that’s been lost over the past generation”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Lots of folks correctly calling this racist, sexist, Nazi, etc.
But also, this MAGA Republican economy sucks shit for people who look exactly like this! They’re lying to young white men that fascism will benefit them, when their policies are designed to make them serf laborers for billionaires.
But also, this MAGA Republican economy sucks shit for people who look exactly like this! They’re lying to young white men that fascism will benefit them, when their policies are designed to make them serf laborers for billionaires.
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Also, I had no idea?! "Hospitals are notorious for their greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for around 5% of emissions globally."
America's first all-electric hospital is opening soon in Orange County. Super cool. laist.com/news/all-ele...
The first all-electric hospital in the US will soon open in Irvine
It’s part of what the hospital says is a 'healthcare without harm' model.
laist.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Also, I had no idea?! "Hospitals are notorious for their greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for around 5% of emissions globally."
Besides being cheap calories, pasta is, to put it mildly, a culturally important food for lot of us. Making it unaffordable is unacceptable.
Gift link has a view count limit.
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Gift link has a view count limit.
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Besides being cheap calories, pasta is, to put it mildly, a culturally important food for lot of us. Making it unaffordable is unacceptable.
Gift link has a view count limit.
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Gift link has a view count limit.
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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"The most effective way to resist the authoritarian takeover of our democracy is to make it clear to companies partnering with authoritarians that there will always be consequences for such business relationships." - @barely.live #BoycottTmobile #teslatakedown ✊
www.commondreams.org/opinion/boyc...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/boyc...
Defending Democracy Starts With Your Phone Plan: Why I Cut Ties With T-Mobile | Common Dreams
The most effective way to resist the authoritarian takeover of our democracy is to make it clear to companies partnering with authoritarians that there will always be consequences for such business r...
www.commondreams.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"The most effective way to resist the authoritarian takeover of our democracy is to make it clear to companies partnering with authoritarians that there will always be consequences for such business relationships." - @barely.live #BoycottTmobile #teslatakedown ✊
www.commondreams.org/opinion/boyc...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/boyc...
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"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
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The installed capacity of carbon capture and storage is about 50 megatonnes per annum of carbon, but it actually captures about 30 a year
Have been hunting for this number for a LONG time - buried in a DNV CCS report ->
brandcentral.dnv.com/original/gal...
Have been hunting for this number for a LONG time - buried in a DNV CCS report ->
brandcentral.dnv.com/original/gal...
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The installed capacity of carbon capture and storage is about 50 megatonnes per annum of carbon, but it actually captures about 30 a year
Have been hunting for this number for a LONG time - buried in a DNV CCS report ->
brandcentral.dnv.com/original/gal...
Have been hunting for this number for a LONG time - buried in a DNV CCS report ->
brandcentral.dnv.com/original/gal...
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Gas stoves emit methane, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulates at levels known to contribute to asthma and cardiovascular disease.
🧪 NEW STUDY: The annual indoor health cost of a single gas stove = $5,258
A big part this is from childhood asthma.
www.zmescience.com/medicine/gas...
🧪 NEW STUDY: The annual indoor health cost of a single gas stove = $5,258
A big part this is from childhood asthma.
www.zmescience.com/medicine/gas...
Gas Stoves Are Slowly Poisoning Homes and Cost Families Over 5,000 Dollars a Year in Hidden Health Effects
That "clean" gas stove? It's costing you a fortune in health.
www.zmescience.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Gas stoves emit methane, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulates at levels known to contribute to asthma and cardiovascular disease.
🧪 NEW STUDY: The annual indoor health cost of a single gas stove = $5,258
A big part this is from childhood asthma.
www.zmescience.com/medicine/gas...
🧪 NEW STUDY: The annual indoor health cost of a single gas stove = $5,258
A big part this is from childhood asthma.
www.zmescience.com/medicine/gas...
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It got overshadowed by the pipeline news, but NYS’s deal to allow Greenidge Generation to keep operating an upstate gas plant *for the sole purpose of mining bitcoin* might be almost as big of a reversal gothamist.com/news/upstate...
Upstate NY Bitcoin mine agrees to slash emissions, will get air permit from the state
The move comes days after Hochul’s administration paved the way for a new natural gas pipeline in New York Harbor.
gothamist.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It got overshadowed by the pipeline news, but NYS’s deal to allow Greenidge Generation to keep operating an upstate gas plant *for the sole purpose of mining bitcoin* might be almost as big of a reversal gothamist.com/news/upstate...
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So proud of my daughter, @katemacfarlane.bsky.social, who has been helping organize this project to distribute whistles that can alert immigrants and neighbors about ICE raids. Get your whistle and share with your friends at @wawhistles.bsky.social 1/
Seattle Neighbors Build Whistle Kits to Protect Immigrants From ICE share.google/Hrx677HzfH3v...
"ICE relies on shock tactics and moving in very quickly … it turns [an] otherwise pretty silent abduction into a loud, highly visible opportunity for neighbors to rally."
@wawhistles.bsky.social
"ICE relies on shock tactics and moving in very quickly … it turns [an] otherwise pretty silent abduction into a loud, highly visible opportunity for neighbors to rally."
@wawhistles.bsky.social
A Fistful of Loud: Seattle Neighbors Build Whistle Kits to Protect Immigrants From ICE
A grassroots whistle project helps neighbors warn each other of ICE activity and stand up for immigrant safety together in South Seattle.
share.google
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So proud of my daughter, @katemacfarlane.bsky.social, who has been helping organize this project to distribute whistles that can alert immigrants and neighbors about ICE raids. Get your whistle and share with your friends at @wawhistles.bsky.social 1/