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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger
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My name is Tristan Cohen, I live in DC and work at the Federal Energy Commission mostly on Eastern US issues.
Too many solutions to executive (or judicial) overreach is impeachment -- which doesn't work when your legislature wants the other branches to do all the work, and when holding your side politically accountable pays zero political dividends. Better to white knuckle through.
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Solutions:

1. Work with states and regional planners to streamline the process for developing & IXing new resources quickly.

2. Depending on the state's situation, look at changes to retail rate structures or regulate wholesale payments to gen

3. I can't say due to FERC ex parte rules.
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
1. First time we've seen sharp demand growth in over a decade mostly due to data centers and to a lesser degree electrification.

2. Old (mostly junky) resources retiring for economic and regulatory reasons.

3. Policies/regulations that don't let us build new gen and TX quickly.
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Anti-trade, skeptical on immigration, a lot of parochial concerns benefiting white farm owners, pro-expensive universal healthcare, possibly even pro-union ...
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
How do they intend to build it in under 20 years without bankrupting everyone involved?
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
but from just a "managing employees successfully" standpoint -- Bloomberg blows almost everyone in the country out of the water and Wilson has less experience than a manager at a Chili's.

My prediction as always is that Wilson will do a bad job bc it's a hard job that most everyone does poorly.
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If nothing else, 20+ years of a weak economy created an entire generation of hiring managers who are used to easy pickings bc of a weak labor market. An entire generation of financial and business types whose business models rely on interest rates that are near zero, etc, etc.
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It is fairly obvious that Trump is engineering a recession, Ds want a recession to cause Trump to lose, that a major component of our plans for managing the electrical grid is a recession, that our housing affordability plan is a recession ...
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The location of major media outlets has distorted the discussion on housing (and immigration). Housing affordability is not a major problem in economically depressed regions away from superstar cities. Jobs and medical care availability, etc are.
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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What makes a banana republic a banana republic is not any prosecution of the outgoing administration, but baseless, politically motivated prosecution. There is a whole literature which teaches that, if crimes against the public order occurred, failing to prosecute them hastens democratic decline.
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Lead was really bad, but my pet theory is that all the nascent serial killers are now mass shooters or ICE agents.
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Fair 'nuff.
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Real George Sambor in Philly vibes!
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM