Greg Nichols
@gnichols8.bsky.social
Climate, New Orleans, progressive politics, music, sports - Broncos, Blazers, Ducks.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.
August 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.
Very proud of the work our team did get this legislation over the finish line and thankful to the @nolacitycouncil.bsky.social for showing leadership at at the local level at a time when national climate efforts are being imperiled!
For @grist.org, my story on New Orleans' long-stalled plan to cut energy use from its largest buildings: grist.org/buildings/in...
Inside New Orleans' plan to fix its energy-hogging buildings
After a 10-year delay, the city passed an ordinance to benchmark its largest buildings in hopes of lowering bills and cutting emissions.
grist.org
July 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Very proud of the work our team did get this legislation over the finish line and thankful to the @nolacitycouncil.bsky.social for showing leadership at at the local level at a time when national climate efforts are being imperiled!
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Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
July 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
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New Orleans aims to cut emissions, energy bills with long-stalled benchmarking law
As thousands of architects and planners flocked to New Orleans in 2014 for the world’s largest sustainable design conference, the city saw a chance to prove it belonged in the green building big leagues. City…
As thousands of architects and planners flocked to New Orleans in 2014 for the world’s largest sustainable design conference, the city saw a chance to prove it belonged in the green building big leagues. City…
New Orleans aims to cut emissions, energy bills with long-stalled benchmarking law
As thousands of architects and planners flocked to New Orleans in 2014 for the world’s largest sustainable design conference, the city saw a chance to prove it belonged in the green building big leagues. City leaders announced at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo that New Orleans would join Minneapolis, Seattle and a vanguard of other cities in developing a program requiring large building owners to track and disclose their energy use. New Orleans’ embrace of “energy benchmarking” drew praise at the conference, with one green building expert declaring that the city was “paving the way” for the rest of the country to follow.
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July 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
New Orleans aims to cut emissions, energy bills with long-stalled benchmarking law
As thousands of architects and planners flocked to New Orleans in 2014 for the world’s largest sustainable design conference, the city saw a chance to prove it belonged in the green building big leagues. City…
As thousands of architects and planners flocked to New Orleans in 2014 for the world’s largest sustainable design conference, the city saw a chance to prove it belonged in the green building big leagues. City…
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Seriously: Who the fuck benefits from this, besides Joe Craft and his coal mining interests and a couple of big gas producers? Republicans are screwing over their constituents, American business interests, and our country's future in an epic way here.
June 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Seriously: Who the fuck benefits from this, besides Joe Craft and his coal mining interests and a couple of big gas producers? Republicans are screwing over their constituents, American business interests, and our country's future in an epic way here.
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
May 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
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we have a secretary of
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness
everything’s fine.
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness
everything’s fine.
May 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
we have a secretary of
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness
everything’s fine.
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness
everything’s fine.
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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
April 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
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Which Congressional Democrat is going to fly to El Salvador to demand the release of the people the Trump regime abducted and forced into concentration camps?
April 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Which Congressional Democrat is going to fly to El Salvador to demand the release of the people the Trump regime abducted and forced into concentration camps?
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The United States of America is a country of laws, freedom of speech, and a beacon that attracts scholars & hard-working immigrants from around the world. At least it _was_ until Team Trump began rapidly dismantling all of that! I'm furious with what they've done to the country I love! 🇺🇸
What the hell is this?! Now all it takes to revoke a person's legally obtained visa is for anyone in the government to arbitrarily decide your exercise of free speech constitutes "creating a ruckus." Then poof: no more visa & the masked security services can abduct you off the street? In America?!!
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The United States of America is a country of laws, freedom of speech, and a beacon that attracts scholars & hard-working immigrants from around the world. At least it _was_ until Team Trump began rapidly dismantling all of that! I'm furious with what they've done to the country I love! 🇺🇸
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[originalist voice] I can't believe that my quarter-baked rulings holding that regulating political spending and prosecuting corruption are unconstitutional have created an out-of-control oligarchy. nobody could have predicted
if you think about it from Roberts or Leo's perspective they had this extremely successful long game of rigging the judiciary to make it possible to pursue reactionary policy without electoral backlash and then Elon gloms onto their senile figurehead out of *nowhere* and starts wrecking shit loudly
the inevitable collision between FedSoc Judicial Supremacy Facism and Elon's Ket Bender DOGE Executive Supremacy Facism is going to be spectacular because they are *not* on the same page about who is supposed to call the shots
March 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
[originalist voice] I can't believe that my quarter-baked rulings holding that regulating political spending and prosecuting corruption are unconstitutional have created an out-of-control oligarchy. nobody could have predicted
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New @nbcnews.com poll
April 2017: 59% of Democrats want to compromise with Trump, 33% say hold the line
March 2025: 65% of Democrats say to hold the line against Trump, 32% want to compromise
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
April 2017: 59% of Democrats want to compromise with Trump, 33% say hold the line
March 2025: 65% of Democrats say to hold the line against Trump, 32% want to compromise
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
March 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
New @nbcnews.com poll
April 2017: 59% of Democrats want to compromise with Trump, 33% say hold the line
March 2025: 65% of Democrats say to hold the line against Trump, 32% want to compromise
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
April 2017: 59% of Democrats want to compromise with Trump, 33% say hold the line
March 2025: 65% of Democrats say to hold the line against Trump, 32% want to compromise
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
March 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
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🌎Do you know which country is most responsible for #climate change?
Explore the data from #ClimateWatch➡️ bit.ly/41JR6ga
Explore the data from #ClimateWatch➡️ bit.ly/41JR6ga
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🌎Do you know which country is most responsible for #climate change?
Explore the data from #ClimateWatch➡️ bit.ly/41JR6ga
Explore the data from #ClimateWatch➡️ bit.ly/41JR6ga
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“All along the plan was Project 2025,” says Chris Hayes on Senate Republicans confirming Russell Vought, a key author of Project 2025, to lead the Trump administration’s powerful budget office.
‘The MAGA master plan’: Project 2025 architect confirmed as Trump budget chief
YouTube video by MSNBC
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February 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“All along the plan was Project 2025,” says Chris Hayes on Senate Republicans confirming Russell Vought, a key author of Project 2025, to lead the Trump administration’s powerful budget office.
First they came for USAID…
Willing to allow Trump to ignore Congress, impound funds, and eliminate agencies - all of which is wildly illegal - to save their fire for the really serious battles.
Very serious Democratic strategists advise the party to allow Trump to illegally dismantle USAID -- a decision that will result in the unnecessary deaths of people around the world.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
February 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
First they came for USAID…
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Fuck you Democrats for being too timid to play hardball. If this were Mitch McConnell, he would have used every ploy and play to fuck our shit up. Now it’s almost fucking too late. Goddamn you fucking weak willed people. Use whatever tools. Be prepared go to jail.
February 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Fuck you Democrats for being too timid to play hardball. If this were Mitch McConnell, he would have used every ploy and play to fuck our shit up. Now it’s almost fucking too late. Goddamn you fucking weak willed people. Use whatever tools. Be prepared go to jail.
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There's a lot of petty, mean stuff in the administration's actions, much of which will harm people on the ground. But the big stuff is the effort to fundamentally reallocate governmental authority—over impoundment; the civil service; etc.
And Congress isn't sitting idly by; it's cheering him on.
And Congress isn't sitting idly by; it's cheering him on.
January 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
There's a lot of petty, mean stuff in the administration's actions, much of which will harm people on the ground. But the big stuff is the effort to fundamentally reallocate governmental authority—over impoundment; the civil service; etc.
And Congress isn't sitting idly by; it's cheering him on.
And Congress isn't sitting idly by; it's cheering him on.
The last 12 days have been an appalling threat to a functional government and society. Yes, swing at every pitch thrown by these fascists.
I really can’t wrap my head around congressional Democrats’ response to the past 12 days of crises. It reeks of pathetic capitulation. Trump is asserting dictatorial powers of absolute control over the entire government and the reaction is “we don’t swing at every pitch”? An appalling abdication.
February 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The last 12 days have been an appalling threat to a functional government and society. Yes, swing at every pitch thrown by these fascists.
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Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
January 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.