@joshcinutah.bsky.social
Energy policy, politics, indie rock, mystery novels. Views my own.
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Exactly. Thank you. We need columnists to educate and inform us so we can make the world better. But this rage at the NYT is based on an old belief that reading a column is like taking action. Sadly, it’s not.
July 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Exactly. Thank you. We need columnists to educate and inform us so we can make the world better. But this rage at the NYT is based on an old belief that reading a column is like taking action. Sadly, it’s not.
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2.) winning elections on the state or federal level -- big races in which millions of people vote -- will require doing and saying things that appeal to a broad coalition of people. See: how Kansas defeated an abortion ban. www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/u...
Kansas Votes to Preserve Abortion Rights Protections in Its Constitution (Published 2022)
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
2.) winning elections on the state or federal level -- big races in which millions of people vote -- will require doing and saying things that appeal to a broad coalition of people. See: how Kansas defeated an abortion ban. www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/u...
I agree with most of what @mattyglesias.bsky.social says here. I’m glad that Dems focused on climate change, but the fact that so much of the party just agreed on it, including Joe Manchin (!) was the key reason it was central to Biden’s policy agenda.
I'm on the Ezra Klein Show talking about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is very bad.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/o...
Opinion | The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I agree with most of what @mattyglesias.bsky.social says here. I’m glad that Dems focused on climate change, but the fact that so much of the party just agreed on it, including Joe Manchin (!) was the key reason it was central to Biden’s policy agenda.
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What does the One Big "Beautiful" Bill mean for the US energy transition, household and business energy costs, electricity supplies and emissions? We've published a quick summary report of our findings here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #OBBB
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July 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
What does the One Big "Beautiful" Bill mean for the US energy transition, household and business energy costs, electricity supplies and emissions? We've published a quick summary report of our findings here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #OBBB
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“It went from terrible to bad,” Jason Grumet, head of trade group American Clean Power, said of the Senate-passed legislation. “It’s hard to say I’m psyched about a bill that’s a step back on energy policy, but it’s considerably improved.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Solar Firms Surge as Senate Drops Excise Tax From Trump Bill
The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending bill would soften the blow for wind and solar developers, which had feared a sharp reduction in subsidies that helped spur a renewable p...
www.bloomberg.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“It went from terrible to bad,” Jason Grumet, head of trade group American Clean Power, said of the Senate-passed legislation. “It’s hard to say I’m psyched about a bill that’s a step back on energy policy, but it’s considerably improved.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
July 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
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By raising electric bills and increasing power outages during hurricanes and heat waves, the Big Ugly Bill deserves a new name:
🪫 The Big Blackout Bill 🪫
**sponsored by Big Oil and Gas
🪫 The Big Blackout Bill 🪫
**sponsored by Big Oil and Gas
June 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
By raising electric bills and increasing power outages during hurricanes and heat waves, the Big Ugly Bill deserves a new name:
🪫 The Big Blackout Bill 🪫
**sponsored by Big Oil and Gas
🪫 The Big Blackout Bill 🪫
**sponsored by Big Oil and Gas
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Once again, you’re welcome to believe all is lost and everything is doomed and nothing matters lol but please take it someplace other than my mentions, Eeyore.
June 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Once again, you’re welcome to believe all is lost and everything is doomed and nothing matters lol but please take it someplace other than my mentions, Eeyore.
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It is just INSANE that the GOP is going to tax new solar and wind capacity, as well as a whole bunch of other terrible energy policies in the BBB, when electricity prices have risen 20% since start of 2022, and the grid is ever more fragile.
Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.
Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.
June 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It is just INSANE that the GOP is going to tax new solar and wind capacity, as well as a whole bunch of other terrible energy policies in the BBB, when electricity prices have risen 20% since start of 2022, and the grid is ever more fragile.
Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.
Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.
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Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind.
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
How the Senate GOP’s New Tax on Renewables Could ‘Kill’ the Industry
As bad as previous drafts of the reconciliation bill have been, this one is worse.
heatmap.news
June 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind.
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
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BREAKING: The Senate budget bill will leave up to 17 million uninsured, add 3.9 trillion in debt, and make ICE once of the most funded law enforcement agencies in the entire country.
A final vote is expected on Monday. I have all the latest: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
A final vote is expected on Monday. I have all the latest: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
BREAKING: Senate Budget Bill Will Leave 11.8 Million Uninsured and add 3.9 Trillion to Debt
Good evening, everyone.
open.substack.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
BREAKING: The Senate budget bill will leave up to 17 million uninsured, add 3.9 trillion in debt, and make ICE once of the most funded law enforcement agencies in the entire country.
A final vote is expected on Monday. I have all the latest: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
A final vote is expected on Monday. I have all the latest: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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The latest version of the Senate's BBB is a death sentence for US energy leadership and a giant gift to China.
It eliminates tax cuts for solar that have been around since 2005, adds a new tax on solar after 2027, and creates a new direct subsidy for coal.
It eliminates tax cuts for solar that have been around since 2005, adds a new tax on solar after 2027, and creates a new direct subsidy for coal.
June 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The latest version of the Senate's BBB is a death sentence for US energy leadership and a giant gift to China.
It eliminates tax cuts for solar that have been around since 2005, adds a new tax on solar after 2027, and creates a new direct subsidy for coal.
It eliminates tax cuts for solar that have been around since 2005, adds a new tax on solar after 2027, and creates a new direct subsidy for coal.
Senate Dems, if you’re looking for inspiration…
All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight
A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed
June 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Senate Dems, if you’re looking for inspiration…
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The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
June 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
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This is exactly right. Anyone voting for the spending bill is voting for higher energy bills and blackouts.
If this Senate language on solar passes, I think we’re in a full-blown national energy crisis within 2 years.
Forecasting after the cliff is even worse, but project pipelines will dry up, supply chains will convulse...and cost of new additions will soar. Assuming we can even meet demand growth. 🔌💡
Forecasting after the cliff is even worse, but project pipelines will dry up, supply chains will convulse...and cost of new additions will soar. Assuming we can even meet demand growth. 🔌💡
June 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is exactly right. Anyone voting for the spending bill is voting for higher energy bills and blackouts.
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it’s pretty wild that the nation’s first climate law is headed towards a chainsaw and the only people talking about it here are wonks
June 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
it’s pretty wild that the nation’s first climate law is headed towards a chainsaw and the only people talking about it here are wonks
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"The biggest jobs killing bill in the history of the country"
That is how the North American Building Trades Unions describe the Republican budget bill.
So where are the normally aggressive leaders of the Abundance Movement like @tednordhaus.bsky.social and @thebti.bsky.social?
#energysky
That is how the North American Building Trades Unions describe the Republican budget bill.
So where are the normally aggressive leaders of the Abundance Movement like @tednordhaus.bsky.social and @thebti.bsky.social?
#energysky
June 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"The biggest jobs killing bill in the history of the country"
That is how the North American Building Trades Unions describe the Republican budget bill.
So where are the normally aggressive leaders of the Abundance Movement like @tednordhaus.bsky.social and @thebti.bsky.social?
#energysky
That is how the North American Building Trades Unions describe the Republican budget bill.
So where are the normally aggressive leaders of the Abundance Movement like @tednordhaus.bsky.social and @thebti.bsky.social?
#energysky
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Why are Republicans so insistent on the arbitrary July 4 deadline for reconciliation bill? One reason is Trump.
The other: People will sour on it the longer it sits out there.
“This bill is like yogurt, not wine,” one senator told Semafor.
www.semafor.com/article/06/2...
The other: People will sour on it the longer it sits out there.
“This bill is like yogurt, not wine,” one senator told Semafor.
www.semafor.com/article/06/2...
‘Like yogurt, not wine’: Senate GOP rushes to wrap megabill
Senate Republicans are racing to write language on Medicaid that can both comply with the parliamentary rules and get 50 votes.
www.semafor.com
June 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Why are Republicans so insistent on the arbitrary July 4 deadline for reconciliation bill? One reason is Trump.
The other: People will sour on it the longer it sits out there.
“This bill is like yogurt, not wine,” one senator told Semafor.
www.semafor.com/article/06/2...
The other: People will sour on it the longer it sits out there.
“This bill is like yogurt, not wine,” one senator told Semafor.
www.semafor.com/article/06/2...
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A certain type of guy is so allergic to coalition-building or taking a W that if anyone he deems uncool embraces his preferred candidate, it’s proof of something nefarious or insincere.
June 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A certain type of guy is so allergic to coalition-building or taking a W that if anyone he deems uncool embraces his preferred candidate, it’s proof of something nefarious or insincere.
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what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
June 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
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Truly the party of forced scarcity www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
June 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Truly the party of forced scarcity www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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Medicaid provides health insurance to 77 million people. However, those 77 million people vary A LOT in how much health care they consume.
Here's annual per-enrollee Medicaid spending based on the type of enrollee vs OBBBA bonus to the richest 10%.
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Here's annual per-enrollee Medicaid spending based on the type of enrollee vs OBBBA bonus to the richest 10%.
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June 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Medicaid provides health insurance to 77 million people. However, those 77 million people vary A LOT in how much health care they consume.
Here's annual per-enrollee Medicaid spending based on the type of enrollee vs OBBBA bonus to the richest 10%.
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Here's annual per-enrollee Medicaid spending based on the type of enrollee vs OBBBA bonus to the richest 10%.
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Read the scathing letter a senior staffer for Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith sent to Mike Lee’s office, chiding Lee for joking about the slaying of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband.
www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
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‘Have you no decency?’ Read the scathing letter a Minnesota US Senate staffer sent to Mike Lee
After Utah Sen. Mike Lee promoted right-wing conspiracy theories about the man who killed Melissa Hortman and her husband, a senior staffer for Sen. Tina Smith wrote a blistering email to Lee’s staff.
www.sltrib.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Read the scathing letter a senior staffer for Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith sent to Mike Lee’s office, chiding Lee for joking about the slaying of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband.
www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
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Senator Mike Lee pretended he was on the phone to avoid being confronted by @smith.senate.gov after he mocked assassination victims this weekend. She made sure he heard what she had to say.
June 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Senator Mike Lee pretended he was on the phone to avoid being confronted by @smith.senate.gov after he mocked assassination victims this weekend. She made sure he heard what she had to say.