Kevin
@kevinrmatthews.bsky.social
MA Env Policy Energy & Sustainability. Climate Hawk. YIMBY.
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BREAKING
President Trump has granted a pardon to a slew of Trump world figures, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
President Trump has granted a pardon to a slew of Trump world figures, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
BREAKING
President Trump has granted a pardon to a slew of Trump world figures, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
President Trump has granted a pardon to a slew of Trump world figures, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
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"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
EVs put an end to China's usual holiday surge in gasoline use
Tianyu Jiang took a 2,000-km (1,200-mile) road trip this month during China's national holiday week, driving in his electric vehicle from the southwestern Sichuan basin to Beijing for the first time.
www.reuters.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
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Congratulations to our sister @yimbyaction.bsky.social chapter YIMBY Ft Collins on a giant victory last night where all their endorsed candidates won! Special congratulations to YIMBY Ft Collins lead Chris Conway for winning his ranked choice race on the first ballot beating a NIMBY incumbent!
Our YIMBY Fort Collins Chapter saw endorsed candidates completely sweep all 4 races for Mayor and City Council in Fort Collins, CO. By the way, one of their chapter members won one of these City Council seats (subtle flex) 😏
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Congratulations to our sister @yimbyaction.bsky.social chapter YIMBY Ft Collins on a giant victory last night where all their endorsed candidates won! Special congratulations to YIMBY Ft Collins lead Chris Conway for winning his ranked choice race on the first ballot beating a NIMBY incumbent!
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As I predicted, California flexed its power, definitively.
And it shouldn't stop now: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
And it shouldn't stop now: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It’s time for soft secession
How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
www.motherjones.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
As I predicted, California flexed its power, definitively.
And it shouldn't stop now: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
And it shouldn't stop now: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
New York voters telling their city council, thanks, we don't need you.
Where are we on housing policy this election evening?
—NIMBY NJ Gubernatorial candidate loses decisively.
—Mamdani, promising to pause rent increase & develop 200k affordable units, wins NYC decisively.
—All pro-housing referendums in NYC likely passed.
—Housing funding passed in Columbus & Denver.
—NIMBY NJ Gubernatorial candidate loses decisively.
—Mamdani, promising to pause rent increase & develop 200k affordable units, wins NYC decisively.
—All pro-housing referendums in NYC likely passed.
—Housing funding passed in Columbus & Denver.
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
New York voters telling their city council, thanks, we don't need you.
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The new UNEP report is out with the latest estimates of 2100 warming outcomes under current policies, NDCs, and net-zero targets. Here is how it compares to both the IPCC scenarios and other estimates (CAT and IEA, who will release their own updates soon!).
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The new UNEP report is out with the latest estimates of 2100 warming outcomes under current policies, NDCs, and net-zero targets. Here is how it compares to both the IPCC scenarios and other estimates (CAT and IEA, who will release their own updates soon!).
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Good morning with good news: Global solar deployment keeps smashing records!
About 3X more solar was built in H1 2025 than in all of 2021 and nearly 2X more than in all of 2022!
2025 global new solar (more than 700 GW) will smash the record set in 2024!
www.semafor.com/article/10/3... #energysky
About 3X more solar was built in H1 2025 than in all of 2021 and nearly 2X more than in all of 2022!
2025 global new solar (more than 700 GW) will smash the record set in 2024!
www.semafor.com/article/10/3... #energysky
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Good morning with good news: Global solar deployment keeps smashing records!
About 3X more solar was built in H1 2025 than in all of 2021 and nearly 2X more than in all of 2022!
2025 global new solar (more than 700 GW) will smash the record set in 2024!
www.semafor.com/article/10/3... #energysky
About 3X more solar was built in H1 2025 than in all of 2021 and nearly 2X more than in all of 2022!
2025 global new solar (more than 700 GW) will smash the record set in 2024!
www.semafor.com/article/10/3... #energysky
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Essential research shows that particulate pollution—generated from motor fuels exhaust, tire wear, wildfires, factories, etc—is associated with dementia. More evidence that it is in the interest of public health to reduce pollution. (Gift link)
What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Essential research shows that particulate pollution—generated from motor fuels exhaust, tire wear, wildfires, factories, etc—is associated with dementia. More evidence that it is in the interest of public health to reduce pollution. (Gift link)
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Academics’ and planners’ single-minded focus on making *brand new* homes affordable to the poorest people has been a disaster for poor people’s’ ability to afford housing.
Real grim stuff from a nonprofit staff attorney and former UCSD urban studies lecturer
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Academics’ and planners’ single-minded focus on making *brand new* homes affordable to the poorest people has been a disaster for poor people’s’ ability to afford housing.
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Notice she did not mention the one city that built the most affordable units last year - Austin, TX. And no, we do not mandate affordable units in small projects: www.kut.org/housing/2025...
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Notice she did not mention the one city that built the most affordable units last year - Austin, TX. And no, we do not mandate affordable units in small projects: www.kut.org/housing/2025...
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Maryland is one of the few states where Dems could redraw their House map to respond to GOP gerrymandering.
Every seats on this hypothetical map is at least Harris+10. Contrary to some Dems' concerns, this is possible while *adding* a third majority-Black seat davesredistricting.org/join/fc524d3...
Every seats on this hypothetical map is at least Harris+10. Contrary to some Dems' concerns, this is possible while *adding* a third majority-Black seat davesredistricting.org/join/fc524d3...
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Maryland is one of the few states where Dems could redraw their House map to respond to GOP gerrymandering.
Every seats on this hypothetical map is at least Harris+10. Contrary to some Dems' concerns, this is possible while *adding* a third majority-Black seat davesredistricting.org/join/fc524d3...
Every seats on this hypothetical map is at least Harris+10. Contrary to some Dems' concerns, this is possible while *adding* a third majority-Black seat davesredistricting.org/join/fc524d3...
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Question: But Nick, how can you say there's an AI bubble?
Answer: Primarily because the current sky-high valuations are based on a digital genie emerging soon that can do anything, such as cure cancer on demand, not on the actual existing tech product selling. But also because of stuff like this:
Answer: Primarily because the current sky-high valuations are based on a digital genie emerging soon that can do anything, such as cure cancer on demand, not on the actual existing tech product selling. But also because of stuff like this:
"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Question: But Nick, how can you say there's an AI bubble?
Answer: Primarily because the current sky-high valuations are based on a digital genie emerging soon that can do anything, such as cure cancer on demand, not on the actual existing tech product selling. But also because of stuff like this:
Answer: Primarily because the current sky-high valuations are based on a digital genie emerging soon that can do anything, such as cure cancer on demand, not on the actual existing tech product selling. But also because of stuff like this:
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Graham Platner’s campaign thought they could silence me by offering me money and calling me a liar in the press.
I was going to let it go.
It has become increasingly clear they are unfamiliar with Maine women.
I was going to let it go.
It has become increasingly clear they are unfamiliar with Maine women.
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Graham Platner’s campaign thought they could silence me by offering me money and calling me a liar in the press.
I was going to let it go.
It has become increasingly clear they are unfamiliar with Maine women.
I was going to let it go.
It has become increasingly clear they are unfamiliar with Maine women.
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Just finished "Beyond Zoning: Hidden Code Barriers to Middle-Scale Housing."
Read this to learn why builders keep putting up McMansions on lots where the zoning allows a fourplex. TLDR: In many towns, hidden code barriers make fourplexes lose money.
www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/...
Read this to learn why builders keep putting up McMansions on lots where the zoning allows a fourplex. TLDR: In many towns, hidden code barriers make fourplexes lose money.
www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/...
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Just finished "Beyond Zoning: Hidden Code Barriers to Middle-Scale Housing."
Read this to learn why builders keep putting up McMansions on lots where the zoning allows a fourplex. TLDR: In many towns, hidden code barriers make fourplexes lose money.
www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/...
Read this to learn why builders keep putting up McMansions on lots where the zoning allows a fourplex. TLDR: In many towns, hidden code barriers make fourplexes lose money.
www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/...
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Really sucks we spent the 2010s zero interest rate decade debating "Housing for Whom?" with the dumbest people on Earth and now that we've finally begun to change some important laws, interest rates are high, there's a tariff on every building material and construction labor is getting deported.
Deportations can reduce the housing construction workforce, leading to fewer units built and higher costs - contrary to claims that they lower prices, according to a sociologist who studies housing. #immigration buff.ly/Dfakz6o
The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant housing policy reflects a long history of xenophobia in public housing
Anti-immigrant housing policies have been cast as a way for citizens to access more housing, but they fail to prevent the shortages driving the crises.
theconversation.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Really sucks we spent the 2010s zero interest rate decade debating "Housing for Whom?" with the dumbest people on Earth and now that we've finally begun to change some important laws, interest rates are high, there's a tariff on every building material and construction labor is getting deported.
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The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟
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Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse?
It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.
It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.
Our new study finds that the upper atmosphere is becoming more sheared and less stratified because of climate change. Both these changes are making the air less stable and more conducive to turbulence.
Published in the November issue of Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
doi.org/10.1175/JAS-...
Published in the November issue of Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
doi.org/10.1175/JAS-...
October 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse?
It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.
It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.
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Good: Jamie Raskin tells me he's formally demanding any/all internal communications between WH and DOJ on Trump's $230 million payoff.
More Dems should talk this way about Trump's criming. He's turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
More Dems should talk this way about Trump's criming. He's turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse
It’s bad enough that Trump wants—and DOJ will likely fork over—this tribute payment. Now, get this: It can probably be done at first without even being revealed publicly.
newrepublic.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Good: Jamie Raskin tells me he's formally demanding any/all internal communications between WH and DOJ on Trump's $230 million payoff.
More Dems should talk this way about Trump's criming. He's turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
More Dems should talk this way about Trump's criming. He's turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
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Insurance now makes up 20% of today's mortgage payment -- up from 8% in the 2000s.
Climate change is worsening the insurance crisis. Some states have solutions
As the homeowners insurance crisis gets worse, some state-led efforts are tackling the problem.
www.usatoday.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Insurance now makes up 20% of today's mortgage payment -- up from 8% in the 2000s.
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1. To opinions! Solar is the cheapest source of bulk electricity in many countries, and the quickest to deploy, and now you couldn't stop it being built if you wanted to. The limits to PV build in most places are grid access, permitting, and sometimes installation labour.
October 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
1. To opinions! Solar is the cheapest source of bulk electricity in many countries, and the quickest to deploy, and now you couldn't stop it being built if you wanted to. The limits to PV build in most places are grid access, permitting, and sometimes installation labour.
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You know it’s bad when the Dept of Labor says immigration raids are “threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”
@opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
October 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
You know it’s bad when the Dept of Labor says immigration raids are “threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”
@opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Remember when they hounded Hillary for years over insufficient email security protocols?
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Remember when they hounded Hillary for years over insufficient email security protocols?