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Lalo R
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Motion graphics artist, rookie climate educator and generally in the clouds.
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2023: Pass groundbreaking BPRA climate law with Zohran Mamdani ✅

2025: Elect him the first Ecosocialist mayor in NYC ✅✅

2026: Supercharge the movement for a Green New York ✅✅✅
Grist Can Mamdani supercharge New York’s clean energy revolution? New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani promised power to the people. Clean energy advocates want him to take that literally. New York’s public-renewables campaign “was instrumental in getting Zohran elected,” state Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes said of Mamdani’s primary win that night. They want an expanded public power system, utilities and renewable generation owned and regulated by community stakeholders, not corporations. That campaign, which began in earnest four years ago, was driven by a small group of progressive and socialist legislators in Albany: among them, Zohran Mamdani, who was elected to the assembly in 2020. He has since rallied that same base — experienced canvassers, people used to hiking up six-floor walk-ups and texting their friends to rally for a policy or for a candidate — for his election as mayor. Nonetheless, with a powerful ally about to take office, activists like Johanna Bozuwa, executive director of the Climate and Communities Institute, think now is a “key moment” to push the power authority forward NYPA. With federal tax credits for clean power set to expire in 2027, “they have a real incentive, right now, to move as quickly as they can. If there was ever a moment for them to mobilize as quickly as possible, this is the one to do it.” So, on that brisk September night in Brooklyn, public power activists wanted to use the moment of Mamdani’s win to tell the New York Power Authority to go even further: instead of a 7 gigawatt plan, they wanted 15. Mamdani won’t have a direct hand in how the power authority executes the Build Public Renewables Act, but as mayor of the largest city in the nation, he can shape where and how New York City supports the transition. Much of what he can do resides on the consumer end: not just helping build more public power, but limiting the city’s consumption of it. His administration could require rooftop-solar installations on municipal buildings, align city permitting and zoning with state clean energy priorities, and use his Green Schools plan to advance the agenda. Mamdani can also control the enforcement of Local Law 97, a city mandate that buildings larger than 25,0000 square feet nearly halve their emissions by 2030. For activists, that makes City Hall a crucial partner.
November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Currently a parade of tornado warnings from New Orleans to Nashville.

One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in years is well underway.
a map of the southern united states focusing on the area surrounding Mississippi and Alabama. Several counties are shaded green (flood warning) blue (severe thunderstorm warning) and red (tornado warning)
March 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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jabaribrisport.bsky.social
For decades, the Democratic party has traded away its credibility as a stronghold for working-class people nation-wide. To recover, we need to rapidly – and entirely – divorce our party from the ultra-rich and their corporations.
March 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Don't let Big Oil goons tell you clean energy doesn't exist. (They spell it "we NEED fossil fuels.") Wind and solar made more energy than coal for the 1st time in the US in 2024.

If only we'd been building it since Carter put solar on the White House in 1979. But no, Big Oil would rather murder us.
March 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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jabaribrisport.bsky.social
Being anti-Trump isn’t enough to turn the tide. We have to make our case by passing universal programs, in states Dems control, that radically address working-class issues.

www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
An image of an opinion piece in City & State, New York. "Opinion: Universal child care in NY could save the Democratic Party Let’s show the nation that when Democrats are in power, they pass universal policies that directly improve the lives of working-class people. State Sen. Jabari Brisport speaks at a child care rally in Albany on Jan. 28, 2025. Office of State Sen. Jabari Brisport. By Jabari Brisport | March 8, 2025 05:00 AM ET"
March 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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jabaribrisport.bsky.social
Andrew Cuomo worked with Republicans to systematically defund New York. He is a bully and a creep who’s hoping we’ve forgotten.
We haven’t.
March 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Psst, watch our new short! Exclusive to folks here for a couple of days before we go fully public with it :)

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February 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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cityatlas.bsky.social
Getting our climate and energy board game Energetic into the New York Times was a trip but this is more of an honor: the student newspaper of the Bronx High School of Science
https://thesciencesurvey.com/editorial/2023/07/18/grappling-with-climate-change-through-the-energetic-board-game/
Grappling With Climate Change Through the Energetic Board Game
Imagine being in flames, baking in an oven, spinning in a microwave, or frying on a pan. The heat around us is rocketing, but there is no cooling period, no ice, only endless flames in the distance. T...
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August 20, 2023 at 3:58 PM