marc-my-words
@marc-my-words.bsky.social
Bad at writing my own bio, #PostcardsToVoters writer, East Lansing, Michigan
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Not to do the thing again, but hard to imagine how Obama would have made it to year two in office if he raked in billions in year one.
December 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Not to do the thing again, but hard to imagine how Obama would have made it to year two in office if he raked in billions in year one.
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No laptop involved.
Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
December 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
No laptop involved.
"polling also shows a broad public turn toward progressive populism: the kind that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and wealth to our billionaires and to make life’s necessities affordable for the majority of the American people" prospect.org/2025/12/22/h...
A Happy 2025 By-Product: Revulsion at the Rich - The American Prospect
With Trump, Musk, Bezos et al. running amok, progressive economic populism is on the rise. Polling shows a broad public turn toward policy that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"polling also shows a broad public turn toward progressive populism: the kind that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and wealth to our billionaires and to make life’s necessities affordable for the majority of the American people" prospect.org/2025/12/22/h...
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My office has statutory authority to intervene on behalf of ratepayers and I’m sounding the alarm about DTE’s questionable proposal for a 1.4 gigawatt data center.
Michiganders shouldn’t be left wondering if our energy bills will go up to pay for this. We deserve transparency.
Michiganders shouldn’t be left wondering if our energy bills will go up to pay for this. We deserve transparency.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My office has statutory authority to intervene on behalf of ratepayers and I’m sounding the alarm about DTE’s questionable proposal for a 1.4 gigawatt data center.
Michiganders shouldn’t be left wondering if our energy bills will go up to pay for this. We deserve transparency.
Michiganders shouldn’t be left wondering if our energy bills will go up to pay for this. We deserve transparency.
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
I recently bought Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense Deluxe Edition", a 3 disc set with 2 CDs of the film music & extra tracks & a BluRay that's a pure audio Dolby Atmos version of the concert (my TV screen shows the track list). Is this a common practice for concert films or concert recordings?
December 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I recently bought Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense Deluxe Edition", a 3 disc set with 2 CDs of the film music & extra tracks & a BluRay that's a pure audio Dolby Atmos version of the concert (my TV screen shows the track list). Is this a common practice for concert films or concert recordings?
Connecticut Green Bank’s solar "installations are projected to save schools tens of millions of dollars in energy costs, and more than half are in low-income and disadvantaged communities". The bank can fund slow-payback projects that commercial banks won't touch
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
Connecticut’s pioneering model for publicly owned, small-scale solar
The Connecticut Green Bank goes beyond grants and loans to directly develop solar for towns and schools — a model other states could follow.
www.canarymedia.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Connecticut Green Bank’s solar "installations are projected to save schools tens of millions of dollars in energy costs, and more than half are in low-income and disadvantaged communities". The bank can fund slow-payback projects that commercial banks won't touch
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
(Not) Home for Christmas www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/23/n...
(Not) Home for Christmas - emptywheel
I didn’t expect to hear my dad swear about RFK Jr.’s gross mismanagement of HHS. Instead he said something worse.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
(Not) Home for Christmas www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/23/n...
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Big AI companies are moving forward with building massive data centers all across America while calls for moratoriums are growing louder. A local rejection of data centers should have Big Tech worried. From @gurleygg.bsky.social:
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Demands for Data Center Moratoriums Surge - The American Prospect
Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.
trib.al
December 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Big AI companies are moving forward with building massive data centers all across America while calls for moratoriums are growing louder. A local rejection of data centers should have Big Tech worried. From @gurleygg.bsky.social:
trib.al/v6OSgWA
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Coming next month, EFF's discussion about online age verification www.eff.org/event/effect...
EFFecting Change: The Human Cost of Online Age Verification
Age verification mandates are spreading fast, and they’re ushering in a new age of online surveillance, censorship, and exclusion for everyone—not just young people. Age-gating laws generally require ...
www.eff.org
December 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Coming next month, EFF's discussion about online age verification www.eff.org/event/effect...
"As electric vehicles move ever further from niche toward norm, the focus for retailers like these could shift from which one offers the cheapest fuel to which one can make waiting for the car to fill up the best experience." www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-...
Some gas stations revamp to attract EV drivers
Fuel retailers are betting that fast chargers, clean bathrooms, and tasty snacks will draw EV driver.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"As electric vehicles move ever further from niche toward norm, the focus for retailers like these could shift from which one offers the cheapest fuel to which one can make waiting for the car to fill up the best experience." www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-...
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We're paying a high price for Donald Trump's obsession with killing windmills deanbaker22.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump Wants Us to Pay More for Electricity Because He Is Angry at Windmills
Air is cheap, the hot air from Donald Trump is very expensive
deanbaker22.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We're paying a high price for Donald Trump's obsession with killing windmills deanbaker22.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
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This holiday season, give the gift of online privacy. Protect your loved ones from online tracking by helping them install Privacy Badger--a free browser extension from EFF. privacybadger.org/
Privacy Badger
privacybadger.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This holiday season, give the gift of online privacy. Protect your loved ones from online tracking by helping them install Privacy Badger--a free browser extension from EFF. privacybadger.org/
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#OnThisDay in 1931, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley died from pneumonia contracted after walking home in a snowstorm. In 1885, the self-educated farmer from Vermont, using a homemade camera, became the first person to photograph a snow crystal: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd
December 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#OnThisDay in 1931, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley died from pneumonia contracted after walking home in a snowstorm. In 1885, the self-educated farmer from Vermont, using a homemade camera, became the first person to photograph a snow crystal: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd
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2/ read the story that made Stephen Miller sad. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...
How Rep. Dan Goldman’s Office Became a ‘Triage Center’ for ICE Detainees
It began in the spring, when Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) went to...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
2/ read the story that made Stephen Miller sad. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...
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Polling shows considerable revulsion for Trump and his cronies and a rise in favor for progressive populism going into 2026. From Harold Meyerson:
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A Happy 2025 By-Product: Revulsion at the Rich - The American Prospect
With Trump, Musk, Bezos et al. running amok, progressive economic populism is on the rise. Polling shows a broad public turn toward policy that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and wealth to our billionaires and make life’s necessities affordable.
trib.al
December 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Polling shows considerable revulsion for Trump and his cronies and a rise in favor for progressive populism going into 2026. From Harold Meyerson:
trib.al/dcrcyh7
trib.al/dcrcyh7
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I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
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These simple metal rings can turn a multi-day solar panel installation into a half-day, plug-and-play job.
A path to fast, cheap home solar and batteries: go through the meter
New digital meter socket adapters from Tesla and others make home solar, battery, and EV charging installs a snap. But only if utilities let homes use…
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December 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
These simple metal rings can turn a multi-day solar panel installation into a half-day, plug-and-play job.
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CBS is the “see BS” network.
December 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
CBS is the “see BS” network.
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House members keep surrendering power—until they don’t. Last week’s discharge petition showed members still have tools to assert control.
The path to 218 doesn’t have to run through party leadership. It can run through factions assembling majorities when leadership blocks action.
The path to 218 doesn’t have to run through party leadership. It can run through factions assembling majorities when leadership blocks action.
December 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
House members keep surrendering power—until they don’t. Last week’s discharge petition showed members still have tools to assert control.
The path to 218 doesn’t have to run through party leadership. It can run through factions assembling majorities when leadership blocks action.
The path to 218 doesn’t have to run through party leadership. It can run through factions assembling majorities when leadership blocks action.
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Happy first day of winter to all north of the equator! In need of some "backward change of edge" this season? Here's Swedish figure skating champion Bror Myer turning some circles on the ice circa 1921... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/skating-with-bror-myer-1921/ #winter #WinterSolstice
December 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Happy first day of winter to all north of the equator! In need of some "backward change of edge" this season? Here's Swedish figure skating champion Bror Myer turning some circles on the ice circa 1921... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/skating-with-bror-myer-1921/ #winter #WinterSolstice
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the ranch bar sign, crescent, new york, 1983
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
the ranch bar sign, crescent, new york, 1983
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clifton's club harlem sign, atlantic city, new jersey, 1978
December 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
clifton's club harlem sign, atlantic city, new jersey, 1978
"if you want to control waste, you have to force corporations to do it, just like you have to force corporations to do everything you want them to" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/the-...
The Broken Recycling System - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Brett Christophers has an excellent essay at the London Review of Books, going over a number of new books writing about waste and recycling and making the point that the recycling system in hopelessly...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"if you want to control waste, you have to force corporations to do it, just like you have to force corporations to do everything you want them to" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/the-...
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How gas stations can become the best place to charge your EV
How gas stations can become the best place to charge your EV
Fuel retailers are betting that fast chargers, clean bathrooms, and tasty snacks will draw EV drivers — and keep their stations central to how motorists refuel.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
How gas stations can become the best place to charge your EV