@ptell.bsky.social
@sammyroth.bsky.social Distilled from your piece a few days ago. Find a nice pic and get it out there!
Clean energy is cheaper, healthier and just as reliable as fossil fuels. We don’t need coal - or oil and gas - for long. The lie of “energy dominance” only benefits the few at our expense.
Clean energy is cheaper, healthier and just as reliable as fossil fuels. We don’t need coal - or oil and gas - for long. The lie of “energy dominance” only benefits the few at our expense.
October 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
@sammyroth.bsky.social Distilled from your piece a few days ago. Find a nice pic and get it out there!
Clean energy is cheaper, healthier and just as reliable as fossil fuels. We don’t need coal - or oil and gas - for long. The lie of “energy dominance” only benefits the few at our expense.
Clean energy is cheaper, healthier and just as reliable as fossil fuels. We don’t need coal - or oil and gas - for long. The lie of “energy dominance” only benefits the few at our expense.
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To put this loan amount in perspective:
California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less).
But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.
California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less).
But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.
We’ve been informed by the Governor’s Department of Finance that it won’t agree before our legislative session ends (on Friday) to finalize a $750M bridge loan to Bay Area transit.
This loan was agreed to in our June budget. Without it, BART, Muni, et al will cut service.🧵
This loan was agreed to in our June budget. Without it, BART, Muni, et al will cut service.🧵
September 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
To put this loan amount in perspective:
California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less).
But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.
California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less).
But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.
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MUST-WATCH: This is the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil from the perspective of his wife, who is 8 months pregnant.
This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech.
@nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social
This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech.
@nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
MUST-WATCH: This is the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil from the perspective of his wife, who is 8 months pregnant.
This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech.
@nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social
This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech.
@nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social
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racial discrimination to the trump administration is when you offer admissions to anyone who isn’t white www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Administration Opens Investigations At More Than 50 Universities In Anti-DEI Campaign
“Students must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.
www.huffpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
racial discrimination to the trump administration is when you offer admissions to anyone who isn’t white www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
@anatosaurus.bsky.social
We're making buttons and signs in Berkeley. T-shirts coming!
We're making buttons and signs in Berkeley. T-shirts coming!
March 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@anatosaurus.bsky.social
We're making buttons and signs in Berkeley. T-shirts coming!
We're making buttons and signs in Berkeley. T-shirts coming!
@schumer.senate.gov Your argument that a shutdown would be worse makes no sense. If that's what the White House wants, absolute power during a shutdown, why aren't Republicans voting to shut it down?
March 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
@schumer.senate.gov Your argument that a shutdown would be worse makes no sense. If that's what the White House wants, absolute power during a shutdown, why aren't Republicans voting to shut it down?
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The United States is experiencing a hostile takeover by criminals. If you’re in the media and you’re not depicting it as an extinction-level event for our democracy, you’re failing at your job.
March 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The United States is experiencing a hostile takeover by criminals. If you’re in the media and you’re not depicting it as an extinction-level event for our democracy, you’re failing at your job.
Yes @gavinnewsom.bsky.social , that and what your doing to protect us from the consequences.
Personally I would like @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to use his podcast to discuss what federal cuts will do to California’s schools, parks, businesses, and research institutions—and how he hopes to mitigate.
March 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Yes @gavinnewsom.bsky.social , that and what your doing to protect us from the consequences.
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I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
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This is exactly what they're trying to achieve by destroying government services that benefit the public. A VC-backed startup intervenes to gather data that the National Weather Service was previously collecting, and before we know it, we will be paying them for what was once funded by our taxes.
As Staffing Cuts at NWS Lead to Suspended Weather Balloon Launches in Western Alaska, WindBorne Systems Steps Up to Fill Atmospheric Data Gaps
Following the announcement from the National Weather Service (NWS) that it is suspending its weather balloon launches in Kotzebue, Alaska indefinitely
www.businesswire.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This is exactly what they're trying to achieve by destroying government services that benefit the public. A VC-backed startup intervenes to gather data that the National Weather Service was previously collecting, and before we know it, we will be paying them for what was once funded by our taxes.
@sammyroth.bsky.social Thanks for your work on electricity rates. Matt Stoller has an interesting Substack piece on how privately owned utilities are using regulatory tricks to gain rate increases. I hope you'll look at this: www.thebignewsletter.com/p/power-move...
Power Moves: How Electric Utility Monopolists Broke Their Bargain with America
A new paper shows how a small group of experts have inverted the electric utility model, destroying what was once a reliable set of public service corporations.
www.thebignewsletter.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
@sammyroth.bsky.social Thanks for your work on electricity rates. Matt Stoller has an interesting Substack piece on how privately owned utilities are using regulatory tricks to gain rate increases. I hope you'll look at this: www.thebignewsletter.com/p/power-move...
Thank you, Representative Simon. Americans in every congressional district will be hurt.
Yesterday, I voted against the Republican budget resolution, here's what it would do to residents of my district AND the residents of Speaker Johnson's district.
Republicans are stripping away health care from tens of thousands of children and seniors.
Republicans are stripping away health care from tens of thousands of children and seniors.
February 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Thank you, Representative Simon. Americans in every congressional district will be hurt.
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The story of this first week is corruption. Billionaires seated on the inaugural stage in front of the cabinet, crypto pump and dump, and the illegal firing of IGs. The media is acting like this is too chaotic and bewildering to interpret, but they are just afraid of sounding shrill. It’s corrupt.
January 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The story of this first week is corruption. Billionaires seated on the inaugural stage in front of the cabinet, crypto pump and dump, and the illegal firing of IGs. The media is acting like this is too chaotic and bewildering to interpret, but they are just afraid of sounding shrill. It’s corrupt.
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from @janemayer.bsky.social, on the campaign to intimidate the Senate into confirming an unqualified Defense Secretary Maybe the best article yet written about the tactics the new administration will use to control Congress, the government and the media.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Pressure Campaign to Get Pete Hegseth Confirmed as Defense Secretary
Supporters of Donald Trump’s nominee have intimidated potential witnesses and suppressed the F.B.I. background check of the former Fox News host in the run-up to his Senate hearing.
www.newyorker.com
January 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
from @janemayer.bsky.social, on the campaign to intimidate the Senate into confirming an unqualified Defense Secretary Maybe the best article yet written about the tactics the new administration will use to control Congress, the government and the media.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Thanks for posting- just recirculating.
January 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Thanks for posting- just recirculating.