Sarah Dougherty
@sarahdougherty.bsky.social
Economist focused on strategies to solve and survive climate change. Current @nrdc, former ATL Federal Reserve. e-bike evangelist. Atlanta, GA.
Muted my first word ever on Bluesky: Nuzzi. She does not need any extra attention and eyeballs, even on negative commentary about her. Any attention gives her relevancy she does not deserve. . Delighted to have her out of my feed.
November 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Muted my first word ever on Bluesky: Nuzzi. She does not need any extra attention and eyeballs, even on negative commentary about her. Any attention gives her relevancy she does not deserve. . Delighted to have her out of my feed.
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I always learn from @davekarpf.bsky.social . His response to the NYT piece on the Sierra Club is very enlightening, not just (or even especially) as media criticism, but more as a discussion of civic associations and progressive advocacy at this moment. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Every generation gets to recreate the environmental movement to suit its own purposes
Some big-picture reactions to a recent NYT piece
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I always learn from @davekarpf.bsky.social . His response to the NYT piece on the Sierra Club is very enlightening, not just (or even especially) as media criticism, but more as a discussion of civic associations and progressive advocacy at this moment. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
And lots of people don’t even realize how much transportation is costing them, or that we could do it differently: make streets more walkable and bike-able.
Transportation costs are the second largest burden on American family budgets (17%), after housing (33%)!
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
And lots of people don’t even realize how much transportation is costing them, or that we could do it differently: make streets more walkable and bike-able.
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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Trump relentlessly boasts he’s brought gasoline prices way down. The truth is they’re still slightly higher year on year and have spent almost all of 2025 solidly higher.
Somehow no one in media ever corrects him.
Somehow no one in media ever corrects him.
November 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Trump relentlessly boasts he’s brought gasoline prices way down. The truth is they’re still slightly higher year on year and have spent almost all of 2025 solidly higher.
Somehow no one in media ever corrects him.
Somehow no one in media ever corrects him.
That is a lot of loans 60+ days behind on car loan repayments.
(Reuters) - The share of subprime borrowers at least 60 days behind on their auto loans rose to 6.65% in October, the highest level on record, according to Fitch Ratings data going back to the early 1990s.
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
That is a lot of loans 60+ days behind on car loan repayments.
Not good. Politically motivated. Boooo.
Atlanta Fed President Bostic says he'll leave position when his term expires in February www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/a...
Atlanta Fed President Bostic says he'll leave position when his term expires in February www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/a...
Atlanta Fed President Bostic says he'll leave position when his term expires in February
Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic said Wednesday he will be leaving his position when his term expires in February.
www.cnbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Not good. Politically motivated. Boooo.
Atlanta Fed President Bostic says he'll leave position when his term expires in February www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/a...
Atlanta Fed President Bostic says he'll leave position when his term expires in February www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/a...
Whoa. I did not realize just how big the swing in VA House was!
Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Whoa. I did not realize just how big the swing in VA House was!
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Are you an Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) enrollee? Have your monthly premiums increased?
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/47tEo8n
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/47tEo8n
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Are you an Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) enrollee? Have your monthly premiums increased?
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/47tEo8n
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/47tEo8n
Certainly not a life goal of mine, fighting really hard to make sure people cannot eat.
It's unbelievable how hard this administration is fighting to keep millions of Americans hungry.
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Certainly not a life goal of mine, fighting really hard to make sure people cannot eat.
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WOLFERS: “.. I can’t tell you why the president lies, but I can tell you that everything he has said about prices being lower is a lie. .. I’m starting to think that he doesn’t actually care about the cost of living.”
@justinwolfers.bsky.social @svdate.bsky.social
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
WOLFERS: “.. I can’t tell you why the president lies, but I can tell you that everything he has said about prices being lower is a lie. .. I’m starting to think that he doesn’t actually care about the cost of living.”
@justinwolfers.bsky.social @svdate.bsky.social
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
@justinwolfers.bsky.social @svdate.bsky.social
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Want more business leaders to see this! We can have more car free spaces AND more commercial activity. Seems no brainer in a time of many other challenging choices
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Want more business leaders to see this! We can have more car free spaces AND more commercial activity. Seems no brainer in a time of many other challenging choices
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JUST IN: USDA informs states they will comply with court order and release SNAP funds as court battle drags out. Funds could be available as soon as today.
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
JUST IN: USDA informs states they will comply with court order and release SNAP funds as court battle drags out. Funds could be available as soon as today.
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🌀 As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season winds down, join CCNow and @climatecentral.org for a special press briefing highlighting how climate change pushed this season’s storms into record-breaking territory... 🧵
Talking Shop: How Climate Change Fueled the Historic 2025 Hurricane Season — Covering Climate Now
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season winds down, join Covering Climate Now and Climate Central for a special press briefing highlighting how climate change pushed this season’s storms into record-bre...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🌀 As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season winds down, join CCNow and @climatecentral.org for a special press briefing highlighting how climate change pushed this season’s storms into record-breaking territory... 🧵
Quite the shift here in GA, running on the truth about affordability.
Georgia Republicans say they’d be foolish not to heed the lessons of the PSC races, when Democrats didn’t just run up the score in liberal strongholds. They outperformed their party’s 2024 presidential vote share in all but two of Georgia’s 159 counties.
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Quite the shift here in GA, running on the truth about affordability.
Spending less on a dying technology makes good business sense. Too bad the US is not investing for the future, just trying to hold on to a past that will never come back.
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Spending less on a dying technology makes good business sense. Too bad the US is not investing for the future, just trying to hold on to a past that will never come back.
Not lowest recently, near lowest EVER. And recent big drops. People are not feeling confident, well, unless you are rich and then your sentiment might have gone up.
Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown
A University of Michigan sentiment survey showed a decline of 6.2% on the month and about 30% from a year ago.
www.cnbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Not lowest recently, near lowest EVER. And recent big drops. People are not feeling confident, well, unless you are rich and then your sentiment might have gone up.
Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
Delighted that my tax dollars are working hard to make sure people DO NOT get food. 😞 (sarcasm, to be crystal clear. Would like my tax dollars to feed people here and around the world)
Trump administration mounts a legal fight to ensure Americans who need food aid won't get it.
JUST IN: Trump administration files emergency stay motion at 1st Circuit, seeking to block judge's order to pay full SNAP benefits for November. DOJ says the ruling 'makes a mockery of the separation of powers.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Delighted that my tax dollars are working hard to make sure people DO NOT get food. 😞 (sarcasm, to be crystal clear. Would like my tax dollars to feed people here and around the world)
Just because we don’t have the full employment data does not mean it is not bad
Had the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly nonfarm payrolls report for October, economists surveyed by Dow Jones expect it would have shown a decline of 60,000 jobs and an unemployment rate increase to 4.5%.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/s...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/s...
Shutdown means another missed jobs report Friday. Here's what it probably would have shown
Jobs Friday won't be happening again this week as the record-long government shutdown has resulted in a lack of official data.
www.cnbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just because we don’t have the full employment data does not mean it is not bad
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
Agree
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Agree
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$39 a year folks. Thats what killing 600,000 to date will save you.
Would it be nice to live on a world where every country with the means worked to make the world a better place?
Yes. Of course.
In the meantime if you say preventing the deaths of millions isn’t worth $3 a month, fuck you.
Would it be nice to live on a world where every country with the means worked to make the world a better place?
Yes. Of course.
In the meantime if you say preventing the deaths of millions isn’t worth $3 a month, fuck you.
I dunno. I do like our government spending less money anywhere they can. I like even more if my taxes go down as a result. Since when is our job to be the world’s mom and dad? Did other countries step up to fill that gap?
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
$39 a year folks. Thats what killing 600,000 to date will save you.
Would it be nice to live on a world where every country with the means worked to make the world a better place?
Yes. Of course.
In the meantime if you say preventing the deaths of millions isn’t worth $3 a month, fuck you.
Would it be nice to live on a world where every country with the means worked to make the world a better place?
Yes. Of course.
In the meantime if you say preventing the deaths of millions isn’t worth $3 a month, fuck you.
💯. Horrific and we must stand together to stop this and many other atrocities by ICE. Despicable
Mother speaks out after ICE raids #Chicago day care center.
“They are coming for all our children!”
#immigration
“They are coming for all our children!”
#immigration
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
💯. Horrific and we must stand together to stop this and many other atrocities by ICE. Despicable