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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

If you’re driving around in unmarked cars, wearing masks, and kidnapping people, you’re not one of the good guys.

Joe Daniel @electronecon.bsky.social · 15h

Millionaires will continue to live in NYC for the Lincoln Center, and Broadway, for the Opera, and the Met gala. They will continue to seek the status of living on Central Park West or in Tribeca, or billionaires row.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 16h

Research is clear: millionaire flight due to higher taxes is simply not a thing. Millionaires move *less* than the rest of us and often move from one higher-tax state to another (because of amenities!). prospect.org/2025/10/23/m...

The Myth That Mamdani Will Cause New York City’s Richest to Leave - The American Prospect

Millionaire tax flight would devastate a future Mamdani administration. If the rich leave, how could anything be financed? But research shows that wealthy individuals move at lower rates than others, ...

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 1d

Updating my LEGO White House

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Joe Daniel @electronecon.bsky.social · 3d

In the few contacts I've dug into the price is paid as part of the transportation cost ($) but often reported as an added in the price ($/mmbtu) but would love to know if this is norm or outlier

Simon Mahan @simonmahan.bsky.social · 3d

With natural gas pipeline contracts for electric utilities, if an electric utility signs a more firm pipeline capacity contract, is the firmness of that contract rolled into the retail customers fuel charge, or is it a separate line item paid for by the utility?

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Joe Daniel @electronecon.bsky.social · 8d

That's 0.1%. FWIW, In Illinois nearly 1 and 4 adults has a criminal record (thanks to over policing). You best bet kidnapping random adults to goose up the stats is next.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Joe Daniel @electronecon.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to reading the NYC oped "The rise of pro-hitler young republicans is the fault of Democrats not capitulating enough."

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Joe Daniel @electronecon.bsky.social · 11d

Wedding in sleepy hollow in October... Very fun.
Meeting "Bear" at the local coffee shop... Perfect

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11d

we need to abolish this shit

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Joe Daniel @electronecon.bsky.social · 11d

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David Pomerantz @davidpomerantz.bsky.social · Sep 17

Wild fact from the utility/large-business settlement proposal in FPL’s rate case, via @shelbyisgreen.bsky.social.

Every time I hear a politician describe the pro-monopoly, pro-utility, pro-rate hike position as “pro-business,” a part of me dies inside.

energyandpolicy.org/key-decision...

Excerpt: “Small businesses could face a rate increase of over $75 million next year, three times what FPL proposed in its original plan, while also bearing additional costs created by data centers.”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Sep 5

Today on Volts: traditionally, electricity grids are kept stable by large spinning masses, usually fossil fuel generators. What will ensure stability when the fossil fuels retire? Enter "grid-forming inverters" attached to solar, wind, & batteries. I dig into the tech & the growing market.

How inverters can stabilize a renewables-heavy grid

Daniel Duckwitz and Catarina Augusto explain how we can run stable electricity grids on inverter-based clean energy resources.

www.volts.wtf

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Joe Daniel @electronecon.bsky.social · Sep 15

Despite not having representation at the legislature, and despite my city being turned into a police state, I show up today for jury service.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Sep 6

It's time to wake up!

“Because here in DC we deserve leadership that is better… it is time to put them all on notice.”
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Afeni Edwards, DC Activist.
#FreeDC #WeAreAllDC

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · Sep 6

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

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Joe Daniel @electronecon.bsky.social · Aug 31

People are being disappeared! Crime isn't down.

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · Aug 31

all these media asking democrats 'but crime seems to be down in DC isn't that good'

ARMED MILITARY ON THE STREETS IS NEVER FUCKING GOOD

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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · Aug 30

Our utility wildfire staff attorney, Eric Macomber, wrote a long post summarizing changes to utility liability for wildfire that have occurred across the West this year.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · Aug 31

"As much as I love [gas], I’m never going back to it."

Head chef Jeremy Chan discusses why Ikoyi, a London restaurant with two Michelin stars, uses induction cooking instead of gas burners.

With Induction Stoves, Chefs Discover a Foolproof Path to Perfection

From Michelin kitchens to home wok burners, induction delivers consistency that gas can’t match.

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Catalyst Cooperative @catalyst.coop · Aug 15

The uneconomic coal dispatch work that HCI has funded at @rockymtninst.bsky.social led by @electronecon.bsky.social relies on the bulk FERC & EIA data that we publish through our Public Utility Data Liberation Project (PUDL). #OpenData #EnergySky

David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 13

Today on Volts: "uneconomic dispatch" is when utilities run coal plants even when there are cheaper options, just to justify keeping them open. Based on a bogus Trump reliability report, that practice is about to get much more common, and worse. I talk with an expert.

Trump's latest attempt to save coal

Frank Rambo joins me to discuss the multi-billion-dollar utility practice of running expensive coal plants and the Trump administration's efforts to prop them up.

www.volts.wtf

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 13

Today on Volts: "uneconomic dispatch" is when utilities run coal plants even when there are cheaper options, just to justify keeping them open. Based on a bogus Trump reliability report, that practice is about to get much more common, and worse. I talk with an expert.

Trump's latest attempt to save coal

Frank Rambo joins me to discuss the multi-billion-dollar utility practice of running expensive coal plants and the Trump administration's efforts to prop them up.

www.volts.wtf

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Joe Daniel @electronecon.bsky.social · Aug 17

This work wouldn't be possible without Catalyst Cooperative. Supporting them supports me, RMI, and countless others in our industry trying to use defensible data to inform policies.

Catalyst Cooperative @catalyst.coop · Aug 15

The uneconomic coal dispatch work that HCI has funded at @rockymtninst.bsky.social led by @electronecon.bsky.social relies on the bulk FERC & EIA data that we publish through our Public Utility Data Liberation Project (PUDL). #OpenData #EnergySky

David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 13

Today on Volts: "uneconomic dispatch" is when utilities run coal plants even when there are cheaper options, just to justify keeping them open. Based on a bogus Trump reliability report, that practice is about to get much more common, and worse. I talk with an expert.