Brandon
@darkbrandonvibes.bsky.social
Unapologetic humanist, defend and empower the human.
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My office and a bipartisan coalition are suing Uber for misleading customers and making it difficult to cancel Uber One subscriptions.
Unwanted subscriptions are driving up costs for New Yorkers.
We're suing to stop Uber’s misleading tactics and get people their money back.
Unwanted subscriptions are driving up costs for New Yorkers.
We're suing to stop Uber’s misleading tactics and get people their money back.
December 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
My office and a bipartisan coalition are suing Uber for misleading customers and making it difficult to cancel Uber One subscriptions.
Unwanted subscriptions are driving up costs for New Yorkers.
We're suing to stop Uber’s misleading tactics and get people their money back.
Unwanted subscriptions are driving up costs for New Yorkers.
We're suing to stop Uber’s misleading tactics and get people their money back.
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McKibben’s point is directionally right, even if simplified. Fossil fuels dominate global shipping ton-miles. Electrification + renewables don’t just cut CO₂ — they collapse fuel logistics chains. Energy becomes local. Trade shifts, ships don’t vanish — but power does.⚡ #disruption #EnergyTransition
December 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
McKibben’s point is directionally right, even if simplified. Fossil fuels dominate global shipping ton-miles. Electrification + renewables don’t just cut CO₂ — they collapse fuel logistics chains. Energy becomes local. Trade shifts, ships don’t vanish — but power does.⚡ #disruption #EnergyTransition
Looking for recommendations for solutions to consume a Reddit subreddit as an RSS feed (/r/EconReports/) and post links to the posts posted to a Bluesky account.
December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Looking for recommendations for solutions to consume a Reddit subreddit as an RSS feed (/r/EconReports/) and post links to the posts posted to a Bluesky account.
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House and Senate agree to make draft registration "automatic":
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
"This doesn’t mean that a #draft is being activated — although preparing to do so is sole purpose of SSS. This will, however, move USA closer to a draft than at any time since 1975."
#war #conscription
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
"This doesn’t mean that a #draft is being activated — although preparing to do so is sole purpose of SSS. This will, however, move USA closer to a draft than at any time since 1975."
#war #conscription
![[Excerpt from summary of House-Senate conference report on the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2026.]
Sec. 535 - Selective Service System: automatic registration
The House bill contained a provision (sec. 534) that would
authorize automatic registration in the Selective Service
System.
The Senate bill contained no similar provision.
The agreement includes the House provision.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qvgowosfeq5igmz4dfudabzd/bafkreidfqhyqi5ntjuf2jsc55bvg4c4rmv2fkpbgevhyqxqa4kzpat72fm@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
House and Senate agree to make draft registration "automatic":
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
"This doesn’t mean that a #draft is being activated — although preparing to do so is sole purpose of SSS. This will, however, move USA closer to a draft than at any time since 1975."
#war #conscription
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
"This doesn’t mean that a #draft is being activated — although preparing to do so is sole purpose of SSS. This will, however, move USA closer to a draft than at any time since 1975."
#war #conscription
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
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This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
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If you’ve tracked lithium, EVs, AI, solar, China, batteries & renewables for two decades, nothing here is “unbelievable.” It’s the inevitable collision of S-curves, compounding trends and industrial scale. Not surprising — just timely. In truth, this is what the future has been signalling for years.
December 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
If you’ve tracked lithium, EVs, AI, solar, China, batteries & renewables for two decades, nothing here is “unbelievable.” It’s the inevitable collision of S-curves, compounding trends and industrial scale. Not surprising — just timely. In truth, this is what the future has been signalling for years.
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TSA plans to charge air travelers without ID or without REAL-ID $3B a year in extra fees for extra questioning ($45/person)
Deep dive: What this means, how it might work, and what you can do about it:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/0...
#travel #TSA #surveillance #airlines #airports #ID #REAL-ID
Deep dive: What this means, how it might work, and what you can do about it:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/0...
#travel #TSA #surveillance #airlines #airports #ID #REAL-ID
TSA Confirm.ID: TSA plans to charge air travelers without ID or without REAL-ID $3B a year in extra fees for extra questioning – Papers, Please!
Since scare tactics haven’t gotten everyone in the U.S. to sign up for REAL-ID or show ID whenever they fly, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is turning to extortion through the threat of a new $45 fee to fly without “acceptable” ID.
papersplease.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
TSA plans to charge air travelers without ID or without REAL-ID $3B a year in extra fees for extra questioning ($45/person)
Deep dive: What this means, how it might work, and what you can do about it:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/0...
#travel #TSA #surveillance #airlines #airports #ID #REAL-ID
Deep dive: What this means, how it might work, and what you can do about it:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/0...
#travel #TSA #surveillance #airlines #airports #ID #REAL-ID
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More than 2,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. They’re demanding dignity: fair pay, safe conditions, a contract that respects their labor.
It’s time their voices are heard at the same volume as CEOs earning millions.
It’s time their voices are heard at the same volume as CEOs earning millions.
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
More than 2,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. They’re demanding dignity: fair pay, safe conditions, a contract that respects their labor.
It’s time their voices are heard at the same volume as CEOs earning millions.
It’s time their voices are heard at the same volume as CEOs earning millions.
1/ Congrats to @404media.co whose reporting on Airlines Reporting Corporation's selling traveler data to LEO and US gov officials has led ARC to end the practice.
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government
The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.
www.404media.co
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
1/ Congrats to @404media.co whose reporting on Airlines Reporting Corporation's selling traveler data to LEO and US gov officials has led ARC to end the practice.
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
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BEVs +20% YoY. PHEVs –22%. Exports +326%. Battery installs +50.8% YTD to 258 GWh. BYD’s full vertical integration — from cells to chips to robots — is redefining scale. It’s the manufacturing vanguard of the energy & transport transition, and the demand curve isn’t priced in. ⚡🔋🌏 #Lithium #LFP
BYD sees Nov sales hit new high for this year as exports surge 326%
BYD sold 480,186 NEVs in November, marking its highest monthly figure this year but down 5.25 percent year-on-year.
cnevpost.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
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Tennessee people, vote for this lady this week. She's cool and she puts the country perilously close to having a single check and/or balance.
November 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Tennessee people, vote for this lady this week. She's cool and she puts the country perilously close to having a single check and/or balance.
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EV/NEV share in China is already 50%+ — not 40. And exports? China sent 6.4m cars abroad in 2024, crushing Japan’s 4.2m and Germany’s 3.2m. Domestic dominance + an export explosion = the #lithium demand inflection. 2025–2030 is about to vaporise every outdated forecast. 🔋🌏 #LFP #EVS #BEV #Disruption
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
EV/NEV share in China is already 50%+ — not 40. And exports? China sent 6.4m cars abroad in 2024, crushing Japan’s 4.2m and Germany’s 3.2m. Domestic dominance + an export explosion = the #lithium demand inflection. 2025–2030 is about to vaporise every outdated forecast. 🔋🌏 #LFP #EVS #BEV #Disruption
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BESS deployments are up 40% YTD. 2025 is unmistakably the breakout year for BESS. The economics are now so strong — and PV growth so explosive — that storage isn’t optional anymore. It’s a required limb of every future energy ecosystem. Solar builds the engine. #BESS makes it run day and night. #LFP
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
BESS deployments are up 40% YTD. 2025 is unmistakably the breakout year for BESS. The economics are now so strong — and PV growth so explosive — that storage isn’t optional anymore. It’s a required limb of every future energy ecosystem. Solar builds the engine. #BESS makes it run day and night. #LFP
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China hit 1,003 TWh of solar by October — and this still isn’t the steep part of the S-curve. This is the warm-up. Solar doubled in 2 yrs, installs are exploding, #BESS is hitting price floors, curtailment is becoming a storage goldmine. The next doubling? 12–16 months. “Holy shit” phase loading. ⚡
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
China hit 1,003 TWh of solar by October — and this still isn’t the steep part of the S-curve. This is the warm-up. Solar doubled in 2 yrs, installs are exploding, #BESS is hitting price floors, curtailment is becoming a storage goldmine. The next doubling? 12–16 months. “Holy shit” phase loading. ⚡
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We’re about to hit the phase of the S-curve where the world goes from “fast” to “holy shit.” Solar’s doubling on a 24-month cycle — but the real elephant in the room is #BESS. As storage scales, the grid stops being a bottleneck and starts becoming a battery-backed solar engine. #EnergyTransition
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We’re about to hit the phase of the S-curve where the world goes from “fast” to “holy shit.” Solar’s doubling on a 24-month cycle — but the real elephant in the room is #BESS. As storage scales, the grid stops being a bottleneck and starts becoming a battery-backed solar engine. #EnergyTransition
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hero @greg.technology made ~23k epstein image-documents fully searchable: ep-nov-12.greg.technology
Epstein Files Nov 12 2025 Search
ep-nov-12.greg.technology
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
hero @greg.technology made ~23k epstein image-documents fully searchable: ep-nov-12.greg.technology
Gallup: Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity."
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity."
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Gallup: Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity."
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity."
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
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Today was a very stupid day but I have faith tomorrow will be stupider
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Today was a very stupid day but I have faith tomorrow will be stupider
@evcurvefuturist.com reneweconomy.com.au/aemo-turns-t... AEMO turns to battery inverters for “world-first” trial of running big grids with no synchronous generation 👀
reneweconomy.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
@evcurvefuturist.com reneweconomy.com.au/aemo-turns-t... AEMO turns to battery inverters for “world-first” trial of running big grids with no synchronous generation 👀
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EIA’s see “forecasts,” U.S. coal magically find a “stable base” from 2032 onward. I call bullshit on that. Nothing about economics, grid evolution, or policy supports it.
Coal isn’t stabilizing — it’s terminal. What you’re seeing there is just the long tail of a dying industry on life support. ⚰️
Coal isn’t stabilizing — it’s terminal. What you’re seeing there is just the long tail of a dying industry on life support. ⚰️
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
EIA’s see “forecasts,” U.S. coal magically find a “stable base” from 2032 onward. I call bullshit on that. Nothing about economics, grid evolution, or policy supports it.
Coal isn’t stabilizing — it’s terminal. What you’re seeing there is just the long tail of a dying industry on life support. ⚰️
Coal isn’t stabilizing — it’s terminal. What you’re seeing there is just the long tail of a dying industry on life support. ⚰️