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Ellen Chang

@ellenychang.bsky.social

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Freelance journalist writing about stocks, personal finance, banking, tech and energy. Formerly at TheStreet. Proud Purdue grad and lover of rescue animals and random acts of kindness. Houstonian.

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Ellen Chang @ellenychang.bsky.social · Nov 12

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 16h

For the first time, new clean energy generation (solar, wind, nuclear) provided more new GWhs then new electricity demand (369Twh). With continued exponential growth and new geothermal coming online at scale in a few years we should sustain this every year.

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember

Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

ember-energy.org

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Ellen Chang @ellenychang.bsky.social · 10h

apnews.com/article/pent... turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the sea...

apnews.com

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UNITE HERE @unitehere.org · 1d

After 4️⃣0️⃣ Days on Strike at the Hilton Americas-Houston, WE WON!

Hilton Americas hotel workers have made history as the first hotel workers to go on strike in Texas and the first housekeepers, laundry attendants and stewards to earn a $20 hourly wage in Houston.

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Ellen Chang @ellenychang.bsky.social · 11h

Purdue Global has lost $71 million since inception. Will recent improvement be enough? www.jconline.com/story/news/l...

Purdue Global has lost $71 million since inception. Will recent improvement be enough?

Purdue Global has lost $71 million since its 2018 inception, mostly on fees and ads. The Purdue-run online school is trending up. Will it be enough?

www.jconline.com

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 2d

Michelin just blew a tire

*MICHELIN CUTS FORECAST FOR 2025 SEGMENT OPERATING INCOME

thx be here til the bell

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 1d

The unwind will be historic

Jesse Felder @jessefelder.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI’s ‘flatlining’ subs in Europe: The AI boom’s poster child may be struggling to recruit new subscribers, Deutsche Bank warns fortune.com/2025/10/14/o...

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 15h

<5 months ago>

How anyone ascribes credibility to anything Bessent says escapes me.
A hack and an unrepentant shill and liar.

Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · Apr 22

*BESSENT SEES DE-ESCALATION WITH CHINA, SITUATION UNSUSTAINABLE

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 18h

Open AI is currently building a data center in Texas that will require roughly the equivalent of the power the Hoover Dam produces to operate.

Last week the Whitehouse killed a renewable energy project that was going to produce as much powers as three Hoover Dams.

None of this makes any sense.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

(Reuters) - ChatGPT owner OpenAI is working on new revenue lines, debt partnerships and planning further fundraising as part of a five-year strategy to cover more than $1 trillion in pledged spending, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

www.ft.com/content/a169...

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Ellen Chang @ellenychang.bsky.social · 12h

She skews to the right.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 17h

Unearthed invitation shows Trump will host a lavish $1 million per person fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago this Friday.

This will take place on the 17th day of his government shutdown.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

Put up a plaque. 🤡

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Ellen Chang @ellenychang.bsky.social · 1d

That’s very thoughtful and kind of you.

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Wonderful news.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“Fiction.”

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughts/prayers to the TIME photo editor today.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

That @heatherknightsf.bsky.social piece also had this amazing kicker.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

At the end of the interview, he turned to a public relations executive. He could be heard asking why her mouth was wide open and if he had said anything he shouldn't have.
"What about the political questions?" he asked. "Too spicy?"
Then he hung up.

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Ellen Chang @ellenychang.bsky.social · 1d

I saw an ad for pickup trucks for 0% interest free financing for 72 months. This is not a good sign.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Look no further than the automotive industry for the latest indication of a potential “K-Shaped” economy for U.S. consumers.”

@cnbc.com @mikewayland.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/n...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

GOLDMAN CEO: ".. there's no question that there's a fair amount of investor exuberance at the moment .. But, as students of history, we know that following periods of broad-based excitement around new technologies, there will ultimately be a divergence where some ventures thrive and others falter."

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Ellen Chang @ellenychang.bsky.social · 1d

Supreme Court Denies Alex Jones’s Appeal of Payment to Sandy Hook Families www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Supreme Court Denies Alex Jones’s Appeal of Payment to Sandy Hook Families