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NYC-DSA Ecosocialists @nycdsaecosoc.bsky.social · 3h

Our fossil-fueled grid is heading for blackouts as soon as NEXT YEAR. This is why we can’t wait to build a full 15 gigawatts of public renewable energy. ⚡️

We can’t trust private companies to invest in the public good. We need public power.

Gothamist @gothamist.com · 17h

Power grid operators warn NYC could face increased blackouts as early as next summer https://gothamist.com/news/power-grid-operators-warn-nyc-could-face-increased-blackouts-as-early-as-next-summer

Power grid operators warn NYC could face increased blackouts as early as next summer

Gowanus generating station with the Manhattan skyline in the background New reports say power demand could soon exceed supply. [ more › ]

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Upon his first visit to what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Christopher Columbus posted men who spent the next year roaming the island in gangs, looking for gold and taking women and children for sex and labor.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 4d

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 5d

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 5d

i bet i could get my dad to sign. or if not sign then just to watch the game

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 5d

signing a pledge to watch the super bowl because i'm a good person

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 7d

More from me today on the new NYC balcony solar bill -- I take on some of the big questions surrounding implementation: www.greenjuice.wtf/balcony-sola...

#NYC #energysky #balconysolar #DERs 🔌🌞 @greenjuice.wtf

Big questions for balcony solar in the Big Apple

Are fire escapes balconies? Can we put up panels without permission? How much power would balcony solar generate?

www.greenjuice.wtf

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 7d

More from me today on the new NYC balcony solar bill -- I take on some of the big questions surrounding implementation: www.greenjuice.wtf/balcony-sola...

#NYC #energysky #balconysolar #DERs 🔌🌞 @greenjuice.wtf

Big questions for balcony solar in the Big Apple

Are fire escapes balconies? Can we put up panels without permission? How much power would balcony solar generate?

www.greenjuice.wtf

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NYC-DSA Ecosocialists @nycdsaecosoc.bsky.social · 7d

While @governor.ny.gov ties us to toxic gas plants and destructive pipelines, the rest of world builds clean, affordable energy at record rates. Hochul and Trump aren’t just walking us backwards, they’re sprinting.

Are we going to keep falling behind, or #BuildPublicRenewables?

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 8d

hell i could bud lite myself right about now

onion person @junlper.beer · 8d

“everyone is twelve now” theory

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 9d

Good morning with good news: Solar generated 39% of California's electricity from January-July 2025, up from 33% in 2024.

Fossil fuels plunged to just 26% of CA's power in Jan-July 2025, down 40% in July 2025, compared to July 2024!

Batteries Tripled...
www.reuters.com/markets/comm... #energysky

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10d

An Israeli prison guard deliberately slammed a metal door on the already broken leg of a 70-year-old Scottish woman who was abducted from the flotilla.

Torture.

THIS IS SAD ❗❗

"That prison was awful. No food, no water. My broken leg, the girl said to me, "Ah, what happened to your leg?" I said, "it's broke." She slammed the metal door on it and went, "Oh, sorry"

Margaret Pacetta, 70, from Glasgow, Scotland, is one of four Scots who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Pacetta arrived in Istanbul Airport on Saturday afternoon along with 136 other activists.

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 11d

yeah! and norway is a petrostate whose clean energy building somewhat masks their massive exporting of emissions. fun video- www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYjo...

Honest Government Ad | Visit Norway!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 11d

fwiw finland does have the highest rates of heat pump adoption in the world! i wrote about it here - www.greenjuice.wtf/heat-pumps-h...

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 12d

this song bangs at karaoke

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 14d

A new bill from @emilyassembly.bsky.social and @lizkrueger.bsky.social would legalize balcony solar in NYC!

Here's what that means, how we got here, and what might happen next.

www.greenjuice.wtf/is-balcony-s...

#NYC #energysky #🔌💡

Is balcony solar coming to NYC?!

A new bill would make balcony solar legal in New York City. This is the story of what that means, how we got here, and what might happen next.

www.greenjuice.wtf

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 13d

"They're creepy and they're crawly!"

Let me stop you right there.

Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 13d

unfortunately it’s their rizzlessness that led most of these people to politics in the first place.

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 14d

A new bill from @emilyassembly.bsky.social and @lizkrueger.bsky.social would legalize balcony solar in NYC!

Here's what that means, how we got here, and what might happen next.

www.greenjuice.wtf/is-balcony-s...

#NYC #energysky #🔌💡

Is balcony solar coming to NYC?!

A new bill would make balcony solar legal in New York City. This is the story of what that means, how we got here, and what might happen next.

www.greenjuice.wtf

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14d

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown

Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

www.thehandbasket.co

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 15d

Trump's got that "I've been drinking Mai Tais in the hot tub under a blazing sun for six hours" kind of vibe today. Don't stand up too fast, sir!

Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 15d

yeah. heart burn

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 15d

you started it

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 15d

another day working at the sisyphus job site. everybody’s trying to fuck the boulder.

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Lightning Dolt @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social · 15d

Thoughts on their bike share system being for locals only?

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