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@sevier.io

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Posting about electricity and how we can care for one other. @publicgrids.org. SF. they. Latest: “A heatwave's lesson for the next front in climate activism" https://www.isaacsevier.com/notes/public-power-pathways-climate-green-growth/

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isaac @sevier.io · 6d

Feeling so grateful to be in the company of such good comrades, holding me down, and building a vision of a world we deserve and can win. I tried to gush the appropriate, professional amount about everyone in this one, so hope you'll check it out

Public Grids @publicgrids.org · 6d

In this issue we've packed three different ways that you can do something to get involved in the public power movement right now!

The power to make a difference is in your hands

With just a few minutes, using this organizing guide, you can join others and organize locally to protect your neighbors. The guide contains information about the status of protections against shutoff...

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isaac @sevier.io · 1h

Not saying so to cause alarm: more of a reminder to plan differently now especially if you're someone who typically is more independent and lives alone. Let a friend know your schedule. Tell people when they should expect you if you're heading their way. Small stuff.

isaac @sevier.io · 1h

Definitely in my "top 5 signs things are fucked up" list is a tornado happening anywhere in coastal California

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 2h

ahahahahahaha EXCUSE ME

Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 2h

The National Weather Service in OXNARD has issued a

* Tornado Warning for... West central San Luis Obispo County in southwestern California...

* Until 1145 PM PDT.

* At 1115 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Morro Bay, moving northeast at 20 mph.
#CAwx

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isaac @sevier.io · 2h

I don't think this is restricted to cities officially under occupation.

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isaac @sevier.io · 2h

We're at and have been at for awhile the point that it's unsafe to travel alone or at least without someone close to you having access to your shared location at all times.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 2h

Read the WyoFile account of what’s happening with coal leases in the PRB by @dbleizeffer.bsky.social

Trump's major coal sales flop in Wyoming and Montana - WyoFile

Feds postpone Wyoming coal sale despite promise to "revitalize" the industry. Critics say even the coal industry isn't betting big on its future.

wyofile.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 3h

AI will have all types of effects on skilled work, some bad some perhaps good, but everyone who cares about climate disruption needs to explicitly confront that ramping data centers *in the current economic model* (with the current people in charge) will only accelerate greenhouse gas emissions.

Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 16h

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist

The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

www.desmog.com

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isaac @sevier.io · 5h

That's so good. Thanks

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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Carla Williams 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @carlajwms.blacksky.app · 6h

A friend captured it. Spectacular.

A rainbow in a cloud-filled sky over the San Francisco cityscape

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 6h

Need one of those big accounts to put this speech side by side with the rambling brain leaks of the coward in the White House.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

Big roar for AG Letitia James at the ZOHRAN rally👇🏽

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isaac @sevier.io · 7h

So cool to see the full arc from that part of town

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 7h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Gilly @gillyarcht.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely insane double rainbow, Precita Park is rocking it

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isaac @sevier.io · 7h

A double rainbow behind cotton candy clouds

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isaac @sevier.io · 7h

Huge rainbow over San Francisco as the sun sets behind a bank of rain clouds right now 💛🌈⛅️

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

Miss Major has passed away. We've lost an icon for the ages. Rest in power.

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Miss Major with long wavy gray hair sits outdoors in a chair, wearing a brightly colored geometric-patterned dress. She looks thoughtful and serene, with her hands resting in her lap. Trees and plants surround her in the background, giving the scene a peaceful setting. The image appears as a social media post with text and engagement icons below.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

What I learned from Miss Major was persistence and also keeping a sense of humor. I was lucky to see her work in various organizing meetings over the years. She was a model of how to be a good elder. Truly grateful for everything she did to make the world better. Time for the rest of us to continue.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 21h

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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isaac @sevier.io · 9h

Came along with a "I don't know about every policy, I haven't read every one, but by god we should just be glad SOMEONE is fighting for all of us" if you're wondering if socialism is going to win and just keep winning in this country.

isaac @sevier.io · 9h

Another one was about how "friends back home" (read: not cosmopolitan progressives) are fully on the Mamdani train and it's nice city liberals who need to catch up to "a progressive politician boldly running on progressive ideas at a time when we need real leaders."

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isaac @sevier.io · 9h

Went to a cocktail party last night where the people gathering would typically avoid talking about politics and one of the first conversations someone had with me was about whether or not I had seen what Marc Benioff said.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10h

Dan getting ahead of me here because I got distracted by candy. I was going to add: the point is to have a police/military force while starving every other state government function. But he says it better and I had two pieces of licorice. It takes a village.

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 10h

What would it look like for a bunch of jetski dealer jihadists to secure the monopoly over the legitimate use of force while they rewrite your kid's textbooks to show Jesus invented dinosaurs with the help of Prime energy? I dunno man ask Florida and stop thinking they're backwards. They're ahead!

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