isaac
@sevier.io
Posting about electricity and how we can care for one other. Building @publicgrids.org. SF. they.
Latest: “To fight oligarchy, build local democracy"
https://www.isaacsevier.com/notes/to-fight-oligarchy-build-local-democracy/
Latest: “To fight oligarchy, build local democracy"
https://www.isaacsevier.com/notes/to-fight-oligarchy-build-local-democracy/
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@sevier.io
· Oct 23
Overcharged: The Rules Of The Electricity Affordability Crisis
Nearly a quarter of adults in the US—or over 52 million people—cannot pay their power bills.
climateandcommunity.org
In this new report from me & @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social & @publicgrids.org, we argue the current electricity affordability crisis is caused by the rules of private ownership. To solve the crisis, we recommend banning shutoffs now and using many tools to expand public power!
Putting lots of money into science is good and cool and we should have done more of it before and should do more of it again someday www.sciencealert.com/painful-side...
Painful Side Effect of Statins Explained After Decades of Mystery
Around 10 percent of people who take statins to lower cholesterol experience mysterious muscle pains, causing many to discontinue these potentially life-saving medicines.
www.sciencealert.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Putting lots of money into science is good and cool and we should have done more of it before and should do more of it again someday www.sciencealert.com/painful-side...
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As always, the most important thing you can do to prep for a general strike is unionizing your own workplace. Get your closest people together to talk about who works where, doing what, and what choke points and natural leaders arise from that analysis. And call @organizeworkers.bsky.social !
February 3, 2026 at 11:20 PM
As always, the most important thing you can do to prep for a general strike is unionizing your own workplace. Get your closest people together to talk about who works where, doing what, and what choke points and natural leaders arise from that analysis. And call @organizeworkers.bsky.social !
One of the best parts of my job these days is getting to reflect on how we're building the organizational nuts and bolts at the core of the public power movement...this one got me fired up for the year we have ahead!
Some good news from our corner of the movement! We are so thrilled that @sylviachi.bsky.social has joined us to launch our new law and policy program, plus public power support is growing across the country in New York, Tucson, Ann Arbor, Santa Fe, and Willmar, Minnesota.
NEWS: New law and policy program, Overcharged report, public power advancing!
My name is Sylvia Chi, and I’m joining Public Grids as Senior Counsel. I’m excited to launch our new law and policy program this year to support the public power movement nationwide!
buttondown.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM
One of the best parts of my job these days is getting to reflect on how we're building the organizational nuts and bolts at the core of the public power movement...this one got me fired up for the year we have ahead!
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This seems entirely inevitable at this point.
"The real European financial threat to America: An uncoordinated, decentralised and gradual buyers’ strike is the actual danger" www.ft.com/content/d267...
February 3, 2026 at 12:56 PM
This seems entirely inevitable at this point.
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Rania is great and this will no doubt be a valuable offering.
I am hosting this FREE workshop to help us navigate this current moment with our little ones. Please invite your comrades, community, and kin. We are not helpless and we are in an intergenerational struggle.
ASL & NOTE TAKER PRESENT
ASL & NOTE TAKER PRESENT
Free Community Workshops
Monday | February 9 | 12 - 2:30 PM EST This workshop is for parents, caregivers, auncles, grandparents, guardians, and all who want to be in liberatory community with children. We will discuss...
www.raniawrites.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Rania is great and this will no doubt be a valuable offering.
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an unholy alliance of authoritarians, corporations, and libertarians disemboweled the federal regulatory state
I'm not sure they're going to enjoy what happens next
I'm not sure they're going to enjoy what happens next
Big news out of California. After years of study, the CA Law Revision Commission recommended a major rewrite of state antitrust law — explicitly instructing judges to break with weak federal standards & restore meaningful limits on monopoly power. The legislature often follows the CLRC's guidance.
California Poised to Introduce Nation's Strongest Antimonopoly Law
With support from ILSR and other allies, California is now one step closer to enacting the strongest antimonopoly law in the country.
ilsr.org
February 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
an unholy alliance of authoritarians, corporations, and libertarians disemboweled the federal regulatory state
I'm not sure they're going to enjoy what happens next
I'm not sure they're going to enjoy what happens next
one of those days when there is a lot of Discourse but it all involves different guys or topics I’ve had muted on every platform for years now. i am at peace.
February 3, 2026 at 6:53 AM
one of those days when there is a lot of Discourse but it all involves different guys or topics I’ve had muted on every platform for years now. i am at peace.
Finally seeing analysis that hedges against the data center hype being completely made up by proposing sound policy for renewables and storage as if the data centers didn’t exist at all! Good!
A way to meet fast-growing data center demand, using clean energy and existing points of interconnection: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/a...
A Solution for the Fast Data Center Connection Challenge
Lean in on America’s fastest growing source of electricity supply. This week’s blog is co-authored with Emilia Chojkiewicz and Amol Phadke. Taking projections of all utilities in the U.S. tog…
energyathaas.wordpress.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Finally seeing analysis that hedges against the data center hype being completely made up by proposing sound policy for renewables and storage as if the data centers didn’t exist at all! Good!
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Claiming the mantle of a very critical role in protest space (legal observer) and willfully twisting its definition to mean "adversarially collect footage of protesters doing things I personally disapprove of" is breathtakingly irresponsible.
It is DANGEROUS.
It is DANGEROUS.
February 3, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Claiming the mantle of a very critical role in protest space (legal observer) and willfully twisting its definition to mean "adversarially collect footage of protesters doing things I personally disapprove of" is breathtakingly irresponsible.
It is DANGEROUS.
It is DANGEROUS.
"Project Vault—a supply chain security initiative establishing the U.S. Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve, an independently governed public‑private partnership"
Looking forward to a bunch of missing money and no minerals from this
www.exim.gov/news/project...
Looking forward to a bunch of missing money and no minerals from this
www.exim.gov/news/project...
EXIM Approves Project Vault Loan to Launch America's Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve and Support Manufacturing Jobs | EXIM.GOV
www.exim.gov
February 3, 2026 at 3:49 AM
"Project Vault—a supply chain security initiative establishing the U.S. Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve, an independently governed public‑private partnership"
Looking forward to a bunch of missing money and no minerals from this
www.exim.gov/news/project...
Looking forward to a bunch of missing money and no minerals from this
www.exim.gov/news/project...
I think it's bad that we outsource a lot of what should be government planning, research, and change management to "think tanks" and advocacy organizations and it seems extra bleak that this seems to be the future for basic science research as well.
February 3, 2026 at 3:20 AM
I think it's bad that we outsource a lot of what should be government planning, research, and change management to "think tanks" and advocacy organizations and it seems extra bleak that this seems to be the future for basic science research as well.
The pressure from this campaign is so important and hopefully inspires the same fight here in CA. If CA & NY state legislatures were to tax the rich at the same time at the same levels, we would cover roughly half of all billionaires (and probably the hundred millionaires, too) in the USA.
Folks, not only is Hochul refusing to tax the rich, ignoring state climate law, failing to house the homeless in winter, and giving away state Medicaid $ to private equity; she's also helping the hospitals strike-break. Start saying the words "primary" and "Delgado," as in @delgadoforny.bsky.social.
In midtown, striking nurses are marching on Kathy Hochul’s office, calling out an emergency order she signed allowing traveling nurses to work in NY during the strike.
They say that move has prolonged the strike and is a handout to the hospital system.
They say that move has prolonged the strike and is a handout to the hospital system.
February 2, 2026 at 11:28 PM
The pressure from this campaign is so important and hopefully inspires the same fight here in CA. If CA & NY state legislatures were to tax the rich at the same time at the same levels, we would cover roughly half of all billionaires (and probably the hundred millionaires, too) in the USA.
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look at all these awesome people doing awesome work.
Yesterday DSA SF joined the SF Public Bank Coalition for a lit drop to spread the word about the need for a public bank in SF.
Wall Street banks are failing the working class. Public banking reinvests profits back into our communities to provide clean energy, housing, and transit. (1/2)
Wall Street banks are failing the working class. Public banking reinvests profits back into our communities to provide clean energy, housing, and transit. (1/2)
February 2, 2026 at 10:44 PM
look at all these awesome people doing awesome work.
San Ramon earthquakes just not stopping today
February 2, 2026 at 11:17 PM
San Ramon earthquakes just not stopping today
Real or not this belief absolutely saturates the people who live here and it's impossible to get through to them. I've had all of these talking points said to me irl lmao
February 1, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Real or not this belief absolutely saturates the people who live here and it's impossible to get through to them. I've had all of these talking points said to me irl lmao
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> dozens of unions show up with their families after hearing rousing militant labor speeches.
> the regime gasses their children
> the regime gasses their children
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:09 AM
> dozens of unions show up with their families after hearing rousing militant labor speeches.
> the regime gasses their children
> the regime gasses their children
Tip tapping my little thoughts into my blog, hopefully out for you to read in a few more days
February 1, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Tip tapping my little thoughts into my blog, hopefully out for you to read in a few more days
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THREAD. ICE is in the news, and rightly so, but a lot of the commentary fails to see how the underlying surveillance tech, militarization, infrastructure, policies/practices/training, and corporate profiteers are shared by other domestic agencies and repressive bureaucracies in other countries.
February 1, 2026 at 1:24 AM
THREAD. ICE is in the news, and rightly so, but a lot of the commentary fails to see how the underlying surveillance tech, militarization, infrastructure, policies/practices/training, and corporate profiteers are shared by other domestic agencies and repressive bureaucracies in other countries.
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Do not let your outrage and your learning stop with ICE. Develop an understanding of the connections between federal repression and local policing, between repressive bureaucracies at home and abroad, between the actors who profit on it in 50 languages, etc.
February 1, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Do not let your outrage and your learning stop with ICE. Develop an understanding of the connections between federal repression and local policing, between repressive bureaucracies at home and abroad, between the actors who profit on it in 50 languages, etc.
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No need to sync signal to anything but your phone. Don’t care how convenient it is for u
Check your signal call log which don’t auto delete
Check your signal chats because - idk why - sometimes things don’t actually delete that are on autodelete
No reason to do face or touch unlock on any device
Check your signal call log which don’t auto delete
Check your signal chats because - idk why - sometimes things don’t actually delete that are on autodelete
No reason to do face or touch unlock on any device
The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 31, 2026 at 10:36 PM
No need to sync signal to anything but your phone. Don’t care how convenient it is for u
Check your signal call log which don’t auto delete
Check your signal chats because - idk why - sometimes things don’t actually delete that are on autodelete
No reason to do face or touch unlock on any device
Check your signal call log which don’t auto delete
Check your signal chats because - idk why - sometimes things don’t actually delete that are on autodelete
No reason to do face or touch unlock on any device
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Me learning my paranoia about touch/face locks is justified.
The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 31, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Me learning my paranoia about touch/face locks is justified.
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Just had the thought that if/when the data center bubble bursts the buildings could get turned into detention centers, gross
January 31, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Just had the thought that if/when the data center bubble bursts the buildings could get turned into detention centers, gross
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"A small business cannot strike. A single worker cannot call a strike. Nor can a union president, a politician, a celebrity, say the magic word and have it be so.
A boycott is not a strike. Shopping small is not a strike. Working slow is not a strike."
A boycott is not a strike. Shopping small is not a strike. Working slow is not a strike."
January 31, 2026 at 9:34 PM
"A small business cannot strike. A single worker cannot call a strike. Nor can a union president, a politician, a celebrity, say the magic word and have it be so.
A boycott is not a strike. Shopping small is not a strike. Working slow is not a strike."
A boycott is not a strike. Shopping small is not a strike. Working slow is not a strike."