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Stephanie Damassa @shdamassa.bsky.social · 17h

www.americanprogressaction.org/article/the-...

The Winning Formula: Voters Choose Candidates Who Show Energy Can Be Both Affordable and Renewable

The gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey show energy affordability is a winning issue and that policymakers should prioritize such policies.

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Stephanie Damassa @shdamassa.bsky.social · 1d

👀 @climatecabinet.org racking up wins

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Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

In a key race for energy policy, Democrats just won 2 seats on Georgia’s utility commission — changing the dynamic for first time in nearly 20 years. Here’s a quick hit on what it all means. heatmap.news/politics/ali...

Democrats Win 2 Key Energy Races in Georgia

A “seismic change” comes for the state’s Public Service Commission.

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Stephanie Damassa @shdamassa.bsky.social · 5d

"What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points."

Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 5d

The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it

What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

thebulletin.org

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 5d

The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it

What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

thebulletin.org

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 5d

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

CBS News kills its climate unit

David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

A data analysis found that by the end of September, U.S. Forest Service work to clear fire-fueling debris was down nearly 40 percent compared with the average over the past four years.

The Trump administration cited logistics, not job cuts, for the drop.

How Trump cuts may have hindered a key way of preventing future wildfires

U.S. Forest Service work to reduce wildfire fuel was down nearly 40 percent from where it’s been on average over the last four years, a new report shows.

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CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 6d

Help is on the way for families who rely on SNAP/WIC benefits to help feed their families: the
DC Government will use $30 million in contingency funds to ensure benefits are paid in November despite the federal government shutdown.

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Stephanie Damassa @shdamassa.bsky.social · 7d

great orgs to support here

Heather Goss @heathermg.bsky.social · 7d

I get paid tomorrow unlike so many of my friends and neighbors so I just made donations to Capital Area Food Bank, Bread for the City, and Critical Exposure, which makes sure the DCPS students in their afterschool photography programs have access to meals and snacks.

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 8d

Hey, there is a new set of bad-faith hit pieces going around about a politician i like! I'm gonna make sure to share it so as many people as possible see the bad faith hit piece and my opponents' main talking points!

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Tammy @dctame.bsky.social · 8d

No one in my office saw this alert until the first flyover and let me tell you: you know you’ve lived in DC a long time when you panic after hearing a jet (multiple jets?) fly over downtown.

AlertDC alert for military flyover over the National Mall.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 9d

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP.

A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.

I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

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Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · 8d

Cat 5 (175 mph peak winds) Hurricane Melissa is just a few hours from making landfall in Jamaica as its strongest storm on record. Storm is stronger than Katrina (at peak) and the strongest ever recorded in Atlantic so late in the season.

More info: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 9d

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Stephanie Damassa @shdamassa.bsky.social · 9d

Same!

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow

'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void

The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.

www.whatimreading.net

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10d

Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11d

"If we just keep ruining the environment more and more, eventually, surely this sunk cost will pay off by finding us a way to protect the environment!"

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11d

Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less.

AI can help the environment, even though it uses tremendous energy. Here are 5 ways how

Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less.

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Mike Sington @mikesington.bsky.social · 13d

Still wanted. The FBI ups its reward to $500,000 for information on the suspect who placed pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters on January 5, 2021.