Becky Bromley-Trujillo
@prof-b-t.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science @CNU. Research on US climate policy + U.S. state politics. Virginia Pollster. Mom to 2 humans, dog & cat. Loves nature. Views are my own.
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👋 I am a political scientist and VA pollster studying US environmental policy & political behavior. I post academic research, climate change stuff, politics, pics of nature, pets (🦮and 🐈 ), cute coffee shops, & gardens 🌸 ! I share my political views on here, but not in my classroom. Views are my own
This is exactly the kind of horrible decision being thrust upon unwilling communities because Virginia is the data center capital of the world. "SCC approves Dominion gas plant in Chesterfield" richmond.com/news/state-r...
SCC approves Dominion gas plant in Chesterfield
Dominion Energy can go ahead with a controversial gas-fired power plant on the site of its Chesterfield power station, the State Corporation Commission said.
richmond.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is exactly the kind of horrible decision being thrust upon unwilling communities because Virginia is the data center capital of the world. "SCC approves Dominion gas plant in Chesterfield" richmond.com/news/state-r...
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The holiday season is here — a time for good food and good company! 🍽️ It’s also a reminder that reducing food loss and waste is one of the most effective climate solutions available today.
Learn more about action you can take in the Take Action section of each solution! ⬇️
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ia789A
Learn more about action you can take in the Take Action section of each solution! ⬇️
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ia789A
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The holiday season is here — a time for good food and good company! 🍽️ It’s also a reminder that reducing food loss and waste is one of the most effective climate solutions available today.
Learn more about action you can take in the Take Action section of each solution! ⬇️
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ia789A
Learn more about action you can take in the Take Action section of each solution! ⬇️
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ia789A
Not a lot of good news coming out of my home state (where I grew up) of Texas, so I will take this!
Good news: Texas Parks and Wildlife is going on a spending spree to open new parks to the public, a welcome development in a state where some 95 percent of land is privately owned. 🏞️❤️🎉 https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/new-texas-state-parks-expansion/
Texas Is Turning Private Land Into Public Parks in a Historic Spending Spree
A massive push toward public land expansion means more state parks for all Texans to enjoy.
www.texasmonthly.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Not a lot of good news coming out of my home state (where I grew up) of Texas, so I will take this!
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this deep dive on immigration attitudes from Tufts (and CES) alum Caroline Soler and her co-authors is really good! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/p...
How Americans Feel About Immigrants and Immigration
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
this deep dive on immigration attitudes from Tufts (and CES) alum Caroline Soler and her co-authors is really good! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/p...
My hope is that having people well-versed in the complexities of energy policy will help Spanberger promote policies that simultaneously address energy affordability and climate goals. They absolutely can go hand in hand. virginiamercury.com/2025/11/18/s...
Spanberger appoints energy policy transition team • Virginia Mercury
A former SCC commissioner, Southern Environmental Law Center lawyer, and a Google lobbyist head up the start of the policy shift
virginiamercury.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My hope is that having people well-versed in the complexities of energy policy will help Spanberger promote policies that simultaneously address energy affordability and climate goals. They absolutely can go hand in hand. virginiamercury.com/2025/11/18/s...
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Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
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Moderation as a strategy, "It's tapped out. There are no gains left to be had. ....I see anti-corruption as this very open lane for realignment," says @adambonica.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Transcript: Anti-Corruption Politics Are The Way to Crush Trumpism
Stanford political scientist Adam Bonica says trying to be more moderate is a dead end for Democrats and the solution is for the party to be seen as fighting against corruption, oligarchy and other il...
newrepublic.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Moderation as a strategy, "It's tapped out. There are no gains left to be had. ....I see anti-corruption as this very open lane for realignment," says @adambonica.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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1. Public utility commissions rubber stamping rate increases
2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry
3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up
Solutions:
1. VPPs & efficiency
2. Build clean energy
3. Accountable PUCs
2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry
3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up
Solutions:
1. VPPs & efficiency
2. Build clean energy
3. Accountable PUCs
You are a random Dem running in 2026 -- say, for some House seat in some swing state. You're on local media. You're asked: "what are three reasons that energy prices are rising & what are three things you'd like to do to bring them down?" What's your answer?
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
1. Public utility commissions rubber stamping rate increases
2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry
3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up
Solutions:
1. VPPs & efficiency
2. Build clean energy
3. Accountable PUCs
2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry
3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up
Solutions:
1. VPPs & efficiency
2. Build clean energy
3. Accountable PUCs
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At least people have stopped asking when Trump will pivot, when he is clearly getting worse.
people.com/donald-trump...
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
At least people have stopped asking when Trump will pivot, when he is clearly getting worse.
people.com/donald-trump...
people.com/donald-trump...
I love a good reflection and Sandy Bottom in Hampton, Virginia really delivered yesterday
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I love a good reflection and Sandy Bottom in Hampton, Virginia really delivered yesterday
Wow, this article is thought provoking and somewhat terrifying. Being a professor is super complicated right now for so many reasons, but figuring out how to handle AI in higher ed is certainly one of them
This is a really excellent article on AI in academia, written by a Yale undergrad.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Wow, this article is thought provoking and somewhat terrifying. Being a professor is super complicated right now for so many reasons, but figuring out how to handle AI in higher ed is certainly one of them
Absolutely disgusting treatment of workers
Hourly Walgreens employees will reportedly no longer receive paid time off for six major holidays, including Thanksgiving and Christmas, after the pharmacy giant was acquired by private equity firm Sycamore Partners
Report: Walgreens cuts hourly workers’ pay for 6 major holidays
The hourly employees will only be paid if they work on those holidays.
www.whio.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Absolutely disgusting treatment of workers
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In one of the poorest states in the nation, people have no choice but to buy electricity from a monopoly utility that rakes in record profits from residential bills that are among the highest in the nation. Great article on how Alabama Power and its captured regulator got where they are today.
How Alabama Power Kept Bills Up and Opposition Out to Become One of the Most Powerful Utilities in the Country - Inside Climate News
In one of the poorest states in America, the local utility earns massive profits producing dirty energy with almost no pushback from state regulators.
insideclimatenews.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
In one of the poorest states in the nation, people have no choice but to buy electricity from a monopoly utility that rakes in record profits from residential bills that are among the highest in the nation. Great article on how Alabama Power and its captured regulator got where they are today.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16
The Norfolk Botanical Garden is absolutely stunning in the fall, just saying. #VirginiaFall
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM
The Norfolk Botanical Garden is absolutely stunning in the fall, just saying. #VirginiaFall
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Admins won’t save us. We need to save ourselves & our universities. 👇🏻
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Admins won’t save us. We need to save ourselves & our universities. 👇🏻
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This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
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Really lazy journalism for State House News service to say "Emerging House energy bill switches focus to affordability" when the House's bill actually guts energy efficiency programs that save people money and makes people pay a tax for new pipeline construction. It's Trumpian in its dishonesty.
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Really lazy journalism for State House News service to say "Emerging House energy bill switches focus to affordability" when the House's bill actually guts energy efficiency programs that save people money and makes people pay a tax for new pipeline construction. It's Trumpian in its dishonesty.
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Excellent coverage of local opposition to data centers across the country (especially the South).
Also, buy subscriptions to your local newspaper.
www.oklahoman.com/story/busine...
Also, buy subscriptions to your local newspaper.
www.oklahoman.com/story/busine...
Data center opposition emerging across United States, ousting industry allies from office
While Oklahoma is embracing data centers, local and state leaders throughout the United States are pausing or banning the industry's growth.
www.oklahoman.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Excellent coverage of local opposition to data centers across the country (especially the South).
Also, buy subscriptions to your local newspaper.
www.oklahoman.com/story/busine...
Also, buy subscriptions to your local newspaper.
www.oklahoman.com/story/busine...
It is always a pleasure working with @joshuabasseches.bsky.social and this podcast was super fun to record! Thanks @amywestervelt.bsky.social!
Great joining @amywestervelt.bsky.social (along with colleague and co-author @prof-b-t.bsky.social) to discuss our chapter in the recent @cssn.org volume, 'Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment':
drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
S14, Ep9 | Climate Obstruction at the Subnational (Local) Level
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It is always a pleasure working with @joshuabasseches.bsky.social and this podcast was super fun to record! Thanks @amywestervelt.bsky.social!
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Shameful that our 80+% Democratic House of Representatives is trying to gut our state's climate commitments
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
House moves forward with bill to weaken 2030 climate goals - CommonWealth Beacon
The plan reverberating around Beacon Hill, as first reported by CommonWealth Beacon last week, is sure to put lawmakers in a politically difficult position and test their willingness to defend the cli...
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Shameful that our 80+% Democratic House of Representatives is trying to gut our state's climate commitments
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
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I wrote here about Trump’s limited understanding of health insurance and how relying on direct payments to people for payment toward health care costs is a terrible idea. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I wrote here about Trump’s limited understanding of health insurance and how relying on direct payments to people for payment toward health care costs is a terrible idea. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Data centers are not the frontline of innovation. They are the dirty structures that nobody - certainly tech leaders in Silicon Valley - wants to live next to.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Data centers are not the frontline of innovation. They are the dirty structures that nobody - certainly tech leaders in Silicon Valley - wants to live next to.
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✊🏽✊🏽The Supreme Court rejected a long-shot attempt to overturn the landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The appeal was from Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky, who was jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
The court turned away an appeal filed by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
✊🏽✊🏽The Supreme Court rejected a long-shot attempt to overturn the landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The appeal was from Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky, who was jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Just in time for #COP30, a useful roundup by experts on progress made over the last decade on the Paris Agreement, article by article. Interesting that there is no discussion of #Article6
Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement - Nature Climate Change
To mark the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, Nature Climate Change asked experts to reflect on the progress of and barriers to several of its key Articles. They share their thoughts on import...
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM