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Working for Climate Power| Tar Heel | YNWA.
If we can’t win the voters who have opted out of the politics, we cannot build power. Listen to @robflaherty.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
28.04.2025 12:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What a great day to be a Tar Heel.
19.03.2025 03:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The speed with which we’ve gone from them saying, “we will begin a new era of soaring incomes” to “oh, recessions are good, actually” boggles the mind.
11.03.2025 17:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don't look at your 401(k).
11.03.2025 13:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nearly 7 in 10 voters say they're hearing negative news about Trump.
In our fragmented media landscape, it's tough to get anything like a critical mass of people paying attention to the same thing.
So it's notable that nearly 7 in 10 voters say they're hearing negative news about Donald Trump.
1 hour, 40 minutes we can never get back.
05.03.2025 04:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He's never worse at being a performer than when he's trying to reach for a soaring close to one of these speeches before Congress.
05.03.2025 03:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Bulwark headline about Republican Members of Congress expressing concern about Elon Musk in letters to constituents.
An NBC News headline about Republicans balking at Trump's spending cuts.
A New York Times headline about how much Red States have to lose when Trump attacks clean energy.
His success isn't inevitable.
13.02.2025 15:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
WSJ is on a tear this week.
@wsj.com
Jennifer Jacobs & @JenniferJJacobs Follow back BREAKING: Trump officials are putting a pause on most federal government websites. They are expected to go dark at 5 p.m., Trump officials told me. @CBSNews 4:49 PM • 1/31/25 • 487K Views
I oversaw HealthCare.gov, Medicare.gov sites 2014-2016 .
Gov’t websites do more than provide critical information to help people — they connect people to life-saving services.
Families and kids will pay a steep price for Trump dismantling the gov’t.
My kid has the flu.
I literally checked CDC.gov this morning for information about this strain.
The only reason you choose to make a public resource go dark is if you don’t care who you hurt.
Their success isn’t inevitable.
29.01.2025 18:29 — 👍 60 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
Since 2008, I've been writing a round-up of my favorite books at the end of each year. Here's my list for 2024:
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Esquire Magazine says Brandon Sanderson, “the biggest swings of his career so far” in the conclusion of his new book.
04.12.2024 13:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don’t try to reach me this weekend. I’ll be in Roshar. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
04.12.2024 13:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A paparazzi photograph of actor Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette with a distressed look on his face wearing a blue sweater that's a pretty good metaphor for my mood today.
19.11.2024 21:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Walking around my house, looking at my phone muttering “don’t love that” over and over
13.11.2024 21:42 — 👍 6185 🔁 608 💬 188 📌 127It's easy enough to understand.
Trump promised the oil execs who supported his campaign that they were getting "a deal" — with tax benefits and environmental protection rollbacks coming their way.
Once this news broke, Zeldin went on Fox News and promised to deliver those rollbacks on Day One.
In May, Trump told a bunch of oil barons that giving $1 billion to his campaign would be a “deal"—because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid with him in office.
Lee Zeldin, his nominee to lead the EPA, now promises to roll back regulations on Day One.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/c...
It’s Election Eve. And every four years, on Election Eve, I watch “Barack in the Virginia Rain.”
Let's go win this thing.
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I really do appreciate this!
28.12.2023 13:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love George Bailey. I think about him all the time.
But Mary is the hero of this movie. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
She’s the one who saves the Building and Loan. Twice.
Each December, I try to write about my favorite books for the year, and this is my list for 2023! Will you let me know what you think?
mattcompton.medium.com/my-favorite-...
The @nytimes.com (or should I say @nytimes.wtf) reporting on the clean energy transition has reached bad parody level. Check this doozy out nytimes.com/2023/11/27/u... Thanks to US policy, solar manufacturing is finally booming in Ameroca. But... something something ... this is clearly bad for Biden
28.11.2023 01:25 — 👍 62 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
I complain about the New York Times on occasion, but this is just next level journalistic inquiry.
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/a...
Last year, we got a Christmas light storage reel and a repair tool. Present me has seldom felt more gratitude for past me.
26.11.2023 21:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As people across the country start to ask who the hell Mike Johnson is, just remember, the Big Oil companies have a very specific answer to that question.
climatepower.us/resources/we...
Can always tell when Elon did something dumb.
18.10.2023 02:41 — 👍 73 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 0
Two charts breaking down fundraising totals between President Biden and his GOP rivals. Biden has $91 million cash on hand.
The Biden campaign raised $71m last quarter. That's big result.
But under the hood, there's an even more important number.
Today, the campaign has 112,000 recurring, monthly donors.
As far as I'm aware, that's the biggest pool of sustainers in Democratic politics.
I’ve seen Jason Isbell play live more than any other performer. But I’ve never heard the 400 Unit sound better than they do tonight at Wolf Trap.
03.08.2023 01:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
