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I don’t really read the NYTimes anymore b/c I’m uninterested in stupid both sides-ing, bad political gossip “reporting,” and unsubtle pro-war/genocide/anti-left propaganda. FT is my primary news source. Here’s coverage that’s useful and informative:
www.ft.com/content/7af0...

NYers:

Call your senator and assemblymember NOW and urge them to halt hochuls’ attack on the climate law

NYCC Stop Hochul's CLCPA Attack Memo Don’t Let Hochul Hurt our Communities by Raising Our Energy Bills, Destroying Jobs and Increasing Pollution Reject Governor Hochul’s Trump Math Attack on New York’s Climate/Jobs Law Govern...

Here’s NYCC’s memo against her attack on the climate law!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If Hochul hadn’t halted cap and invest, like she halted congestion pricing, the state and working people would be way better off now.

Instead, she’s primarily responsive to corporate lobbyists and the NYPost crowd, so she “paused” it.

I’m old enough to remember:
1. Hochul halted congestion pricing b4 reversing herself under pressure - and now it’s great.
2. She’s under court order herself b/c she’s blatantly breaking NY’s climate law. She wants to amend it 🙄

Trump isn’t a King. Hochul isn’t a queen either. 🧵

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I’m not a Democratic Party partisan.
Please don’t pretend to me that mills is some sort of inspirational progressive figure.

I’m happy to support platner over mills. There’s a chance he will become a centrist in office if he wins, but I think it’s likelier he stays in the progressive politics lane. Meanwhile, we know that mills will automatically be another useless corporate Schumer drone, if she wins. No thanks!

Democratic state lawmakers in New York to back tax hike on rich The state Senate and Assembly budget proposals are set to include plans to boost taxes on millionaires, a plan opposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

They should make Hochul do it! Not just propose it, just to drop later! Don’t back down to her!

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

411 and links here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Yup. Bad!

Hochul uses Trump math to justify herself. She’s raised our energy bills by locking NYers to gas, destroyed jobs and increased pollution by failing to implement NY’s climate law. Gas is expensive and solar is cheap! The legislature has to stop her.

Check out NYCC's memo, linked below.🧵

Nah we’ll probably stop her it’ll just be really hard

I've already shared my thoughts on this matter, but in short I agree. As for what to do now, I've said it before but will keep saying it thru June 23:

✨Focus on our Assembly primaries.✨

Recomposing the Assembly will greatly improve our odds to #TaxTheRich and pass all the other good stuff in 2027.

Meanwhile dsa is now a leader. Really THE leader on the left. It needs to lead, not just hide away in this sort of situation. The obvious move would have been to cross endorse Delgado and work the district where there are dsa/progressive candidates. Sigh.

The NY WFP’s failure is really hard to understand.

Like you can see a logic to Mamdani’s hope that by sucking up to Hochul, he does better. I don’t think he will do better for nyc but I can see the logic.

The wfp’s punt was just bizarre, imho.

We’re now in real danger of seeing the state’s climate law rolled back, as one example of the practical effect.

We can still do all the things that are normal to try to influence her, but it’s really all now a hope the legislature stands up to her. But a big problem there is that the governor has much more power in the budget process.

“Any” is an exaggeration, I should amend. Ended all the pressure of a primary from the left, as Delgado was running, which is very very substantial pressure!

If Mamdani hadn’t endorsed Hochul so early and if WFP hadn’t refused to endorse Delgado, then Hochul would be under similar pressure from her left; with major implications for the current state budget battle. Instead, they forced Delgado to drop out, and ended any leverage the left had over Hochul.

Kathy Hochul wants gas companies to make BANK off New Yorkers by rolling back the climate law.

The legislature shouldn’t let her!

NYCC Stop Hochul's CLCPA Attack Memo Don’t Let Hochul Hurt our Communities by Raising Our Energy Bills, Destroying Jobs and Increasing Pollution Reject Governor Hochul’s Trump Math Attack on New York’s Climate Law Governor Ho...

👀 NYCC’s memo opposing Hochul's attack on the NYS climate law. Her Trump math is trash and she's raised our energy bills by ignoring the climate law for years now.

The legislature should reject her Republican talk points and her bums rush in the budget 👀

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The latest Newsday story on the offshore wind projects is a NEGATIVE hit, even.

When I was a youngun organizer/campaigner, generally speaking the media were pro public interest action. Now they’re generally pretty terrible.

The offshore wind projects are particularly dramatic: even tho Trump’s done lots of illegal stuff to try and stop them, these two huge offshore wind projects are under construction right now! It’s quite a story!

CHPE is also amazing and connects in the spring!

In an alternative world, the experts driving the nyrenews crowd, which at that time was influential, would have crafted a law that required specific action backed by penalties and provided money. Or at least one or the other.

I was entirely new to the policy arena on climate/energy when the groups were constructing the clcpa approach. I was worried it was heavy on process and not requirements but didn’t make that case loudly.

Msm coverage has turned so hard against climate action that they now generally don’t even write or air stories about amazing new projects being built even as they’re being built!

It’s major progress, and the vast majority of people even those heavy “news” consumers have no clue it’s happening.

On a side note: I cannot believe we’ve been forced to defend the extremely mediocre NY CLCPA. The CLCPA wasted years in process BS and analysis, which Hochul completely disregarded and is now ignoring even tho it was her people who did it. But finally groups sued and a court is ordering her to act.

Hochul’s push to gut the climate law comes even tho big new clean energy projects are being built now.

They’re late, and Hochul’s sucked it, but its happening:

✅ CHPE (hydro power) connects in the spring
✅ Sunrise and Empire wind (big offshore) connect this year and next
✅ new solar projects

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