Adam Powers

A deeply underreported story. I know so many people struggling to pay their electric bills

Ask your reps to oppose H.R.7661.

CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration's plan to dismantle a major scientific research center could cause property insurance prices to increase across the country, according to an industry group representing actuaries. The warning adds a new dimension to the potential breakup of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, whose climate data is used by the insurance industry to help predict financial losses and set rates. "We're incredibly reliant on curated and unbiased data sets available to the public," said Peter Ott, who leads a research committee at the American Academy of Actuaries. The academy said in a recent letter that disrupting the center would "undermine the stability and affordability of insurance." The White House budget office stunned the scientific world when it announced in December that it would break up the federally funded center, which budget director Russell Vought called "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism." The move is among an array of steps taken by the Trump administration to dismantle programs aimed at addressing climate change.

Climate denial is expensive!

The American Academy of Actuaries warns that closing the National Center for Atmospheric Research — which the Trump regime calls “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism" — would lead to higher prices for home insurance and thus for housing itself.

Sam Alito has an oil money problem 30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels.

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies

Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling

The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.

"The Trump administration can attempt to remove exhibits from museums, ban books from libraries, and challenge curriculums in schools. But it cannot control what we do in our communities and with our families." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"The utility has pointed to the region’s historically cold winter as a cause of rising heating demand and costs...But in an email to The 51st, Pepco’s own data show that their D.C. customers actually used more energy in January 2025 than January 2026."

Something very grim about energy policy wonks saying "look how good my free market system is at building batteries" and the system is in Texas, where trans people, women, and all immigrants are being hunted for sport, legally. Where there's virtually zero energy assistance for low income folks and

United States Power Outage Map PowerOutage.us is an ongoing project created to track, record, and aggregate power outages across the United States.

165,000 customers (~half a million people) have lost power in New Jersey and Delaware as the winter storm sets in.

poweroutage.us

V'ahavta Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up, when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts, embroider them on your...

"Thus spoke the prophet Roque Dalton:
All together they have more death than we,
but all together, we have more life than they.
There is more bloody death in their hands
than we could ever wield, unless
we lay down our souls to become them,
and then we will lose everything."

🚨 🐝 🌸

still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors

i wrote a collection with my bestie and it’s gonna be out in the world soooooon. like, actually.

A Worker-Led Alternative to Billionaire-Owned News in DC A Q&A with two founders of the 51st, a worker-led nonprofit newsroom launched after the closure of the beloved local outlet DCist.

"What we all need to agree and commit it to is that journalism is a public good. Journalism is a thing that we need. Particularly when it comes to local news."

For @inequality.org, @millsrodrigo.bsky.social interviewed two 51st co-founders, @abigailhiggins.bsky.social and @maddiepoore.bsky.social:

Member of US Marshals Service shoots, kills person in DC’s Mayfair neighborhood - WTOP News Members of the U.S. Marshals Service shot and killed a person Wednesday afternoon in Northeast D.C.’s Mayfair neighborhood, a law enforcement source told WTOP.

"At least one member of the U.S. Marshals Service shot and killed a person in Northeast D.C.’s Mayfair neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, a law enforcement source told WTOP."

wtop.com/dc/2026/02/u...

Important for climate in 2026: assessing what the last several decades of climate work both did and did not produce. We were nowhere near actually bringing down existing emissions through the regulations we had. What's ahead is for us to organize and be the death doula for the fossil fuel industry.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

LO QUE TENEMOS

Puerto Ricans have been fighting for energy democracy - the right to control their grid locally and build the clean energy future on the island - for decades. If you want to support an incredible effort, get plugged into the work led by Queremos Sol! queremossolpr.org

What are you carrying? For the sake of what? through such hard wind and light. — And you look out to me, and you say, “Only the same as everyone; your breath, your words, move with mine, under and over this glass; we who were born and lived on the living earth.”

Jean Valentine

Janeese Lewis George wants affordable child care for DC It’s not free, and her plan faces financial challenges.

"Now Lewis George says that if she’s elected mayor, she’ll set out to make child care universal and affordable, part of a broader plan she’s rolling out to bring down everyday costs for D.C. residents." - @maustermuhle.bsky.social for @51st.news

51st.news/janeese-lewi...

See How Declines in U.S. Vaccination Rates Could Bring Eliminated Diseases Roaring Back As U.S. childhood vaccination rates sway on a “knife’s edge,” new 25-year projections reveal how slight changes in national immunization could improve—or drastically reverse—the prevalence of measles,...

i wondered how much vaccination coverage has to drop to see large changes in measles cases in the US and whether or not polio (a thing i don't fw because i've seen its effects firsthand) is similar or different and lo, an article

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

We Must Burst Our Algorithmic Bubbles and Build Together Across Difference “We need each other, and interdependence is key to survival for human beings,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.

"I know how to be constructive, so I have to be accountable to that awareness. I don’t want to get pulled into unworthy conflicts. I don’t want to waste my anger, or its potential, and wind up spiraling when I could be learning or building something."

truthout.org/audio/we-mus...

Are faked public comments about to tank an Ohio solar farm? Dozens of public comments opposing the $98 million Crossroads Solar project appear to be fabricated. Ohio’s siting board may block the project anyway.

Are solar farms in Ohio being denied due to faked local opposition? @canarymedia.com's Kathianne Kowalski does the work of checking the names and addresses — and it sure looks like there are a lot of fabricated "local" opponents to it:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
#energysky

Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind” “We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

hate to see Bezos run the Post into the ground. but you can support billionaire free DC News:

@51st.news
@streetsensedc.bsky.social
@washingtoninformer.com
@wcp.bsky.social
@ethiopique202.bsky.social

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!

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.

Hey guys check this out

tl;dr modeling of the 'energy transition' has been critically incomplete for as long as any of you have been thinking about it. It's been done assuming X changes, but all other things remain somewhat equal.

Fine in a numerical model; not how the real world works.

The Trump Administration Is Now Delaying Renewable Projects It Thinks Are Ugly The Army Corps of Engineers is out to protect “the beauty of the Nation’s natural landscape.”

BIG SCOOP @heatmap.news: The Trump administration is now going after renewable energy projects on both public and private lands by indefinitely delaying water permits … on grounds that the projects might have bad “aesthetics”

Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly

Power Bills Are Bankrupting DC Residents—but There's a Path to Affordability for All | Common Dreams Public ownership of power has worked for decades in thousands of towns and cities and is being actively pursued in the District and other communities across the country.

Activists in Washington, D.C. with @wepowerdc.bsky.social are standing up to demand public power. For affordability, for climate, and for democracy. We can't afford to wait: we need public power now.

This is physically unsustainable for all life on earth.

The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point.

The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.

This country has locked up so many children in one prison that the CHILDREN ARE LEADING PRISON UPRISINGS. As a country we are not furious enough yet.