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New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.

All the kings horses and all the kings men .... Last coal plant in New England shuts down years ahead of scheduled retirement despite Trump Admin efforts to prop up coal. @canarymedia.com @sierraclub.org
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Supreme Court shoots down challenge to WA carbon market A natural gas power plant in Grays Harbor County had sued over the state's keystone climate policy.

Voters upheld the Climate Commitment Act by a landslide last year.

Today, the Supreme Court shot down a legal challenge.

As the federal government is abandoning critical climate protections, Washington's leadership is needed now more than ever. This is an important win.

Trump's Plan To invoke the Insurrection Act

What's Trump's plan behind the military occupation of blue cities? @rbreich.bsky.social robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund Persuasion 2025 Wrap - Charting the Way Forward Ep 41

More takeaways from this event on @waytowinus.bsky.social's Charting the Way Forward podcast. @torygavito.bsky.social
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How Progressives Learned To Love Persuasion For the left, motivating disaffected voters is out and targeting swing voters is in.

Progressives need to walk and chew gum -- both attract voters who sat out 2024 after supporting Biden in 2020, and use persuasion to bring swing voters over. @huffpost.com article on @waytowinus.bsky.social's recent "Persuasion 2025" event in DC. 1/
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Sierra Club Announces 2025 National Award Winners Oakland, CA – Twenty-six environmental leaders from across the country are receiving national awards from the Sierra Club this year.

Congratulations to Dolores Huerte, Mary Ann Ruiz, Eric Schaeffer, Shannon Wheeler, and all the other winners of @sierraclub.org's 2025 National Awards. Inspirational leadership.
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State Terror, American Style Forget about “soft autocracy”

"We didn’t expect America to become a country where masked secret policemen smash down your door in the middle of the night and take you away. Yet that’s where we are." @pkrugman.bsky.social
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How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

Federal agents are routinely detaining and assaulting US citizens, illustrating the absurdity of Justice Kavanaugh's bland assurances that “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen ... they promptly let the individual go,”
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China's exports of clean-tech significantly exceed what the US earns from shipping fossil fuels overseas. So much for Trump's claims of "energy dominance"

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

More from @bloomberg.com on Chinese dominance in energy exports. origin.www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Axios Future of Energy

Surging Chinese exports of EVs, batteries, solar panels, and other clean tech products highlights growing divide between "electro-states" and "petro-states" (no extra credit for guessing where US falls). @axios.com

Trump’s sweeping plan to prop up coal Coal’s health and climate impacts get no mention in the administration’s latest attempt to breathe life back into the industry.

No money to keep federal employees working or fund basic services, but the Trump Admin pledges $625 million in subsidies and other goodies to prop up the dying coal industry. @canarymedia.com
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From her lips to ....

Up to us to make this prediction a reality!

Tells you everything you need to know about who is fighting for you.

Likewise-- just followed you back!

"Not clear" is a very wimpy way to say "flatly illegal"

Horrific

Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids" ICE crosses another big, important line.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. @vermontgmg.bsky.social on the chilling resonance between ICE today and the infamous Palmer Raids of the 1920s. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

They claim that they attacked a complex of supposed gang members and nobody shot at them? More ICE stunts because isn’t Chicago’s South Side so much like Mogadishu, Somalia. The new normal will be war on cities, foreign and domestic. Q: Is ICE using Blackhawk helicopters in Chicago? A: Yes...

Tmrp's ICEholes zip tied and kidnapped n@ked black children. One agent said "F*** them kids." #Klan #ChildTrafficking

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MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

"People think hope is wishful thinking, and actually hope is about action." Quote from the Wiser Than Me podcast with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

"Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential." Graphic by the Jane Goodall Institute of South Africa.

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Graphic by Ariana Huffington on Instagram.

My favourite Jane Goodall quotes....so many, so to the point, so wise. How different the world would be if enough people listened to her.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Bless The Generals For Humiliating Hegseth With Silence “The most hopeful thing I’ve seen in a long time.”

“The most hopeful thing I’ve seen in a long time.”

So will Trump first more people because he doesn't like the numbers?

Respect. So glad that Pope Leo is carrying on the legacy of his predecessor, Francis.

So sad to hear the news that Jane Goodall has passed. I feel incredibly fortunate to have heard her in person last spring at @sierraclub.org's Trail Blazers Ball last spring where she received a Lifetime Achievement Award and gave a stirring speech for conservation. A true hero.

September 30, 2025 Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...

Always worth reading @hcrichardson.bsky.social, but this one seems particularly important as a first draft of history in a momentous time.

More Than Half of Americans Are Already Feeling Squeezed by Power Prices More than a quarter say they’re being hit hard, according to a Heatmap Pro poll.

More than 1/2 Americans are feeling the squeeze of rising energy costs and more than 1/4 say they are being "hit hard", according to a new @heatmap.news poll. Critical for Democrats to help folks connect the dots to Trump's and GOP's regressive energy policies.
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The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important