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Soaring electricity rates fueled Democratic victories — now comes the hard part Democrats promised to lower utility bills. What will it take to follow through? 

Soaring electricity rates fueled Democratic victories — now comes the hard part

Officially official.

Coal's decline is primarily due to expanded production of natural gas, which is cheaper and cleaner, beating coal on the market.

The other main factor in the decline of coal jobs is automation, as the dwindling industry relies more on mountaintop removal.

This is cultural nostalgia, not economics.

The Tired Question of Why For what could have been a defining win, it instead felt like a defining loss.

It’s not that Penn State should be better than this. It’s that Penn State, over the course of the last near-decade, has only been this.

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Love a high-quality doink! #GeorgiaTechvsWakeForest

That’s not how a Venn diagram works?

Republicans are honoring Charlie Kirk’s memory by declaring war on the First AmendmentThe guardians of ‘free speech’ sure had a change of heart.

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

The House member who wants to let Trump appoint D.C.'s attorney general (currently elected by residents) mistakenly says it was the city's AG who didn't prosecute two-thirds of arrests in D.C. That was actually the U.S. Attorney for D.C. – who *is* appointed by the president.

lol even the first punt of the game isn’t a punt! #PSUvsFIU

Okay I kinda love Notre Dame running a hurricane research ad during their game against the Miami Hurricanes

I know it’s humid in the South but this seems excessive

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Trump says the US is taking a 10 percent stake in Intel Blurring the lines between business and government.

The man is more fundamentally interested in state control of the economy than any elected Dem lol www.theverge.com/news/764480/...

Trump escalates attacks against Smithsonian museums, says they focus too much on ‘how bad slavery was’ | CNN Politics President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against museums and alleged “WOKE” exhibits on Tuesday, saying “everything” is centered on highlighting negative aspects of American in story, including “...

The funny thing about this is that the Smithsonian African American History Museum is built around the exact "Success" narrative Trump claims to want. You climb through the Middle Passage, slave cabin, Jim Crow train, etc, and come out into Oprah's studio and Obama.

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"Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT “can give incorrect responses.”"

Because who doesn't love nondeterministic spreadsheets?

Trump touts new D.C. dining boom. Data shows a dip And some restaurateurs say business is down.

President Trump says D.C. restaurants are "busier than they've been in a long time" — but industry data and local business owners tell a different story.

Forcing dirty power plants to stay open would cost Americans billions The Trump admin's scheme to keep old fossil-fuel plants running could saddle utility customers with nearly $6 billion a year in unnecessary costs, a…

Forcing dirty power plants to stay open would cost Americans billions 🏭 🥴 💰

As a number of polls have shown, Americans think they need to pay a premium for renewable energy -- but that's just not the case at this point as costs have fallen drastically.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...

Like a fighter jet intake

Overlooking Trinity Washington University in Edgewood, as adults play pickleball and kids are in fall football practices at the rec center across the street

Trump's IRS chief finally said IRS Direct File is "gone." Intuit lobbied hard against free federal filing for years.

Here's Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi defending that record in a Decoder interview last year. Intuit later asked us to cut this part. We refused.

At 5:50 PM EDT, Silver Spring [Montgomery Co, MD] Broadcast Media reports Flash Flood. Five feet of standing water at the intersection of East-West Hwy and Washington Ave. One car and a fire truck stranded in the water. #mdwx Link

At 6:27 PM EDT, 1 W Takoma Park [District Of Columb Co, DC] 911 Call Center reports Flash Flood. Two to four feet of standing water on Geoergia Avenue. Road closed. #dcwx Link

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Beautiful rainbow and golden skies tonight over NE DC

Cover of the book “The Death of Truth” by Steven Brill

Given a lot of The Discourse related to the Texas floods today, this seems like a timely read I picked up at @friendsapl.bsky.social this afternoon .

Cosplay Kristi saying “everyone wants to increase the warning time and that’s why we’re working to upgrade the technology that’s been neglected for so long.”

Oh really so that’s why you’re closing all the NOAA labs who develop the tech you’re discussing?

These ppl are insufferable con artists.

Trump's clean-energy grenade rattles high-tech industries Critics say Trump's megabill amounts an abject surrender in the battle for the future of energy.

Critics say President Trump's megabill amounts to an abject surrender in the battle for the future of energy.

The consequences for U.S. jobs, electricity prices and the AI arms race could reverberate for decades.

The idea of the state punishing people for their speech has become so terrifyingly normal I’m not sure what else to say about it

Well, that’s sad

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Senate’s tax bill seeks to gut clean energy; Musk calls it ‘utterly insane’ The Republican-controlled Congress is poised to score a major win for President Trump by repealing green energy incentives that Democrats passed in 2022.

Not making America great; rather further crippling where we do stand a chance to manufacture and beat China (solar chips, panels), industries we currently lead (AI), and our collective resiliency (energy generation sources) www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...