Greg Nichols

One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.

Very proud of the work our team did get this legislation over the finish line and thankful to the @nolacitycouncil.bsky.social for showing leadership at at the local level at a time when national climate efforts are being imperiled!

Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%

So yes this program is a SUCCESS.

New Orleans aims to cut emissions, energy bills with long-stalled benchmarking law As thousands of architects and planners flocked to New Orleans in 2014 for the world’s largest sustainable design conference, the city saw a chance to prove it belonged in the green building big leagues. City leaders announced at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo that New Orleans would join Minneapolis, Seattle and a vanguard of other cities in developing a program requiring large building owners to track and disclose their energy use. New Orleans’ embrace of “energy benchmarking” drew praise at the conference, with one green building expert declaring that the city was “paving the way” for the rest of the country to follow.

New Orleans aims to cut emissions, energy bills with long-stalled benchmarking law

As thousands of architects and planners flocked to New Orleans in 2014 for the world’s largest sustainable design conference, the city saw a chance to prove it belonged in the green building big leagues. City…

Seriously: Who the fuck benefits from this, besides Joe Craft and his coal mining interests and a couple of big gas producers? Republicans are screwing over their constituents, American business interests, and our country's future in an epic way here.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0

we have a secretary of
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness

everything’s fine.

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

Which Congressional Democrat is going to fly to El Salvador to demand the release of the people the Trump regime abducted and forced into concentration camps?

The United States of America is a country of laws, freedom of speech, and a beacon that attracts scholars & hard-working immigrants from around the world. At least it _was_ until Team Trump began rapidly dismantling all of that! I'm furious with what they've done to the country I love! 🇺🇸

[originalist voice] I can't believe that my quarter-baked rulings holding that regulating political spending and prosecuting corruption are unconstitutional have created an out-of-control oligarchy. nobody could have predicted

New @nbcnews.com poll

April 2017: 59% of Democrats want to compromise with Trump, 33% say hold the line

March 2025: 65% of Democrats say to hold the line against Trump, 32% want to compromise

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The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
 
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.

🌎Do you know which country is most responsible for #climate change?

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YouTube video by MSNBC ‘The MAGA master plan’: Project 2025 architect confirmed as Trump budget chief

“All along the plan was Project 2025,” says Chris Hayes on Senate Republicans confirming Russell Vought, a key author of Project 2025, to lead the Trump administration’s powerful budget office.

First they came for USAID…

Fuck you Democrats for being too timid to play hardball. If this were Mitch McConnell, he would have used every ploy and play to fuck our shit up. Now it’s almost fucking too late. Goddamn you fucking weak willed people. Use whatever tools. Be prepared go to jail.

There's a lot of petty, mean stuff in the administration's actions, much of which will harm people on the ground. But the big stuff is the effort to fundamentally reallocate governmental authority—over impoundment; the civil service; etc.

And Congress isn't sitting idly by; it's cheering him on.

The last 12 days have been an appalling threat to a functional government and society. Yes, swing at every pitch thrown by these fascists.

Watching this on repeat how is your day going?

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

Twitter, Washington Post, LA Times, Facebook, Instagram, now TikTok. All captured or nearly captured.

Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.

Interactive piece on proportional representation in the NYT today 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Insane

If you’re raising energy rates to pay for resilience, investing in fossil gas infrastructure that is causing climate change doesn’t make sense.

Solar + battery at both the utility and residential scale is cleaner during blue skies and resilient during outages!

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