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A Siegel

@asiegel.bsky.social
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Passionate about fostering a prosperous, climate-friendly future for all. Thoughts on climate, clean energy and related issues at GetEnergySmartNow.com

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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A massive redistribution of wealth to fossil fuel extractors/refiners and their partners in the finance and tech industry, paid for in increased hospital visits by kids
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 24/09/2026
US Senate Democrats publish report on Trump’s deals with fossil fuel billionaires: “appointed positions, deregulation, and favorable policies in exchange for campaign cash.” See report here: www.epw.senate.gov/public/index...
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Erin Brockovich recently started a #datacenters mapping project to crowdsource new developments nationwide & raise awareness on regs &rights:
brockovichdatacenter.com
Brockovich Data Center Reporting – U.S. AI Data Center Awareness & Issue Map
Interactive map of major AI data centers across the United States — built, being built, proposed and cancelled. Understand the community impact and report issues in your area.
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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is past time for Trumpian “Super Intelligence” owners, executives to be held criminally accountable. Perhaps Sam Altman going away for 20 to life for accessory to mass murder might send a bowshot message to the industry that lawlessness is no longer the name of the game. #AI #OpenAI
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
TODAY and TOMORROW only! Preorder from @barnesandnoble.com with code PREORDER25 for 25% off. The success of a book is *very* tied to preorders so please grab this discount while you can! Here’s the link: geni.us/broughttoyouby
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Dylan Wignall @dylanwignall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Much love to the good folks at @thewaroncars.bsky.social for fighting the noble fight . #art #painting #fuckcars
A knight riding a bicycle brandishes an old sword. He has a thick mustache. Behind him, there is a gigantic bonfire in which is a gigantic Ford truck that has been split vertically in two by the knight.

Text above the truck reads "proud soldier in the war on cars"

This painting does not advocate destroying people's cars but it is an expression of my loathing for the omnipresence of the car in modern culture

If 90% of all cars vanished overnight, including my own, I would not be upset
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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Impeachment is not reserved for POTUS. As much as Trump merits Impeachment and removal from office, so, so, so many of his authoritarian, criminal, incompetent, loyalist Cabinet (and sub-Cabinet) appointees do as well.
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Kurt Schlicter once told a disabled veteran to off himself. I know because I was that veteran.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is a summary of the 100,000+ public comments submitted to the National Park Service about Trump's planned Monumental Arch in DC Looks like multiple commenters invoked the term "authoritarian"
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
it should probably be a bigger story that Trump’s trade war is explicitly unconstitutional and he should be impeached and removed for it
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3:
[The Congress shall have Power..
• I To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; ..
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The revolution turned out to be the one no one saw coming Voter rage at Big Tech - first data centers and AI, now Flock cameras - has already turned U.S. politics upside down ahead of the midterms. But this grassroots rebellion won't stop there My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/vote...
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Fighting AI and Flock, today’s Luddites are the revolutionaries we need | Will Bunch
In an existential crisis for the American Experiment, public rage against Big Tech is a political earthquake no one saw coming.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the news media understood perfectly that stuff like this was what was actually at stake in the 2024 election and told voters instead that the larger issue was that it was a scandal that Tim Walz retired after 21 years in the national guard
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What do these corporations all have in common? -SpaceX -Palantir -RTX -Northrop Grumman -Microsoft -Nvidia They are all corporations whose stock Trump just purchased — and who do business with the Trump administration. We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026
tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation
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What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Does it make me proud to see a Third Act t-shirt at the front of the New Mexico data center fight? And on a day with a big win? It sure does (That's Pam Noose, co-facilitator of TA NM) @thirdactorg.bsky.social www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...
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New Mexico Supreme Court pauses Project Jupiter permitting processes
Two orders from the high court issued Sunday pause permitting processes for the project's proposed air quality permit and water use permit.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026
Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.
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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And In Today's NO SHIT SHERLOCK, A BROKEN CLOCK IS RIGHT TWICE A DAY Segment: Iran’s Speaker says Bessent and Hegseth are clowns who are ‘way out of their league’ thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Iran’s Speaker says Bessent and Hegseth are ‘way out of their league’
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf on Tuesday bashed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as being “way out of their league” in trying to bring Tehran…
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Bike lanes are not "ableist". They're "enabling".
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yes, it does sound familiar.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the left was blamed for stagflation in the 70s & has been less trusted on the economy ever since the right has been catastrophically wrong about climate change, financial deregulation, multiple wars, & immigration control & it's always forgotten by the next election
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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Perhaps @governorva @abigailspanberger.com would want to be ahead of the polls and public opinion rather than resisting reality that like the rest of the nation, Virginians want their political leaders to “just say no” to the opiate of data center false promises and real problems
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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hey, @nytimes.com, do you think your insurer will wash their hands due to negligence when you get sued after one of your reporters kills someone while recording a “short” in a moving car. Besides the safety risks this creates (and horrid public example), this practice will hurt the bottom line.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One thing we now know due to scientific research is that the period of time in which we chopped up the Colorado River water rights happened to be, by chance, the wettest period in the basin in like 1,000 years and so we grossly overallocated the water even before climate change!
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"If I wanted a hard man, the last place I’d look is in a political party where every man is a scared of cities, pronouns, and vegetables; where their masculinity is so flimsy they can’t even craft a meal without having to try to prop it up" - Amanda's Mild Takes bluevirginia.us/2026/08/satu...
"If I wanted a hard man, the last place I’d look is in a political party where every man is a scared of cities, pronouns, and vegetables; where their masculinity is so flimsy they can’t even craft a meal without having to try to prop it up" - Amanda's Mild Takes
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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Trump again makes President Chauncey Gardener look brilliant. Nostalgic for John Wayne, Trump wants 21st century aircraft carriers to resemble those in WWII movies. He wants the U.S. Navy's technology to be simple enough for anyone to understand. www.americansecurityproject.org/the-common-s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_There"t sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said–and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said what system are you going to be–”Sir, we’re staying with digital.” I said no you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good."

Donald Trump, 2017

https://www.americansecurityproject.org/the-common-sense-of-magnetic-catapults-emals/
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11/08/2026
When I was at NYT I pitched and reported out this story specifically because of my own experience of buying brands that were great and then once established had a rapid decline in quality. I didn't want to tell people what brands to buy, I wanted to tell people how to find clothes that don't suck.
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How to Buy Clothes That Are Built to Last (Published 2019)
The environmental impact of our clothing choices extends far beyond our closets and buying fewer items that are more durable can lower the impact on the planet. Here’s what to look for when shopping f...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Cartoon by @slyngstad.bsky.social. #WhereIsMitch
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians. Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.” Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.
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Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar
Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar
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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#CleanEnergy Industry flexes muscle in #GOP primary: flooding Tennessee district with ads providing the knock-out punch to defeat Trump-supported #climate #science denier Republican incumbent. www.politico.com/news/2026/08... @tommatzzie.bsky.social @climatebrad.hillheat.com #wind #solar
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How solar donors helped take down a Trump-backed Republican
A pro-renewable energy political action committee was behind Rep. Andy Ogles' primary loss Thursday.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Wasting a “congressional attention” on “an issue both sides have already litigated to exhaustion is revealing—especially when juxtaposed with the fact that not a single Republican has subpoenaed anyone over a historic outbreak (of Trump diarrhea) that continues to spread with no real end in sight.”
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Don’t Let the Fauci Sideshow Distract from the GOP’s Cyclospora Shit-Show
Republicans are relitigating the pandemic to shift attention from their epidemic
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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Out: Hot summers. In: Climate Changed world lnkd.in/p/e3ZmyYf4 PS: working to make "out" in again.
Hot summers to climate change reality.
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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#SacredGround @pbs.org has posted a series of #MustWatch #climate stories. www.pbs.org/show/sacred-... #ClimateSky #SciComm @michaelemann.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @chesapeakeclimate.bsky.social
https://www.pbs.org/show/sacred-ground-with-tim-daly/
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Trapped in the Trump Twilight Zone
dlvr.it
Trapped in the Trump Twilight Zone
The mainstream media world is simply too polite in its coverage to call the American president a madman
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/07/2026
Chris & Jamelle keep asking each other, "why does the press hold every Dem responsible for anything any activist says, but they won't hold Republicans responsible for their biggest donor?" & professing bafflement & I kept expecting @mtsw.bsky.social to burst through the wall like the kool-aid guy...
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I was not informed by the BBC that they would have a right wing political figure or lobbyist on after me to rebut what I said. The individual in question went on to spout lies about China, etc. to distract attention from the Trump administration's assault on climate action. This is unacceptable.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Impeach this corrupt villain
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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Scorching US heatwave to hit 70 million people with third ‘heat dome’ in month In so many ways, @theguardian.com is one of the best news outlets re #climate yet, yet again, illustrates fossil fuel pollution worsened #HeatWave with beach & pool photos. @climatebrad.hillheat.com
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
as I was saying
Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
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The National Academy of Sciences has historically published analytical Scientific Manuals expressly for our Federal Judiciary. Of course, the Academy has been run by Radical Left Dumocrats who, it turns out, published fraudulent, biased, and misleading Manuals on Climate Change. These bogus Manuals were used by Judges to decide massive "Climate Change" Cases, and have created huge losses across our Country. These Manuals have been totally DISCREDITED. Our Nation's Federal Judges deserve Facts and Science, not Political Fraud and False Science on Climate. With this TRUTH, I hereby order Federal Suspension and Debarment Officials to review this conduct. Our Taxpayers should not be funding Climate Fraud, and Judges should never have relied upon it. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 20/07/2026
"The Fraud of 'Clean' Natural Gas" is the first investigation to trace how the gas industry responded to its methane pollution problem with decades of deception. Read the findings from @rebeccajohn.bsky.social @rebleber.bsky.social @davisallen.bsky.social 👇 climateintegrity.org/uploads/medi...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/07/2026
Extremely important investigation - I cannot emphasise enough how every single freaking day we are dealing with the consequences of the success of this lie. Gas is basically treated like it's not a fossil fuel, even among some climate / energy advocates. It is so so so bad
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Yes, this is exactly it. There have always been lightning strikes in forests, but forests used to be damp, especially at this time of year, when snows were still melting. Climate change is drying out the northern boreal forest. That’s why lightning now ignites fires.
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walkingplanner.bsky.social @walkingplanner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Traffic violence is a choice. In the US we choose to have deadly roads.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/07/2026
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This lettuce is literally everywhere and usually it’s in contexts where no one knows/discloses it. Taco Bell is one of the only places doing the right, proactive thing here and misleading headlines are flipping things around making seem like they’re a site of danger instead.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/07/2026
Whoopsie daisy. 🤣😂🤣😂
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Breakthrough Institute https://thebreakthrough.org
The Era of the Climate Hawk Is
Over
Mar 10, 2025 - Decadence is dead, and the climate hawk will die with it. What takes its place in the coming years will be determine...
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 17/07/2026
Interesting theory. So if a major source of harmful pollutants can’t or won’t prevent those pollutants crossing borders, its neighbours are justified in taking unilateral action to stop the harm without regard to sovereignty. Cool theory. Keep talking.
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