Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8hI for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 711194114534
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14h"First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway" Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Read/share/subscribe:zeteo.comFirst Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It AnywayDonald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself. 43442143
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 19hGood morning with good news: Sales of EV trucks in China skyrocket 80% in H1 2026! BNEF says EV trucks will be 33% of truck sales in 2026. But Sinopec Research Institute says EV trucks will be ~50% of sales in 2026! EV truck exports more than double! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... #energyskybloomberg.comChina Has an 18-Wheel Answer to Soaring Global Diesel PricesAround a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security. 33811
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Ember @ember-energy.org · 18h"British households pay for fossil fuel dependence every day at the pump, every summer through heat waves and every year through economy-wide inflation," says Frankie Mayo. Electrotech protects homes from fossil fuel volatility – cutting costs AND emissions. ember-energy.org/lat... 0181
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A good case from @dickpolman.bsky.social that this man’s selfish short-sightedness set us on path to where we are today. Excruciating insights on the wreckage of a legacy. dickpolman.substack.com/p/ralph-nade...dickpolman.substack.comRalph Nader is still a pariah. He deserves to be.Tilting the ‘00 race to Bush was his original sin. We’re still suffering the consequences. 23050896
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 29/09/2026617 days into his 2nd term, Trump's Department of Transportation has *still* not approved a single new transit project for full funding. The problems I highlighted in March—how this lack of funding only makes projects cost more & delays completion—have only worsened www.urban.org/urban-wire/r... 623498
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026BREAKING from @jendlouhy.bsky.social and Ruth Liao: TRUMP to announce $54B Alaska LNG plan backed by South Korea and long championed by embattled Senator Dan Sullivan, who faces tough fight against Mary Peltola in key battleground www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comTrump to Unveil $54 Billion Alaska LNG Plan Amid Midterm WoesPresident Donald Trump is set to unveil South Korea’s plan to invest some $200 billion in the US, including $54 billion for a long-stalled venture to export natural gas from Alaska that’s been champio... 41913
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠NITA Chicago @nitachicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026More frequent service. Safer, more accessible stations and stops. 🚇 Tell NITA which improvements would make the biggest difference in your transit experience. Your feedback will help shape regional budget priorities. 🗓️ Take the survey by Oct. 16: bit.ly/4AJCzRe 03020
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Data for Progress @dataforprogress.org · 29/09/2026Our new polling finds that Americans have significantly reduced their participation in social activities over the last 30 years. There have been double-digit declines in Americans entertaining people in their homes, going to club meetings, and doing volunteer work since 1995. 273
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠David Powe @davidpowe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NITA budget prioritization survey just dropped: polco.us/n/res/vote/n...polco.usWhat Moves You? Help Shape the 2027 NITA BudgetPolco is a secure and reliable place to provide input directly to local and state leaders, as well as other socially minded organizations. 12915
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026This is the second ruling against the illegal recision of Solar For All money. In a country with rule of law in effect, that would be it -- the money would be restored. But we have to ask ourselves whether Trump will simply ignore the ruling & if so whether there will be any consequences.utilitydive.comFederal judge restores $7B Solar for All program, says EPA illegally axed itA Trump-appointed judge said the One Big Beautiful Bill Act did not convert the funding into “a lump-sum amount subject to EPA’s discretion.” Defendants acted contrary to Congress’ intent and with “no... 6304100
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠PBS News @pbsnews.org · 27/09/2026House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda, with investigations of President Donald Trump, his family and his administration if the party sweeps control of the chamber from Republicans in the November elections. to.pbs.org/4hjKHyIto.pbs.orgHouse Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option“There is a cost to the American people of the out-of-control corruption,” said Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who is in line to become House speaker if Democrats win control at the Ca... 91742143
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026U.S. manufacturing jobs are down under Trump, including in the auto industry. His strategy failed, and so will this. Lowering standards will accelerate what he has already been doing: handing the clean tech future to China and forcing Americans to pay more at the pump. 3162692766
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026A massive Microsoft data centre was fined after a drone investigation revealed the use of illegally operating gas turbines -->> www.theguardian.com/environment/... 7357136
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026In the US context, there is one and only one political strategy that has reliably led to better climate & energy policy.vox.comThis one weird trick can help any state or city pass clean energy policyA political strategy that actually works. 37218
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comRead the document (Gift Article)Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter 20261212203
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Susan Collins has voted to confirm 60+ anti-abortion judges in her time in the Senate, and now she's voted for 3 more just since last week. Nice to see Senator Collins was able to take a break from lying about corruption to give a lifetime appointment to another anti-choice judge. 262011663
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The fact that a bunch of lefty state legislators signed onto this ridiculous anti-nuclear fearmongering letter is unbelievable Cuomo teamed up with RFK Jr. shut down a nuclear plant and it caused NY emissions to skyrocket! 2060480
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is a useful and obvious heuristic here Is there any place Dems actually control ever in all history that has gotten worse in terms of legal protections for trans people? The answer is quite obviously no. Is there anyplace Republicans control that hasn’t? Also obviously no. 324324
Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Benjamin Netanyahu is a corrupt criminal and a disgrace 010
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 24/09/2026Don Jr.-backed drone-parts manufacturer congratulates Eric Trump-backed drone manufacturer on winning a DoD contract. 671266549
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The United States government killed another innocent person.👇 601436674
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project MapBetween 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De... 3822411169
Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Recommended reading. Well summarized account of recent AI controversy and the desperate need for AI regulation ASAP.nytimes.comOpinion | There Is Something We Have to Do Right Now About A.I. (Gift Article)Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West. 010
Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It’s embarrassing that Illinois still gets 15% of electricity from coal 001
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Thread on solar vs. farmland debate: 1/n Enviro writer Bill McKibben: "“If you care about the future of agriculture on this planet,” he added, “you should be focused on driving down carbon emissions so we will still be able to grow things.”" www.canarymedia.com/.../lowell-v....canarymedia.com 14517
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins steered millions of dollars in government contracts to a shady defense contractor in exchange for $150,000 in Super PAC donations. The alleged pay-for-play scheme drew an FBI corruption investigation, which was closed in 2025 after Trump took office. 68742
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026Trump: "In January, at my direction, the United States military conducted a massive military operation penetrating deep into the Venezuelan capital ... it was a war. To the victor belong the spoils." 4441190315
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 22/09/2026@vermontgmg.bsky.social pushes for "a long, long, long series of consequences" when Democrats take charge: "We need to return to punishing people who do obvious crimes. Make Crimes Criminal Again." His list of such crimes is devastating (and only partial). www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...doomsdayscenario.coIt's the accountability, stupid.Doing crime 913336
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Building Decarbonization Coalition @buildingdecarb.org · 21/09/2026CA's heat pump market is moving. Search interest skyrocketed in the past year. 2,450+ trained contractors are listed on #TheSwitchIsOn. CA households save $304/year on average by upgrading to a #heatpump. And the CA Heat Pump Partnership will continue to drive these efforts 💪 bit.ly/4haWj8J 042
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trump's move to ban outlets he doesn't like from reporting inside the White House comes amid a wave of bad news less than 2 months before the midterms: *Record diesel prices, $4+ gas, ~7% mortgages, higher interest rates, high fertilizer prices, ~$7 beef. *Terrible polling for Rs, Trump *Etc Etc Etc 22538150
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I for one am loving the electrification of small landscaping tools. Just walked past a couple guys on a city crew with an electric mower and line trimmer, and it was quiet with no toxic gases. 1934214
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread) 7049491258
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We need a crash program to get New England off of oil heat. Stat. 1631841187
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Final vote for the solar project rezoning goes to county commissioners on 9/28, so I am once again asking friends and neighbors to write emails they shouldn't have to write to ask elected officials to accept gobs of money while respecting property rights and doing a good thing. 163
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Gas Prices: 🚗Regular: Today: $4.36 Month Ago: $4.06 Year Ago: $3.18 🚚Diesel: Today: $6.31 Month Ago: $5.44 Year Ago: $3.70 37626
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My kids have measles, I can't afford gas or steak, I can't get a mortgage, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now there are signs outside the Smithsonian accusing the curators of political bias. 181396325
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 16/09/2026House GOP leaders cancel votes on Thursday - sending lawmakers home later today until after the elections. That means the House can avoid a vote on the Hegseth impeachment plan from Rep. Thomas Massie R-KY. 79701287
Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Wouldn't it be nice if we had a president who wasn't doing everything possible to make life worse for everyone? 000
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/09/2026This is very cool. NYC chose this company to put curbside chargers in. They use power from the buildings they are adjacent to, run beneath the sidewalk, which avoids the need to dig up the street & connect to the main power line. They are also BYOC -- bring your own cable. Light, fast, unobtrusive. 1237574
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Chicago’s 3,916 new units ranked just ahead of Omaha, Nebraska (at 3,776). Suburban Cook County permitted just 1,053 units in 2025." 0124
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Thomas Bamonte @thomasbamonte.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Analysis @rsday.bsky.social: Issuance of new housing permits in 2025: On a per capita basis, Chicago ranks 410 among all 534 jurisdictions with at least 100,000 residents. We’re dead last among the 21 jurisdictions with a population of more than a million. citythatworks.substack.com/p/were-in-a-...citythatworks.substack.comA list of places that permitted more housing than Chicago last yearWe're in a dead heat with Omaha, Nebraska 11510
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/09/2026I still think there is not a good awareness out there of just how much the AI industry plans to run off fossil fuels. This is a *conservative* estimate that excludes many planned projects. These are weak plans and they can be stopped. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-data... 4190101
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026probably the most heavily debated "policy" in my lifetime was Obamacare and the result of it was not that any of the debates got resolved, John Roberts just randomly took a meat clever and excised like half the stuff in it on a whim. Who cares if that's how actual policy gets made. 981488
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026I said it at the time (and before!), but I truly believe that American voters electing Donald Trump for a second term in 2024 was the dumbest and most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity 901134892277
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠PBS News @pbsnews.org · 15/09/2026Yemen's Houthi rebels have seized the strategic islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish in the southern Red Sea, bolstering the Iran-backed rebels' ability to control a key maritime shipping route. to.pbs.org/3UStODZpbs.orgHouthis seize 2 strategic Red Sea islands, and other Mideast developmentsYemen's Houthi rebels have seized the strategic islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish in the southern Red Sea. This move strengthens their control over a key maritime shipping route. 45837
Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026He is clearly unfit to serve and needs to be replacednytimes.comMcConnell Returns to Senate After Three Months Away (Gift Article)Senator Mitch McConnell, the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican and former leader, had been absent for more than 13 weeks after a health incident, fueling questions about his ability to continue serving. 010
Reposted by Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠George Pearkes @peark.es · 14/09/2026Bear-hugging data centers remains the funniest part of his midterms strategy 3661756