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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠

@awilm.bsky.social
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Medical oncologist. Social democrat. Supply side progressive. Clean energy enthusiast. Public transit supporter. YIMBY. Advocate for better government. Views my own.

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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 13h
You’re worried about baseball player salaries? Also the Dodgers are going to win again
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22h
“ABC pulling the story only made it a bigger story. Certainly not what Don Jr. or the WH were going for. And ABC doesn’t look great, either. All of which underscores the need for news that is neither owned nor leveraged by this White House— a commodity vanishingly rare in today’s media environment.”
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ABC News Hands Massive Gift to Trump Family
ABC pulled a critical story on Don Jr. without explanation. I think it’s clear why.
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/10/2026
The power of the purse is Congress’s strongest check on the president. If a president can both spend money Congress refused to give him and refuse to spend money Congress ordered him to spend, Congress no longer has the spending power.
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Why You Must Care About the Ballroom
Trump is defying Congress and robbing the American people to build it.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In medicine it’s suicidal ideation
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn't leave a paper trail.
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump family runs the government, and the government pays the Trump family. This is not a coincidence – it's deep corruption that never would have been tolerated before a convicted felon took over the White House. Vote against all Republicans.
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Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BIG NEWS: Up to 75% of global energy demand could be electrified by 2050 with technologies we already have. Progress is slow and the barriers are mostly political and institutional. Today we launch the Oxford Martin Electrification Accelerator to change that. oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/electrification
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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 07/10/2026
OpenOffice etc have existed for ages. The value is in corporate identity, assumption of liability and so on. The value of Microsoft is really in compliance processes not in application functionality. A company can sue Microsoft if it screws something up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened."
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Senator Susan Collins killed the amendment to protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) -- perhaps the world's premier research center for work on #weather, #climate, models, and remote sensing. Remember that.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "Senator Collins is like an arsonist who helps set the fire and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out."
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Semafor @semafor.com · 06/10/2026
Ethiopia said it had recaptured the capital of Tigray, dealing a major blow to the military alliance that launched an offensive against government forces last month. www.semafor.com/article/10/0...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The taxpayer funded Trump ads seems to me like a case where Trump just wants to show that he can do whatever he wants, no matter how illegal, and no one will stop him. He has plenty of money. He didn’t need to do it. He did it anyway
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Filthy/disgusting diesel emissions destroying air quality and contributing to respiratory disease at Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In other Bolsonaro family news: Carlos (Jair's son) was elected senator, Michelle (Jair's wife) was elected senator, and Jair Renan (Jair's son) was elected as federal deputy.
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Things can always get worse
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They make a great pair. Hope Swift can hold onto the ball moving forward
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Slowly filling with rage as I think about how none of the people who blocked another solar farm last week are going to say a damn word about the asthma factory reopening by my kid's school.
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Love Monangai
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Once you write these pieces, & find this evidence, they are the story. The only story. And yet, for a decade now, the NYT response to discovering unprecedented crimes, constitutional violations, & corruption, has been to just go back to covering Trump & the GOP as "normal politics." I don't get it.
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fair enough. However nowadays when people refer to the “free market” they are generally not referring to an absence of government rules/regulations. You can have a highly competitive market with rules & regulations in place
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Might be easier for Dems to take up the free market mantle if they didn’t have a bunch of high profile party electeds calling themselves “socialists” But agreed Trump and MAGA GOP is as anti free market and free trade as they come
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
Remarkable: an industry that is dying because it can't compete in the market writes a Republican president, asking him to keep the industry alive by brute force, and he says, ok. What would it take for the GOP to lose its reputation as the "free market" party? Seriously, what would it take?
nytimes.com
The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.
In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.
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Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ANOTHER Chicago bicyclist *FATALITY* WHO: 33 yro male traveling on a bicycle West on Lake St WHEN: 6:06 am on Oct 4th WHERE: 200 block of N Lake St HOW: he was struck at the intersection by a driver of a black 2 door sedan traveling South on Homan
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh I guess not he's just in his 21-day practice window. I guess we'll know somewhat soon what his fate is
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Does that mean Kyler Gordon is active?
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hope they make one without a touchscreen
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NITA should be focusing on one very specific kind of autonomous vehicle: automate the Blue Line
A Blue Line train
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you senator, I really hope a permitting reform bill can pass soon. We desperately need it
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 04/10/2026
There are a bunch of specific things I like about our permitting bill, beyond the big important stuff — that it will lower electric costs and emissions, and lift wind, solar and battery power (BIG lift for battery), and add LOTS of good jobs.🧵
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Voting for Trump in 2024 was obviously a moronic thing to do and yet countless Americans gleefully did it anyway with absolutely no rational basis for their decision
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The trade war with Canada is so stupid
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sorry. Seattle does not have better food than NYC or Chicago
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I mean can you imagine living in NYC without a front yard? How vulgar!
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think Tesla and Rivian will be ok
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finally
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
“FedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in diesel” #alwaysbecharging ⚡️⚡️⚡️ electrek.co/2026/10/03/f...
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FedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in diesel
In a record-setting commercial truck deal, international shipping giant FedEx has placed an order for 2,000 all-electric box trucks from...
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 02/10/2026
It’s crazy, but after the passage of the 2021 federal infrastructure law—designed to be the biggest infusion of funds into transit in US history—spending on rail transit….dropped.
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Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I love his aura
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Andrew Wilmington 🧦🏗️🏠 @awilm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Almost got doored again
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Building Decarbonization Coalition @buildingdecarb.org · 01/10/2026
@governor.ca.gov signed #SB222, the Heat Pump Access Act 🎉 This bill will make installations for highly efficient #heatpumps faster, easier, and more affordable for homeowners and contractors statewide. Thank you @scottwiener.bsky.social for your leadership! bit.ly/4ddvH4v #EnergySky
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Governor Newsom signs three bills to make it easier for Californians to install modern, highly efficient heat pumps
SB 222 and AB 1738 will streamline heat pump permitting and inspections for homeowners and contractors statewide, while AB 2313 will offer homeowners the choice to electrify with a financial incentive...
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