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Ben Norris

@bennorris.bsky.social
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General Counsel & Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Solar Energy Industries Association. Personal account, views my own, etc.

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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 9h
I’ve fallen too far behind in my Top Threes, but here are some books from the last month you should be reading: - Alien vs. X-Men - Dinner Date - Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death - Superman: The Stranger
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the CGC fee to grade this was probably 20x the value of this thing
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes, these are all things from the late 90s.
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Top 3 comics (Sept. 9 releases): - Six of Us #1 - Batman: Bad Seeds—Gotham Central #1 - Fury of Firestorm #6
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
anyway i think DC statehood is a non negotiable. only way to give DC residents the tools to protect themselves.
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Top 4 comics (Sept. 2 releases): - Teen Titans #1 - Superman: The Stranger #1 - Legion of Super-Heroes #1 - Batman/Superman/Weird Al World’s Weirdest #1 Top 4 comics (Aug. 26 releases): - Superman #41 - Batman: Bad Seeds—Sunset #1 - Black Tower: The Raven Conspiracy #1 - Bloodland #6
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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Utility-scale solar has no effect on nearby residential property values, Indiana research finds #energysky -- via Solar Power World:
solarpowerworldonline.com
Utility-scale solar has no effect on nearby residential property values, Indiana research finds
A new research brief from Ball State University’s Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) finds no statistically significant negative effects on
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The new Legion of Super-Heroes delivers @joshuawilliamson.bsky.social
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The administration has rigged the entire federal government to favor fossil fuels, and this is what they have to show for it.
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Top 3 comics of last week: - Dispatched #2 - Lobo #6 - New Titans #38
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Lighting is the oil patterns of darts
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Top 3 comics of last week (Aug. 12 releases): - Action Comics #1101 - Seven Wives #3 - Fury of Firestorm #5
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Comic Book Yeti 🎃 @comicbookyeti.com · 12/08/2026
The only data centers I’m interested in protecting.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In a letter today to Trump’s USDA, Senate Democrats claim the administration is poised to chill investment in the energy sector by defining solar and wind farms — and pipelines — as “agricultural land” under an obscure foreign farmland ownership disclosure law My latest for @heatmap.news
heatmap.news
Trump’s USDA Using Farmland Rule to Go After Energy Companies, Democrats Say
A proposed change in how the agency implements an obscure Cold War-era law would impose onerous reporting requirements on renewables and pipelines.
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Top 3 comics of the week: - Deadman #3 - Batman #12 - Supergirl: Survive #3
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The conventional wisdom is the Democrats' big climate law failed to deliver votes and then died. That's wrong. My new study finds its factories moved 2.5 million votes—more than Trump's margin. And the law's still alive. My latest in @theatlantic.com. Gift link! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think
Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Top 3 comics of the week: - Concrete: Stars over Sand #2 - Detective Comics 2026 Annual #1 - Superman Annual Year One Thousand #1
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
No promo for a comic book will ever go this hard again
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Also I try to keep these mini reviews positive but goddamn is Terminal bad. A throwback 90s Image team book (derogatory) with unrecognizable Kubert art. Rotten. Imagine if all those blind bag bucks were spent on readable comics.
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Top 3 comics of the week: - Flash #35 - Superman #40 (both these books have regular laugh out loud moments. North’s Flash in particular should be getting lots of eyeballs) - Bloodland #5 A great final issue in Swamp Thing #91 as well, what a cool mini that hopefully gets Eisner love next SDCC.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is fucking appalling, and Democrats and ~small-government~ Republicans should be shutting the government down over this ongoing, pointless, expensive, anti-freedom, anti-democracy move by Trump. This is not a legitimate use of the military, and everyone knows it.
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Thank God Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou won best letterer for AMM, maybe a bigger relief than Assorted Crisis Events winning Best New Series.
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ok but what if Santos Escobar and Zoey Stark show up
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Bat fans haven’t eaten this good since the 90s
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
BREAKING NYT: Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states "based solely" on whether they backed Trump in the 2024 election.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Reverend Genes @reverendgenes.com.au · 23/07/2026
"Well this is awkward". The US used to to make 95% of international cars. Now about 18% and falling. ICE cars are low tech, high pollution & too expensive to buy & run. US makes 5% of EVs. China makes 75%. Oops. #Time4ChangeUSA #TheTankIsEmpty #2026MidTerms ⚖️ 🇺🇸
abc.net.au
Automakers in shock as China takes over
In June, a bulk carrier made an unprecedented delivery of EVs to Australia, sounding an ominous warning to the world's automakers.
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ACLU of the District of Columbia @aclu-dc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Every dollar spent is a choice. We can either choose to waste billions of dollars on federal overreach and abuse of power, or we can choose to invest in the people and our communities that make real, lasting public safety possible.
A gray gritty background with black and white stylized photos of National Guard troops and a mom holding her baby overlayed red and dark red abstract shapes. Below is white text that reads: “President Trump’s phony D.C. emergency could cost taxpayers across the country over $3 billion. Here’s what our taxpayer dollars could fund instead.”

The ACLU-D.C. logo is in the bottom right corner. A black right arrow is in the bottom left.
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I sense that a Zoup! has opened up on High Street
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
nothing but respect for my Refund King
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Almost done with my read through of THE WICKED+THE DIVINE. The series is like night and day post-<REDACTED>’s return around issue 20. Glad I didn’t give up on it.
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Failed nation
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Top 3 comics of the week: - Assorted Crisis Events #9 (and still the best book on the market) - Banana Number One #1 (specifically the Mark Waid/David Lapham second feature) - Deathstroke: The Terminator #5
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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 14/07/2026
‘Solar is set to oust coal as the leading generator of electricity within six years’
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It’s called Punchbowl because who shit in it send skeet
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Top 3 comics from last week: - Absolute Catwoman #2 - Dispatched #1 - Absolute Batman #22
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Check out our first single, “Old Age Riot”
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Starting a post punk cover band called Sonic Boomers
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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hey. Does anyone know if there is a golden goal in extra time? Maybe they can say something on screen about that.
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Just picked mine up
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
welp glad I got the jump on the spoilers in Absolute Batman #22, sheesh
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Conan The Barbarian #32: also really good!
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Holy hell was Swamp Thing #90 good. Such fascinating pieces at the end on the lettering and coloring of a nearly 40 year old work in progress using modern tools too. @trishmulvihill.bsky.social
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Summer of Supergirl was great, as were the top 3 of last week: - Absolute Martian Manhunter #12 - Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia #4 - 100 Bullets: The US of Anger #1
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Air to Ground Message: PLZ RELAY TO CATERING NO SETUPS OR UTENSILS. CANT EAT CHIMICHANGAS W/FINGERS. Area: Sioux Falls, SD, USA Type: Boeing 737-800 A: #a07705c5566 F: #fded266db57
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Top 3 comics of last week (caveat that I haven’t gotten to Swamp Thing, Summer of Supergirl, or a Conan I randomly picked up yet): - Flash #34 - Superman #39 - Absolute Superman #20
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 25/06/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time What's that you say? Something something demand, something something ZEV mandate? Take a look at the data: www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Top 3 comics of the week: - Lobo #4 - Absolute Green Arrow #2 - Concrete: Stars over Sand #1 One of the harder weeks in awhile, great editions of Deathstroke and Absolute Batman out as well.
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Top 3 comics of the week: - Fury of Firestorm #3 - Bleeding Hearts #5 - Avengers: Armageddon #1
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
the famous indie movie distributed by Universal
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Ben Norris @bennorris.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Top 3 comics of the week: - Supergirl: Survive #1 - The Deadman #1 - Batman #10
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