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Brad Reed

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News 📰 Politics 🗳️ Climate 🌎 Energy⚡Justice ✊ 29% of people think I'm fun at parties. he/him #Oregon

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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 6h
Thanks to my work, Oregon housing starts are outpacing the nation, up 11.3% with 50,000 more homes in the pipeline.
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Mike Rogoway @rogoway.bsky.social · 6h
The governor’s order marks a milestone, putting a halt -- for now -- to the data center industry’s 20 years of uninterrupted growth across Oregon.
oregonlive.com
Oregon Gov. Kotek orders halt to data center air, water permitting: ‘It is effectively a temporary moratorium’
The move puts a halt, for now, to 20 years of data centers' uninterrupted growth across Oregon.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Feels like not enough people are aware of how fully cooked the internal combustion engine is. My mum's old diesel Honda currently costs £120 to fill up, on which it'll do just under 300 miles. My sister's EV costs £6 for a full charge which will take her 280 miles.
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In honor of Energy Dominance month, we’re now buying oil from Russia and funding both sides of one war overseas, because our over-dependence on oil is making us lose another war overseas.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
going from defending ukraine against russia’s unprovoked war of aggression to directly funding the russian war machine what an abject disgrace
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Brad Reed @brad-reed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We're in an age of solutions! We have the technology to lower utility bills, cut climate pollution, and live healthier and safer. Our task is to push our political systems into taking action. People who live in this affordable apt. building will pay zero utility bills. Thank geothermal and solar!
Artist rendering of the 78-unit Nicole Sandoval Building in NE Portland, OR. A 5-story brick apartment building, with street scenes of people walking and biking around a transit stop. The building is all-electric, with solar and heat pumps, which will keep utility bills near zero and protect the climate by cutting pollution.
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
Proposal	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2026
Christ. "Conservatism" now means overruling local government, imposing regulations, and restricting property rights. What a f'ing joke.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don’t really know how to process publishing this and then two days later ICE shoots someone in my actual neighborhood Uptown has seen a sudden uptick in ICE activity since the summer ( + a citizen pepper sprayed in August) but this “quiet summer surge” is getting very loud
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Evan George @evanlgeorge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The cognitive dissonance of jack o’ lanterns in a 100-degree heatwave was made that much worse by realizing there is pumpkin spice sunscreen.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
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Congresswoman Andrea Salinas @salinas.house.gov · 08/10/2026
🚨REMINDER: Oregon elections are safe, secure, and accurate. Don’t let the headlines stop you from making your voice heard. Register by October 13, make a plan, and get the facts below ⬇️
sos.oregon.gov
Oregon Secretary of State : Oregon Online Voter Registration : State of Oregon
Register to vote, update your registration, or change political parties.
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Brad Reed @brad-reed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“For the first time in my career I was able to do what I loved — and not feel like I’m dying.” All-electric cooking is where it's at. All the speed and precision, without all the cancer and asthma-inducing chemicals of gas.
canarymedia.com
Gas stoves put restaurant cooks’ health at risk, new study finds
Dangerous amounts of heat and air pollution swirl in most commercial kitchens — even when the stoves are off. Switching to electric appliances helps…
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today at the Supreme Court, my home town of Boulder, Colorado is going head-to-head against ExxonMobil in a case that could determine the future of climate litigation and holding Big Oil accountable for the toll of its harms and lies. Boulder County residents who have lost homes and health spoke.
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Brad Reed @brad-reed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ironically, the least credit goes to policies that keep delivering larger results over time. Avoided cost is difficult for people to notice. It's baked in. Oregon's new building code will make all homes built from now on incredibly energy efficient. Lower bills for a lifetime.
oregonlive.com
Readers respond: Affordable housing must be energy efficient
Letters to the Editor can be submitted to letters@oregonian.com with full name and place of residence.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026
eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Scoop: The Trump administration is flouting a court order ruling their de facto freeze on wind farm height approvals was illegal, the lead plaintiff in the case told @heatmap.news, after an update to court laid out no new approvals since the edict
heatmap.news
Trump Keeps Wind Farms Waiting Despite Court Ruling
The administration told a federal court that it has a “new analytical methodology,” hence the continued delays.
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John Horvick @horvick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Is the economy good or bad? -Real median incomes reach a new high -Consumer sentiment is at an all-time low -Most people continue to report doing okay financially -Just about an average share of Americans report the economy is the US's most important problem
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
HUGE NEWS: Just now, the US Supreme Court rejected Trump’s attempt to restrict mail-in voting. We’ll keep fighting to ensure Oregon’s elections will be safe, smooth, and accurate this November and beyond. #orpol #oregonelections
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 15/09/2026
Big Oil denying the hazards they knew would result from the use of their fossil fuel products.
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Rep. Janelle Bynum @bynum.house.gov · 15/09/2026
What Oregonians have known all along – mail-in voting is safe and secure. Donald Trump can’t take away your vote, and he can’t take away your voice.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Remember Don Jr’s wedding ceremony? In the Bahamas… Fireworks, dancers… “Just really close friends,” Don Jr. said. Well, guess who paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars of it? A Russian oligarch who is close to Putin. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 14/09/2026
REMINDER: Trump has overseen a larger fall in coal-fired power than any other US president (ie, other things equal, the EPA repealing power-plant CO2 rules means more coal power,…but other things are not equal, because most coal plants are old and expensive) www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-tru...
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You’ve met your match A.I.!
static.klipy.com
Donald Trump Struggles with Umbrella Boarding Air Force One
Alt: Donald Trump Struggles with Umbrella Boarding Air Force One
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Your car is collecting a staggering amount of data about you and selling them. Your bike won’t do that to you.
theverge.com
Your car is selling your data
The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Finally making my way through the UNEP report and surprise! It pisses me off. I'm so fucking sick of people telling us all these ideas that are terrible for humanity are "inevitable." Overshoot, AI, CCS/CDR...we could just as easily decide that energy transition and socialism are "inevitable"
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/09/2026
I am old enough to remember a time when repeatedly lying about your experience on 9/11 to glorify yourself would be viewed as morally contemptible and a disqualification from public service.
readtpa.com
Donald Trump Lies a Lot About 9/11
Like... a lot, a lot.
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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I signed the POWER Act to make data centers pay their fair share. Christine Drazan voted no
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Brad Reed @brad-reed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Your body's cells popping and breaking down. 🥵 Long term muscle damage and higher risk of heart and kidney problems years later. A clearer view than ever of the dangers of extreme heat. We must stop burning fossil fuels that make the planet and our neighborhoods hotter.
bloomberg.com
One Hot Day Can Change Your Body for Years
Heat stroke can damage the brain, heart, kidneys and liver. As extreme heat becomes more common, doctors are learning just how difficult recovery can be.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.
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OPB @opb.org · 30/08/2026
A late July poll by the Portland-based firm DHM Research found that 71% of Oregonians have a negative view of data centers.
opb.org
Data centers emerge as new flashpoint between Kotek, Drazan in Oregon governor’s race
Growing public backlash over data centers is becoming an issue for voters of both parties in the Oregon governor’s race.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/08/2026
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has not granted credentials to individual reporters for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News to cover the G20 finance meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, this week.
nyti.ms
Treasury Bars Some Reporters From G20 Finance Meeting
Specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to cover the meeting of financial leaders next week in Asheville, N.C.
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 30/08/2026
America’s gas plant pipeline is getting bigger every day — but just how much of it will actually get built?
canarymedia.com
America's big but uncertain gas boom
Data centers are driving plans to build tons of dirty gas plants. Experts say it’s nearly impossible to distinguish pie-in-the-sky proposals from…
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Suzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It was wonderful to celebrate the opening of PacWave — the largest wave energy test site in the world 🌎 , on the Oregon Coast! 🌊 With more extreme weather events and skyrocketing energy costs, we must invest in clean, renewable energy.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/08/2026
There is basically no distinction left between the oil companies & the administration. The casual corruption here is just breathtaking.
eenews.net
A White House official helped an oil company advance its projects. Now she’ll lead its DC office.
Brittany Kelm’s departure from the White House to lead the Washington office of a Houston oil company has raised questions about the close proximity between
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2026
john roberts, basically: "trump can lawlessly destroy the white house and build a new installation with unauthorized taxpayer dollars, as a treat"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My favorite unanticipated climate impact this year is wildfires in France detonating unexploded ordnance from WWII www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
France wildfires reveal hundreds of WW2 shells in village
Explosions heard in Le Porge as the wildfires raged are believed to have have been the old munitions.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2026
The Trump administration claimed it found more than 250,000 noncitizens in just four states, all led by Democrats. But a ProPublica investigation shows the government's pursuit of illegal voting cases has produced meager results.
propublica.org
Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So fa...
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🦋🧿Tempestori 🌬🌊 @tempestori.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I just told someone that some people are poor, they can't afford to get jobs.

He laughed.

But I wasn't kidding.

Gas money, child care expenses, and lack of clothing to meet dress code requirements, are often barriers to employment for low income individuals.

Now you know.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/08/2026
We’re training 10,000 volunteers in seven states we’ve identified as most vulnerable to GOP election interference before, during, and after Election Day: Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio and Texas. Get trained up with organizers on the ground if you’re in one of these states. 👇
act.indivisible.org
Battlegrounds 2026 Survey
The GOP will use every tool at their disposal to rig the 2026 midterms and intimidate voters. That's why Indivisible is countering Republican shenanigans with an aggressive Battlegrounds program to WI...
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Brad Reed @brad-reed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15/08/2026
rbreich * 2d
Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data.
USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences.
The media should be opponents of Trump's police state —
not collaborators.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 14/08/2026
While this criminal Trump administration drags America backward both socially and technologically, China is handing our asses to us.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'll be on @cnn.com International today ~3:30pm ET talking about the wildfires, heat domes and floods we've witnessed this summer, and the role being played by human-caused planetary warming + the effects of an emerging monster El Niño event. Please tune in! www.cnn.com/world
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