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Chad Gregory

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Product Manager / Planning & Zoning Commissioner / Precinct Committeeperson

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 01/08/2026
Breaking News! Code: Bonkers! As of July 31st, Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperatures are now 2.48°C above the 1991-2020 baseline and more than 1.15°C above the previous daily high. The Climate Casino took the "Over" on 2.5°C by August 1st. Stay tuned!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If you don’t think some asshole softball dad will humiliate a cisgender girl for hitting an oppo bomb off their daughter by challenging their gender you have never met a youth sports parent in your life.
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 30/06/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 North Carolina legislature passes most comprehensive parking mandate reforms in the country! Water conservation groups and proponents of small businesses and main streets come together for a bipartisan success story!
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
To be clear: in the United States, heat kills more people than cold, and it's not even close. www.weather.gov/hazstat
A chart from NOAA: Weather Fatalities 2024. The thirty-year average is 7 times more heat deaths than cold deaths. In 2024 roughly 11.5 times more people died from heat than cold.
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 23/06/2026
North Carolina State Senate just passed (44-1) H.162 the PARKING LOT REFORM/STORMWATER CONTROL bill! Costly parking mandates will be prohibited in more than 90% of the entire state starting 1/1/27 (pending an expected concurrence vote). Congratulations to everyone who put in time on this!!
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 22/06/2026
Disabled students in this country are about to get bounced between three different federal agencies just to get the education they’re legally entitled to.
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Trump Breaks Up Education Dept., Prompting Worries Over Civil Rights
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building wider roads leads to more cars stuck in the same congestion. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com
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What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse
The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note ...
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Paint has begun stripping off the Reflecting Pool just days after Trump's $14 million repainting was finished
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 07/06/2026
More than half of the publicly identified donors to Trump’s golden ballroom have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion. Corruption at its finest.
Washington Post Article: Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds
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Chad Gregory @chadmgregory.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral.
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Hard to believe I’m even writing this. Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C than its annual average.
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Run On Climate @runonclimate.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
One cities decision can inspire hundreds of others… 👥📣 Local climate action plans have been taking the nation by storm and many US cities have invested in water management 💧, renewable energy ⚡️, sustainable housing 🏠, and more! See how local communities are creating their own solutions below ⬇️
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All Cities with Climate Action Plans - Zero Energy Project
This listing identifies all the currently known municipalities committed to building climate action plans and includes links to their actual plans. Zero Energy Project will  keep this list up to date ...
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mathewi @mathewingram.com · 28/05/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/05/2026
yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 23/05/2026
Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.
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Alarm as GOP lawmakers hand themselves cash offer: 'Republicans in Congress did what???'
Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.Levin took to X to announce that he had introduced an ...
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Lake County Democrats @lakedems.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. Our elected officials in Lake County have worked hard to raise awareness and build support for those living with mental health issues. Though we highlight it in May, this important work happens throughout the year.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This is what we are trying to combat. From the fucking Washington Post.
OPINION by Roger Pielke Jr.
The climate apocalypse?
Don't count on it.
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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We have a new term that we shouldn’t have to have: “data center heat islands”. Data centers expell so much exhaust heat — and moisture from their cooling systems — they create their own hellscape microclimate. Welcome to living out the Lorax.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The GAO, Congress’s independent watchdog, reports that improper payments surged to $186 billion, with $153 billion of that coming from overpayments alone. This shows it was never about the money, only the data.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
When I asked for advice on what to say in this commencement speech for Middlebury, someone replied: “Just tell the truth. Kids love that shit.” Advice taken! Maybe my favorite thing I’ve written. open.substack.com/pub/ayanaeli...
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Be Tenacious on Behalf of Life on Earth
My 2023 commencement speech 🎓 at Middlebury College
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The USS Arizona is not a tourist attraction. And Navy SEALs escorted Patel and nine guests on the trip. These are elite special operations forces not a babysitting service for a recreational snorkel outing. That’s a misuse of military resources.
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Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel’s Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Kash Patel is facing backlash after a New York Times investigation confirmed that the FBI Director took part in a “V.I.P. snorkel” excursion near the USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor a sacred war grave where more than 1,100 American service members lost their lives.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:
The months between signing and ratification were a busy period for the country. The proceedings of the Constitutional Convention had been kept secret, so each state needed to inform its voters of what exactly the proposed new government contained. Congress therefore directed the state legislatures to call ratification conventions in each state, with delegates specifically elected to approve or disapprove the new government.

However, this meant that each state from New Hampshire to Georgia had to receive a copy of the text, submit it to public debate, elect delegates, meet, vote, and return the results to Philadelphia. In an era where the speed of travel was limited by horseback, stagecoach, and boat, this was no quick feat. After the end of the Convention the news of the Constitution spread out in a wave, and thousands of copies were republished by local printers and distributed for debate. A flurry of newspaper articles, pamphlets, and public meetings followed, hotly debating whether the Constitution would be a good framework for a new national government.

Part of the debate and ratification process involved translation: non-negligible portions of the electorate spoke languages other than English. To reach them, the document was translated into Dutch in New York and German in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/05/2026
where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Why don't we have better public transit, and more safe routes to walk, roll and cycle? "It’s the fossil fuel industry that wants you to burn more gasoline. It’s auto manufacturers who want to keep you buying more cars." #UrbanTruth #climatesky
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Adam Mockler @adammockler.com · 11/05/2026
Could you get any more vile?
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Chad Gregory @chadmgregory.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
More importantly, not all the time do their incentives align with what is best for society. Which is the case here.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
“In sum, the researchers uncovered extensive ways that the oil, auto, roadbuilding & trucking industries exert their influence for their benefit. Their experience and political connections are deep…working with state departments and public officials to advance their own industry-oriented campaigns.”
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 09/05/2026
We don't ordinarily publish posts at [checks watch] 8:51 PM on a Friday night, but state constitutional law expert Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social has an outside-the-box idea for reversing the VA Supreme Court that is very much worth taking seriously: Dems can simply lower the retirement age.
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How Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme Court
The state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age. They should use it.
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Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
First time with multiple 10-game win streaks in a season since 1935. It's May 8th.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A bit of cheerleading for you: Even some gerrymandered seats are not 100% certain to go the way the GOP wants in a wave election. In the last five midterm elections, the incumbent's party lost 9, 13, 30, 40, and 63 seats. Do you know how many turnovers Democrats need to flip the House? Three.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Another data point in the everything-is-housing theory: A 10% increase in local rents raises the likelihood that non-college men live w/ their parents by about 1.1% --rising housing costs could explain roughly a third of the employment decline among non-college men. aibm.org/research/hig...
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Higher rents keep men at home
Rising housing costs are pushing men out of the workforce as more live with parents instead of working.
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Chad Gregory @chadmgregory.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
9 in a row, again!
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Remembering the Bill Gates memo arguing he could do more good for the poor if he deprioritized climate change.
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Chad Gregory @chadmgregory.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
8! Go Cubs Go
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/05/2026
Look I'm no political strategist but it seems to me that when the President's chief financial advisor is going around gleefully talking about how great it is that everyone's spending more on things and that credit card spending is up, that would be useful for opposition political messaging...
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Chad Gregory @chadmgregory.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Because there will always be an opposition party, I get where he's coming from. But the GOP he's talking about still had a significant contingent that called him a terrorist and denied that he could have been born in the US because of his name and skin color.
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Chad Gregory @chadmgregory.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
7 in a row, 17 of their last 20!
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MrPassportKing @mrpassportking.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The Ohio Governor's race is set. Former Trump DOGE MAGA billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy will face Democrat Dr. Amy Acton for Ohio governor. Ohio hasn't elected a Democrat governor in 20 years. If you live in or know someone in #Ohio, let's network to rally the blue troops. We have had enough of Trump.
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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I hope all my friends in Ohio have the courage to vote for Amy Acton for governor.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Fossil fuel phase-out is not only possible, it’s necessary for humanity to continue to prosper over the next decades, centuries, & millennium. Thankfully, Ministers from 60 nations who gathered last week in Santa Marta, Colombia, understand that and are beginning to work towards phase-out.
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 05/05/2026
This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*
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Chad Gregory @chadmgregory.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
How about literacy-literacy? Financial literacy, even
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