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Jamie Valdez

@coolvibes27.bsky.social
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Environmentalist, water protector, justice warrior, science advocate, nature lover working to create a future worth living for our next seven generations.

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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Don't fall for the jobs mythology regarding data centers, Pueblo. We need real jobs, not false promises. #PuebloDeservesBetter
forbes.com
Tax Breaks For Data Centers Bring Few Jobs
Data centers are central to the digital infrastructure powering the modern economy—but they may not be the robust job creation engines some proponents would claim.
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The fear that it will happen to them stems from an implicit admission that they did it to others. #GreatReplacementTheory #Colonialism
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Your healthcare and childcare costs are going up so that ICE can have the largest budget of any government agency in U.S. history, even larger than the Marines, and...
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If we put even half as much thought & energy into protecting the health of our watersheds as we put into development that ends up polluting them, there might not be any need for a pipeline. The pipeline represents decades or more of failure or all-out refusal to do so. #SeventhGenerationPlanning
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
My op-ed published in today's Denver Post print edition Residents should not pay for Xcel's coal mistakes
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Being against the genocide in Gaza doesn't mean you're antisemitic. It means you're anti-genocide.
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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Everyone should be prepared for the fact that whereas with Iraq, anti-war protesters were smeared as traitorous terror lovers, this time we will also be smeared as bigoted anti-semites.
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Pueblo folks, please show your support for environmental justice for our community by following our new organization, Roots to Resilience. It's greatly appreciated!
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A study by the conservative Common Sense Institute pegs everything from lost coal jobs to higher utility bills on Colorado’s regulations, but correlation does not equal causation.
coloradosun.com
Report claiming environmental policies steal billions from Colorado’s economy based on bad math, advocates say
Common Sense Institute says greening up Colorado has enormous economic costs, but many dispute their methods and conclusions.
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
"Hands Off" Rally in Pueblo 3/5/25
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/03/2025
This is what corruption looks like.
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
At every level of government and society, we're losing because we keep ceding ground and ceding the narrative bit by incremental bit. Stop ceding ground and the narrative out of anticipatory obedience and fight for something better for once! Ffs! #PuebloDeservesBetter!
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"It is only when you begin to compromise that trouble begins. So far as I am concerned, it does not matter what others may say or think or do, as long as I am sure that I am right with myself and the cause." --Eugene V. Debs
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Pueblo organizer Jamie Valdez says labeling hazardous expensive nuclear power as clean energy could jeopardize the renewable projects that have already proven their efficacy and are well on their way to powering Colorado’s energy needs. Reqd more below.
kgnu.org
CEA Day Of Action; No BVSD School Thursday – KGNU Community Radio
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
CNN reports that in a private meeting, Senator Michael Bennet erupted, accusing Democratic leadership of having "No strategy, no plan, and no message on this spending bill" (direct quote)
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/03/2025
Poll Finds Most Americans Would Swap Democracy For $100 Best Buy Gift Card theonion.com/poll-fi...
Poll Finds Most Americans Would Swap Democracy For $100 Best Buy Gift Card
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We can't solve the problem of a dirty, polluting, unreliable, climate change-contributing coal plant with the same errant "jobs & economy" logic that brought us the damn thing in the first place! If we don't do things differently, nothing will ever change. #Xcel #ComanchePlant #PuebloDeservesBetter
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Jeri Jensen @jerijean.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 05/03/2025
Trump has already been an unmitigated disaster as president. #JointSession #SOTU
Trump’s presidency has been a disaster so far
:x: 42,000+ lost jobs
:x: Billions in American clean energy funds frozen
:x: Highest electricity bills since the 1990s
:x: Critical agencies like NOAA and Forest Service gutted
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thrilled to share that I just spoke at Environmental Grantmakers Association 2025 Federal Policy Briefing! Big thanks to the organizers and everyone who joined the session.🌟 Your presence made it special! - via #Whova event app
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I am speaking at Environmental Grantmakers Association 2025 Federal Policy Briefing. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! - via #Whova event app #NuclearFreePueblo #NuclearFreeColorado #EnvironmentalJustice #RootsToResilience
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thread (1/5) Honored to be presenting as a part of this distinguished panel of experts for the Environmental Grantmakers Association's 2025 Federal Policy Briefing. If you're going to be in the Washington D.C. area, come check us out! Description & link below: Big Tech’s recent promotion of...
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
TVA is dealing with unplanned outages at all three of its nuclear plants. The necessary upgrades will cost TVA millions on top of the billions it's spending to build new natural gas plants. Six of the commercial nuclear reactors in the U.S. are putting no electricity on the grid, according to NRC.
knoxnews.com
Three TVA nuclear reactors are shut down at once, pushing utility to ramp up fossil fuels
Tennessee's electricity supplier is spending millions to buy more power from other companies while three nuclear reactors are shut down.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 11/02/2025
"If our weather forecasting industry were to be entirely privatized, as Project 2025 envisions, it could leave entire areas of the country without proper forecasting and essentially in the dark." Trump and Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle NOAA are putting lives at risk. Full stop.
fastcompany.com
Trump wants to dismantle the agency that provides weather forecasts. It will make your life worse
The Trump administration and Elon Musk are reportedly taking aim at NOAA, the agency responsible for the National Weather Service and many other crucial functions.
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Join Alysia Bellamy, M.A., M.Ed., for an important lecture on Anti-Blackness and Micro-aggressions! ✊🏽 Deepen your understanding of how to be anti-racist and help uplift and celebrate Black History Month with your community. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn and engage in a powerful conversation!
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Thread (1/4): On these cold mornings, you can really see the #AirPollution coming from Black Hills Energy's fossil gas-powered Pueblo Airport Generating Station. The emissions from this plant, like a lot of toxic air pollutants, are generally invisible at warmer temperatures (above freezing), but...
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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Crazy to see how many people get more upset over a DNC staffer doing a land acknowledgment then the world’s richest man taking our money, stealing our social security numbers, making himself King and trying to put chips in our heads.
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We have no opposition party
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Crazy that the same people who insist we never politicize some issues (including those political by nature) seem to have no problem with Trump slinging insults at political rivals in a press conference that was supposed to be about a plane crash where 67 lives were lost not 12 hrs after it happened.
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National News Breakdown @mrbouverette.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
45 posted on T.S. about his tariffs that there will "Be some PAIN" for Americans but, "It will all be worth the PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID." Read that again. No one, except himself and his circle, voted for this, not even his cult following base. #TrumpTariffs #Tariff #MAGAPriceTag #AmericaPays
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The wells, most of which are on federal land, are not producing and have been passed from company to company, racking up environmental violations.
coloradosun.com
107 oil and gas wells owned by a company based in a Highlands Ranch home are about to land on Colorado’s orphan list
The wells, some on public land, are not producing and have been passed from company to company, racking up environmental violations
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
THIS is why Trump is going after birthright citizenship - because citizenship wasn't granted to Indigenous Americans until 1924 & he figures he can use this technicality to continue the American tradition of forced removal of Native peoples from their homelands.
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
BREAKING: Trump Blames Diversity for Plane Crash After He Guts Airline Safety. You can't make this stuff up. He's either that dumb or he thinks we are.
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
“We’re just in a really good position to take our time & make better decisions for our community moving forward than we have in the past,” (Jamie) Valdez said. “Pueblo deserves better. We need to put a higher value on our health & our local environment, but also our labor.
denverpost.com
Push for nuclear energy in Colorado gains new support in legislature as technology advances
After years of attempts to open Colorado up to nuclear energy, a bill before the legislature this year is showing new promise for the effort as Democrats sign up as co-sponsors alongside the longti…
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Big Tech wants to plug data centers right into power plants. Utilities say it’s not fair
apnews.com
Big Tech wants to plug data centers right into power plants. Utilities say it's not fair
Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals that would let them plug directly into power plants.
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The Largess @thelargess.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I made a tracker for this. Still updating: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com
Company Policy Tracker for Consumers
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Four examples of Democratic messaging since yesterday. I know which one I'm supporting. And voting for.
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
My pooch.
My pooch
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
@votesolar.bsky.social dinner at @raicesbrewing.bsky.social - good times!
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
All these tech bros, celebs, and fake progressive politicians who've been screaming at the top of their lungs about how Trump represents the end of American democracy in order to fundraise now lining up to kiss the ring is exactly what's wrong with this country and the world. Disgusting!
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Popcorn anyone?
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This is NOT good. Many states have resisted nuclear waste storage plans. Northwestern Colorado is quietly opening the door.
coloradosun.com
Many states have resisted nuclear waste storage plans. Northwestern Colorado is quietly opening the door.
Some in a rural corner of Colorado see opportunity in storing spent fuel that other communities have turned away
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
100,000 years! That's how long the radioactive waste from nuclear reactors has to remain buried on-site in order to protect us from contamination. With every nuclear reactor, we're creating problems our grandkids and their grandkids will have to figure out how to solve. Totally irresponsible!
reuters.com
Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel
Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years.
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Working at the intersections of environmental justice and social justice with Dr. Velma Campbell (@velmac87.bsky.social) and state President, Portia Prescott.
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Considering the high costs of remediation of some of the contaminants polluting the Fountain, this may not be quite enough, but it's a damn good start.
krdo.com
Gov. Polis announces $700,000 in grant funding to support restoration of Fountain Creek Watershed
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – On Jan. 8, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced $700,000 in grant funding is coming to the Fountain Creek Watershed to
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Jamie Valdez @coolvibes27.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
First, Black Hills Energy hits our low-income community with a rate increase, then Mayor Graham puts forth the bright idea of raising taxes. #PuebloDeservesBetter
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The policy changes Zuckerberg announced today leave in place the blanket ban on hacked documents, including even newsworthy ones. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/zuckerberg...
kenklippenstein.com
Zuckerberg Declares War on Censorship
Is he for real though?
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