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Kendall Dix

@kendalldix.bsky.social
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Climate policy at @taprootearth.bsky.social. Former cook. Former fisheries and EJ organizer. KC born. LLM in food and ag policy.🌹🌱

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excellent, sensible, and welcome thoughts from @rephuffman.bsky.social, ranking member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, on the Senate permitting deal.
My thoughts on the Senate's permitting reform bill: 
 
Passing a good permitting reform package will be one of my top priorities for the next Congress, so I'm very interested in these Senate negotiations. 
 
From what I've seen, Senators Whitehouse and Heinrich have done some good work, but they've been negotiating from a position of weakness and the tentative deal unveiled today raises significant questions and concerns that would have to be resolved before most Democrats could support it. 
 
I'm all for streamlining transmission and clean energy buildout, but the threshold requirement before making major policy concessions is to actually end Trump's war on renewables so that hundreds of bottled-up clean energy projects can bring that affordable power to the grid. Further, we can't throw states, tribes, impacted communities, and threatened and endangered wildlife under the bus. And as we streamline and cut red tape, we must make sure the American people — not just powerful corporate interests — have a say in government decisions about what happens to our air, water, and public lands. That's what serious, responsible permitting reform looks like.There's a way to get there, and parts of this deal are helpful, but some of it concedes too much. Hollowing out the Endangered Species Act through the delegation of authority and problematic definitions, for example, is so extreme that a milder version of it spooked several House Republicans off of Bruce Westerman's ESA bill earlier this year, so you can imagine how it's going to land with the American people who overwhelmingly support protecting wildlife. And the provisions that seek to guarantee fair treatment for wind, solar, and battery storage are novel, untested, and don't really end the war on clean energy, but they will still trigger cries of "Green New Deal" and fierce opposition from the House Freedom Caucus, clouding any path to pass this deal through the House unless it gets much worse. And knowing the GOP players, that's exactly what will happen if this bill advances in the lame duck. 
 
The bottom line for me, and I believe most Democrats, is that November 3rd is coming and we are likely to soon have a far better negotiating position. Folding our hand now or in the lame duck makes no sense when we can keep working on this and, in a few more months, have a much better deal that works for everyone.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 30/09/2026
One thing to bear in mind about a federal permitting bill is that its mistakes would be essentially permanent - Dems could only reverse mistakes with a filibuster-proof 60-vote supermajority in the Senate. Repubs, on the other hand, could use captured courts to shave off bits their donors dislike.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SCOOP: the ICE officer who shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin wasn't wearing his body cam. The officer is a new recruit hired by the agency last year 🔽 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 20/09/2026
ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...
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ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year
Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media.
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Worth noting that we are seeing the quietest Atlantic hurricane season since sorta decent record-keeping began in 1851.
arstechnica.com
This Atlantic hurricane season is about to do something that hasn't happened in 175 years
But there may be a price to pay for a quiet Atlantic hurricane season.
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Mikey Smith @mikeysmith.com · 12/09/2026
So we were having a laugh and a joke in the newsroom this morning, about how Trump's Ireland trip was either going to be entirely news free, or that he was going to call for Irish unification. I should never have doubted him. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Trump fires twin torpedoes into UK's special relationship with latest remarks
PM Andy Burnham has ruled out a referendum on Irish unification - but Trump said reuniting Ireland would be a "great thing...how can it be bad?"
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Kendall Dix @kendalldix.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is already happening in Virginia with opposition to grid upgrades. People around me are opposing Dominion’s Valley Link project because the electricity “just going to northern Virginia for data centers.”
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
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Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New this week: the US murder rate is the lowest it has ever been and is falling at the fastest rate it has ever fallen. How long would this trend have to continue to reach the murder rates in European countries? Quite a while, it turns out. I wrote about it here! jasher.substack.com/p/when-will-...
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When Will The US Murder Rate Catch European Rates?
The US had the largest one-year drop in murder ever recorded in 2025.
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“New Jersey and New Mexico have seen arrests double, despite both states passing laws this year that restrict government cooperation with ICE.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted
As immigration arrests hit record highs, ICE appears closer than ever to meeting its goal of 2,000 daily arrests.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/08/2026
And as I've been tracking, it's been eight months since Trump admitted a single refugee into the United States (Biden admitted 100,060 in 2024; white people from South Africa don't count.) There is now no longer a legal path for non-white people to become a U.S. permanent resident or citizen.
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Kendall Dix @kendalldix.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One of my wife and i’s first concerts together was Dolly Parton at the smoothie king center in New Orleans. And I love this song so much, we played it at our wedding even though it’s pretty clearly about getting divorced www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf69...
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Light of a Clear Blue Morning
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Friday was the hottest day *ever recorded* for Earth's oceans, on average. Oceans continue to absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from global warming: www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti... via @sfchronicle.com
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Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive
Human-caused global warming and a strong El Niño are adding excess heat to the oceans, threatening marine life and providing storms with more energy and moisture.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
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The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026
New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:
unraveledpress.com
Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A few weeks ago, the world crossed a major solar milestone: 3 terawatt installed. Why did no one notice? 0.1 TW to 1 TW: 120 months 1 TW to 2 TW: 29 months 2 TW to 3 TW: 19 months Gift link to the story 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For years, I've argued that we focus too much on "managed retreat" from climate danger, and not enough on movers' "managed arrival" in new places. It will take work to get that right! Thrilled to see NYT covering. Cincinnati's plans on this. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/c...
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A City With a Plan
Cincinnati wants to take in people fleeing climate disasters. Plus, the latest on fires in Europe.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/08/2026
It is a wild experience checking in on the nukefluencers who only years ago were cosplaying as sign-holding millennial climate activists and are now just flat out unhesitating open MAGA freaks
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
lol
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Kendall Dix @kendalldix.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wonder if people will do to Boston what they usually do to New Orleans, which is blame them for living there in the first place.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It turns out insurance companies believe in climate change whether you do or not
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Imperial violence by armed petrostates (Russia, US) has created their own worst nightmare, a world racing to get off the fossil fuel rollercoaster The Dawn of the Electric world order Ukrainians, Houthis and Iranians have been the armed wing of the Green new deal open.spotify.com/episode/0ESb...
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Kendall Dix @kendalldix.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Exactly. And this is all you need to know about the push for “permitting reform” to know it’s not in good faith.
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Kendall Dix @kendalldix.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Some people seem to believe that operating a public store would cause less overall food to be available in the city, rather than just shifting existing consumption to the public store. Doesn’t seem likely to me, but I also wouldn’t consider it a policy failure if people ate more healthy food
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Matthew Wollenweber @mjw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
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How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The cost of the US war on Iran (not counting the cost to Iran nor of human lives) nor of long-term damage to the environment.
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isaac @sevier.io · 24/07/2026
whoa (blue is good, the grid is stable at 60Hz)
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Nature @nature.com · 23/07/2026
The El Niño climate pattern that is strengthening in the Pacific Ocean is on track to be the largest one in at least 150 years, researchers said today at a briefing. go.nature.com/4fkayak
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This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’
Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.
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Kendall Dix @kendalldix.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=j9V7...
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Coffin Dance (Official Music Video HD)
YouTube video by DigiNeko
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Again. This is the author. What are we doing here?
The Somali community is a scourge on the republic. I have been saying this for years. The rampant fraud is just icing on the cake. We should indeed be reviewing if Somalis e.g. lied on naturalization forms, and deport any with deportable offenses.
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Kendall Dix @kendalldix.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Lol
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"The system has 120kms (75-miles) of underground pipes distributing chilled water to museums, offices, hospitals, schools...Instead of thousands of individual air-conditioning units, cooling is produced centrally and shared across the city like a utility." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con
City plans to triple system of underground pipes that distribute chilled river water, reducing need for individual cooling units
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Activate Virginia @activateva.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’"
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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’
Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computer...
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isaac @sevier.io · 30/06/2026
Incredible country.
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
These are precisely the sort of reforms that Abundance-pilled Democrats are working to legislatively entrench via "permit reform," a euphemism for negotiations with Trump Republicans to cede control of our future to energy & technology companies. It's just bipartisan looting.
theguardian.com
Trump officials to slash public input on fossil fuel drilling on federal lands
Plan to limit scrutiny of polluters and shift financial risks to taxpayers is attack on democracy, advocates say
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Kendall Dix @kendalldix.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Just now reading this article about the influence of BP on Princeton’s climate work. And then remembering how much Jesse Jenkins influenced the IRA discourse and how much Louisiana relied on Princeton research to guide its climate task force. :) www.propublica.org/article/wedg...
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How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Ruling against TPS for Haitians, the Trump justices on the Supreme Court have set a new impossible standard for proving discrimination against non-whites: if there is any other reason *in addition* to the racism, the racism doesn’t count www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

“This Court sees race when it wants to, and blinds itself to racism in most other cases,” Melissa Murray, a law professor at NYU, told me. “It’s hard to imagine how egregious the statement would have to be to be considered ‘overtly racial’.”
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Imagine if hundreds of people died in an extreme hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many people. They are an extraordinary silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
climate action saves lives
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In his decision for SCOTUS published this morning, Justice Alito dismissed the idea that the Trump administration would halt all asylum seekers as a mere "hypothetical" not even worth considering.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
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In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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Kendall Dix @kendalldix.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Our culture is not your costume.
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 19/06/2026
In Louisiana, which has more ICE lockups than almost any state, a crisis of prolonged detention is accelerating. Data suggests that the number of immigrants in ICE custody for more than a year has spiked five-fold since 2024. Our story with The Lens Nola: boltsmag.org/louisia...
The number of people in ICE detention for more than a year grew five-fold from March 2024 to March 2026. The proportion of people who've been detained over a year has also grown, from 1% to over 3% of detainees.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The New Statesman asked me to put down a few thoughts about Belfast. On the politics and media that have failed everyone, and how much, and how little, has really changed. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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The Belfast riots: new targets, old hatred
This is the story of a hardcore loyalist element which has stewed for decades in far-right ideology
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 12/06/2026
NEW – Analysis: Solar overtakes gas power in Asia for first time ever | Ho Woo Nam @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/vycGh25
A worker cleans the surface of a solar panel in Central Java, Indonesia. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo
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Kendall Dix @kendalldix.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
American lecturing Belfast on “it can’t happen here” in regards to fascist violence is such a hilarious way to start the day.
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