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Sam Ricketts

@samtricketts.bsky.social
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Seattleite in DC. Work on the clean energy transition. Co-founder, S2 Strategies. Former state govt, congressional staffer, advocate, organizer. www.s2strategies.org

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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The permitting bill is good and Congress should pass it
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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There are 36 governor races on the ballot this November. The stakes are high and they matter more than people may realize. Why? States drive energy policy–and Trump cannot stop state progress on clean energy. But it's up to us to elect leaders bold enough to act. thehill.com/opinion/ener...
A screen grab of "The Hill" with an article titled "States can build America’s affordable energy future" over a picture of solar panels.
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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 08/05/2026
Another incredible #climatejob opportunity with the best team in climate policy and politics! We are looking for a passionate, strategic Michigan State lead! Remote in MI with frequent travel to Lansing! Join us!
job-boards.greenhouse.io
Michigan State Lead - Lobbyist and Strategist
Remote
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Climate Solutions @climatesolutions.org · 08/04/2026
Register now for Climate Solutions' Annual Dinner in Seattle, May 6 (less than a month away!). Our keynote speaker is Wawa Gatheru, founder of Black Girl Environmentalist. Join us! climates.ejoinme.org...
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
i am happy the world won’t end in a nuclear holocaust tonight
man standing up meme
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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Now the fossil guys are going after Bay Area air regulations too. This AI astroturf is going to be a huge problem if these guys don't get the hammer dropped on them pretty fast. Tailor-made for a @robbonta.bsky.social investigation.
sfchronicle.com
‘This was forged’: Residents deny sending emails pushing Bay Area air policy change
At least 10 people listed as sending letters in favor of an air quality policy change said they have no recollection of doing so and weren’t even aware of the proposal in the Bay Area.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/03/2026
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Senate Energy Dems @energydems.senate.gov · 18/02/2026
Rising energy prices aren't inevitable. The Trump administration owns the increases in your electric bill.
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The Trump administration owns the increases in your electric bill.
YouTube video by Senate Energy Dems
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The NYT is always gonna both-sides a story
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I’d give my left arm for two tacos rn
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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Trump is raising American’s electrical costs by his corrupt war on clean energy, but we can fight back with state action. Here’s how; www.theargumentmag.com/p/trump-is-r...
theargumentmag.com
Trump is raising Americans’ energy bills, but states can fight back
State leadership on clean energy can address rising electricity costs
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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 06/07/2025
I do think it is kind of funny that Elon Musk's pitch for his new political party is "I have spectacularly bad judgment!"
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Trump came into office promising to cut Americans' energy bills in half. Instead, his big bill will INCREASE energy bills $400/year. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c...
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a close up of a man in a christmas outfit with the words `` you sit on a throne of lies '' .
ALT: a close up of a man in a christmas outfit with the words `` you sit on a throne of lies '' .
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Robbie Orvis @robbieorvis.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Today, the President will sign the OBBBA into law, repealing and and modifying many clean energy tax credits. Last night we finished updating our analysis of OBBBA at the state-level to see what this bill means for Americans. The results are ugly. Full dataset here: zenodo.org/records/1580...
zenodo.org
EI House OBBBA Modeling - State Results
State level EPS model results used in published EI fact sheets: https://energyinnovation.org/report/one-big-beautiful-bill-act/.
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 03/07/2025
21 House Republicans signed a letter supporting clean energy in their districts. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is keeping them honest: "What are those 21 Republicans going to do when the time comes to vote for this Big Ugly Bill" that guts clean energy jobs? Tell your reps to #VoteNo TODAY.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
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U.S. Climate Alliance @usclimate.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🌡️ Extreme heat is deadly & is being made worse by climate change. States & territories across our coalition are working to protect their communities – from deploying heat preparedness strategies to supporting community resilience & more ⬇️ usclimatealliance.org/policy-priorities/resilience/
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Kristina Costa @slashklc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Senate Republicans continue to consider a reconciliation bill that will cut off booming clean energy investment in the U.S.—killing jobs and raising costs on families just as oil prices and electricity demand skyrocket. A thread of just some recent stories on what their bill means for Americans: 🧵
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."
Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
FACT SHEET: The “Baseload Fallacy”: Undercutting Wind, Solar, and Batteries While Supporting Nuclear and Geothermal Won’t Protect the Grid—Or Families’ Energy Bills, from @ClimatePower climatepower.us/news/fact-sh...
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FACT SHEET: The “Baseload Fallacy”: Undercutting Wind, Solar, and Batteries While Supporting Nuclear and Geothermal Won’t Protect the Grid—Or Families’ Energy Bills | Climate Power
Utility bills are surging across the country in the face of rising demand from data centers and new manufacturing facilities.
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“Repealing [clean energy tax] credits could increase the average family’s energy bill by as much as $400 per year within a decade, according to several studies published this year.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c...
nytimes.com
Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher.
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This week is ass.
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Absolute garbage energy policy Fast-growing zero-emission tech industries supplied 95% of new US grid generation capacity last year Now despite booming energy demand, and new jobs in US manufacturing, the House GOP wants to burn it all down For what? Oil/gas campaign cash
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Today I learned that Rep Jason Smith's voice is annoying af
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New @rhg.com analysis of House GOP plan to kill energy tax credits shows it "will raise energy costs for American households by as much as 7% in 2035, stifle energy technology innovation, increase pollution, and could put significant investment at risk." rhg.com/research/way...
rhg.com
Ways and Means Brings the Hammer Down on Energy Credits
The House Ways and Means Committee issued its proposed language for inclusion in Congress’s massive budget reconciliation package. It’s the opening attempt to reduce spending in order to partially…
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Today, House Republicans are unveiling their plan to increase energy bills and pollution for everyday Americans, just to give billionaires another tax break. A summary of their proposals. THREAD! 🧵
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 12/05/2025
The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A colleague just called this week “Negative Christmas” and holy shit that’s accurate
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12/05/2025
Congress wants to take away money passed in the IRA— to make homes more energy efficient so folks can save money on their bills, to make clean manufacturing & vehicle facilities to grow good union jobs here, to build power transmission to cut emissions & costs— all to pay for tax cuts for rich folks
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7 under subsection (a) of section 50145 of Publie Law 117-8 169 (136 Stat. 2045) is rescinded.
9 (D TRANSMISSION FACILITY FINANCING.-The un-
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(g) GRANTS TO FACILITATE THE SITING OF INTER-
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15 gated balance of any amounts made available under sub-16 section (a) of section 50152 of Publie Law 117-169 (42
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19 TRICITY TRANSMISSION PLANNING, MODELING, AND
20 ANMLYSIS.—The unobligated balance of any amounts
21 made available under subsection (a) of section 50153 of
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Nations with nukes are fighting now cool cool www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...
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India Strikes Pakistan Two Weeks After Terrorist Attack
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Only way to come back from this is to put a whole bunch of people in jail
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Happy National Poetry Month folks lunchboxpoems.tumblr.com
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Uh
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
One of the coal plants just granted an exemption to various emissions regulations for two years also burns tires to run a crypto mining operation. So that’s fun.
splinter.com
47 Coal Companies Granted Permission to Keep Poisoning People
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The-dollar-as-unchallenged-global-reserve-currency has been an enormous advantage for the US, on a scale that very few people understand. It only happened because of the US' unique position in the aftermath of WWII; once it's gone, it's never coming back.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/04/2025
Almost a dozen hatcheries in Puget Sound are in limbo because a single NOAA employee was terminated by DOGE in February. That employee was Krista Finlay and her job at NOAA was to ensure hatcheries complied with the Endangered Species Act before the fish were released into Puget Sound. Read more:
nytimes.com
NOAA Staffing Cuts Threaten Years of Salmon Harvests (Gift Article)
In Washington, where salmon is a multibillion dollar industry, government staff terminations and budget freezes may put salmon production at risk.
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Shravya Jain-Conti @shravya.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"The federal government cannot unilaterally strip states’ independent constitutional authority. We are a nation of states — and laws — and we will not be deterred." Statement from @usclimate.bsky.social‬ co-chairs @governor.ny.gov & @govmlg.bsky.social
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The oil and gas industry is sure getting its $$ worth from its donations to Trump's re-election www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
There are people who want to do something and people who want to be somebody. Be the former, not the latter.
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Trump promised to reduce Americans' energy costs but his whole agenda is doing the opposite Guess who is getting richer tho subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
taps the sign
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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Tomorrow, Trump will claim a US power sector "emergency" justifies forcing ratepayers to bail out uneconomic coal plants. But as I testified to Congress last month, there's no emergency - especially w/ modest flexibility from new data centers. 🔌💡 subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Fun fact Carrie Coon and I share a birthday
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The fascists in the Republican Party have been there all along, they were just waiting for their dictator. They’re not being dragged or coerced, they absolutely love it.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
War crimes: The Palestinian paramedics shot dead by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/04/2025
This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
One of the most impactful things that state and local officials can do to counter the Trump administration's unlawful attacks on federal clean energy programs is to invest in their own state and local green banks. Learn more about state and local green banks here www.usgreenbanks.org
usgreenbanks.org
The U.S. Green Bank 50
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Sam Ricketts @samtricketts.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
pretty wild
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