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isaac @sevier.io · 02/10/2026

Just logged in to nelnet to confirm this and yep, I'm still in forbearance until November *2028* thanks to ignoring all those messages

Repayment Planning
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Payments will begin in Nov 2028.
Your payment amount will be shown on your statement three weeks before your due date.
Please note, although your next due date currently appears far in the future, it will be moved up when you apply for a new repayment plan (due to the end of the SAVE Plan) and resume repayment.

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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026

Found out about this tenant union organizing manual for San Franciscans today from an eviction defense attorney at the meeting I went to. This is tailored to the new rights to bargain collectively with our landlords that tenants won in 2022. sfadc.org/organize/

UNION AT HOME ORGANIZING TOOLKIT

The cover is illustrated with tenants holding posters and banners out their windows in multiple languages

cradt: Fernando Marti

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isaac @sevier.io · 30/09/2026

That's not hyperbole. environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/urban...

Enabling conditions
Political support: Strong backing from the elected official of water management, as well as from the president of the metropole, facilitated the adoption and the implementation of the strategy.
Citizen participation: Civil society representatives were appointed to the Board of Directors of the public water utility (Régie), including user representatives. This helped ensure that user preferences were taken into account in decision-making.

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isaac @sevier.io · 17/09/2026

Important cultural exchange happening here

Junk food haul in Canada:
Maple crème Oreos made with real Quebec maple syrup
Maynard's wine gums
Ruffles all dressed chips
Cadbury x Biscoff milk chocolates
Hobnobs

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isaac @sevier.io · 16/09/2026

Figure out how you're going to organize with your fellow workers

According to Nina DiSalvo, policy director at labor advocacy group Towards Justice, some systems use signals associated with financial vulnerability - including data on whether a prospective employee has taken out a payday loan or has a high credit-card balance - to infer the lowest pay a candidate might accept. Companies can also scrape candidates' public personal social-media pages, she said, to determine if they are more likely to join a union or could become pregnant. The data can be used to determine wage increases after an employee is hired, and the practice can veer into discrimination, experts say.

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isaac @sevier.io · 14/09/2026

This is what people power looks like and with it we can change everything about how we live, play, breathe, and work.

This impressive sweep of council races is a testament to the vitality of the organizing infrastructure that has emerged in the city over the past six years. Under Isaac Slevin and Callie MacDonald, who directed Reclaim's canvassing and political operations, more than 200 volunteers knocked over 25,000 doors across fifteen races, defending incumbent councilors targeted by the landlord and charter school lobbies, preserving and expanding the progressive council majority, and retaining Morales's state representative seat for his endorsed successor, Amy Santiago.

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isaac @sevier.io · 07/09/2026

Down the coast for the day

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isaac @sevier.io · 04/09/2026

You can take a girl outta the Great Plains but

My dialect map with the hottest spot right over Kansas and coolest over all of New England

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isaac @sevier.io · 31/08/2026

The California legislature turning into a sickos content mill

PCG stock, PG&E Corporation, down 20% today

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isaac @sevier.io · 31/08/2026

Solidarity with this icon in these troubling times

Willie Wiredhand is a anthropomorphic electrical cord with a male and female end - male for their legs and female for their head. Their head, hands, and "legs" which are the metal prongs of a plug are painted yellow in this drawing, and their body -- the cord -- is black. At the waist the cord changes into the plastic part of the plug and resembles hips and is striped black and white. Really giving gender if you ask me.

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isaac @sevier.io · 31/08/2026

solidarity with other Great Plains radicals who get called the other biblical I name constantly, LFG

Confirmation of donation for Isaiah for Kansas

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isaac @sevier.io · 26/08/2026

Social movements have real power in shaping the future of mining, and these organized efforts matter enormously for the future of global politics, how corporations and governments respond, and - we could imagine too - how communities and even families look in the green future.

Thea Riofrancos in front of a screen showing several examples of "resisting green extractivism"

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isaac @sevier.io · 22/08/2026

Our blind box from Two Photon Art came in 😍 @christineliu.art

Array of enamel pins from Two Photon Art! I'm going to list them in no particular order.
Pair of lungs on copper with white paint
3 ginkgo leaves on gold painted red, yellow, and orange
A round bottom flask and the round part is a yin yang
A gold square with a sun illustration and "our time to rise" in the sun
A fossil rock with leaf prints
A nautilus shell on gold with grey shades of paint
A cuttlefish in turquoise
A water molecule in copper with the oxygen painted black and the words "water is a human right"
A small black bar that says "</sexism>"
A cross section of a human brain

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isaac @sevier.io · 22/08/2026

Anyway I've made dozens of mutuals online into offline comrades from posting about this stuff and there's a small chance I wind up trying to recruit you into a scheme if you stick around or I'll at least try to meet up if I wind up in your town someday. Happy Saturday!

My white cat rolling around on a wine colored carpet in the sun, his belly facing up and his front paw on the wall for leverage

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isaac @sevier.io · 20/08/2026

Me, cooking beans:

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isaac @sevier.io · 20/08/2026

Trying to live longer over here for some reason

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isaac @sevier.io · 18/08/2026

Is this relevant? Feels relevant. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

An excerpt from a paper, "CHPE links a state-owned hydropower corporation in Québec (Hydro-Québec), its United States-based subsidiary (H.Q. Energy Services U.S., or HQUS), and Transmission Developers Inc. (TDI), a United States-based company acquired by the private equity firm Blackstone in 2010. Here it is crucial to note that Blackstone has simultaneously become one of the largest holders of residential properties in the United States..."

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isaac @sevier.io · 15/08/2026

Reading about quantum computing and correctly visualizing qubits like

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isaac @sevier.io · 12/08/2026

We're moving menstrual products, non-perishable food, and other supplies out into the community there.

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isaac @sevier.io · 09/08/2026

I checked the logs (photo albums from 2008) and sure enough, my summer ended with a Pirates game and a Brad Paisley concert if you can believe it. Not quite sure the route we took, but that's because the drive was a straight shot, no stops, and i napped when i wasn't behind the wheel. Still counts?

Adding on to the same map above, now with a route that runs along I-59, 20, 65, 71, and 70.

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isaac @sevier.io · 09/08/2026

Writing this out unlocked a forgotten childhood road trip from Nebraska over to Pike's Peak! I know this is the route we would have taken because both of my parents hated driving in any city containing more than 200,000 people and thought every driver in a city that size and above was a lunatic.

The same map as higher in the thread but with some more counties across NE, KS, and CO filled in.

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isaac @sevier.io · 09/08/2026

This was a lot of fun and way more time than i want to admit. Have i road tripped from New Orleans to Houston and from New Orleans to Pittsburgh? My memory thinks so, but my brain says both wouldn't have happened, it would be one or the other.

Map of the USA with counties filled in where i have traveled by plane, train, or automobile. Obvious nodes show up in California, Oklahoma, and Iowa. The only three states without counties visited are ND, SD, and SC.

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isaac @sevier.io · 06/08/2026

Someone asked me how read their bill and here's the spreadsheet provided BY THE UTILITY to "understand your electricity bill" lmao

Table of Delivery Charges where every line is a different, inscrutable "rider" that somehow amounts to some $ amount after mulitiplying a kWh volume by something like $0.00093001.

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isaac @sevier.io · 31/07/2026

Me, looking up this fire's location and noticing something, probably nothing 👀

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isaac @sevier.io · 30/07/2026

And there's this refinery about a 20 minute drive from where I live now. Their fates are linked, literally. This verdant, urban oil storage facility is a powerful visual back to back with the brown oilfield that many people would like to pretend doesn't exist at all.

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isaac @sevier.io · 30/07/2026

I'd recognize that oilfield anywhere. The critical need for fossil fuel transition planning, coordinated and under public management, cannot be understated. Just look at what we're talking about, concretely, to do asset transition.

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isaac @sevier.io · 30/07/2026

Last year at a labor conference i met folks in North Carolina organizing farmworkers. El Futuro Es Nuestro's latest update has some information about the extreme cuts to farmworker wages, along with the urgency of preventing deaths in heatwaves. mailchi.mp/8d25b2cfcfd3...

H2A Wage Rate Change from 2025 to 2026 - falls from ~$16 to ~$11. This includes a 'discount' that employers get on wage requirements if they provide housing, which nearly all do.

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isaac @sevier.io · 17/07/2026

We are going to end utility shutoffs and make electricity a human right

Cloropleth of the United States showing the number of utility shutoffs in each state.

Utilities disconnected electricity over 13 million times in 2024 to households with past-due bills

Able to easily see Texas the highest with over 3 million, Florida second

Chart by the energy and policy institute using EIA data

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isaac @sevier.io · 24/06/2026

Yall the gasp that went up when we showed this snipped in a room full of people already mad about their utility corporation. We talked about how there is an entire belief system that makes this type of policy and speech socially acceptable and how our task is to drive this out root and branch.

"People think much better in the dark," said a speaker who identified himself as a collections supervisor from PSEG Long Island, a utility that serves more than 1 million customers on Long Island and in parts of Queens. The statement was met with laughter.

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isaac @sevier.io · 23/06/2026

Extreme heat kills and our right wing media will turn it into a narrative that abandons people. Here's an example: note that 700 people died in 2 years and the outlet solely stated drug use is the leading cause -- not the heat itself!! (An organizer here said many of these folks were homeless.)

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - The Clark County Coroner's office reported Monday that there were 191 heat-related deaths in 2025.
The report is not final as 90% of cases take up to 90 days to investigate the cause and manner of death, the county said.
The county also added that certain drug classifications make people more susceptible to succumbing to the heat, including the use of certain drugs, including fentanyl.
In addition to the use of drugs, other contributing factors in heat deaths can include illnesses and
medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease, as well as behaviors such as physical exertion, inappropriate clothing, lack of acclimatization, and poor fluid intake.
Heat was a factor in the deaths of 527 people in
2024, according to the county.

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isaac @sevier.io · 21/06/2026

I was told repeatedly that was not a priority, and that I should focus on creating market demand for some widget or another. Kinder people would suggest I join a startup selling LED lamps in Africa. This prediction book was also handed out in a different seminar or guest lecture that same year.

Clean Disruption: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030

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isaac @sevier.io · 21/06/2026

Cleaning out my bookshelves today and found this (2015). I must have gotten it at a seminar in grad school, it had a DC based fellowship brochure inside. What a difference a decade makes.

A New Climate for Peace: Taking Action on Climate and Fragility Risks, an independent report commissioned by the G7 members

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isaac @sevier.io · 10/06/2026

This is what it's all about. This is a public power champion right here.

No, we want to be here because it feels like a good use of our time, as we see the world burning, we are here building community, meeting like-minded people, talking to our neighbors, getting out of the isolation and doomerism of our phones to practice the kind of society, collaborative, connecting, interested in equity and justice, that we want to build, so I love our campaigns.

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isaac @sevier.io · 08/06/2026

As the authors of this study note themselves, this is not a surprise!! But i'm glad that they did the work to put some numbers to this with what is likely to be the last data set we get making this inference possible for quite awhile.

Prior scholarship shows LGBTQ individuals disproportionately experience material hardship due to discrimination and stigma, which not only contribute to financial precarity but also adverse health outcomes.

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isaac @sevier.io · 08/06/2026

Queer people are more likely than non-lgbtqs to have trouble paying their energy bills, keep their houses and apartments at unsafe temperatures to keep bills low, and give up food or medicine to pay their bill when it's due. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Chart showing the prevalence of energy insecurity among LGBTQ Households compared to non-LGBTQ households for three measures i mentioned in the post. For all measures, LGBTQ households measure about 6-8% higher.

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isaac @sevier.io · 27/05/2026

This new agreement is an 8x increase on their existing profit sharing agreement.

Samsung Electronics workers have approved a landmark profit-sharing agreement that is expected to award employees in the booming memory chip division an average bonus of nearly $400,000.
The deal passed on Wednesday with 74 per cent of the company's labour union voting in favour and ends months of wrangling over how to share the spoils of an AI-driven bonanza at the world's largest memory-chip maker. The union had threatened to strike if a deal could not be reached.
Under the agreement, 78,000 semiconductor workers will be given 10.5 per cent of the company's operating profit. This would amount to a bonus pool of more than Won34tn ($22.6bn) based on a forecast by brokerage KB Securities of Won327tn operating profit this year. This is on top of 1.5 per cent handed out through existing bonus schemes.

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isaac @sevier.io · 26/05/2026

Literally painting the hot map grey and black 💀💀

A map of high temperature centered on France but showing data for a wider view of Western Europe. The scale goes from -40 to +40C and is for Monday 25 May. It shows a range of at least 10C in the French Alps to 40C and above in the entire western part of France from Nantes to Toulouse. The map itself is ominous: the highest temps are painted black and grey, with lower but still high temps in orange and red.

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isaac @sevier.io · 19/05/2026

Thanks to all who joined me in the last half hour to support @alexip718.com. I counted over 17 more donations from several of you and others seeing the original post. I am so grateful. Hope everyone has a good night.

$9602 raised by 202 people for a $9565 goal

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isaac @sevier.io · 10/05/2026

Back in Oklahoma alright

Radar screen grab with a large storm covering a wide region of the state from Tulsa down to the border with Texas

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isaac @sevier.io · 29/04/2026

A transition story from the window of Gold Runner 715

An overpass being built for the California High Speed Rail

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isaac @sevier.io · 18/04/2026

$19 billion in wasted stranded assets, cool

"$19 billion investment to build an entirely new JFK"

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isaac @sevier.io · 18/04/2026

So insufferably spring pilled

Big fat purple tulips with one orange and pink one in the middle of a large bed with even more tulips in the background

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isaac @sevier.io · 18/04/2026

The time to hatch a scheme with your friends is here. Never been better weather to devise a new plot with a pal. Gather comrades in the park and map out your organizing path. How do you build? What is the demand? Why will others join you?

A cluster of white cherry blossoms with a pink bud still yet to bloom

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