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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 09/02/2026

power transformers mentioned in halftime show ⚡️

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Oil and gas companies are war criminals. They are destroying the only livable climate in the known universe. They are Trump’s allies. They are the enemies of everyone good.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

NREL has produced 1000 patents and 50,000 publications and billions of dollars in economic benefit and the people in charge probably want to kill it

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/12/2025

Today, DOE renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), one of the crown jewels of U.S. science and engineering for renewable energy, the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). We should be reinvesting in our world-leading national labs not renaming them. www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...

nrel.gov

News Release: Energy Department Renames NREL 'National Lab of the Rockies' | NREL

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Holy shit. NREL is now the National Laboratory of the Rockies?! In the early days of DOGE people there were whispering about a name change to avoid the ire of MAGAs. It pissed me off - prioritizing the preservation of the institution at the expense of its state mission? So disappointing.

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

It's also just really bizarre how an outlet like Fox is able to frame this as "entire women's soccer team goes crazy from woke" instead of "most female athletes see trans and intersex inclusion as a nonissue"

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross. The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular! The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.

It is completely obvious that the party lost in 2024 because it overcommitted to a range of unpopular left-wing positions, some of which yielded disastrous policy results (like the Biden migration wave) while others merely persuaded constituencies that had voted Democratic in the past (like blue-collar Midwesterners or culturally conservative Latino men) that the party now cared more about climate change

In poll after poll, Americans have said that they know little to nothing about the IRA, with the most recent poll, out in April 2024, finding that 4 in 10 people say that they don’t know enough about the law’s provisions to have an opinion on them. At the same time, a July 2023 Data for Progress poll found that large numbers of Americans support provisions in the IRA when asked specifically about them, including tax credits for businesses that produce clean electricity, electric vehicles, and new clean energy technologies (69%); rebates up to $14,000 per household to improve home energy efficiency (71%); and ramping up production of American-made clean energy technologies (73%). And perhaps most significantly, support for these key IRA provisions has grown over time among all likely voters, especially Republican voters.

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Maria Gallucci @mariagallucci.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

DOE's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations was meant to be a launchpad for ambitious projects that could help the U.S. lead on everything from decarbonizing factories to boosting rural energy resiliency. Now it's a shell of itself. My latest for @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

canarymedia.com

How Trump gutted the team meant to build America’s energy future

The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations had over $25 billion to help companies scale novel low-carbon technologies. Trump is working to erase it.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10/10/2025

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 08/09/2025

The Administration’s cancellation of a near-complete wind power farm will raise the cost of your electricity bill. Every month, look at your bill. It’s too high and it’s going to go up because of this. For what?

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The entire federal government is being mobilized to destroy the American wind energy industry. Why? Because the toddler king didn't like seeing windmills from a golf course, so he decided he hates wind power and now that's the policy of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...

Agencies that typically have little to do with offshore wind power have been drawn into the effort, the two people said. At the Health and Human Services Department, for instance, officials are studying whether wind turbines are emitting electromagnetic fields that could harm human health. And the Defense Department is probing whether the projects could pose risks to national security.

Last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, said he was working with Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, Chris Wright, the energy secretary, and Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, as part of a “departmental coalition team” to investigate the risks from offshore wind farms.

“We’re all working together on this issue,” Mr. Kennedy said during a cabinet meeting.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Not the first to make this point, but it really is wild to see the administration declare an energy national emergency while simultaneously blocking so many projects that would provide local, abundant energy

bloomberg.com

Trump Plans to Block Development of Another Offshore Wind Farm

The Trump administration is working to halt development of an offshore wind project planned near Maryland, in the latest escalation of the White House’s war on the clean energy source loathed by the p...

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"Don't worry. The states will still lead on climate action."

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

if they start threatening wind energy executives with jail time over bird deaths, just remember that oil pits kill three times as many birds per year, according to the federal government’s own data

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 05/08/2025

The Trump Administration is waging an all-out war against wind power in the United States, attempting to ban a resource that provides over 1 in 10 kilowatt-hours nationwide and is a critical source of new supply required to meet surging demand.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/08/2025

Solar for All will slash electric bills for working families by up to 80%. Now, Trump wants to illegally kill the program. Working families are getting crushed by skyrocketing energy costs. The planet is literally burning. Sabotaging this program isn’t just wrong — it’s insane.

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

A lot of the technical assistance work I did at NREL - which provided analyses of different energy technologies’ generating capacity and impacts on jobs and tax revenue - was predicated on the availability of federal lands for siting… especially in rural coal regions. All blown up.

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

DOE for cringiest department of Trump 2.0 by a landslide.

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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 10/07/2025

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is cutting funding for wind, solar, and electric vehicles despite a signed federal budget that preserved those levels, prompting accusations of unlawful spending violations. 😡😡😡 www.dailyclimate.org/trump-admini...

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Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists. This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Really important. "The withdrawal of incentives is one thing. A targeted federal tax that could increase development costs by up to 20% that is levied over longstanding supply chain relationships that will take not years but rather decades to rebuild is another."

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 17/06/2025

Senator Heinrich with a spot-on summary of the Senate Finance bill's clean energy provisions: "a slightly mitigated disaster" in contrast to the "unmitigated disaster" that is the House bill. *chefs kiss*

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/06/2025

the literal history of the united states is groups of americans taking their grievances to the streets, often in ways far more violent than anything we have experienced in a generation

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The DOE supplementary budget request will be apocalyptic for energy transition research and pose an existential crisis for several national labs if enacted. If not enacted, funds could still be impounded by a lawless admin. www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

paying more to use fossil fuels

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Again, the head-down, quiet strategy is bound to fail. It always does. We know this in WI from the Scott Walker years. R1 presidents need to get over their collective action problems & get out, in DC, right now, & engage Congress & the public, before it's too late.

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Jake Higdon @jakehigdon.com · 30/05/2025

you can't lose the next generation of manufacturing jobs to China if you have no next-generation manufacturing jobs

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

stop writing that he’s leaving DOGE without mentioning that just a few days ago the solicitor general told the United States Supreme Court that he is not part of DOGE

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely please read on 🧵

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This is perhaps the most important story for the future of American climate action. Please share it widely, across any and all platforms if you’re able.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

He did the meme again.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Broken Record: You *cannot sustain* a functioning constitutional order if the general population is blasé about open violation of the Constitution. If voters don't care, your job is to make them care. This is not optional. If you don't, you lose even if you pick up seats in the next election.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Oh wow great @haleaziz.bsky.social piece on a 2018 case in which Trump’s ICE screwed up and erroneously deported a guy. AND THEY BROUGHT HIM BACK because why wouldn’t they? We’re in a much darker place now. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

In one court document from Aug. 23, 2018, the government owned up to its mistake, saying Mr. Subaihani had been removed to Iraq despite the court's order.
Locating Mr. Subaihani was complicated because nobody knew where he had gone, or even if he had made it to Iraq. By September 2018, several weeks after Mr. Subaihani had been deported, a federal judge demanded ICE go to great lengths to find him.

ICE officials complied, explaining to the court that they were in touch with State Department staff in Iraq and in other countries he had transited through. They even called airline officials — Mr.
Subaihani had been deported on a commercial flight — for more on his whereabouts.
n late September, ICE officials notified the court that they had und evidence Mr. Subaihani had made it to Iraq. By October, Mr.
Subaihani's attorneys had tracked him down with the help of an investigator, and set about working with ICE to get him back to the United States.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

IT WAS NEVER ABOUT ANTISEMITISM

“We’re not looking to just file lawsuits — we want to compel a cultural change in how Jewish Americans are treated on college campuses,” Attorney General Pam Bondi, a member of the task force, said in an interview.

But the effort has gone beyond addressing antisemitism, with schools targeted for diversity programs and supporting transgender athletes. In the view of some of Mr. Trump’s closest advisers and key donors, leftists have seized control of America’s most powerful institutions, including pillars of higher education, and wresting back power is key to the future of Western civilization.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/04/2025

This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.

whitehouse.gov

Protecting American Energy From State Overreach

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The Trump admin is actively pushing deindustrialization

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

They're going to pretend that this was all "The Art of the Deal" and not a tail-between-the-legs last-minute reversal after it was clear that Trump single-handedly set the global economy on fire. But we all know what was being said just yesterday.

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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

There is absolutely no way the US can host the World Cup or the Olympics

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I think this is a brilliant framing of this issue. If the government can send people to a third world country to a lifetime of involuntary servitude, that is slavery. Query whether this meets the “jurisdiction” requirement of the 13th Amendment (the officials sending them are!)

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.

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