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El Martillo

@theemrhammer.bsky.social
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Journeyman Electrician | Trade Unionist | Government Affairs| Austin FC Supporter #LosVerdesATX #COYI⚒️ I talk a lot of about energy, decarbonization, urbanism, labor, and justice.

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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The most counterproductive thing a climate advocate can do right now is demand we shut down data centers. Blocking the build isn't a win for the climate. It's a gift to the fossil fuel industry. Here's why. 🧵
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
What did I do?
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
If you organize to shut down a data center project in your community, only for that data center to be built in another less organized community, then you’re not actually fighting for the people, you’re just a NIMBY.
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
When a community in Texas organizes to exercise their power and shuts down a data center project, do the developers then pack it up and build something else?
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
NEW:🧵🧵 Texas fracking tycoon Farris Wilks has for years been one of the GOP's most prolific donors. He's spent more than $100M, funded The Daily Wire and, with billionaire Tim Dunn, helped pull the party to the far right. But something happened recently: Wilks quietly disappeared...
texasmonthly.com
He Was One of the Texas GOP's Biggest Donors. Where Did He Go?
Farris Wilks once flooded the Texas GOP primaries with cash, contributing to the state's rightward shift. This year, he was largely absent.
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Silly me for packing away my cold weather clothes by May in Texas.
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If you’re mad about AI taking job/lowering wages and concentrating wealth and power, you’re mad at a symptom, not a cause. The problem is the already existing systems and policies, just as it always has been.
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Working hard on a Sunday
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Elissa Slotkin dresses like a Star Wars diplomat who publicly votes against the Empire but secretly ratted out Lando and takes bribes to keep the shipping channels open
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Another hotel room and another scourge of 5,000K color temperature light bulbs. WTF is wrong with hotels these days? Do most people just live like this and not even notice? No wonder everyone is so wacky lately.
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I am begging hotels to learn that lighting with a color temp above 4,000K should have absolutely no business being used in a nightstand light or anywhere else outside of a bathroom or kitchen area.
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I know that it’s a comparatively first world problem relative to all of the government workers not getting paid, but I have my Global Entry interview scheduled for the 28th. I’ve been waiting for months for this interview. Thanks, Trump! Eat a dick.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
My personal hell is the Fort Myers Airport
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Texas AFL-CIO @texasaflcio.org · 24/11/2025
No worker should have to risk their life in the Texas heat so a billionaire can make a few extra pennies! “People are shocked that we would have to make sure that cool water be provided on these worksites,” said @theemrhammer.bsky.social, of the Texas State Building & Construction Trades Council.
insideclimatenews.org
Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat - Inside Climate News
Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, vulnerable on the job.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 12/11/2025
President Trump has floated the idea of mortgages that take half a century to pay off. Here’s how that could affect Bay Area home prices — and why financial experts don’t like the idea.
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Trump floats 50-year mortgages — experts call it ‘a horrible idea.’ Here’s why
President Trump has floated the idea of mortgages that take half a century to pay off. Here’s how that could affect Bay Area home prices — and why financial experts don’t like the idea.
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ceej @ceej.online · 12/11/2025
I have in my hands definitive evidence that my opponent has committed a world-historic evil. Evidence that, were it to be released to the public, would cause his supporters to abandon him and his entire world to crumble to dust. I therefore have no choice but to give in to every one of his demands
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404 Media @404media.co · 12/11/2025
SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
404media.co
ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"Wind projects lead to better local schools and lift neighbouring property values by about 3 per cent, according to a surprising new piece of research out of the US this week." reneweconomy.com.au/wind-farms-l... via @racheljourno.bsky.social 🔌💡
reneweconomy.com.au
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 12/11/2025
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/11/2025
Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Anyone who goes to conservative conferences knows how many groypers and or Nick Fuentes disciples staff Capitol Hill offices, think tanks or lobbying firms.
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
You’ve GOT to be kidding me!
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The WPA kept two of my great-grandfathers working.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
worldofreel.com
Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
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Alex Lawson @alaw202.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents. I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.
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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Another thing to keep in mind: www.dmagazine.com/micropost/wi...
dmagazine.com
Wired: ICE planning a shadow deportation network in Texas
As we’ve mentioned, Dallas will soon discuss whether the Dallas Police Department should participate in the federal 287(g) program, specifically, a part
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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
And this is a Marshall Project story about how it could have a negative impact on police retention. www.dmagazine.com/micropost/th...
dmagazine.com
The Marshall Project says ICE partnerships also hurt local police retention
The City Council isn’t meeting or holding briefings this week, which means the question of whether Dallas should consider participating in the federal
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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Several people have signed up to speak. What's interesting is it's not just a single demographic--they're all being represented so far, and they're all adamantly against the city partnering with ICE.
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 06/11/2025
wrote about ai real estate listings for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
thenation.com
Your Dream House Might Be a Fantasy
AI has has invaded the real estate industry, dissolving the boundaries between image enhancement and false advertising.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
RFK Jr. peeling out of the meeting like he can't remember whether he's the one who sold that guy the heroin.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
All I'm saying is the reason I don't buy that POLITICO article about Rs moving away from Trump is that they could easily just agree to release the Epstein Files and then they wouldn't even have to worry about the political fallout. Media would do the work for them. They want and like him in charge.
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International Brotherhood of Boilermakers @boilermakers.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
If you are a federal worker or know someone who has been impacted by the shutdown, these resources can help: aflcio.org/about-us/pro...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
TurboTax makers Intuit have lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing. Now Trump has terminated the free IRS Direct File program, nearly a year after Intuit gave his inauguration $1M. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
If NYC is more than happy to vote for a young Muslim man, then I think that's a pretty strong indicator that 2024 was not about Americans rejecting a woman of color.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Today, Idaho is the reddest state in the union. The current GOP governor, Brad Little, is considered way too liberal for the right wing of the party despite being pro-life, pro-business, pro-Trump. The Dems haven't won a statewide office in years. You cannot appease your way to victory.
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 05/11/2025
dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Seymour Hersh
I knew early on after 9/11 that a senior operative, a bright veteran agent who knew the Middle East well—it was understood that this was information for my guidance on White House workings, but not to publish at the time—that the feared Taliban, then headed by Mullah Omar, had passed the word to the White House via the CIA that they did not consider Osama bin Laden, the head of Al Qaeda, to be an untouchable guest after 9/11. America thus was free to seek revenge on him and forgo a planned operation against the Taliban as well as bin Laden, who would soon be impossible to locate. Bush and Chenery ignored the offer, and the war was on. Bin Laden would not be found and assassinated until nearly a decade later, when a Navy Seal Team was authorized to kill him on sight by President Barack Obama, whose use of targeted assassinations of suspected terrorists abroad has never been fully explored by the media.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
WOAH. Texas GOP Executive Director Jen Hall and another top party official just resigned. In her letter to party Chair Abraham George, Hall said she "cannot in good conscience continue to work this way" but doesn't elaborate. Hall and George are both longtime Tim Dunn allies. This is...interesting.
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Oooooh! The knives are going to be coming out in the GOP.
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Oh! Virginia is a blue state now? That's news.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
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El Martillo @theemrhammer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Stop telling people that we can win by voting with our wallets. We’re not going to consume our way out from under the thumbs of the oligarchs. Especially in 2025 where every possible product and supply chain is incredibly more consolidated than at any other point in history.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Trump is quite literally the biggest union buster in American history. Every single Republican who supports Trump is anti-union, including Vance and Hawley and the other mythological “we love workers” ones. You are all lying rat cowards.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 29/10/2025
Defend and protect the motherfucking AFSCME video. Save it to a USB drive. Write it to a tape backup. Print out every frame on glass and record the audio to vinyl.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 29/10/2025
I would like to welcome Kat to the club of people who committed no crime but were indicted for political reasons. The club's membership is growing at breakneck speed!
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