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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

A photo of the Southwick manufacturing plant before it closed. The photo shows a bunch of people at various sewing stations. This was located in Massachusetts.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/04/2025

More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.

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The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge

Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

@jigarshahdc.bsky.social spitting fire on @open-circuit.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Brb, I'm going to get a "Put your big boy pants on and fix your product!" tattoo.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In case anyone else is wondering, he loses to Zuckerberg at around $45/share (all other things being equal)

Tesla stock ticker showing $227/share at 2:30pm March 10, 2025.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 10/03/2025

Foreign aid programs have played a crucial role in the fight against polio. In the early 1980s, almost half a million people worldwide were paralyzed by polio every year, most of them children. But since the peak in 1981, the number of cases has fallen by more than 99%.

A stacked area chart titled "Paralytic polio: estimated cases by world region, 1980 to 2023" displays data on estimated total cases of paralytic polio, caused by both wild and vaccine-derived polioviruses. The y-axis represents the number of cases ranging from 0 to 500,000, while the x-axis indicates the years from 1980 to 2023.

Colored area bands represent different world regions: Oceania is shown in dark blue, Europe in light brown, North America in red, South America in orange, Africa in dark green, and Asia in teal.

The chart illustrates a significant peak in cases in the early 1980s, followed by a dramatic decrease through the 1990s and early 2000s, leveling out to very low estimates by 2023.

The footer cites the data sources: World Health Organization for the years 2019 and 2024, as well as Tebbens et al. from 2010. The graph is licensed under CC BY.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

2/3rd of that long term gain are Biden-era industrial policy, credited by Slok himself (helpfully published after the election 🙄) You can't build economic prosperity through tariffs and cuts. No one got richer by having less resources.

A clip from Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok saying, "The narrative that the labor market is cooling is inconsistent with the continued strength seen in the incoming data for above-trend GDP growth, strong retail sales, strong durable goods, low jobless claims, and rising average hourly earnings.

In addition, default rates continue to decline, corporate profits are at all-time highs, weekly forward profit margins are at record highs, and US household balance sheets are in excellent shape, see charts below.

In short, the US economy remains incredibly strong.

Combined with tailwinds to growth from record-high stock prices, tight credit spreads, M&A/issuance markets rebounding, the AI/data center boom, the Chips Act, the IRA, the Infrastructure Act, and lower taxes for domestic manufacturers and deregulation likely coming, the bottom line is that we could see a dramatic increase in job growth in November, including a reversal of the weather and strike effects that were pushing down nonfarm payrolls in October."

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is a dare?! How is a government shutdown any worse or different than the R's gutting federal administration? What are they going to do? Freeze federal funding more?

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today's the big day! The DOE's Beyond the Meter: Energy Storage Integration Price is being awarded today! ...except that it's not, because despite state suits and the OMB memo pulled, the funding is being held from disbursement against court order and OMB guidance.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

My favorite Christmas movie is Elf. It's fundamentally about solving an energy crisis. 🔌💡

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Still thinking about this. A story I've been telling is we're so used to our invisible fossil fuel energy infrastructure it's jarring to see it brought to eye-level with renewables. This drastic change from what we're used to is part of the backlash against wind and solar.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Just drove past the wind farms outside of Palm Springs. I say this as an advocate of renewable power: this isn't a cute look for wind. Most were feathered, many were damaged, and all were packed so close together it looked like a wall.

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

OK, so folks asked me to add degree heating and cooling days to my heat pump calculations, so here we go. A 🧪🧵

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If you grew up with these, you're a STEAM professional, and your knees ache.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Excited to join the Bluesky community and build impactful, respectful connections! 💙

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