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Will Troppe

@wtroppe.bsky.social
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Product @Powerfactors optimizing 300+GW of solar, wind, and storage. MS & BS @Stanford in energy & mgmt engineering. Clean energy, EVs, politics, policy, data, analytics, product management, design, innovation. DC -> SF. Fight fascism.

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Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I didn’t read 1984 as part of my “elite” high school + university engineering education. I chose to read it after I graduated. I think this says a lot about tech industry support for MAGA.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I keep going back to this. This is a taunt. They're taunting us. There is no other possible interpretation of what they're doing. But media simply ignores this deranged behavior, because if they talk about it, one must conclude that DHS is a rogue agency, of villainous paramilitary thugs.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/01/2026
This is the video.
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
if you want an overview of where humanoid robots are at right now — what's hype and what's real — then check out my long read for @harpers.bsky.social. here's me teleopping a humanoid, and yes i was told MANY times "do not take off the headset until you've disconnected" harpers.org/archive/2025...
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isaac @sevier.io · 02/12/2025
"[Climate change] hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices." An excellent longer analysis from @katearonoff.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/10/2025
It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/09/2025
I think I would take reactionary centrists more seriously if they could cite one (1) example of progressives pushing for social change the *right* way -- using just the right slogans, supporting just the right policies, protesting in just the right fashion.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 03/09/2025
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
What makes Google's data center flex announcement today so notable, IMO: 🔌💡 1) 1st known utility contracts on AI DC flexibility 2) 1st incorporation into utility planning 3) 1st use of ML workloads for flexibility 4) Definitive, long-term contracts 5) Flex applies during certain hrs/times of year
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Legitimately feel sick. We are hours away from the largest cuts to low-income people in history. People’s lives will be ruined. It is so unfair. It’s unfair to be born into a system that allows this level of poverty in the first place and it’s evil to rip away aid from the needy. Hard to watch this.
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
. @danpfeiffer.bsky.social gave me the best political advice anyone ever has. Obama won because he was prepared to lose. You have to stand for something. Zohran stood for his values and something new, and he inspired many!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Speak up. It’s easy.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
snap cuts, growing to 35% by 2034chip and medicaid cuts growing to 12-14% by 2034
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
NEW, from me: The House reconciliation bill would be horrible for the country’s energy policy. But the Senate can fix it. I have a new piece in the @nytimes.com with the three recommendations for how lawmakers can avoid disaster: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...
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Opinion | Save Us, Senators, From a Very Expensive Mistake
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I updated this old graph of mine. It shows that, if not for the Bush and Trump tax cuts, debt/GDP would be stable rather than rising forever. I've updated the methodology to first assume an AMT patch at Clinton levels, so I'm only attributing to the Bush tax cuts their portion of the AMT patch.
graph showing debt/gdp from 2001 to present. it breaks out the effect of the bush tax cuts, the trump tax cuts, and our one-time responses to the great recession and to covid. without the bush and trump tax cuts, debt/gdp would be stable.
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Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
If it’s _not_ a bribe, that means Qatar is just giving a $400M plane to Trump - why? For fun? Because they like his personality?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
Tricia McLaughlin &
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The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully.
He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family.
This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson."You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had
it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document.
Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained
"at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error.
Hermosillo said he was detained with about
15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because
"they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
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Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“But these tariffs just don’t make sense!” Here’s the game: Step 1: institute extremely high tariffs for no real reason Step 2: retailers raise prices Step 3: repeal tariffs (after declaring victory + claiming achievements no matter what) Step 4: retailers keep prices high Step 5: profit!
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/04/2025
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
In addition to his political savvy, Chuck Schumer also offers cutting edge communication strategies ranging from an op-ed in the New York Times to an interview with the New York Times
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/03/2025
Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
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She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/03/2025
Everyone can see that the center-right was a hollow shell, yes? It collapsed immediately & totally, which suggests there wasn't much to it. And everyone can see that conservatives' stated principles were always bullshit, right? Small gov't. Judicial restraint. Rule of law. Out the window.
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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The deputy speaker of Israel’s parliament and a leading member of Netanyahu’s party calling for the bombing of food stocks in Gaza just a few hours ago. You won’t see this mentioned by any European or American leaders, or by most western media.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Seems like a pretty important detail
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
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Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
47 doesn’t understand good vs bad. He has no concept of morality, just power. He just sees strong vs weak. He likes strength and despises weakness. He views Ukraine as weak and Russia as strong, so he bullies Zelenskyy and sucks up to Putin. He has no clue what true strength looks like.
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Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
MAGA leaders undermine govt, dismantle our global standing, destabilize our economy, decimate soft power through foreign aid, and destroy our health, all to consolidate more power and wealth in the ashes. Cruelty and malicious destruction is intentional, not a side effect. Pure, self-serving evil.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 27/02/2025
[getting a bootleg flu shot] Them: do you have an egg allergy? Me: wait, you also sell egg?
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 26/02/2025
Yesterday, like every Tuesday @senatedem.bsky.social held a press conference. @schumer.senate.gov, @murray.senate.gov and @baldwin.senate.gov spoke. Patty called EM the leader of the Republican Party party, and gave calls to action for us on what we can be doing right now 1/3
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Senate Democratic Leadership Press Conference 02/25/2025
YouTube video by The Union Herald
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/02/2025
"It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things." www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
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The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug
A series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
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Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
My new coping mechanism is asking ChatGPT for West Wing versions of 47’s White House scenarios. My latest:
INT. THE WEST WING - COMMUNICATIONS
BULLPEN - NIGHT
(The bullpen is alive with the low hum of late-night work. Sam Seaborn leans against Toby Ziegler's desk, flipping through a legal pad. Toby, arms crossed, stares down C.J. Cregg, who paces.)
C.J.
Tell me this is a joke.
TOBY
It's not a joke. It's an idea.
C.J.
It's a bad idea. A horrendously, breathtakingly bad idea.
SAM
We're not saying we should do it. We're saying-
C.J.
You're saying we take away the White House Correspondents' Association's ability to credential reporters and hand it to ourselves. Do you have any idea how that looks?
TOBY
I know exactly how it looks.C.J.
Do you? Because it looks like a Soviet purge of the press. It looks like we're stacking the room with people who ask, "Mr. President, how do you manage to be so wonderful?"
SAM
No one's suggesting we start credentialing sycophants.
C.J.
Sam-
TOBY
Look, the WHCA is an institution. It's also a club.
A self-perpetuating one that's disproportionately elite, disproportionately coastal, and
disproportionately uninterested in the voters who actually send a president here.
C.J.
Yes, Toby, that's how press freedom works. You don't get to pick who covers you.
SAM
But they pick themselves! There are legitimate reporters from smaller outlets, regional papers, online publications who can't get in because the WHCA prioritizes legacy seats over actual relevance.
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Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
You can’t fight feelings with facts - especially about the “task force” and “working group” you formed. People are scared. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social needs to meet the moment, empathize with fears, and convince people he’ll fight for them.
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Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Welfare for the wealthy. This spending bill is cruel and morally bankrupt. Trump doesn’t care about debt. He doesn’t care about people, only himself. It’s now laid bare: DOGE is a transparent effort to undermine government’s regulatory capacity to concentrate power and wealth beyond imagination.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".
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Ryan Van Velzer @ryanvanvelzer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Stunning democratic backsliding here: apnews.com/us-news/miss...
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Mississippi Legislature not a ‘public body’ and not subject to Open Meetings Act, judge rules
A judge has ruled that the Mississippi Legislature is not a public body and not subject to the state’s Open Meetings Act. Hinds County Chancery Court Judge J.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 24/02/2025
This is #2 at the FBI
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 24/02/2025
The most shameful betrayal of an ally by a U.S. President in modern history.
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Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Call your reps! Today’s topics: - QAnon Kash and personality Dan Bongino running FBI. Retribution expected - Call it a Coup - Strong comms: Sen Smith “dick boss” Elon comeback and Gov Mills “Maine will resist unconstitutional directives.” Emulate! - Town Halls demonstrate: resistance building!
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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is a head-spinning barrage of threats to democracy in less than a month. Shock and awe indeed. brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-...
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