A Siegel
@asiegel.bsky.social
Passionate about fostering a prosperous, climate-friendly future for all. Thoughts on climate, clean energy and related issues at GetEnergySmartNow.com
Important story. The political consultant class has a lot to answer for in the general process of fucking up America.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterdayIf you’re a Democrat with an email address or a phone, you get these pleas: A candidate needs your dollars. Democracy needs your dollars. It doesn’t have to be much—but it can’t be nothing. But where does your donation actually go? trib.al/skt74iy
Broadcasters have a First Amendment right to report polling data, even if it proves to be inaccurate, just like they have a First Amendment right to report on Brendan Carr and Trump’s own countless lies, even when they turn out to be inaccurate. More:
Brendan Carr: Reporting on polls may violate broadcast license terms
Ethically challenged regulator is the last person who should be lecturing anyone on journalistic ethics
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If Miami’s #KingTides were “celestial conspiracy” in the 1950s, the fossil foolish industry are now conspirators with fossil-fuel driven #ClimateChange accelerating #SeaLevelRise ( #SLR ) with worsening (flood) impacts globally. @bmcnoldy.bsky.social #ClimateSky brad.hillheat.com
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SFDB@sfdb.bsky.social · 4d agoBack in the 1950's, King Tides in South Florida were explained as a "celestial conspiracy." "...the sun, moon, and earth ganged up to produce the phenomena." [The Miami News - October 19, 1956]
"Cancer is brutal ..." Polluting energy drives up cancer rates. Data Centers are relying on dirty energy. #DataCenters / #AI cause cancer. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Death by Data Centers - Dissent Magazine
I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A...
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Here's what the Democrats' first bill should be if they win Congress www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... An interesting / compelling case for @democrats.org to make #Ethics HR1/SR1.
Here’s what the Democrats’ first bill should be if they win Congress
This edition of “Opinions” from Eric Schmeltzer asks if Democrats win Congress in November, what’s the first bill they should introduce?
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The other funny thing about this is it’s awful political advice. If your opponent’s relative is an out and out white nationalist and the opponent himself has dabbled in it, absolutely make that an issue!
Uzza@uzzamodea.bsky.social · 2w agoDavid Brooks thinks it's more of a disgrace to call out a bigot than to be one
🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...
The far-left is eating its own. Just ask Mamdani. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
The far-left is eating its own. Just ask Mamdani.
What, exactly, do these people think they’re accomplishing?
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I thought this might be an exaggeration, but no! Despite all the talk of technology neutrality, it appears the permitting reform proposal would weaponize claims for federal damages — but in practice, only for fossil fuels.
Erik Schlenker-Goodrich@riogranderift.bsky.social · 3w agoInsightful legal analysis of a highly problematic component of the Senate permitting deal (Sec. 1402) highly touted by bill proponents as a solution to Trump's War on Renewables but is in fact a major gift to all developers—in particular fossil fuels—that will hobble a future POTUS' climate action.
A massive redistribution of wealth to fossil fuel extractors/refiners and their partners in the finance and tech industry, paid for in increased hospital visits by kids
Union of Concerned Scientists@ucs.org · 4w agoThe speed, scope, and severity of attacks on the environment have been relentless. Here’s a quick recap of what President Trump and his “polluter worker bees” have accomplished on behalf of the fossil fuel industry:
US Senate Democrats publish report on Trump’s deals with fossil fuel billionaires: “appointed positions, deregulation, and favorable policies in exchange for campaign cash.” See report here: www.epw.senate.gov/public/index...
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Erin Brockovich recently started a #datacenters mapping project to crowdsource new developments nationwide & raise awareness on regs &rights:
Brockovich Data Center Reporting – U.S. AI Data Center Awareness & Issue Map
Interactive map of major AI data centers across the United States — built, being built, proposed and cancelled. Understand the community impact and report issues in your area.
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It is past time for Trumpian “Super Intelligence” owners, executives to be held criminally accountable. Perhaps Sam Altman going away for 20 to life for accessory to mass murder might send a bowshot message to the industry that lawlessness is no longer the name of the game. #AI #OpenAI
Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 4w agoJust when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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Much love to the good folks at @thewaroncars.bsky.social for fighting the noble fight . #art #painting #fuckcars
Impeachment is not reserved for POTUS. As much as Trump merits Impeachment and removal from office, so, so, so many of his authoritarian, criminal, incompetent, loyalist Cabinet (and sub-Cabinet) appointees do as well.
Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social · 2mo agoEXCLUSIVE: Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian government roles. They include Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Tom Anderson, better known as Cynical Publius. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Kurt Schlicter once told a disabled veteran to off himself. I know because I was that veteran.
Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social · 2mo agoEXCLUSIVE: Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian government roles. They include Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Tom Anderson, better known as Cynical Publius. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
This is a summary of the 100,000+ public comments submitted to the National Park Service about Trump's planned Monumental Arch in DC Looks like multiple commenters invoked the term "authoritarian"
it should probably be a bigger story that Trump’s trade war is explicitly unconstitutional and he should be impeached and removed for it
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2mo agoI am so fucking sick of this man and even moreso the movement of degenerates who have inflicted him on the world for the past decade bsky.app/profile/reut...
The revolution turned out to be the one no one saw coming Voter rage at Big Tech - first data centers and AI, now Flock cameras - has already turned U.S. politics upside down ahead of the midterms. But this grassroots rebellion won't stop there My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/vote...
Fighting AI and Flock, today’s Luddites are the revolutionaries we need | Will Bunch
In an existential crisis for the American Experiment, public rage against Big Tech is a political earthquake no one saw coming.
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the news media understood perfectly that stuff like this was what was actually at stake in the 2024 election and told voters instead that the larger issue was that it was a scandal that Tim Walz retired after 21 years in the national guard
James Hell Brooks@kleinman.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe were on the verge of breaking up Ticketmaster, every music fan's dream for the last 4 decades, until Trump intervened www.wsj.com/business/med...
What do these corporations all have in common? -SpaceX -Palantir -RTX -Northrop Grumman -Microsoft -Nvidia They are all corporations whose stock Trump just purchased — and who do business with the Trump administration. We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.
tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation
What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Does it make me proud to see a Third Act t-shirt at the front of the New Mexico data center fight? And on a day with a big win? It sure does (That's Pam Noose, co-facilitator of TA NM) @thirdactorg.bsky.social www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...
New Mexico Supreme Court pauses Project Jupiter permitting processes
Two orders from the high court issued Sunday pause permitting processes for the project's proposed air quality permit and water use permit.
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Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.
Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 2mo agoanytime people raise concerns about land use for solar projects or anything like that i just want to point out that half the corn we grow in this country gets used to make gasoline slightly worse
And In Today's NO SHIT SHERLOCK, A BROKEN CLOCK IS RIGHT TWICE A DAY Segment: Iran’s Speaker says Bessent and Hegseth are clowns who are ‘way out of their league’ thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Iran’s Speaker says Bessent and Hegseth are ‘way out of their league’
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf on Tuesday bashed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as being “way out of their league” in trying to bring Tehran…
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