Daniel Lerch
@daniellerch.bsky.social
Resilience Program Manager at Post Carbon Institute. Back in Portland 🇺🇸 after 9 years in Guadalajara 🇲🇽 as of July 2025.
You’re going to die and the world is going to die, but I still love you and the flames won’t erase the truth of our high-five
Prufrock451@prufrock451.bsky.social · 3d agoFun fact, we are further in time from Smells Like Teen Spirit than that song was from Elvis on Ed Sullivan
Hungary's PM Péter Magyar: “Due to the further drop in the Danube's water level, one of the last two generating units at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant will be shut down at 1:30 am… “…tomorrow it will be completely shut down for the first time in 44 years.” #climatecrisis
My best friend got an electric bike through the Portland Clean Energy Fund and the ease and joy it’s brought to her life is palpable. Plus, now it’s easier for her to see me 🥹 I love PCEF, it’s such a tangible force for good in Portland.
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
As I’ve said a thousand times- bill Clinton ushered in this increased militarization of the border and criminalization of migration. This is something the entirety of the US needs to reflect on, not one party or another.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.I spoke to a Yemeni queer man held in ICE detention for 3 years under BIDEN. Denied care while he was having seizures. ICE wasn't invented Jan 2017 or 2025. Trump is awful. AWFUL. But this continues if you DON'T STOP TREATING HUMAN LIFE like a fucking football game between blue and red shirts.
Ok - I want to start a thread on Accessory Commercial Units. (think "lane house" but a brewery, cafe, bike shop, home office. etc) Send 'em if you got 'em. bsky.app/profile/lane...
Bryn Davidson - Lanefab@lanefab.com · 8mo agoWouldn’t see this in Vancouver… A single family home rezoned to house a nano-brewery in the garage. One of the co-owners of the brewery lives there while others volunteer their time.
Horrific. We need full accountability. Rogue, unidentifiable federal agents terrorizing our communities fostered the atmosphere where this type of assault was possible—and is just one reason why I’m fighting for a bill to require ICE to display ID.
Armed men posing as ICE agents detained, assaulted person after fake traffic stop, police say
Oregon State Police officials are seeking information after a person was detained and assault by three men posing as federal agents.
oregonlive.com
Mexico announced plans for a financing package of more than $4 billion USD to support renewable energy projects. www.elfinanciero.com.mx/economia/202...
Alista Banobras plan por 4 mil millones de dólares para proyectos de energía
El director del banco de desarrollo dijo que se prevé lanzar más licitaciones eléctricas.
elfinanciero.com.mx
Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w agoThe wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Mexico was lower than I thought it would be. The US, well...
Bart van Zwieten@bvzw.bsky.social · 2w agoHow much does the 1% own in Latin America? Share of total personal wealth owned by the top 1% (as of 2024).
9/9 So when you hear, "It's less than 10 we shouldn't pay attention to this!" that's wrong. The number we should be paying attention to is 33,000. Bigots have bullied 33,000 trans kids out of the opportunity to play games with their friends. 33,000 kids is a lot. More than enough to matter.
Oregon State Police officials are seeking information after a woman was detained and assault by three men posing as federal agents in Clackamas County. https://mrf.lu/2tY4m
The corruption in the Trump administration continues. Oregon lost more than $400 million for projects that would make electricity cheaper and employ rural workers. 🧵
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
nytimes.com
I'm re-reading LeGuin's superb "The Hainish Novels" (this copy being the one that taught me not to judge a book by its cover) for the third time in 25 years and happy to report it holds up flawlessly and she is still my favorite author.
It's not one guy, and don't let this slide. There are a lot of authors to this situation. In the past, if there's a recovery, the corporate and billionaire money that's the motive force slips away until there's another opportunity. But like January 6, this has to be the definition of our society.
Corbin Hiar@corbinhiar.bsky.social · 2w agoThe American Geophysical Union comes to the defense of the National Academies: "This is science that protects and preserves lives and livelihoods. Calls for suspension or debarment from federal funding for this crucial information is dangerous and misguided." www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
As one of the first generations post title IX, it was not easy getting to have fair access to sports- and as we’ve seen multiple times (bcz we’ve only just recently started actually even paying attention to women’s sports as a country) top level pro and colleges teams are STILL strugggling-
Plain Simple Natalie 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🦀@nattygo.me · 2w agoMore than this, excluding trans women and girls is a perversion of the historical purpose of women's sports The purpose of women's sports was not to give women a chance to win It was to give women a chance to play sports AT ALL
Killed in the Iran War: Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, age 19, of Carrollton, Texas. The Pentagon has released the name and photo of one of the U.S. soldiers killed in Jordan this weekend in Trump's war against Iran. abcnews.com/Internationa...
People have been asking me this question for decades. The answer is in most places, reducing demand by improving efficiency and cutting waste, and recycling and reusing wastewater, are cheaper, easier, and more environmentally beneficial than desalination. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/19/o...
The world needs more fresh water. Why isn’t desalination the answer? - The Boston Globe
There is obvious demand for the technology. And solar power should be making it more economical. If only it were that simple.
bostonglobe.com
Not that we didn't know this already but having ICE - whose jurisdiction has absolutely NOTHING to do with elections - investigate voter fraud gives away the game. ICE is no longer a legal entity bound by laws and norms, it's Trump's personal force, focusing on whatever he wants.
404 Media@404media.co · 3w agoNEW: DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to its databases which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information — to help ICE investigate “voter fraud”, according to documents reviewed by 404 Media.
Federal contractors were staging buoys in Eagle Pass. These buoys are meant to deter migrants from crossing the Rio Grande. During flood conditions this week, the buoys were washed into the river and forced the city to close its bridges. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/17/t...
Drifting anti-immigrant buoys briefly close 2 Rio Grande bridges
Rio Grande levels began rising Thursday and are expected to crest at moderate flood stage Friday night.
texastribune.org
My heart goes out to them, but it drives me crazy how as soon as people in the rural South have a concrete example of how Republican policies are evil, they default to “this is not a left/right issue”. It IS, though! This is what deregulation looks like! You could have ALWAYS been against this!
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3w agoThe noise from a plant powering Elon Musk's xAI data centers in Mississippi is keep residents awake and destroying their quality of life. Residents of Southaven, MI, have organized, gone to hearings, and talked to the media. But so far the mayor's advice is: "Consider selling."
Betting on the wildfires threatening our communities? Just plain wrong. This is why I wrote bills to rein in prediction markets, and why I'm fighting to get them passed.
Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town
Wildfire survivors call fire-prediction markets “morally reprehensible” and worry they could increase the risk of arson.
wired.com
Addendum: This is the same issue we now have with ultra-high net worth individuals & the companies they own &/or control. They don't have the right to do what they're doing, they have the power. Until/unless some opposing power applies equal or greater forcer to them, they'll continue on.
Reminder that the centers of the Harvard and Yale campuses, as well as the NYPL, are all named for Trump supporters. It's not that he (or anyone) is taking over Canada, it's to reinforce an image of failed democracy as a clown show, to prepare the ground for complete corporate fascism.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump posts an image featuring a map showing the United States taking over Canada and Greenland
The Republican Party has an entire vital infrastructure of businesses, nonprofits and churches that are all extremely vulnerable. Democratic electeds, whenever they have the power, should gleefully take a sledgehammer to whatever piece of it is close by.
Athul K. Acharya@athul.acharya.cc · 3w agoI really don’t think anyone has priced in how much appetite there is on our side for a politics of pure revenge, justice dispensed in wholesale rather than at retail
Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.
As a historian, I have to tell you: The victors don’t always write history. Very often it’s written by losers lying through their fucking teeth to survive in a world run by the winners. Thinking about this today for no particular reason
