The near record high tide/storm surge on Monterey Bay took out decent chunk of west cliff.

This is the first time in 3 years this commission is allowing citizens to speak at one of their meetings. If you are in Ohio and can make it on 1/12 at 1pm, please sign up at the link in the article. If you can't make it, you can submit a written comment. These are our parks and public lands!

Happy New Year. Start it off right. Tell Ohio EPA to do its job and protect Ohio water quality. Comment by Jan. 16 on data centers allowed to discharge wastewater into our rivers and streams, lowering our water quality. bit.ly/3KLuDK8 @ccbecker271.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised "autopsy" from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats' 2024 presidential campaign.

@alliancegreatlakes.bsky.social: Great Lakes region is unprepared to manage overlapping, competing demands leading to more water conflict-- from industries like data centers and semiconductor chip manufacturing. bit.ly/4sClfcX @cleveland.com @toledoblade.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social

It's 6:28 p.m. EST. I have two fans on in my living room. No heat on. Wearing capris and a summer hoodie. In Northern Indiana. With a tornado warning in effect til 9 tonight, and a severe thunderstorm warning in effect til then too. Only to flash freeze by morning. #SheShed

Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.

Beautiful music ahead ...

This thread perfectly explains why AI has little value for qualitative research. Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.

Very fancy potato bear postcard from my collection, unsent and date unknown.

1/4) China is already generating, in 2025, from wind-water-solar (WWS) alone, 54% of all end-use energy the U.S. needs for all purposes (electricity, transport, buildings, industry) & 61% of the end-use energy India needs for all purposes in 2050. Paper pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

This is so sad and so unnecessary. They were trying to plug an orphan well. There are somewhere between 20,000 and 60,000 orphan wells in Ohio, a product of the oil and gas industry. Solar panels don't explode.

The Trump administration has wasted no time gutting fuel efficiency standards and consumer protections in the auto industry, thanks to strong lobbying support from the National Automobile Dealers Association.

The leader you are looking for is you. Connect with those who know how to navigate protecting clean air, clean water, great soils and pristine Ohio state parks and public lands. @ccbecker271.bsky.social @healthylakes.org @psrpennsylvania.bsky.social

once again thinking about how DC has 200k more people living in it than the entire state of wyoming, but doesn’t have any actual representation in congress

Public records over the last 10 years show the oil and gas industry in Ohio has an accident or incident every 1.5 days. Meanwhile, a solar spill is called a nice day.

BlackRock is losing business because it is backpedaling on its climate commitments. And they should lose business until they start using their financial power to make our world more climate safe.

Ohio has become a dumping ground for toxic oil & gas waste-- much of it coming from out of state. The General Assembly must toughen state's oversight oil & gas (fracking) waste injection. Opinion @cleveland.com bit.ly/4pNoPyT @twrader.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social

Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones. The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.

Good for LEEDCo. What happened to that project is a travesty that never should have taken place, and only did because of corruption.

My local nonprofit Save Ohio Parks is a co-signer. Glad to be part of this! @saveohioparks.bsky.social

worth noting here that the position of the conservative legal movement is that trying to remedy environmental racism is itself illegal race discrimination ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

By me and @andy-rowell.bsky.social Two fossil-fuel billionaires with close ties to Donald Trump bought millions of shares in the company they co-founded just days after a meeting with senior White House officials, who then issued them key regulatory permit www.theguardian.com/business/202...

@aepnews.bsky.social had Ohio siting board fast-track Hilliard 73 MW Amazon data center-- powered by fuel cell. It will emit CO2 equal to 66,000 cars/day near homes, parks and schools. @ccbecker271.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/3YkTNlM @dispatch.com @columbusfreepress.bsky.social

Hey @jpmorganchasebank.bsky.social All of this goes for you too. Stop financing the companies that are fracking LNG terminals in the Gulf South and Ohio's state parks snd public lands!

The grim death toll from heat waves across European cities this past summer would have been captured in shocking headlines if they happened all at once, in a bombing or plane crash—835 in Rome, 630 in Athens, 409 in Paris.

Same goes for Ohio state parks ... Ohio is the only state to sell out its state parks for fracking

NEW: The DOJ will potentially treat opponents of Trump’s policies as “domestic terrorists,” according to a leaked memo. The move appears to represent the department’s first attempt to implement Trump’s calls to target left-wing activists and others who protest his policies.

They're not even trying to hide their corruption anymore

Must read from @martinomalley.bsky.social: "After President Donald Trump unleashed Elon Musk and DOGE on the Social Security Administration, the agency lost more staff in a shorter period of time than ever before in its 90-year history....The agency has been gutted."

REMINDER: People need to get the fuck off X.

Everywhere needs to be a lot more circumspect about data centers.

yes, it’s really that bad.

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Thanks to Joe DeMare for covering this ... no other news outlet did. If what AEP is asking for goes through, it will be the end of residential solar in Ohio. We only had two days over a holiday to comment, but got in over 125 letters.

This article is 1000% correct. We can’t actually achieve any of these goals without more staff. Friendly reminder that the last time we had this few staff it was 1967. We served 480 claimants per staff then. Now we have to serve 1800 per staff. This is not sustainable or even achievable. Period.

The level of cruelty they will Rise too and the level of schoolyard retaliation and bullying they will Engage in is not surprising. It’s infuriating and we are angry! There day will come. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There are other aspects to it, but: the lower you are in a corporate hierarchy, the higher the cost of your errors. Whatever you think of the resulting trade-offs, employees *need* reliable tools, and the sort of AIs this article discusses aren't. by @saraheneedleman.bsky.social

thank god we've been liberated from the woke oppression of [checks notes] Gerald Ford. Worth noting that not only is NREL's name specified by statute - and that the name NREL is already more all-of-the-above than its original name: The Solar Energy Research Institute.

And here's why people love Costco ... but they should get a better bank to issue their credit card.

Who should pay for this? The fossil fuel industry that sold a dangerous product while launching a decades-long disinformation campaign about the science that showed their product was dangerous. They knew, but they covered it up for decades.

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

Well that's lovely. There's three Amazon data centers in my town including one across the street from my house.

As a parent of small children, I wish everyone responsible for bringing back measles and whooping cough a very time travel accident that strands them in the black death

Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat