In case anyone cares, @antennapod.org lists my favorite podcasts for 2025: 1) @volts.wtf 2) Why Is This Happening? With @chrislhayes.bsky.social 3) @open-circuit.bsky.social 4) Shift Key with @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @jessedjenkins.com 5) @catalyst-pod.bsky.social with @shaylekann.bsky.social

TRUMP: “What would you like Santa to bring?” LITTLE GIRL: “Not coal.” TRUMP: “You mean clean, beautiful coal.” *laughs because he knows he’s lying to a child on Christmas Eve on behalf of his fossil fuel billionaire donors*🫤 🎄

Long, but outstanding thread.

The administration dismantling NCAR is scientific vandalism, much like the Taliban demolishing cultural artifacts. www.theguardian.com/world/2001/m...

Go get 'em @votesolar.bsky.social and @aarondfordnv.bsky.social / BCP. www.ktnv.com/news/nevada-...

Alexa, could you sum up 2025 for me?

I can't even imagine where to start.

Trump: For miners — do we love miners? I love miners!

Amazing story.

Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas' answer to the SCOTUS ruling on Texas.

This is an outstanding piece, as anyone would expect from the author.

Exploding the Business Case for an Alberta to BC pipeline No need for a huge political fight between Premiers @Dave_Eby and @ABDanielleSmith. Just don't build the pipeline. Do something smarter, like make carbon fibre with bitumen. #ableg #cdnpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/exploding-...

If CBS wants to let me know when they'll be showing Dersh being denied pierogis, I'm there. In fact I'll DVR that to watch on repeat. Other than that, pass.

Not the brightest bulb in the ... door, I guess.

I have no comment. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Lawyer up, you little shits. “Current and former DOGE staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.“

Jim Jordan begged someone to not rat out the sexual assault that was happening at Ohio State. He was crying on the phone. Groveling. This man threw out all his dignity to try and cover for horrifying crimes of sexual abuse. Think about that for a moment.

Does he think McDonald's has dishes?

Really good opinion piece in Canary Media. These three items are all things I've brought up with the Nevada PUC on several occasions. www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...

Go volunteer for a progressive launching a “hopeless” campaign against an extremely entrenched incumbent currently squatting in a safe Blue seat. The worst thing that happens, is that you drag the incumbent to the Left. Best case? Zohran Mamdani, who was polling at 6% in January.

Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care Trump: No Schumer: Okay

The facepalm emoji just won't cut it. It has to be a banging head on desk emoji, but They won't give me one.

Narrator voice: It wasn't, in fact, a win for the American people.

ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs

I got my flu vaccine. If you get one some years and not others, folks who know seem to be signalling that this might be a better than average year to get one. Just sayin'.

I recall reading ages ago that some researchers studying the effect of automotive reviews on car purchases had made a surprising discovery: People most often pore over car magazines and reviews AFTER buying a car, rather than before.

Australia is giving away 3 free hours of electricity because they have abundant solar. Nevada is instituting a residential demand charge as a penalty for those folks who installed solar panels. One of these jurisdictions is doing it right, the other not so much. 🤔

Day 3 of the “no more than 2” day trial of Sandwich Guy. The prosecution intends to rest; the defense hasn’t decided yet. Dispute over jury instructions continues, a few morsels (sorry) to follow.

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS WARNING 65% of the planned coal capacity from 2015 ended up not existing, thanks almost entirely to climate policy and renewable energy construction China is an outlier - but maybe not for long @e3g.bsky.social www.e3g.org/publications...

Our biggest challenge right now is that almost no institutional investor or politician understands how rapidly things are changing (how soon oil and gas investments will be stranded) and this lack of awareness means the transition will be way more economically painful & chaotic than it needs to be.

The fact that the DNC hasn't plastered the airwaves with ads playing this on a loop already is gross negligence.

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

Renewing the enhanced ACA subsidies would cost $350 billion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. All these people could have affordable healthcare for 10 years for the price of Trump's ballroom. A real reporter would point that out to him. www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...

A full house at the PUCN consumer session in Las Vegas. The community is concerned about high energy rates and the unprecedented new demand energy charge. Will regulation get better for customers or worse?

Why do I spend time on social media? It's for stuff like this, Jenny Chase's annual "opinions about solar". 61 posts in this thread, and they're all gold. Phenomenal stuff (and I highly recommend her book with the staggeringly boring-sounding title that's not at all boring.)

Las Vegas No Kings. #nokings #nokingslv @titus.house.gov , @susielee.house.gov , @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social all in the house. Why are they here? Because Speaker Johnson won't open the House to seat Rep. Grijalva. Release the Epstein Files!

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Sir, there are now *three* frogs in Portland. (Credit to publicnotice.co for the picture.)

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

What?! Hey, anybody who might still think this regime is part of a normal political order, how to you take what Posobiec is saying here?

Leadership!

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

Given the state of our Presidency, Congress, and the Supreme(ly corrupt) Court, I'd just say, "We'll see."

Because nobody else was doing it, I created the Bluesky Nevada Politics starter pack. This is a list that contains (1) all NV elected officials currently in office, (2) NV state offices, (3) politically focused NGOs in the state of Nevada. Let me know if I missed anyone. go.bsky.app/K9TN3KX

More water in the air leads to more extreme rainfall

This says we should fret about the backlog of gas turbines because it will delay gas's displacement coal. Why can't this lead to faster renewables & storage deployment? Also, a key fact is buried: "gas is cleaner than coal only if methane leaks are kept in check." How's that leak-plugging going?

I’m tired of saving Trump voters from the consequences of their own decisions. If farmers want a bailout, they should call their republican congressmembers and ask them to use their article 1 powers to get rid of the tariffs.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation