Sen. Van Hollen: Not another penny for ICE. Not another penny for war on Iran. @vanhollen.senate.gov:

The Maryland legislature recently passed a big energy omnibus bill that is effectively a huge bag of smaller policies. It's difficult to even summarize -- there's stuff on permitting, plug-in solar, data center, on & on. @jamiedemarco.bsky.social has pulled it all together into a master list:

Heat pump orders up 2x in a month. Solar panel inquiries up 250%. EV leases up 85%. The Iran crisis has made energy security feel personal. I understand why: I have solar panels, a heat pump & EV on a flexible tariff. When gas prices spike, my bills barely move. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Crazy chart. Almost as if they wanted to keep inflation from getting too LOW. @semafor.com

Just recorded a great pod, and I gotta say ... solar and batteries are going to win. They are the main dish. Everything else is a side dish. In 10 years, you won't be able to find anyone who disagrees with this.

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

To be clear, as of right now, no oil tankers have actually crossed the Straight of Hormuz since the "Cease-Fire" began

Don't think Denmark gets credit for doing in 8 years what Norway did in 22 (going from 0% to 80% share of electric vehicle sales) robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/?la...

Democrats are on track to have a double digit swing in their favor in 2026 It will be the biggest landslide in a generation

"Even if you produce more oil than you consume, you still pay the same global price for oil everyone else pays & thus still suffer from supply constrictions & high prices." This basic, elementary fact -- global energy markets 101 -- refutes basically the entire GOP energy policy & worldview.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

These Republican Senators could have prevented this madness but chose not to

1) Issue ultimatum with demands that can't be met 2) Back down, which makes them think their counter threats worked and hardens their resolve, or unleash war crimes on civilians, which makes them think the threat is existential and hardens their resolve 3) Repeat step 1 WHY ISN'T THIS WORKING?!?!

I think we are going to see $10 gas before this is all over

*Demand destruction watch* BYD is now doing a fortnight's worth of sales each day, in several Asian countries. "Wang singled out markets such as Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, where he said daily sales volumes are now as high as what the carmaker could previously sell in two weeks."

It's incredible to me that Trump saying the Iran war will end in "2-3 weeks" comforted markets when his healthcare plan has been "2-3 weeks away" for about 10 years now www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/w...

A year into his term, the president has started without warning a war that's destabilizing the entire globe, he has lost it, he's trying to abandon the war and force everyone else to clean up his mess, and all he wants to talk about are the billions in dollars of monuments to himself he's building

Banging on this that batteries met up to 44% of demand on the CA grid yesterday, roughly equivalent to 6 hoover dams. Cheap batteries are powering the grid. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...

Just another reminder that, like worldwide, increases in WindWaterSolar in the U.S. correlate with lower, not higher, electricity prices. Please ignore all the spam claims that renewables increase prices. It is fossil fuels and nuclear that increase electricity prices.

Huge anti-Trump NO KINGS protest in Seattle ❤

Big No Kings turnout in the small town of Lexington Virginia

In addition to the 13 American servicemembers who have been killed, Trump's war has resulted in the deaths of over 2,000 civilians in the region, including over 100 Iranian school kids. All of them should be alive today. To stop the killing we must end the war, NOW.

It’s official: There are now 3,000 protests planned for No Kings Day. That means there will be more protests on March 28 than any previous day in American history. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Heating oil prices are sky-rocketing around the world. The Nordics have understood the risks of using fossil fuels for heating early on and transitioned away from heating oil almost entirely whilst phasing in heat pumps.

The United States is on social media begging Japan to join our war on Iran The great irony is that Japan is very unlikely to join our war because after we nuked them and re-wrote their constitution, we made it very difficult for Japan to ever go to war

After tweaking the STRIDE Act last year, advocates this year are pushing to repeal the law that encouraged utilities to update aging and unsafe natural gas pipelines by letting them recover costs in advance — causing needless work and costs, critics say. marylandmatters.org/2026/03/11/a...

Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE. Literally, "abolishing." yougov.com/en-us/articl...

Trump's war is bad because people are dead who would be alive today if Trump had not chosen to start a war. Oppose war for whatever reason you want, but for me, it's the killing, the destruction, the ruination of lives on a massive scale That's why I oppose Trump's war

"The Peace President."

My thoughts on Fox News Sunday after the first 24 hours of war with Iran: This is a war of choice. We all want a free and democratic Iran. But overthrowing authoritarian leaders with force has not historically led to democratic, pro-U.S. governments rising in their place.

A major shift, via Gallup. More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/480...

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...

Good morning with good news: Solar, wind & batteries will be 93% of US record-high new utility-scale capacity additions in 2026! Gas additions of 6.3 GW will be less than 6.4 GW of gas & coal retirements! Solar adds will be ~50 GW, with small solar included. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg... #energysky

India is building a new power plant's worth of solar panels every two weeks

The Keys to Spain's economic boom are: 1) Allowing lots of people to immigrate and become citizens and 2) Building a lot of clean energy. Someone should tell Congress www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-YZ...

Making buses free can increase ridership by 30% and pay for itself by reducing other state costs. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

California seems to be building a massive amount of renewable energy and storage while not building a massive volume of new data centres. That seems to be having the effect of actual drops in greenhouse gas emissions, particularly as batteries cut deep into gas

Texas operates the most competitive and freest generation market in the USA! What is that market doing? Wind, solar & storage dominate new generation, despite the big TX fund to subsidize gas plants (gas socialism) & no state RPS. Why? They're cheaper! H/t @dwallacewells.bsky.social #energysky

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The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

www.politico.eu/article/germ... This is what we need to do!

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Cannot see the end of it.

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.