According to AAA, the average price of gas in Pennsylvania has risen from $3.46/gallon to $4.15 over the last month and diesel from $4.68/gallon to $6.09. Glad I’m driving an EV.

If you are tired of these petrostate wars & have the money, buy an EV. Regardless, your next car should be an EV. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/e...

I will be sad for Tommy Wiseau if “Melania" displaces “The Room” as the worst movie of all time.

There are no ethical and practical systems thinkers in the Trump regime. They are simple-minded ideologues who think every problem is a Gordian Knot they can cut through as if they are Alexander the Great. None of that is true. peterdbuck.substack.com/p/a-desperat...

I am so grateful to have gotten to work on the Centre County solar power purchase agreement. It’s wild that it took the full might of the federal government to stop it. Let that sink in. “First one through the wall gets bloody.” Glad to do it. peterdbuck.substack.com/p/the-centre...

These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.

A PSA from Thomas Massie:

It’s really crazy how much I’ve been agreeing with Rep. Thomas Massie recently!

Eisenhower

Hell. Hell is where you go.

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

On Friday, 10 local governments met to end the intergovernmental solar power purchase agreement I catalyzed. After almost 7 years of painstaking work, it became a casualty of the MAGA war on clean energy. But I am more heartened than saddened. Read why. peterdbuck.substack.com/p/the-centre...

An unjust war should never be fought. But those who demand the war be fought should pay for it with their greatest effort.

This is not something we can ignore. Obama never went to war with Iran. Trump has failed to negotiate effectively on the world stage & is failing to govern the United States.

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

Sidewalk chalk from a rally for Black lives after the murder of George Floyd. With a white nationalist in the White House & ICE terrorizing Americans, these words are at least as important today as they were then.

I need only to stand in the midst of a clear-cut forest, a strip-mined hillside, a defoliated jungle, or a dammed canyon to feel uneasy with assumptions that could yield the conclusion that no human action can make any difference to the welfare of anything but sentient animals. John Rodman

You know how to support freedom? Support public education, use public libraries, read & support an independent & free press, respect the independent judiciary, recognize the power of peer-reviewed science, fight for public health & universal healthcare,…

The U.S. bombing of Iran is a war of choice. It runs completely contrary to Trump’s campaign promises to both end conflicts & keep the U.S. out of conflicts. apnews.com/live/live-up...

No fascists allowed.

“When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don’t speak out, ain’t anybody going to speak out for you.” Fannie Lou Hamer

Spotted in DC.

Eliminating the endangerment finding on CO2 puts us at more risk. The finding enabled the federal government to treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant, making it directly subject to regulation. This move is a middle finger followed by a mugging. It will cost us dearly. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I live in State College, Pennsylvania. It is a special place. We are the home of Penn State which was created by Abraham Lincoln signing the Morrill Act in 1863. Education, discovery, service, creativity, openness to all people, and sportsmanship make this place great.

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters...”

AI is occupying our lives. Its rapid rise has required massive investment in data centers. Their impact on electricity prices, energy security, & climate impacts are significant. open.substack.com/pub/peterdbu...

Concentrations camps are facilities to incarcerate politically targeted individuals & minorities—immigrants, Muslims & atheists, LGBTQ+ people, “radical left scum,” intellectuals—on the basis of “national interests” & domination. Trump wants them everywhere. www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...

The SAVE Act is a misogynistic, racist, anti-poor horror bill. Of course, that self-obsessed trash ogre John Fetterman says he will vote for it. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

The NFL & its advertisers proved the United States is a diverse nation & that white Christian nationalists are a shrieking minority who suck at everything.

Our rights are popular & Trump’s ICE/CBP is very unpopular. - 74%: we should be able to record - 59%: we should be able to share where ICE/CBP is acting - 72%: unacceptable to use people’s appearance or language to check immigration status - 61%: unacceptable for ICE/CBP to wear masks

Minneapolis is a great city. Portland is a great city. Chicago is a great city. L.A. is a great city. Like all cities, they have challenges, some of them significant. ICE & CBP terrorizing residents, kidnapping kids, assaulting & murdering non-violent observers & protestors won’t make them better.

Get your priorities in order & fight fascists. My God. open.substack.com/pub/peterdbu...

61% of Americans disapprove of Trump overall. 50% say Trump’s actions are worse than they expected. 21% say Trump is doing better. Majorities believe Trump lacks character across six qualities. “Acts ethically in office” the worst. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Do you get it now?

In 2015, former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke said, “He’s saying what no other Republicans have said, few conservatives say. And he’s also gone to point where he says it’s not just illegal immigration, it’s legal immigration.” This was ALWAYS Trump’s plan. open.substack.com/pub/peterdbu...

Apple Has Fallen Far From the Tree

People who deny other people’s humanity lose their own.

Don Lemon is a champion for freedom. Anne Appelbaum & Timothy Snyder are champions for freedom. Jimmy Kimmel is a champion for freedom. Jamelle Bouie is a champion for freedom. Preet Bharara & Joyce Vance are champions for freedom. They tell the truth & never quit. Be like them.

At 8 pm EST, I’ll be sharing what service in local government & school boards have taught me about this moment. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

More members of Congress need to be like Seth Moulton.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Randy Blythe, front man for @lambofgod: “The Super-Rich Aren't Going To Help You" Love that guy. F***ing love this band.

They are going down the list of amendments now. And the entire ICE action is the most obvious violation of the Fourth Amendment this country has ever seen.

I live in State College, Pennsylvania. I have watched multiple videos multiple times of ICE executing two people in plain sight. I know the truth. We know the truth. Nothing will ever change that. Never forget. Never stop telling the truth. We shall overcome.