Can we talk about how embarrassing it is to have our president sit in a room designed like to make him look like fake royalty? He already had a gold throne at Mar a Lago...

A reminder that a normal, functional Justice Department does not go on fishing expeditions against the President's perceived political enemies

If Walz wants to protect Minnesota taxpayers and have any hope of winning a third term, he needs to clean house at DHS.

It's criminal that we have the technology at our fingertips to cost-effectively manage grid growth and that utility companies (for lack of a profit motive) are allowed by state regulators to just ignore it.

This is the devil in the details of our electric utility system. Those profit payments to utility companies go on for decades and inflate the cost of everything.

Yesterday's Tylenol and today's UN speech are just one more "anything but the Epstein files" effort from the dear leader.

If you told me I could have a great review of my new book from the NYT or from Cory Doctorow, I'd take the latter in a heartbeat pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...

At least we have one prominent Democrat saying it out loud. Where are the others?

For those who missed Trump's speech to the UN, here's the "biggest con ever perpetrated on the world" he was referring to. Lies about who was responsible for global warming, paid for utility companies, with your money.

Here's the sound of a hundred bridges burning.

Says the man with how many felonies?

ILSR's work on energy and climate is inextricably link to our opposition to monopoly corporate power. You can't get clean, affordable power when the provider compels you to pay more and more.

Imagine where we'd be now if Democrats hadn't pussy-footed about changing rules when Merrick Garland was up for the Court, out of some mislaid sense of avoided escalation.

4 Democratic senators are retiring next year and still too cowardly to oppose a motion to honor Charlie Kirk, who boasted two days before the Jan 6 insurrection his org was “Sending 80+ buses full of patriots to DC to fight for this president.” @smith.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov Peters & Durbin

California becomes the latest state to try and rein in utility monopoly power by banning the use of customer funds for lobbying, promotional advertising, and (in certain cases) lobbying for rate increases. Bravo!

This alone would be enough to justify impeachment for any prior Congress. Threatening to pull access to public airwaves of people who criticize you? Textbook dictator.

What was your vote on a Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day, senator?

What is this, the fascism cheering section of NYT? Abusing government power to silence critics shouldn’t be headlined with “success”

I love this quarterly chart we put out showing the big impact of small solar in meeting rising electricity demand. Go #solar!

Let’s win by alienating young people who’ll will vote for decades in favor of old people who will be dead before the 2028 election.

TFW you get annoyed by your kid's verbal tic and then you realize they're just copying it from you...

While it's possible to get concrete wins with public power campaigns that fail, this is a stark reminder that ownership of your utility matters to meeting your community's goals.

Charlie Kirk’s murder is a tragedy. And no tragedy should go unused if you’re busy filling your pockets in the Washington swamp, eh?

See: Reichstag en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichst...

This would be a good time for Americans to review this historical moment for the disturbing parallels. Just substitute "The Left" wherever the article says "Communists": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichst...

Gotta love when a bunch of elite politicians who get around in armored SUVs opine about the safety of streets they only see through tinted windows.

Canceling government grants related to "DEI" was the beachhead to weaponize government against dissent. As anti-democratic as you can get.

Fixed that for you. This is a 1st Amendment crackdown.

"I love this little car" "I fall asleep at night thinking about it" -- Americans rave about their used electric cars: vist.ly/46u7f

Apartment owners don't have an option to buy grid scale solar, so the price difference is entirely irrelevant. It's as useful as quoting me prices for gasoline from the refinery compared to my local gas station.

🎶 Follow the money and you may find, a financial relationship, and opinions aligned 🎶 (about this Minnesota utility merger): vist.ly/46g3b

These solar tax credits are still standing! ☀️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

There is no law, only messaging...

If you want to know anything about any state's community #solar program, ILSR has you covered. vist.ly/463ry

If a virtual power plant program saves $2 for every $1 invested, can someone explain to me why it requires a legislative ask rather than the state regulatory commission taking the money directly from the utilities? www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... h/t @jeffstjohn.bsky.social @canarymedia.com

Keeping tabs, the Trump administration has now effectively dropped rules to allow consumers to click to cancel shitty subscriptions, get cash for airline cancellations, and to ban non-compete clauses for jobs like working fast food. All things that would make life easier and less expensive.

Just another reminder that being an "originalist" means that principle, law, and Constitution are malleable for activist conservative justices.

We're going to have a hard time reducing electric bills if we only use distributed power plants as an add-on to what utilities already spend money on. Distributed assets can reduce infrastructure needs, which is great since utilities make outrageous profit margins on them.

Reporters, I beg you, please stop using headlines with the form “Trump does X” when X is something the president clearly lacks any legal authority to do.

So good. Build public renewables.

Have folks considered that sending in troops may be to deliberately counter the factual narrative that crime is falling? "If we need troops here, how can it be better?"

Threads like this -- calling someone in rather than out, trying to get at substance -- are what makes social media worthwhile.

I'm cool with harping on the permitting reform aspect of Abundance, but having read the book, there are other elements of the agenda that we should tout - like public investment. For example, what if feds invested in standardizing transformers to make grid upgrades cheaper?

Maybe we don't need that proposed gas plant. If scaling up the amount of data serving large language models isn't helping, then maybe the fever dream of building massive data centers will also break: vist.ly/45i9v

I hate that it's vaccinated adults making stupid and unscientific public health decisions that will kill many innocent children by way of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Personal experience: going solar with your neighbors is MUCH easier than finding your own contractor. And the installer our group found has also been great on customer service, even coming to deal with a loose panel on Christmas.

In addition to publishing lies, part of the game plan is to trash the credibility of the institutions so that it will be easier to doubt them in the future, even if their work isn't riddled with errors.

Buyouts of scrappy, affordable independent internet providers are part of the enshittification of America. "at this time, there will be no changes to the amount you pay each month..."

If every lie told by the Trump administration made his nose grow one inch, Trump could bugger himself with his own nose grown around the world in one day. Solar could power the world with 1/20th the land area of farms. #SecEnergy #Solar

But inside the White House? The Big Dirty Grift will continue...