I don’t know. If it looks like a 🦆, swims like a 🦆, and quacks like a 🦆, then it probably is a 🦆ing concentration camp.

I want to thank the folks at @permitpower.bsky.social for leading the charge to solve the solar permitting problem!

"If local and state governments can lead the way in simplifying a complex permitting landscape, the U.S. can join our peer countries in having lower-cost rooftop solar" vist.ly/4s6a9

"Every time teachers post a classroom wish list on Amazon, they’re essentially voting against their next pay raise." Terrific — and very actionable — post from my colleague @kennedysmith.bsky.social

Here's a four-image summary of the stunning level of corruption documented by @nationalreview.bsky.social in Trump's use of the presidency to profit from crypto

The only possible way to believe this is if we're talking about "spread sheets" as some sort of Epstein offering Trump repeatedly enjoyed.

I will be a single issue voter in 2028, selecting whichever candidate promises to take a wrecking ball to the Trump ballroom on day 1.

"Search Party" is going to be right up there with COINTELPRO and Total Information Awareness in the history books as surveillance programs run amok.

If utilities have a competitive advantage to deploy distributed energy, then why doesn't it show up in this proposal? @jeffstjohn.bsky.social's comprehensive overview examines the costs and benefits of utility-owned distributed energy, through the lens of a proposal by Xcel Energy in Minn

Are you paying more for groceries because of s secret and illegal deal between Pepsi and Walmart? Yes. And it's probably a much larger problem than that. vist.ly/4rrne @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

It seems like a good time to remind folks that Volts is 100% listener supported. My only obligation is to you. Subscribe & help me keep doing it!

When Trump says he's "searched the depth of the legal arguments" is that like when he stared into the sun during an eclipse?

Love these valentines to my utility, from Energy Equity Project! vist.ly/4rhu8

Will Minnesota get distributed capacity procurement right, or will batteries for grid strengthening just belong to the utility because it wants to own and profit from them? vist.ly/4rh35

Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis was just one rather incompetent and haphazard phase of this administration's organized cruelty to the most vulnerable people in this country. From the article: "U.S. officials say they are holding almost 15,000 immigrant children"

In light of Bad Bunny's lights out Superbowl halftime show, here are three folks I've interviewed from Puerto Rico about how the island can light up its grid with local power: vist.ly/4rdkb

One key reason to support local businesses? They'll have your back in a community crisis when large corporations stay silent. Some lessons from Minnesota from several of my very smart colleagues: vist.ly/4rdhr @ronmknox.bsky.social @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social

Is he talking about the pollution from the factories no longer subject to EPA regulation?

Remind me to thank Sens. Gallego, Kelly, and Fetterman for their votes to confirm this asshole: rollcall.com/2025/01/29/s...

Hitler: "The SS is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process." Words are wind...

Instead of trading one corrupt method of selecting utility regulators for another, we should break up utilities into at least two: 1) public distribution operators and 2) competitive energy services (generation, load mgmt, etc). Smaller entities means less potential for political corruption.

A 2nd state goes deep on putting utility performance over profits, but will it hold up in rule making? vist.ly/4r99t

It's really heartbreaking to see the incredible projects –– led by tribal nations to bring their communities affordable and reliable clean power –– cut off by the Trump administration's knee-jerk cancellation of Solar for All. vist.ly/4r8fg h/t ‪@jeffstjohn.bsky.social for @canarymedia.com

Sloppy. Wasteful. And Unconstitutional. #ICEout

"Paid agitators"

Fabuloso

If want #ICEOut, Minnesota, we need to #RemoveTheRing

Ann Arbor, Mich., is the latest in a long line of cities to look at public ownership to solve an affordability crisis under for-profit utilities. h/t Kyle Davidson vist.ly/4r44a

More than 50 percent of California's electric customers get their electricity supply from a community-based entity created to replace the for-profit utilities. 💰 from for-profit utilities talks, I guess. vist.ly/4r3h3

Is it Drawdown Week for the Trump administration? This lie is as much a meme as Infrastructure Week during Trump I

This is Minneapolis:

Indiana lawmakers look to break costly #monopoly utility focus on capital investment by shifting incentives toward useful outcomes: vist.ly/4qx3b h/t Sophie Hartley via @indystar

Yet another state to see action on restricting corrupt campaign contributions by #monopoly regulated energy utilities. vist.ly/4qvyg h/t Kyle Davidson

The only problem with throwing these dildos is that they are much too large for ICE's small dick energy.

Whoever came up with this protest idea should be sainted. #Minneapolis #ICEout

I see another Susan Collins in the making!

Democrats have 45 Senate seats. 45 people that have yet to simply say "I object" to slam the brakes on fascism.

Best news I've heard since Alex Pretti was murdered while pinned to the ground by DHS employees 3 miles from my house.

This is a beautiful and relevant discussion of the plans by ICE to warehouse fellow humans in a variety of large facilities across our country.

In the last 8 years, I've NOT purchased 2,500 gallons of gasoline by driving electric, effectively paying for two-thirds of the cost of the car I've been driving.

Curious about this: what if we moved to automatic voter registration but required ID to vote. Net positive or negative? IF you generally need ID to register, it seems like this potentially gets more people voting.

"Drawdown" is a bullshit talking point. The violence being done to Minnesota is real.

I teach my children that they're entitled to their feelings but responsible for their actions. It's ridiculous to see a federal official imply that his employees are less competent than children because they can't manage their feelings.

This is why we need a new, nonprofit or cooperative model for news. We can't base our sources of information on the goodwill of billionaires (or sadly, on our own government).

I feel like this is illustration #1,048,576 of the Trump administration's guiding philosophy: "why tell the truth when lying feels so good?"

How public power could answer the affordability crisis when utility regulators don't: vist.ly/4qc38

I think about this often every time we have a debate about net metering.

Small, local businesses stand up for their communities in a way that big corporate chains will never do. If you need a tool, shop at Ace, not Home Depot.

Hundreds of Minnesotans know the 4th Amendment is so much soiled paper to Trump. Alex Pretti found out that the 2nd Amendment is the same. Now the 1st Amendment is out. Does this government respect any part of the Constitution?