Gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is one of those things that should enrage people across every political spectrum. If, you know, people actually knew it was happening.

Good people of Illinois: vote! Vote today!

Thrilled to see the Illinois Solar for All program finally taking off! With statewide reach, no less. The little blue nub highlighted in the bar chart is delightfully personal - those first ten customers were my customers from my last gig. H/t Certasun, who bravely dove into a very new program.

Like Sufjan? You'll LOVE tucker carlson.

EIA's short-term energy outlook. Sure would be nice for that solar growth to be eating into the gas/coal slices rather than powering slop.

Ask yourself why they're in Minnesota.

@votesolar.bsky.social is hiring! Looking for a Managing Director of Finance. Spread the word! Looking for 10+ years of progressive nonprofit finance experience and experience managing the finances of advocacy org. Salary range is $159,100 - $166,800. job-boards.greenhouse.io/votesolar/jo...

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Listen I love the Red Sox but come on. Thanks for this digging, @energyandpolicy.org! energyandpolicy.org/edison-elect...

This has a very "don't look up" feel to it.

“They ain’t messing with us. We’re going to turn up some Black dance music and turn it up loud,” he said. So delightfully Chicago. So delightfully Bridgeport. The light always outshines the darkness - just give it time. chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/1...

PJM just hit a personal record in the worst way: capacity prices rose to $16.4 billion. Data centers account for 30 of the 32 GW of estimated demand growth. We passed CRGA in IL to shield us - learn more at www.volts.wtf/p/how-illino...

Telling that this is a win in the biofuels world.

Trying to imagine that one dude in the marketing opportunity at the paper towel company who saw this as an opportunity.

Thanks for the opportunity, @volts.wtf! Always a blast talking up IL climate and energy leadership and a dream come true from my 15 years of scheming alongside @kadymcfadden.bsky.social. CRGA doubles down on renewables and DERs at a time when the grid needs them most. @votesolar.bsky.social

Pretty wild to see how the state legislatures have swung right. Puts the red wave of 2010 into new perspective - so many longstanding bluedog states finally snapped into a new alignment. Blue leg until 2010: Alabama, Iowa, Louisiana, N Carolina, Tennessee (ish) ballotpedia.org/State_govern...

"The goal isn't to police all behavior at all times. It's to make us fearful to the point that we police our own behavior."

Massachusetts showed up for local solar! ☀️💪 Our Regulatory Director for the Northeast, Lindsay Griffin, testified before lawmakers alongside advocates and residents calling for bold action to expand local solar and lower energy bills. Local solar works — and MA needs more of it!

Put on your rally caps! Happening now in Springfield - hundreds gathering to support the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act (#CRGA) to fight rising electric costs and continue the dream that is CEJA. #twill #ElectrifyIL #ActOnClimate #ClimateDayAtTheCapitol www.facebook.com/share/v/19xF...

Time to bump this bad boy - pass the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act now!! #twill #CRGA #ElectrifyIL

A bill is sitting on @GavinNewsom’s desk that would lower Californians’ utility bills – all he has to do is sign it. But rumors are swirling that he plans to do the opposite - a move that could prove disastrous for California and for Newsom. A 🧵:

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

In Broadview, IL this morning outside Chicago— Federal agents have kidnapped hundreds of immigrants in recent weeks. Outside the ICE processing center here, protesters are gathered for another Friday morning demo. Last week's ended in tear gas and arrests. ICE vans periodically rolling in.

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

79. American citizen.

Our Executive Director, @sachuconstantine.bsky.social, shares why this Equinox Giving Day matters. Families are struggling with rising bills, but solar is changing the story. Today only, your gift is matched to keep the momentum going. 🌞💛 Double Your Impact: action.votesolar.org/a/equinox202...

It doesn’t matter if you’re working class or a billionaire: climate change will hurt your grandchildren. That’s why I cannot understand oil executives who sacrifice the planet’s health for their short-term profits We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels NOW.

By building more battery storage, Illinois can help bring down the price of electricity and keep the lights on during peak demand. Add your name! bit.ly/44XIOBF

Our electric bills are out of control. Tell your legislators to take action this fall! bit.ly/44XIOBF

Stop Acting Like This is Normal | The Ezra Klein Show - YouTube share.google/AjSTQzDeasTU...

EVERYONE IN CHICAGOLAND: Save this number in your phone. If you see an ICE raid: 1. Ask the the person their name 2. Ask who to call to let them know they’ve been taken by ICE 3. Tell them to not say anything 4. Call this number to report the arrest If possible video it

Trump on DC: "We haven't had to bring in the regular military, which we're willing to do if we have to. And after we do this, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe also ... Chicago is a mess. And we'll straighten that one out probably next"

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

this guy is what people pretend Gavin Newsom is

Missy Stults x @volts.wtf is a great combo.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... From Sotomayor's dissent:

Shouting into the void feels better when you hear other voices.

250,000 Minnesotans kicked off health care 28% higher energy bills More hungry kids All for billionaire tax breaks This ugly bill is devastating to Minnesotans just trying to get by, and a huge handout to the richest among us.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Just a group of armed, violent, unidentified, masked men who roam American streets, rounding up & deporting US citizens they don't like the look of. Cool democracy.

Merry solstice one and all.

"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."

When you read about the slide from democracy to "competitive authoritarianism" in other countries, it's composed of things like this. No big, sudden breaches, the kind that might spark widespread resistance. Just crossing these little lines, one at a time, each one a seemingly small thing ...

They won't tell us when the centaurs take over the world, but there will be signs.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

It would appear Musk told it's AI (grok) to accept the narrative of white genocide in SA but forgot to narrow the instructions, so it just spews misinformation in response to every prompt. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

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