Tonight at a community meeting with @samzurier.bsky.social. 1st hour of the meeting covered 3 issues: our poor progress to meeting Act on Climate goals, failure to fund RIPTA, and the Washington Bridge fiasco. All 3 are partially, mostly, or all the fault of one guy: RIDOT Director Peter Alviti. /1

The same US automakers who Biden coddled with 100% tariffs on Chinese #EVs actually don't want to make EVs. They want to double down on the polluting tech of the past. Expose these bastards to the global market. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

National Guard in front of the Washington Plaza Hotel in DC milling around, obviously bored. We all know why they are here: as a test run for 2029. Hotel staff also resent this bullshit show of force.

Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

The whole administration in one quote

Just a reminder that, despite what these freaks would have you think, antivaxx is extremely unpopular and we need to attack them relentlessly for putting insane dipshittery over our health

Why I don't debate anti-wind conspiracy theorists, and instead debunk them and expose their disinformation tactics.

Your daily reminder that the #MAGA world lives in curated media environments / echo chambers that are increasingly wildly disconnected from reality.

“This is a huge win not just for Revolution Wind, but for offshore wind projects up and down the East Coast that are being targeted by Trump.” says Christian Roselund, Climate Action Rhode Island’s Yes to Wind team lead @roselund.bsky.social

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled that the Revolution Wind #offshorewind project, which Trump's BOEM ordered to stop work, can resume work. The judge described the order as "the height of arbitrary and capricious." It was also illegal. This is a lesson. /1 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed. 🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US

Thank you @greggamore.bsky.social. Gregg nails it here: "The current presidential administration has a long track record of seeking to, and in some cases, succeeding in, interfering in the operation of elections..." /1 www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Looking forward to attending 2 #SunDay events tomorrow. As the 1st, we'll be touring the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal where workers are assembling the Vineyard Wind project, which will be largest #offshorewind farm in the Western Hemisphere when complete./1 actionnetwork.org/events/sunda...

Oh hell yes.

This is really quite funny: #Trump 's lawyers produced an incoherent legal filing and got their case against NYT tossed: "a complaint remains an improper and impermissible place for the tedious and burdensome aggregation of prospective evidence, for the rehearsal of tendentious arguments..."

In only 8 months, #Trump has brought the United States to a disastrous economic combination that we haven't seen since the late 1970s: #stagflation This is what happens when you elect someone who bankrupted *casinos*. #economics

"I think we're seeing an administration that wants to attack and perhaps even try to criminalize protected speech that it just happens to disagree with..." Thank you @whitehouse.senate.gov for stating the obvious in this most important venue.

Bold? Do you see that pin, pandering to #Israel 's genocide in #Gaza? Have you heard perhaps about the raiding of homeless encampments? Or the assaults on bike infrastructure? Brett Smiley knows how to do two things: pander to the powerful and punish the weak./1 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/m...

I would cancel my @washingtonpost.com subscription over this, only I already have. Friends: don't encourage Jeff Bezos' erosion of the free press with your subscription.

Denying the humanity of everyone except straight, white men is a core tenet of the MAGA worldview. It’s not really violence if the targets aren’t really people.

As a supporter of the #Abundance movement, I would formally like to ask for another spokesperson to replace #EzraKlein. The man is too toxic a gaslighter and too politically cowardly to represent such an important movement.

The whole forced mourning of Charlie Kirk - who himself excused political violence against Democrats - reveals one thing about the #MAGA worldview: to them some lives (white American, Republican) are deemed valuable, and others (black, brown, Latino, Democrats) are cheap and expendable. /1

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social has officially completed its historical arc from bastion of free speech to Quisling for the new #MAGA Fascism. Shame. zeteo.com/p/the-new-mc...

Where are the moments of silence for Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez? Where is the public mourning? I see. We must publicly mourn hateful white bigots, but not the people killed by our American Gestapo. #AbolishICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Funny how we never hear #NewEngland anti- #offshorewind groups pushing for any action to prevent whales from being entangled in fishing gear like our friends at @biologicaldiversity.org are. Maybe it isn't really about the whales? act.biologicaldiversity.org/7wak2LOEkUqK...

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious. @mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

Injunctions to get things going again is absolutely needed to counter the Trump Regime's illegal stop work orders on #offshorewind projects. Nice work @peterneronha.bsky.social.

1) New paper! Replacing US fossil-fueled vehicles & appliances with electric versions could improve health & climate outcomes, but could cost up to $790 billion in distribution grid reinforcement. Strategic demand-side management could cut 2/3 of those costs.🔌💡 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am proud to support @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social for #Providence mayor. Like Mamdani, I think he balances progressive policy aims with flexible means. I see him as a leader who will focus on the #housingcrisis, be an advocate for #RIPTA, and stand up to the #Trump Regime's assault on our people.

This piece by @aaronregunberg.bsky.social on the mandatory canonization of #CharlieKirk - and of the Quislings in the Democratic Party who play along - is *so* dead on. Attempts to whitewash Kirk are part of the #MAGA assault on facts & truth. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/magas-mand...

Can you help me get to 10,000 views on our @sciam.bsky.social short film about the clash of scientists and corporations in the deep sea? 🪸 This would make our funder @pulitzercenter.org very happy. ☺️ It’s free to watch now on YouTube. We are half way to our goal! 📈 youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

“ICE's new contract shows that the organization will continue to far exceed its initial mandate and continue to become a federal police force to be used for political purposes,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ice-spends-...

Today #RhodeIsland AG @peterneronha.bsky.social & Connecticut AG Tong filed suit against the Trump Admin over their illegal stop work order on the #RevolutionWind project. The suit calls for injunctive relief - to lift the order while the suit plays out./1 steveahlquist.substack.com/p/attorneys-...

Today I looked at a deck from a co-worker in another division that was an attempt to cover some policy developments, w/ help from #AI. The results are worse than I expected. Asking AI to help on this was like asking a person who only parrots what others say & lacks critical thinking skills.

This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary

This is definitely what we are seeing in #RhodeIsland. The misinformation campaign is no longer focused on denying the problem, but derailing #cleanenergy solutions. #climatecrisis

On Thurs 9/11 at noon, @geconsumers.bsky.social has a webinar on how #cleanenergy lowers your power bill. Speakers: Pat Knight of @synapseenergy.bsky.social & Susan Muller of @ucs.org. Hosted by @amandabarker22.bsky.social and @larrychretien.bsky.social. www.greenenergyconsumers.org/event/howcle...

Breaking: humanity finds a use for #AI that actually makes people's lives better. #ICE www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

If you live in #RhodeIsland and follow @providencejournal.bsky.social, you might not know that there are pro-wind fisherman. But there are. National & regional media are picking up the slack here for our state's "paper of record." #offshorewind www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

This is the second court ruling to affirm that #Trump 's use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to set sweeping, economy-wide tariffs is illegal. The Trump Admin will almost certainly appeal. Not sure what the next stop is. #economy #trade

“savings exceeded [power purchase agreement] costs across all scenarios, yielding annual bill savings of $1.32 to $2.68 per month for an average Eversource [Energy] residential customer.” #offshorewind www.utilitydive.com/news/offshor...

SCOOP: After several failed attempts at scheduling a meeting, Paolino referred to RIPTA as a “joke,” and said he would not attend future meetings on the hub, according to an Aug. 5 email obtained through a public records request and reviewed by @ecorinews.bsky.social. ecori.org/while-ripta-...

I know that Matty Yglesias is a fellow traveller in the Abundance/YIMBY movement but honestly he is such a left-punching, gaslighting piece of shit that I personally want nothing to do with him. And I think generally his political advice is awful.

So many on the Left are so obsessed with fighting #Neoliberalism (free market fundamentalism) that they have completely missed that the USA is transitioning into bona fide #Fascism and don't understand that this is a completely different ideology.

A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.

Great to see 100-150 people show up last night in Newport, #RhodeIsland to support the Revolution Wind #offshorewind project that the Trump Regime has illegally ordered to stop work. #Trump is making war on our ability to decarb & contain high power prices & people in our state are mad as Hell. /1

As a baseline, it's smart to assume that any non profit with a down homey name who is engaging in energy policy debate, and who isn't transparent about their funding, is probably a fossil fuel front group. These groups multiply like cockroaches and dominate energy conversations across the country.

Morale among ICE agents is low. Good. Americans are doing the work as patriotic citizens to make Trump's violent, senseless, cruel, lawless, racist deportation regime difficult to carry out. Keep up the good work. Let's get more of these #Fascism enforcers to quit. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...