Millions of Americans are drinking nitrate-contaminated water so that we can feed the world's gas tanks corn ethanol. What a fucking deal. Side note, I'm quoted in an article with the great @anneschech.bsky.social and @profsecchi.bsky.social . . . I gotta say, it was a good day.

Do you know if you and your family are breathing #CleanAir? Check out the American Lung Association’s State of the Air Report! Lung.org/sota

Thankfully, most folks currently in a position of power are not pushing for this very dumb policy. Because evidence is not on your side here: taxfoundation.org/oped/gas-tax...

As @billmckibben.bsky.social says, we urgently need to stop burning things for energy. This includes burning fossil fuels of course, but also burning trees and crops, which *increases* emissions for decades. We need to electrify energy systems using solar and wind.

Republicans love to talk about “living within our means” when it comes to spending—except for the Pentagon, whose budget they want to increase by *40%*. Meanwhile, their cuts to the Forest Service are having a huge impact on research + wildfire management. The damage they’re doing is incalculable.

This is Roscoe. We’ve had hime for 2 weeks. He has decided he is a cat. It was precarious but he managed. #dogs #dogsofbluesky

“The map above shows the cost of charging an EV at home. The price is expressed in “eGallons,” which is the cost of charging an EV by an amount equivalent to one gallon of gasoline.” — @climateconnections.bsky.social

We are launching a big project today with MIT — The Electricity Price Hub! You can view monthly electricity prices per kwh and avg. bills for every major utility in the country going back to Jan 2020. electricity.heatmap.news

Roscoe has arrived! Formerly of North Carolina. He is now adjusting to being a city dog curtesy of Rural Dog Rescue!

🚨 @casten.house.gov and @levin.house.gov just introduced the Energy Bills Relief Act to address rising energy costs by deploying clean energy, putting affordability over profit, and modernizing the grid. This bill would get the U.S. on the right track and reverse Trump’s disastrous energy policies.

The bad news is that clock is ticking to tackle rising energy costs and the climate crisis. The good news is that the solution is here. Expanded access to low-cost, reliable energy is good for our planet and good for your wallet. I introduced the Energy Bills Relief Act to do just that.

Question: why not redeploy the National Guard loitering in metro stations in clumps or 4, 5, 6 or 7 or more to airports? Won’t solve the shutdown but at least they’d be useful??

We have the tools to power America with abundant, reliable, American-made clean energy. The missing link is a consumer-first energy policy. That's why SEEC's Clean Energy Deployment Task Force Co-Chairs @casten.house.gov & @levin.house.gov introduced the Energy Bills Relief Act today.

Your energy bills are too high. Trump promised to cut them in half. Under his watch, they rose as high as 13% last year. Today, I introduced the Energy Bills Relief Act with @casten.house.gov to actually deliver on that promise.

One week into home delivery of the @nytimes.com having ditched the @washingtonpost.com, my main complaint is the NYT has way more news to read. I did not appreciate how thin the post had gotten.

Give Americans Cancer Again- GACA

We're about 25 new members away from reaching our goal to be able to expand The 51st's newsroom! If you've been waiting for a sign to join, this is it!

Another Great Lakes Day in the books! Thank you to all of the advocates from across the region who came in to tell their stories and let their Members of Congress know about the importance of the Great Lakes and clean water. #GreatLakes #CleanWater

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

The gas meter is finally GONE! We are #AllElectric #heatpump! And of course love the Copper Charlie stove.

You can’t see most toxic pollution. But you live with it every day. Stronger safeguards mean cleaner air, safer water, and healthier communities. Weakening them shifts risk onto the public. Public health should come first. Thx @enviroprotnet.bsky.social #SaferNotSicker

This will bring you to tears. I hope Jackie Flavin’s words become action. How much is an NRA score worth?

Is there a magic button that can erase all references to the SOTU and ALL images of the Trumpster fire delivering it???? Also any clips? Can I cleanse my feed?

15,000 people singing to call on ICE to quit their jobs! Show your courage! Lay down your weapons! Leave this behind! Singing with Brandi Carlile was awesome, but what we're really about is taking it to the streets.

The Trump administration just repealed the Endangerment Finding. The scientific determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health. Repealing it would strike at the foundation of federal climate protections and pave the way for sweeping deregulation. https://act.elpc.org/4tE19iY

Breaking: Trump’s EPA just repealed updated Mercury & Air Toxics Standards, allowing coal plants to emit more mercury, heavy metals & soot. With so many coal plants in the Midwest, our communities will feel the impact. We will fight to defend clean air. https://act.elpc.org/4rTQ6QW

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

@apnews.com is pretty damn great

I need to know everything about job #6 right now

The US EPA is turning its back on science and the Clean Air Act! Hey @washingtonpost.com Editorial Board maybe you should talk to some experts (who aren’t paid by polluters) before you opine on the Clean Air Act.

A week after The Washington Post purges its environmental reporting, its ed board reaches an ignorant, humiliating new low in editorials: The Trump EPA is right not to uphold the Clean Air Act because it should ask Congress to pass a new Clean Air Act. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 1/

Public service at its best

Did you all see Republican Chris Christie throw Lindsey Graham under the 🚌 on 📺?

Politicians are trying to suppress millions of voters with this "show-your-papers" bill. Urge your members of Congress to defend our democracy at aclu.org/stop_anti_voter_

I just became a p aid subscriber. If you can, please join me. Consider it lighting a candle rather than cursing the darkness...in which democracy dies.

Just finishing up my @washingtonpost.com leaving me to wonder who is left…..

Families displaced by flooding in Cedar-Riverside need immediate support for housing, repairs, and basic needs. gofund.me/249253790

Happy #caturday. Keep warm!

In NYC crosswalks are considered vital infrastructure to be cleared! In DC they are, well, not on the radar!

Now in front of the VA for Alex Pretti!

Skied to here today from Capitol Hill!

Listen to this fabulous howl then give your Representative a call!

THIS VOTE to put the BOUNDARY WATERS at risk is imminent.

HELLO folks - take a minute to contact Congress right now, telling your Representative to protect the Boundary Waters from toxic copper mining by VOTING NO on Joint Resolution 140 that will open up this treasure to mining: www.savetheboundarywaters.org/actnow26

Just an 8 soldier DC commute this evening.

Today is a great day to polish up your application for one of the best jobs you will ever see advertised on this website:

"Kavanaugh stops" have quickly expanded to become "Kavanaugh body tackles" and other forms of "Kavanaugh assaults." Sadly, the odds are very high that there will be soon be "Kavanaugh summary executions" of Americans whom ICE agents decide aren't Americans.

“We are ground zero for Trump’s war on America — a war on our democracy, on our freedoms, and our rights as Americans. It is in our backyard today, & it is only a matter of time before it is in yours.” Listen to @cityofsaintpaul.bsky.social Mayor Kaohly Her talk about what ICE has done to her city.