Brad Johnson
@climatebrad.hillheat.com
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Climate hawk. DC-based journalist. Subscribe to my newsletter:
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Jason Koebler
about 3 hours ago
Farewell to one of the GOATs
www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...
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One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement
Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.
https://www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi-one-of-the-greatest-wall-street-investors-of-all-time-announces-retirement/
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other than the sound of the sammy smooshing a cbp agent's bulletproof vest
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The fracking-powered Slop Machine has come for the artists.
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What the hell is going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-ai
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I can understand why my rich middle-aged white Manhattanite friends voted for Cuomo, but the contortions they're going through to convince themselves that it was an anti-Trump vote, pretty embarrassing
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Yass Queen
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about 2 hours ago
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sound smart about tariffs: buy this book
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about 2 hours ago
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Highlights for climate hawks in local elections across the nation! Featuring
@leadlocally.bsky.social
and
@climatecabinet.org
candidates from Aislinn Kalob to Tara Zrinski
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U.S. Climate Politics Almanac: 2025 Municipal Elections
Mayoral winners from Abdullah Hammoud to Zohran Mamdani, and other climate wins from Allegheny County, Pa. to Whatcom County, Wash.
https://hillheat.news/p/u-s-climate-politics-almanac-2025-municipal-elections
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Heather Cherone
about 6 hours ago
Ellis is concluding, with John Adams words to his wife in 1775 about the need to fight for the nascent American democracy. "Liberty once lost is lost forever."
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I wonder when *any* mainstream national political reporter is going to notice that
@kenmartin.bsky.social
has been right about strategy and message for the
@democrats.org
all along cc
@marcelias.bsky.social
@davidoatkins.bsky.social
@janekleeb.bsky.social
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Democrats didn’t just rebound. They dominated.
"This is a foreshadow of what we're going to see next year," said one strategist.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/democrats-2025-win-midterms-virginia-new-jersey-00637057
about 5 hours ago
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“I will tell you with metaphysical certainty: This Congress is not gonna nuke the filibuster. Period. Full stop.” - Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) I could think of better lines in the sand for this Congress to draw against the imperial ambitions of the Trump regime, but hey, at least it's a stand
about 5 hours ago
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great interview with
@keyachatterjee.bsky.social
and other
#freedc
activists on the daily work of
@freedcproject.bsky.social
to restore our democracy
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Beyond ‘Packing the Courthouse’: D.C.’s long road to self-governance - The Wash
After packing the court in protest of federal overreach, Free DC, a grassroot organization advocating D.C. statehood, is dialing up political pressure and building a resistance movement to reimagine a...
https://thewash.org/2025/11/04/beyond-packing-the-courthouse-d-c-s-long-road-to-self-governance/
about 8 hours ago
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see, it's like buying insurance, except
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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center/
about 9 hours ago
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Jared Isaacman, the billionaire Space X fanboy picked to take over NASA, plans to eviscerate the agency
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about 12 hours ago
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Trump's insane FY2026 budget proposed slashing Goddard's work force by 42%. Congress ignored that on a bipartisan basis. Russ Vought is blatantly, illegally moving forward with the plan anyway.
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about 21 hours ago
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I'm gonna keep quoting myself until this crime against civilization starts getting serious notice.
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about 22 hours ago
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Apropos of nothing
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The Planet Needs Jerome Powell
The Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Reserve has inadvertently become a climate advocate.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/climate-case-for-jerome-powell/619944/
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The ecomodernists are concern trolls.
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isaac
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"We will work tirelessly to make lights shine again in the hallways of NYCHA developments where they have long flickered." Could Zohran Mamdani be reading
@cplusc.bsky.social
?
@aldasky.bsky.social
,
@kmc39.bsky.social
, and
@ruthygourevitch.bsky.social
's proposal for a GND for NYCHA.
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The Case for a Green New Deal for Public Housing - Climate and Community Institute
The massive backlog of deferred maintenance for public housing in the United States demands a comprehensive, holistic solution that brings every unit in the country up …
https://climateandcommunity.org/research/gnd-for-public-housing-2024/
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it can if you eat it
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I dunno man it's so hard to get mustard stains out of kevlar
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The Origami Caucus of Senate Dems (that is, the ones trying to fold to the GOP on the Russ Vought-enabling shutdown) have been pushed back by the Constitutional defenders like
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social
and
@merkley.senate.gov
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Democrats Dig In on Shutdown After Election Wins
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/politics/democrats-trump-shutdown-filibuster.html
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Your reminder that
@kenmartin.bsky.social
and the DNC immediately and enthusiastically backed
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
, even though the two NYC-based heads of the Congressional Democrats,
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
and
@schumer.senate.gov
, didn't.
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KHAAAAAAAAN!
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American voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the fossil-fueled Trump autogolpe at the ballot box, putting Democrats in charge of the governor’s mansion and legislatures in Virginia and New Jersey, and giving climate hawks a foothold on the Georgia Public Service Commission.
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U.S. Climate Politics Almanac: 2025 State Elections: Virginia, New Jersey, and Georgia
The Democratic blue wave against Trump and gouging utilities was a tsunami
https://hillheat.news/p/u-s-climate-politics-almanac-2025-state-elections-virginia-new-jersey-and-georgia
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Live now: Mayor-elect
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
's first press conference
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LIVE: Zohran Mamdani holds press conference after winning NYC mayor’s race
YouTube video by Associated Press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G-89IoAv4s
1 day ago
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Billionaires and robber barons now hoping to be Zohran's advisors
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Today. March for Health and Science The march begins immediately after the American Public Health Association’s Rally for America’s Health, which is on November 5th from 2:30 – 4:00 PM on the National Mall, at 7th Street SW.
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March For Health & Science
https://www.911forhealthandscience.org/
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Lead Locally
2 days ago
Happy Election Day, y'all! You're invited to join our debrief on the 2025 elections on Nov 10 @ 6 pm ET! We'll talk this year's results and what's on our radar for 2026.
www.mobilize.us/leadlocally/...
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2025 Election Debrief: Climate on the Ballot · Lead Locally
Join Lead Locally for a conversation with activists and newly elected climate champions to celebrate, discuss the results of our most recent state & municipal elections, and consider what victories ar...
https://www.mobilize.us/leadlocally/event/865879/
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Lead Locally
2 days ago
The Georgia Public Service Commission victories tonight are a big deal. Including for this ⬇️
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"Ackman is a jerk. Has he been right yet? … Does he know anything about politics? No. Does he live in New York City? No. He lives in Chappaqua, the whitest suburb in America, where even the lawn jockeys are white." - Curtis Sliwa
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Taniel
1 day ago
Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.
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Melody Schreiber
3 days ago
“The cost of living goes up. Our pay doesn’t,” said Nakia Lomax, a massage therapist in Delaware. “My credit cards are maxed out from buying food. There’s been times where my husband and I, we’ve gone hungry just to make sure that our daughter and our son eat.” My latest:
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This SNAP Shutoff Comes at the Worst Possible Time
As food prices soar and kids are home for the holidays, families will have more mouths to feed and less money to do it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202570/snap-food-shutdown-trump
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It's really too bad Dick Cheney did not live to see this moment.
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The Democratic wave in the Virginia House of Delegates is an absolute tsunami
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this is pretty much the historical Democratic Party coalition, built on the solidarity that comes from hating plutocrats
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Mayor Mamdani
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It is pretty wild that
@abigailspanberger.com
is going to be Virginia's first female governor.
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Democrats winning everywhere
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This is genuinely good to see
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The crypt keeper stirs
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"a pretty good one"
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Angela Paxton is the wife of the execrable Texas AG Ken Paxton, now estranged after his multi-year affair.
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Robert Downen
2 days ago
Could have better communicated why this is notable: This is a special election in a district that went +18% for Trump in 2024, and includes Tarrant County - a belwether and the state's 4th-largest county, where Republicans have openly tried to suppress Democratic votes and power.
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I'm not the first to observe this by a long shot, but it's clear that the GOP campaign to brand the centrist Democrat Barack Obama as a Muslim socialist from Africa opened the door for Americans to vote for the real thing.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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"The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity."
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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This right here folks
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Progress everywhere
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Disrespecting the decades of hard work by hard-right ideologues and soulless corporate attorneys to dismantle media antitrust
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More than 1.1 million New Yorkers voted for
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
. In 2021, Eric Adams won with 753,801 votes. In 2017, Bill DeBlasio won with 760,112. In 2013, DeBlasio won with 795,679.
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NYT: Democrats Are Worried
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