I agree w this. There's too much disinformation-shaped confusion about what's causing electricity prices to rise for "electrification" to be a winning message right now.

Hi I’m a climate campaigns person who plays a key role in winning big stuff with a real record. Thus, I feel like I’m well-qualified to make recommendations and the one I have to climate world is that the electrification message is not great for 2 reasons. This is 1.

Gee whiz I wonder why Trump shut down the report on hunger in the US 🤔

Across Madison, people are opening up homes and buildings for a Sun Day solar tour. And they've got some pretty amazing buildings there!

The feckless self satisfaction. 😬 I hope he and Jeffries don’t ever endorse Mamdani because it makes the shape of things clearer to democratic voters, who need to shake loose from these bonds.

Yes! Meanwhile despite the pull-back among elites in (mostly feigned) concern about climate, the public I deal with is at least as concerned as a few years ago. I always talk intersectionally to strengthen the case, but there’s no need to *elide away* climate. Preventing catastrophe is compelling!

Noting that renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels should be a ‘no brainer’ for anyone who’s concerned about the high cost of living in NY City! Thanks to @petesikora.bsky.social for pointing that out & to Zorhan Mamdani for prioritizing the environment to make NYC a better place to live.

Another NYC Local Law 97 success story: aging co-op building upgrades to high energy efficiency heat pumps: ✅ lower pollution ✅ lower bills ✅ good jobs Mamdani supports it 😃 while Cuomo tried to gut it 👎 Building’s story documented here: reasonstobecheerful.world/new-york-ele...

Another NYC Local Law 97 success story: aging co-op building upgrades to high energy efficiency heat pumps: ✅ lower pollution ✅ lower bills ✅ good jobs Mamdani supports it 😃 while Cuomo tried to gut it 👎 Building’s story documented here: reasonstobecheerful.world/new-york-ele...

Like with lots of social problems there are efficiencies that can be wrung out of the system to lower costs. Energy efficiency helps. Public power would => no paying for profits. But ultimately, infrastructure costs a lot & rich people have all the money. NY should TAX THE RICH. 🧵

Yep this is why they lose: no principles, no bottom lines, no actual objectives other than maximizing their own personal interests, and therefore no fight. Their “leaders” like Jeffries will whip for Republican objectives, such as deifying Kirk, a Jan 6 organizer, bigot and tool for billionaires.

Hey everyone who’s not a New Yorker but following the Mamdani phenomenon: here’s a great new update on NYC mayoral race + fantastic interview with NYC organizer @petesikora.bsky.social linking #climate and affordable housing in the campaign. Master class in messaging. youtu.be/13yZsstG6Es?...

I’m guessing the political and media elites are a couple years from realizing places like Florida aren’t gonna be “affordable” relative to, say, New York for long. Huge swathes of Florida are doomed by climate change due to the people Floridians vote for. No insurance💀 www.wdef.com/homeowners-i...

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Our climate campaigns director on TV about Mamdani v Cuomo and the NYCC-affiliated independent expenditure committee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=13yZ...

I went on a Fox 5 TV show on the nyc election Mamdani v Cuomo 👀 Check it out, I think I did a good job yakking. And for you climate/energy peeps, this is definitely worth watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=13yZ...

The PSC wielded its big ole rubber stamp today to give cover to Hochul, who wants to fast track the Williams NESE pipeline for Trump.🤢The PSC & commissioners are owned by the gas industry, and if Hochul approves it, rates go up a lot and pollution skyrockets. #NoTrumpPipelines

'If we don't do the messaging Republicans want, Republicans will have a messaging victory'

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

🎯 #NoTrumpPipelines @GovKathyHochul @KathyHochul do not do Trump’s bidding to raise our utility bills and super pollute!

ABC immediately caves to tiniest bit of gov’t pressure. If you don’t defend basic free speech rights, you’ll lose them. Simple as that. Gov’t hasn’t just threatened us at media matters, they’ve actually used power against us. We don’t fold, we fight in court. If we can, ABC has no excuse

Speaker Heastie recognizes what New Yorkers know: it’s not only popular but necessary to ask the wealthiest individuals and the most profitable corporations to pay a little more in taxes so we can deliver an agenda that lowers costs for working families.

I’m glad people like Chris Hayes are saying and doing what they do. That said: I would prefer if they’d drop the pretense of “is it a democracy?” and “is it a free society?”. It is not. People are intimidated and scared and being punished/disappeared etc. Other terms apply.

This independent expenditure committee, which is affiliated with NYCC, is called Livable Future PAC. Check out the story below for the 411 ⬇️ Let’s go!

NYC Local Law 97, our “Green New Deal” law is a big success. We’ve reached near-100% compliance with initial 2024-2029 pollution caps => cleaning up large old, dirty buildings ✅ good jobs ✅ lower utility bills ✅ less pollution Mamdani is down 😃 Cuomo’s w/ the landlord lobby who wants to guy it 👎

Good news coke heads: the only price of any consumer item Trump’s reducing is cocaine.

👀👀👀👀👀👀NYC!!!

NYS expert here 🙋‍♂️ Topics to address to Harris b/c she reps Hochul: *Cap & invest being halted *anemic NY pace of building utility-scale solar & wind *big Clean Path transmission project stalled (no upstate to downstate project besides chpe) *fast tracking Williams pipelines *NY sued over clcpa fail

Come for the important climate/jobs/energy affordability policy talk about Mamdani v. Cuomo, but stay for another gloriously unhinged and right-coded quote from Rich Azzopardi 😂 www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Crucial from @asharangappa.bsky.social: It's a stunning omission that in media coverage of Trump and Stephen Miller blaming the left for political violence, Jan 6 is largely absent. "It almost seems like the whitewashing is successful." On the pod, she's so good: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Instead of writing a mea culpa for his last horrid column, Ezra Klein is doubling down on his racist whoring for the billionaire class. Laundering fascism. More peak NYtimes.

This is where NY should be! Yet instead utility-scale solar/wind development stagnated under Cuomo and now Hochul. Downstate NY’s grid is dominated by gas. 🤦 On transmission, Hochul approved the big CHPE project years ago. It’s soon to operate. But she’s stalled Clean Path and others. Failing. 😢

This was extremely not difficult to predict.

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News Release: Over 1,000 New Yorkers pledge to @KathyHochul @governor.ny.gov: I will not vote for you if you do Trump’s bidding by approving the Williams fracked gas pipelines. #NoTrumpPipelines Take the pledge 👇

The NYpost did a similar cover attacking Hochul on an incipient “cap & invest” program for climate action to reduce utility bills + create jobs. And it totally worked.🤦 She backed off years of policy & regulatory work, wrecking her own nominal program. She is wildly oversensitive to the right. 🤬

👀🎯 Also: The McCarthyite attacks from the right to intimidate and silence people criticizing Israel and Charlie Kirk, and more broadly American society and politics, should be a HUGE story. But of course, to be a huge story, it would have to come from those very institutions doing these crimes 🤬

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer: even stupider and more craven politically than Kathy Hochul 😂😂😂🤦 www.cnn.com/2025/09/14/p...

The system - pols, billionaires and msm - is desperately working to deify Kirk and smear “the left,” but I don’t think it’s working? Kirk was a violence-inducing racist; sleazy operative; richie rich; and pretty darn uncharismatic. Normal people the right needs seem unmoved.

On Long Beach, Long Islanders out telling @governor.ny.gov Hochul to stand up to Trump. 💪 Hey Hochul: don’t raise our utility bills and cause massive pollution by approving the fracked gas pipelines that Trump wants! #NoTrumpPipelines

Ok I’m gonna make that donation I was already planning 🤌

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Hey Clay Higgins &other RWers: put me on your lists. Let me say this clearly: your bad faith bs and prejudice is wrecking decency. I’m not happy Kirk was assassinated. Unlike Kirk, I’m against political violence. I AM happy he’s dead, tho, in the same was I was happy Kissinger died. Both = evil.

Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...

Thread (my hope for the msm was already crushed, but also that doesn’t mean I’m not shocked and appalled by their collective behavior) 💯 agree with every point:

Speaking as a parent, your top concern is your kid’s health. And one of the horrifying scenarios that I think occurs to all parents is your kid growing up to be a psycho killer. I assume Robinson’s family was the same. I feel very sad for them, too. A nightmare. ALSO THO:

The NYT stories on Robinson are fascinating for their combination of precision and vagueness. I’d bett the dude’s gonna turn out to have been a super-disturbed gamergate groyper type, but they’re keeping that out of the “official” msm narrative as long as possible.

What I love is that the more we learn about the shooter, the less histrionic fake mourning we’ll get

Fantastic interview by @delgadoforny.bsky.social, which starts with him calling on @governor.ny.gov to stand up to Trump and stop the Williams pipelines 🔥 #NoTrumpPipelines 👀👀👀👀 ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...