Kevin

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MA Env Policy Energy & Sustainability. Climate Hawk. YIMBY.

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Solve your housing affordability crisis with this one weird trick

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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Not a perfect comparison, and I’ve deliberately omitted the period when pandemic composition effects distorted the numbers. But 14 years of Conservative rule have been associated with stagnant real wages and severe deterioration of public services. This was a well-earned rout

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Here’s how the Supreme Court's decision to end the "Chevron doctrine" and expand judicial review of administrative agency decisions could affect climate regulation: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/c...

A Seismic Supreme Court Decisionwww.nytimes.com Here’s how the end of the Chevron doctrine could affect climate regulation.

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I’m not saying the paper of record is trying to hound the president from office out of a fit of pique because he won’t sit down for an interview, but if it were, how different would things look? www.politico.com/news/2024/04...

NYT blasts Biden for avoiding interviewswww.politico.com The Times in a statement called it “troubling” that Biden “has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term.”

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Folks with terribly unpopular, & terrible, ideas want you to believe everyone is with them. They are not. 3 years ago a US Climate Corps, electric school & transit buses, & green infrastructure investments that cool down cities were just ideas. Now they’re real. With hard work, we can have hope. 🇺🇸

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Write postcards. Give money to swing state campaigns. www.turnoutpac.org/postcards-faq/

Knocking on doors is the best, but that's pretty useless for people who live in solid blue states, unless we're able and willing to leave the state for such campaigns. But our financial contributions, especially this early in the campaign, help to open and staff campaign offices.

Postcards to Swing States FAQ - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Postcards to Swing States F.A.Q. ← Back to Postcards home If the following Frequently Asked Questions don’t answer your question, just email us at [email protected]! Why send postcards to voter...

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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiringwww.washingtonpost.com The lawsuit, filed by a prominent attorney, alleges the university’s law school gives hiring preference to women and people of color.

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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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It hasn’t received as much attention, but a Supreme Court ruling last week basically break the process by which the federal government responds to public comments in *any* process — which means it will take *longer* to permit new clean energy or new infrastructure. heatmap.news/climate/supr...

The Supreme Court Is Slowly Breaking the EPAheatmap.news Four rulings from the past week will weigh heavily on future climate regulation.

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Right-wing legal talking heads are focusing on arguing that it is RIDICULOUS to say that a second-term Trump will be empowered by immunity to do horrific things, while carefully preparing to argue in seven months that it is RIGHT that Trump do horrific things which aren’t actually horrific anyway.

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The institutions of US democracy are hanging by a thread, and the Supreme Court just frayed it. I cannot emphasize this enough: the 2024 election is effectively an up-or-down vote on Constitutional democracy. All else is secondary, because democracy and rule of law are how we address other issues.

The Institutions of American Democracy are Hanging by a Threadwww.arcdigital.media Trump has brought the United States further down the path of democratic backsliding than many realize. The election is the only barrier left.

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McNuggets come in packs of 20. So could Supreme Court Justices

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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Hey remember when I said it was a mistake to continue posting on a platform this guy owns and validating its existence? Vichy Twiter is a Nazi run propaganda engine.

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New pod: Andrew Weissmann makes a powerful, disturbing case that Trump's threats to pardon 1/6ers and prosecute his enemies mean that if he wins, our justice system could become unrecognizable. "We certainly won't be the country we thought we had." Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1833...

Trump’s Ugly New Rants About Jan. 6 Pardons Suddenly Seem Very Ominousnewrepublic.com With Trump escalating his threats to pardon MAGA supporters who attacked the Capitol, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explains how this shows the rule of law is in deep peril.

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When people claim no leftists want Trump to win, the leftist quoted here saying that a Biden presidency is "way more dangerous" than a Trump presidency, and pushing absurd, Trump-normalizing BS that Trump's 1st term was "standard," is what people saying some leftists want Trump to win have in mind.

There it is: A position completely untethered from empirical evidence, as ridiculous analytically as it is dangerous politically, propagated by anti-liberal leftwing intellectuals who are solely animated by their disdain for “the Libs” and have abandoned any regard for accuracy.

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This is also a useful reminder that Trump had multiple moments of incoherence that matched Biden.

That “Black jobs” seems to be the main thing from the debate to go actually viral on social media should give certain columnists some pause about their pulse on the campaign.

Black Americans demand to know what ‘Black jobs’ are after Trump debate commentwww.wate.com Black Americans are demanding to know what “Black jobs” are after former President Trump used the phrase in Thursday’s debate with President Biden in Atlanta. In response to the first 2…

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It’s weirdly reassuring that Black Twitter-style virality is still possible with the actual Twitter made deliberately as hostile to Black users as it’s ever been

That “Black jobs” seems to be the main thing from the debate to go actually viral on social media should give certain columnists some pause about their pulse on the campaign.

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It's an extension of the larger assumptions in our political media -- Democrats are the only ones with any agency or morality, while the awfulness of Republicans is taken as a fixed constant.

been trying to place the the cognitive dissonance I feel with “to serve his country, Biden should step aside” and I think it’s that no one would ever suggest that Trump should do something that puts the country first

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The US will set a 2035 emissions target under the Paris Agreement next year. That will create additional investment, policy incentives, and urgency to get to zero emissions faster. Kids & vulnerable folks will breathe healthier air & not get sick because of air pollution. All of that is at risk.

And BY THE WAY, the next Administration will need to set emissions reductions commitments under the Paris Agreement for 2035. Biden already has a 50-52% reduction target by 2030 & a net-zero by 2050 target. But the 2035 target sets the trajectory. Pull out of Paris & that goes away & dooms net-zero.

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swing voters and undecided voters basically by definition think about and engage with politics differently than anyone on this site, anyone who writes for the ny times, and the vast majority of the times’ subscribers. otherwise they wouldn’t be undecided/swing voters.

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The "Drop out Biden" discourse is especially braindead because none of the people pushing it even think he's not capable of doing the job. They just think he's not capable of *winning*, a judgment they have rushed to without even bothering to wait a week for polls to come in

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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutantwww.forbes.com The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.

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Sometimes it feels like nothing is changing: as if we’re climbing the tallest mountain in the world, and the summit is no closer than when we started. But if we stop for a minute and turn around and look back, we can see how far we’ve actually come. Progress is happening, step by step.

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The Supreme Court just blew up four decades of precedent today, in a decision that will make it harder for executive agencies to protect the environment, public health, worker safety and more. www.axios.com/2024/06/28/s...

Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron rulingwww.axios.com The ruling on the doctrine will weaken the impact of statues for a wide array policy areas.

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For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.

Donald Trump Should Drop Out | Washington Monthlywashingtonmonthly.com We’ve had months of calls for Joe Biden to drop out because of middling poll numbers. The grounds for a Trump withdrawal are far firmer.

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having fear is understandable. manifesting that fear into reality is a mistake.

as much as i think that debate was bad for biden i also find myself contemptuous of the assorted libs having a full blown panic attack

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SCOTUS Power grabs Major Questions Doctrine: If it's a Big Deal, the Court gets extra power, and what's a Big Deal is up to the Court Civil Rights Act: Renewal was Constitutional before, but Justices feel like the law isn't helpful now Chevron: Experts can't make expert decisions, only judges can