Shoeflyin

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Southern Appalachians by way of Atlanta.

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If you do the math, electrifying *all* ground transportation in the US would increase electricity demand by less than 20%. HVAC, especially in heating climates, is going to be a considerably bigger challenge for the grid. Easily shiftable EV load could actually help make the grid stabler!

The US added 1.2Million EVs to the grid last year & electricity use dropped due to inc. efficiency. Grid stability will increase further when V2grid charging is deployed at scale. 🧪🔌💡https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/02/the-us-added-1-2-million-evs-to-the-grid-last-year-electricity-use-went-down/

The US Added 1.2 Million EVs To The Grid Last Year, & Electricity Use Went Down - CleanTechnicacleantechnica.com With over 1 million new EVs plugging into garage outlets, home charging stations, and Superchargers, you’d think our electricity usage would have shot up dramatically. You’d be wrong.

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The Party of Intentionally Starving Children

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Celeste Pewter

So yeah - if you saw my last repost? I'm absolutely going to join in every person calling out every pundit-type blathering about Biden. Also, if any of you want to jam up the Project 2025 training academy w/ fake applications? You can get temporary numbers online. Just saying.

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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?

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Campaign news has overshadowed this. For all those who missed it: the administration announced $1 billion to help communities be more resilient to climate change/natural hazards. www.dhs.gov/news/2024/07...

President Biden Announces $1 Billion in Project Selections to Make Communities More Resilient to Climate Change and Natural Hazards Through His Investing in America Agenda | Homeland Securitywww.dhs.gov President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell today announced the 656 project selections for $1 billion in clim...

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If the (highly legitimate)question is “do we want a president with a functional brain” then let’s have that debate. we might want to apply scrutiny to both candidate equally, and not grade one in particular on a MASSIVE curve

I mean, I know this is useless to say almost but if Biden were retweeting right now a meme grown out of a violent conspiracy theory movement that says Republicans and Hollywood are running a satanic pedophile cult, he’d be immediately forced out but it’s Trump so media & politicos are all 🤷‍♂️

Keeping the kitty cool

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Ana Marie Cox

Undecided or put-off voters will likely not respond to calls about “saving democracy,” but anyone who lives in a red state rn is probably one degree of separation from someone who has already faced an obstacle to repro care. This is real and urgent.

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City Atlas

The hidden barrier is that most well-educated people have never had the experience of cooperating, apart from work-related teams. We're not the Amish. It's not climate or energy info that the world's best educated lack, it's being comfortable with cooperation rather than competition.

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Chris Hayes

There's a world on the other side of this with a huge, vibrant, unionized and high-paying industrial base remaking the physical world for the post-fossil fuel age. It's already starting and I think even Trump can't *fully* destroy it, but he can slow it down and make us lag wayyy behind.

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Even after getting crushed in a statewide referendum on the issue, Kansas Republicans have absolutely no fear about defying the people's will and trying to force abortion bans through lawsuits and unconstitutional legislation.

Kansas’ top court bolsters a state right to abortion and strikes down 2 anti-abortion laws

Kansas’ top court bolsters a state right to abortion and strikes down 2 anti-abortion lawsapnews.com The Kansas Supreme Court has reaffirmed its stance that the state constitution protects abortion access.

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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They are breaking down. I just saw somebody call Trump “gay” because of this post. I’m not sure his campaign can recover from this. The GOP should consider running a replacement.

The right is now having its own meltdown because Trump can’t make becoming Hitler his official campaign stance

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"Even before the debate, the media studiously minimized Trump’s criminal convictions, fascist rantings, verbal diarrhea and his use of language literally out of Adolf Hitler’s playbook. Instead, they decided that the most important story in this race was Biden’s age."

pls share/RT The Media Rigs The 2024 Election www.oliverexplains.com/p/the-media-...

The Media Rigs The 2024 Electionwww.oliverexplains.com History Continues To Repeat Itself

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we’re in danger

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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the “some folks just need killing” thing out of north carolina reminds me of a third thing these annoying people are right about: as long as the republican bloodlust grows and their power is unbroken, every election probably will be the most important one of your life

sometimes the most annoying people in politics can be right. the orange man is indeed bad. if you vote, you shouldn’t vote for republicans under any circumstances, which typically leaves one option

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A.R. Moxon

The last week felt much like the other two events that most advanced American fascism—that being the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Trump election. There's a pervasive and inescapable feeling of dread and despair around, because, as fascists see it, there is supposed to be.

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Where does it end? They have been pretty clear where they want it to end.

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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher

Yah it's remarkable that even by the most cheatiest metric in the toolbox for ESG reports, Google and Microsoft are flying at full speed in the wrong direction

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Pookleblinky

Now consider how a very large backbone of rightwing media is to take a very remarkable event involving a marginalized person, and then amping the hell out of it. One trans woman a decade ago, attacks someone with an axe. A decade later, andy ngo breathlessly mentions the epidemic of trans axe murde

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Pookleblinky

Mere exposure to misinformation, retroactively fucks with your memory. Even arguing about it, will do this. Even if it's a seemingly tiny detail. The more you go "no are you fucking with me? I saw it with my own eyes, you're just making shit up," the more that misinformation will fuck with it.

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Every single year has been worse than the last, when it comes to the completely obscene energy greed of Bitcoin mining. Probably a decent chance it ends up causing more harm through this than machine learning training / inference ever will... ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci

1.3 gigs of new gas to meet rising demand due to Bitcoin mining Trust me when I say the Bitcoin problem has not only not gone away, but very clearly gotten worse, despite far fewer headlines about it.... www.spglobal.com/marketintell...

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A disrupted climate & diminished natural world are widening the dividing lines of ideological debate. Left unchecked, this will undermine democracy. In this column I argue it is no coincidence that more extreme politics comes at a time of more extreme weather. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls | Jonathan Wattswww.theguardian.com It is no coincidence that ever more extreme politics has come at a time of ever more extreme weather

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This is the explicit goal of an astonishing amount of paid (and paid for!) propaganda out there. If you're feeling voting doesn't matter, maybe consider why it is so many people are spending so much money, time, effort and ad space trying to convince you not to.

“If a [political] party knows you’re not going to vote for them, the best thing they can do is convince you not to vote at all." — Stage_Door_Johnny (on instagram)

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David M. Perry

The don’t vote guy in fact seems to have voted in the last two elections.

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CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.