There is no common ground with these people. Those who are not jailed for actual crimes must be out-organized, politically defeated and marginalized, and shamed back into silence like they were back when we were a civilized society.
And that's the best possible outcome. /2/end
The #MAGA- #Fascist take on bombing children:
“It’s hypocritical to say that these attacks harmed women and children when those women and children, the young girls that you reference, would be … live a life in a barbaric, unequal society behind a burqa..." /1
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We have ignored and funded Israeli war crimes for years. And now we are committing our own.
This sickens me. Every Republican in the Senate, and @fetterman.senate.gov, are responsible for enabling this.
Joel Gates of @climateactionri.org: “this is exactly where the federal government wants us: more dependent on dirty imported energy. And some in this administration are falling for it.” /19
Jamie Rhodes of @theclf.bsky.social notes that #energyefficiency is required to be cost-effective and provide net benefits under least-cost procurement statute. And notes that the point of the RES is to deploy renewables and to get us off the roller coaster of high gas prices. /21
@timmonsroberts.bsky.social, professor at Brown, now explaining that the reason we have the #ActOnClimate is that we were behind other states. And that the #climatecrisis is a real, existential threat. /20
Another Brown student whose family lost their home in Missouri due to a tornado notes that the accelerating #climatecrisis is making more and more homes unaffordable. “The cheapest adaptation is mitigation.” /19
Hearing from Brown students now, pointing out that the prices that people pay for electricity. “We need to be focused on affordability, not just in the short run, but in the long run,” Brown student Sam Dunn. Argues that the federal environment means that #RhodeIsland should recommit to its goals.18
Jeff Migneault, president of @climateactionri.org: “Oscar Wilde once said that a cynic knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing. Even applying that to the governor’s budget is too generous.” Nktes that you have to invest to get savings. /17
This is the admin of @govdanmckee.bsky.social. Like in the Trump Admin., environmental agencies are weaponized to anti-environmental ends.
Emily Koo of @acadiacenter.bsky.social noting that #energyefficiency is already required to be cost-effective. And that gutting the RES will cause us to absolutely miss our #ActOnClimate targets. /16
Diane Hill from @climateactionri.org speaking now, references @whitehouse.senate.gov’s video “The Grid and The Scam,” which explains that #wind & #solar drive down power costs for all sources on wholesale power markets, as a zero marginal cost resource. /15
Rhode Island Business Coalition here, represents companies employing 6,000 workers. Is for gutting the RES but wants to keep large-scale net metering. /14
Camille Nixon of @climateactionri.org notes that China has been building vastly more wind and #solar than the United States. Also speaking against the proposed inclusion of nuclear in the RES. /13
Aislinn Hanley of Climate Jobs RI up, explaining that the #renewableenergy standard is creating a long-term signal for job & industry growth. Followed by Erica Hammond of @riaflcio.bsky.social noting that gutting the RES will have a severe effect on the trades that are training for these jobs. /12
@tanzister.bsky.social pointing out that smart meters are going to save RI customers money over the long term for an investment by ratepayers.
So is energy efficiency, but the difference is that RI Energy doesn’t profit from EE. So they want to cap it. /11
Nick Ucci from RI Energy starts by thinking the State for its presentation. Of course! They were speaking on his company’s behalf. /10
Rep Nardone is now worried about Rhode Island Energy’s bonuses. This guy really is a joke. And confusing everything about the end of the ITC. /9
@tanzister.bsky.social is wiping the floor with Linda George. First noting that her numbers are not disaggregated and frankly inaccurate. Also wondering why Linda George is pushing for RI Energy to make profit on road work, which is an increased cost to ratepayers.
While gutting renewable energy./8
Terry Gray claiming that the admin is trying to figure out how to meet AOC targets.
I reviewed the state’s Climate Action Plan. It’s not even a plan. It’s a complete surrender. /7
Terry Gray of RIDEM making a lot of bad excuses as to why the state isn’t even trying under McKee to meet Act on Climate targets.
Other blue states are doubling down, not making excuses. /6
One of McKee’s lackey’s claiming that gutting the RES will save the equivalent of one month’s bill.
Complete and total lie. It was literally 3.5% last winter. That’s Rhode Island Energy’s own numbers. /5
Terry Gray speaking about the green bond, noting that #RhodeIsland needs resilience measures because we are going to be impacted by the #climatecrisis.
No shit. McKee’s budget will make that worse by gutting our #renewableenergy mandate. /4
There are too many lies, distortions, and meaningful omissions in the presentations to fully debunk.
A big one: Linda George says we have no control over electricity prices. Horseshit. #Renewableenergy brings down wholesale power costs through the price suppression effect. Efficiency does too. /3
Hearing Linda George, Chris Kearns, and McKee’s other lackeys distort the record and lie about what they are doing is quite the demonstration of regulatory capture. /2
Here at the hearing for @govdanmckee.bsky.social’s attempts to gut the state’s #renewableenergy programs, including the state’s nation-leading RES, with 13 fellow @climateactionri.org members, @theclf.bsky.social, @geconsumers.bsky.social & other advocates. /1
You are a fool if you think DHS is going to get better under Markwayne Mullin. They're all just taking orders from Stephen Miller, and Mullin is just another sycophant/fall guy who will be discarded when his usefulness comes to an end.
This is another distraction.
#abolishICE
My thoughts exactly.
Public defender’s office testifying in support of H7198, the ”364-day” bill - makes misdemeanors sentenceable to only 364 days. Notes the practical advantages as well as the fairness issue. /13
Famous urbanist high school student Cedric Ye speaking noting that ICE’s terror extends beyond immigrants & non-citizens. Notes that ordinary actions like paying tickets are causing fear in Americans. “We are not a free society.” /12
