Eli Zupnick

Exclusive: Stardust Solutions Raises $60 Million to Build a Solar Geoengineering System by 2030 A U.S. firm led by former Israeli government physicists, Stardust seeks to patent its proprietary sunlight-scattering particle — but it won’t deploy its technology until global governments authorize s...

Major scoop from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social:

Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.

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The startup Stardust Solutions has raised $60 million to develop technological “building blocks” that it claims will make solar geoengineering possible by 2030.

Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.

Great new @nytopinion.nytimes.com piece from @fixourhouse.bsky.social co-founder @leedrutman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #ProportionalRepresentation

Why Voters Rejected Election Reform In state after state, they rejected proposals to fix two of the most hated problems in politics.

"'It’s not something that we expect to go places tomorrow,' [@fixourhouse.bsky.social @dustinwahl.bsky.social] told me. 'But this is the important step that we would need to take to move in the direction of transformational electoral reform.'" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Why Voters Rejected Election Reform In state after state, they rejected proposals to fix two of the most hated problems in politics.

From @russellberman.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com: "Shortly after the election, a pair of centrist Democrats..Gluesenkamp Perez...and...Golden...introduced legislation proposing a select House committee on electoral reform.."

To fix big problems, we need big solutions. @repmgp.bsky.social is leading the way. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

MGP on her new commission bill (supported by Fix Our House and Protet Democracy): "If we want more normal, working-class people here, we need electoral systems that open the door to more people participating."

Opinion | Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on Winning a Trump District and Fixing Congress Lessons from a Democratic winner in Trump country.

From @michellegoldberg.bsky.social "Now, Gluesenkamp Perez is using some of her political capital in an unexpected way, teaming up with...Golden...to propose a task force to consider far-reaching electoral reforms." #ProportionalRepresentation www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...

Fix Our House's @leedrutman.bsky.social "“What’s different in this moment is just a sense of, with each passing election, just how broken our political system feels to so many people...There is a growing frustration that we just can’t keep doing the same thing over and over again"

Blue Dogs Propose New Task Force to Look at ‘Winner-Take-All’ Election System The bipartisan task force would investigate structural reforms like multimember districts and adding more House members in an effort to address growing polarization and distrust of Congress.

"Blue Dogs Propose New Task Force to Look at ‘Winner-Take-All’ Election System" www.notus.org/congress/blu...