Dan Weiss

Clean energy, climate change, advocacy expert. Retweet not an endorsement.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

President Trump just repeated his lie that China only builds windmills to export them to "stupid people from the United States, the suckers."

Reality: China has installed by far the most wind turbines of any country and is installing more of them far faster than any other country.

[Dan Weiss @DanJWeiss]

20+% of Medicaid goes to seniors (65+). These cuts will reduce coverage of Trump's base.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump promised not to “touch” Medicaid.

Now he is cutting it by $1 trillion and taking health care away from patients with cancer, AIDS and other life-threatening diseases to pay for tax breaks to the top 1% and his wealthy campaign contributors.

Unimaginable cruelty.

[Dan Weiss @DanJWeiss]

Trump destroys US ability to monitor oceans for storms, sea level rise, et al. If the Lord has a sense of humor, a category 5 hurricane will hit Mar-a-lago without warning.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump is dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system that took a decade to build and was designed to run for 25 years.

When we need answers about our oceans and our climate, this network is where we get them.

More than 900 instruments sitting thousands of feet beneath the Pacific and Atlantic are the reason we can predict coastal flooding, protect our fisheries, and track how a warming ocean is changing our climate.

It’s also our eyes on a major Atlantic current that scientists fear is weakening. If that current collapses, it triggers catastrophic weather changes across the entire Northern Hemisphere.

There is no plan to store the equipment, there is no plan to replace the data, and the scientists who spent years learning how to operate it say that expertise cannot simply be passed on to the next person.

This Administration is not just cutting a program. It is making us permanently blind to threats we cannot afford to miss.
https://t.co/G3cHda91RU

[Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush]

This is really, actually, no-kidding the disclaimer Hannity ran after his interview with Todd Blanche

[American Bridge 21st Century @American_Bridge]

Trump has been wrecking Social Security from day one, putting people's benefits at risk. Case in point: a living Seattle man was declared dead and had to fight to get his benefits restored.

[American Bridge 21st Century @American_Bridge]

The Trump administration planned to mark 2.7 million living people, including U.S. citizens and legal residents, as dead in the SSA database.

The goal was to get immigrants to self-deport or show up at a Social Security office, where they would be arrested.

This is insane.

[Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

I asked Senate Republicans who among them thought Trump’s slush fund was a good idea. None replied and silence filled the chamber.

I then offered Republicans a chance to shut it down by voting for my amendment.

They chose not to. They are simply too scared of crossing this corrupt president.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration will auction off 689,000 acres of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling today.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump is dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system that took a decade to build and was designed to run for 25 years.

When we need answers about our oceans and our climate, this network is where we get them.

More than 900 instruments sitting thousands of feet beneath the Pacific and Atlantic are the reason we can predict coastal flooding, protect our fisheries, and track how a warming ocean is changing our climate.

It’s also our eyes on a major Atlantic current that scientists fear is weakening. If that current collapses, it triggers catastrophic weather changes across the entire Northern Hemisphere.

There is no plan to store the equipment, there is no plan to replace the data, and the scientists who spent years learning how to operate it say that expertise cannot simply be passed on to the next person.

This Administration is not just cutting a program. It is making us permanently blind to threats we cannot afford to miss.
https://t.co/G3cHda91RU

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: O.M.G. The woman accusing Graham Platner of "intimidation" has been EXPOSED as a top Republican operative who has worked with his opponent, Susan Collins!

This is EXACTLY what they did to Al Franken…

On Thursday evening, the New York Times ran a story in which a woman, Lindsey Fifield, accused Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of grabbing her by the arm, twisting her arm, and of standing in a doorway menacingly blocking her exit.

The New York Times could not corroborate any of her accusations, but ran the story anyway, along with allegations from a few other women that Graham Platner could be unsettling, had dark thoughts, and generally had spooky vibes as a boyfriend.

They also spoke to several other women who said he was a lovely boyfriend and they happily supported his candidacy.

It’s now coming out that Lindsey Fifeld is a lifelong GOP operative who has worked with Platner’s Republican opponent, Susan Collins, and successfully persuaded her to vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court justice who is an ACTUAL rapist.

In one message to a friend, Fifeld wrote “I will personally go campaign for Collins.”

Reporter Ryan Grim at Drop Site News reports that “In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.”

“In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.“

“The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was ‘a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns.’”

“Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and [Zionist extremist Bethany] Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then.”

It should be noted as well that Lindsey Fifeld has a long history of making up baseless lies about Palestinians targeted by the Trump administration like Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

Folks, pardon our French, but this is *bullshit.*

This is an abhorrent attempt to weaponize domestic violence and the mental trauma of dealing with PTSD in order to sink a leftist candidate who staunchly opposes the Israeli genocide of Gaza.

Oh, and if that wasn't enough, the reporter on this article is Katie Gluek, an ardent Zionist whose parents are Israeli settler-occupiers in the West Bank.

Platner’s campaign responded with “Let’s be very clear: This is a lifelong G.O.P. operative who’s dedicated her career to electing Republicans.”

What else is there to say?

Graham Platner is obviously a very imperfect person, but we are not electing him to be our boyfriend. He has been very open about his struggles with PTSD; he saw four of his squadmates killed in an IED explosion in Iraq.

This smear campaign, based on uncorroborated allegations by a woman who literally said she would work for his opponent, is part of his punishment for being a progressive who isn’t afraid to stand against Israel, to stand against the health insurance behemoths, and to demand a better life for the American people.

They managed to sink Al Franken like this. They will NOT succeed again!

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Price of NEW solar plus storage is below marginal gas costs in Europe, China, India and Asia!

Gas industry bet LNG was an indispensable commodity. Even before the war in Iran blew up that argument, falling costs of RE made it obsolete.

Chart below is...
https://t.co/m2qworpUdb

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Solar is irrelevant in the winter"

(this, dear reader, is false)

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Another day another pardoned J6er arrested and sentenced to 19 years for sexually assaulting a 7 year old little girl!

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Adriana Camberos stole 10s of millions from American consumers.

Trump granted her a full pardon, allowing her to keep $48.8 million in stolen funds.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Rep. Fletcher: The New World screwworm has been found in Texas. This flesh-eating parasite previously eradicated from the U.S. poses a huge threat to our cattle. Last March, the Trump administration fired more than 15,000 USDA employees and eliminated a program to contain the screwworm in Central America. The threat of New World screwworm is just one consequence of the Trump administration's reckless campaign to eliminate funding for government programs that Americans rely on.

[Ossoff's Office @SenOssoff]

WATCH: Republicans again blocked Sen. Ossoff's amendment to prevent insurance companies from denying or delaying needed care.

“Instead of slush funds for criminals and corrupt ballrooms, let's do something useful. Let's ban insurance companies from denying or delaying medically necessary health care to Americans," Sen. Ossoff said.

[Dan Weiss @DanJWeiss]

The Massacree Is Over!,Fact checking Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant." by @geneweingarten https://t.co/TS1QwkRpsF

[Dan Weiss @DanJWeiss]

A true good deed is one that the recipient can never repay—like the babies O’Connor held.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

For 20 years, students at a strict Catholic school in Los Angeles feared their calculus teacher.

Then they discovered where he spent three nights every week.

His name was Jim O’Connor.

Former Navy veteran.
Math teacher.
Relentlessly demanding in the classroom.

At St. Francis High School, students knew him as the teacher who never accepted excuses.

Discipline mattered.
Effort mattered.
Precision mattered.

Nobody would have described him as soft.

Then one day in 1989, a friend asked Jim to donate blood at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

He had Type O-negative blood — the universal donor type.

He gave once.

Then he kept coming back.

Over time, hospital staff noticed something else about him.

After donating blood, Jim would stay.

He learned about a small volunteer group that cared for infants who were sick, abandoned, withdrawing from drugs, or simply alone for long stretches of time.

Babies who needed to be held.

So Jim signed up.

Three days a week.
For 20 years.

After finishing work at school, he’d drive to the hospital, walk into the neonatal ward, pick up whichever baby needed comfort most, and quietly rock them to sleep.

He fed them.
Walked the halls with them late at night.
Sang softly to them.
Held them against his chest for hours.

Nurses said he could calm even the fussiest infants.

And he never told anyone at school.

Not coworkers.
Not students.
Nobody.

For two decades, the toughest teacher on campus spent his evenings comforting fragile newborns in dark hospital rooms.

Then a group of students organizing a blood drive visited the hospital.

The moment they mentioned St. Francis High School, hospital staff lit up.

“Do you know Jim O’Connor?”

The students were confused.

Then they saw the plaque listing the hospital’s top blood donors.

At the very top was their calculus teacher’s name.

Jim O’Connor had donated 72 gallons of blood.

And volunteered with infants for 20 years without ever mentioning it.

When reporters later asked why he kept it secret for so long, Jim looked genuinely confused by the question.

“I wasn’t hiding it,” he said.

“I just didn’t think it was anybody else’s business.”

That’s probably why the story still moves people.

Because real kindness rarely announces itself.

Sometimes the people who seem hardest on the outside are carrying the softest hearts in complete silence.

And sometimes the most extraordinary things a person does are the things they never felt the need to tell anyone about.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

America is racist. Two white men chased and shot at a Black delivery driver. But, the judge dropped the charges. This is the same way southern judges refused to prosecute lynchmobs

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Bessent Couldn't Name The Case.

Asked what ongoing litigation prevents him from discussing Trump's audit status, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the matter was tied up in court.

Then Rep. Linda Sánchez asked a simple follow-up:

Which case?

He couldn't name it.

Sánchez pointed out that the only litigation she was aware of involved the $1.8 billion DOJ fund and said that case doesn't address presidential audit immunity.

That's what made the exchange awkward.

The administration says litigation prevents answers.

Congress wants to know which litigation.