Energy & Environmental Democrats

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[Chris Wheeler @Gandhi41]

😂😂😂 so funny but sadly true

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

BBC isn’t backing down.

Trump sued them for $10 billion, which means discovery cuts both ways. Now the BBC wants his phone logs, private schedules, daily diaries, and communications from November 2020 through January 20, 2021.

They aren’t just defending the case. They’re asking a simple question: did their documentary damage Trump’s reputation, or did January 6 do that all by itself?

Lawsuits open doors, and discovery is fair game 💥

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

One way to push back against an authoritarian is to mock him.

trump is so weak and insecure he is now demanding our respect.

So I’m sending him my favorite picture below.

Feel free to retweet and send your favorite picture or video to @realDonaldTrump.

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: The BBC has turned Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against them into a January 6 trial against Trump

The BBC is arguing that to win his defamation case, Trump has to prove he did not foment or incite the riot.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: President Obama breaks his silence after Trump signed the MOU surrender with Iran.

Obama says that under the JCPOA he negotiated, "Iran had agreed not to develop nuclear weapons," and Trump pulling out of it "caused Iran to develop more nuclear capacity."

Obama questioned Trump's rationale for his war, saying we're likely worse off now:

"We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, put an enormous strain on our military; a lot of people have died, and it feels like we are back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little worse off."

This MIC DROP from Obama is guaranteed to drive Trump NUTS.

[ABC News @ABC]

The Trump administration put up $750,000 to charter a private yacht to evacuate a single American citizen from a remote South Pacific island after she had been aboard a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. https://t.co/DB1Q30wWyT

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a complete and total surrender, Donald Trump has backed down from nominating Bill Pulte as the next Director of National Intelligence. This is another humiliating defeat for Donald Trump and one of his top allies.

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

Local activist @JesseRingness captured this racist White Nationalist digital billboard running at city hall in Frisco, TX during the redneck rally.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Donald Trump wants to spend millions of taxpayer dollars building a monument to himself at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery, where generations of America's fallen heroes have been laid to rest.

Today I stood with two veterans whose families are buried at Arlington to say what Republicans on the Appropriations Committee refused to: this is a desecration of our most hallowed ground, and it has to be stopped.

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.

This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of.

And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test.

His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.”

Not whether it works.

Not whether Congress authorized it.

Whether it pleases Trump.

This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.
To my Republican colleagues: where are you?

Congress passed this funding. You voted for it.

Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend.

Grow a spine.

This is not about left or right.

It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.

History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
https://t.co/2yHKBTNLbj

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

TREASON isn’t just some dramatic word people are throwing around because they dislike Trump.

Read the document descriptions in the indictment.

Foreign nuclear capabilities.
US nuclear weaponry.
Military attack plans.
US vulnerabilities.
Foreign intelligence briefings.
Communications with world leaders.
Contingency response scenarios after foreign attacks.

Not “love letters.”
Not “souvenirs.”
Not “harmless paperwork.”

The same people who lose their minds over a leaked email are shrugging at allegations involving some of the most sensitive national defense material on Earth being stored in a resort bathroom and ballroom.

And the truly insane part?

If literally ANY lower-level intelligence officer, military analyst, or contractor had done this, conservatives would be demanding life in prison before sunset.

That’s the part people are reacting to.

[Pastors for Children @pastors4txkids]

Accused of abusing his office by his own aides.

Impeached in the #txlege House by his own party.

Indicted on felonies in his own hometown.

Divorced on grounds of adultery by his own wife.

Endorsed by our Commander-in-Cheat.

Welcome to the morality of today’s @TexasGOP

[ABC News @ABC]

President Trump announced Thursday that he is sending 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland — appearing to reverse a move announced last week to halt a U.S. Army brigade headed to the U.S. ally in Europe.
https://t.co/dbn7zuOeu6

[Acyn @Acyn]

Maddow: So in January, Trump buys hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Nvidia. Then a week later, his commerce department approves the sale of Nvidia chips to China. 

Also in January, Trump buys between 50,000 and $100,000 worth of stock in AMD. One week after he buys it, his commerce department approves AMD doing business in China as well. 

The following month, in February, Trump buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell. Nine days after he buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell, Trump veers off script in a speech in Georgia to tell the crowd literally, quote, go out and buy a Dell computer. 

Then in March, Judd Legum at Popular Information reports that Trump repeatedly buys up Thermo Fisher stock, and then he goes and visits Thermo Fisher on a presidential visit and praises the company.

That same day, Trump bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Apple. And then that same day he bought the stock, he did another event where he singled out Apple and Apple CEO Tim cook for praise. Apple a great company.

Then after that, Trump buys Micron stock. The very next day, he calls into the Fox News channel and tells them Micron is one of the hottest companies.

CNBC reporting Trump makes seven separate purchases of Palantir stock. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Palantir stock. Then he gets on truth social and praises Palantir.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

There’s no other way to describe what the Supreme Court just did other than: Jim Crow 2.0.

What Republican Governors have done to suspend elections is even more alarming.

The threat to democracy is very real and it’s happening right now.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨“The longer you make this last, the worse it is…”

Is what an ICE agent said to U.S. citizens during an unlawful stop in Tennessee.

In the video, ICE agents and police illegally boxed in a vehicle, trapped the car from leaving, shoved a phone through the passenger window… to scan the passenger’s face… and then threatened the driver for stating his constitutional rights.

The driver repeatedly asked the most basic constitutional question:

“Am I being detained or am I free to go?”

And notice how they never gave a clear lawful reason for the stop, or any questions…

The driver told them to get their hands out of his car. He told them they needed to move their vehicle because they were blocking him in. He repeatedly asked what crime had been committed…

And the agent’s response?

“The longer you make this last, the worse it is.”

That is not how constitutional policing works in America.

You do not lose your Fourth Amendment rights because an ICE agent gets irritated that you won’t instantly comply with unlawful demands.

You do not have to surrender your rights to avoid retaliation.

And after they were done violating these two U.S. citizens rights, you can hear an officer say, “be more cooperative next time…”

That is an especially disturbing thing to say after illegally detaining people who kept asking…

“What did we even do?”

Nothing in this video suggests reasonable suspicion of a crime, before they illegally boxed the vehicle in, and started demanding compliance.

That is exactly why constitutional protections exist in the first place… and why every American is losing their constitutional rights the longer this happens without accountability.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Five days ago, US Customs and Border Protection began processing $35 billion in tariff refunds to importing companies.

FedEx. Dyson. L'Oreal. Bausch & Lomb. Over 1,000 companies have filed for reimbursement.
The refunds are flowing.

But not to the families who paid them.

In February, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs under emergency powers. The tariffs collected over $130 billion from importers.

Yale Budget Lab analysis: the average American household paid $1,751 in higher prices last year because of those tariffs.

In February, Gov. Gavin Newsom called on the Trump administration to refund every household. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul did the same.

Three months later, $35 billion is flowing to corporations.

Zero is flowing to families.

The companies that passed the cost on to consumers are being made whole.
The consumers are not.

Where is the household refund?

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

The US Department of Energy just mapped every data center in America.

This is what the AI power grid looks like.

The dots are data centers.
Yellow = operating.
Orange = under construction.
White = planned.

The lines are high-voltage transmission 735kV, 500kV, 345kV the arteries that move electrons from generators to compute loads.

Look at the density along the East Coast, Northern Virginia to the Carolinas.
Then look at Texas.
Then Northern California.

The largest circles on this map represent facilities demanding over 5,000 MW of power.

Single campuses pulling more electricity than mid-sized cities.

Northern Virginia is so dense the dots overlap.

Data centers cluster on transmission corridors.
Not because land is cheap because power is available.

When the line is full, the next data center goes somewhere else.

The grid is the bottleneck.

Every orange dot is a power purchase agreement being negotiated right now.

Every white dot is a utility commission filing, a gas plant approval, a pipeline capacity booking.

The $66.8 bn NextEra-Dominion deal, Meta's 10 new gas plants in Louisiana, the Alaska LNG FID push they all trace back to maps that look like this.

AI infrastructure is built in substations, on transmission corridors, and at the end of gas pipelines.

Link in the comments, to see my stocks 👇