John Moran

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Good morning with good news: US solar & wind surged 21% in June 2026 to 93.6 TWh, compared to 77.2 TWh in June 2025!

S&W generated 22.7% of US power in June 2026, up from 19.2% in June 2025!

Gas fell to 162 TWh in June 2025, down ~2% from June 2025 and ~4% from June 2024!

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[John Moran @JFMSolar]

@RichardMeyerDC Global Warming good for Natural Gas, kind of a virtuous cycle for you!

[John Moran @JFMSolar]

@RichardMeyerDC

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

NEW | Solar overtook coal generation in the US for the first month on record

In May, solar generated an estimated 12.8% of US electricity, an all-time high!

Coal produced 12.2%

For now, it's one month, soon it will happen across the year.

[John Moran @JFMSolar]

@SullyCNBC

[John Moran @JFMSolar]

@SullyCNBC Put solar on your house and get an EV, free fuel and cheap electricity, the answers are here

[Adam Driver Archive @adamdriverarchv]

1/ • Adam Driver 📷 by -ᴊᴀᴍᴇꜱ ᴅᴇᴠᴀɴᴇʏ- attending the Denver Nuggets Vs New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden, October 30, 2017 — With Spike Lee.

Misc Event | NBA Game | Denver Nuggets Vs New York Knicks | 2K | 3K | 30.10.17

[John Moran @JFMSolar]

@nicolasfulghum @RichardMeyerDC

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

NEW | Wind and solar just produced more electricity than gas globally for the first month on record

In April, they produced 531 TWh (22%), compared with 477 TWh (20%) for gas.

Wind and solar generation has more than doubled in the last five years.

[John Moran @JFMSolar]

@mikegolicjr You’ll look gassed if you eat that bucket of nachos

[John Moran @JFMSolar]

@SaraEisen We ceded the EV market, solar manufacturing and batteries to Asia when we repealed the inflation reduction act and its incentives

[John Moran @JFMSolar]

@SullyCNBC @SecretaryWright @SquawkCNBC

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

BOOM! SAY IT LOUDER:
Gary Chambers Jr. just dragged Louisiana Republicans — while Speaker Mike Johnson wears holes in his kneepads for Dear Leader.

Louisiana ranks dead last in economy and crime, 46th in education, 48th in infrastructure, 49th in environment, 46th in opportunity, with 18.9% poverty — worst in America.

But they're stripping power from a Black-majority New Orleans instead of fixing any of it.

This isn't reform. It's racist reconstructionism.
Gary said it plainly: "You lost every constitutional amendment you proposed, even in your own districts."

They don't ask the people because they know they'd lose. No choice. No vote. No voice.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

[John Moran @JFMSolar]

@jonnajarian Socialism!

[John Moran @JFMSolar]

@SquawkCNBC @SenatorRounds WMD! What a joke

[John Moran @JFMSolar]

@RichardMeyerDC Solar will dominate, pretty obvious

[John Moran @JFMSolar]

@SaraEisen Socialism!