Max Rubin

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[Max Rubin @MaxRubin_5]

@PEWilliams_ Would the tax revenue from an increased population outweigh the foregone tax revenue over that 12-30+ year timeline + the cost to taxpayers for larger needs for public services / utilities etc though?

[Max Rubin @MaxRubin_5]

Just went up to a dude wearing a Cavs hat on the Acela as we pulled into 30th Street and said welcome to LeBron’s new city

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

BREAKING: LeBron James is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers on a two-year, $8 million deal with a player option, Klutch Sports Group and Klutch CEO and Game Over show host Rich Paul tells ESPN.

[Max Rubin @MaxRubin_5]

Ah yes, Consolidated Edison, notorious socialist entity (definitely not the oldest investor owned electric utility in America)

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

Welcome to socialism

[Grayson Flood @grayson_flood]

Building a grid that lowers costs for everyone will be a massive undertaking, but we have done this before, and we have a plan:

1. Freeze runaway rates
2. Let public power build the system of the future
3. Make Big Tech pay their fair share

[Acyn @Acyn]

Karl: Josh Gottheimer, a Democratic member of Congress, who says, “Many of us believe, as do I, if you’re a socialist, you are not a Democrat.” And in fact, they put out a manifesto today.

Mamdani: Sounds pretty socialist to me…. I'm not interested in writing a manifesto or frankly, in reading one. I'm interested in delivering. And that's exactly what we've been showing.

[Max Rubin @MaxRubin_5]

@xiaowang1984 Why not internalize the true cost of reliability, climate, and public health? Ratepayers pay three times beyond their utility bills: through blackout risks, worse lung/heart health (NOx/SOx) + climate disasters.

[Max Rubin @MaxRubin_5]

@hankgreen @ross457547 @llehsadam And those drilling for helium are coming across natural hydrogen deposits! https://t.co/ZEA3lxwBJR

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

Just this one subsidy to a foreign company to kill wind projects purely out of spite by Trump costs TWICE as much as the loan guarantees to the dreaded Solyndra.

Solyndra was a rightwing talking point about waste for YEARS. And that loan program - which always assumed that some projects would fail - not only made up for those losses, but ended up being profitable for taxpayers.

But doubt we hear a word about this latest boondoggle from the same people who were horrified by the supposed waste and told us government shouldn't choose winners and losers.

Makes you wonder!

[Ari Peskoe @AriPeskoe]

The Edison Electric Institute works for utility shareholders, not utility ratepayers.

That's why FERC should revive its dormant proceeding about utility trade association dues and ensure that utility shareholders pay for EEI, not the public.

[Max Rubin @MaxRubin_5]

The US could lower the Medicare age of enrollment by 5 years…for the next 5 years for less than this amount of money.

[Jeff Stein @jstein_sun]

SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for the Iran war supplemental, sources say

Some White House aides think Congress won't support b/c it's so big

Will tee up giant battle in Congress

[We Power DC @WePowerDC]

Our utilities should be owned by the public, not greed-driven shareholders. The majority of Americans believe this.

[Grayson Flood @grayson_flood]

And 58% of voters think that electric utilities should be publicly, not privately, run. More Republicans prefer public ownership than private. 10/

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Jake Paul calls Bad Bunny a 'fake American' for being born in Puerto Rico.

Jake Paul currently lives in Puerto Rico to avoid paying American Taxes.

You cant make this up.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder that he vast majority of Democratic voters don’t agree with this - either this being his job description or aid to Israel itself - which is why Schumer should not be leader of the Democrats in the Senate.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

@LosPollosTV you say this cus they’re not storming your gated community. i went out there. i saw the real fear. americans of all walks of life terrified to go outside, a community being sieged by tyrants. ppl asked to “show their papers” americans getting detained & even gunned down. wake up.

[Max Rubin @MaxRubin_5]

The government tonight

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

The White House says President Trump will sign the funding bill tonight in the Oval Office at 9:45 pm ET.

[Variety @Variety]

Hannah Einbinder on saying "Free Palestine" in her Emmys acceptance speech.

"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state." https://t.co/D7ME3jRDEm

[Max Rubin @MaxRubin_5]

@drvolts @billmckibben @jamieclimate Ask whether / how they’ll support local public power/municipalization campaigns! In the early 1900s, these campaigns fought corporate overreach & were the foundation for federal public power projects in the 20s+30s..but today, they’re starved of financial & institutional support.

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

🤜 Brad Lander, NYC comptroller and a Mamdani ally, responds:

“Josh Shapiro won’t help keep Jews safe in NYC or Pennsylvania by feeding Trump’s narrative about our Democratic nominee for mayor.”

[Jason Febery @JasonFebery]

He literally canceled AIDS medicine and anti-starvation nutrition packets for the world’s poorest.