Nicholas Occhipinti

Kiteboarder, outdoor enthusiast, policy and government affairs guy; any opinions expressed here are views of my own.

[Nicholas Occhipinti @nocchipi]

Uggh.

I have long esteemed the Supreme Court, like a child reveres his or her doctor.

Surely politics would always be considered an inferior pursuit; nationalistic and tribal ideologies for the masses and untrained minds.

I hoped dedication to the craft, the institution, and the rule of law would supersede other influences when coupled with lifetime appointments. The pomp and circumstance, the tradition…heck, even the hubris and arrogance of reaching and holding such high office should shield justices from lesser human frivolities and the populist whims of the body politic.

I was wrong and very much to my chagrin it means that the next Democratic president must remake the court - a terribly dangerous proposition.

[Nicholas Occhipinti @nocchipi]

@cspan Bro, don’t turn the graph upside down. What a joke this guy is. Shameful.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Never before have we had so much income inequality.

Last year, the bottom 50% saw their income go down by $27, on average, while the top 0.01% gained $2.9 million.

And the top 0.001%? They saw their income go up by $20 million. In a single year.

Yes. We must tax the rich.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Carville: “I’m just waiting for the NYT to drop a 5-point series on the depth of this corruption. The corruption is beyond anything, it might be that there’s been more corruption under the administration of Donald Trump than there has in the 250 year history of the US”

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Trump hasn’t made a public appearance in 8 days. This after an unscheduled visit to the hospital- because he “likes getting check ups.” Thank God Jake Tapper (or as I like to call him- the Brick Tamland of his generation) is on the case hunting down clues in a book about my mom’s experience as First Lady four years ago.

[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

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Most energy myths begin with same mistake: counting waste heat as useful energy. Remove that distortion & fossil fuel energy density shrinks, renewable capacity factors become less relevant, & claims about replacing all primary energy collapse. Efficiency changes the equation.

[Nicholas Occhipinti @nocchipi]

Given its size and complexity, it can be difficult for President’s to rapidly impact the US economy… the incredible stupidity of Trump’s policies (war, tariffs, anti-clean/cheap energy, corruption and crony capitalism energy and science) have proven the exception.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The worst jobs economy in a decade. All because of tariffs and the war. All because of Trump.

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Gas spent 20 years owning the evening peak. Batteries took a year to crash the party.

That's disruption. Not gradual, but a rapid shift in who supplies grid's most valuable hours.

The battle was never about total generation. It was about the peak & batteries are winning it.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Reminder: We had a deal with Iran to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon.

Trump tore it up and went to war.

[Nicholas Occhipinti @nocchipi]

@tombarrettmi7 @RepTomBarrett Thank you @tombarrettmi7 for your vote to end this disastrous war of choice. Votes of conscience are always noticed and appreciated!

[Reuters @Reuters]

Thousands of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana protesting ‌a development planned by a company linked with Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast https://t.co/U0oPD226aW

[Senator John Hickenlooper @SenatorHick]

Healthcare should be universal, accessible, and affordable. It’s something every American deserves, not something they have to earn.
https://t.co/4o1igEO78o

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

The systematic way in which states across the south have moved to strip representation from Black and Brown voters is proof that the Voting Rights Act is still critically needed.

What’s happening now is what it was designed to prevent.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

I have watched 60 Minutes my whole life.
So have millions of Americans. For nearly 40 years, Scott Pelley was part of why. He is one of the truly great American journalists, and CBS just fired him, one day after he stood up in a staff meeting and told the truth about what is being done to the institution he gave his career to.

Pelley said new management told him to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story, and to report claims that had not been verified. A journalist of his caliber refused.

For that, he was shown the door.

He is praying for a day when sanity, competence, and courage return to that newsroom. So am I.

This is bigger than one man losing one job. 60 Minutes has held the powerful to account since 1968. When the people willing to ask hard questions are pushed out and replaced by people willing to soften the story, every American loses a watchdog we did not know how much we needed until it was gone.

Scott Pelley deserved better.

The country deserves better. A free press does not survive on its reputation. It survives on people with the spine to defend it, and we should all be paying attention to what is happening.

https://t.co/thowsAqEqh

[ProPublica @propublica]

The DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
https://t.co/F92hGp0SSO

[Nicholas Occhipinti @nocchipi]

Nobody?

[Nicholas Occhipinti @nocchipi]

Anybody know how to insulate their retirement plans from the SpaceX IPO? Seems like market rule changes are going to push average investors into supporting a huge chunk of fantastically priced IPO ‘float’.

[Michigan Democrats @MichiganDems]

“Swift kick in the wallet”
The Trump administration has ordered the Campbell coal-fired power plant to remain open, despite costing Michiganders an extra $180 million and pumping pollution into our atmosphere.
https://t.co/E0QcILxxv2

[Nicholas Occhipinti @nocchipi]

Insane.

The Trump regime continues its active pursuit of making this country stupider and weaker.

Shameful.

MAGA, your children and grandchildren will shake their heads at your stupidity - your willfully ignorant deconstruction of this country’s once great institutions.

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3