Shane Johnson (he/him)

#BlackLivesMatter #FixTheGrid #TX organizer, @indivisibleATX board, #ATX D4 Resource Management Commissioner @PWUnion1 #UnionStrong @Stanford '16

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

She is the last Columbia protester still in ICE custody. This is unimaginable cruelty carried out by the Trump Administration. I am demanding her immediate release. Free Leqaa.

[Resistbot @resistbot]

The Trump administration is signaling it is ready to strike Cuba, 90 miles from Key West, after sanctions failed. We just spent three months and 6,000 lives on Iran. Tell Congress to stop the next war before it starts. https://t.co/Ap4FKl0V66

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

It's the 4-year anniversary of Winter Storm Uri & ERCOT is projecting an 81,000 megawatt peak Thursday. More in my newsletter next week about what's improved & what hasn't since Uri & the outlook for the coming winter storm. You can sign up here: https://t.co/cK0uvDOAEE

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

Among the USAID reports now taken offline by @elonmusk's "Doge" is the one I used on Tuesday to prove the US has spent exactly $0 on condoms for Gaza, not $50 million — false information the White House press secretary said she got from @elonmusk's "Doge" https://t.co/xRTAd5zSjy

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

Second highest ever recorded* winter demand in ERCOT today @ 77,739 megawatts. Thermal outages were ~50% higher than expected but there were plenty of reserves & low prices. A diverse resource mix is a good thing. #txlege

[Michael Moritz @michael_ulf]

This isn’t Uri, but still the coldest spell this year in TX and ERCOT is doing great. Fuel free renewables are keeping the market price of electricity down and transmission is supplying power from windy/sunny west TX to the cities. Clean energy works and TX should keep building!

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

Texas PUC Chair Thomas Gleeson said this week that solar and storage kept us out of energy emergencies this summer and are "key to reliability" in Texas. More on his comments this week, and additional Texas grid updates here. #txlege #txenergy
https://t.co/5JDY1v7wyM

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

Wow, looks like they might actually do this. ERCOT told the PUC today that they're working with CenterPoint to move the 15 32-MW generators — that cost Houstonians $800 million & could not be used after Hurricane Beryl — to San Antonio to deal with a transmission constraint.

[Austin Sanders @daustinsanders]

Separately, yesterday city staff made the real financial implications of the new contract clear.

If it is approved, future Councils will have to raise taxes, cut funding for other departments, take more money from Austin Energy, or some combination of all three.

[Chris Harris @chrisharris101]

Sadly, police & rich people never get held to the standard of needing proof for their claims - they have power.

Unless poor & working people show ours tomorrow, we may well see our City set on an irreversible path to austerity & more privatization of formerly public goods.

[Chris Harris @chrisharris101]

These same folks made the same claims about the $74M dollar police contract proposal that failed last year.

If $74M sufficed just last year, why did the price tag increase to $218M just one year later?

Again, they prove no explanation.

[Chris Harris @chrisharris101]

Backers of this disaster justify it by claiming giving some of the highest paid police in the state astronomical raises will help them fill vacant positions which will help improve public safety.

They provide zero evidence for either claim.

[Grits for Breakfast @Grits4Breakfast]

My wife said Adam Loewy is attacking @MikeSiegelTX on Twitter and asked me to respond. But on all political matters, Loewy is an idiot, so I'm not going to unmute that 2-bit demagogue to discover what nonsense he's saying. Bottom line ... (1/2)

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

There's a new storage record in ERCOT: 4,161 megawatts, nearly 7% of total demand. At the time the record was set, there were over 21,100 MW worth of thermal power capacity unavailable. Batteries do not require lengthy outage seasons like thermal plants do. #txlege #energytwitter

[Chris Harris @chrisharris101]

Organized rich people & police in Austin have joined forces to push an *unprecedented* looting of our public dollars in the form of a new $218M police contract.

If #ATXCouncil passes it tomorrow, our social safety net erodes, city services diminish AND our utility bills go up.

[KVUE News @KVUE]

DEVELOPING: An explosion has been reported at a propane production facility about 40 miles west of Houston https://t.co/J938HDOOyc

[Evil MoPac @EvilMopacATX]

Tonight I learned that hating Chappell Roan and loving Cybertrucks are directly correlated

[Alycia Castillo @alycia_castillo]

We simply can't defund essential city social services and expect social issues to magically resolve. Cops, like prison, don't disappear social problems, they disappear human beings.

[Alycia Castillo @alycia_castillo]

Someone did an amazing job organizing a ton of business representatives in Austin to speak at #atxcouncil today about their fear of homeless people and to advocate to give the cops a $218M contract that undermines police oversight as a solution to their fear.

[Optimus Fine @sunnydaejones]

Another business owner directly across from biolab "I have not heard one single word from the county as to what is going on or how long we will be impacted." Says a BioLab employee with hazmat suit came in to kick him out of his business.