thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...

A cloud of tear gas outside the Portland ICE facility. A person in a shark costume emerging from the cloud.

Like many have said, the gassing outside ICE today was really bad, and it impacted a huge group of people. I heard multiple people say they felt like they were going to throw up as they tried to leave the area. (I experienced similar effects.) It followed a peaceful protest led by labor groups.

the feds gassed kids and old people in portland today

I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Portland's Dancing Protesters Are Showing Us How to Stand Up to Trump The president wants us to be afraid. These activists are clowning him instead.

Lessons from Portland. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Andor quote: "Propaganda will only get you so far. You need a radical insurgency you can count on... you need rebels you can depend on to do the wrong thing."

Andor quote: "They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation."

Also, it's obvious that Trump & Noem literally do not care what is actually happening in Portland. They want confrontation as an excuse. If they don't get it, they'll keep lying about it, and that's chilling. (These 2 Andor lines spring to mind. I know!) I hope the world is watching, frogs and all.

24 hours outside ICE: What is really going on in Portland Starting Thursday, Oct. 9 at midnight, we will begin a 24-hour livestream outside of the Portland ICE Facility. Our aim is to show the public everything we see.

Live update from war-torn Portland: KATU (local channel which, note, is owned by Sinclair) is doing a "24 hours outside of ICE" live stream. They're just over 12 hours in. Largest crowd so far has been about 5 people with signs walking quietly. The reporters look really bored. Antifa strikes again!

Complying with Trump’s order to suspend the retirement of old coal and gas plants is going to cost billions of dollars per year.

Federal regulators just cleared the way for utilities to add that cost onto ratepayers’ bills. www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-do...

Additional musing: we have all spent a lot of time assessing how transmission lines can contribute to *causing* wildfire (as we should), but I'm also interested in evaluating ways that transmission infrastructure can also be an ingredient in wildfire resilience. 🔌💡

Niche question for #energysky 🔌💡- does anyone have:
🔹a case study of a transmission line corridor that's being purposely maintained as a fire break (for wildfire)
🔹a case study of a time that a transmission line corridor has acted as an effective fire break during wildfire

would love to chat if so!

⚠️Portland's climate movement needs your help!⚠️

@350pdx.bsky.social is in a financial crisis—it's hard out there for nonprofits right now. We need $150K by Aug 1 to keep the doors open.

We believe in our community to get us through this. Can you chip in? 350pdx.app.neoncrm.com/forms/save35...

Due to major grant shifts, we’ve lost half our projected budget. We organize at the root: capitalism, white supremacy, colonialism. It makes us powerful—and vulnerable when it comes to funding.

Please help, to avoid closure we need to raise $150,000 by Aug 1.
350pdx.app.neoncrm.com/forms/save35...

prominent Portland climate group facing budget crisis

Constituent here for the ratio. Also, how did you go from this to "RFK is right, actually 🥰" in just a month? Are we... ever going to have an opposition party?

what, respectfully, the fuck is this? coming from a medical doctor, no less? Democrats, is this really the best we're doing right now? @repdexteror.bsky.social, it's not too late to delete this, promise!

Big same! Thus the surprise...

I learned a few lessons from 2016-2020, and one of them is that it helps no one and very negatively affects my mental health if I spend too much time doomscrolling. And also that I shouldn't pay too close of attention to [most] things that I can't have some role in pushing back on or trying to stop.

it wasn't that - it was a tool for federally identifying disadvantaged communities and included great data on the compounding impacts of high energy burden ($), reliability issues, climate risk, health & pollution, & socioeconomic factors. great tool. data still exists as do other tools, but still!

they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:

we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.

the climate crisis is here, all around us

A friend described the current Democratic response to the political moment “bringing a strongly worded letter to a knife fight” and I can tell that’s one of those phrases that’s going to be sticking

Hello, Community! We're excited to be here.

Please share our account with friends, and consider coming to our annual Art Sale on December 18!

We have so much beautiful art, including originals from #CarsonEllis and #PhoebeWall! Shop local while donating to a critical cause--climate justice. ❤️

Anyone else scroll #EnergySky for the first time and immediately notice a predominantly male space? Women in energy, I see you, and let's fly loudly and proudly in these skies 🔌💡