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Thanks to the IRA, publicly owned utilities and nonprofit power cooperatives are eligible for renewable energy tax credits. investigates what needs to be done for these institutions to take full advantage of the opportunity.
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what John doesn't mention is that Ilhan intercepted one of his treat deliveries once
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If he plays the victim for being blocked this is why. @IlhanMN is "vile" and "filthy"?
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You start out in 2020 by saying, "polls, polls, polls". By 2022, you can't say "polls"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like historical precedent, thermostatic public opinion and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now that you're talking about political trivia,
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Not an article I wanted to write.
The deadly H5N1 bird flu is spreading widely, including to mammals.
For the first time, it's now likely spreading mammal-to-mammal, among minks which are exceptionally well-suited conduits to humans.
We must act now.
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Great piece by on how the Inflation Reduction Act could make cooperative and publicly owned utilities major players in renewable energy. Until passage of the IRA, they were not eligible for the tax credits that spurred growth of green energy.
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Love this! On ’s podcast, A WOMAN’S LIFE IS A HUMAN LIFE author talks with about her book and the long history of struggles for reproductive justice in the United States.
A must-listen:
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hey poor people: don't get too sick to work, or Matt Gaetz will snatch away your health insurance
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"Matt Gaetz is trying to convince his fellow Republicans to demand new work requirements for Medicaid as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling"
More good reporting from @josephzeballos
semafor.com/article/02/03/
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Stay to the end when you casually find out that a supplement manufacturer who sells Vitamin D supplements paid for the research
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A new study is out on Vitamin D and COVID-19, and has reported a benefit, with massive acclaim from the usual suspects
It is, however, one of the worst papers I've ever seen. So many mistakes that it's hard to know where to start 1/n
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From : the “direct pay” provision in the Inflation Reduction Act incentivizes publicly-owned power companies to go green by providing tax-credits, but hammering out these details will take time.
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The last piece from our series on implementing the Biden agenda comes from , and it's about a tweak in the Inflation Reduction Act that allows public power companies to get tax credits for going green.
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the double whammy of kicking Omar off the committee because she’s Muslim is that she’s more vocally critical of the arab/gulf dictatorships than just about anybody in Congress
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my latest print piece for - I reported on how unlocking the zero carbon potential for public power is going to take a lot of work:
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let’s get real, folks — crypto is a bust, inflation raging, 401k plummeting …it’s time to ditch those substacks and hop onto the best recession-proof investment out there: a free BASED newsletter
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BASED: Baseload energy from hot rocks!
For our first edition of @TheProspect’s newest newsletter, I wrote about the meteoric rise of geothermal. 
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this could have been us in 2010 if it weren't for Obungler
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WOW: U.S. employers added a whopping 517,000 jobs in January. The unemployment rate fell to 3.4%, the lowest since 1969.
Data: bls.gov/news.release/e
Full coverage: nytimes.com/live/2023/02/0
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“I’ve never seen anything like that in a big city,” said Rebecca Roiphe, an expert in legal ethics at New York Law School
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Support the show-& let’s talk repro justice, A Woman’s Life is a Human Life #progressive #dsa community.
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support the show here! patreon.com/leftanchor
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"But the real danger from Amazon is that it invisibly takes a cut from everybody: consumers, businesses, even governments. That’s the larger challenge for regulators to understand."
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Love this podcast discussion with Felicia Kornbluh () on her new book about reproductive rights:
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fresh episode! we've got on to talk about her new book A Woman's Life Is a Human Life:
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Japan gave a Navy officer a totally reasonable prison sentence (three years for a car accident that killed two people) and Mike Lee is losing his mind over it.
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If, however, he’s not on U.S. soil by then, many of us will work equally hard to make sure America knows (1) what a good security arrangement you have with the U.S., (2) what you did to one of the best and brightest our military has to offer, and (3) what we should do about it.
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The Wife Beaters Should Be Armed Party
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The 5th Circuit just said govt cant temporarily disarm a person found to pose a threat to another & subject to a DV restraining order. It strains analogies to discard past laws disarming dangerous folks, but this is the key: the founders didnt care abt DV, so modern laws cant. twitter.com/JacobDCharles/…
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With friends like these, who needs enemies. "Antisemitic tropes" my ass
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JEFFRIES on GOP effort to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs:
"Rep. Omar certainly has made mistakes. She has used anti-Semitic tropes that were clearly and unequivocally condemned by House Democrats when it took place four years ago...
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Coming tomorrow: our new newsletter BASED, from 's younger staff. Sign up here: prospect.org/newsletter
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The Fed is raising interest rates again in an effort to curb inflation, but as describes, their determination that inflation has continued is based on the wrong measures.
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Drugs had finally gotten a student’s severe colitis under control
But they were expensive
So United decided… they weren’t medically necessary
& then they had a long laugh
Listen to the call. Read the article by &
propublica.org/article/united
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here's a handy tool to find folks on Mastodon, make use of it before Elon breaks it movetodon.org
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 
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The Fed is focused on the only inflation metric that hasn't softened. But explains that there's little reason to grant top priority to it, & that doing so leaves out 2 major sources of price pressure that will likely be exhausted this year:
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really sad about this. working with is always great and she has such a wide-ranging and generous sensibility!
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did a quick round up of some gawker pieces i liked a lot: thisisanewsletter.substack.com/p/a-goodbye-to
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Who could have predicted that centrist fearmongering about leftist thought control would ultimately feed into the construction of a massive right-wing censorship regime, except every historian of the early Cold War
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NYT: "The attack on the A.P. course turned out to be the prelude to a much larger agenda.... DeSantis unveiled a proposal to overhaul higher education that would eliminate what he called 'ideological conformity' by among other things, mandating courses in Western civilization."
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NEW: Keir Starmer spokesman condemns Labour MP @KimJohnsonMP’s description of the Israeli government as ‘fascist’, saying: “Kim Johnson’s comments were completely unacceptable. The chief whip will be calling her in to speak to her about it.”
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Powell leaning so hard on the core services ex-housing measure. I tried to get at what this metric actually...measures here (it's a weird group of things):
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Joe Manchin's Dumb Budget Idea Already Failed Before ( / American Prospect)
prospect.org/politics/2023-
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now here's a kind of international competition I can get behind. bring it on
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The EU is attempting to go toe-to-toe with the United States’ $369 billion Inflation Reduction Act with a range of tax relaxations and new industrial benchmarks for 2030, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Wednesday. politico.eu/article/eu-fac
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amazing things are happening on twitter dot com
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remember when Republicans blew a gasket over lies about Dr. Seuss supposedly being banned from schools? yeah
theweek.com/articles/96998
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Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.
This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.
This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks
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