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*Shakes you* Babe.. wake up! #FatBearWeek is back! First, vote for chunky cubs in #FatBearJunior 9/28-29! Then, the main event: vote for the burly behemoths as they battle it out on 10/4-10 at fatbearweek.org. Which chubby champ will you cheer for? NPS/F. Jimenez

I wanted to share some thoughts on what’s happening right now in Israel and Gaza. barackobama.medium.com/my-statement-o…

oxford comma coulda helped on this one i admit

There's a cheat-code in US #antitrust, it's been increasingly used since #Reagan and the "#ConsumerWelfare" theory ("#monopolies are fine, so long as the lower prices") shoved out the long-established idea that antitrust existed to prevent monopolies from forming *at all*. 1/

The California grid in spring, now featuring: - negative midday power prices and net loads - clean energy meeting more than 100% of afternoon electricity demand - gigawatts of curtailed solar - gas plants pummeled by negative spark spreads - batteries arbitraging power prices

Such a good framing As a hedge fund analyst there is an interesting dichotomy where your job is to be the resident expert on a name. To be able to answer any possible question. It's easy to get stuck in complexity and deliver a "book report". What I've noticed about the best

Drought free California from space. What a sight.

The latest in a series of battery discharge records occurred on @California_ISO grid last night. Battery discharge hit an all time high - 6.5 GW - at 8:40 PM. Note that gas usage at this time was under 2GW. A separate record was set as discharge reached 28% of load. 🧵

This is *by far* the most successful industrial policy of my life: creating thousands of good paying jobs, turbo charging the green transition, and as much as we talk about it on the show (which is a lot!) has had approximately zero political effect whatsoever.

kamala IS brat

Elon Musk Those who oppose voter ID are doing so to *prevent* voter suppression. Southern states have a long history of using various voting requirements to suppress votes from ethnic minorities and low income populations. ID requirements would do just that: 16% of White Americans lack a

Karen Bass did not cut the Fire Department’s budget despite the LA times editor pushing misinformation that she did. (via POLITICO)

Palisades fire lies: -LAFD budget cut by $17m. -LAFD has shortage due to donations to Ukraine. -Water diversions resulted in dry reservoirs. Palisades fire truths: -Prescribed burns delayed due to NEPA. - Prop 103 prevented insurers from raising rates, so they pulled out.

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31 Things to Remember:

Historically, this population has always existed. What’s differed is America’s approach towards them. Before 1776, they dominated the colonies under the British Crown. During the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) they were called Royalists and violently overthrown, but ultimately

President Trump said ICE would go after the "worst of the worst." Apparently unable to find them, it is instead rounding up refugees with legal status, flying them in shackles to Texas and in some cases then releasing them and making them pay their own way back.

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