isaac
Posting about electricity and how we can care for one other. @publicgrids.org. SF. they.
Latest: “Utility justice is a place we can build together”
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- Public power in Oakdale, a town with a population of 24,000, and about as different as can be politically from San Francisco or Ann Arbor. Public power is orthogonal to the way most people think about politics.
- Oakdale, CA is considering saving its residents $22.5 million per year, about $3000 per household, by switching from PG&E to the Modesto Irrigation District. www.modbee.com/news/local/o...
- They’re not working on impeachment, dismantling ICE and these vigilante mobs disappearing people, packing the Supreme Court, or a new constitution. They’re in a book club for a podcaster who is bankrolled by Thiel and Koch and Andreesen, the same guys bankrolling everything they nominally oppose.
- Reposted by isaacWATCH: “There were ICE raids at the bars in downtown Nashville.” Singer @montemader.bsky.social says ICE agents were raiding bars on Broadway unlawfully — going after cooks, NOT criminals — and offers a plausible theory for why they wear masks. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DJgZk_W...
- There are so many aspects of American life that made her arrest and this court proceeding possible. She is lucky to be alive and we must end every system that put her behind bars.
- The Arizona Corporation Commission said it's not the utilities job to keep people alive. These shareholders are suing because the insurance company didn't kill enough people to make their earnings happen. They are stating the business models clearly. Death for us. Profits for them.
- "The group, which seeks...damages, argues that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing "the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve" its earnings goals." do you have a moment to discuss the Good News of dialectical materialism? www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
- This is an ohnotheydidnt level thread about the new pope
- Universal service, electricity for all.
- "I don't feel it is a utilities responsibility to keep everyone alive." Nick Myers, Vice Chair of the Arizona Corporation Commission The *entire national organization of commissioners* put in their 2021 Annual Report that they were "successful" in blocking a nationwide ban on shutoffs.
