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Dump Term 2, 1.01: Sleep Now in the Fire

Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Doug burgum is trying to use emergency powers to restart shuttered coal plants

I hope he falls into a sinkhole. Or the one tree in nd crushes him
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There is nothing that will restart a plant that's been shuttered by a company. Zero. Nothing.

The insane risk and investment that is required to bring a plant up from "off" is enormous. Assuming you could even get the operators and engineers back. Shuttered plants almost certainly have old equipment that is unreliable and doesn't hit uptime requirements to be profitable. And who knows if the parts and equipment that were usable weren't already decommissioned and moved to other facilities.

I just can't imagine a company wanting to take this capex risk on.
 
LynahFan said:
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Moar mercury

More Perfect Union (@moreperfectunion.bsky.social)

Today EPA chief Lee Zeldin announced that the agency is rolling back 31 regulations. He's taking aim at mercury, soot, and toxic pollution restrictions, and federal protection of wetlands. The EPA will also rewrite rules limiting pollution from fossil-fuel plants and cars, and more.
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Can someone explain what the big issue(s) are? My default going in assumption was that a CR can't do much harm, because it would just "continue" the current spending from 2024.

Doesn't seem so
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Oh great, a return of the acid rain of the 70s and 80s....
 

Isaac Dovere (@isaacdovere.bsky.social)

Walz to me today: “There was just a primal scream of folks … and what they viewed was a lack of a proper response from their representatives. These folks need to be heard. They need to be heard and be candid with you, Democratic leadership needs to hear them.”
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This would ring true...had he not (maybe) been mistaken about the exact date he went to China!
 
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Beks (@antifaoperative.bsky.social)

Texas megachurch pastor & former Trump spiritual advisor, Robert Morris, has been indicted for the rape of a 12 year old girl. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2025/03/12/oklahoma-grand-jury-ingateway-megachurch-founder-former-trump-spiritual-adviser-indicted-in-oklahoma/82318426007/
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Timmy doing a national tour of town halls

I’m sure Michigan and some other states will refuse the old white man. Walz, pritzger, aoc and Bernie are some of the only ones doing anything

Kelsey Atherton (@atherton.bsky.social)

🎵FROM THE OVERTON WINDOW / TO THE WALZ / WHO HEARS HIS NATIONS' CALLS / NO RETREAT RETREAT FOR THIS FIGHTER / NO RETREAT RETREAT NO MA'AM 🎵 https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/politics/tim-walz-national-tour-town-halls/index.html
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Handyman said:
Walz's whole interview was a master class in how not to suck as a politician. He says the things most Dems are too chickenchit to say including when he screws up.

The Donor Class and the Consultant/Obama Campaigners really screwed up using him.
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Oh I dunno. They lost and got what they wanted.
 
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