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Jeremiah Baumann retweeted
Any project that’s illegal today will also be illegal after passage. BAAJA just makes it faster to come to that decision (not to mention requiring data centers to pay much higher costs).
This is a strong deal that’s been made even better after the managers amendment.
Jeremiah Baumann retweeted
Lot of anti-BAAJA people in my mentions mad about my descriptions of the bill and the political dynamics concerning climate & tribes.
FWIW, I connected The Wilderness Society—who were offering me, a new dad, $10k to make anti-BAAJA content, to an actually famous Native environmentalist because he has a larger following and would make the case against the bill in as strong and vital a way as possible.
His videos on the subject now have 1 MIL views and that’s just on Instagram
Jeremiah Baumann retweeted
house moderates threw so many buckets of cold water on the idea democrats should punt on #baaja at this morning’s @heatmap_news event in dc
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Jeremiah Baumann retweeted
Wow. 100% retention rate for @hakeemjeffries and @dccc this cycle.
We always love more global geography attention for the SCABLANDS, one of the most interesting (and obviously best named) geological features in the US
In Washington state there is a waterfall 5.6 km (3.5 mi) wide and 120 m (400 ft) high. It is completely dry.
Dry Falls once dwarfed Niagara, which is about 1.6 km (1 mi) across and 50 m (165 ft) high. But, the water stopped.
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ALT Panoramic view of Dry Falls, Washington: a wide, dry basalt cataract with residual ponds in the plunge pools, looking across the abandoned waterfall. Credit: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dry_Falls.jpg. Caveat: residual water remains in the plunge pools, so the scene is not literally waterless; the image was resized from a larger original.
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Motions to strike are inherently germane once cloture has been invoked so there’s a path to forcing a vote but I’m assuming Thune has filled the tree to block amendments from being considered other than by unanimous consent
Here is the Sen. Schiff amendment to strike NHPA section from BAAJA. Broad group of Dems with tribal interests signed on, including those who voted to proceed on the bill last night. It's unlikely this will succeed. Negotiators have consistently said they won't remove sections
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Jeremiah Baumann retweeted
Got this text unprompted from a friend who's a liberal influencer.
Anti-BAAJA groups are offering tens of thousands of dollars to moderately-sized accounts to spread anti-BAAJA talking points. I've almost never seen anything like this.
Jeremiah Baumann retweeted
EZRA KLEIN: Is this an argument for the Democratic Party to moderate?
@AJentleson: No, absolutely not. I talk a lot about heterodoxy ... getting away from purity tests and rigid ideologies. Developing a mix of policy positions that reflects voters.
The American people do not form their worldviews strictly from a liberal perspective or a conservative perspective.
They look at the world and take a little bit from column A, a little bit from column B, and smush these positions together.
Heterodoxy accommodates big, bold ideas in a way that moderation doesn't.
But you can't just come forward with a rigidly left-wing ideology or you're never going to win in a state like Montana.
The inability to get grid connection and transmission was holding back a huge portion of the clean energy projects we had been expecting from IRA implementation
One thing I haven't seen discussed is that #BAAJA will make future climate policy far more resilient than the IRA. It would allow new infrastructure to be built quickly - whether that's RPS or a clean grid standard.
Part of the reason IRA failed was its slow implementation.
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