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Aidan Bassett

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Energy-obsessed policy wonk | Oregon Director, @fminus.bsky.social‬ | J.D., Georgetown Law

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Attention University of Oregon, your lobbyist Louis De Sitter is at this moment arguing to undermine OR's landmark campaign finance law in the OR Senate Rules Committee on behalf of his client Our Oregon.

@uoregon.bsky.social

23.02.2026 16:48 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

WSPA is opposing the Superfund but also shares the firm Oxley & Associates with the City of Pendleton.

So here is a prime example of a firm profiting of a Climate Superfund opponent, WSPA, and a climate crisis victim, the City of Pendleton. @influencemap.bsky.social

05.02.2026 22:43 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Oxley also represents the American Red Cross - Cascades Region. So Oxley client Western States Petroleum Association fights a bill that would help communities cope with climate catastrophe costs, then their client the ARC is further burdened with wildfire relief. @influencemap.bsky.social

05.02.2026 22:45 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Tell the Trump administration to keep this landmark conservation rule in place Protect forests from massive expansion of logging

The Roadless Rule is one of the most critical policies that helps defend our forests. The Trump administration is proposing to rescind it, but we have until Friday, September 19 to speak up. Submit your comment today.

18.09.2025 21:17 👍 47 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 4
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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

04.08.2025 18:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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AFL-CIO Report: Is DOGE’s Antonio Gracias Mishandling Retiree Investments? Elon Musk’s replacement is busy with mass deportation, while simultaneously running an investment firm managing public union pension funds.

Antonio Gracias’ firm manages funds where public union workers’ pensions are invested. How can he fulfill his fiduciary responsibilities while also working at DOGE to fire workers, infiltrate Social Security and support their mass deportation agenda?

14.07.2025 22:22 👍 31 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0
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How do America's construction workers feel about this bill?

"The biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country"

"staggering and unfathomable job loss"

"another lifeline and competitive advantage to China"

"critical infrastructure projects ... sacrificed at the altar of ideology"

29.06.2025 00:06 👍 213 🔁 86 💬 3 📌 3

Why are no Democrat senators placing a blanket hold on any DOE or EPA nominees until the agencies confirm that payments of contractually obligated grants and loans are resuming under regular process? Why would Democrats let any of these people be confirmed under current circumstances?

06.02.2025 18:20 👍 700 🔁 141 💬 12 📌 14

I go back and forth between "but the model says we can't solve the whole intermittency problem with batteries" and "maybe the intermittency problem just gets solved with capitalism and batteries".

This is evidence for the latter.

18.11.2024 07:34 👍 323 🔁 103 💬 29 📌 8
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The @nytimes.com (or should I say @nytimes.wtf) reporting on the clean energy transition has reached bad parody level. Check this doozy out nytimes.com/2023/11/27/u... Thanks to US policy, solar manufacturing is finally booming in Ameroca. But... something something ... this is clearly bad for Biden

28.11.2023 01:25 👍 62 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1
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OPINION: 100% clean energy makes Oregon more livable for everyone Clean energy advocates Meredith Connolly and Candace Avalos support Oregon’s moves toward decarbonization.

"100% clean energy makes Oregon more livable for everyone"
www.valleytimes.news/opinion/gues...

29.11.2023 22:51 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“This is the strongest lead rule that the nation has ever seen,” Radhika Fox, the E.P.A.’s assistant administrator for water, said in an interview. “This is historic progress.”

30.11.2023 16:36 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0