I usually love @EENewsUpdates, but this story on the politics of the Texas blackouts is garbage.

We did not see "partisan arguments" about whether to blame renewables or fossil fuels.

We saw GOP LIES blaming wind power and reality-based FACT CHECKS correcting the record.

And this paragraph's false equivalence makes my head spin.

People's criticism of Texas Repubs is not the same as these Repub's criticism of CA Dems.

Repubs are being criticized for lies and hypocrisy. Dems were being criticized for *supporting renewable energy*.

And, finally, it wasn't "some" conservative groups who attempted to use the grid failure to scare people away from climate action. It was the *entire* right-wing spin machine, from the Texas Public Policy Foundation to Fox News, who LIED about the blackouts to en masse.

The whole story is here

https://www.eenews.net/energywire/2021/02/17/stories/1063725271?utm_campaign=edition&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eenews%3Aenergywire

Honestly I couldn't get past the third paragraph, it was just too infuriating. But have at it, y'all!

People love to cite the vast money and power of the right wing as what makes their messaging so effective, but to my mind what makes it effective is the way their messages are repeated and/or normalized in putatively "reality-based" discourse. This is the real problem to solve.

That my son's very left-wing, intelligent, thoughtful teacher can hear right-wing messaging on BBC radio and (understandably) repeat it in class is, to my mind, emblematic of a much bigger problem than the mere existence of a vast right-wing echo chamber. https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1361701041180401665?s=20