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There are some parts of the US where they are not first-past-the-post.

• Alaska - uses top 4 primary + ranked choice general
• Maine - uses ranked choice voting
• California & Washington - use a top-two primary

The Greens could effectively run in those places, as well as races where the Democrats aren't running a candidate.

But when I see them running for local office, they're basically running to be on the ballot, not mounting a serious effort to win.

The local NPR station has an answer:

‘Unbelievable’ insurance increases are walloping Nebraska homeowners. Climate change is a big reason why.

Weirdly enough, it's the rich folks who are eating roadkill and getting brain worms

I suspect that hostility towards mask wearing and lack of maintenance due to the governor blocking congestion pricing are a much bigger deal

There are a lot of places in the western US where there aren't any insurers writing new policies anymore.

I plan to do exactly that, at the ballot box.

Not if we elect Harris.

It's pretty well documented that the transferrable renewable energy credits don't result in the construction of additional renewables. That lack of additionality means that they're not effective at causing decarbonization.

More that a lot of the particulate air pollution that's a byproduct of burning fossil fuels kills people. So when you avoid combustion, you save lives, even if you haven't gotten the use of fossil fuels down to zero yet.

That argument has been around since antiquity, and hasn't been effective.

It takes something more.

The current position of the NYPD is that some random black guy wandering past a crime scene after the cops shot up a crowd decided to steal the knife that the cops considered to be key evidence. This is, to put it mildly, somewhat less credible than the claim that a crow tried to steal a murder weapon.

The bankruptcy took out a big chunk of their executive team, and induced a huge investment in grid upgrades. So completely reasonable actually.