🧨 Introduction: The Big Ugly Bill
Thanks to the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” Americans across the country will face higher utility bills, cuts to healthcare, limited access to nutritious food, and a rollback of clean energy progress — that must not be so fragile.
This blog is part poetic protest, part policy breakdown. Enjoy!
📉 Section 1: The So-Called “Big Beautiful Bill” Will Kill
The big beautiful bill is going to kill — make children ill
Make the electric grid less stable — make it harder to put food on the table for those less able
To survive on this planet where we’re making it harder to be alive
The cruel assault on renewable energy has begun
The Administration has launched a dumb war on the sun
It’s leaving people across the country stunned
Thanks to Chat GPT there’s gobs of power that people need
Still cruelly Trump wants to make renewable energy companies bleed
Yet just like in Gladiator where Commodus secretly stabbed Maximus, we’ll succeed
Government must not be allowed to function corruptly
They say the arch of humanity bends towards justice
But it can’t make that slant without the environmental justice grants
Illegally held up by EPA in Citibank
For every non-MAGA who gave Trump a chance this is a shitty thanks
I promise this will make utility bills go up nationwide
We must contact our Senator to ensure this truly ugly legislation dies
🌡️ Section 2: The Heat Is On
The so-called big beautiful bill will kill the population in many ways
The attacks on clean energy will increase the suffering from heat waves
The sleep lost has economic and social costs
That’s why I’m giving out free air conditioners at the local mosque
As it’s getting hotter we need access to cold water
❄️ Section 3: Chilling Consequences
The so-called Big Beautiful Bill
Will kill — increase pollution to make human beings and wildlife massively ill
Increase the chances of BP-style oil spills
By slashing regulations and providing subsidies for companies to irresponsibly drill
I’m absolutely stunned they want to impose taxes on the wind and the sun
It’s dumb to give out fossil fuel industry subsidies in any sum
Renewable energy saves us from global warming but they get none
Hundreds of thousands of jobs are at stake
We could’ve put food on the table
Made the climate more stable
But billionaires had to get a tax break
It’s so cruel to cut Medicaid and gut public health protection rules
And defund the only federal program that provides kids space after school
Dramatically reducing their chances for getting good careers
These programs are meant to serve kids whose parents’ rent is in arrears
For the futures ruined I shed a tear
We must stick to our aspiration of removing emissions from atmosphere
Economic justice will make lives better as carbon molecules disappear
🔍 Section 4: What’s in the Bill?
President Trump and Republicans in Congress are working on an atrocious piece of legislation.
It provides a tax break for the ultra-rich who don’t need it, paid for by everyone who is struggling to get by.
It slashes vital investments in clean energy and fighting global warming.
🛠️ Section 5: Manufacturing the Future
To manufacture products involved in generating power from the Sun
The poorly named Inflation Reduction Act granted billions of funds
The United States manufacturing renaissance had begun
But the Democrats failed to communicate this outcome
To the extreme right once again our nation had swung
🛑 Section 6: No More Oilers
As I knew would happen — Under the Trump Administration — the Clean Air Act has come under assault.
It is our Nation’s most important policy for fighting global warming and driving innovation.
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The Clean Air Act offers us extraordinary tools
To draw from clean electricity sources to keep cool
Generate more investment in every school
That combusts fossil fuels on site
Our nation’s Constitution recognizes there are many wrongs to right
If we can replace more aging boilers as we’re thru they’ll never name a football team from Houston the Oilers
As we fully transition to green liquid fuels and electric power
A team from Texas would be aptly named solar + storage battery or wind towers
🌊 Section 7: Disaster Capitalism
FEMA is our nation’s weather response backbone
To extreme weather we’ve become attack prone
Build structures within flood zones
To pay for disaster recovery, states are on their own — for these mistakes can we atone?
It’s difficult when Donald Trump considers the Oval Office his throne
The clean energy mission must carry on
Just three years ago our prospects of building a green economy were very strong
Then they faded because Donald Trump made it
Increase storage and renewable electric load
Get more electric cars on the road
Cut energy use through our work on standards and codes
The clean energy mission is vital
Keep our targets within reach
And see renewable energy when I look across the beach
đźź© Section 8: A Green New Deal Like Mutter Paneer
We need a New Deal that’s green
Like the peas in Mutter Paneer —
Jobs range from installers
To protecting streams
By ensuring gutters become clear
đź“… Section 9: Senate Deadline Looms
I’m really worried about the passage of the Mega bill being rushed through the U.S. Senate
To meet an arbitrary July 4 deadline
So the President can have a whack signing ceremony in the Office
🧵 Section 10: Unity Call / Final Prose
Alleviate burdens for everybody hurting
Prove the green economy is working through the jobs generated
As carbon is abated
The difficulty is not related to technology but hatred
If divided we remain then nothing will change
I make a unity call — carbon emissions please fall
Increase green energy demand
And adhere to the phrase: United we stand, divided we fall
🪦 Section 11: The Final Word
This is the ugliest bill I’ve ever seen
Forces me to subsidize planet-warming gasoline
Unless planetary destruction is the goal
You wouldn’t provide a tax break for coal
I would define murder
As Trump cutting Black Lung funds for mine workers
Floods in the Texas River Basin were a murder scene
Feels cruel and mean to gut FEMA and NOAA funding amidst these weather extremes
There’s an all-out assault on any energy source that’s renewable and clean
There’s lives on the line by maintaining our addiction to gasoline
To run on energy harnessed from sun beams is my dream
Protect the water quality of every stream
