@awpiitr.bsky.social
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Sarcastabitchy resistor in a lonely northern outpost of the void, teetering on the edge of hope and rage. I have multiple degrees and think and post too much: BS is saner than pasting photos/news articles on the wall and connecting the dots with string.
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awpiitr.bsky.social
from 2017 (look how far US has come!) "Increasingly a Necessity: A 15-Point Guide to Surviving Authoritarianism
Rule #1: Always think critically and fight ignorance with facts." Too bad the voters (and the DNC) couldn't address what was right in front of them b4 this. billmoyers.com/story/increa...
Increasingly a Necessity: A 15-Point Guide to Surviving Authoritarianism – BillMoyers.com
It’s good to remember the very big, very frightening picture before us, how far we’ve already come, and to consider what recourse we have with complicit and corrupt forces standing in the way. Continu...
billmoyers.com
awpiitr.bsky.social
"the slow pace of the energy transition" was created by the fossil fuel industry, and aggravated by the AI transition eating all the electrical capacity we were told was insufficient to power the energy transition.
ketanjoshi.co
It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread.

As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT

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How AI can unlock an extra trillion barrels of oil
And deliver the volumes needed to meet resilient demand
15 October 2025 3 minute read
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Simon Flowers
Chairman, Chief Analyst and author of The Edge

Andrew Latham
Senior Vice President, Energy Research

Orla Marnell
Principal Data Scientist, Upstream

Josh Dixon
Senior Research Analyst, Upstream
Stronger-for-longer oil demand will heap pressure on the upstream industry to deliver new supply. I asked our subsurface experts, Dr Andrew Latham, Orla Marnell and Josh Dixon how artificial intelligence can identify opportunities to meet the challenge.
Why do we need to unlock new supply?
The slow pace of the energy transition means that oil demand is likely to be far more resilient than some thought just a few years ago. Wood Mackenzie forecasts annual consumption won’t peak until the early to mid-2030s, and cumulative demand will be almost 1,000 billion barrels through 2050.
Firm demand throws the spotlight onto where new supply can be sourced. Production from assets already onstream or justified for development will gradually decline under current investment plans from just over 100 million b/d today to 50 million b/d 2050, cumulatively 650 billion barrels. That leaves a huge supply gap of 300 million barrels.
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Another leap forward for electrification in Illinois.

Innovative Rail Technologies and Motive Power Resources are unveiling the latest in zero-emission, battery-electric locomotive tech.

This is an important part of the future of rail — that future is being built right here.
Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) joined Innovative Rail Technologies (IRT) and Motive Power Resources, Inc. (MPR) to celebrate the commissioning of their latest zero-emission, battery electric locomotive.
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jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
awpiitr.bsky.social
and they think Ukraine is grifting...
awpiitr.bsky.social
sounds like a nice off-shoring of the Treasury, no?
logicallyjc.bsky.social
What the fuck are we doing?
awpiitr.bsky.social
more "locker room talk" from the boys -- who say exactly what they're thinking

(MOFOTUS on Leavitt: "lips like a machine gun")
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gogopoet.bsky.social
I keep trying to tell people we're living in a dictatorship. They're still in denial.
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mattbinder.bsky.social
CNN is covering prediction market odds from an online casino as if it’s actual polling data
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annekin1.bsky.social
"Maybe we focus more on the #billionairedevelopers who pretended that the people they hired were “independent contractors,” turning what used to be middle-class jobs into subsistence work, while also making it easier to hire and exploit #undocumentedlaborers."
#wealth
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
How I Became a Populist
My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.
newrepublic.com
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sethabramson.bsky.social
This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.

Everything else is noise and bluster.

This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.
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bluelaura.bsky.social
Maybe it’s the growing number of protesters. My husband and I are going to a #NoKings rally. Both in our 70’s who normally would be gardening. We see the violence of Ice. We see and hear the lies of the MAGA party. We see what he is doing to OUR COUNTRY. #OURCOUNTRY
awpiitr.bsky.social
really gunning for the presidency

but also maybe was a sexual assault survivor (1 in 4 or so women have had the experience) and finally saw her party for what it was (?)
awpiitr.bsky.social
again, anyone thinking the DHS/NG/miliary will stick to their codes of conduct and oaths is dreaming.

mob mentality applies to them, too-- not just crowds of citizens.
jessdkant.bsky.social
Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...
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drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social
Even if Proud Boys aren't joining (and here is no confirmation), federal paramilitary forces clearly recruit from the same pool and share overlapping ideological and political goals. As has always been the case, far right gangs and street groups work with law enforcement, not against.
hunterw.bsky.social
NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...
The first
Antifa
Counter Terrorism
Task Force
Trump already gave so many of us jobs with ICE. We may have to start recruiting soon to fill all these spots.
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normative.bsky.social
There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.
chrislhayes.bsky.social
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
amaramarasingam.bsky.social
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
awpiitr.bsky.social
and how many will duck under a "just joking" defense?
originalsp.in
Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach Sam Douglass, Vermont state senator