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Journalist, author, documentarian, knitter. Tips: Signal @emiger98 "If you want to know what the first great AI apocalypse is, we're already living it. It's total information collapse." — Carole Cadwalladr

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ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · Aug 3

#Caturday

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ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 1d

Jeff, I hope this is wry humor..?

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 1d

Nice swirl! And good filling to cake ratio.

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 6d

When the president and his party keep making stuff up to justify military occupation of cities, it oughta lead the news coverage. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 7d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 7d

If anyone works at CBS News and would like to leak to me about whats unfolding over there, my Signal is ParkerMolloy.86

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ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 7d

Via @opb.org: Fed officers in Portland staged some propaganda for the cameras Saturday night, "flanked by videographers toting professional equipment and wearing high-visibility vests [who] filmed from behind the lines" as they pushed back protesters. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Federal tactics on Portland protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on prote...

www.opb.org

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 8d

#Caturday

Smaill black and white cat sitting and basking in a ray of sunshine.

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ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 13d

To think how much effort past presidents expended on keeping their engineered coups covert.

Peter Kafka @pkafka.bsky.social · 13d

"It is generally illegal under international law to use force in another country without its consent."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Top Trump Aides Push for Ousting Maduro From Power in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 13d

Levelized costs of energy (LCOE, which we can also think of as cost per unit of electricity) in 2009 and 2019.

Coal is now three times more expensive than solar energy.

Source: Hannah Ritchie, Not the End of the World, Chapter 3.

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ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 14d

I'm not sure that actually matters, because this is probably merely today's tactic for dominating the news with anything, anything other than the Epstein files or the crap economy.

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 14d

There's also a project to document every exhibit and sign at Smithsonian Institution museums.

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 16d

#Caturday

Small cat with irregular black on white markings laying in a sunbeam on a purple white and black striped mexican blanket. Her whiskers catch the sun and glow as she takes a big yawn.

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 18d

Big FOIA opportunity

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19d

Good to see: @schiff.senate.gov and eight other Dem senators are pressing FCC chair Brendan Carr on what sort of corrupt pressure he's brought to bear on networks via private communications, in addition to public ones.

Dems should get as loud as possible about this (see piece below).

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ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 18d

Very sad news www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Renowned ‘sponge city’ architect Kongjian Yu dies in Brazil plane crash

The 62-year-old Chinese landscape architect was killed with three others while filming in the Pantanal wetlands

www.theguardian.com

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 23d

Much respect to the UK reporter who asked Trump, "Is free speech more under attack in Britain or America?"

(From 9:51 onwards.)
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Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · 23d

@desmog.com has won two awards for our work exposing the role of the advertising and public relations industry in delaying climate action at the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards.

Congratulations @tjjordan.bsky.social and Adam M Lowenstein!

www.desmog.com/2025/09/19/c...

'Consistently Superb': DeSmog Wins Two Covering Climate Now Awards

DeSmog has won two awards for its work exposing the role of the advertising and public relations industry in delaying climate action at the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. Investigative r...

www.desmog.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · Sep 13

There's still time.

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · Sep 13

#Caturday

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · Sep 11

Doing my part for a future we can believe in by reflexively going to the @mst3kofficial.bsky.social channel every time I sit down on the couch.

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · Sep 11

You said it.

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · Sep 11

“The Trump administration promoted the Energy Department report at the same time it deleted all previous congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment reports from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next iteration of the report.”

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · Sep 11

Looking for a US current-events read besides today’s particular news? Here is @mariabustillos.com review of the Epstein birthday book in Flaming Hydra.

flaminghydra.com/book-review-...

BOOK REVIEW: The Epstein Birthday Book

BOOK REVIEW: THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS, The Birthday Book of Jeffrey Epstein, 2003; Ghislaine Maxwell, ed. This soul-poisoning book was compiled and annotated by editor and future convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Her handwritten captions narrate the book throughout. It consists of notes, letters, and drawings provided by friends and

flaminghydra.com

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ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · Sep 10

The sound of snapping apart the squares of a chocolate bar while it’s sill in the paper and foil wrapper.

ejgertz she/her/hers @ejgertz.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ding!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Sep 4

The real story here is that Republicans know the only conceivable chance of getting Trump to give a shit about putting a sociopath in charge of public health is to swaddle it in obsequious praise for Trump and try to get him to see said sociopath as somehow diminishing Trump's glory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4

Bill Cassidy's line of questioning was clever -- he pressed Kennedy on how he can praise Trump for Operation Warp Speed while at the same time denigrating vaccines.

Here's the beginning of the exchange.