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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 8h

Indeed, outrageous.

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Don Boesch @donboesch.bsky.social · 9h

Interesting in looking up some USDA data on soils, this is what you get. Outrageous.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 9h

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago never disappoints 💪🏽😂

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 10h

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

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Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

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Katelyn T Slater 🏳️‍⚧️⚛️⚧️ @katelynslater.com · 8h

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 9h

The disturbances in Portland are basically limited to a single block. And Trump says the city is burning. Why would a president and his aides lie so nakedly about an American city?

For one thing, because they hate it. But mostly, because they want to make this nation a fearful one. trib.al/Eu0MgCh

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9h

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres.

All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing:

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

John McCarrick, the company’s new head of Global Energy Policy, was a senior energy policy advisor in the first Trump administration’s Bureau of Energy Resources in the Department of State while under former Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo.

As deputy assistant secretary for Energy Transformation and the special envoy for International Energy Affairs, McCarrick promoted exports of American liquefied natural gas to Europe in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and advocated for Asian countries to invest in natural gas.

The choice to hire McCarrick matches the intentions of OpenAI’s Trump-donating CEO Sam Altman, who said in a U.S. Senate hearing in May that “in the short term, I think [the future of powering AI] probably looks like more natural gas.”

It also aligns with the company’s early moves toward powering new data centers, huge warehouses full of linked-up computers that require enormous quantities of water and electricity, to run with gas. OpenAI’s U.S. Stargate Project site in Texas, which is slated to become one of the largest data center sites in the world, is already installing off-grid gas turbines to power its operations.

“Big Tech’s collusion with the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda for artificial intelligence is evident in their massive investment in methane gas power infrastructure — as well as pro-gas political operatives like McCarrick,” Tyson Slocum, director of consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen’s Energy Program, said.

The “solution” of powering AI with gas is part of Trump’s AI energy policy platform. In a July speech to announce a $96 billion AI and energy funding package, Trump lauded fossil fuel and coal-powered data center development while flanked by oil and gas executives.

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 11h

The excellent new ERL paper by Bhandarkar, Luo, Dimanchev, & Jenkins shows that when you let the grid build (wind/solar/storage/gas) in response to EVs, simple averages or short-run marginals can mislead, often understating EV climate benefits. 4/

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 13h

New editorial in OLAR by me & Co-Editor-in-Chief Dake Chen on the ratification of the High Seas Treaty, a major milestone in better managing and protecting the oceans. Check it out. @olarjournal.bsky.social
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A Reason to Celebrate | Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research

With the ratification by Morocco in September as the 60th nation to do so, the United Nation’s High Seas Treaty will become law in January 2026 [1]. In the past, the almost two-thirds of the area of t...

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Susie Sunshine🙏🏼🌎 ☮️ @suzwarto.bsky.social · 16h

File this under "Nuclear Propaganda".

Our World in Data is funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

There are no mentions of the issues of nuclear power:

Cost
Uranium mining (colonialism)
La Hague
Corrosion
Extreme weather events
Waste storage
Decommissioning costs
Risks
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 12d

France opened a flurry of nuclear power plants in the 1980s and 1990s, giving it low-carbon electricity ever since—

The image displays a line graph illustrating the growth of nuclear electricity generation in France from 1970 to 2024, measured in terawatt-hours (TWh). The vertical axis, ranging from 0 to 500 TWh, indicates the amount of electricity generated, while the horizontal axis represents the years.

Starting from near zero in 1970, the curve rises steeply, particularly in the 1980s, reflecting the rapid expansion of nuclear power. Key annotations highlight that the first commercial reactor was opened in 1964, and by 1980, nuclear generation was at 60 TWh. By 1990, this figure exceeded 300 TWh.

The graph shows a general upward trend until 1999, with no new plants added until the anticipated opening of the Flamanville plant in 2024. After peaking, the curve indicates a decline in generation towards the end of the period shown.

The data source is the Energy Institute and the Statistical Review of World Energy, published in 2025. The image is credited under the Creative Commons BY license.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15h

Among the reasons Americans risked it all to get rid of a tyrannical king:
“He has obstructed the Admin of Justice…made Judges dependent on his Will…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…kept among us Standing Armies w/o legislatures’ Consent” www.americaamerica.news/p/what-we-sh...

What We Should Demand, What We Should Oppose

Reflecting on a president's obligations and what history tells us about rejecting tyranny and injustice

www.americaamerica.news

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

Add to this the Court’s usurpation of trial judges’ fact-finding function, often getting facts way wrong, in ways that get the Court to desired outcomes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, but we don't give "peace" prizes to war criminals based on the recommendations of other war criminals.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

And absolutely terrible news for the Amazon, the Cerrado and climate change.

The Economist @economist.com · 1d

Having been burnt by tariffs twice, American farmers and Chinese buyers will probably seek to reduce their mutual dependence. That is a boon for soyabean farmers in Brazil

American soya farmers are miserable. Brazil’s are ebullient

Donald Trump’s trade war has cemented Brazil’s place as the soyabean superpower

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects.

In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2d

The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.

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