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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
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Happy 11/7 to all who are building a world where students are free to learn. Rise up against billionaires and their loyalty oaths!
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Happy 11/7 to all who are building a world where students are free to learn. Rise up against billionaires and their loyalty oaths!
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Does this guy feel good about himself? Does he see himself as a hero, a tough savvy operator, a stand-up guy?
Scoop: During a trip to DC last week, CNN CEO Mark Thompson made a visit to the White House, where he promoted the network’s new streamer
Staffers were taken aback the next morning when Thompson urged them to ease up on East Wing renovation coverage
www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...
Staffers were taken aback the next morning when Thompson urged them to ease up on East Wing renovation coverage
www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...
Mark Thompson’s D.C. Drop-In
CNN’s chief has Washington talking about his private meeting at the White House—following which he urged the network to ease up on coverage of Trump’s East Room demolition, Status has learned.
www.status.news
October 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Does this guy feel good about himself? Does he see himself as a hero, a tough savvy operator, a stand-up guy?
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
Why 230 million? Why not half a billion? 10 billion? Fuck, just take the whole fucking treasury if that's how we're doing it now
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Why 230 million? Why not half a billion? 10 billion? Fuck, just take the whole fucking treasury if that's how we're doing it now
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A WPA poster for Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, San Francisco, 1937. The play premiered in 1920.
October 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A WPA poster for Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, San Francisco, 1937. The play premiered in 1920.
Full-time professional writer here. I don't use AI for my work. I never will. I won't participate in any project that does. against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Full-time professional writer here. I don't use AI for my work. I never will. I won't participate in any project that does. against-a-i.com
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Lots of great info packed into this very short interview.
States Newsroom's @chatlanis.bsky.social interviewed @nyccomptroller.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social at the #NoKings protest in New York City.
Listen to his thoughts on what he believes lawmakers should be focusing on right now.
Listen to his thoughts on what he believes lawmakers should be focusing on right now.
October 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Lots of great info packed into this very short interview.
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I’ve got a nervous energy in anticipation of No Kings protests, an excitement I haven’t felt with these things before.
They’ll be big. The regime has taken notice and broken out its go-to move: blatantly lying. Media will cover it more.
This won’t be the end, of course, but something is happening.
They’ll be big. The regime has taken notice and broken out its go-to move: blatantly lying. Media will cover it more.
This won’t be the end, of course, but something is happening.
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I’ve got a nervous energy in anticipation of No Kings protests, an excitement I haven’t felt with these things before.
They’ll be big. The regime has taken notice and broken out its go-to move: blatantly lying. Media will cover it more.
This won’t be the end, of course, but something is happening.
They’ll be big. The regime has taken notice and broken out its go-to move: blatantly lying. Media will cover it more.
This won’t be the end, of course, but something is happening.
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The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.
He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.
He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.
October 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.
He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.
He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
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NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd
University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...
actionnetwork.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd
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I still don’t get how this is basically a non-story but Biden being old and diminished was a generational scandal. You worry about a president losing their faculties in large part *because* it might empower some lunatic like this! That’s the concern!
Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal
October 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I still don’t get how this is basically a non-story but Biden being old and diminished was a generational scandal. You worry about a president losing their faculties in large part *because* it might empower some lunatic like this! That’s the concern!
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
Just pledged a recurring donation to my old local station, KASU in Jonesboro Arkansas. Send defunded NPR stations some love! adoptastation.org
Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
adoptastation.org
September 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Just pledged a recurring donation to my old local station, KASU in Jonesboro Arkansas. Send defunded NPR stations some love! adoptastation.org
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I push back against doomsaying and defeatism because, first, it’s misleadingly false, and second, the false belief makes it more likely to come true.
That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to worry about. It means don’t deny successful societal resistance and grant him power he doesn’t have.
That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to worry about. It means don’t deny successful societal resistance and grant him power he doesn’t have.
September 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I push back against doomsaying and defeatism because, first, it’s misleadingly false, and second, the false belief makes it more likely to come true.
That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to worry about. It means don’t deny successful societal resistance and grant him power he doesn’t have.
That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to worry about. It means don’t deny successful societal resistance and grant him power he doesn’t have.
2026...
September 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
2026...
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The real existential threat isn't AI — it's billionaires. My latest, for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
What AI’s Doomers and Utopians Have in Common
Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.
www.theatlantic.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The real existential threat isn't AI — it's billionaires. My latest, for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
WGA-East protest at ABC, NYC. Hundreds here.
September 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
WGA-East protest at ABC, NYC. Hundreds here.