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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 21h

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: China says it will to fight trade war 'to the end’

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h

Just rounding people up. A US citizen who says he had his birth certificate with him (!) was still thrown in the back of a truck and detained.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 12h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Kavanaugh stop

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 7h

Domestic terrorism.

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 8h

ICE is terrorizing people in the United States of America. Why would you call it anything else? That's exactly what it is.

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D @dddimka.bsky.social · 7h

Define “many”

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Many Gen-Zers “bring a new attitude to the combination of faith and politics, and many see politics as a matter of spiritual warfare,” writes Daniel K. Williams, a historian of American religion and politics.

Opinion | Why So Many Gen Z-ers Are Drawn to Conservative Christianity

And what that might mean for the future of American politics.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 7h

This is what I was getting at in today’s column. Republicans won’t do anything without Trump’s permission. Period.

“GOP will brutalize voters with spiking health care costs unless Trump says to stop.”

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 7h

Some CDC layoffs from last week have been reversed. But not for the analysts responsible for monitoring and protecting the United States from biological, chemical and nuclear threats www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit

More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 8h

Can we just build more 155mm (please)

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 15h

Andruil just announced a new product called EagleEye for “warfighters” on the other site.

Andruil partnered w/ Meta, Oakley, Standard Issue, Qualcomm, & GentexCorp.

So much defense money is going to the same people and corporations.

Gentex is also a Tesla supplier.

Anduril Industries
@anduriltech
X.com
Anduril has partnered with @Meta,@oakley Standard Issue, @Qualcomm, and @GentexCorp to bring the best in AR, rugged eyewear, compute, sensing and ballistic helmets to EagleEye. With world-class partners, we're delivering proven tech for the warfighter at rapid speed.

Anduril Industries &
@anduriltech •3h
Superpowers for Superheroes.
Today, we unveil EagleEye: the family of warfighter augments that place mission command & Al directly into the operator's helmet.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 9h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19h

that last line

Under Dr. Mermin’s leadership, new H.I.V. infections in the nation dropped by 36 percent, and resurgent sexually transmitted infections showed the first signs of a plateau nationwide.

He also directed health departments to spend the bulk of their money on prevention. It was “a very precise and scientific and logical approach” to make the biggest impact for the least money, said Greg Millett, who worked as a deputy for the Office of National AIDS Policy in the Obama White House.

Now, however, Dr. Mermin is spending his days at home with his chickens and his misbehaving cat. The fate of the H.I.V. division hangs in the balance, and he worries that lawmakers may not realize its importance. “What if no one cares?” he said.

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Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 9h

Thoughtful piece...

"I cannot accept that the central story of what has just happened to produce the current ceasefire is one of the return of 20 people when 2 million are returning to a wasteland."

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 9h

When a bad man does a good thing, he does not cease to be a bad man. This is a complicated moment in the Middle East. Each of us must work to make sense of it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Joy. Sorrow. Fury. Disgust. And Hope. All at Once.

Reacting to this disorienting, misrepresented, misperceived moment in the Middle East.

open.substack.com

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 10h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Mike Madrid @mikemadrid.bsky.social · 8h

Of all the things we’re losing in the Trump era it’s our minds that I’ll miss the most. open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

Trumps Most Dangerous Institutional Attack

The attack on California’s premier public university system represents an unprecedented threat to American higher education, national security and democratic governance

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D @dddimka.bsky.social · 9h

James is a bitch

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
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Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 20h

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Joseph In THEE OC @ocjoseph424.bsky.social · 10h

How many more hostages would’ve made it out alive had Netanyahu not purposely dragged his feet and tried to sabotage both Biden and Harris?

Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 14h

Yup. Bibi banked on the Orange Demon being POTUS, which is why he worked hard to make it happen, while actively sabotaging Biden, and then Harris when she was running. He was working with the Orange Demon to torpedo things as much as he could, before the OD was ever in office.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 10h

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 10h

Impossible to overstate how stupid and self-defeating this is

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 10h

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 11h

Resisting arrest has long been used as a “cover charge” by police (in Chicago and elsewhere) after they use force against someone, as I reported back in 2018: www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-poli...

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