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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 14h

“Expanding clean energy is central to achieving energy security and reducing Iran’s reliance on fossil fuels.”

Iran is the latest Global South country to go hard on solar capacity — not for climate, but geopolitics and energy security. It’s only possible because China brought down costs so much.

Iran’s energy crisis forces attempt to shift from oil to solar

Tehran imposes rolling blackouts as energy shortages deepen because of US sanctions and lack of investment

www.ft.com

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Void @drinksthethings.bsky.social · 3h

Curtis Sliwa could power the slime from Ghostbusters 2 by himself

Politico @politico.com · 4h

Curtis Sliwa says he would rather be fatally tortured than drop out of the NYC mayoral race and work for Andrew Cuomo.

Give me candidacy or give me death: GOP nominee holds firm in NYC mayoral race

Curtis Sliwa said he would rather be fatally tortured than drop out and work for one of his rivals.

www.politico.com

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Void @drinksthethings.bsky.social · 4h

So it's come to this, shirtless photos of a candidate for senate and kreminology about his tattoos

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

"Maine State Press" is not a real news outlet and this Twitter account was created in August.

It has 400 followers but this claim has now gotten 2.5 million views.

Maine State Press on X:

New details are emerging about the recent Politico article on Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner.

The report highlighted a deleted Reddit account allegedly tied to Platner — but notably did not explain how that account was located or verified.

Multiple political sources now claim that advanced data-analysis tools, possibly including Palantir or similar AI-driven technology, may have been used to trace the archived account and compile identifying information linking it to Platner.

As of now, Politico has not disclosed the technical methods or sources behind the discovery.

Follow: @MaineStatePress

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Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 5h

The 2017 CBA was basically “things are good how they are, let’s keep this going”, and the owners, bare minimum, did soft collusion to tank the market. This setup the conditions that allow the Dodgers to operate how they do.

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TYPE I • NORMAL POSITION @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 7h

what you tolerate now is the best that you'll get from them down the line so treat the causes you care about, and yourself, with enough respect to demand better representation

The political humiliation of this moment is not limited to the president nodding off or crashing out on camera, or to the slapstick sadism of the secret police b-teamers that his team of scheming viziers have spun up and sicced on every aspect of American life. It also manifests through this sort of degrading choice, and in the rituals of abasement forced upon voters who are eager to reject the regime in the most effective way possible and instead must negotiate with themselves on behalf of candidates who can't be bothered to do it. Do you want a candidate who supports genocide or one with a Nazi tattoo on his chest? is not only a question that will continue to be asked earnestly by people who previously rejected demands for such compromises, but one that cannot be answered without submitting to some amount of humiliation. All of it, in the end, becomes a question of what you will settle for, and how much you are willing to bear in exchange for a chance at making things less unbearable.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 8h

I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...

What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector

The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Me. in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us th...

defector.com

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OneDishwasher @onedishwasher.bsky.social · 9h

"Freedom of Speech" painting but it's Dale

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OPB @opb.org · 4d

For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.

Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers

Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.

www.opb.org

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 9h

*Shocking* that health-tech companies would immediately turn to eugenics.

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Void @drinksthethings.bsky.social · 10h

Fav is the most online person at Crooked, so this checks out big time

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10h

I think we also see the effects of staying on Vichy Twitter, I seriously doubt the Pod Jons would have made excuses like this pre-2022

CHOAM Nomsky (frightening) @samthielman.com · 10h

sorry I couldn’t find a version of this meme where both of the arms are white

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

just this perpetual cycle where the tech press helps zuck pretend he's innovative and interesting, he falls flat on his ass after setting billions in boomer ad money on fire, then all his employees pay the price for him being a pointless, unremarkable dipshit

Reuters @reuters.com · 11h

Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports reut.rs/4opgmAI

Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports

Meta is cutting roughly 600 positions out of the several thousand roles within its Superintelligence Labs artificial intelligence unit, Axios reported on Wednesday.

reut.rs

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Void @drinksthethings.bsky.social · 10h

Here's the hottest take of all: There aren't any. You just gotta find the proper way to use them.

Italians rule! *runs away*

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.

The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.

Details:

I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid

The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Void @drinksthethings.bsky.social · 23h

That's why reporters like @swin24.bsky.social are the best

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

You simply cannot be a political journalist today if you don't know the deep ins-and-outs of the nonsense conspiracy theories. Because people will just constantly say stuff that is blatantly false and you NEED to be ready to call it out with receipts.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Lankford: "I think now history has proven that Russiagate was a hoax. It was actually formed by James Coney and Brennan and others that were behind the scenes to push a narrative they knew at the time was false." (This is a lie -- would've been nice for Kasie Hunt to point that out.)

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 1d

whomst amongst us

2 panel comic

Panel 1: Smug Orange Man says “Let he who has NOT had a Nazi phase cast the first stone”

Panel 2: Orange man shits his pants as he is simultaneously pelted with a shitload of stones

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

Since it’s Long Island week on Bluesky I’m here to inform you that the group of guys in Giants gear was indeed visiting Denver from Long Island, New York.

The kid who stole his glasses has now been charged with assault.

www.denverpost.com/2025/10/20/d...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda wild that Mamdani and Sliwa are the guys who won their primaries and there has been open, nonstop meddling to overturn that will of the voters and install the disgraced former governor and it’s largely being covered like this is perfectly normal shit

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Douglas Reyes-Ceroñ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 1d

worth a mention Stephen Strasburg had to change his entire approach in Game 6 of the 2019 World Series because he was "tipping his own pitches" (as it was thought at the time) in the 1st inning, changed how he held the glove and the Astros never hit him again

youtu.be/aI52FQ23SW0?...

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Void @drinksthethings.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I didn't have to know any of the shit you all are talking about

Void @drinksthethings.bsky.social · 1d

What sucks about America is that I have to give a shit strongly about the Senator representing Maine

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 1d

Today in “Democratic Fundraising” text messages

Text message asking if I attended an anti-Trump protest

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UChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social · 1d

The appointment of John Kirby to direct the Institute of Politics is shocking and disgraceful. Kirby misled the public systematically over a long period, over grave matters of life and death. He has no place in an institution committed to truthful inquiry or a democratic public sphere.

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