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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 1d

46,000 health care workers at Kaiser are on strike!

Safe staffing is critical for patients’ care and health care workers. It’s time for Kaiser to give workers the dignity, respect and fair contract they need and deserve.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 11h

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11h

"Incredibly, Trump’s recent announcements have made the situation even worse. By declaring that U.S. economic support will only continue if Milei wins at the polls, he has galvanized the Argentine opposition to Milei, thus leading to more capital flight and skyrocketing interest rates."

America First? No, Billionaire Buddies First

Argentina: A very Trumpy debacle

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

I dug a bit into the double standard JD Vance has, in which MAGA supporters can say anything they want, no matter how offensive and no matter how old they are, and it's just "kids being kids." But if an actual kids says something negative about Charlie Kirk, they deserve to be punished.

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 1d

Vance’s Double Standard: Nazi Jokes Are “Kids Being Kids,” But Mocking Charlie Kirk Gets Your Visa Revoked

JD Vance thinks praising Hitler and talking about putting political enemies into death chambers is harmless “kids being kids,” but criticizing Charlie Kirk is somehow deserving of…

Vance’s Double Standard: Nazi Jokes Are “Kids Being Kids,” But Mocking Charlie Kirk Gets Your Visa Revoked

JD Vance thinks praising Hitler and talking about putting political enemies into death chambers is harmless “kids being kids,” but criticizing Charlie Kirk is somehow deserving of state-supported punishment. It sure looks like he’s got quite the double standard. Yesterday, Vance defended Young Republican leaders who were caught in leaked chat logs making racist, antisemitic, and pro-Nazi comments, dismissing their behavior as harmless kids being edgy.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 1d

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for your activism and this beautiful piece of writing, tying together so many important threads... 💚

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Ana Rosa Rizo-Centino (ella/she/her) on stolen Chumash lands @anarosarizocentino.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote this with my intern: www.greenpeace.org/usa/turmoil-...

Turmoil, teargas, and tyranny: two climate activists and one ICE raid in California - Greenpeace - Greenpeace

This blog is a collaboration between two Greenpeace USA supporters based in Oxnard, California. The story we are about to tell is a violent and potentially triggering one. Much of…

www.greenpeace.org

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 1d

I've hiked below some of these glaciers.

Wildfires, drought, bark beetle, mass Sequoia deaths, and now this. It's heartbreaking to see the Sierra Nevada transformed by climate change within the brief span of my own human lifetime.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history

New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century

www.theguardian.com

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Penn Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media @penncssm.bsky.social · 3d

We are excited to share the latest publication from Senior Research Fellow Dr. Joseph Romm and collaborators titled "Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?" - read more here:
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
@michaelemann.bsky.social #climatechange #upenn #penncssm #pcssm #carbon

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 1d

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. Notably, neither Tom Homan nor anybody else in the Trump admin has outright denied that he took and kept the $50,000 in taxpayer money given to him by the FBI in their bribery scheme.

Every time they’re asked, they either pivot or attack the questioner. But they don’t deny it.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

To @DaveWeigel.bsky.social’s point, it’s never once been “no,” and everyone in Trump’s government is refusing to answer what happened to the $50,000 in taxpayer money that Homan never denied taking inside a paper bag.

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 1d

Both profoundly tragic and deeply inspiring. Pentagon reporters aren't "radical" folks, but here they are, walking out together. The Trump administration launched a direct frontal assault on critical press freedom, the press corps responded in unison from Fox to NPR and said no.
AP Photo/Kevin Wolf

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

I will climb aboard by any means available however improbable and you will simply never see me again

Greg Fromenteau - Art @gfro-art.bsky.social · 1d

Little #fish and #ships #ink sketch last night - petit #croquis de porteflot hier soir.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

I have a lot of respect for Zolan Kanno-Youngs and @haleaziz.bsky.social and have talked to both many times in the past. That the Times lets them be so blunt about what is happening with the U.S. refugee admissions program is a good sign of how much the Trump admin is not even trying to deny it.

Zolan Kanno-YoungsHamed Aleaziz
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz
Reporting from Washington

Oct. 15, 2025
Updated 3:44 p.m. ET

The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

The proposals, some of which already have gone into effect, would transform a decades-old program aimed at helping the world’s most desperate people into one that conforms to Mr. Trump’s vision of immigration — which is to help mostly white people who say they are being persecuted while keeping the vast majority of other people out.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread.

As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT

archive.ph/grTVe

How AI can unlock an extra trillion barrels of oil
And deliver the volumes needed to meet resilient demand
15 October 2025 3 minute read
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Simon Flowers
Chairman, Chief Analyst and author of The Edge

Andrew Latham
Senior Vice President, Energy Research

Orla Marnell
Principal Data Scientist, Upstream

Josh Dixon
Senior Research Analyst, Upstream
Stronger-for-longer oil demand will heap pressure on the upstream industry to deliver new supply. I asked our subsurface experts, Dr Andrew Latham, Orla Marnell and Josh Dixon how artificial intelligence can identify opportunities to meet the challenge.
Why do we need to unlock new supply?
The slow pace of the energy transition means that oil demand is likely to be far more resilient than some thought just a few years ago. Wood Mackenzie forecasts annual consumption won’t peak until the early to mid-2030s, and cumulative demand will be almost 1,000 billion barrels through 2050.
Firm demand throws the spotlight onto where new supply can be sourced. Production from assets already onstream or justified for development will gradually decline under current investment plans from just over 100 million b/d today to 50 million b/d 2050, cumulatively 650 billion barrels. That leaves a huge supply gap of 300 million barrels.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Lorne Stockman @lornestockman.bsky.social · 14d

The IEA has presented its methane emissions abatement cost curve every year since 2017, highlighting the low cost of action. Methane reduction pledges cover 80% of global oil & gas production, but the data shows rising emissions. [Read my Substack here: lornestockman.substack.com/p/voluntary-...

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 2d

Several airports across the U.S. have refused to play a video of DHS Secretary Noem blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

Airport spokespeople said the video violates the Hatch Act.

THIS is how we stand up to Trump's weaponization of the government to serve his political ends.

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 3d

Data centers are "shaping up to be the mother of all political issues...pretty much everyone pays electric rates, & under Trump they’re starting to skyrocket...he’s simultaneously accelerating demand w/ his support for data center buildout, & constricting supply by shutting down cheap solar & wind."

Hey Grok, What's a Waste of Energy?

AI amidst the climate emergency

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social · 3d

Money Stuff is assembled off-site at manufacturing and fabrication facilities in Italy and then shipped to our newsletter sites fully-assembled and packaged for installation. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Venture Global’s Gas Plant Is Done

Also the Nobel Peace Prize, Credit Suisse AT1s, a Grindr margin-call LBO and StockTwits alpha.

www.bloomberg.com

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