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ICE is openly terrorizing my neighborhood today, including an elementary school, and these asshats need to be held accountable to the fullest possible extent on the other side of all this.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 1d

“start writing” is the hardest part so if you’re doing that then you’re like 90% of the way there!

i just need to get started
just start
just go for it
just take the first step
Are u okay bro?
just get the ball rolling
i just need to get moving
yes i just need to get started

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 1d

"Esmeralda 7 was supposed to produce a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power – equal to nearly all the power supplied to southern Nevada by the state's primary public utility."

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 1d

same except i’ve been quilt life only (which i guess is a bedspread?? discuss…) for a while now bc i got sick of lumpy duvets. but i think we might try dueling duvets like in europe!

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 1d

I think of all three as different things! Duvet is an insert w/a removable cover, comforter doesn’t need a separate cover but can technically be used like a duvet, bedspread is a thinner top blanket like a doily for the bed

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 1d

Like I guess of course it would be a voice vote with little strategic importance and go almost completely unnoticed? but like… it matters. it was a catastrophic mistake and I actually never thought they’d repeal it???

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 1d

holy shit man

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 1d

Wait did they actually repeal the AUMF

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 1d

Senate adopted by voice vote: Kaine amendment #3337 to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 1d

Aishwarya Rai in Devdas

Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 1d

get it all out of your system before the cubs game

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 1d

And stay out of the Woolsworth!

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 1d

thank you so much Heather!!!

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Hank Scorpio III @hankscorpio.bsky.social · 1d

Think of how many have died in the last year, but also, had this deal been signed in October 2024, would we also be in the middle of a fascist regime occupying big cities today?

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

what do you even say. what do you even say.

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Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 2d

The case for renewables I hear all the time is something like "Ignore emissions, we can do this faster than gas" and that may be true about combined-cycle power plants, but it may be much less true with using cheap turbines behind the meter heatmap.news/energy/natur...

Data Centers Have Solved Their Speed-to-Power Problem — With Natural Gas

“Old economy” companies like Caterpillar and Williams are cashing in by selling smaller, less-efficient turbines to impatient developers.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 2d

It’s very cool that a judge has to ask the department of justice “is it really wise to defer to the president if he’s deranged and everyone around him is lying to him?”

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

Perry asks, what if the president is relying on "completely invalid evidence?"

"What if DHS folks are not tethered to reality in their assessment of events. Does that matter?"

Hamilton: "A couple points …"

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