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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 2h

Convertible to self storage?

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Dr Lisa 🇰🇳🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈❤️🥳🧘🏽‍♀️🎸🏝💃🏽🛸 @xitter-refugee.bsky.social · 17h

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 14h

For the Golden State, this has been the year of the sun + batteries.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Solar is crushing gas power in California this year

The state’s combination of solar and battery plants has pushed clean generation of electricity to new heights, offering a welcome reprieve from high gas…

www.canarymedia.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is a lying asshole. He has to ruin everything by lying about everything and making everything about himself. Obama did not hate Israel. And Joe Biden is a proud Zionist, who repeatedly calls himself a Zionist, and who stood by Israel and supported Israel after Oct 7.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "What we're doing now, it could've happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden. There was a hatred toward Israel."

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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 23h

When it comes to tennis, football (okay, soccer to Americans), and, well, all sports, reporters almost invariably fail to "connect the dots" between extreme weather and the fossil-fuel driven climate crisis.

getenergysmartnow.com/2025/10/13/s...

@billmckibben.bsky.social @climatebrad.hillheat.com

Sports reporting so often fails to “Connect the Dots”

Around the globe, from little kids playing with friends to premier professional athletes battling for prize money, climate change is increasingly impacting the sports world. Even so, most sports re…

getenergysmartnow.com

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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 23h

Sparked a brief post: getenergysmartnow.com/2025/10/13/s...

Sports reporting so often fails to “Connect the Dots”

Around the globe, from little kids playing with friends to premier professional athletes battling for prize money, climate change is increasingly impacting the sports world. Even so, most sports re…

getenergysmartnow.com

A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 1d

ChatGPT is why electricity prices are so high.

Virginia local & state officials tout data center real estate tax benefits but gloss over the huge impacts on families and businesses from higher electricity prices & lower power reliability/resiliency.

@cleanvirginia.org @bluevirginia.bsky.social

Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomberg analysis reveals that electricity in areas near data centers has risen, a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:

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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon is great though, of course, answer is

"ChatGPT is WHY my electricity price is so high."

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 1d

Fox News Catches Sears in an Outright Lie About Virginia’s Unemployment Rising Under Her Watch - @vademocrats.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/10/vide...

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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 1d

Acoording to Bessent, only King Trump can pay Federal salaries?

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

the israeli electorate, in its infinite wisdom, has chosen to stake its country’s future on the idea that netanyahu and trump will be remembered positively by the rest of the world. what could go wrong?

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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent article with a glaring (especially for @data.ft.com @financialtimes.com ) gap: failure to discuss the huge (indirect) financial implications of batteries driving down # of peak price surges.

www.linkedin.com/posts/abby-h...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Trump calls himself "the best friend that Israel ever had." He used to be the best friend Jeffrey Epstein ever had. How did that work out?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's insistence that Joe Biden was president on January 6 raises new questions about Joe Biden's memory.

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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent article with a glaring (especially for @data.ft.com @financialtimes.com ) gap: failure to discuss the huge (indirect) financial implications of batteries driving down # of peak price surges.

www.linkedin.com/posts/abby-h...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/abby-hopper-a3415527_in-the-last-three-years-texas-has-discovered-activity-7366823264456712193-j07i

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 2d

Many thanks @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for hosting us on @zeteo.com re: our new book #ScienceUnderSiege @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social

zeteo.com/p/science-un...

‘Science Under Siege’: Two Experts Sound the Alarm on Trump’s War on Science

Acclaimed scientists Michael E. Mann and Peter Hotez on how the MAGA antiscience movement threatens the entire planet, from the climate to pandemics, and how we fight back.

zeteo.com

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 1d

"China, meanwhile, is on track to earn more from exporting clean energy technologies by [2035] than all of the oil revenue generated by the gulf states combined last year." wapo.st/47a1O15 by @evanhalper.bsky.social and @chicoharlan.bsky.social 🔌💡

The real winners of Trump’s attack on clean energy aren’t American

U.S. politics are undercutting clean energy at the same time economics are propelling it forward globally. Can the U.S. afford to sit this out?

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

The US Administration has mounted an unprecedented and unpopular attack on high skill immigration.

It’s working. The world’s best and brightest are starting to understand that the US government considers them an infection.

www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d

"Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science" | Great review of #ScienceUnderSiege by @danfalk.bsky.social for the @buckscountybeacon.com: buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/book...

Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science - Bucks County Beacon

“Science Under Siege,” by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science.

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Laurel Schaider @laurelschaider.bsky.social · 2d

Love this article. So many everyday uses of PFAS are non-essential, including cookware.
"A good pan is like a trusted friend: It improves with time, instead of slowly poisoning you."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | Relax, America, There Is Life After Nonstick Pans

www.nytimes.com

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A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · 1d

"If only there were some way to peacefully protest" authoritarianism, Trump's & GOP destructiveness, the lies/indencies/crimes, ...

Well, hint, there is: #FreewayBlogging.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

@freewayblogger.bsky.social @indivisible.org @moveon.org @50501movement.bsky.social

If Only There Was Some Way To Peacefully Protest...

That didn’t require large numbers of people converging at the same time and place allowing thousands gathered peacefully to be labelled as violent by the actions of three or four deliberately sent pro...

www.dailykos.com

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 1d

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, @larryglickman.bsky.social. I think "legitimate clash of perspectives' is a useful way to describe the basic frame and fallacy at the heart of much MSM coverage of MAGA propaganda:

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d

Careful and powerful analysis by @gregsargent.bsky.social of the New York Times treating Trump's propagandists as "provocateurs" and decision to treat MAGA's ideologically-driven lies as part of a legitimate clash of perspectives in describing Portland.
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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