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Bev Pausche, APR @bevpr.bsky.social · 9h

It is. I was born there and lived most of my life there.

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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.

heatmap.news

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 1d

“The new research also ‘calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,’ Viswanathan says.”
#AbLeg #AbHealth

Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 1d

www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...
“COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Bev Pausche, APR @bevpr.bsky.social · 1d

Hell, no.

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Bev Pausche, APR @bevpr.bsky.social · 2d

That’s very upsetting. I had treatment in British Columbia, Canada.

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ScholerinED @scholerined.bsky.social · 2d

"COVID infection and long COVID substantially raise the risk for serious cardiovascular complications — including heart failure, arrhythmias, stroke, and thromboembolism — according to a clinical consensus statement from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)."
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

ESC Tackles Cardiac Risks of Long COVID

An ESC report outlining the effects of COVID and long COVID on the heart emphasizes the need for early detection, vaccination, and cardiac rehab.

www.medscape.com

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Bev Pausche, APR @bevpr.bsky.social · 2d

In Vancouver, it’s pronounced ‘vangcouver’.

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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 2d

The CPC can f*ck all the way off with this fascist BS

This is a slippery slope

If the CPC want to follow Trump I suggest they move to the US
#cdnpoli

Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 2d

OTTAWA – The Conservatives want to restrict birthright citizenship in Canada, a measure they say would mirror the rules in peer countries.

Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of temporary residents

OTTAWA – The Conservatives want to restrict birthright citizenship in Canada, a measure they say would mirror the rules in peer countries.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Bev Pausche, APR @bevpr.bsky.social · 2d

A very bad decision. These folks have no immunity at all. I had an autologous stem cell transplant and they would t let us off the floor (negative pressure rooms).

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 3d

"You wanna talk about job creation, Mr. Speaker? The only job the member opposite, the leader opposite (Poilievre)
has ever created was the one he left open for the Member for Carleton in the last election." - #LPC MP Wayne Long. #cdnpoli

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Bev Pausche, APR @bevpr.bsky.social · 2d

Took a flight recently. About 8 masked. There have been a few ‘aha’ moments. Too few, but it is starting to register.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 3d

1. I've had a surprising number of conversations about Covid-19 over the past week or so, all sparked by the fact that I was, as always, wearing an FFP2 respirator. People in healthcare facilities, taxi drivers, people on trains and buses.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 2d

For those still trying to rewrite the history of what happened. Clinically vulnerable teachers and staff were never protected (and still aren’t) for airborne transmission. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Over 1,000 Educators Died From COVID. Here's the Story of One

Over two and a half years, we documented more than 1,300 deaths of educators who died from COVID.

www.edweek.org

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Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund.

From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Ontario labour minister attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients millions in training funds

Two clients of lobbyist Michael Rudderham have received more than $8.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants, records show

www.thetrillium.ca

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Bev Pausche, APR @bevpr.bsky.social · 2d

Corruption, cruelty, incompetence, un-American.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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ncpix2009.bsky.social @ncpix2009.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently, CNN is all “We don’t talk about Fight Club” when it comes to Miller’s plan. bsky.app/profile/cweb...

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

So the business model is dependent on theft.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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