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Capital Climate @capitalclimate.bsky.social · 16h

Renewable Energy Is Booming Despite Trump’s Efforts to Slow It www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/b...

Renewable Energy Is Booming Despite Trump’s Efforts to Slow It

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Capital Climate @capitalclimate.bsky.social · 19h

Wreck the economy to own the libs.

Peter Sinclair @peterwsinclair.bsky.social · 19h

Trump's war on clean energy is a massive self own.
Is it fatal for the United States economy?
thinc.blog/2025/10/13/t...

Trump War on Clean Energy a Massive Self Own, but is it Fatal?

I’ve posted recently about the challenges, if not impending train wrecks, for LNG and SMRs. As we come up towards a the first full year of the most fossil fuel-centric administration in histo…

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 19h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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The Cook Political Report @cookpolitical.com · 1d

Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ entrance into the Senate race on Tuesday marks a significant escalation in political firepower aimed at longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins. We are moving the contest from Lean R -> Toss Up.

Maine Senate Race Moves To Toss Up With Mills’ Entrance

Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ entrance into the Senate race on Tuesday marks a significant escalation in political firepower aimed at longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins, the only Republican senator representin...

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Capital Climate @capitalclimate.bsky.social · 22h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/b...

Global Growth Remains Sluggish as Tariff Threats Loom

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 1d

Isolated flash flood threat across the Bay Area, Sacramento Valley and Central Coast through this evening with rainfall rates up to 1 inch per hour.
www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/met...

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Capital Climate @capitalclimate.bsky.social · 1d

Unitary executive? Maybe not.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 4d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Capital Climate @capitalclimate.bsky.social · 1d

I call them Comcrap for a reason.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 1d

Customer service is my passion

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 2d

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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The Eyewall @theeyewallwx.bsky.social · 2d

Active! We have the latest on coastal flooding for Jersey and NYC. Significant flooding, perhaps the worst in 100 years in parts of southwest CO overnight, with more rain coming tomorrow. And an early season winter storm in California with Sierra snow. Details below or at theeyewall.com.

Significant storms on both coasts bring tidal flooding and beach erosion in the East and heavy mountain snow in the Sierra

Also, rain and flooding in southwest Colorado

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 2d

It was our fuck up but not our fault? Vance is such a slippery character

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Capital Climate @capitalclimate.bsky.social · 3d

Is Jake Tapper waiting to write a book?

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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Capital Climate @capitalclimate.bsky.social · 3d

Northernmost post season?
www.quora.com/Is-Seattle-n...

Is Seattle north of Toronto?

Answer (1 of 8): It is, yes, and by a substantial amount. Toronto is 43 degrees 44 minutes north of the equator. Seattle sits 47 degrees 36 minutes north of the equator. Seattle is also north of Mon...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 3d

Editorial: Pope Leo delivers breathtakingly bold salvo on wealth, elitism and poverty | National Catholic Reporter www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

Editorial: Pope Leo delivers breathtakingly bold salvo on wealth, elitism and poverty

Prophetic in the truest sense, Dilexi Te is an uncompromising assessment of how wealth and faith in contemporary economic ideologies and markets have misshapen Christianity.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 4d

Okay quick thread of the sort of stuff you'll get if you pay a modest monthly or yearly amount to read Gravity Is Gone:

Today's newsletter, about the shutdown and RIFs and how employees are so in the dark that their bosses want them to email UP the chain if they get fired.

Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired

Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."

www.gravityisgone.com

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Capital Climate @capitalclimate.bsky.social · 4d

He has dementia if he believes any of this.

Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 4d

Trump is stupid and he's venal and he's ignorant, but this is pretty clear evidence that his staff is only showing him false information.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Capital Climate @capitalclimate.bsky.social · 4d

Well, we're past the peak of hurricane season, and it's not like we'll ever have any future weather emergencies.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

Breaking news: The Trump administration began laying off federal workers while the government is shuttered, fulfilling threats from President Trump to take advantage of the closure to shave off more parts of the federal workforce he dislikes.

Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown

White House budget director Russell Vought said reductions-in-force were underway.

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