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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 2h

Modest proposal: PDX mayor, OR governor and the state’s Senators should invite Trump on a tour of Portland. Let Trump see for himself whether it’s a “hellscape”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 9h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. Awesome game.

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 18h

14th Inning?!

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 19h

12th Inning!

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

this is the kind of thing that usually leads to international alerts from press advocacy orgs

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 1d

I know this schtick is tired, but …
Can you just imagine the meltdown on Fox if Obama had greenlighted a Qatari military base on US soil?

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 1d

Now do plastics, pesticides, nitrogen overloading, auto production, air miles traveled

Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 1d

About *a third* of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions emitted during the Industrial age have occurred in roughly the last 17 years. The previous third was emitted over a period of roughly 26 years. The first third was emitted over a period of about 131 years.

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 1d

File under: The Great Acceleration…

Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 1d

About *a third* of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions emitted during the Industrial age have occurred in roughly the last 17 years. The previous third was emitted over a period of roughly 26 years. The first third was emitted over a period of about 131 years.

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who thinks defending the poor is divisive needs to go and re-read (or maybe just read) the Gospels

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 2d

Cider Is Coming

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 2d

I'm indebted to @wudan.bsky.social for her top notch fact checking for my forthcoming book and saving me from my own unforced errors. She is also the book's first reviewer! "Beautiful and heart-stopping ... writing"
Thank you for the kind words and the amazing fact checking

Wudan's write up of The Earth Said Remember Me: "beautiful and heart stopping writing."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 3d

Serious Question:
Who is Lee Greenwood?

Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 3d

The cruelty is the point ... even when it's phony, AI-generated cruelty
gizmodo.com/fake-protest...

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World

Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

gizmodo.com

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 3d

Sign of a healthy democracy ...
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Professor who teaches about antifascism moves to Europe after death threats

A Rutgers University professor who wrote a book about antifa received the threats after he commented on President Donald Trump designating the movement a “domestic terrorist organization.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes progress moves fast. Just 15 years ago, as the editor of @earthislandjournal.bsky.social, I published a special issue all about the fight against "King Coal." Today, coal has been knocked from its throne. In a recent US govt mining auction, coal sold for only 1/10 of a penny per ton

the summer 2010 edition of Earth Island Journal: "The People Vs King Coal"

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 3d

"From January to July, as noted by Reuters, solar generation delivered 39% of [California's] generation, a record level, while fossil fuels provided just 26%, a new low since the dawn of modern gas power."
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Solar is crushing gas power in California this year

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

www.canarymedia.com

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Jake Higdon @jakehigdon.com · 3d

There are real people on the end of these grants. Rust belt autoworkers. Great Plains farmers and roughnecks. Coal communities looking to a new economic future.

It’s genuinely heartbreaking. They don’t have do this — the money is already obligated — but I guess they enjoy destroying lives.

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 4d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 4d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

www.pbs.org

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 4d

It takes some real willful ignorance to write this column and completely fail to mention the US military's pioneering role in desegregation, which started in [checks notes] 1948 ... a full 16 years before the passage of the Civil Rights Act
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 4d

Yep! Which is why the work of Solarcycle is so vital. www.solarcycle.us

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 4d

THIS! Also ... community cider pressing at apple season
civileats.com/2025/10/01/o...

Op-ed: Let’s Preserve Our Communities Through Canning Food

Community canneries can bring people together, encourage food sovereignty and healthy local food systems, and even mitigate climate change.

civileats.com

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 4d

This is a moment of world-historical importance:
"Renewable energy overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity in the first half of this year - a historic first, according to new data from the global energy think tank Ember."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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