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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 2h

"The heat pump casings contain insulation beads. Exactly the same beads used for cavity wall insulation. And Octopus has come up with a metal plate that it says removes and recovers heat from internal electronics."

www.thereengineer.pro/p/what-i-saw...

What I saw at Octopus’s heat pump factory

Northern Irish manufacturing is part of the drive to decarbonise heating

www.thereengineer.pro

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2h

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone needs to read George Retes words. Federal actions like this are a national disgrace that harm our country. We must end them.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone looking for motivation during these dark times, listen to @mayorofchicago.bsky.social who so eloquently presents a voice of #Resistance. Drawing from our collective history, he explains where we are today and what we need to do to push back against the growing autocracy 👇

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 1h

Last month I did an interview at Redefining Energy. The title they chose was "The LNG Mirage."

They invited me on the show due to my various writing about the LNG industry at Powering the Planet.

199. The LNG Mirage - Oct25

Podcast Episode · Redefining Energy · 10/13/2025 · 28m

podcasts.apple.com

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 7d

It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.

Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?

YouTube video by New Economic Thinking

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 13h

This shouldn't happen to any child regardless of status.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 10h

“The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 9h

all good points!

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 16h

Green economic populism fights fascism by rooting green progress in working class life

—make modern, green housing affordable to all, instead of yelling at immigrants

—build free tranist & EV chargers everywhere, instead of yelling at immigrants

—unionize green economy, instead of elevating Elon

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the urbanism happening in New York City…is stunning.

Broadway between Union Square and the Flatiron.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...

Philadelphia on track to record the lowest number of homicides in 20 years

Overall crime in Philadelphia has been steadily declining. In 2021, the city hit a record number of homicide victims: 562. Now, it is on track to hit the lowest in 20 years.

www.audacy.com

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 17h

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
--Hannah Arendt

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 19h

Green economic populism:

—Workers are empowered to build a green new economy that meets our needs

—Everyone has a cool room to sleep well during heat waves. No one lacks housing or AC

—When disaster hits, we all get emergency support, and we rebuild stronger, green communities from the bottom up

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 18h

Couldn't agree more about the importance of this PSC race in Georgia. Thanks to @volts.wtf for covering it!
www.volts.wtf/p/pay-attent...

Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025

With energy affordability set to dominate national politics, Peter Hubbard and Brionté McCorkle explain why a down-ballot Georgia race is ground zero for the fight.

www.volts.wtf

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 20h

"Bringing a forklift to the gym," yep.

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 20h

“Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it's to learn how to think.”

Ted Chiang‘s succinct summary of the issue with using AI in education.

I’m not a sports guy but the athlete metaphor he uses in this interview is pretty spot on.

The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang

cdh.princeton.edu

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 21h

As the current national administration seeks to prop up coal -- a highly polluting and uneconomic technology of the past -- the global economy and investors are sending a very different signal about where the future of energy is headed:
www.eenews.net/articles/ren...

Renewables overtake coal as global electricity leader

It's the first time sources like wind and solar generated more power than coal over a six-month period.

www.eenews.net

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 21h

part of the conditions for reopening the govt should be clawing back these slush funds

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

Even as FBI is being downsized, it must allocate more of its resources to the only part of the govt that is growing: immigration enforcement.
The scale of this growth is hard to comprehend. DHS has a slushfund of $10B - bigger than the old ICE budget - to pay other agencies and state & local cops.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 1d

"Reviewer #2 strikes again"

(ht @zoltannagy.bsky.social)

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

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.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

www.sureserve.co.uk

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 1d

A roar of engines overhead. Awake again. “The planes never used to be so loud round here,” a troubled sleeper may reflect in the year 2050. Aircraft noise may eventually afflict thousands more people who live near airports – because of climate change.

www.thereengineer.pro/p/noisier-ta...

Noisier take-offs, engine wear – planes are flying straight into climate change

Emissions-spewing aircraft are far from immune to global warming

www.thereengineer.pro

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