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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 35m

I see Jared and Ivanka have moved firmly out of the shadows again.

Profits to be made.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 22m

Orange insider grifting

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine that

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 5m

Round-up is NOT "fine." Nor is it necessary, as we have demonstrated on our upstate NY farm over the past 40 years. Organic farming really does work.

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 4h

If you saw the recent piece in @nytimes.com claiming that "Spraying round-up on crops is fine. Really." Please read our reply.
@davechapman.bsky.social @ninaelkadi.com @michaelpollan.bsky.social

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Opinion | Debating the Dangers of a Pesticide

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 4h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
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Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 9h

I bet it wasn't even 5 years ago that the standard belief was that without more transmission there would be no energy transition. Then I started hearing about VPPs. Now there are plenty of amazing real world examples of their success and it is still so early.

VPPs look to be a huge thing.

GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 19h

“Virtual power plants” are one of the cheapest, most equitable ways to make the grid more efficient, making costly infrastructure buildout less necessary.

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 24d

11) At the high end of the grid reinforcement cost estimate range, VPPs could reduce grid buildout costs by *$340 billion*. That's our estimate of the "money on the table" for deploying VPPs: The achievable societal value of avoiding poles-and-wires upgrades at the distribution level.

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Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research @olarjournal.bsky.social · 1d

Check out our video!🥳Multiple Sources Forcing Driving Changes in Spatial Patterns of Coastal Wetland Vegetation
#wetland #ocean #olar
@olarjournal.bsky.social
spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Americans are fed up with the political establishment and an economy rigged against the working class.

Zohran Mamdani understands this well. Democratic leadership should be supporting him.

What Zohran Mamdani Can Teach Democrats

Robert Reich

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Craig Welch @craigwelch.bsky.social · 1d

Journalism, he said, is how we know what's happening in troubled lands. "These extraordinary eyewitness accounts are the culmination of the daily efforts of countless people who work to ensure that information isn't manipulated for ends contrary to truth and human dignity“
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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 20h

We are all antifa, if we oppose Trump's fascist tendencies.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

THIS!! 👇👇

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heim2yankel.bsky.social @heim2yankel.bsky.social · 8d

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 1d

I want the Democratic Party that Republicans think is real.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Denis Gilbert 🌎 @denis-gilbert.ca · 1d

I've once had the pleasant experience of being interviewed by the inimitable Bob Macdonald, back in 2018: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

The Gulf of St. Lawrence is running out of oxygen thanks to climate change | CBC Radio

Shifting currents is bringing oxygen poor water to the deepest parts of the gulf

www.cbc.ca

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 20h

I seldom agree with Trump and his administration, but I do support shutting down all the hydrogen hubs.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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Sam🏳️‍🌈🌊🏳️‍⚧️ @separker.bsky.social · 1d

Will we ever have fair elections again?
#USDemocracy

Politico @politico.com · 2d

Dominion Voting Systems, which was at the center of false fraud allegations in 2020, has been sold.

The election machine company is being rebranded as Liberty Votes.

Dominion Voting Systems, which was at the center of false fraud allegations in 2020, has been sold

The election machine company is being rebranded as Liberty Votes.

www.politico.com

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 1d

Ut oh.
Now you've done it, Donnie.
You've lost Laura.
Pshaw.

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 1d

"M.I.T. became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment." Bravo.

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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

When Fox News lies, people die | We explain on PBS Newshour how the antiscience disinformation spread by the Murdoch media empire and especially Fox News, likely lead to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. And that's just COVID-19. Their fossil fuel disinformation is as deadly.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 3d

"Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science" | My #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I spoke with @wbrangham.bsky.social of the @pbs.org #Newshour:
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Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells with...

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 21h

O.M.G Such incredible distortion, lying.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 23h

Michael Fanone on the January 6 rioters Trump pardoned: Daniel Rodriguez, he was sentenced to over 12 years in prison, for driving a stun gun into my neck while I was restrained and being beaten. Kyle Young, who attempted to take my firearm. Thomas Sibick, who stripped me of my badge and my radio.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 23h

Student governments of Vanderbilt, MIT, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, UVA, and Arizona issued a joint statement condemning the Compact and stating that "Academic Freedom is not negotiable." www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

On October 1st, 2025, the White House sent the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education to our seven universities, outlining expectations universities must meet to continue receiving federal benefits.

Although the compact's full implications remain unclear, the document outlines
unprecedented expectations universities must meet to receive federal benefits. This could systemically alter the mission of higher education and erode the independence that has long defined our universities. We must not allow these attempts to control what can be taught, studied, or spoken on our campuses.

Our universities represent the full spectrum of American higher education, from liberal arts colleges to leading research institutions. As students, this directly impacts us, and thus, our voices must be heard. We know firsthand that institutional autonomy is instrumental to the perpetuation of innovation and progress. As the Compact itself acknowledges, “American higher education is the envy of the world and represents a key strategic benefit for our Nation," yet the document undermines the very principles that make this statement true. Our administrations have been presented with a false choice between their commitments to knowledge and education and our access to the resources that sustain them. To preserve our status as world leaders in education, we must remain true to the foundation of academic freedom that has propelled us forward.

As student representatives, we stand in united opposition to the outlined conditions. We call on our community of students, faculty, alumni, and leadership to reaffirm our commitment to reject political interference and federal overreach. Academic freedom is not negotiable.

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