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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 1h

Caltrain’s new electric trains are designed to recuperate energy when breaking. The agency made a deal to sell that energy back to the local power supplier, which will net the agency millions of dollars in annual revenues.

Caltrain electrified trains return power to grid, offsetting energy costs

For decades, Caltrain has been known for what it takes off the roads. Now, it's being rewarded for what it puts back into the power grid.

www.cbsnews.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

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/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 1h

This is crazy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters

www.theguardian.com

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Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 10h

"Esmeralda 7 was supposed to produce a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power – equal to nearly all the power supplied to southern Nevada by the state's primary public utility."

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10h

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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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 12h

"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."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 13h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 10h

And ironically John Dickerson is involved in both the post-Charlie Rose morning show and the post-Norah O'Donnell Evening News. He'll have to go back to streaming or, maybe worse, the White House

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 11h

"Democracy dies in darkness"

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

“Thank you Washington Post. Wow!!!”

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12h

“The Nobel Committee is an independent body and the Norwegian government has no involvement in determining the prizes. But I’m not sure Trump knows that. We have to be prepared for anything from him.”

That they have to say this...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 13h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 16h

Tesla's Full-Self Driving software is now under federal investigation, including its behavior at train crossings, after an NBC News investigation.

In September, NBC News found that Tesla owners repeatedly complained about Teslas failing to detect oncoming trains.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents

NBC News reported last month that Tesla vehicles using Full Self-Driving software sometimes fail to stop for train tracks.

www.nbcnews.com

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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 21h

wrote about BOOTS, a show that i kinda liked—and which makes a much more coherent case about masculinity than pete hegseth did last week slate.com/culture/2025...

Pete Hegseth Would Hate Netflix’s New Show. That’s Why I Loved It.

The newly minted “secretary of war” wants to take the military back to 1990. Boots has a different vision of what that looked like.

slate.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16h

My career is listening to people who flee places that get increasingly unsafe. A few months of "wait & see" can make a world of difference for safety & prospects. I've lived under authoritarianism myself.

Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped.

This is not okay.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 16h

Don't miss the Hatch Act violations in the banner above the EDVA's website, either.

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Democrats have shut down the government. Department of Justice websites are not currently regularly updated. Please refer to the Department of Justice’s contingency plan for more information.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 17h

Business Insider wrote up a story on how some of their past investigative work led to a new California law. The story is strangely unbylined.

The reason perhaps? The publication recently laid off the reporter behind that investigation, Matt Drange.

www.businessinsider.com/california-e...

California enacts law to prevent sexual abuse in K-12 schools following Business Insider investigation

The new legislation comes after a 2023 Business Insider investigation into sexual misconduct at a California high school.

www.businessinsider.com

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Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 17h

"While automakers including Hyundai and Stellantis have offered cash off incentives to bridge the gap for buyers, Ford and GM took a different approach" www.reuters.com/business/aut...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

The prosecutor put in office after the president who wants vengeance against his enemies told his AG that a WH lawyer was the person for the job — despite no prosecution experience — successfully sought an indictment against one of the named enemies, the second such indictment.

And you push this?

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Federal grand jury in Virginia charges Letitia James, the New York attorney general who investigated Trump's business practices, with bank fraud

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Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 17h

having the kind of day when I've set my coffee mug down in at least six places, immediately forget where I've left it and, no, I don't think I've had a full cup of coffee yet and, yes, I've been 53 and forgetful for most of my life

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Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 17h

There are so many economic variables, too, that threaten all retail sales now that are independent of EVs. The U.S. furloughing many government workers in Q4 (maybe firing?), for example, is one curveball. Whatever "normal" is might be more quarters away

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17h

BREAKING via @mattdpearce.com: An overwhelming majority of Los Angeles Times journalists (over 85%) have voted to authorize their union’s leaders to call a strike if such a step is necessary to reach a new contract.

www.mediaguildwest.org/news/la-time...

L.A. Times journalists vote to authorize newsroom’s first open-ended strike — Media Guild of the West

Eighty-five percent of the Los Angeles Times Guild, the union that represents reporters, editors, designers, photographers and other journalists at the West Coast’s largest newspaper, voted this week ...

www.mediaguildwest.org

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 23h

lede = introductory section in journalism

bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information

Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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John Voelcker @johnvoelcker.bsky.social · 19h

An important article restates the obvious: #EV demand will not simply vanish because the federal incentives have ended. Longtime EV reporter Alysha Webb talked to Urban Science about this.

At the risk of #humblebrag, I've said this for months. Lots of headlines will get it wrong; brace yourselves.

EV demand isn’t falling off a cliff: Urban Science

Despite the end of a key tax credit, five other factors are still supporting demand for battery electric vehicles sales, per the consultancy.

www.wardsauto.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 19h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 19h

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Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 19h

Model years are dealer lobby ploys to sell something "new" when the "new" is a price change. Don't think they're really done outside US and Canada but we now use them for recalls, safety legislation, registration...

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