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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 2h

Not one but two (2) Donovan Solanos next year!

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 15h

i think as soon as the sun goes down the protest frogs should don oversized sleeping gowns and tassle caps ala ebeneezer scrooge. no reason. just think it would look cute if they were sleepy frogs

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 22h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

A 2024 detail I keep thinking about... the Trump campaign saw a growing problem where voters thought he'd be obsessed with revenge if he got back into office. They fixed this w a Fox town hall (campaign got Qs in advance) where he said of course he wouldn't do that. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/u...

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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 1d

*Except for Winter Storm Uri in Texas in 2021, which was for sure caused by a failure of the methane gas system. blog.ucs.org/paul-arbaje/...

How Gas Plants Fail and Lead to Power Outages in Extreme Winter Weather

Gas has been proven again and again to be vulnerable to failure in extremely cold weather.

blog.ucs.org

Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 1d

Good learning opportunity for journalists here: energy transmission grids are extremely complex and the event of a failure, the simplest/quickest answer (renewables v fossil fuels) is rarely the correct one.*

Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 1d

This story was inspired by a conversation with a fossil fuel exec in Paris a few days after the big outage in Spain. He blamed too much renewable energy as the cause.

Was that really it? Turns out: No.

@npr.org takes you through a new report on what happened + impacts of renewable misinformation.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

www.npr.org

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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 1d

1) Antifa is a figment of the right's imagination.

2) They're clearly going to use "people funding them" as a premise to go after any and all fundraising networks that oppose them, including those supporting mainstream Democratic candidates.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Antifa is out of control in Portland and other places ... we're looking for the people that are funding them and those people are gonna be just as guilty as the people that smack people over the head with a baseball bat."

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 1d

When Big Oil companies claim to be partners in climate solutions, remember: they are lying.

If you squint, you might be able to see how much energy generated by Big Oil comes from renewables.

For BP and Shell, it's less than half a percent.

For Exxon and Chevron? ZERO, according to a new study.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Curious if MAGA knows that "God Bless America" was written by someone not born in America who arrived here without any authorization whatsoever and yet, through the woke policies of the time, was allowed to stay and to become a naturalized citizen. So very "open borders."

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure that he stays seated for many songs. I bet he knows that sappy song isn’t our anthem.

Bad Bunny Remains Seated During 'God Bless America' at Yankees Game

Bad Bunny raised eyebrows at the New York Yankees game Tuesday night ... choosing not to stand during the singing of "God Bless America."

www.tmz.com

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so glad OPB did his story. I also think Oregon Republicans need to be asked if they would be so keen to do "everything possible to support their mission and ensure our community’s safety," if Guard were deployed by a Democratic, rather than Republican, president.
www.opb.org/article/2025...

Many Oregon GOP lawmakers silent as Trump seeks National Guard deployment to Portland

OPB emailed every Republican state lawmaker in Oregon on Monday to ask whether they support the deployment of National Guard members to the Rose City. Two responded.

www.opb.org

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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 1d

Among the endless fire hose of news, there was an interesting nugget buried in Mayor Keith Wilson's statement today.

The city of Portland is considering taking over the lease of the ICE facility and the city said it has no intention of being ICE's landlord.

Portland weighs taking over lease at ICE facility

The ramifications of the city taking over the federal facility lease were not immediately clear Wednesday.

www.opb.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 1d

It is interesting no one has any footage of the mayhem that’s engulfed Portland

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 2d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2d

I'll bet he does

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 2d

Portland is going to topple the Trump regime with frog and chicken costumes

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Jim Brunner @jimbrunner.bsky.social · 2d

I asked Mike Johnson last year when he campaigned for Joe Kent about warnings by former Trump admin figures that Trump would ignore constitutional limits & slide U.S. toward autocracy. He said: “I do not have any concern about that at all.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Relatedly, this @brianbeutler.bsky.social idea of the "median experience of tyranny" is a good way to say that while majorities oppose the lawbreaking/abuses of power, Miller is banking on the middle lacking deep conviction about all of it (as I suggest)

www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

Minnesota allowed the sale of one of its electric utilities to a consortium led by BlackRock. Our James Baratta was there to witness the proceeding, and he explains how it's the beginning of a private equity roll-up to cash in on the AI data center boom.
prospect.org/environment/...

BlackRock Just Bought a Minnesota Utility

On Friday, state regulators voted unanimously in favor of allowing private equity to take a Duluth-based utility holding company private. The Prospect takes you inside the room where it all went down.

prospect.org

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 2d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 2d

Good natured butt jokes will cure what ails this country.

Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 2d

A gentleman with a "Dump Here 61" shirt caught the Raleigh home run (on a bounce.)

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