Catherine Cocks
@catherinefte.bsky.social
Co-editor of Feeding the Elephant, scholarly publishing nerd, fan of the Heidelberg Project (look it up).
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Batteries are the fossil fuel killer.
Much of the main stream analysis about the energy transition is still pretending this didn't happen in the past two years.
But it did.
Much of the main stream analysis about the energy transition is still pretending this didn't happen in the past two years.
But it did.
#Battery storage major says costs have fallen 60 pct in two years, helping redefine the #grid and customer needs, and along with #solar is cheapest and easiest to build.
Battery prices plunge 60 pct in two years, changing face of grid and the nature of contracts
Battery storage major says costs have fallen 60 pct in two years, helping redefine the grid and customer needs, and along with solar is cheapest and easiest to build.
reneweconomy.com.au
February 1, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Batteries are the fossil fuel killer.
Much of the main stream analysis about the energy transition is still pretending this didn't happen in the past two years.
But it did.
Much of the main stream analysis about the energy transition is still pretending this didn't happen in the past two years.
But it did.
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art shanties. so odd and so delightful and so minneapolis.
February 1, 2026 at 10:26 PM
art shanties. so odd and so delightful and so minneapolis.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shelle... died on this day, so here are some Frankenstein paperback book covers (Artist: Margaret Howlett, [uncredited], Burckhard Labowski/Regine Schulz and Tsao):
February 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shelle... died on this day, so here are some Frankenstein paperback book covers (Artist: Margaret Howlett, [uncredited], Burckhard Labowski/Regine Schulz and Tsao):
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In between all the fascism, it's also a MASSIVE crime wave.
February 1, 2026 at 8:31 PM
In between all the fascism, it's also a MASSIVE crime wave.
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Inside Whipple, from the Star Tribune: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...
‘No humanity’: Detainees describe conditions inside Whipple Federal Building
Immigration sweep brings overcrowded rooms and overflowing toilets. Lawyers say they can’t visit their clients. The Department of Homeland Security says “all detainees receive full due process.”
www.startribune.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Inside Whipple, from the Star Tribune: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...
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Paramilitaries, you say? 🤔🧐
Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society.
How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?
How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
January 31, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Paramilitaries, you say? 🤔🧐
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The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.
It's disturbing to see many of the the major figures in moral cognition all over the Epstein files
He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls
www.justice.gov/epstein
He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls
www.justice.gov/epstein
www.justice.gov
January 31, 2026 at 10:48 PM
The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.
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Minneapolis is trying out new forms of resistance. They're doing pop-up blockade block parties. This one is on Cedar and 34th, a main route into the city. They have a stereo, food & a fire. MPD is present but not interfering. Lots of honks of support. ICE agents have been reported detouring around.
January 31, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Minneapolis is trying out new forms of resistance. They're doing pop-up blockade block parties. This one is on Cedar and 34th, a main route into the city. They have a stereo, food & a fire. MPD is present but not interfering. Lots of honks of support. ICE agents have been reported detouring around.
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Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
January 31, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
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Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
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Former and current CDC and NIH staff have written another open letter to congress demanding that no budget be approved without checks placed on ICE.
“We believe ICE and CBP are a greater threat to the health of our nation than the lapse of HHS services.”
“We believe ICE and CBP are a greater threat to the health of our nation than the lapse of HHS services.”
January 26, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Former and current CDC and NIH staff have written another open letter to congress demanding that no budget be approved without checks placed on ICE.
“We believe ICE and CBP are a greater threat to the health of our nation than the lapse of HHS services.”
“We believe ICE and CBP are a greater threat to the health of our nation than the lapse of HHS services.”
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What To Know About Trump’s Board Of Peace https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-trumps-board-of-peace/
January 26, 2026 at 11:00 PM
What To Know About Trump’s Board Of Peace https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-trumps-board-of-peace/
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Please help spread the word about our open position for a history editor in the @uncpress.bsky.social acquisitions department! This person will be overseeing exciting, key lists for the publishing program.
Are you a creative and intellectually curious editor ready to grow lists in environmental history, history of medicine, urban history, and labor history?
We’re hiring an Acquisitions Editor to help shape our history lists 🙌 Interested? You can learn more here👇
uncpress.org/now-hiring-a...
We’re hiring an Acquisitions Editor to help shape our history lists 🙌 Interested? You can learn more here👇
uncpress.org/now-hiring-a...
Now Hiring: Acquisitions Editor, History
Acquisitions Editor, History UNC Press is seeking a creative, intellectually curious, and mission-driven publishing professional who will acquire general
uncpress.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Please help spread the word about our open position for a history editor in the @uncpress.bsky.social acquisitions department! This person will be overseeing exciting, key lists for the publishing program.
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thanks to everyone who came to the meeting! a reminder, too, that PAGES members have a standing invitation to review our book selections for #FeedingTheElephant, so if you'd like to review BLACK FEMINIST WRITING, please do get in touch!
We had a fabulous time at our May PAGES meeting yesterday! Thanks all who joined us. We look forward to seeing you again next time, more details to come on our next PAGES meeting.
Happy long weekend!
Happy long weekend!
May 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thanks to everyone who came to the meeting! a reminder, too, that PAGES members have a standing invitation to review our book selections for #FeedingTheElephant, so if you'd like to review BLACK FEMINIST WRITING, please do get in touch!
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The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
Lies and Lawlessness
The Camps, the Executions, and the Future
snyder.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:25 PM
The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.
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these banners are printed with the coolest giant banner system ever, developed by @laborcamp on IG
the letters are cut from insulation foam and rolled with paint
the letters are cut from insulation foam and rolled with paint
January 25, 2026 at 10:26 PM
these banners are printed with the coolest giant banner system ever, developed by @laborcamp on IG
the letters are cut from insulation foam and rolled with paint
the letters are cut from insulation foam and rolled with paint
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Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
January 25, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
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January 25, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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Seen in Los Angeles
(Credit: Zurita Carpio)
(Credit: Zurita Carpio)
January 25, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Seen in Los Angeles
(Credit: Zurita Carpio)
(Credit: Zurita Carpio)
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
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"History has shown again and again that rounding up masses of people based on their identity strips them of their basic humanity. And that becomes the sick justification for violent abuse, neglect, endemic disease, and, ultimately, death." @willbunch.bsky.social
People are dying in Trump’s squalid concentration camps | Will Bunch
Deaths are occurring in ICE detention facilities at nearly 10 times the rate of the Biden years. It will likely get worse.
www.inquirer.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:38 PM
"History has shown again and again that rounding up masses of people based on their identity strips them of their basic humanity. And that becomes the sick justification for violent abuse, neglect, endemic disease, and, ultimately, death." @willbunch.bsky.social
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100% tickled that the first review for my pal Kiliii's great photo book just came out, and it's, well, about how his "hopeful, transcendent photo essay casts a glorious vision of climate optimism told from the voices of 12 different indigenous peoples across the globe." booklife.com/booklife-rev...
January 21, 2026 at 11:36 PM
100% tickled that the first review for my pal Kiliii's great photo book just came out, and it's, well, about how his "hopeful, transcendent photo essay casts a glorious vision of climate optimism told from the voices of 12 different indigenous peoples across the globe." booklife.com/booklife-rev...
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Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
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Wrote about how John Roberts and Donald Trump have turned the Department of Justice into a corrupt mobbed up law firm whose only purpose is to enable Trump’s persecution of his enemies and protection of his allies www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 21, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Wrote about how John Roberts and Donald Trump have turned the Department of Justice into a corrupt mobbed up law firm whose only purpose is to enable Trump’s persecution of his enemies and protection of his allies www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...