Sean Dague
@dague.net
Software Architect IBM Quantum; Software, Climate, Science, Democracy. he/him. Born @ 330pm CO2.
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Now Trump EPA head, Lee Zeldin, enters the scene with rank dishonesty & theatrical indignation to dispute the NY Times' correct, accurate reporting.
But I've read the EPA smoking gun document, I'm a 30+-year clean air lawyer, I understand its meaning better than Zeldin, & I have the receipts. 1/
But I've read the EPA smoking gun document, I'm a 30+-year clean air lawyer, I understand its meaning better than Zeldin, & I have the receipts. 1/
January 13, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Now Trump EPA head, Lee Zeldin, enters the scene with rank dishonesty & theatrical indignation to dispute the NY Times' correct, accurate reporting.
But I've read the EPA smoking gun document, I'm a 30+-year clean air lawyer, I understand its meaning better than Zeldin, & I have the receipts. 1/
But I've read the EPA smoking gun document, I'm a 30+-year clean air lawyer, I understand its meaning better than Zeldin, & I have the receipts. 1/
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People will get sicker. More people will have heart attacks and lung disease and other health challenges because of pollution. People’s lives will get worse, and shorter. People you know. Maybe me. Maybe you.
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
People will get sicker. More people will have heart attacks and lung disease and other health challenges because of pollution. People’s lives will get worse, and shorter. People you know. Maybe me. Maybe you.
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it's not personal Pittsburgh, I just want everything Aaron Rodges touches to fail.
January 13, 2026 at 1:37 AM
it's not personal Pittsburgh, I just want everything Aaron Rodges touches to fail.
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Even more illegal than we thought.
Six-byline alert: 🚨
“.. laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’”
@nytimes.com
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“.. laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
January 13, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Even more illegal than we thought.
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ICE is committing atrocities that cannot be justified under any circumstances. I joined Rep. Kelly in signing articles of impeachment to remove Secretary Noem, and we must defund ICE and hold everyone who has broken the law fully accountable.
January 12, 2026 at 11:05 PM
ICE is committing atrocities that cannot be justified under any circumstances. I joined Rep. Kelly in signing articles of impeachment to remove Secretary Noem, and we must defund ICE and hold everyone who has broken the law fully accountable.
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seriously these results are a roadmap to demands for the upcoming budget battle: criminal liability if they break the law, no masks and mandatory IDs, no new funding and clawing back as much as last year’s funding as possible.
January 13, 2026 at 12:37 AM
seriously these results are a roadmap to demands for the upcoming budget battle: criminal liability if they break the law, no masks and mandatory IDs, no new funding and clawing back as much as last year’s funding as possible.
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Next time you fly, consider whether you want foreign militants to look at your plane and wonder whether it’s actually civilian.
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Next time you fly, consider whether you want foreign militants to look at your plane and wonder whether it’s actually civilian.
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Today the federal judge overseeing the stop work order on Revolution Wind was just asking these questions like
“So you say this is to give more time”
Govt: “yes”
“But you won’t tell the company why you need more time”
Govt: “yes”
It’s not exactly an easy argument before a judge
“So you say this is to give more time”
Govt: “yes”
“But you won’t tell the company why you need more time”
Govt: “yes”
It’s not exactly an easy argument before a judge
January 12, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Today the federal judge overseeing the stop work order on Revolution Wind was just asking these questions like
“So you say this is to give more time”
Govt: “yes”
“But you won’t tell the company why you need more time”
Govt: “yes”
It’s not exactly an easy argument before a judge
“So you say this is to give more time”
Govt: “yes”
“But you won’t tell the company why you need more time”
Govt: “yes”
It’s not exactly an easy argument before a judge
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Lawsuits filed: New York seeks to overturn the latest stop work orders against Empire and Sunrise wind
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January 10, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Lawsuits filed: New York seeks to overturn the latest stop work orders against Empire and Sunrise wind
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I just need to explain how absurd the court cases around the offshore wind projects are getting
Because the federal government is arguing it paused work on the wind projects to try and mitigate impacts to security
But they’re refusing to give any info about security impacts to the companies
Because the federal government is arguing it paused work on the wind projects to try and mitigate impacts to security
But they’re refusing to give any info about security impacts to the companies
January 12, 2026 at 10:29 PM
I just need to explain how absurd the court cases around the offshore wind projects are getting
Because the federal government is arguing it paused work on the wind projects to try and mitigate impacts to security
But they’re refusing to give any info about security impacts to the companies
Because the federal government is arguing it paused work on the wind projects to try and mitigate impacts to security
But they’re refusing to give any info about security impacts to the companies
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The offshore wind farm Trump paused because of national security concerns can continue after a judge said "I'm not persuaded any emergency exists in this case" to stop work on a project that is 90% complete
Orsted Wins Ruling to Resume US Wind Project Halted by Trump
A US judge ruled Orsted A/S can resume development of a wind farm project off the coast of Rhode Island while it challenges the government’s latest stop-work order, a major win for the Danish energy g...
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January 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
The offshore wind farm Trump paused because of national security concerns can continue after a judge said "I'm not persuaded any emergency exists in this case" to stop work on a project that is 90% complete
My original home river was Kendel Brook (which fed into the White River in VT).
Now, it's the Wappingers Creek (which feeds the mighty Hudson).
Now, it's the Wappingers Creek (which feeds the mighty Hudson).
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 12, 2026 at 9:25 PM
My original home river was Kendel Brook (which fed into the White River in VT).
Now, it's the Wappingers Creek (which feeds the mighty Hudson).
Now, it's the Wappingers Creek (which feeds the mighty Hudson).
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a federal district judge has struck down trump's stop work order halting construction on revolution wind, finding the “stated national security reason may have been pretextual.” story tk @heatmap.news
January 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
a federal district judge has struck down trump's stop work order halting construction on revolution wind, finding the “stated national security reason may have been pretextual.” story tk @heatmap.news
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Let's be clear. Donald Trump will indict the Fed Chair, kidnap foreign leaders and kill American citizens in MN if it distracts you from asking WTF is in the Epstein files because HIS BASE doesn't like pedophiles. None of this is normal. But everything he does is from weakness right now.
January 12, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Let's be clear. Donald Trump will indict the Fed Chair, kidnap foreign leaders and kill American citizens in MN if it distracts you from asking WTF is in the Epstein files because HIS BASE doesn't like pedophiles. None of this is normal. But everything he does is from weakness right now.
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Mmm. Samosas.
Somali aunties were giving out samosas to the anti ICE protesters in Minneapolis.
January 12, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Mmm. Samosas.
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We need more leaders to insist on accountability the way James Talarico has here.
January 12, 2026 at 12:30 AM
We need more leaders to insist on accountability the way James Talarico has here.
Excited to be going back to see my daughter's show this afternoon. These kids are amazing (middle school). The girl playing Lidia in my daughter's cast so knocked it out of the park yesterday. Just extraordinary!
January 11, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Excited to be going back to see my daughter's show this afternoon. These kids are amazing (middle school). The girl playing Lidia in my daughter's cast so knocked it out of the park yesterday. Just extraordinary!
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This is tremendously exciting, especially to me, a person who loves talking long walks in New York City and drinks a lot of coffee and seltzer.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin on Saturday announced an initiative to install more public bathrooms across the city.
January 11, 2026 at 5:13 PM
This is tremendously exciting, especially to me, a person who loves talking long walks in New York City and drinks a lot of coffee and seltzer.
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This is a very, very good concise refutation of both the dishonest right and the grifty centrist people who make the temperature point.
WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature?
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 PM
This is a very, very good concise refutation of both the dishonest right and the grifty centrist people who make the temperature point.
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“You have no right to disagree with the government”
And
“The government has the right to kill you if you try”
Are very high on the list of reasons why a significant number of colonial Americans revolted against the British empire.
And
“The government has the right to kill you if you try”
Are very high on the list of reasons why a significant number of colonial Americans revolted against the British empire.
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
January 11, 2026 at 3:52 PM
“You have no right to disagree with the government”
And
“The government has the right to kill you if you try”
Are very high on the list of reasons why a significant number of colonial Americans revolted against the British empire.
And
“The government has the right to kill you if you try”
Are very high on the list of reasons why a significant number of colonial Americans revolted against the British empire.
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If you’re worried that “protesters getting out of hand” will give the President a reason to implement martial law in an American city, what do you think is happening now? They’re kidnapping and murdering people and the cops are being sent in to arrest people for noise complaints?
January 11, 2026 at 2:52 AM
If you’re worried that “protesters getting out of hand” will give the President a reason to implement martial law in an American city, what do you think is happening now? They’re kidnapping and murdering people and the cops are being sent in to arrest people for noise complaints?
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Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
January 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
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It’s hard to know if people outside MN understand how much of life is grinding to a halt here because of Trump’s occupation. Schools have shut down, businesses are scaling back hours or closing because their employees aren’t safe. The whole city is weighted down.
January 10, 2026 at 4:36 AM
It’s hard to know if people outside MN understand how much of life is grinding to a halt here because of Trump’s occupation. Schools have shut down, businesses are scaling back hours or closing because their employees aren’t safe. The whole city is weighted down.