@jebuswept.bsky.social
On the president's Christmas reception speech at the White House, which included a new version of Tale of the Deadly Python:
"This was the kind of story that emerges not because it’s useful, but because the storyteller’s internal filing system has lost its tabs."
Mary Geddry
December 15, 2025
"This was the kind of story that emerges not because it’s useful, but because the storyteller’s internal filing system has lost its tabs."
Mary Geddry
December 15, 2025
December 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
On the president's Christmas reception speech at the White House, which included a new version of Tale of the Deadly Python:
"This was the kind of story that emerges not because it’s useful, but because the storyteller’s internal filing system has lost its tabs."
Mary Geddry
December 15, 2025
"This was the kind of story that emerges not because it’s useful, but because the storyteller’s internal filing system has lost its tabs."
Mary Geddry
December 15, 2025
photo credit: Bonnie Cash/ UPI
click for description
shared by Bloomberg Green Daily, December 10, 2025
click for description
shared by Bloomberg Green Daily, December 10, 2025
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
photo credit: Bonnie Cash/ UPI
click for description
shared by Bloomberg Green Daily, December 10, 2025
click for description
shared by Bloomberg Green Daily, December 10, 2025
governorswindenergycoalition.org/how-a-nuclea... business week report, without the paywall
How a Nuclear-Fossil Fuel Alliance Is Winning the Fight for Energy Dominance - Governors' Wind Energy Coalition
governorswindenergycoalition.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
governorswindenergycoalition.org/how-a-nuclea... business week report, without the paywall
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas? (Gift Article)
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted
Yet *another* forever chemical to worry about: TFA
In your house dust, water, refrigerants used in air conditioning and in cooling fluids at some data centers.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
In your house dust, water, refrigerants used in air conditioning and in cooling fluids at some data centers.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
Scientists Say the Forever Chemical TFA Could Cause Irreversible Harm. In Eastern North Carolina, It’s Everywhere. - Inside Climate News
The discovery of TFA in blood and water samples raises questions about Chemours’ role in adding to the pollution burden.
insideclimatenews.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Yet *another* forever chemical to worry about: TFA
In your house dust, water, refrigerants used in air conditioning and in cooling fluids at some data centers.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
In your house dust, water, refrigerants used in air conditioning and in cooling fluids at some data centers.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
The Trump gold card
open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
The Trump gold card
Pay to play
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The Trump gold card
open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
The Trump administration’s data center push could open the door for new forever chemicals. Uh-oh. The AI broligarchs do not wish us well. | grist.org/accountabili...
The Trump administration’s data center push could open the door for new forever chemicals
The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals — with limited oversight.
grist.org
December 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The Trump administration’s data center push could open the door for new forever chemicals. Uh-oh. The AI broligarchs do not wish us well. | grist.org/accountabili...
Reposted
For those in the US or EU, today is the last chance to get your print orders in for pre-Dec 25th delivery, whether framed or unframed. (And last day for Canada unframed.)
They make lovely gifts, and all profits back into the project!
Browse here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/f...
They make lovely gifts, and all profits back into the project!
Browse here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/f...
December 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
For those in the US or EU, today is the last chance to get your print orders in for pre-Dec 25th delivery, whether framed or unframed. (And last day for Canada unframed.)
They make lovely gifts, and all profits back into the project!
Browse here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/f...
They make lovely gifts, and all profits back into the project!
Browse here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/f...
san.com/cc/the-milit... The [effing News] passed this along but says it is not verified.
The military's new AI says 'hypothetical' boat strike scenario 'unambiguously illegal’
An AI chatbot unveiled by the Pentagon appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as “illegal.”
san.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
san.com/cc/the-milit... The [effing News] passed this along but says it is not verified.
ARE WE STILL FIGHTING IRAN?
open.substack.com/pub/seymourh...
open.substack.com/pub/seymourh...
ARE WE STILL FIGHTING IRAN?
American experts think the regime in Tehran is teetering while Israelis believe it’s rebuilding its defenses—another confrontation is looming
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
ARE WE STILL FIGHTING IRAN?
open.substack.com/pub/seymourh...
open.substack.com/pub/seymourh...
"A U.S. Government Accountability Office study estimated that a $100 increase to the median rent was associated with a 9% increase in the rate of homelessness." www.hcn.org/issues/57-5/...
The toll of Bozeman’s housing crisis - High Country News
At the small city’s only emergency shelter, demand is higher and the work is harder than ever.
www.hcn.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"A U.S. Government Accountability Office study estimated that a $100 increase to the median rent was associated with a 9% increase in the rate of homelessness." www.hcn.org/issues/57-5/...
Uh-oh. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
MSN
www.msn.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Uh-oh. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
This is from the news, but it reads like The Onion:
Rubio Ends State Department Use of Calibri, Calling Font “Wasteful” DEI
Satirists may be helping the WTF House to craft policy.
Rubio Ends State Department Use of Calibri, Calling Font “Wasteful” DEI
Satirists may be helping the WTF House to craft policy.
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 AM
This is from the news, but it reads like The Onion:
Rubio Ends State Department Use of Calibri, Calling Font “Wasteful” DEI
Satirists may be helping the WTF House to craft policy.
Rubio Ends State Department Use of Calibri, Calling Font “Wasteful” DEI
Satirists may be helping the WTF House to craft policy.
"Cassidy Wants a New Path on ACA Affordability. HSAs Won’t Get Us There." Former insurance company guy Wendell Potter lays it all out. open.substack.com/pub/healthca...
Cassidy Wants a New Path on ACA Affordability. HSAs Won’t Get Us There.
A Senate HELP Committee hearing showed rare urgency to avoid ACA subsidy lapses — but the leading GOP alternative would steer billions into insurer-owned HSA empires.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"Cassidy Wants a New Path on ACA Affordability. HSAs Won’t Get Us There." Former insurance company guy Wendell Potter lays it all out. open.substack.com/pub/healthca...
www.opb.org/article/2025... Big Beautiful Bill Act called for ramping up logging. But instead of sending a share of logging revenue to counties, the federal government will take it all.
"Taking it all" must have been in the fine print somewhere in the 1,116 pages of the Big Beauty.
"Taking it all" must have been in the fine print somewhere in the 1,116 pages of the Big Beauty.
Congress approves Secure Rural Schools funding critical to rural Northwest counties
For many rural counties with huge swaths of untaxable federal land in the Northwest, the bill will renew funding they’ve come to rely on to pay for sheriff’s departments and other essential needs.
www.opb.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
www.opb.org/article/2025... Big Beautiful Bill Act called for ramping up logging. But instead of sending a share of logging revenue to counties, the federal government will take it all.
"Taking it all" must have been in the fine print somewhere in the 1,116 pages of the Big Beauty.
"Taking it all" must have been in the fine print somewhere in the 1,116 pages of the Big Beauty.
youtu.be/aHbgOoN-R08?... A 6700 mile walk, hidden research on the Iodine-131/milk pathway, this determined fellow publishes his memoir and Zooms this slide show.
Nuclear Waste Scholar Series with Jim Thomas
YouTube video by Hanford Challenge
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
youtu.be/aHbgOoN-R08?... A 6700 mile walk, hidden research on the Iodine-131/milk pathway, this determined fellow publishes his memoir and Zooms this slide show.
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i... Six out of 238, so in this instance, the White House was two and one half per cent truthful. High mark!
The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...
projects.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i... Six out of 238, so in this instance, the White House was two and one half per cent truthful. High mark!
youtu.be/v4aF_qtwh0Y?... The troll maker gives a tour of his property. And explains why he makes stuff. Like trolls.
Got evicted. Then he turned abandoned homestead into Troll Wonderland
YouTube video by Kirsten Dirksen
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
youtu.be/v4aF_qtwh0Y?... The troll maker gives a tour of his property. And explains why he makes stuff. Like trolls.
Freedom of expression in some places, some of the time, but not here, and not now. Rovics: "Along with all [50] of the albums, they [Youtube Music] disappeared all of the comments and all of the evidence that these songs had ever been heard millions of times." www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/y...
Home
CounterPunch.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Freedom of expression in some places, some of the time, but not here, and not now. Rovics: "Along with all [50] of the albums, they [Youtube Music] disappeared all of the comments and all of the evidence that these songs had ever been heard millions of times." www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/y...
Reposted
In Paramount’s $108Bbn bid for Warner Bros. Discovery:
- 11.8bn comes from the Ellison family
- $24bn from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds (UAE, Saudi, and Qatar)
- $1bn from China’s Tencent
- And undisclosed amount from Jared Kushner’s private equity firm Affinity Partners...
(Via Axios)
- 11.8bn comes from the Ellison family
- $24bn from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds (UAE, Saudi, and Qatar)
- $1bn from China’s Tencent
- And undisclosed amount from Jared Kushner’s private equity firm Affinity Partners...
(Via Axios)
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
In Paramount’s $108Bbn bid for Warner Bros. Discovery:
- 11.8bn comes from the Ellison family
- $24bn from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds (UAE, Saudi, and Qatar)
- $1bn from China’s Tencent
- And undisclosed amount from Jared Kushner’s private equity firm Affinity Partners...
(Via Axios)
- 11.8bn comes from the Ellison family
- $24bn from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds (UAE, Saudi, and Qatar)
- $1bn from China’s Tencent
- And undisclosed amount from Jared Kushner’s private equity firm Affinity Partners...
(Via Axios)
Reposted
NEW: Last year we found the acceptable level of exposure to formaldehyde set by the EPA left people at risk for cancer.
Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
NEW: Last year we found the acceptable level of exposure to formaldehyde set by the EPA left people at risk for cancer.
Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
apnews.com/video/art-in... installation depicts billionaires as robot dogs
Art installation depicts billionaires as robot dogs
An Art Basel installation featuring robot dogs with wax heads of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg went viral as it examined how tech leaders influence how we see the world.
apnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
apnews.com/video/art-in... installation depicts billionaires as robot dogs