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James Temple
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Climate and energy editor, Reno bureau chief, MIT Technology Review. Ski bum. Dog dad.

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · Jul 9
As any Bluesky discussion grows longer, the probability it will degenerate into humorless sanctimony approaches one.
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cssl.bsky.social
1/28/26 10am Update:
We had 2.8" (7 cm) of #snow overnight, which breaks our nearly 3 week dry spell.

Unfortunately, it looks like this is all we'll get for at least the next 7-10 days. Following recent melt, we are now at 54% of median snowpack and 68% of snowfall to-date.

#CAwx #CAwater
January 28, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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kashhill.bsky.social
Incredible story by @agreenberg.bsky.social, both on the scam compound operation and how he navigated a uniquely difficult and dangerous situation for his source. This one should be required reading for journalism ethics classes: www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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robertdownen.bsky.social
Journalism school: "If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”

CBS News: “On it.”
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4h
Tuesday morning:
New CBS boss promises “huge emphasis on scoops.”

Tuesday evening:
CBS Evening News anchor interviews his mom.

www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
‘CBS Evening News’: Tony Dokoupil Under Fire for Interviewing His Own Mom
Viewers accuse CBS News of 'dumbing down.'
www.yahoo.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:58 PM
jtemple.bsky.social
Important NPR scoop: www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

A truly fantastic strategy for restoring faith in the next generation of nuclear facilities:
January 28, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
"Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
By Shaila Dewan Jan. 27, 2026, 6:50 p.m. ET Nine progressive prosecutors from cities around the country are launching a coalition to assist in prosecuting federal law enforcement officers who violate state laws, one of the prosecutors, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, said on Tuesday. The organization, which is called the Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach, will also include Mary Moriarty, the elected prosecutor in Minneapolis. Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences, and its formation was spurred by “growing concerns about warrantless entries, unlawful detentions, and coercive enforcement tactics by federal agents,” according to a news release.
January 28, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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jetjocko.bsky.social
I’m confident that the solution to widespread distrust of mainstream journalism does not involve putting woo-ish health grifters and eugenicists on national television.
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
HUGE moment for the EU car market as battery EVs overtake petrol cars for the first time ever

But there's no "natural" demand for EVs amirite?

Article by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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danvisioni.bsky.social
We have a new paper out today, looking more in detail at the potential air quality impacts of Stratospheric Aerosol Injections, finding them more driven by climatic feedbacks than by deposition. This is the 1st questions one receives when discussing this, so really important to explore in depth!
Air quality impacts of stratospheric aerosol injections are likely small and mainly driven by changes in climate, not aerosol settling
Abstract. Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is a proposed climate intervention method to offset future global warming through increased solar reflection in the stratosphere, but its broader enviro...
acp.copernicus.org
January 27, 2026 at 5:10 PM
jtemple.bsky.social
Wild new potential treatment for glaucoma, moving into FDA trials, via @antonioregalado.bsky.social:
The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly”
In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers.
www.technologyreview.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
Funny thing about Bari's "the future of CBS" slide is that it's exactly the same as an executive presentation at NBC News a couple of years back. (Not knocking my former employer. I think its generally smart to have stories guide coverage across platforms but this is ... not revolutionary stuff.)
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d
Bari Weiss' remarks to CBS News staff (2/4)
January 27, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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katie-drummond.bsky.social
Google DeepMind staffers are pressing leadership on their plans to safeguard the 3,000-person unit from ICE agents.

"As we have seen, government agency tactics can change and escalate quite rapidly. With offices in many metro areas across the US, are we prepared?"

Scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social
Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them ‘Physically Safe’ From ICE
A federal agent allegedly tried to enter Google’s Cambridge campus in the fall, WIRED has learned. Now, staffers want policies that protect them from immigration officials.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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kristenradtke.bsky.social
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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nickmiroff.bsky.social
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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techmeme.com
Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after ICE killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 26, 2026 at 10:40 PM
jtemple.bsky.social
Fervo IPO filing + some big geothermal funding this week: heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Funding Friday: FleetZero, Fervo, and a Fusion SPAC
It was a big week for geothermal.
heatmap.news
January 23, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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heatmap.news
The Chevy Bolt is already dead. Again — to be replaced by an internal combustion Buick.

Here's @andrewmoseman.bsky.social on why this tells us everything about the U.S. auto market:

heatmap.news/electric-veh...
The Chevy Bolt Is Already Dead. Again.
2017 – 2023 ... and 2027.
heatmap.news
January 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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ucanrpam.bsky.social
Snowpack is "absolutely abysmal" in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, says Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social, climate scientist @ucanr.edu.
Snowpack in many cases "the lowest we have ever observed for mid-January"
Recording www.youtube.com/live/n744hgU...
January 22, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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mattdelong.bsky.social
Nothing but respect for photojournalists. They always head straight into it. Truly some of the bravest among us.
January 22, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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saralibby.bsky.social
BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...
Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee detained at Los Angeles International Airport
San Francisco Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee was detained Wednesday evening at Los Angeles International Airport, his agent Scott Boras told the Chronicle.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Breaking WaPo:

The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicide
The report deeming an ICE detainee’s death in Texas a homicide comes the same day that a federal judge temporarily barred the deportation of two witnesses.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:55 AM
jtemple.bsky.social
It's really quite something that the administration is largely preventing federal scientists, some of our nation's top experts on climate, energy & the environment, from speaking to the press/public on most matters.

If any of you wanna speak on background, please do reach out: Signal: jtemple.50
January 22, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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apnews.com
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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trevortimm.bsky.social
Absolutely outrageous that the House is subpoenaing journalist
Seth Harp over merely tweeting the name of a high-ranking government official who played a key role in the world's #1 news story.

Here's the latest and how you can contact Congress to protest:
January 21, 2026 at 5:54 PM