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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

caaaaaaan I interest you in Denmark’s groundbreaking national agriculture, nature, and climate policy, agreed to in 2024, with a Ministry of Green Transition established to implement it?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 17h

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 7d

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 8h

This is the right decision, President Sally Kornbluth is showing leadership. Makes me proud to be an MIT alumn (PhD, 1979)
apnews.com/article/mit-...

MIT president says she 'cannot support' proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits

MIT's president said she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to feder...

apnews.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 8h

aw man, need me a pair of those ham boots!

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 24d

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'm so grateful for recent responses to Lessons in Magic and Disaster!!!

First, bookseller Rowan Julian with @novelneighbor.bsky.social in St Louis calls Lessons "a firecracker of a book" and "one of my favorites of 2025" in an utterly wonderful shelf-talker.

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Staff Recommendation
Tile LESSONS in MAGIC and DISASTER
by Charlie Jane Anders
A firecracker of a book! Anders gives us:
magic
queer family
the hard work of being a parent
adult parent If the hard work of being an
the hard work of grief
Berils within academia and the perils
very queer cond very magical 17th century novels
If finding community where you don't expect it
the power of forgiveness
Rowan
the NOVEL NEIGHBOR
One of my favorites of 2025!8

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 10h

You get to read the book, *other* people get to read the book, and every interaction like this that you have with your local library sends a message that it is valued and supported by the community.

Apart from everything else, now is a great time to support civic institutions!

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 24d

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 10h

Now that we know the Executive can just permit some energy projects & refuse to permit others, if a Dem ever gets back in the White House, we should stop negotiating w oil and gas Republicans for "permitting reform" and just stop permitting fossil fuels while permitting the fuck out of clean energy.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11h

this is such a wild and weird takeaway from this situation

permitting reform will not save renewable energy if a government simply doesn’t want to issue permits

unless you’re trying to literally require permits in all cases or just end all permits ever

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 8h

and this is the essence of why Dems would be fools to work with Repubs on energy permitting: zero evidence that Repubs would negotiate in good faith, lots of evidence to the contrary

go hard on distributed energy for now, win elections, kick fascists to the curb, permit good stuff and not bad stuff

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11h

this is such a wild and weird takeaway from this situation

permitting reform will not save renewable energy if a government simply doesn’t want to issue permits

unless you’re trying to literally require permits in all cases or just end all permits ever

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 10h

Okay quick thread of the sort of stuff you'll get if you pay a modest monthly or yearly amount to read Gravity Is Gone:

Today's newsletter, about the shutdown and RIFs and how employees are so in the dark that their bosses want them to email UP the chain if they get fired.

Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired

Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."

www.gravityisgone.com

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 9h

multiply by 3 mi/kWh, don't divide!

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 10h

awesome!

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 10h

thanks again for having me!

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 10h

Halfway through this seminar on Sustainable Futures and thrilled with how it has been so far. Wonderful students and a series of phenomenal guest speakers.

Huge thanks so far to Holly, Duffy, @kevinjkircher.com, Taco, @agiang.bsky.social, @debcha.bsky.social who‘ve given them a lot to think about.

Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Exploring Sustainable Futures" through lenses of modeling/scenarios, planning and speculative fiction.

Can't wait to teach this new grad seminar starting Tuesday. Should be a ton of fun.

HMU if you are a modeler, a planner or a writer and interested in popping in to chat with the students. (1)

Course poster showing a person, hands on hips, staring at two diverging paths. There are circles showing a desert, an industrial scene and a forest. Text says:
FRST-V-532-C-101 Directed Studies in Forest Management
Exploring Sustainable Futures
Sustainability challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss
are “wicked problems” with long-term, uncertain outcomes. This
graduate seminar explores how we think about the future, who
shapes it, and how future-oriented thinking drives action today.
Through three lenses—scenario modeling, strategic planning,
and speculative fiction—we’ll examine how different disciplines
approach sustainable futures and how their interaction can
strengthen decision-making in the face of complexity.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 10h

How do we know? Do we have instruments that have already probed very deep and certified that there's no oil or gas there?

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 11h

Finding new supply doesn't help oil and gas economics? 🤔

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 16h

Does he really think Americans are that stupid? Does the wind stop in the wintertime? Of course not. What does happen in the winter, as Texans know well, is that gas plants freeze.
www.eenews.net/articles/wri...

Wright says it’s not windy in winter. Data says otherwise.

Stats from South Fork Wind's first year undermine the Energy secretary's assertions that offshore turbines don't operate well in the winter.

www.eenews.net

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

Today on Volts: geothermal startup Quaise is using microwaves to pulverize rock, drill down miles, & access levels of heat that cause water to go supercritical, so it holds exponentially more energy. The promise is geothermal power with 10X the productivity -- enough to lure FF giants into the biz.

Super-deep geothermal drilling ... with microwaves

I talk with Quaise CEO Carlos Araque about a technology that could persuade the oil and gas industry to drill for heat instead of fuel.

www.volts.wtf

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 13h

anyway, maybe you asked that, & I'm looking forward to listening regardless

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 13h

I am bad for not listening first, but my first reaction to people who claim they'll drill deeper faster cheaper better etc. is, "okay, but what if you discover oil or gas down there?" Like, might drilling innovations do more harm than good if they advance both geothermal and fossil fuel extraction?

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David Pomerantz @davidpomerantz.bsky.social · 14h

This is the last bill sitting on Gov. Newsom's desk that can lower utility bills from this session. Utilities are lobbying furiously against it.

If you’re from California and want to register your opinion about AB 1167, call the Gov. at (916) 445-2841.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15h

There's a bill on Gavin Newsom's desk right now that would stop monopoly utility companies from adding the costs of their lobbying and PR campaigns into customers' bills.

It's unclear if Newsome will sign the bill, despite 93% of voters agreeing with its premise.

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