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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 30m

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 23h

Well-deserved! Congrats @rondeibert.bsky.social

What we all need to do "fight bullies" and the surveillance tech that props them up.

Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 23h

I am very honoured to be awarded the Simon Fraser University's Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy

On behalf of all of my colleagues @citizenlab.ca and our partners around the world thank you for this recognition of our work

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2025 SFU Sterling Prize recipient Ronald J. Deibert protects privacy in the age of cyber espionage

YouTube video by Simon Fraser University

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 22h

The AI industry is driving up energy costs, with useless gadgets, because it loves the oil industry and doesn't want cheaper renewable energy to displace its dear dance partner (Google: oh come now what's wrong with fossil fuels). Together they remain firmly wedded to destroying the planet.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23h

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread.

As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT

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How AI can unlock an extra trillion barrels of oil
And deliver the volumes needed to meet resilient demand
15 October 2025 3 minute read
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Simon Flowers
Chairman, Chief Analyst and author of The Edge

Andrew Latham
Senior Vice President, Energy Research

Orla Marnell
Principal Data Scientist, Upstream

Josh Dixon
Senior Research Analyst, Upstream
Stronger-for-longer oil demand will heap pressure on the upstream industry to deliver new supply. I asked our subsurface experts, Dr Andrew Latham, Orla Marnell and Josh Dixon how artificial intelligence can identify opportunities to meet the challenge.
Why do we need to unlock new supply?
The slow pace of the energy transition means that oil demand is likely to be far more resilient than some thought just a few years ago. Wood Mackenzie forecasts annual consumption won’t peak until the early to mid-2030s, and cumulative demand will be almost 1,000 billion barrels through 2050.
Firm demand throws the spotlight onto where new supply can be sourced. Production from assets already onstream or justified for development will gradually decline under current investment plans from just over 100 million b/d today to 50 million b/d 2050, cumulatively 650 billion barrels. That leaves a huge supply gap of 300 million barrels.

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 16h

The #BlueJays finally get their big swing from exactly where we all expected: Andrés Giménez

They’ve tied it, 2-2.

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Walk Of Life 🇨🇦 @walkoflife.bsky.social · 15h

8-2 Blue Jays! #TorontoBlueJays #SeattleMariners #ALCS #Game3 #MLB #WantItAll

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.

The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.

Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.

If this isn't corruption, what is?

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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 19h

He truly has no concept of how covert CIA operations work.
This is obviously the wrong venue for discussing them in detail, but I can say this much:
♦️It's nothing like Jason Bourne, or James Bond, or any other movie he might have seen.
♦️And he's likely to get Americans captured or killed.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19h

Trump confirms that he authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela

Move by US marks sharp escalation in efforts to pressure Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s regime Donald Trump confirmed reports on Wednesday that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in US efforts to pressure President Nicolás Maduro’s regime. The New York Times first reported the classified directive, citing US officials familiar with the decision. Continue reading...

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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 19h

Because news isn't news unless it's white?

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 17h

There are a lot more camo clad heavily armed goobers wandering pointlessly around extremely not unsafe parts of DC than there were even last week.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 20h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 20h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 15h

Close to over turning the 14th Ammendment… #SCOTUS

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Defend Democracy. Reform Justice. Protect the Constitution. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law works to build an America that is democratic, just, and free.

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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 1d

This attitude separates us from each other and denies our common humanity. It is the abrupt authoritarian rant wasting lives and resources that crippled US–AID. ❤️‍🩹

Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 1d

❤️‍🩹 This attitude & the latitude it provided authoritarian governance was behind the fiscally prudent and humanitarian aid provided by US–AID. Congressional oversight was silent as people died; federal resources lost.
Ending our human-need agency in such a wasteful and chaotic manner was a crime.

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Sojourners @sojo.net · 1d

What was true of the rich young ruler is true of our current moment: Apartheid theology works to ensure the barns of the rich remain overflowing as our neighbors go hungry, writes Adam Joyce.
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Apartheid Theology Didn’t End. It Evolved

American churches were particularly vulnerable to a new and deadly strain of apartheid theology. What is the antidote?

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1d

They don’t fear violence; they fetishize it. What they fear is happiness, because happy people don’t need saviors or strongmen.
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No Kings, No Pants, No Problem

How Portland answered authoritarianism with bare asses and better ideas.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Crisis pregnancy centers have played a central role in the anti-abortion movement since the 1960s. Well-intentioned Democrats have attempted to shut down these clinics by going after them for false advertising.

But this method is poised to backfire spectacularly.

How abortion pill “reversal” became a powerful right-wing legal weapon

Blue-state attempts to crack down on the treatment could end up shielding “fake clinics” from any oversight.

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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 2d

Too much corporate effort is directed towards buying up competitors, or protecting legacy processes and products….

“The solution is not anti-business rhetoric but pro-competition policy.”

www.civitasinstitute.org/research/the...

The Betrayed Consumer | Julia R. Cartwright

Public skepticism of “capitalism” will diminish only when citizens see large firms being disciplined through entry, exit, and consumer choice rather than political ties.

www.civitasinstitute.org

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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 1d

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Don’t Blame the Democrats for Trump’s Revenge Tour

Defending Trump’s lawfare as just deserts misremembers what actually happened.

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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 1d

😎 We need real Congressional oversight to reel in the lies, misinformation, grift and extortion.
Plus there is no way our founders thought it was ok for the chief executive to act in this present authoritarian manner or beyond an effective check on these illegal and improper acts.

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 1d

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Opinion | Trump’s war on ‘the enemy within’ keeps running into a legal buzzsaw

Lower courts are rejecting the president’s claims of rebellion to use the military on U.S. soil.

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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 1d

Wholey Moley ! Southern Crossroads American roots music Wednesday 1000-to-Noon on the lively Two Harbors Community Radio 99.5 FM or stream at KTWH.org if in a Pleasant Prairie. Zak gives us a new insight into the music that we know as the Blues.

Home - KTWH 99.5 FM - Two Harbors Community Radio

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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 1d

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Don’t Blame the Democrats for Trump’s Revenge Tour

Defending Trump’s lawfare as just deserts misremembers what actually happened.

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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 1d

With our cut backs in science and forecasting we seem to be going the other direction.

www.stimson.org/event/disast...

Getting Ahead of the Storm: Improving Forecasting and Disaster Governance Amid Monsoonal Volatility in Nepal • Stimson Center

This event gathers disaster managers and officials from the Government of Nepal who were at the center of weather forecasting, government coordination, and risk management during the recent storm to d...

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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 2d

Too much corporate effort is directed towards buying up competitors, or protecting legacy processes and products….

“The solution is not anti-business rhetoric but pro-competition policy.”

www.civitasinstitute.org/research/the...

The Betrayed Consumer | Julia R. Cartwright

Public skepticism of “capitalism” will diminish only when citizens see large firms being disciplined through entry, exit, and consumer choice rather than political ties.

www.civitasinstitute.org

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