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Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.
He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.
www.nytimes.com
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Political party policy positions are simply not chess pieces that experts in public opinion can shuffle around to maximize vote totals. Parties take positions because party actors care about those policies, and also (less relevant with death penalty) because voters want solutions to big problems.
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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I'm reminded of nothing so much as

TOO MANY COOKS

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conspiracy to make a cop go slow
Is he deregistering as a Republican or is he replacing Holyoak?
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This is precisely why the Virginia Attorney General’s race will be consequential.

If Republican Jason Miyares is re-elected, he will fight AGAINST new Democratic maps…and fight FOR Donald Trump.

I hope all Virginia Democrats think long and hard about this when they cast their ballots.
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Isaac Chotiner how are you with a baseball bat
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holy shit. killer interviewing. the lexis corporate comms team was quietly sending their resumes out while this was going on. that, or committing seppuku for letting that happen.
Just me getting the CEO of LexisNexis to ask his new AI research tool about birthright citizenship. Decoder! www.theverge.com/podcast/8071...
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might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen
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Don’t forget this Yale & Penn study finding Republicans would cause 51,000 preventable DEATHS every year by gutting healthcare and food aid.

Democrats have been fighting to stop this from the beginning, and we won’t back down.
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Our local "Spirit Halloween" store has gone in for a transit theme this year. Massive respect...
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“Nobody has heard of” Lesotho, President Trump joked, to the laughter of lawmakers. He’d just cut aid to the country.

Weeks later, he announced a 50% tariff on exports from “the denim capital of Africa.”

Today, Lesotho is under a state of disaster.

I recently traveled there for @bloomberg.com:
How Trump’s Tariffs Upended a Hub of Denim Manufacturing
YouTube video by Bloomberg Television
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AIPAC and centrism, both famously unpopular for white and rural voters. Also there’s seven other candidates and the election isn’t until next June, no need to be so horny for the Blackwater mercenary Nazi nepo farmer on Maine.
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People keep saying this but I strongly disagree that most people can successfully perform an emotion on camera or speaking in front of a crowd if you merely authentically experience that emotion. It's much harder than you think it is. bsky.app/profile/inep...
It's still galling that a Democratic politician would need speech training and acting classes to learn how to convey anger at the demolition of the East Wing of the White House. So many Dem politicians are Turing Test failures, trapped somewhere in the uncanny valley between human and robot.
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discovering that i am blocked on here by lakshya jain. i suppose he doesn't want to have an argument!
The post below is incredibly dishonest. You don't need a graduate degree in statistics or survey analysis to see that the most common response to Mamdani is a lack of familiarity, *not* disfavor. In fact, he is viewed less unfavorably than Newsom, AOC, Harris or Schumer.
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ah but i was told the administration would be good on antitrust
Not simply fascism. Monarchism.
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this feels completely banal? yes, a big tent political party is going to include voters who have bigoted views. i don’t think anyone has argued otherwise? the actual question at hand is “to what extent should a political party ostensibly committed to equality appeal to popular prejudices?”
Bigots in the tent
What did you think winning meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.
www.theargumentmag.com
*familiar with the specific german term for the symbol, at least. I guess there’s a world where you learn a german term for your skull and bones tattoo and inquire no further.
ICYMI this cites someone quoting him familiar with it a decade ago bsky.app/profile/greg...
Jewish Insider just sent out an email with an article with more Platner info. And yeah, this guy is DONE done.