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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 17h

Two years ago, many of the world's biggest dairy and food companies formed a coalition to cut the methane emissions from their suppliers' herds.

Nestlé has quietly exited the effort, @benelgin.bsky.social reports [gift link]

Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact

The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.

www.bloomberg.com

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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April Henry @aprilhenry.bsky.social · 3d

My neighborhood today.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

"Burning to the ground," I tell ya...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Ben Elgin @benelgin.bsky.social · 6d

Meanwhile, four decades ago....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErwS...

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404 Media @404media.co · 6d

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this."

"Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

www.404media.co

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9d

The ICE officer who was recorded shoving a woman outside an immigration court in NYC was suspended on Friday. And he was returned to duty already today, one business day later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty

An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...

www.cbsnews.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12d

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.

What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

By @tilleckert.com

I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal.

I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

www.propublica.org

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jkes805.bsky.social @jkes805.bsky.social · 16d

I don’t understand why the student who recorded the video gets to stay anonymous? If her conviction is that strong, put your name to it.

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

www.insidehighered.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20d

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

www.nytimes.com

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 21d

We will all mourn eventually. Even the long list of those who murdered our foundational freedom.

R.I.P. the First Amendment, Killed by Cowardice and Greed

We will all mourn eventually. Even the long list of those who murdered our foundational freedom.

trib.al

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 21d

WSJ editorial: "Using Charlie's murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it."

www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

Opinion | ‘They’ Didn’t Kill Charlie Kirk

It insults his memory to blame political opponents for one man’s heinous act.

www.wsj.com

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 22d

The @nytimes.com responds to Trump's #lawfare defamation lawsuit.

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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · 23d

In the Energy Institute blog, Meredith Fowlie is out today with an important analysis of California's legislative accomplishments on electricity affordability as the session wrapped up last week.
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/r...
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Reining in California’s Runaway Electricity Rates

We’ve led the nation in rate hikes. Now we’re test-driving some affordability fixes. National headlines are warning of an energy affordability crisis, with electricity rates cast as a primary culpr…

energyathaas.wordpress.com

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Ben Elgin @benelgin.bsky.social · 24d

What happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco

Gut-wrenching tale by Griffin Gaffney:
sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Griffin Gaffney on what happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco

The Standard’s CEO tells the story of a near-death experience — and the endless complications that followed.

sfstandard.com

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M. Tullius Cicero 🇺🇦 @tulliuscicero43.bsky.social · 27d

@willbunch.bsky.social is the number one reason why I am an Inky subscriber and why I can gift you this essay. Read it. He is right.
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Charlie Kirk’s murder is wakeup call for both left and right: We need college free speech | Will Bunch

The Utah campus assassination of a right-wing radical should spark a new movement for free speech...for everyone.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 25

The fascism is here. "What would you do if fascism came to America?" You're doing it.

America Tips Into Fascism

Today is different than before.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · Aug 25

Devastating piece.

What does it say about us that so many privately agree with this, yet so few speak up?

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Aug 25

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

America Tips Into Fascism

Today is different than before.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Ben Elgin @benelgin.bsky.social · Aug 23

Scathing take by ex-Meta executive: "In Silicon Valley, far from thinking they’re lucky, they think they’re hard done by, they’re victims. I couldn’t, and still can’t, understand this deeply unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity."

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 23

“In Silicon Valley, far from thinking they’re lucky, they think they’re hard done by, they’re victims. I couldn’t, and still can’t, understand this deeply unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity.”

Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · Aug 23

On the timing of Clegg’s resignation just before the Presidential elections: “ Clegg expected Trump to win, but hadn’t foreseen “quite the alacrity with which the whole of Silicon Valley was going to move from what it was when I moved there..”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · Aug 23

Wonder how we got into this mess? It’s stories like these that normalize authoritarianism with “fun” takes on Trump taking on “dream” roles. Major media fail.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...