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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 15h

"This guy you are talking about has never given me a dime. You are making that up...how weird it is that an AG coming to the judiciary committee for an oversight hearing prepares oppo-research on the senators, plus false oppo research, plus it's so sloppy that she says it, even though it's false..."

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 16h

Well done by @whitehouse.senate.gov

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 17h

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 15h

Counterfeit ones may already be up in his golf club bathrooms

Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 15h

Interesting map. Its divisions in Maryland loosely reflect the geologic shift westward from coastal plain to Piedmont to (skipping Blue Ridge and Ridge and Valley) Appalachian Plateau

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 22h

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 18h

Heads up Maryland

Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 1d

Union of Concerned Scientists report out with some nice recommendations for how to avoid captive residential customers paying for the infrastructure needs of data centers owned by tech giants (which is currently happening):

Customers in 7 PJM states paid $4.4B for data center transmission in 2024: report

Transmission lines built for data centers fall into a "regulatory gap,” with utility customers on the hook for the costs, the Union of Concerned Scientists said.

www.utilitydive.com

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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 1d

My first post as head of KSJ! Our first public event. This Thursday. Cambridge. Science journalism in a time of crisis. It's going to be 🔥. Join me and @katherinejwu.com @aniloza.bsky.social @sarareardon.bsky.social @akuchment.bsky.social @jeremyfaust.bsky.social and @edenmedina.bsky.social

A flyer showing speakers and describing a panel discussion "Confronting Crisis" to be held 10.9.25 from 4:15-6:15 at 101 Rogers Street in Cambridge.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Sietsema is stepping down from his longtime gig as WaPo restaurant critic, and showing his face. A terrific critic and absolutely lovely guy — big loss for the Post and I’m sure he will do something great next www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/10...

Column | Food critic Tom Sietsema is stepping down — and dropping his anonymity

After a quarter-century of reviewing restaurants, donning disguises and turning down photos, The Post’s food critic is ready for his next course.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

Do many Americans appreciate that the speech and debate clause protects unfettered lying from politicians while the rest of us, say, James Comey may be indicted over a (false) accusation that he lied to Congress? That underlying dynamic is completely lost as we all succumb to a torrent of lies daily

Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

Downtown Baltimore is also a ghost town, not in a Halloween way, either

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ctw @skybluebye.bsky.social · 1d

"Few details of the deportation deals struck between the U.S. and African countries have been released, but international rights group Human Rights Watch has said it has seen documents that show the U.S. will pay Eswatini $5.1 million as part of an agreement to take up to 160 deportees."

10 more deportees from the US arrive in the African nation of Eswatini

A group of 10 migrants deported from the United States have arrived in the African nation of Eswatini.

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

www.nytimes.com

Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

Four years ago today, carrying moving boxes into a new Baltimore home, an impulse-purchased book reduced to local-color-guest-room-prop dropped heavily on my foot. Coincidence, this happening on 10/7? Probably, but it is unread no more. RIP Edgar Allan Poe, benighted poet and empath for the doomed

This thick and heavy book, The Annotated Poe, a collection of poetry and novels of Edgar Allan Poe, slipped from a moving box when I was carrying it into my new home in Baltimore. It had been an impulse purchase when I first moved to Baltimore that had been reduced to the indignity of guest-room-prop. (Poe died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849.) Later in the day, reading snippets about Poe in the local newspaper, I realized the move was on the anniversary of his death. Began reading that book, still free from its box, that very day and progressed to a book about Poe's life and death, which revealed that Baltimore's signature poet was actually more rightly property of Philadelphia. The torrent of hardships he survived are hard to comprehend now, though we seem headed back to the cruel times that produced them.

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

Proud supporter of Judd Legum's report "Popular Information since 2018, though I am not sure that his last name is pronounced the way I read it in my head: Legume. (Highest category for a gardener) popular.info/p/the-devolu...

The devolution of CBS News

A network once revered for fact-based reporting is embracing right-wing pseudo-journalism

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

Harvest moon rising over Baltimore, Maryland. Photo: Martha Johnston

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AG Rob Bonta @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov · 1d

Californians: County elections officials have begun mailing ballots for the November 4th Special Election.

Check your mailboxes and make a plan to vote early.

Important Election Dates
Oct 6. Vote-by-mail ballots mailed to all active registered voters

Oct 7. Ballot drop-off boxes open and remain available until Election Day

Oct 20. Last day for eligible Californians to register to vote at registertovote.ca.gov

Oct 25 Vote centers in 29 counties will open for early for in-person voting

Nov 1 Get your ballot in the mail at least a few days before Election Day

Nov 4 Election Day

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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 1d

"It is time for the Basin States and Federal Government to acknowledge there is no painless strategy...both Basins, including all seven states, must negotiate an enforceable agreement to reduce their total consumptive uses...to level equal to or less than the amount of water nature is providing."

Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

#westwater #ColoradoRiver Click on the URL to be taken to a new white paper by Eric Kuhn, Anne Castle, John Fleck, Kathryn Sorensen, Jack Schmidt, and Katherine Tara introduced by John Fleck www.inkstain.net/2025/10/the-...

For the second time in its history, the 1922 Colorado River Compact is a limiting factor in the operation of Lake Powell. But unlike the mid-70s when Article III (d) (75 maf every 10 years) limited the rate at which Lake Powell could be filled, this year, the stakes are much higher.1 The Secretary of the Interior could be faced with a choice between protecting the integrity of the power generating facilities and outlet works at Glen Canyon Dam or triggering litigation between the Upper and Lower Division States over disputed compact issues.

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

#westwater #ColoradoRiver Click on the URL to be taken to a new white paper by Eric Kuhn, Anne Castle, John Fleck, Kathryn Sorensen, Jack Schmidt, and Katherine Tara introduced by John Fleck www.inkstain.net/2025/10/the-...

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

#water

HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · 1d

"'Biodiversity loss, extreme weather and water scarcity' is Europe's future, @eea.europa.eu report warns".
Download: www.eea.europa.eu/en/europe-en...

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 1d

Frustrated with weather forecasts in S.F.? Here’s why temperatures are so hard to predict www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

Frustrated with weather forecasts in S.F.? Here’s why temperatures are so hard to predict

Meteorologists can be taken by surprise in San Francisco. Here are some of the reasons forecasts are fickle in the city.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

What a painting. Thank you. I admit to having checked but I thought the moment I looked at your post that this painting had to have been made in LA

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

AJ10❤️

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

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Fired head of federal watchdog agency says he's ending his legal battle over his removal by Trump

The fired head of a federal watchdog agency says he’s dropping his legal battle over his removal by President Donald Trump.

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

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How to File a Hatch Act Complaint

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA cabinet heads using their departments for political messaging is a blatant violation of the #HatchAct. Problem with stopping it is that complaints go to the US Office of Special Counsel, whose non-partisan leadership was taken out by Trump in February. Links below www.wired.com/story/govern...

Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown

Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

www.wired.com

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 2d

"Israeli forces have repeatedly evacuated, raided and struck hospitals, accusing Hamas of using them for protection. Fewer than half of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are partly functional, the World Health Organization says."

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

The horrific background to negotiations: an utterly devastated society, traumatized children, humanitarian catastrophe www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/w...

Ravaged by War: Trying to Survive Gaza’s Present, Hoping for a Future

www.nytimes.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

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