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Dana Siler @danasilerpgh.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4d

I am once again calling on state governors to mobilize their National Guards to escort congressmembers into ICE facilities so they can DO THEIR LAWFULLY ASSIGNED FEDERAL DUTIES

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER

In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

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Neal Romanek @nromanek.bsky.social · 5d

Here it us:

“Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.”

Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 6d

The world's first carbon border tax is about to go live, roiling — and possibly reshaping —global trade share.google/yTtxujzkAx8a...
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The world's first carbon border tax will soon go live — shaking up global trade

The European Union is poised to fully implement its carbon border tax from Jan. 1.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 6d

Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54% share.google/WEiX2aSdEwj9... 🔌💡 ☀️

According to new data from Eurostat, renewable energy sources generated 54% of the EU’s net electricity in Q2 2025, up from 52.7% year-over-year. The growth came mainly from solar, which produced 122,317 gigawatt-hours (GWh) – nearly 20% of the total electricity generation mix.

June 2025 was a milestone month: Solar became the EU’s single largest electricity source for the first time ever. It supplied 22% of all power that month, edging out nuclear (21.6%), wind (15.8%), hydro (14.1%), and natural gas (13.8%).

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 7d

Thinking of all my federal colleagues today, holding our government together by a thread while preparing for a potential shutdown from which they may or may not return. You all deserve so much better, and so do we.

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 8d

The Supreme Court right now finds it very important to be considering whether they should help a convicted sex trafficker who knows all the dirty details about Trump and Epstein.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction appeal discussed by Supreme Court

Maxwell’s lawyers say prosecutors should not have pursued a case against her because Epstein sought a deal with prosecutors more than a decade earlier

www.independent.co.uk

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 9d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 9d

This is insane! ⏬️
DT has installed enablers at high levels in every agency. So they are now holding up appropriated funding for him, and he can say, as he often does: "Oh, first I've heard of that. I don't know anything about it". And the Rs in Congress are complicit at every step.

Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 9d

Despite broad political support, one third of the nation's Climate Adaptation Science Centers will wind down in coming days due to lack of funds.

The Northeast, South Central, and Pacific Islands will be left without actionable science on drought, floods, wildfire, sea level rise and other hazards.

Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers

A third of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers are expected to drastically wind down and possibly close after Sept. 30.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 11d

just ordered a mug for my morning coffee

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 11d

A great 🧵 about the different types of mobilizations and how they all serve different (& important) purposes in building and sustaining movements. We are in an all-hands-on-deck moment: do what you can/are comfortable doing and support one-another! Solidarity during times like these is so important👇

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11d

Re: today's march in Chicago at 1 pm at 50 W Washington: I have seen some people posting complaints about this march that don't make sense, and I want to respond. First, some people complain that folks should take action in affected communities. They are. It's called rapid response. (Thread.)

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Dana Siler @danasilerpgh.bsky.social · 13d

Oil and gas for pedophile tyrants.

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 13d

Costa is an even better interviewee than poster and this is worth your time if you are at all interested in what is going on with electricity.

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14d

A sleeper political issue of the next few years is the rising costs of electricity. AI & data centers are driving up demand & the Trump Administration is making it harder to add clean energy supply. I joined @chrislhayes.bsky.social on #WITHpod to talk about it: open.spotify.com/episode/32ps...

The Electricity Crisis with Costa Samaras

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 24d

California love

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 24d

California is devising a plan to create their own National Institutes of Health to counter federal cuts to science research.

California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research

www.nytimes.com

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Dana Siler @danasilerpgh.bsky.social · 26d

www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved...

Canvass Environmental Voters in Pittsburgh, PA

Join EVP to canvass low propensity environmental voters in Pittsburgh, PA for the November election!

www.environmentalvoter.org

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 26d

I'll let you know

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26d

How long before professors are fired in Texas and elsewhere for teaching about climate change?

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · Aug 16

US electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n... 🔌💡

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation

Electricity prices are rising more than twice as fast as overall inflation. That's especially costly during the dog days of summer when air conditioners are working hardest. In addition to hot weath...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is genuinely an important article. The two main lessons from Hungary appear to be:

DO NOT WAIT

DO NOT UNDERREACT

Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window.
www.vox.com/politics/398...

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Dana Siler @danasilerpgh.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is exactly how the far right operates in the U.S. One, high standard for everyone else, but use any means necessary to justify and deflect when it comes to bad behavior on the right. This is about grabbing and consolidating power. Watch out.

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Sep 3

A bit more time if you still want to get sn eV before federal tax credit expires:

www.edmunds.com/car-news/fed...

How to Get the Federal EV Tax Credit After It Expires

A new loophole was divulged by the IRS that means you might be able to claim the federal EV tax credit after it's set to expire on September 30, 2025 — even if you don't have the car yet. Read here to...

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Dana Siler @danasilerpgh.bsky.social · Aug 29

yes, queries are cheap. Training is not. training costs somehow need to be more realistically amortized over each quert.

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Dana Siler @danasilerpgh.bsky.social · Aug 29

www.utilitydive.com/news/data-ce...

Data center growth and the imperative of economic discipline

Grid access must be treated as a scarce, priced product. That means building markets for interconnection capacity, avoiding socialized costs and ensuring that those who impose system costs bear them.

www.utilitydive.com

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Dana Siler @danasilerpgh.bsky.social · Aug 29

This chart conveniently leaves off AI model training.

“PJM, for example, expects summer peak load to grow by more than 70,000 MW over the next 15 years, a shift largely driven by data center growth in areas like eastern Pennsylvania and Northern Virginia.”

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · Aug 29

Record heat now outnumbers record cold by more than 3 to 1 in the US. In a normal climate, they’d be equal. After billions of years of natural hot & cold cycles, human forcing has now overtaken nature as the longterm driving force of our present & future climate.

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