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Care of Earth and People Ensure A Future World 🌎 @bpermaculture.bsky.social · 1d

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20h

Two things to keep in mind as you watch clips of Pam Bondi today in the Senate:

1. As Florida AG, she dropped her investigation of fraud at Trump University after Trump gave $25K to her election campaign.

2. She was Trump's second choice for federal AG after Matt Gaetz.

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Ben Winslow @benwinslow.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, the Utah State Legislature met in a special session to pass a congressional redistricting map (and a new law tweaking the redistricting process). Meanwhile, the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against them submitted their own maps to the judge: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 1d

Q for Ben: did the redistricting bill contain Brammer’s “Phil Lyman Loophole” that lets Republicans count votes for independent candidate Lyman as votes for the Republican Party?

Ben Winslow @benwinslow.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING NEWS: The legislature PASSES a bill tweaking the redistricting process. Map to be considered soon: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah

Redistricting Committee selects new Utah congressional map

The Utah State Legislature is meeting in special session to choose a congressional map in the court-ordered redistricting process.

www.fox13now.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · May 28

“[B]itcoin is fulfilling PayPal’s original vision to create ‘the new world currency.’ We actually had T-shirts printed in 1999 w/ that mission statement” - 2017, David Sacks (Trump’s “Crypto Czar”)

In 2024, Sacks encouraged Trump to pick JD Vance—a protégé of PayPal founder Peter Thiel—as VP. 👇 1/

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

UPDATE: Shortly after Utah GOP lawmakers passed another congressional gerrymander, pro-voting plaintiffs challenging the current map submitted fair map proposals to the court, arguing the legislature’s plan still violates Prop 4. A judge will decide which map complies by November.

Utah GOP Passes Gerrymandered Map, While Handcuffing Courts

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 1d

My husband just had his hip replaced. If there’s an issue with his new device, how will his doctor know? How will we know? We need these folks working at the federal agencies that our tax dollars fund and our Congress has allocated money for! Trump is stealing #PublicWealth

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 7d

“For years, the right has vilified federal workers as nameless, faceless bureaucrats.
But the truth is … they’re the people who live and work in our communities and they are being hurt.”

Sara Nelson, President of @afacwa.org in 2019 when Trump et al shut down the government.

Workers have power.

Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · Feb 3

Posts about a General Strike, too. It was the threat of General Strike during 2019 Government Shutdown that led to resolution. GOP leadership is AFRAID for workers to know their own STRENGTH!

Listen to @realnewsnobs.bsky.social interview with AFA President Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

On top of ripping away Americans' health care, Donald Trump is using this shutdown to hurt federal workers.

Federal workers like this one, who told me her story after being needlessly fired earlier this year, deserve so much better.

Donald Trump is using this shutdown to hurt federal workers.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.bsky.social · 1d

"ChatGPT pointed out that if billionaires were taxed at the same rate as the lower-middle class, the U.S. could collect hundreds of billions more each year. That money could reduce deficits, fund education, healthcare, and ease the tax burden on working families."
finance.yahoo.com/news/asked-c...

I Asked ChatGPT What Would Happen If Billionaires Paid Taxes at the Lower-Middle-Class Rate — Here’s What It Said

ChatGPT's answers revealed just how different our world could look if the richest Americans contributed at the same level as the lower-middle class.

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 1d

Very appreciative of this pin of the Great Salt Lake that Professor Ben Abbott of GrowtheFlowUtah.org gave to me at rally, especially when combined w his message that this is an aspirational image - it is an image of the Great Salt Lake AS IT WILL BE, as we all work together to succeed #GrowTheFlow

Image of the Great Salt Lake on a pin, with darker water conveying current depth of the water in the lake and turquoise symbolizing the growth of water to a healthy level. It’s an aspirational message.

Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 1d

“The Endangered Species Act is an act of beauty, an act of compassion, it’s an act of humility. As we file this lawsuit on our petition to extend the legal rights to all species, not just our own, to live a life without harm
… phalaropes cannot wait 10 years & neither can we” ~Terry Tempest Williams

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 1d

Is it time for a #GeneralStrike?

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 7d

“For years, the right has vilified federal workers as nameless, faceless bureaucrats.
But the truth is … they’re the people who live and work in our communities and they are being hurt.”

Sara Nelson, President of @afacwa.org in 2019 when Trump et al shut down the government.

Workers have power.

Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · Feb 3

Posts about a General Strike, too. It was the threat of General Strike during 2019 Government Shutdown that led to resolution. GOP leadership is AFRAID for workers to know their own STRENGTH!

Listen to @realnewsnobs.bsky.social interview with AFA President Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d

A top Trump official accusing federal district court judges, "as a class," of engaging in insurrection is a profoundly dangerous development.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephen Miller: "It's simply a factually accurate statement that when a judge assumes for him- or herself the powers that have been relegated or delegated by the Constitution to the president, that that is a form of illegal insurrection." ...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: You called the judge's ruling 'legal insurrection.' Are you recommending the president take action against judges who rule against him?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. It's simply a factually accurate statement

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 1d

The entire ocean set was hand-constructed and hand-painted, not CGI

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 3d

"Those who ban books want to lock away ideas they fear. But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom."

#BannedBooksWeek honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social encourages all of us to stand up for the freedom to read! #CensorshipIsSo1984

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George Takei, Banned Books Week 2025 Honorary Chair

YouTube video by Banned Books Week

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 2d

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.

Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.

https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

BANNED BOOKS WEEK Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 - Read for Your Rights. ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 4d

“It really represents a hostile takeover of the agency,” said Deb Houry, former chief medical officer of the CDC. “It gives me concern about what we can trust coming out of the overall agency as well, not just on vaccine safety.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A ‘hostile takeover’: ousted CDC official raises alarm over RFK Jr approach to infectious disease

Debra Houry speaks after testifying on eight months under Kennedy, who critics say shuns science and spreads falsehoods

www.theguardian.com

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

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Judge Immergut has issued her written TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from relocating or deploying federalized national guard troops to Oregon.

Here it is:

Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM|
Document 68
Filed 10/05/25
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON
STATE OF OREGON; the
CITY OF PORTLAND; and STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
Case No. 3:25-cv-1756-IM
SECOND TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States; PETE HEGSETH, in his official capacity as Secretary of Defense; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; KRISTI NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security: and U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY,
Defendants.
Based on this Court's prior Opinion and Order Granting Plaintiffs' First Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 56; the hearing on Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; and the newly submitted declarations, ECF 60, 63, 65, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 59, and ORDERS as follows:
1. Defendants are temporarily enjoined from deploying federalized members of the
National Guard in Oregon.

This Second Temporary Restraining Order expires by its own terms in fourteen
days on October 19, 2025.
3. Plaintiffs are ORDERED to post a nominal bond of $100 within 48 hours. The
bond shall be filed in the Clerk's Office and be deposited into the registry of the Court.
4. Defendants' Request to Stay or Administratively Stay this Second Temporary
Restraining Order, which was raised in the hearing on Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary
Restraining Order, is DENIED.
The Court Clerk will contact the parties to schedule a telephone hearing on
October 17, 2025, to address whether this Second Temporary Restraining Order should be
extended for another 14 days.
Any motion for a Preliminary Injunction shall be filed no later than October 17,
2025; Defendants' opposition shall be due no later than October 23, 2025, and Plaintiffs' reply
shall be due on October 27, 2025.
A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion and a trial on the merits
under Rule 65(a)(2) is set for October 29, 2025, before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
IT IS SO ORDERED
DATED this 5th day of October.
/s/

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North Carolina 50501 🗽 @50501nc.bsky.social · 7d

📢: Next Day of National Protest October 18th!

Our rights were never given.

They were won.

Join millions nationwide to say it loud and clear: No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings

#50501NC #FiftyFiftyOne #NoKings #Oct18th #Protest #Raleigh #NC

www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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Nancy Huntly @nhuntly.bsky.social · 7d

Corruption

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 8d

Since last fall’s election win, Trump has raked in more than $80 million in settlements stemming from lawsuits he has brought against Big Tech and media companies.

YouTube is the latest.

Trump's lawyer says the companies wouldn't have settled if he wasn't president.

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 12d

The fundamental underpinning of democracy, which we spread around the world, is an apolitical, independent criminal justice system.

James Comey’s case is a joke that will never stick. But the damage Trump is doing to the rule of law will leave a lasting stain.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

Two parallels here: one is the cancelation of food aid for USAID which was provided by US farmers. The other is the broad attack on SNAP which already means more people will need food banks that Trump is also undermining. It is an assault on our he most vulnerable.
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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 3d

Pls check out League of Women Voters. I wanted to donate to it as thanks for suing Utah Legislature re redistricting & ended up joining, too. What other organization can mobilize 8.5 voters? I took this pledge act.lwv.org/page/84217/p... as a step to empowerment
#Unite&Rise

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