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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19h

A shameful continued destruction of the innovation engine of the United States. For nothing! For no reason!

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 22h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 1d

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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Dalhousie Chemistry @dalchemistry.bsky.social · 2d

Exciting news from the Charron Lab — their first manuscript has just been published in Chemical Science!

We’re thrilled to share this milestone and grateful to everyone who contributed to this work.

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Silver(I)-mediated oxazoline formation: a mild route to 2,4-oxazoles in peptides

We present a silver-promoted cyclization of peptide thioamides that enables site-specific insertion of oxazole and methyloxazole motifs through oxazoline intermediates. Demonstrated in di- and tetrape...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

It's funny, when you have a cognitively challenged Dem president, his advisors manipulate him into forgiving student loans & expanding domestic cleantech manufacturing. When you have a cognitively challenged GOP president, his advisors manipulate him into fascism.

Kinda revealing.

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Skyflyer Channel 8 News @skyflyer82.bsky.social · 3d

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

www.cbsnews.com

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 5d

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d

Gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 4d

Kevin Page is the best of the best when it comes to speaking truth to power and to representing the highest standards of public service.
If he says the Parliamentary Budget officer is wrong about the state of our nation's finances -you can take it to the bank.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Federal budget watchdog's comments are 'just wrong,' says one of his predecessors | CBC News

A former parliamentary budget officer says it is “just wrong” to suggest that the federal finances are unsustainable and is publicly disagreeing with the current fiscal watchdog.

www.cbc.ca

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taber @kvetch.gay · 4d

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

Beyond the fact that legal immigrants and tourists can attend the Super Bowl, I find it absolutely hilarious that they're gonna have ICE harassing a bunch of rich people. Tickets are almost $10k.

Please own the libs harder.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d

It’s actually quite clear that it’s illegal.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

The Treasury Department is developing a one-dollar commemorative coin, bearing the image of President Trump, for the nation’s 250th birthday. But it’s not clear that a coin could legally feature an image of Trump; an 1866 act established that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency.

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

The coin, bearing President Trump’s face, would honor the 250th birthday of the United States.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 4d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 5d

It is beyond the point that blue states stop funding red states. We provide much of their federal subsidy &get absolutely nothing but lies &destruction from them &the people they elect.

Energy Dept. Cancels $7.5 Billion for Hundreds of Projects, Mostly in Blue States www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/c...

Energy Dept. Cancels $7.5 Billion for Hundreds of Projects, Mostly in Blue States

www.nytimes.com

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 5d

Great post by @dhnexon.bsky.social containing many of the ideas he's been trial-running here.

The State of the Republic is Grim - Lawyers, Guns & Money

If you’re on Bluesky and follow me, you’ve probably seen that I’m writing threads that really should be the basis for posts at LGM. You’ve also likely gotten a bead on where I am these days. Here’s a ...

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6d

The head of the Eisenhower Library is out after resisting an ILLEGAL order from the White House to give an artifact to King Charles.

This is wild — and so bad. The National Archives is our nation’s history — not Trump’s gift basket. www.cbsnews.com/news/sword-t...

Head of Eisenhower library resigns after sword spat with Trump administration

A dispute over a gift given by President Trump to King Charles forced out the museum boss, sources say.

www.cbsnews.com

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

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EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6d

An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...

There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating.

These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 7d

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 7d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7d

I’d like one newspaper to try out the headline “Republicans fail to attract Democratic votes they need to end shutdown” as a little treat.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 7d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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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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Lizzie K. Foley @lizziekfoley.bsky.social · 8d

Video evidence that shows Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche-who was not at Delaney Hall at the time-ordered the arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka for trespassing despite the fact Mayor Ras Baraka was not trespassing.

Then ICE agents escalated a peaceful situation into absolute chaos

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8d

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s...

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel

Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.

www.emptywheel.net

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