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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 4h

The 2027 Chevy Bolt is $8,000 less than the 2017 model year, with more range and three times the charging speed. There is no gas-powered car today that is cheaper and better than it was 10 years ago.

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 4h

Unveiled today! electrek.co/2025/10/08/g...

GM unveils new Chevy Bolt - same package, new battery, low $29k price

GM has unveiled the new Chevy Bolt and we got some hands-on time with it at an unveil event in Hollywood, CA.

electrek.co

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 4h

I loved my 2017 Bolt. Glad this one is cheaper and charges faster, at 150 kW compared to 50 kW for the old one. #energysky electrek.co/2025/10/08/g...

GM unveils new Chevy Bolt - same package, new battery, low $29k price

GM has unveiled the new Chevy Bolt and we got some hands-on time with it at an unveil event in Hollywood, CA.

electrek.co

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 6h

It’s good to be antifascist, especially in Weimar Germany. We need antifascists today because there’s Nazis like Jack Posobiec hanging out at the White House!

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 6h

They are called the Brewers because the stress makes you want to drink, or have a beer to celebrate a win. #ThisIsMyCrew

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 6h

Playoff baseball is so stressful #ThisIsMyCrew

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 10h

Losing the war on woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 8h

Chicago isn’t licking boots. No Trump No ICE No Troops.

Last minute protest downtown.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 8h

As the Supreme Court term begins, keep this framework in mind: Autocratic Legalism.

Instead of “rule of law” (law constrains the power), we get “rule by law” (law as a weapon for power).

Authoritarians usually have to install allies. Trump started his second term with that step already complete.

The only effective opposition is through the language of morality and documented harm—not legal technicalities that can be swept away with a 6–3 vote.” The text is centered on a neutral background, with “morality” and “documented harm” slightly emphasized to underscore the moral and empirical contrast with “legal technicalities.”

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 8h

This used to be a parking lot and now it’s a great place to watch the game. Hope the Brewers can come back! #ThisIsMyCrew

Crowd at Davidson Park watching the Brewers

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 12h

John Roberts is just an umpire calling balls and strikes. Balls when the batter is a Republican and strikes when the batter is a Democrat. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games

If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

www.msnbc.com

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 14h

It's gotta be Charles Koch, right? #energysky

text of article on arrest of suspect in Palisades fire who has not been identified yet

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 16h

Here we see Stephen Miller (left) explaining to a woman that she'll never get his Lucky Charms

Image of a very short Miller talking to a blond woman as they walk on grass

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 17h

Trump should be impeached. About 25 people in DC could end all this madness today, but unfortunately they are all Republicans in Congress who either like what Trump is doing or are too chickenshit to do anything about it.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 20h

I see higher prices every time I get groceries: Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis prospect.org/politics/tru...

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

In 1999, Bill Clinton announced that “the last, best unprotected wild lands anywhere in our nation” would be shielded by a new rule that banned roads and drilling.

Today, these lands could soon see chainsaws and logging trucks amid a push by Trump to raze these ecosystems for timber.

Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws"

Public comments suggest repealing the Clinton-era "roadless rule" is wildly unpopular.

www.motherjones.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

If we look at 20th-century China and Germany as examples, it actually takes a few decades to recover from the type of self-harm that the US is currently inflicting on itself.

And he called US President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape American science and health policy -- including mass firings to government scientists and steep slashes to research budgets -- an "immensely serious problem."

"This will cripple much of United States science research," he told AFP, adding that he knew people who have taken enormous funding hits.

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues," Clarke said. "Assuming that the present administration finally comes to an end, it may take a decade to get back to where we were, say, half a year ago."

"It's a huge problem" that's "entirely beyond any understanding of anyone who is a scientist," he said.

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d

Opinion | That AI Actress Is Actually Pretty Good

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d

From the independent who got six percent of the vote when Kristi Noem won her Congressional seat by two points in 2010.

Headline from Mitchell Daily News. Marking: Noem was third best candidate

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Jake Higdon @jakehigdon.com · 1d

There are real people on the end of these grants. Rust belt autoworkers. Great Plains farmers and roughnecks. Coal communities looking to a new economic future.

It’s genuinely heartbreaking. They don’t have do this — the money is already obligated — but I guess they enjoy destroying lives.

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

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
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

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.

heatmap.news

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d

Still no grid emergency in the Midwest. The MISO website will be down for maintenance though.

MISO screenshot showing normal grid conditions today

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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 1d

Shlomo Ron, 85, was murdered by Hamas in his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7.

During the attack, his wife, two daughters, and grandson hid in the safe room. Without hesitation, Shlomo went out and calmly sat in his easy chair in the living room.

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 2d

short thread on the Homeland Security Twitter’s use of literal fascist, accelerationist, and Neo-Nazi Telegram propaganda, aesthetics, and memes — incoming

The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 2d

Please amplify, those with a bigger platform than me.

It’s horrifying that the person running the US Homeland Security Twitter uses — and clearly knows — the exact same aesthetics, memes, and propaganda from fashwave, accelerationist, and Nazi Telegram.

It says everything about where we are.

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