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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 8h

Here’s video of the incident

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 8h

The regime struggling to gin up the fascist theater that it wants

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 8h

seems increasingly likely

Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 8h

oh that's encouraging

Altman “has the power to crash the global economy for a decade or take us all to the promised land,” Stacy Rasgon, an analyst with Bernstein Research, wrote in an investor note this week. “Right now we don’t know which is in the cards.”

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 9h

A trillion dollars gambling on nonsense when we don’t have enough housing, health care or electricity, not to mention decarbonizing quickly enough to avoid the worst of climate change. Feels like the endgame could involve guillotines

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 10h

"Kelm, who previously worked for oil companies including Shell and Valero Energy, described how she would connect a company looking to advance a pipeline with 'the politicals' at the agencies that control permits. 'They can walk out of our office, and they have all the contacts they need.'"

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 10h

"The White House is offering 'concierge, white glove service' to oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects...while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind projects."

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 10h

Right-wing influencer David Medina was picked by DHS to cover Secretary Noem’s Portland visit. He shows his audience “like maybe five or ten protesters,” seemingly supporting what Oregon leaders have been saying about the ICE protests: unremarkable unless ICE officers use riot control agents.

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 12h

Noem and influencers on roof of ICE facility in Portland, ostensibly looking at a very calm city block on a hot Tuesday afternoon….

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 13h

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 14h

DHS police taking down protest signs in preparation for Noem’s arrival. Apparently streamer Benny Johnson will be with her to video but actual press are being kept a block away….

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 15h

follow Portland media for the latest

Julia Shumway @jmshumway.bsky.social · 15h

Ahead of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem’s expected visit to the Portland ICE facility, a small protest crowd and a catchy song with the lyrics “Trump is in the Epstein files (yes he is).”

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 15h

Scene outside ICE facility in Portland where DHS Sec. Noem is expected to visit today. Sound on for one protestor’s soundtrack.

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Julia Shumway @jmshumway.bsky.social · 15h

Ahead of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem’s expected visit to the Portland ICE facility, a small protest crowd and a catchy song with the lyrics “Trump is in the Epstein files (yes he is).”

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 15h

Scene outside ICE facility in Portland where DHS Sec. Noem is expected to visit today. Sound on for one protestor’s soundtrack.

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 16h

New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule

www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/new-englands-last-coal-plant-shuts-down

New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule

Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.

www.canarymedia.com

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 17h

Renewables surpass coal for electricity in 1H2025.

Crucially, gas down slightly despite the investment boom in LNG in recent years

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Renewables produced more electricity than coal

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 17h

Global gas turbine shortages add to LNG challenges in Vietnam and the Philippines
ieefa.org/resources/gl...

Global gas turbine shortages add to LNG challenges in Vietnam and the Philippines

Global gas turbine shortages set to increase delays and costs for gas-to-power projects in Vietnam and the Philippines.

ieefa.org

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 20h

gotta say I don't think it's a great sign for society that the top editor of a major American news outlet thinks we're in a "fight for the West." (against WHOM, Bari?)

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20h

bellissima

We're thrilled to announce that Anduril founder Palmer Luckey will join Bari Weiss live in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 8, at 7:00 p.m. for a conversation on the future of American power-and the fight for the West.
Tickets are LIVE- get them here!

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 22h

Seems significant.

"Imports of LNG from the US declined by 41 per cent last month from a year earlier and by 23 per cent month-on-month."

The headline explains what is driving this.

"Economics trumps politics: India's US oil, LNG imports slump sharply"

www.business-standard.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

My colleagues at the White House developed an AI Bill of Rights in 2022, shown on the left, which outlined principles to protect people and communities. A lot of the work I’m doing now is defining my principles and analysis for a climate amendment to the AI Bill of Rights, as shown on the right.

My slides with the title Principles for Ethical AI Include Energy and Climate. Left side show the icons from the AI Bill of Rights. Right side bullets are:

Doesn’t raise people’s energy bills

Adds more clean power to the grid than it uses

Invests in distribution system infrastructure

Increases reliability, flexibility, and resilience

Open data and rising efficiency targets

Doesn’t add local pollution and is net-zero emissions

Develops clean data center community benefits agreements

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 1d

quite literally what it is

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isaac @sevier.io · 1d

Working as designed. The grid has more or less been made into an engineering and financial system designed by salesmen to ensure they could use us to subsidize the costs of factories and businesses. Always one-way, never the other.

Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 1d

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

www.eenews.net

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 1d

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

www.eenews.net

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