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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. One of the most important things that needs to happen right now. And make sure it goes public.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9h

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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Linda Marie @lindam174.bsky.social · 14h

Maria von Trapp? 🤔

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Antifa CEO @antifa.bsky.social · 16d

BREAKING: Antifa designates the Trump administration as a domestic terrorist organization.

DESIGNATING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
Antifa Executive Orders
September 22, 2025

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 12h

Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today

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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 15h

Norn Iron

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

We'll say it too: Fuck authoritarianism

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

Solar generated 39% of California's electricity from January-July 2025, up from 33% in 2024.

Fossil fuels plunged to just 26% of CA's power in Jan-July 2025, down 40% in July 2025, compared to July 2024. Wow!

Batteries tripled to 14,000 MW since 2022!

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350.org @350.org · 6d

A new report released by @oilchange.bsky.social, @iisd.org and @foeus.bsky.social reveals that an international alliance to shift public finance away from fossil fuels is working.

Why? International public finance for #FossilFuels was slashed by up to 78% in 2024 ✅

https://tinyurl.com/35a3h67r

Green energy pact has curbed fossil fuel funding

Public funding for international fossil fuel deals fell by up to 78% last year across a coalition of 35 countries, though members of the group, including Germany and the United States, approved new projects, research by a group of NGOs showed on Tuesday.

tinyurl.com

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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 3d

Love this - China’s clean tech exports are worth more than US dirty fossil exports

Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 3d

The US is pursuing "energy dominance" and forcing allies to buy US oil and gas. And, yet, China is beating the US on energy exports.

Surprised? Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d

Newsom answers Trump’s racist Jeffries videos… 👀

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 9d

Stay weird Portland! Baiting ICE with donuts yesterday night was hilarious.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8d

Breaking news: The Trump administration’s push to arrest and deport international students for their pro-Palestinian activism was illegal, a federal judge ruled, calling the crackdown a “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.”

Trump administration illegally targeted pro-Palestinian protesters, judge rules

The efforts to detain and deport noncitizen activists earlier this year represented an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment, the ruling says.

wapo.st

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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 9d

World’s major cities hit by 25% leap in extremely hot days since the 1990s

Capitals from London to Tokyo need urgent action to protect people from deadly high temperatures, analysts say

dlvr.it

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 9d

South Korea breached the 50% mark for total sales of "eco-friendly" vehicles in both May and July of this year.
robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

Graph showing: South Korean new passenger car sales by type: Monthly

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 9d

"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing" - @elizkolbert.bsky.social

‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

www.nytimes.com

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 9d

This shouldn't need to be said, but coal is failing in the year 2025 because it is more expensive than alternative solutions. You can't polish this lump.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 9d

the sinclair charlie kirk tribute has 71K views nine days after it was supposed to preempt jimmy kimmel

by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day

111 Years Old Antique Toaster Restoration

YouTube video by Odd Tinkering

www.youtube.com

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Energy Innovation @energyinnovation.org · 9d

🔌💡 The economics of #coal are bad, and only getting worse
- 99% of U.S. coal fleet is more expensive to keep running than to replace
- The cost of coal power has increased 28% since 2021
energyinnovation.org/report/coal-...

Coal Power 28 Percent More Expensive In 2024 Than In 2021 • Energy Innovation

Coal's already poor economics have gotten worse over the last four years, with costs at the majority of plants rising faster than inflation.

energyinnovation.org

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 10d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10d

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 10d

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

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The Oregon AFL-CIO @oregonaflcio.bsky.social · 16d

Notice a trend? This is the U.S. that the Dept. of Labor and Trump envision.

AI-slop propaganda from the @dol.gov paints a picture of white nationalist U.S. labor forces, completely ignoring *real* hardworking people of every race, ethnicity, nationality, and gender, that make our country run. 🧵

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17d

Inflation is so bad these days that taking a $50,000 cash bribe can't even get you indicted. SAD!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 17d

“The target repeatedly brought up Homan, saying he was collecting bribes in exchange for future government contracts, the two sources told Reuters.”

Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say

In the alleged scheme, Homan promised immigration-related government contracts when he joined the Trump administration in exchange for the money.

www.reuters.com

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