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Preston Rudy @pordy24.bsky.social · 11h

Turning public lands into private pollution generating property because to these market fundamentalists nothing has meaning if it does not have a price.

Wes Siler @wessiler.bsky.social · 13h

The Senate just voted to invalidate every permit written on public land since 1996. wessiler.substack.com/p/the-senate...

The Senate Just Voted To Break Public Lands

Every permit written on public lands since 1996 may have be rendered invalid

wessiler.substack.com

Preston Rudy @pordy24.bsky.social · 12h

The promise of machine intelligence is to create an individual cubbyhole for each individual in which to isolate, because crowds and solidarity are the enemy of Taylorism, tech wealth concentration and silicon political power.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Tom Athanasiou @tathanasiou.bsky.social · 13h

Dave Roberts is right (again). Also, this is USEFUL work. There are so many details to keep straight. Best to keep our eyes on the BIG ones

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

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Preston Rudy @pordy24.bsky.social · 18h

One more reason for the US to invest in fracking and coal mining

Euronews @euronews.com · 1d

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

Solar power named the world’s cheapest energy source

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

l.euronews.com

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

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.

prospect.org

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Preston Rudy @pordy24.bsky.social · 1d

Grandpa Trump? Old man Trump? Wrinkly Trump? Stained old man Trump? Hair Furor is my favorite, though perhaps it distracts.

Preston Rudy @pordy24.bsky.social · 1d

Why not say Old Man Trump? Or Grandpa Trump?

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d

Read more about your rights when interacting with military troops or federal agents at aclu.org/deployment_kyr

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

For the London tabloids, Trump's mental illness is a major, front-page issue. For the US media, it's something that urgently needs to be swept under the rug. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

New conspiracies over Trump’s health swirl after CNN text interview

The president famously does not use email and is not known to frequently use text messages

www.independent.co.uk

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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 4d

The fact that Democrats have a 10 point advantage over the GOP in Virginia on education shows just how wrong the national party/pundit takes on this issue have turned out to be. Virginia, of course, is where the narrative about the electoral power of school culture wars began

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Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · 5d

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 6d

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Preston Rudy @pordy24.bsky.social · 5d

Apple has removed apps used by people to share the location of Federal agents of social control

Libération @liberation.fr · 6d

🇺🇸 Apple a retiré de son AppStore plusieurs applications mobiles utilisées pour signaler anonymement les déplacements de la tristement célèbre police de l’immigration américaine (ICE).

Des manifestations ont eu lieu en protestation.

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Apple retire de l’AppStore des applications pour localiser la police de l’immigration américaine

Le ministère de la Justice des Etats-Unis a exigé le retrait de ces outils, les accusant de représenter un danger pour les agents de l’ICE. Des manifestations ont eu lieu en protestation.

www.liberation.fr

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 6d

Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"

California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’

Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech

www.theguardian.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6d

Amidst the shutdown and the continued attacks on institutions, individuals, and communities, it's important that we document human toll.

To that end, here's a chance to share anonymously how you and your loved ones are faring in the wake of rapid social and policy change.

tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

The Human Toll

The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change.

If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story!

To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco

Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US

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Preston Rudy @pordy24.bsky.social · 6d

The Repugs experience of power is a private sector employer whose given at-will hiring/firing in a “right-to-work” regime. Any negotiation is weakness, it’s coercion all the time.

Preston Rudy @pordy24.bsky.social · 6d

Republicans are clear about power and how to use it. Until the rules create a fair institution, Democrats should learn how to use power and act!

The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 7d

House Republicans are refusing to seat Dem Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election more than a week ago. She's the last signature needed to force a vote on the Epstein files.

The soonest the GOP will act is Oct. 7. In three prior specials this year, the winners were all sworn in a day later.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 6d

A portrait of people at risk of being kicked off Medicaid because of work requirements. Lots of them are in poor health. E.g., 41% have three or more chronic conditions.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Preston Rudy @pordy24.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone should visit a Social Security office to observe one’s co-citizens’ health. It’s a bracing experience for anyone who spends their time in the company of the bourgeoisie!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6d

In today's @latimes.com, @georgianndavis.bsky.social writes about teaching statistics as an intersex scholar, and having to choose between lying to her students about the biological realities of sex and gender or teaching what the administration insists is true.

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'?

A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

www.latimes.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 7d

Pope Leo--weirdly normal Midwesterner--gave a key climate speech yesterday that couldn't have been more different from Trump's disturbing and dangerous harangue of the generals
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-differen...

A different kind of leader gives a different kind of speech

An afternoon with the Pope

billmckibben.substack.com

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Preston Rudy @pordy24.bsky.social · 6d

Their imagination & experience of power is that of a manager who hires/fires in a legal regime of at-will employment & “right-to-work” coercion. Compromise is weakness.

Preston Rudy @pordy24.bsky.social · 6d

Everybody notices incompetence and bs

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 7d

The Prime Minister of Albania came up to Macron and Azerbaijani President Aliyev and joked about how Trump had resolved the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan.

Preston Rudy @pordy24.bsky.social · 7d

Such a good negotiator. He has the negotiating skills of an employer backed by expansive property rights and at-will employment in a “Right-to-Work” legal regime. Basically institutional dominance and coercion for him, submission or death for the other side.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you so much for this. I'm reminded of 2 years ago, when my sophomore students that worked in admissions had to answer random calls about where the university stood on DEI and free speech for days because a conservative faculty member doxxed her (genocide studies) grad students in the WSJ.

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