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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 3h

We need more of this. A LOT more.

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 5h

The regime’s proposed approach to avoid “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers (because the regime is injuring, killing, and disappearing them)?

Bringing in “guest workers” through the H-2A program at even *lower* wages.

So, near-slave labour.

Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 5h

The regime’s Labor Dept has stated, in no uncertain terms, that due to their own escalating violent and unconstitutional pogrom targeting immigrants (and, increasingly, US citizens), there is a “risk of supply shock-induced food shortages”, because most Americans are not interested in farm work.

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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Rep. Dave Min @congressmin.bsky.social · 1d

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.

There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.

Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 5h

#ClimateReality #Ice #Greenland #Antarctica

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 5h

Last month observed above average temperatures across large portions of both the #Greenland and #Antarctic Ice Sheets. Anywhere in dark red shading is more than 5°C warmer than the 1981-2010 climatological average.

Data available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Map of Greenland showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in September 2025. Red shading is shown for warmer than average temperatures, and blue shading is shown colder than average temperatures. Anomalies are calculated relative to 1981-2010.

Polar stereographic map of 2-m air temperature anomalies in the Antarctic for September 2025. Red shading is shown for warmer anomalies, and blue shading is shown for colder anomalies. There is a sharp gradient in temperature anomalies across the region. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 5h

Wish we could say the US was doing the same!⏬️

John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 7h

Good morning with good news: China's solar generation skyrocketed 43% in H1 2025, compared to H1 2024!

What about wind?

Wind surged 16% (POTUS falsely told UN that China builds turbines but does not use them).

Nuclear jumped 11%.

So, coal output fell!
ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky

Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 5h

This is the ONLY reason that DT is pushing EU to cut Russian LNG imports. To justify US increasing FF extraction.⏬️

UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 5h

⚡️ Turkey is moving to slash its reliance on Russian gas as US LNG imports surge.
united24media.com/latest-news/...

Turkey Prepares to Cut Russian Gas Dependence as US LNG Imports Surge

Turkey aims to cut its reliance on Russian gas, boosting local production and US LNG imports to meet over half its energy needs by 2028.

united24media.com

Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 5h

And those specific circumstances have not occurred.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 5h

The Insurrection Act gives the president power to deploy the U.S. military domestically and to federalize National Guard troops during specific circumstances. It has been used before, but not in decades.

Trump keeps threatening to use the Insurrection Act. What is it?

President Donald Trump has said repeatedly he could invoke the 1807 statute, which gives the president the power to deploy the U.S. military domestically.

nbcnews.to

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 5h

She didn't say no because, obviously, the answer is yes. She was trying to avoid perjury charges by stonewalling--throughout the hearing.

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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 6h

Hoo boy.

I imagine the pictures and videos are probably much worse and Trump is not the only one included in this.

aliciablackgirl.bsky.social @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 11h

Bondi wouldn't even answer with a simple "no" that Epstein did not have photos of the Don with half-clan girls.

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International Journal of Wildland Fire @ijwildlandfire.bsky.social · 13h

🔥Most Read

Epstein & Seielstad analyse WFDSS text from 6,630 large US wildfires (2011–2023). Barriers appear in 75%—mainly roads, burn scars and fuel variation. Prior fires more often stopped spread than treatments.

🔗 doi.org/10.1071/WF25051
#IJWildlandFire

The most common barrier identified in each dispatch zone (top); and the most common barrier
constructed through human landscape modification (bottom).

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 13h

Wish her luck!!! We need more Ds!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 22h

No empathy, no conscience, no spines, just fear 😱. Of what, exactly? Do they really want the future that Steven Miller and Russ Vought appear to envision?

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 2d

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 23h

Flying by the seat of their pants these days, aren't they? Just make💩 up.

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 23h

Glad there was some closer inspection. Rs are really running scared these days. Desperation moves. It would be easier on them if they would just get up the courage to break with DT and the project 2025 club. And get back to the business of something akin to sensible governance.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Michael Gollner @gollnerfire.bsky.social · 23h

I will be recruiting 1-2 new PhD students next year. Areas of interest include experimental fire research focused on flame spread, ignition, flammability or emissions of wildland or urban fuels and modeling the spread of fires through the wildland-urban interface.

Admissions - UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering

Breadcrumbs Graduate Programs Ph.D. & D.Eng. Master of Science Master of Engineering Fifth Year B.S./M.S. Program Degree Requirements 5th Year Masters Program Handbook Special Programs DEEST Graduate ...

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