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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually
@tkovach.bsky.social
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Climate dad to E, J, and C. Working on decarbonization and environmental justice in Cleveland. Founded the Cleveland Refugee Bike Project. Supports Juventus & Eintracht.

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Referencing the 1963 Clean Air Act to argue against environmental regulations
Lt. Hicox holds up 3 fingers in the German bar in Inglorious Basterds
February 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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It's not as significant, but the 2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act also directly states that Congress views GHGs as a risk that requires comprehensive action
SEC. 430. GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE. (a) The Congress finds that— (1) greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere are causing average temperatures to rise at a rate outside the range of natural variability and are posing a substantial risk of rising sea-levels, altered patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation, and increased frequency and severity of floods, droughts, and wildfires; (2) there is a growing scientific consensus that human activity is a substantial cause of greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere; and (3) mandatory steps will be required to slow or stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. (b) It is the sense of the Congress that there should be enacted a comprehensive and effective national program of mandatory, market-based limits and incentives on emissions of greenhouse gases that slow, stop, and reverse the growth of such emissions at a rate and in a manner that: (1) will not significantly harm the United States economy; and (2) will encourage comparable action by other nations that are major trading partners and key contributors to global emissions.
February 11, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Oh my God
The second is that “[c]ontrary to the Endangerment Finding’s assumptions, data continue to suggest that mortality risk from cold temperatures remains by far the greater threat to public health.” The proposal cites Gasparrini et al. 2015 to support this contention – and in fact, the Gasparrini et al. analysis does estimate that cold deaths globally outnumber heat deaths. But the follow-up study Gasparrini et al 2017 also shows that generally, projected increases in heat deaths outweigh decreases in cold deaths due to warming. This counterintuitive pairing is a result of the high slope of the heat mortality curve (every added degree adds many deaths) compared to the shallow slope of the cold mortality curve (every degree change only has a small impacts). Work I co-authored (Lay et al. 2021) also found this net increase in deaths with warming.
February 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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@marcusmarcusrc.bsky.social wraps up his Endangerment Finding series with another banger
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Joe Pesci from My Cousin Vinny saying Everything that guy just said is bullshit...thank you. The Trump EPA's proposal includes a bizarro- world reading of Massachusetts v. EPA (2007), a new theory of the Clean Air Act invented from thin air, misinterpretation of recent Supreme Court decisions, complete disregard of the 2012 D.C. Circuit decision upholding the Endangerment Finding, and apparent ignorance of the existence of the 2016 Aircraft Endangerment Finding.
February 11, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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I could not be more over winter, but I will admit the Lake looks cool
Ice on Lake Erie Ice on Lake Erie as seen through two denuded shrubs Ice on Lake Erie as seen from a path I
February 11, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Man from Airplane who unplugged the terminal and is smiling deviously
February 11, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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This isn't true! It just isn't!

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A more definitive way to address the issue would be for Congress to weigh in. Democrats could pass legislation that defined greenhouse gases as air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, giving the E.P.A. the explicit authority to regulate them. Conversely, Republicans could enact legislation that said the opposite. But in the half-century since Congress passed the Clean Air Act, it has never mustered the political will to decide this question. And it seems exceedingly unlikely to happen at a time when climate change has become such a polarizing topic.
February 11, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Hey guys! Guess who just got...yelled aaat
February 11, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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The Thomas Frank Spurs Experience
Thomas Frank at a Spurs press conference over a comment from Tobias that reads I love her lack of energy, go girl give us nothing!
February 11, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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Michael Jordan hugging the Larry O'Brien trophy. Text reads: I used to pray for times like this Meek Mill "Dreams and Nightmares (Intro)'
February 10, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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Why don't we order the military to use muskets again too while we're at it
Trump is set to hold an event Wednesday at the White House with Zeldin and Energy Secretary Chris Wright to announce a new executive order that directs the Defense Department to enter into agreements to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants. The administration will also award funding to five coal plants in West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina and Kentucky to recommission and upgrade the facilities. Trump will be awarded the inaugural “Undisputed Champion of Coal” award by the Washington Coal Club, a pro-coal group with ties to the fossil fuel industry, administration officials said.
February 10, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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A white Arby's logo on a red background. White text reads We Have The Meats And Ferments
February 8, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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Lindsey Vonn insisting she's ready for the Super G
The Black Knight from Monty Python, sans limbs
February 8, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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*sighs for 34 straight minutes*

Yassified Lee Greenwood
Lee Greenwood but he's clearly been yassified
February 8, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Tim Robinson as Brian in the ITYSL sketch "Insider Trading." He wears a gray fedora with a black safari flaps in the back.
February 6, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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The pettiness is astounding
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...
Other obstacles are emerging. In Indiana, Patoka Solar is a proposed 250-megawatt solar array on private land that could affect local wetlands. To apply for a federal water permit, the developer needs to use a taxpayer-funded database to document the effects on wildlife. Yet the Interior Department has barred wind and solar companies from using that database, making it “impossible” for the project to advance, according to court filings in a lawsuit against the agency by a coalition of clean energy groups. In Illinois, the Kaskaskia Wind project has been delayed indefinitely while waiting for wildlife and water permits, the filings said. The project has now lost its spot in line to connect to the grid after its developer had already invested $10 million. Elsewhere, wind farms are stalled because the Defense Department has stopped finalizing agreements designed to address the risk that turbines interfere with radar, companies said.
February 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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In video after video recorded by protesters and observers in Minneapolis, you can see that the agents are also filming the observers, in a sort of mutual surveillance state, I wrote last month (and one that my colleague Tressie McMillan Cottom covered this week). But in truth, it isn’t really mutual. The Department of Homeland Security has tried to criminalize journalism by characterizing reporting as doxxing and observing as impeding law enforcement, and its agents are now threatening and sometimes assaulting people who record them — an effort to secure, in addition to the state’s monopoly on violence, a monopoly on surveillance. This may be another reason so many immigration officers are masked while on duty: They know better than we do what it means to show one’s face. In Minneapolis and elsewhere, agents now carry tools of surveillance into the field, just as they do their guns.
February 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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I finished James Whitman's alarming book "Hitler's American Model" last night, and this part in his conclusion stuck in my craw
innovativeness. democratic political process produces admirable legislation. But to have a common-law system like that of America is to have a system in which the traditions of the law do indeed have little power to ride herd on the demands of the politicians, and when the politics is bad, the law can be very bad indeed.
February 1, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Meeting with Bjorn, followed by dinner with Woody Allen. The perfect day
From: Lesley Groff To: Epstein Jeffrey <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:19:07 +0000 Reminder— herself available.. TODAY: 11:15 Appt wanted to meet with you face to face if you had some time...she said she will make 12:00 Appt w/Larry Newman & Darren (Larry 12:30-12:45 TENTATIVE Appt w/ (Barbro's girl) 1:00 Appt w/Leon Black (Lunch?? 2:30 Appt waijorn Lomborg (347 425 3034) Bjorn Lomborg <1 7:30 Dinner w/Woody Allen (Kathryn 10:00 Terje would like to come over w) p
February 1, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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It's hard to keep up, but did we already know Bjorn Lomborg was hanging out with Epstein?
To: jeevacation©gmaitcomheevacation@gmail.comj; /Bjorn Lombo Cc: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevac ; John Brockman( Horvath, (PA for Bjorn Lomborg) I From: Sent: Tue 9/25/2012 1:21:59 AM Subject Re: Jeffrey Epstein Perfect. Thanks, Sent from my iPhonc On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:08 PM, Bjorn Lomborg a wrote: Dear Good to meet. Thanks, John! I'm on the phone now or let's do this tomorrow morning. My PA is in Budapest, Zsuzsa, and she'll call you tomorrow morning and set this up. Looking forward to meeting Jeffrey! all the best bjom Bjom Lomborg, Ph.D. and Adjunct Professor Copenhagen Consensus Center 1875 I Street, NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20006 www.lomborg.com Twitter: ©bjornlomborg Facebook: www.facebook.com/biornlomborq
January 31, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Disabled Germans were transported in buses from their institutions to one of the 6 program facilities. They were murdered with CO gas and cremated on site. Their remains were sent to their families with falsified records about the location and cause of their deaths.
Black and white photo of the buses used to transport patients from the Eichberg hospital near Wiesbaden to Hadamar “euthanasia” center. The windows were painted to prevent people from seeing those inside. Germany, between May and September 1941.
January 29, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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In fall 1939, Hitler signed Aktion T4 creating a program to murder disabled adults. Chancellery director Phillip Bouhler and Hitler's physician Karl Brandt led T4.

There were 6 facilities set up. The first "test killing" by CO has was at Brandenburg in January 1940

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Adolf Hitler's authorization for the Euthanasia Program (Operation T4), signed in October 1939 but dated September 1, 1939. Credits: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD
January 29, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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Stolen Valor
6. Acronym of the day: BYONCE By Ben German Picture of Beyonce wearing a gold dress Maybe he's trying to make "fetch" happen, but anyway.. Energy analyst Jesse Jenkins has coined a term for tech giants paying for new generation to power data centers and ensuring the electrons are climate- friendly.
January 27, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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Ms. Rachel ans Zohran Mamdami pretending to cry
January 27, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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This photo goes insanely hard. This is the coolest guy ever
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Photo of a 70-year old Minneapolis man in khakis, a winter coat, winter hat, gloves, and scarf walking down the street through a cloud of gray white tear gas. He is next to an apron or snow and walking near a small, leafless tree and two maroon, inverted U bike racks with an ornate E decoration. Photo is by Theia Chatelle.
January 25, 2026 at 6:46 PM