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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 9h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

So it's a big problem - southeast England in general has a big problem with its aquifer, which can't be wished away however convenient it would be if there was enough water for the economic growth we wanted. There are solutions that people are working on but they need more Investment...

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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 11h

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 23h

Reminder: Never travel out of the country with your main cell phone (or without backing it up and then doing a factory reset) or laptop.

CBP agents are effectively Redcoats and they WILL delight in reminding you that they owe you no rights.

Eric Brakey
@Eric8rekey
I was detained by Border Patrol and Customs for 90 minutes coming
back from a @RoyalCa ribbean cruise today in Florida.
After they rifled through all my belongings, read my personal joumal, and
confiscated rny phone and computer, I had to explain to them that the
aFreeStateNH is a non-violent, peaceful libertarian movernent that
builds community, culture and political change.
We were invited to New Hampshire in the early 2000s bythe Govemor
of the state. We reject violence as a path to creating change.
In detail, I had to explain the nature of the Defend the Guard rnovernent
and assure them that I was not part of a violent extremist group seeking
to raise a militia for insurrection against the government.
At one point during my detention, I asked for clarification on what rights I
had here as a US. citizen and was told that they did not næd a warrant
for anything in my possession, including all my elæ•tronic devices.
They eventually let me gu
Truth be told, I am shaken up and in shock right now.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

mac from always sunny saying "but who versus? who are we doing it versus?" because he cannot understand a plan that does not have a victim

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

Again, going in circles, but Trump ****literally**** does not understand how the American government works. He has ****never**** understood it. He was, until this administration, protected from his own stupidity but now there is no longer anyone at the helm. It’s ***actual*** anarchic governance.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like that is important to remember. Because one day a lot of people will distance themselves from this very obvious, very much on the record monopsony and authoritarianism and claim it was all a conservative boogeyman.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

What a day for the Third Amendment!

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 2d

The third amendment is about to get very relevant.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

www.rawstory.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

This 'cult of the operator' appears, to me at least, wholly unsuited for modern warfare, in which victory depends primarily on the depth of your political will, the effectiveness of your logistics, the advancement of your technology and most of all the raw quantity of steel you can put in the air.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Many climate projections rely on a lot of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) for CO₂ removal (CDR). Usually the criticism is of the biomass part, but given the uncertainty in CCS, how can we be so confident about scaling BECCS?

Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 2d

The jig is up for CCS and DAC.

oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

The Collapse of Confidence in Carbon Capture | OilPrice.com

Carbon Capture and Storage, once seen as a lifeline for the oil and gas industry, is facing mounting doubts as delays, high costs, and poor performance cast serious doubts on its future viability.

oilprice.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 3d

Meme of three girls in a classroom sitting at desks, with the girl in the middle cheating on a quiz by copying the paper of the girl in front, and the girl in the back cheating by copying the girl in the middle. The front girl is labeled "Cops, lying". The girl behind her is labeled "local media". The girl in the back is labeled "national media".

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3d

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 3d

“When were you in favor of abolishing ICE” should be the new “When were you against the invasion of Iraq” as a measure of basic political judgement.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’

Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE.

A rogue fascist agency.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think Trump is anywhere near the floor of his support considering the trajectory of the economy but there will always be the people for whom "marching naked children out of their homes at gunpoint" wasn't the final straw

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

Do not pay $100,000 to become a podcaster for the love of god

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 4d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers

The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.

www.artnews.com

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 5d

“A list of the 321 canceled grants obtained by Heatmap tells a different story. While much of the funding was awarded to blue state-based companies, the intended projects would have benefitted communities elsewhere, including in Texas, Florida, and Louisiana.”

The Department of Energy’s Latest Cuts Will Hit Red States, Too

A list of terminated grants obtained by Heatmap contains a number of grants that will cost jobs and revenue in Republican-led states.

heatmap.news

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 5d

Modern deontology---I prefer "non-consequentialism"---endorses "absolutes" in the sense that some values/principles are always absolutely *relevant* and to be *considered* regardless of their consequences. It is not the view that those values should always be *policy* regardless of consequences.

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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 5d

Yes they do. Which is why America should be transitioning to the cheapest sources of energy around--wind and solar--just as the rest of the world is.

This administration, on the other hand, wants to keep America hooked on the *most expensive* sources of energy: oil, gas, and nuclear.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Reducing the CO2 emissions, that's expensive but really wholly unnecessary. Extremely expensive, very little benefit from that. Again, it's just returning common sense. Americans want affordable energy."

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

the ive had it wine moms sound like tankies now. it's funny

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

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