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Michael Parks @jurassicparks.bsky.social · 8d

What did Frank and Deborah Popper get right and wrong about the Great Plains in their famous Buffalo Commons paper?

(I have thoughts - also interviewed them recently - but curious about others)

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 2d

“It's really not, bc private investors will tolerate vast amounts of authoritarianism/corruption (see: investment in 🇨🇳 etc. over the last 30 years) & bc baseline growth prospects in 🇪🇺/🇯🇵/etc. were far below 🇺🇸 in January 2025, & because there is nowhere else to go at scale:”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Apr 8

This isn’t ideology. It’s math. Literally, there are not enough safe assets in the world for everyone to buy if dollar assets are no longer seen as safe. That’s what these charts tell you. So someone will have to issue more government debt & deepen their private financial markets to replace 🇺🇸. Who?

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 2d

A 🧵 with different perspective on equities markets under autocracy - or even just screaming idiocy, like Brexit. Also: the lack of alternative currencies (to the U.S. $) where the world can park its money.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Apr 8

This isn’t ideology. It’s math. Literally, there are not enough safe assets in the world for everyone to buy if dollar assets are no longer seen as safe. That’s what these charts tell you. So someone will have to issue more government debt & deepen their private financial markets to replace 🇺🇸. Who?

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 3d

In El Salvador: “With no medical care, she gave birth, fell unconscious, and began hemorrhaging in a bathroom stall. Shortly after, the police came …they weren’t there to help her, but placed her under arrest for what they decided was the abortion and murder of her newborn.” futuroinvestigates.org

Home - Futuro Investigates

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 4d

Often, The Cult (the Borg?) and those who genuflect to it can't design or even recognize good policy. Or count.

"...here we are just months ahead of the premium apocalypse, and apparently the president hears about it for the first time from Chuck Schumer." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...

Talking With Jonathan Cohn

The coming premium apocalypse, the shutdown, and more

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 5d

"WildEarth Guardians...pointed to data that a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, XTO, had 42 spills of waste over the spring... Balloon Fiesta visitors can "expect to hear spoof radio ads...and see several stunts over the coming week." sourcenm.com/briefs/conse...

Conservation, satirist groups launches parody billboards ahead of Balloon Fiesta • Source New Mexico

Conservationist group WildEarth Guardians and parody group Yes Men teamed up for the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 5d

Folding with barely a whimper.

“The decision follows a similar move by a climate group for the insurance industry in 2024. Another climate-focused organisation for the asset management industry is also considering its next steps after facing similar political pressure.”
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Net-Zero Banking Alliance folds after mass exodus by members — Reuters

The Net-Zero Banking Alliance is to cease operations after a vote to wind up the group which had already lost many of its members amid allegations from some U.S. lawmakers that membership breached ant...

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 6d

“Unlike the European Central Bank, which gets a B, the Fed scores poorly… It has resisted global rules on banks’ climate risks and this year pulled out of the Network for the Greening of the Financial System, a central-bank coalition.”

Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 6d

Climate activists & Trump can bond over at least one pastime: yelling at the Fed. And the central bank fully deserves its D- grade on climate. But it’s not built to do the heavy lifting that others are failing to do

Gift link to my column:

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This $2 Trillion Crisis Isn’t Just the Fed’s to Solve

Climate activists might think they have nothing in common with President Donald “Climate Change Is a Con Job” Trump. But they could bond over at least one favorite pastime: howling at the Federal Rese...

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Jim Whittington🔥 @jimwhittington.bsky.social · 9d

I'd like to point out there are still 7,500 wildland firefighters working 19 uncontained large fires and yesterday, initial attack actions were carried out on 236 new starts.

A shutdown adds to the stress, reduces capacity, and creates additional uncertainties in a massively complex environment.

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 8d

September 30th is also known as Red Shirt Day.

Jeff Ament’s Army @jeffamentsarmy.bsky.social · 8d

Resources and information:
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Jim Whittington🔥 @jimwhittington.bsky.social · 13d

Infuriating. So many feds have such specialized knowledge that it will be near impossible for them to find a decent-paying private sector job. The worst part is that this was totally predictable and yet nothing was ever put in place to help. We just left public servants to fend for themselves.

makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 13d

The History of DOGE, as told by the people who lived it.

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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 11d

Eleven days of awe, Jewish Israelis. You could end this before Yom Kippur. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 13d

In the Afro-descendant agroforestry lands of Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil and Suriname, “…practices historically classified as ‘subsistence’ are, in fact, conservation strategies that are as effective – or even more effective – than many state policies for protected areas.” apple.news/AbU-0HNO6Q1u...

‘Food forests are everything’: creating edible landscapes helps nature thrive in Afro-descendant lands — Guardian US

Agroforestry systems in Latin America practised by local communities are a boon to biodiversity, according to research

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 14d

Where 🇺🇸 is heading. Graeme Wood:

“Iran felt like a late-stage totalitarian state: corrupt, poor, unhappy, unfixable. In Isfahan, an innkeeper begged me to go home and tell President George W. Bush to bomb his country, because he said that it would take nothing less to change the government.”

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 20d

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi.

This is *not* normal.

I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 20d

I find this extremely chilling:
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 21d

Meeting the housing shortage in one of the 🌏’s most unequal countries still places the onus on the townships. And:

“To date, the startup has helped its homeowner partners — 67% of whom are women — more than double their incomes and property values, according to Sammeli.“ apple.news/ARmCWR8uPTPm...

Backyard Micro-Flats Aim to Ease South Africa’s Housing Crisis — Bloomberg

A startup is fronting the costs for homeowners to become landlords as part of a broader effort to expand affordable housing in poor townships.

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 21d

“Abortion bans have forced medical schools…to pare back…health education in the classroom…teaching hospitals & clinics, leaving students…unprepared…for a career as an OB-GYN, but also for…a pregnancy complication requiring an emergency abortion to save the patient’s life.” apple.news/ASpdyl1GPSuC...

America's Doctor Shortage Is Getting Worse. Abortion Bans Are to Blame. — TIME

Why America's future doctors are avoiding abortion-ban states.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 28d

Something good: a new, nonprofit newsroom run by some wonderful, experienced folks (core crew from Outside mag's glory days) dedicated to journalism about American public lands! Looks like the plan is to collaborate a fair bit with other outlets.

RE:PUBLIC

INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM FOR PUBLIC LANDS.

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 23d

Bagpipes. He’s played there for years.

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 24d

#Hmart. 😃 And immaculate Turkish grocery stores that send FB alerts about the catch of the day. And Caribbean grocers that sell root vegetables I still have never tried.

All these, plus Dominican and Latino grocers, thrive in an area born out of redlining and 1950s whites-only home sales policies.

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 24d

“… the point is for…people like me to write it down so that people like you can read it and feel something, be it shock, outrage, confusion, or sadness. The shooters may not have a coherent ideology, or even be particularly politically motivated per se, but they seem to know the ecosystem…”

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 25d

said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The shooters who fall into this mold implicitly understand these internet dynamics. They seek an audience, but they are also acting out to get the world—especially the online world—to respond. “If you read this you are gay lmao” is a trolly, nihilistic thing to inscribe on a bullet casing, but the point is for people to see it, for people like me to write it down so that people like you can read it and feel something, be it shock, outrage, confusion, or sadness. The shooters may not have a coherent ideology, or even be particularly politically motivated per se, but they seem to know the ecosystem they are dropping their horrific acts of violence into.

For some shooters, online communities—with all their irony-poisoning, shitposting, and feuding—are more real, or at least more meaningful, than physical ones. With their senseless violence, these killers are bringing a part of that networked, online chaos to tangible, life-and-death reality. They know that their violence will be flattened, picked apart, argued over, and, crucially, amplified by the justification machine. In this way, they will get what they’re after. The violence will continue.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 26d

i think that, very broadly speaking, this is a p good lesson about computer

Will James @willjames.bsky.social · 26d

If I could make people understand one thing about the computer, it would be that if a piece of information feels too good — if it has that sweet, addictive pull — there's a good chance it's bad for you.

People have come to understand this about food. Maybe they can learn the same for information.

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 26d

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

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Karin Kirk @karinkirk.bsky.social · 29d

North Dakota had 2,439 jobs in wind, solar, and storage in the most recent survey of energy jobs.
They rank 9th per capita in clean energy jobs.
35% of ND's electricity comes from wind.

These guys know better. They just lie. Lying is one of the most unifying principles of this administration.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29d

Burgum to CNBC: "The intermittent sources, the unreliable and expensive sources like solar and wind -- you don't know when the wind's gonna blow, we do know when the sun is gonna shine and it's not 24 hours a day."

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 26d

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From the pearljam community on Reddit: This really helped me on this sad morning.

Explore this post and more from the pearljam community

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