Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 1h@thebulwark.com's Jonathan Last aptly describes Susan Collins as "a snake disguised as a muppet." www.thebulwark.com/p/susan-coll... 132
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026The fact that a theory-free AI might demand far more cash to accomplish a task (even a "solved" one like playing chess) than an expert would charge is beside the point. Billionaires *have* money, they *don't* have expertise. 45614
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11hUp until very recently indeed, airlines were the only businesses that I dealt with regularly that practiced "price discrimination," charging different customers different prices for the same seats. 316954
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?" buff.ly/oLdL54Cbuff.lyIs It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin... 422048
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 11hUnder Trump, Foreigners are Ripping Us Off More Than Ever: Trade Deficit Jumps in August deanbaker22.substack.com/p/under-trum...deanbaker22.substack.comUnder Trump, Foreigners are Ripping Us Off More Than Ever: Trade Deficit Jumps in AugustBy Trump’s own measure, the economy looks really bad 000
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini... 042
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026deanbaker22.substack.com/p/an-ai-bubb...deanbaker22.substack.comAn AI Bubble Death Watch: When the Financing Gets Crazy, the End Could be Getting NearHealthy companies don’t get into exotic finance 000
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026theintercept.com/2026/10/05/s... Hey Mainers... Susan Collins is corrupt - her time in office should be over!theintercept.comSusan Collins’s Committee Bought Trucks the Army Didn’t Want. Then Campaign Donations Poured In.Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor. 000
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/10/2026Surprised more people aren’t alarmed about the financial condition of Oracle. Revenue flat for 15 years adjusted for inflation, only real growth engine is unprofitable AI data centers, future entirely tied to OpenAI and the most ambitious infra projects in history. It’s dying! 561440219
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Didn't Trump promise the deepest swamp EVER! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump AlliesPresident Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter... 12414
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Is this a graph of global temps or the stock market? Destroying our planet - making the earth uninhabitable 🌍 for quarterly gains. Such insanity! 011
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 09/05/2026"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times 1373691739
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161... 781926463
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026www.piratewireservices.com/p/brazil-acc...piratewireservices.comBrazil accuses the US of election interferenceTrump is funneling $100 million into campaigns to undermine the Brazilian Supreme Court 000
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied. 361376619
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...daringfireball.netAnthropic’s IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking DoozyLink to: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-ipo-prospectus-shows-sweeping-ai-vision-surging-costs-2026-09-28/ 010
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026cepr.net/publications...cepr.netIs Oracle the Bear Stearns of the AI Bubble?Oracle’s force majeure notice raises questions about its New Mexico data center and whether AI infrastructure spending has gone too far. 012
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...nytimes.comOpinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only OnceThe film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice. 022
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...broligarchy.substack.comMeet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom WatsonA Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now 301014402
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026cepr.net/publications...cepr.netSam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the ConsequencesCriminal liability could give AI companies stronger incentives to prevent dangerous failures and take responsibility for harms caused by their systems. 000
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Exxon predicts 2.5-3C by 2050! Actuaries & scientists warn 2C by 2050 will cause at least 2 billion deaths & 3C by 2050 will kill OVER 4 BILLION PEOPLE! The fossil fuel industry is TELLING US it’s gonna kill over half the world’s population. And from our ‘leaders’? Crickets.reuters.comExxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal declineThe world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as the burning of coal could decline at a slo... 34927
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them. 911909466
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Big Tech wants us talking about about whether AI will usher in "superintelligent" heaven or killer-robot hell so we won't talk about the harms their technologies are already unleashing. @arimelber.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaja88xxirYyoutube.comAI psyop? Author calls BS on 'end times' warningsYouTube video by MS NOW 6351101
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026yes, we need to take supporting local (and national) news seriously cepr.net/publications...cepr.netThe Rich Control the Media: Whining Is Not a StrategyCBS’s decision to pull a 60 Minutes segment highlights how wealthy owners shape media coverage and silence dissent under Trump. 13415
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”houstonchronicle.comTexas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable. 352252769
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Supporters of FAIR--including Jim Hightower, Tom Morello and Mumia Abu-Jamal--send greetings for FAIR's 40th anniversary. Plus photos from FAIR's anniversary party! fair.org/home/reflect...fair.orgReflections on 40 Years of FAIR"FAIR’s groundbreaking work launched an explosion of media monitoring and awareness of the corporate media’s collusion with corporate interests." 0126
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It would've been easy to bash Flock in Senate today, but the reality is that this crisis would've not happened had there been any form of regulation or guard rails. So, let's demand them. And let's vote with the same ferocity we post with. 1142060
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026cepr.net/publications...cepr.netIs Oracle the Bear Stearns of the AI Bubble?Oracle’s force majeure notice on a New Mexico data center raises questions about AI demand, data center spending and the AI bubble. 000
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026BREAKING: The state of New York is suing Polymarket, claiming the company operates an illegal gambling platform in violation of state gambling laws. 12291911814
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future. 180126912235
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.piratewireservices.com/p/why-colomb...piratewireservices.comWhy Colombia’s new right-wing president is losing the battle against organized crime groupsAbelardo’s security strategy is more about optics and messaging than any concrete change in tactics 000
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter Amen ☀️ 010
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly | Bill McKibben 000
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The United States has a deliberate policy of strangling Afghanistan's economy and stealing assets from its government--factors that are entirely absent from discussions of Afghanistan's misery five years after the US withdrew troops. fair.org/home/five-ye...fair.orgFive Years Later, Media Blame Afghans for US-Engineered DisasterUS media have covered the anniversary of US troop withdrawal by muddying the US role in the country’s hardships--as though Afghan history began in August 2021. 044
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...nytimes.comHow President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection. 22446126
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul... 341127524654
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Nobody wants this. Polling shows that Americans want to protect public lands, and certainly don't want data centers built on them. 29878374
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comSpeak at Your Own RiskDonald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment 471716467
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026FAIR has been a reliable voice in independent media for over 40 years, but we’re facing a critical time. Our work is made possible by—and created for—you! Donate today: www.cambeywest.com/EXT/?f=appeal Thank you! 032
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Among Harvard's "free speech" policies: telling "professors to keep their personal politics out of the classroom," requiring participants in campus discussions "not to disclose...who said what," and discouraging "taking public positions on contentious issues." fair.org/home/boston-...fair.orgBoston Globe Praised Harvard for Suppressing Free Speech to Save ItHow can speech restrictions by Harvard be hailed by the Boston Globe as "efforts to improve the climate for speech"? It comes from how it frames the problem. 085
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.404media.coHackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and PeopleWhile people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. 13770753267
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.levernews.com/big-ais-favo... Jeffries is strong competition for Schumer as the worst Democrat in office...levernews.comBig AI’s Favorite Democrats Are Writing The Party’s AI PlanHakeem Jeffries’ five-member AI commission is stacked with lawmakers backed by industry super PACs seeking to shape federal policy. 000
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWhy is the White House being so weird about Natalie Harp again? | Arwa MahdawiThe president’s assistant travelled with him to Ireland – which really shouldn’t be much of a story. But his comms team seems determined to make it one, writes Arwa Mahdawi 000
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Alex Wegman 🚲🎧🇬🇧🇦🇺 @ajwegsound.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Sound Devices have appeared to have updated Wave Agent. #nerdysoundpost 1113
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026boingboing.net/2026/09/16/z... ASTONISHED this is not an Onion headline...boingboing.netZoo offering 'child predator tour' apologizes for wordingChester Zoo in England, delighting youngsters with its world-class menagerie since 1931, admits that tickets for a 'child predator tour' could have been worded better. The 90-minute bus ride features… 000
Reposted by Alex Noyes 🌎🔥Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...projects.propublica.orgJohn F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublicaSince 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as... 1428501046
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Got Oxy? How Michigan’s Mike Rogers Helped Fuel the Opioid Crisis open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...open.substack.comGot Oxy? How Michigan’s Mike Rogers Helped Fuel the Opioid CrisisThe Republican Senate candidate spent 10 years in Congress as Pharma’s point man working to push prescription opioids. 000