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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 30/09/2026

Confused by all the debate about the new permitting reform bill? Here is a quick cheat-sheet of the most important provisions, and their likely impact on emissions:

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Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org · 29/09/2026

"The Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) wants to hear from you! Your input will help shape how we invest in our transit system. Please take a few minutes to tell us what matters most to you for the 2027 Regional Transit Operating Budget" @nitachicago.bsky.social

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What Moves You? Help Shape the 2027 NITA Budget

Polco is a secure and reliable place to provide input directly to local and state leaders, as well as other socially minded organizations.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026

"nothing can get worse" is one of those beliefs that is usually directly responsible for things getting worse

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Andrew Martin @andrewmartin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.

plot predicting messi-ronaldo preference

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 19/06/2026

"For successful [science], reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Kansas' marching band learned Algeria's national anthem, this rules youtu.be/9lXXSERmcPM?...

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KU Marching Jayhawks play Algeria national anthem before training

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 20/05/2026

SpaceX S1 is out. I have to get my kid to soccer, will post stuff about this later or tomorrow. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Worth reading what oil & gas professionals are saying about Trump's Iran policy to the Dallas Fed. These aren't politicians - they're just people trying to plan when morons are in charge of US energy & foreign policy. www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

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Dallas Fed Energy Survey Q1 2026 update

In response to recent developments in the global oil market, we conducted a follow-up to the first quarter survey that published March 25.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In my new piece in @theatlantic.com, I argue that the consensus about birthright citizenship extended far beyond elite legal circles to readers of newspaper advice columns and letters to the editor pages for well more than a century. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Americans Once Understood Birthright Citizenship

Newspaper columnists instructed generations of citizens about the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, the country seems to have forgotten how clear the law is.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/04/2026

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

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Mike Madowitz @mikemadowitz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I will literally draw you a picture.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

My bill, the Restoring Judicial Separation of Powers Act would, among other things force SCOTUS to provide written, signed explanations of all their decisions. casten.house.gov/imo/media/do...

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

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Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

So, let’s game this out. A Chinese flagged tanker pays the toll and transits the strait. We interdict it? What if the tanker is escorted by a Chinese warship?

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 13/03/2026

I think a big part of the derangement of the average American is that they see people on their phone who are lying about how successful they are, believe that they're telling the truth, and then get mad that they aren't that successful right now.

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

#energysky Fun battery dynamic in South Australia - dumping at cut rates so they can soak up negative prices the next day.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 04/03/2026

It’s interesting that Talarico’s religious appeals are framed primarily as a reach across the aisle here. In his particular case, I think that’s *part* of the effort come the general. But his slogan was “let’s flip some tables” — a theological argument aimed at the Democratic base, not Republicans.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Scientific American has updated the figure, now grouped into swimmers, fliers, walkers/runners, and vehicles. A person on a bicycle remains the most efficient way to travel, compared to all forms of biological locomotion and mechanical transport. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

there's a good job market paper in econ this year that looks at this directly. Employers used to be willing to pay for applications that were custom because it was a costly signal of ability. After ChatGPT, that is no longer true. jesse-silbert.github.io/website/silb...

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 20/02/2026

idk how this plays but to this gen-z cusper, it's funny

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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"The price surge means silver now makes up about 26 per cent of the cost of making a solar module, compared with just 3 per cent three years ago, according to Jenny Chase, lead solar analyst at BloombergNEF." @solarchase.bsky.social Just what these players need. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Silver squeeze leaves solar panel makers feeling the heat

Photovoltaic industry seeks substitutions for metal that has hit record highs

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Musk's 100GW/year solar cell manufacturing "plan" is deeply unserious and will be quashed by wiser voices within Tesla. (So people can stop asking me about it). That guy just be saying things.

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Miller @milleryoho.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

What a moment.

Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 25/01/2026

The govt lying about the killing of a U.S. citizen at the hands of the state, is by itself, a front page a story, worthy of drumbeat coverage, resignations, and impeachments.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I am doing my best to respond to this without a string of expletives. But let's be very clear. What just happened in Minnesota was cold blooded murder of a civilian by out of control federal agents, aided and abetted by the entire Trump administration and their fascist enablers.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 24/01/2026

Masked federal agents in Minnesota just shot and killed another person. We must put a stop to Trump’s ICE. Now. Stop the funding, stop the occupations, stop the killings.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows:
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 14/01/2026

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives.

Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.

It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago.

It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”.

It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing.

The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States.

Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all.

As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

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NPR @npr.org · 03/01/2026

Update: President Trump said the U.S. will run Venezuela until a "proper transition can take place," as he defended Saturday's military strikes that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

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Trump says 'we are going to run the country now' after removing Venezuela's president

President Trump says the United States conducted a strike in Venezuela and captured that country's president, Nicolás Maduro along with his wife, Cilia Flores.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Harsh words from @kaine.senate.gov, who sits on the Senate’s armed services and foreign relations committees, and asks where Trump will deploy military forces next

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and a member of the Senate Armed Services
Committee (SASC), released the following statement regarding President Donald Trump's unauthorized military attack on Venezuela:
"President Trump's unauthorized military attack on Venezuela to arrest Maduro-however terrible he is—is a sickening return to a day when the United States asserted the right to dominate the internal political affairs of all nations in the Western Hemisphere. That history is replete with failures, and doubling down on it makes it difficult to make the claim with a straight face that other countries should respect the United States' sovereignty when we do not do the same.

"Where will this go next? Will the President deploy our troops to protect Iranian protesters? To enforce the fragile ceasefire in Gaza? To battle terrorists in Nigeria? To seize Greenland or the Panama Canal? To suppress Americans peacefully assembling to protest his policies? Trump has threatened to do all this and more and sees no need to seek legal authorization from people's elected legislature before putting servicemembers at risk.
"It is long past time for Congress to reassert its critical constitutional role in matters of war, peace, diplomacy and trade. My bipartisan resolution stipulating that we should not be at war with Venezuela absent a clear congressional authorization will come up for a vote next week.
We've entered the 250th year of American democracy and cannot allow it to devolve into the tyranny that our founders fought to escape."

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The legal justification the WH gave us for attacking Venezuelan boats in int’l waters without Congressional approval was weak, and exposes the WH and military staff to domestic and international criminal prosecution. They have not even sought to justify strikes within Venezuela.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

hey maybe there are some consequences that should have been thought through to the claim that US law applies worldwide to everyone and we have the right to enforce it with our military at our president’s whim

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/01/2026

President Trump said on Saturday that the U.S. had captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

A card reads: "Breaking: U.S. Captured Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, Trump Says. The U.S. carried out “a large scale strike” and was flying Maduro out of the country, President Trump said. The announcement came hours after large explosions were reported in the capital of Caracas."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago. And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

That is a lot of news to wake up to.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

"Circling back" season is officially upon us

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Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov · 05/12/2025

This decision will cause Americans to die. This is exactly why I raised the alarm earlier this year when RFK Jr. fired actual experts on the panel in charge of recommending vaccines. Science is real. Vaccines are safe. Don't let them fool you into thinking otherwise. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

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C.D.C. Vaccine Committee Ends Recommendation That All Newborns Receive Hepatitis B Shots

In a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee decided to delay the shots for babies of mothers who test negative for the virus, reversing…

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

you've gotta admit the NCAA has an incredible sense of comic timing

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

“Living car-free is the most impactful behavior by far in terms of reducing emissions.”

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning. A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/10/2025

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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