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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 Big news: The Washington Sun launches w/: — Huge investment in DC & local reporters — Legend Tom Sietsema — Capital Weather — Newsroom of +100, w/ great reporters (& me) Comes after Bezos's enormous cuts to WaPo To support, sign up for (free!) newsletter: washingtonsun.com/newsletters

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the necessary step 1 of rebuilding trust with our allies is prosecuting almost everyone in the trump administration for the countless crimes they have committed against the country and the world

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When, in January 2025, I wrote that the Trump administration was segregationist folks said I was exaggerating. I would have *loved* to be wrong about this but the unfortunate evidence remains on my side. This is just racism, pure and simple.

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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 02/09/2026

This is really top-notch work. Accessible, timely, and sobering.

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wow, these sequestration rates (even in medium scenario) are not just unrealistic, they are fantastical. Our work on geological limits to carbon sequestration shows that even achieving 1 Gt/y will be challenging without significant tech breakthrough. Relying on CCS today is not a realistic plan!

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Can we sequester carbon fast enough? Growing disconnect between models and reality

Can we sequester carbon fast enough? Growing disconnect between models and reality, Daigle, Hugh, Ravikumar, Arvind

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Discovery & exploitation of US shale gas is one of the biggest stories of energy sufficiency in the world with significant economic benefits. However, creating jobs is not one of them. US shale is increasingly automated & efficient. Same with datacenters - permanent job creation will be minimal.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Only 2% of the ships that transited through the strait over the last month were hit" The "only" is hilarious. I'm sure maritime insurers love the thought of every 50th ship exploding into a fireball

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

23% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Graph of visas issued to students per month in 2024 and 2025

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A geologist and a systems engineer walk in to a bar... ...and start arguing about whether we can actually pump enough CO2 underground to hit net zero. That's more or less how this paper got started with @hdaigle.bsky.social. Read on to find more: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Can we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality

Can we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality, Daigle, Hugh, Ravikumar, Arvind P

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Hugh Daigle @hdaigle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You wouldn’t believe the AI compliance training I had to do today! OK, you probably would. “Everyone is adopting AI, how can we protect ourselves?” Garrett’s piece is a good counterpoint- this isn’t inevitable, and the tide is actually starting to ebb…

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Hugh Daigle @hdaigle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Not in the paper, but I'll add this anecdote. A friend who used to work for an operator that did a lot of carbon storage told me that their biggest expense was remediating old wells that could be leaky. So I'm skeptical that we can use existing boreholes or even entire assets for this.

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This chart shows # of wells needed at various CO2 injection rates to achieve CCS targets (diagonal lines). At typical rates (0.2-0.4 Mt/y), we need 1000s of wells/yr to reach 1-3 Gt/yr rates. (For comparison: # active drilling rigs in June 2026: 581). iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is a key chart for the future of oil demand. Detroit may force policy makers to keep US isolated as the world rapidly moves on to better and cheaper technology. US taxpayers are the ones left holding the bag, paying more for inefficient vehicles. t.co/Ly9V20Vi1p

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Jon Ossoff tells Lawrence O’Donnell: “It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults — public officials, paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust… No one cares about their feelings.”

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Advocates often point to EOR to say that we have been sequestering CO2 successfully for decades. However, they fail to note that average injection rate for EOR projects is only 0.0045 Mt/y and done intermittently, far lower than rates required for point source CO2 sequestration.

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Can we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality

Can we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality, Daigle, Hugh, Ravikumar, Arvind P

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Can we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality

Can we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality, Daigle, Hugh, Ravikumar, Arvind P

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A new court filing suggests that Border Patrol lied about the basis of a traffic stop that led to the shooting of a US citizen, a German tourist, and a Border Patrol agent. Only when cases go to court do we find out about DHS lies and its unlawful tactics come to light.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Administration officials must be criminally prosecuted for violating US law. Even basic human decency would make you think twice about doing this, but that's too much to ask for this goon squad.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The media (I mean NYT, NPR, and WaPo, not Fox) have most of the blame. The people who report on this stuff do an absolutely horrible job.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This @juddlegum.bsky.social / @atrupar.com piece on how CNN & CNBC commentators regularly cite Kalshi odds, as if they're truly predictive of markets, is very much worth your time. And seeing people like Enten and Sorkin playing along is really disturbing. popular.info/p/how-kalshi... 1/

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How Kalshi infects the news

After inking financial deals with CNBC and CNN, Kalshi's prediction markets have become ubiquitous on cable news.

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Abolishing ICE should be the moderate position for any 2028 candidate. Every ICE employee and officer should be investigated for criminal conduct. Their actions are lawless anti-American and must not be allowed to continue.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If there’s an issue Democrats could run on and win in a landslide, it’s anti-corruption. But first the Dem establishment needs to deal with its own corruption problem. It’s not enough to be right about Trump’s corruption—they also have to be credible.

Bar chart from Reuters/Ipsos poll of 1,019 U.S. adults, Sept. 19–21, 2025, asking which party has a better plan on 11 issues. Republicans lead on crime (40% vs. 20%), immigration (40% vs. 22%), foreign conflicts (35% vs. 23%), U.S. economy (34% vs. 24%), gun control (32% vs. 28%), political extremism (30% vs. 26%), and corruption (27% vs. 21%). Democrats lead on respect for democracy (31% vs. 29%), healthcare (34% vs. 25%), women’s rights (38% vs. 25%), and environment (37% vs. 23%). Margin of error ±3 points; third-party and non-responses excluded.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Not only is it a skill issue but "You need to work within the system and within the Party" is what the people freaking out about this have explicitly been telling critics to do for decades. I guess they didn't mean it, didn't think anyone would try, or were confident it couldn't work.

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The end goal of the conservative project in the US - aided by Republican lawmakers and the far right ecosystem - is to enact something like this here. They literally want to make America more like China, and we need to oppose at the ballot box and everywhere else.

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China tells its minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new law | CNN

For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted in Chinese nationality and allegiance to the ruling Communist Party.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Can everyone just step back and realize how insane it is that the US Supreme Court had to rule on the constitutionality of the US CONSTITUTION and the vote to uphold the Constitution wasn't unanimous!!!

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It is a fool’s quest to try and appease anti-immigration advocates. Their goal is to destroy everything that’s good about a multi-racial and multi-cultural society and make the US a Christian nationalist state. Any concession - like repealing TPS - is simply a step towards ethnic cleaning.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Also a Big Yikes for reactionary centrist pundits (yes, that one in particular, but also others) with the bad habit of treating poll numbers as some sort of immutable assessment of values rather than messy metrics of temporary and easily moved attitudes of a generally mid-to-low info electorate.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

if you have feelings about SCOTUS after today, and after the last week, and after the last months and years, remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:

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Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts

Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 30/06/2026

The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

court packing is the moderate position. constitutional redesign is the only way, and we need to get serious about it.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

5–4 on a constitutional question that is older, more settled, and just as clear on the text and purpose as "can women vote?" They're coming for that one too, it's currently in the "right-wing extremists on social media" stage, same place where "there's no birthright citizenship" arose.

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Tom ‘Beardo’ Hilliard @tomh4.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"US One Supreme Court Vote Away From Stripping Basic Constitutional Rights" should be the headline for every news outlet in the country.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Oh my god, I thought the aversion to AC in France is some inside joke about technology or bureaucracy but they actually hate AC? How is France's national psyche one of austerity? We need more electricity, we need more low-carbon electricity, and we need everyone to have AC and heat.

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To cool or not to cool: French politicians draw battle lines over aircon

As heatwave intensifies, far-right champions air conditioning while the left calls for renovations and green spaces

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/06/2026

Here’s what the air conditioning discourse illuminates: to deal with climate change we need to electrify & we need zero carbon electricity, we also need more electricity- like double or triple what we have. And we need more cooling & cooling equity. There will be folks fighting against all of that.

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Is it just me or are these good comments? The email starts by clearly stating that these are suggestions. More often than not, this is the kind of feedback we want from readers, collaborators, and funders. Too often, we don't because folks are busy. But this type of critical feedback is *useful*.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I will vote for any Democrat who runs on a platform of De-Trumpification modeled on post-war Germany. Get rid of the ideology root and branch and prosecute those eligible.

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I am more bullish about CCS than many of my peers but this is a stunning chart about our inability to predict how technologies can evolve. At this point, I think it's up to the proponents of CCS to prove that the technology can scale up. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"I have enough money to do research," says Shu, laughing. Meanwhile HHS shut off the NIH grant that funded related work on gene therapy for deafness at Harvard Medical School, because “woke” or something like that Shu trained in the very same lab that HHS defunded

Getting results in Shanghai

In China, it's a different story.

"I have enough money to do research," says Shu, laughing.

China is pouring huge resources into developing all sorts of biological research, including gene therapy, aiming to curb its reliance on the West and become an even bigger world superpower. This spring, the country pledged billions in additional science funding. Shu, who trained at Harvard Medical School and is working on solving the same problems as David Corey, has plenty of staff in his lab, all the supplies he needs and can just get more done. "My lab is growing bigger and bigger," he says. And it's far bigger than his lab when he was in Boston, training under Corey and his mentees.

For decades, the U.S. has brought the smartest people in the world — like Yilai Shu — to its shores. Many have stayed. Shu wanted to, but family and a scientific opportunity, with lots of funding, drew him back home. That decision was rewarded when his team had a successful trial on a single injection that can restore hearing.

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NPR @npr.org · 25/06/2026

Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first. n.pr/4weVi49

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How the U.S. is losing ground to China in university research

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The Supreme Court's decision in the Temporary Protected Status case proves the Supreme Court *is* racist. They don't merely affirm Trump's racism, they endorse it. And while that's not "news" for anyone paying attention, it's still outrageous. My latest in @thenation.com

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The Supreme Court Once Again Endorses Trump's Racism

The court took a look at Trump's obviously bigoted handling of the Temporary Protected Status program and said, "Nothing to see here."

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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

and i’ll add that supporting american candidates who don’t support the netanyahu government is actually an extreme show of love for our community. israel’s actions *are* being conflated with all jews, and we held firm that you do not have to condone genocide to be a good jew. very much the opposite.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 23/06/2026

Gawker, bless it, tried to warn us. www.gawkerarchives.com/gawker-was-m...

Tom Scocca, writing in the conclusion of the second-to-last post published by Gawker under Nick Denton's control:

"Gawker always said it was in the business of publishing true stories. Here is one last true story: You live in a country where a billionaire can put a publication out of business. A billionaire can pick off an individual writer and leave that person penniless and without legal protection.

"If you want to write stories that might anger a billionaire, you need to work for another billionaire yourself, or for a billion-dollar corporation. The law will not protect you. There is no freedom in this world but power and money."

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