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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

Yeah, you’re right. I meant ML scenario in yellow.

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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

I agree Sleipner has worked well but we write about how unique the geology is and even that project suffered from sand clogging and plume migration issues. I am not it can't work but that urgent investments in technical advances to solve known engineering/geologic issues is critical to its success.

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

This is indeed unfortunate but there are still technical challenges involved - we haven't figured out all the issues with sequestration and everyone seems to assume we can store Gt of CO2 if only the costs come down. We just wrote a paper about it. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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

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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 · 20/08/2026

We literally wrote this paper to show that it is not just a policy problem - there are serious technology challenges for which we don't have solutions. CDR can be under $10 but if you cannot sequester the removed CO2 geologically, then it doesn't matter.

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

You're right - I don't think the prospect for regen ag has been evaluated thoroughly. Although, I imagine the scale for such an approach might be limited.

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

My colleague is the geologist - he was right.

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

Yeah, I’m more bullish about feasibility of synthetic fuels than sequestration. Geologic and engineering challenges here require a lot of research.

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

We are not anti-CCS. In fact, the opposite. However, that requires making urgent investments to solve engineering bottlenecks, making data from pilot and commercial projects readily available so we can iterate faster, having subsurface experts inform energy system models & permitting reform. /End

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

Even low end of 2050 targets (1 Gt/y) would need thousands of new wells drilled every year until 2050 - more drilling than the entire current US O&G industry. Bottom line: without significant tech advances, CO2 sequestration at the scale needed for net-zero may not be practicable.

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

Case in point: Gorgon (Australia), world's largest CCS project. Designed rate: 3.5 Mt/y Realized rate: 0.4 Mt/y At that rate, hitting 2050 gigaton-scale targets would mean building 250 Gorgon-scale projects every single year between now & 2050. Realistic injection rates are likely 0.2-0.5 Mt/y.

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

We reviewed data from every demonstration and commercial CO2 sequestration project. Realized injection rates were significantly lower than designed rates - and bigger projects fell short by more. The issues that plagued these projects will not be surprising to subsurface experts.

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

Most energy models treat carbon storage as a cost problem: make it cheap enough and it scales to gigatonnes/year. Whether it's achievable from a geologic and engineering perspective has never really been questioned. We went digging.

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

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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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