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@cadavejones.bsky.social
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Former financial regulator (CA Insurance Commissioner), current Director, UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy & Environment, Climate Risk Initiative. Posts are my own opinion.

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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
California's utility wildfire liability debate is missing oil and gas: www.climateproof.news/p/dave-jones...
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Dave Jones On California's Wildfire Liability Deadlock
Hear from experts on the cutting-edge of adaptation & resilience
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Important new report finds that CA Governor Newsom's CA Air Resources Board (CARB) waters down proposed emissions reporting regulation & fails to require most emissions from oil & gas industry to be reported! ourfinancialsecurity.org/resources/ca...
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CARB is Proposing Watered Down Corporate Emissions Disclosure Rule - Americans for Financial Reform
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is developing a corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosure program for all large companies doing business in the state, authorized by landmark legisl...
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Insurers say they're starting to write new California homeowner policies, but few new policies being written despite homeowners' investment in home hardening and defensible space and billions invested in nature based forest management. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
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Insurers say they're starting to write new California homeowner policies, but how many?
A new analysis shows few home insurance policies are being written for Californians in high-risk areas despite incentives.
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Speaking on panel at Environmental Grantmakers Association 2026 Fall Retreat on The Climate Insurance Crisis: Who Pays, Who Profits, and What Comes Next?. Hoping for a great turnout! - via #Whova event app
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Gov. Newsom's & private utilities' proposal to limit utility liabilty & damages for starting wildfires will raise insurance prices and make insurance even less available in California. Legislators should reject this handout to utilities at expense of fire survivors. www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
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California can’t afford a utility handout that shifts costs onto consumers | Opinion
A last-minute proposal would shift wildfire costs from utilities to consumers, risking higher insurance premiums and weaker accountability.
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Gov. Newsom's & private utilities' proposal to limit utility liabilty and damages for starting wildfires will raise insurance prices and make insurance even less available in California. Legislators should reject this handout to utilities at expense of fire survivors. www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Join us September 9th for this on-line webinar about the climate crisis' causing the insurance crisis and what we can do about it. luma.com/0gw5xadr.
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Insurers side with Big Oil over their home insurance policyholders! Submitted this brief to Supreme Ct. to make clear: Biggest threat to insurance & hundreds of millions depending on it isn’t from climate accountability lawsuits, but from climate change itself. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
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Tom Steyer @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I know this race has felt complicated. But it’s actually now become very simple. It comes down to this: Do you want a California for corporations, or a California for Californians? I would be honored to have your vote.
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Sacramento area voters, join me in voting to re-elect Doris Matsui @dorismatsui.bsky.social to Congress! matsuiforcongress.com
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Doris Matsui for Congress
Doris Matsui has fought for us — bringing billions of dollars home for flood protection, healthcare, clean energy, and local jobs.
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Californians, join me in voting for Senator Ben Allen for Insurance Commissioner! www.benallenca.com
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Ben Allen for Insurance Commissioner
Since his first election to the State Senate in 2014, Ben has become an effective leader in the Legislature; leading critical committees and spearheading nearly dozens of new laws across a wide range ...
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Excellent opinion piece by Bill McKibben regarding Xavier Becerra's refusal to sue Big Oil and his taking money from them despite their decades of lies and deception and obstruction regarding their emissions contibution to the climate crisis. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: Xavier Becerra shows that his loyalty lies with fossil fuels
It's not just that this California gubernatorial candidate has taken big donations from Chevron. The real tell was that he refused to take on Big Oil over climate change when other attorneys general w...
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
ICYMI. My NY Times Sunday print edition op ed on Big Oil's effort to get the same Congressional immunity shield given to gun manufacturers. Instead, Big Oil should be held accountable financially for its contribution to climate driven losses. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...
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Opinion | Gun Manufacturers Won the Ultimate Legal Shield. Big Oil Wants That, Too.
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
@cadavejones.bsky.social, upon being (deservedly!) honored as one of the "50 People Shaping our Society in 2026": “In the long run, if we don’t address the root cause [of the insurance crisis], which is the substantial amount of emissions from fossil fuels, insurance will no longer be available.”
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In the wake of historic flooding, Hawaiʻi could soon become the first state in the nation to take tangible steps to make Big Oil cover the growing costs of climate change, rather than letting them be passed onto the public via higher home insurance premiums. climateintegrity.org/news/view/ha...
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Hawai`i House votes to hold Big Oil accountable for climate-driven home insurance crisis | Center for Climate Integrity
Hawaiʻi House of Representatives advances bill empowering state and insurers to make oil and gas giants pay insurance-related costs of climate disasters.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Unfun Friday news dump: new GOP bill would put Big Oil above the law, letting them off the hook for decades of deceiving the public and banning anyone from trying to hold them accountable in court. climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...
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BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity
Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Big CA study allocating costs from catastrophic wildfires has glaring omission. No discussion of holding Big Oil accountable for their substantial contribution to the crisis. Instead of shifting deck chairs on Titanic, need to pass SB 982. My SFChron op ed today: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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Climate change is hitting Californians hard. The state should make Big Oil pick up the tab
OPINION: Oil companies continue to escape accountability for their role in climate change disasters and their share of the costs are being passed onto the public, Dave Jones writes.
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UC Berkeley Law @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"Gun Manufacturers Won the Ultimate Legal Shield. Big Oil Wants That, Too." #Opinion from Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at @cleeberkeley.bsky.social and former California Insurance Commissioner www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...
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Opinion | Gun Manufacturers Won the Ultimate Legal Shield. Big Oil Wants That, Too.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
re: Affordability Discourse. Inflation data is only picking up ~half the recent (climate change-driven) spike in home insurance rates. Itʻs no wonder people are more pissed off about the state of the economy than egghead economists and @whstancil.bsky.social say they should be.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 14/04/2026
"There (are) going to be more climate-related disasters in the future. Someone's gonna have to pay for it, and I think [the oil companies] should be held accountable."
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Bill hearing today to allow CA to sue oil companies for climate losses
Lawmakers in Sacramento will hear a bill to hold oil and gas companies liable for climate-related disasters.Senate Bill 982 would authorize the Attorney General to sue to recover damages after
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 13/04/2026
If Big Oil were given total legal immunity, "it would be an injustice with lasting and cascading harm," writes @cadavejones.bsky.social. "The public would keep paying for the costs of climate change, while the fossil fuel companies most responsible for them would continue to pay nothing."
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Opinion | Gun Manufacturers Won the Ultimate Legal Shield. Big Oil Wants That, Too.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"If Big Oil were to secure immunity from liability for climate damage, the public would keep paying for the costs of climate change, while the fossil fuel companies most responsible for them would continue to pay nothing." @cadavejones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...
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Opinion | Gun Manufacturers Won the Ultimate Legal Shield. Big Oil Wants That, Too.
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Californians (and anyone)! Email Dem. State Senators on the CA Senate Judiciary Committee today & urge them to vote tomorrow for SB982 (Wiener) (Affordable Insurance & Recovery Act). envirovoters.org/insurance-af... Find their names and links to email addresses here: sjud.senate.ca.gov/members
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Insurance Affordability in California
California is in an insurance crisis, and politicians are siding with corporate polluters over everyday families. Californians shouldn't be the only ones footing the bill of the climate crisis.
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Hawaii joins CA and NY with legislation to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for insurance related losses. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Hawaii Has a Bold Idea to Make Big Oil Pay for Disasters
Hawaii may seem like Eden to those of us living in, say, New Jersey. But lately the only thing biblical about it has been the scale of the punishment it’s taking from nature. In the process, it’s also...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Well, if yesterday's map was ridiculous, I'm running out of superlatives to characterize today's. Countless locations from Pacific Coast to Great Plains are currently experiencing all-time record March warmth, w/ some locations approaching/exceeding April (or even May) records.
Map of U.S., from coolwx.com, showing locations currently experiencing record-breaking temperatures. There are countless such locations in the Western U.S., with hundreds of red dots (locations breaking daily record highs) and many dozens of pink dots (locations breaking March monthly record highs). The region of record heat extends from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains, and from Canada to Mexico.
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UC Berkeley Law @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at @cleeberkeley.bsky.social, recently published an article in @yalelawjournal.bsky.social analyzing how climate change is driving the growing property-insurance crisis. bit.ly/44zf2nB #BerkeleyLaw @cadavejones.bsky.social
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Dave Jones shows how climate change drives the property insurance crisis
The director of the Climate Risk Initiative at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment recently published an article in the Yale Law Journal suggesting federal and state policy solutions.
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UC Berkeley Law @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Dave Jones (@cadavejones.bsky.social), Director of the Climate Risk Initiative at @cleeberkeley.bsky.social, was named to the @washingtonpost.com "Post Next: 50 people shaping our society in 2026" list: www.washingtonpost.com/post-next/in... #BerkeleyLaw
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UC Berkeley Law @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
.@washingtonpost.com named @cadavejones.bsky.social, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at our @cleeberkeley.bsky.social, one of the Next 50 People Shaping Our Society in 2026: bit.ly/4d6xpoQ #BerkeleyLaw
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Rename parks, streets, plazas, days for Dolores Huerta! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...
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‘We’re Just Seen as Sex Objects’: Dolores Huerta’s Years in the U.F.W.
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Honored to be included in the @washingtonpost.com "Next 50 People Shaping Our Society in 2026"! www.washingtonpost.com/post-next/in...
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Looking forward to moderating a panel today at California Law and Policy Center Conference on Wildfire Resilience in California, at UC Davis Law School. law.ucdavis.edu/celpc-confer...
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CELPC Conference: Wildfire Resilience
Friday, Feb. 13, 2026 | King Hall, Room 1001 | MCLE Credits Available
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Ethan Elkind @ethanelkind.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Fmr CA Insurance Commissioner & my @cleeberkeley.bsky.social colleague @cadavejones.bsky.social on what it will take to stabilize the US insurance market in the near-to-medium term: yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-un...
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The Uninsurable Future: The Climate Threat to Property Insurance, and How to Stop It | Yale Law Journal
Property insurance availability is threatened by climate change.   Deregulating insurance markets is not the solution.  Stopping insurers’  financial...
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
New report from @climateintegrity.org documents oil and gas majors lies and deceptions regarding fossil fuel emissions role in driving #climatechange. insideclimatenews.org/news/1112202...
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Big Oil’s Climate Ads Have Propped Up Fake Promises and False Solutions for Past 25 Years, Report Finds - Inside Climate News
First-of-its-kind analysis of hundreds of climate-related advertisements from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell suggests that oil companies are continuing to mislead the public on climate.
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Privileged to be asked to contribute an article on climate change & insurance for latest edition of Yale Law Journal. "The only long-term solution to preserve an insurable future is to transition from fossil fuels and other greenhouse-gas-emitting industries." yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-un...
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The Uninsurable Future: The Climate Threat to Property Insurance, and How to Stop It | Yale Law Journal
Property insurance availability is threatened by climate change.   Deregulating insurance markets is not the solution.  Stopping insurers’  financial...
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Looking forward to joining a panel hosted by the Equitable & Just Insurance Initiative today, Tuesday, December 9, 2025 for a 1.5 hour virtual briefing on the intersections of climate change, insurance, housing, and consumer protections. 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm ET us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How Insurance Companies are Weathering Climate Change, Pulling In Record Profits, and Squeezing Us Dry. After registering, you will receive a confirmation ...
The Equitable & Just Insurance Initiative invites you to join a virtual deep dive into the climate-driven insurance crisis to discuss: ● what the insurance industry has been up to and how their pract...
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Climate One @climateone.org · 18/09/2025
So excited to see former Climate One guests on this list. Congrats @cadavejones.bsky.social and Rilen Duren!
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
My friend @glucks.bsky.social Gary Lucks, attorney & activist, is finishing a new book YOU ARE THE POWER, which is a guide to effective political action. Join me in supporting it publication thru Kickstarter. Deadline December 9th at 7:00 pm PT. www.kickstarter.com/projects/165...
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YOU ARE THE POWER - A Call to Action
Help Gary create an updated, expanded version of his successful activism handbook, for use before the midterms with funds for outreach.
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Join me at this #SunDay action in new York City! actionnetwork.org/events/sun-d...
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Sun Day Festival
An afternoon of food, entertainment, speakers and activities focused on the power of the sun and sustainable energy.   SunDay is a global day of action on September 21st, 2025, celebrating the u...
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Excited to be speaking at the Harvard Climate Symposium at The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University today! salatainstitute.harvard.edu/hcaw/
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HCAW - The Salata Institute
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Terrific report on terrible anti-consumer impact from another gem from Florida's deregulation of its insurance market. @publiccitizen.bsky.social
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 14/09/2025
A good news story from Colorado, courtesy of @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social — Colorado became the first state to require insurance companies to include climate risk in insurance modeling!
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 14/09/2025
"Let's make sure when we do these huge, amazing zoning reforms ... that we're not zoning for new housing in these risk zones," says Heather Clark It's time to do disaster-informed zoning!
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 14/09/2025
"It turns out YIMBY is a climate policy ... compact development contributes substantially to reducing emissions." - @cadavejones.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 14/09/2025
"We are not doing anyone a favor by putting them in harm's way," Heather Clark says. We need to ensure that the housing we advocate for is resilient and safe.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 14/09/2025
There's $13 trillion worth of housing that'll face risks due to climate change — that's a lot of money, @mateosfo.bsky.social points out. We're steadily marching to an "uninsurable future," @cadavejones.bsky.social says.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 14/09/2025
We're starting our first plenary of #YIMBYtown2025! Follow along for a deep dive on climate risk, housing, and insurance, feat. @mateosfo.bsky.social @cadavejones.bsky.social @katenrg.bsky.social @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social and Heather Clark!
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
North Dakota farmers can thank President Trump and his tariffs for their inability to sell their soybeans. "China’s Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
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China’s Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
If you don’t want to be called a Nazi, stop acting like one.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2025
In a marathon hearing on Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee, RFK Jr. faced a barrage of questions from senators who were outraged by his recent actions. In some cases, Kennedy appeared to promote flat-out lies.
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RFK Jr. is living in a pretend anti-vax world
Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.
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Steve Koller @stevekoller.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
After a recent storm, perhaps you've seen a photo of a car underwater and wondered what happens to the car and the owner? In a new paper titled "Vehicle flood damage and household disaster assistance in the US," I take a look into this issue. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵(1/6)
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Vehicle flood damage and household disaster assistance in the United States
Vehicles are the most commonly-owned nonfinancial asset in the United States (US) and represent a relatively high share of net worth for low-wealth households. Despite rising flood exposure from urba...
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