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Daniel Breslau

@danielbreslau.bsky.social
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Economic sociologist at Virginia Tech STS interested in the politics and science of markets and how these baroque contraptions mediate energy transition.

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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
AI is going to do away with tacit knowledge? Complete with a sardonic quote from Harry Collins. nyti.ms/3SkjjIK
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Some Scientists Have ‘Magic Hands’ in the Lab. This A.I. Is Learning Why.
Even the most adept researchers may not know exactly what they do to get successful results. An A.I. model is trying to figure it out by watching every move.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Forest occupation to block the development of the military industry in Southern Norway. bit.ly/44U9UtW
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A letter from the Abyss: Forest occupation in Southern Norway celebrates two months of struggle against the state, the military, and their world — RUPTURE PRESS
Two months of struggle against the state, the military and their world: a letter from the forest occupation in Southern Norway. The “Aktivt Forsvart Sone” – AFS (Actively Defended Zone” is fighting ag...
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The gradual decline in energy-related CO2 emissions in the US was reversed in 2025, with an increase of over 100 million metric tons. New renewables are not keeping up with the rapid increase in electricity demand, so coal-fired generation is running for more hours.
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U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and AnalysisU.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) - Pub
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is a risky approach since everything Trump does to prime his supporters to reject the election results also hurts Republicans' electoral chances.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
El que no brinca es puto imperialista!
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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Renewables-plus-storage is so cheap that in large parts of the world it is cheaper to build a whole new clean power plant than just pay for the fuel and maintenance for a fully-depreciated gas generator. Renewables aren’t just threatening new-build gas — they are undermining existing plants.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Trump DOJ is intervening to try to get a NAACP lawsuit against Musk's xAI dismissed on shaky national security grounds. The argument: because Grok allegedly helped pick Iranian bombing targets, expecting xAI to comply with environmental regulations endangers security. bit.ly/4vit73T
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DOJ intervenes on behalf of xAI in data center gas turbine lawsuit
The Department of Defense said the xAI data center powered by the gas plant is critical to national security, revealing Grok was used to fire thousands of missiles in the Iran war.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The Trump admin's energy policy is inflationary, its trade policy is inflationary, its fiscal policy is inflationary, he harasssed and tried to oust the Fed Chair to get inflationary monetary policy. When inflation is finally stopped by a deep recession, who do you think will take credit for that?
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢 #5: Me llamo Juan, by Adriel Favela. All the hardships of the journey, sleeping rough, hunger, and the grind of finding work. In the end, his successful integration is measured by his purchasing power: "Before, I couldn't buy a pair of sneakers; now I have a whole collection."
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Adriel Favela - Me Llamo Juan (Video Oficial) - Gerencia 360 2017
Adriel Favela - Me Llamo Juan (Video Oficial) - Gerencia 360 2017 #adrielfavela #mellamojuan #gerencia360 #musica SUSCRIBETE A NUESTROS CANALES http://www.youtube.com/Gerencia360TV https://www.youtube.com/Gerencia360Channel2 Sigue a ADRIEL FAVELA https://www.facebook.com/AdrielFavelaMusica https://www.instagram.com/AdrielFavela https://www.twitter.com/Adriel_Favela ¿Ya nos siguen en nuestra comunidad G360? http://www.gerenciamusic360.com http://www.Facebook.com/GerenciaMusic360 http://www.Twitter.com/360Gerencia http://www.Instagram.com/gerencia360 Playlists Exclusivos De Gerencia 360: - Adriel Favela https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLswCUQIVuXsAU-L118GIazOA4ibnRZ79E - Jonatan Sanchez https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLswCUQIVuXsBWecdjSZbrh0LB3hCfPHnU ---------------- CONTACTO Para Contrataciones: Luis Del Villar Email: Luis@gerenciamusic360.com Gerencia 360 300 E. Magnolia Blvd. Suite 500 Burbank, CA 91502 Oficina: (818) 276-9599 Fax: (818) 333-9862 Celular: (562)879-6496 © 2016 Gerencia 360 Music, Inc.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The gas pipeline is building a compressor station to support extending the line to feed gas power plants and eventually reach LNG terminals for export. To compensate the local community: $15K worth of bicycle desks!
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School desks with pedals? Montgomery County students will bike as they learn
Mountain Valley Pipeline has awarded a grant to purchase desk bikes for the students who attend elementary school nearest to the proposed Swann Compressor Station in Montgomery County.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢 #4: Los Ilegales, by Los Tucanes de Tijuana. "The illegal is not a terrorist. The illegal is a worker. Terrorists carry passports. They don't enter by land; they enter by plane. Stop bothering us and acknowledge our work."
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Los Ilegales - Los Tucanes De Tijuana
YouTube video by Rafael Reyes El Rey De Reyes (Reyes)
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢 #3: Corrido de Juanito by Calibre 50. A popular Mexican perspective on the migrant: deracinated and lonely, hard-working and disrespected, wary of 𝘭𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢, longing for home and family, and proudly Mexican all the way, 𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢 𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘦.
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Calibre 50 - Corrido De Juanito
YouTube video by CalibreCincuentaVEVO
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sure, data centers bring the problem of inadequate power supply to meet demand. But if they suddenly drop off the grid unexpectedly, they create the opposite problem: an imbalance with too little demand for the supply. And that can be just as dangerous. We're unprepared, says NERC. bit.ly/3PlqRt6
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NERC issues Level 3 alert, mandates action to address data center load losses
Computational loads pose “immediate risks,” the grid watchdog said. Certain grid participants must take seven actions by Aug. 3 in response.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Contemporary 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢 #2, Coronoa de rosas (Crown of roses) by Kevin Ortiz and Ulises Chaidez (great 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 playing). Kid seeks his fortune across the border (𝘱𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘵𝘳𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘰). Returns to find his dad has literally worked himself to death.
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Corona De Rosas - (Video Oficial) - Kevin Ortiz ft. Ulices Chaidez - DEL Records 2017
YouTube video by DEL Records
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I gave a talk on data centers to the Sustainable Blacksburg community group as part of their "Lunch & Learn" series. I pounded the thesis that the biggest and worst impacts of data centers stem from their contribution to rapid load growth.
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Lunch and Learn: The Data on Data Centers
YouTube video by Sustainable Blacksburg
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"If they deport me." An updated 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢, an old and continuing tradition of story/songs about crossing the border. This was some years ago, and these kids are now young adults and still performing.
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Los Luzeros de Rioverde - Si Me Deportan (Video Oficial)
YouTube video by Los Luzeros De Rioverde
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Gift from a Ph.D. abvisee who just finished. It's inscribed, "Reality is what resists. - Bruno Latour" ❤️
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I lo e that crypto bros are worried that Trump's going to give them a bad name.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
ICE is a threat to public safety. Now threatening to prosecute the ICE watchers.
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ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted
After ICE raided a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and arrested two men, the federal agency is promising to prosecute the bystanders who challenged their authority.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
China has been trying for years to break the log jam of its high savings rate. Now, with Trump's help, they may actually do it. The Great Nation Builder strikes again.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My union.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Ending the Fed's independence would rebalance trade in the most disastrous way imaginable, via a collapse of the US dollar.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The ECB's situation is totally different from the Fed's. The US exposure to tariff shocks is much greater than the EU's, who still have lower barriers with their big non-US partners: UK, China, Russia. And who is going to lower interest rates when our bondholders are getting yippy?
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Flyer advertising Immigration Rapid Response Hotline for Virginia: 855-298-3271.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Trump's plan to bail out failing coal-fired power plants will cost ratepayers more and will worsen pollution and climate change. And it's illegal.
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The power industry must oppose Trump’s coal bailout ... again
The executive order threatens to conflict with existing methods for accrediting generators, assessing resource adequacy, securing sufficient generation and setting wholesale prices. It’s also illegal.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The cornerstone of Trump energy policy is to make us pay more so that we can have energy that kills more people and helps make the planet unlivable.
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Trump Signs Executive Orders Aimed at Reviving U.S. Coal Industry (Gift Article)
The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Beware this model legislation from Heritage, now being fed to pro-fossil state legislators and introduced as a bill in many states. It is nothing but a disguised subsidy for fossil fuel generators that kneecaps renewables, at customers' expense. herit.ag/4i4nWx5
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Affordable and Reliable Electricity Act
AN ACT directing the [electric utility regulatory agency] to develop rules and procedures promoting an affordable and reliable electric grid that meets estimated peak demand, including during extreme ...
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
U.S. media have completely dropped the ball on explaining where trade deficits come from and all their non-tariff sources.
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
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US Applicant Week
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
RIP. Unfortunately, the obit does not mention Clem's greatest performances. Try X Offender.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Roanoke VA
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The countries hardest hit with tariffs are also the most intensive users of thermal coal for electricity. Their manufacturing sectors will surely double down on coal fired power now that they are being squeezed by tariffs. Forget about climate progress for at least the near future.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
“These firings cede the university’s decision-making authority to bullies and bad-faith actors committed to silencing speech with which they disagree.” - Harvard @aaup.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
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Leaders of Harvard’s Middle Eastern Studies Center Will Leave
Harvard University has been under pressure by the Trump administration to follow directives related to diversity and combating antisemitism.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 26/03/2025
We asked legal experts how Columbia University would fare if they sued the Trump administration. "On the merits, there’s no doubt that Columbia would have won." chroni.cl/3FI9hdJ
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‘It Is Remarkable How Quickly the Chill Has Descended’
Legal scholars on what Columbia University should have done — and what other colleges could do next.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New Yorker cartoon.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
When the Trump regime's desire for control gets in the way of real efforts to make government more efficient.
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Trump executive order threatens transmission, interconnection initiatives: former FERC commissioners
President Trump’s executive order compromises FERC’s independence, is “unhealthy, unwarranted, and unprecedented,” threatens power system reliability and is “plainly illegal,” the former commissioners...
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
In the past 20 years, annual coal mining fatalities have been reduced from about 30 per 100,000 miners to 10-12. Yet the @dol.gov Inspector General has pointed out the failure to reach mine inspection goals. Now that IG has been fired and mine safety offices are being closed. bit.ly/4kZ0XGJ
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Trump administration moves to shutter mine safety offices in coal country
Miners and their advocates worry that DOGE's cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration will put them at risk.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Let's be clear here. This is not about complying with the law. It is about 1. threats, fear, and money; 2. Board members who only begrudgingly supported diversity to begin with and are more than happy to have federal gov. backup for eliminating this office. bit.ly/4j5fwql
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Virginia Tech board votes to dissolve inclusion office
"This is a tumultuous time for higher education, and Virginia Tech is not immune from any of the scrutiny," said President Tim Sands.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Pete Hegseth in 2016: "How damaging is it to your ability to recruit or build allies with others when they are worried that our leaders may be exposing them because of their gross negligence or their recklessness in handling information?"
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Virginia Tech community is in the street. Stop the attacks on higher ed, on DEI. To our Board of Visitors: get a spine and stand up for us@
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
New article by my student, Pratyusha Kiran gets inside fast fashion supply chains to look at constraints faced by Indian manufacturers.
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Barriers to sustainable transition in the fashion industry: insights from India
Streamlined production and innovative retail strategies have enabled the fashion industry to experience rapid growth in recent decades, with its complex global supply chain posing serious environme...
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"We will not take lectures on antisemitism from segregationists & neo-nazis. We will not allow [the]..pres..to claim the mantle of Jewish safety as they shred the Constitution & spin outlandish..theories to justify the suppression of dissent.." lithub.com/a-columbia-u...
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A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil
On March 12, at a rally in front of the New York City courthouse where Mahmoud Khalil’s hearing took place, classicist and Columbia University associate professor Joseph Howley made the follo…
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@nytimes.com : "an ethical situation that has few precedents in modern American history." Translation: corruption on a massive and unprecedented scale. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...
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Musk’s SpaceX Could Secure Billions in New Contracts Under Trump
The boost in federal spending for SpaceX will come in part as a result of actions by President Trump and Elon Musk’s allies and employees who hold government positions. Supporters say he has the best ...
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
@haaretzcom.bsky.social Reporting that Israel is preparing to conquer and occupy the entire Gaza Strip., and to impose full military rule over the entire population.
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ישראל נערכת לכיבוש עזה, להחזרת הממשל הצבאי ולשליטה מלאה באוכלוסייה
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Here's the powerful open letter from @alt-epa-workers.bsky.social EPA staff. www.ehn.org/epa-environm...
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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public
"This is not about defending our paychecks. This is about protecting the health of our communities."
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
More chaotic trade policy. The port fees are a reverse tariff, making US exports more expensive. This "improve the trade balance by handicapping U.S. exports" plan would also require shippers to use 20% U.S. vessels. They didn't know that there are zero U.S. ships for liquid natural gas (LNG).
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Exclusive: Proposed US port fees on China-built ships begin choking coal, agriculture exports
President Donald Trump's plan to revive U.S. shipbuilding using massive fees on China-linked ship visits to American ports is causing U.S. coal inventories to swell and stoking uncertainty in the embattled agriculture market, as exporters struggle to find ships to send goods abroad.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Straight-up human trafficking.
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An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.
GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I can't stop fuming at the silence of my Columbia U. class of '83 classmate, a certain ex-POTUS, regarding the Trump attacks on our alma mater.
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Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I'm a little uneasy with the term "coal renaissance," just like I would not refer to a "measles renaissance."
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