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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW CPE REPORT on the urgency of building an interregional transmission macrogrid! @cthelala.bsky.social and I argue that only the federal government can get it built; no other actor on the grid is capable of doing so! Really, this is a paper about the theory of transmission as an asset class:

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Jake Higdon @jakehigdon.com · 15/09/2026

Every new consumer tech release in the last 5 years has felt like “99% of the time this will be used for scams and otherwise degrade social trust, but 1% of the time it’ll do this other thing, and that’s pretty cool/useful”

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Chirag Lala @cthelala.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW CPE report on building an interregional macrogrid! @advaitarun.bsky.social & I argue that the U.S. lacks the mechanisms to turn national and regional planning into a pipeline of interregional transmission projects. Federal leadership is critical to close this gap.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Interesting paper just dropped in the great data center debate and it's not great news. Data centers seem to raise the yields on local govt debt since they have a very low long term multiplier and large perceived externalities on public infrastructure. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Chirag Lala @cthelala.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We also work with @jakehigdon.com and his Advanced Industrial Zones initiative - just the sort of thing you’d need when a large development necessitates marshaling resources, infrastructure, and state capacity. publicenterprise.org/advanced-ind...

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Advanced Industrial Zones

Advanced Industrial Zones The United States struggles to build advanced manufacturing facilities. The local conditions for success -- clear permitting processes, site readiness, talent, and, ...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Important to note that "consensual, mutually beneficial exchange" is basically "having an economy".

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Trump family crypto earnings: $1.4 billion $TRUMP meme coin: -98% $MELANIA meme coin: -99% “Perhaps the most blatant example of corruption in the history of American politics.” — Bilello

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026

the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

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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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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis, with EVs and public transport among the key factors. Oil consumption fell by 9% overall and by 16% for transport. 🧵

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The corruption never ends. One of the energy companies that agreed to cancel an offshore wind farm has promised to instead buy a $900-million stake in a natural gas project from a Trump mega-donor's private equity fund: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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$900 million from a canceled wind deal will benefit a Trump donor

The Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon offshore wind projects and boost investment in fossil fuels is set to deliver a windfall to a private equity firm run by one of President Donald Trump...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...

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What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals

The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.

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South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · 27/08/2026

DEVELOPING STORY: A Florida grand jury investigating the Hope Florida scandal found that key members of the DeSantis administration engaged in a “sophisticated scheme” to divert $10 million of a Medicaid settlement into a political activities and the Republican Party of Florida.

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Hope Florida grand jury describes public money ‘misused for political purposes’

The not-yet released reported was obtained by CBS News Miami and detailed wrongdoing but also an inability to bring criminal charges.

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026

WELKER: Do you think democratic socialists have a place in the Democratic Party? VAN HOLLEN: Yes they do as part of the debate. I think that those in the Dem Party who are afraid of a healthy debate are missing the point, because Democratic voters do not want a return to the pre-Trump status quo

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 19/08/2026

An experimental cancer vaccine kept melanoma from coming back. It’s the first successful late-stage mRNA study validating decades of custom-treatment research.

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Moderna, Merck Vaccine Succeeds in Preventing Melanoma From Returning

Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's insane. Like you can tell people how the water rights system works and they literally will not believe it could possibly work like that because it's so stupid bsky.app/profile/high...

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The guy who oversees the U.S. Forest Service called in a ton of extra federal firefighting support for a small fire near his mega-ranch in Idaho, even as many larger blazes burned elsewhere. Rage-inducing @washingtonpost.com investigation: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

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Top Trump official asked for more aircraft to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch

Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more resources to contain a seven-acre blaze last month, officials said.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026

Trump says he has a good relationship with Kim Jong Un, asks the lifeguard he's honoring to co-sign his attacks on the press, and then snaps at a woman reporter: "Be quiet! Be quiet!"

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m a little surprised the other 29 owners are on board with the league office letting Ballmer get away with it. Aren’t they mad their richest rival is showing that they could spend more money on their basketball teams if they wanted to? Don’t they want everybody to think the cap is super real???

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Jake Higdon @jakehigdon.com · 17/08/2026

“No evidence” is some chicanery. Sure, there’s no video of Ballmer carrying a briefcase of cash marked K Leonard. A star got paid under the table on his watch! Meanwhile, Dundon is robbing Portland in broad daylight. League is disintegrating; Silver’s gotta go. www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/RueB...

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From the nba community on Reddit: [Holmes and Charania] The NBA has found no evidence showing LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer funneled money through team sponsors to pay Kawhi Leonard in order to circ...

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'll never steal your pen.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

AI is falling to the China scale and China price. But more important is situated communities of knowledge. Is the US going to be early leader & innovator on AI & then fail on process knowledge & diffusion to the Chinese? Good note by Sarah Guo on 'What Shenzhen Knows' x.com/saranormous/...

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 12/08/2026

Trump is simply stealing tax money to build himself a golden palace

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Amazon is building the nation’s largest fossil fuel plant exclusively to power artificial intelligence As my colleague @emilypont.bsky.social notes, the plant’s permit allows for essentially double the emissions of the most polluting power plant in the U.S.

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Amazon Is Building America’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Plant to Power AI

The company confirmed its plans to market research company Cleanview.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 01/08/2026

It's a tough job, but literally no one has to do it

Four National guard troops standing around doing nothing on a beautiful day in Georgetown

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Jake Higdon @jakehigdon.com · 31/07/2026

You wouldn’t know it from the general media environment, but a recent study’s 20 Happiest Cities of 2026 include SF, three other liberal California hellholes, and the Seattle Anarchy Zone… plus a bunch of college towns www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/r...

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The Happiest Cities of 2026

A study mined data on emotional, physical and financial health, as well as community and environmental factors, to find the happiest Americans.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/07/2026

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The conspicuous overlap between record-breaking warmth, dryness, and/or low snowpack and these fires is simply not a coincidence. The scientific evidence linking increasingly extreme fire weather, as well as increasingly extreme wildfires themselves, to climate warming is clear.

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Paul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

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FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

More Americans have been killed in the Iran war Trump started than in the Afghan withdrawal Biden was handed and completed. The implications for America’s geopolitical situation is much worse with attacking Iran than leaving Afghanistan. But going by tone of coverage, one would think the opposite.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hell of a scoop! The day before Ken Pa ton intervened in the Brendan Sorsby saga, Texas Tech Board of Regents Chair Cody Campbell, one of Sorsby’s most public defenders, donated $274,300 to a fundraising committee supporting Paxton. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/15/c...

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Texas Tech chair donated $275K to Paxton before he intervened for Sorsby

Cody Campbell, a major Texas Tech booster and GOP megadonor, has vocally defended Brendan Sorsby’s right to play amid a legal battle stemming from his betting scandal.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

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Jake Higdon @jakehigdon.com · 14/07/2026

More state-sponsored murder today in Maine. We can’t go on like this.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

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How Marco Rubio is Running Venezuela From Afar

The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in th...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin just issued subpoenas to several journalists for The New York Times, after the outlet reported on security concerns involving Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One. The subpoenas seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury on Wednesday.

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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media

The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This kind of thing, ICE killing a different person from the one they were searching for, wouldn’t happen if they’d just stop killing people.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.

“That is a lie,” wrote Jose Trinidad Rojas, 51, in a handwritten statement. “It is impossible for them to say that they were going to get run over … there were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides.”

Balderas-Ibarra spoke to Rojas, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, 43, and the shooting victim’s brother, Victor Salgado, 44, and said he heard the same story from each as he interviewed them separately. The men are not being housed together, the attorney said. All three are undocumented Mexican immigrants who are now facing removal proceedings.

“All of them reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van,” Balderas-Ibarra said. “They came in and started shooting from the sides.”

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is absolutely devastating and infuriating. ICE officers in an unmarked car shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father of three, on his way to work. Then the smear machine immediately kicked in. Read the words of his son, and demand accountability: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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He saw a video of a Mexican man shot by ICE. It was his father.

The eldest child of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said his father was “a family man” who was likely frightened by the unmarked vehicles following him.

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