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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Interesting: the calculus is changing in Norway around EU membership. ‘We said no in 1972 because of fish and again in 1994, it was very much about fish. Fish and agriculture.’ But now wider geopolitics means there may be bigger drivers than fish www.ft.com/content/5c8a...
ft.com
EU looks more attractive in Donald Trump’s ‘crazy world’, says Norway
Oslo rethinks relationship with bloc after it rejected membership twice
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“Reform has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries… Once again: Reform is largely funded by fossil fuels” Private Eye on the anti-thought, pro-corruption threat of Reform
MELTING TICE

RICHARD TICE, Reform
UK's deputy leader and spokesman on energy and climate, made an extraordinary appearance on Bloomberg's Zero podcast last week. A few things soon became clear: firstly, he hasn't read the science.

Tice claims the UK. is "almost
unilaterally" beggaring itself by choosing low-carbon power (tell that to China, building hundreds of gigawatts of solar and wind each year). He hasn't read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) summary for policymakers. He says "thousands" of scientists disagree with accepted climate science but wouldn't - couldn't? - name any scientists who'd advised him.

He thinks net zero will bankrupt Britain (jobs in clean energy are growing faster than much of the rest of the economy). He threatened to walk out twice - once when presented with the IPCC's summary. When asked about batteries, which store solar and wind power safely and cheaply until the evening peak, he said: "We don't need batteries. It's ridiculous."

Reform UK has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries, for God's sake. Its policy is "drill, drill, frack Lincolnshire".
Once again: Reform
is largely funded by fossil fuels.

The main defence Tice wielded was that the IPC recently abandoned its always implausible
"RCP8.5" scenario - the worst-case, which predicted coal use doubling or tripling this century.
İronically, Tice himself is the British politician who would do more than anything else to bring about that polluted world.

'Young Windy'
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Maybe we should have gone for an economy built on crypto and oil instead. Remember the key thing about anti net zero - or "I believe in it just not now" - people, they don't believe in growth. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds
Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/06/2026
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
‘Sometimes, the demands make no sense, NIH staffers say. For example, HHS wanted a scientist training grant in its final year to add a clinical trial—work these awards by definition do not support. “It’s an absolutely bonkers comment,” a program officer says.’
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
More destruction of U.S. science leadership, infrastructure and invaluable research and information that affects all of us. This sounds like another lawsuit in the making. At least I hope so. Gift link. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
He’s really going to melt down in 2 weeks 😂
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Amazing. Amazon shuts down leaderboard designed to incentivize employees to use AI because employees used AI to cheat in the contest www.404media.co/amazon-shuts...
404media.co
Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated
Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Shorter explanation: A lot of white MN republicans are mad a white cop is in jail for killing a black man
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned 

I can summarize that for you
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 25/05/2026
🚨 NEW: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate Robert Kenyon previously claimed women “can’t drive” and get abortions for “vanity purposes” to “shag anyone they want” He admitted: “I’m sexist, sorry but I am”
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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Lowe and Goodwin are publicly slugging it out over the new Reform candidate’s sexual fantasies about Carol Vorderman. The language is setting new Low(e)s for standards in public office. You could say it’s a race to the bottom…
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is nuts. And very dangerous.
Screenshot of an X post from journalist Erin Banco (@ErinBanco) reporting a scoop that Trump's election-security czar Kurt Olsen sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states by asking whether the Commerce Department could designate their components as national-security risks. Text only, no image.
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
insidehighered.com
Report: NIH, NASA Restrict Co-Authoring With Foreign Scientists
The National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are targeting collaborations between U.S. scientists and foreign researchers, Science reports.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Former presidents came up to him with tears in their eyes...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Majority of Canadians say it’s better to depend on China than on the US under Trump. In other key allies - Germany, UK, France - a plurality say the same. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/11/2025
Jasmine Crockett: "If people decide that they want to continue to support person who may be a pedophile themselves or a person who obviously is covering on pedophiles, that's on them. But they should at least know the devil they decided to pick."
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 12/11/2025
And this is why we read the classics, kids.
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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 12/11/2025
Ken, do you a sign on my lawn that says dead billionaire pedophile storage?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
It is interesting how tone of a paper comes from the one or two authors who do the bulk of writing, but all our names are on it. I guess I like that in this case the one or two didn't anticipate some middle neutral tone but instead brought their attitude to the court. I like it
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
An archipelago, if you will
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 01/07/2025
Looking forward to Bari Weiss's scathing column about this.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The Trump budget math is simply this: Cut taxes for the rich, cut spending that helps everyone else, and pay for it by taxing working Americans through tariffs.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/07/2025
It turns out that the stripped down-but-sturdy appliances are uniquely capable of one thing: surviving. Ugly as they are, they have what it takes to avoid the pitfalls of the vast majority of appliances sold today. trib.al/PwXCIUH
Three old-fashioned stoves, from left to right, in copper, cream, and red, sit on wooden pallets. The image has overlaid text that reads, "My Fridge and Stove Are Ugly. But Now I Know That’s a Good Thing."
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This has to be a moment of reckoning for how they've organised themselves, the ideas they're promoting and the manner in which they are pursuing them. It can't go on like this.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/07/2025
News Analysis: Among the most expensive pieces of legislation in years, the Republican legislation that just passed through the Senate on Tuesday could reshape the U.S.’s finances for a generation.
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Republican Bill Puts Nation on New, More Perilous Fiscal Path
Among the most expensive pieces of legislation in years, the Republican legislation could reshape the country’s finances for a generation.
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markwilsher.bsky.social @markwilsher.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This explains why the text it generates is so well suited to the corporate environment: summarising meetings and editing emails for us. It's just empty bullshit language, the idioms and signifiers that perform a response (but without actually meaning anything)
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This isn’t even remotely legal what he is doing.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 18/03/2025
Apparently WW2 was won exclusively by white men.
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WHO @who.int · 18/03/2025
The #measles vaccine has saved an estimated 5 lives every second since 2000. 👉Prevent measles by getting vaccinated with two doses of the measles vaccine.
Measles is preventable with just two doses of measles vaccine.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 06/11/2024
This from Jill Filipovic sums it up for me: "In the coming days there's gonna be a lot of opining about what the Harris campaign did wrong, but this election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America."
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Apparently Johnson was “fired” from the Channel 4 🇺🇸 Election coverage for repeatedly promoting his book, despite being told not to. “You can’t stop me” he said. He didn’t return after the first interval. Planned? Or really fired? They should never have invited him apple.news/AI6KcbamaQ32...
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Channel 4 ‘fired’ Boris Johnson from US election show for promoting his book, co-host says — The Guardian
Former British prime minister kept bringing up his memoir despite being warned to ‘put it away’ and was later replaced on TV panel
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
An incredible/hilarious/horrifying thing: If Trump loses, the 2028 Republican presidential nomination will be his if he wants it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2024
this is totally unscientific but i swear, those harris-walz camo hats genuinely made it socially acceptable for a certain kind of dude to rep the campaign
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Harris launched her campaign calling MAGA a bunch of weirdos and Trump world’s closing argument is that she was totally right.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/11/2024
Thinking back to when Trump was running in 2016 and people were like “sure he’s unqualified but he’ll hire competent people to advise him” and that was almost plausible and now this time around he’s just openly handing out promises of power to a giant pile of the most obvious enthusiastic grifters
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Juror #2: Dunno what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this. Full review sometime this week. For now I’ll just quote Miller’s Crossing: the old man is still an artist with the Thompson.
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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Ballot curing is awesome and excellent and people who do it are very clever and smart and have the mandate of heaven.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/11/2024
Obama: "In talking to people I've realized that one of the reasons people think Donald Trump will improve the economy is because they watched The Apprentice ... I want everybody to be clear. That was not reality. That was a reality show."
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
Truth
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/11/2024
Kamala Harris: "I would ask in particular people who have not yet voted to not fall for his tactic, which includes suggesting to people that if they vote their vote won't matter...it is meant to distract from the fact we have & support free & fair elections in our country. We did in 2020. He lost."
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Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Kamala Harris on how her campaign will respond if Trump declares premature early: "I would ask in particular people who have not yet voted to not fall for his tactic, which I think includes suggesting to people that if they vote their vote won't matter ... it is meant to distract from the fact that we have and support free and fair elections in our country. We did in 2020. He lost."
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 03/11/2024
Hell hath no fury like 169 million pissed off women heading to the polls.
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