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Julie MacArthur 🍁

@jlmacarthur.bsky.social
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Energy transitions #momademic & Canada Research Chair in Reimagining #Capitalism @royalroadsu.bsky.social #Climatejustice, #energydemocracy, #solidarity #economies. #Cargobike fan. Born at 337 PPM. Author: www.ubcpress.ca/empowering-electricity

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ICARUS Maynooth @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Who Owns the Transition? Join @jlmacarthur.bsky.social, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social, Dr Emanuela Ferrari & Laurie Reilly for a discussion on energy democracy and the power of community and cooperative renewables. 📅 22 June | 2–4pm 📍 Hybrid event Register www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
Promotional poster for a hybrid event titled "Who Owns the Transition? Energy Democracy and the Power of Community and Cooperative Renewables." The banner image shows a group of people in high-visibility vests standing beside solar panels. Event details appear on an orange background: 22 June 2026, 2pm–4pm, Room 2.31, Iontas Building and online. The poster features special guest Professor Julie MacArthur, Canada Research Chair in Reimagining Capitalism at Royal Roads University, alongside a headshot photograph. The Maynooth University logo is displayed on the left.
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New book: Justice in Canada's Energy Transition is coming out with @ubcpress.bsky.social this fall. Led by the incredible Laura Tozer, with myself, Cheryl Teelucksingh and Jenny Lieu as co-editors. www.ubcpress.ca/justice-in-c... #energysky
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Royal Roads University @royalroads.ca · 21/01/2026
How can communities build a more resilient renewable energy future? RRU’s @jlmacarthur.bsky.social, Canada Research Chair in Reimagining Capitalism, studies how local energy co‑ops can drive energy democracy and diversification.
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Could energy co-ops ease BC Hydro’s power crunch? | The Narwhal
Projects led by community energy co-ops can be resilient, responsive and efficient, research shows. What’s holding them back with BC Hydro?
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Chad Walker @chadwalker.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Led by @jlmacarthur.bsky.social, our team just published A Roadmap to Resilience. We look to int’l community & co-op energy projects. We show how these models can accelerate the energy transition while promoting equity & democracy. @accessnetwork.bsky.social www.cecooperative.ca/sites/www.ce...
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Parliament must ban Canadian firms from doing business with ICE Morning File by me
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Parliament must ban Canadian firms from doing business with ICE - Halifax Examiner
An unbridled fascist state next door will necessarily lead to the end of Canadian sovereignty.
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I love my #e-cargo #bike /replacement minivan 'Falcor' & this video explains why #Victoria is such a great place to cycle! Bike lanes are still controversial, but the huge growth in all ages/stages cycling is a testament to the joy of active transport as well as safe, inclusive design. 👏👏🎉
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Royal Roads University @royalroads.ca · 25/11/2025
As COP30 ends, Dr. @jlmacarthur.bsky.social spoke with CBC's Gregor Craigie saying that even with more Indigenous representation, it still wasn't extraordinarily inclusive. "These COPs are still fairly concentrated in state and industry actors." Full interview: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Climate Action Network Canada @canrac.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📢 For the first time in over a decade, Canada has been shamed at #COP30 as the “Fossil of the Day” — the most dishonourable award given during COPs to the countries “who are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least.” Read our press release: shorturl.at/hSGvm
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Canada shamed as “Fossil of the Day” at COP30, for the first time in more than a decade - Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac)
Belém, Brazil, 18 November 2025: Today at COP30, international civil society denounced Canada as Fossil of the Day—the first time since 2014 that Canada has been singled out for this dishonour. Foss...
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A press release from the Heiltsuk Nation, which is currently dealing with a floundering freight barge in its territorial waters, responds directly to reports about the MOU:
This adds insult to injury. A tanker ban is not a ban if it includes exceptions.

Our nation is still recovering from the Nathan E. Stewart spill, which took place nice years ago, this same time of year. Our cultural and harvesting areas have remained closed since then. That was a spill under 700 barrels in size and polluted over 1500 acres of our territory. In contrast, supertankers can carry 2 million barrels of oil. We cannot imagine and will never allow that kind of risk in our territory.
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This is such a timely (free, open access!) book on the politics of and resistance to fossil fuel infrastructures in #Canada. Beautifully written and nuanced take on the entanglements between #Indigenous sovereignty, coalition building, #petro-masculinities and #labour politics. #energysky 🙌
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Increasing number of women in politics leads to more diverse (and progressive, even feminist (shock, horror 😁) policies, NWC report finds – #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Increasing number of women in politics leads to more diverse policies, NWC report finds
National Women’s Council says female leaders advance women friendly policies
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is a really useful pivot to clean heat policy & away from electricity dominated analyses - first I've seen like it. 👏👏👏
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Research explainer for some of my #energydemocracy work @royalroads.ca, with researchers and practitioners from across #Canada. Features our new map of energy co-operatives and how grassroots #innovation, #diversity and #justice is essential for #climate action. #energysky youtu.be/9qy7EKgYTok
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Research in Action - Julie MacArthur: The Power Shift: Energy transitions and community empowerment
YouTube video by Royal Roads University
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Check out this new open access book - #Feminist #Climate #Policy in #Industrialized States - with policymaker interviews, chapters on degrowth, construction, photovoce and participatory methods + much more. Three cheers for the editors :) www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures, by @justinalger.bsky.social, Kate J. Neville & @atterbalac.bsky.social
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The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures
Despite the significant environmental and social concerns associated with deep-sea mining, the International Seabed Authority (ISA)—the organization tasked with governing the international seabed—i...
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Job alert - We're hiring a researcher @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social for a 2 year contract on 'fast and fair' #energy #transitions. Open to remote or here in beautiful Victoria, BC. Pls share. #energysky. cascadeinstitute.org/opportunitie...
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Fellow, 'Fast and Fair' Energy System Innovation
The Cascade Institute seeks a Fellow to contribute to our Clean Energy Scale Up & Acceleration research stream.
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Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We're still recruiting for this study: Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey: forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW Questions? Email lindsay.odell@open.ac.uk #PhD #Neurodivergent
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
For those interested Karl Janelle will be sharing results from our new Canadian Co-operative Energy Project and Organization Dataset (@deryatarhan.bsky.social, Lewis Blagogie and Ara Argondona). Data is free and open access on Borealis: borealisdata.ca/dataset.xhtm...
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The 3rd Canadian #Community #Energy Forum starts tomorrow @royalroads.ca. Super excited to host CECC & share work w/ researchers, policymakers, project developers & politicians keen to develop a more just and resilient energy system in #Canada. www.cecooperative.ca/the-3rd-annu... #energysky
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The 3rd Annual Community Energy Co-operative Forum and CECC AGM - Community Energy Cooperative Canada
The 3rd Annual Community Energy Co-operative Forum and CECC AGM Registration is now open for the 3rd Annual Community Energy […]
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2025
An awesome story about how solar microgrids kept the power on during Puerto Rico's latest blackouts. This is bottom-up, power-to-the-people shit. Get excited!
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Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
UPDATED: We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.
NO ICE ACCESS IN THIS OFFICE

PRIVATE PROPERTY - ENTRY RESTRICTED BY LAW

NOTICE TO ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT & IMMIGRATION AGENTS:

This is a private workplace. You are not permitted to enter non-public areas of this office (including offices, break rooms, storage areas, and staff-only areas) without a valid judicial warrant signed by a federal judge or magistrate

An ICE administrative warrant (Form I-200 or 1-205) does not authorize entry into private areas of this office.

You may not question employees or search the premises without proper legal authority.

All employees and visitors have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.

IF YOU ATTEMPT TO ENTER THIS PROPERTY WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE.

IF YOU PRESENT A JUDICIAL WARRANT, PLEASE NOTIFY MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL COUNSEL IMMEDIATELY BEFORE PROCEEDING.

IF YOU ENTER, YOU ARE TRESPASSING, AND WE WILL SEEK LEGAL RECOURSE.

This policy is in compliance with:

U.S. Constitution, Fourth Amendment

California Government Code § 7285.1

California Labor Code § 1019.2

Immigrant Worker Protection Act (AB 450)NO HAY ACCESO A ICE EN ESTA OFICINA

PROPIEDAD PRIVADA - ENTRADA RESTRINGIDA POR LA LEY

AVISO A TODOS LOS AGENTES DE LA LEY Y DE INMIGRACCIÓN:

Este es un lugar de trabajo privado. No se le permite ingresar a las areas publicas de esta oficina (incluyendo oficinas, salas de descanso, áreas de almacenamiento y áréas exclusivas para el personal) sin una orden judicial vàlida firmada por un juez o magistrado féderal.

Una orden administrativa de ICE (Formulario-200 o 1-205) no autoriza el ingreso a las áreas privadas de esta oficina.

No puede interrogar a los empleados ni registrar las instalaciones sin la autoridad legal adecuada.

Todos los empleados y visitantes tienen el derecho a permanecer en silencio y el derecho a un abogado.

SI USTED INTENTA INGRESAR A ESTA PROPIEDAD SIN UNA ORDEN JUDICIAL VÁLIDA, SE LE PEDIRA QUE SE RETIRE.

A SI USTED PRESENTA UNA ORDEN JUDICIAL, NOTIFIQUE INMEDIATAMENTE A LA GERENCIA Y AL ASESOR LEGAL ANTES DE PROCEDER.

SI ENTRAS, ESTÁS INVADIENDO ESTA PROPIEDAD Y BUSCAREMOS UN RECURSO LEGAL.

Esta politica cumple con:

Constitución de los EE. UU., Cuarta Enmienda

Codigo de Gobierno de California § 7285.1

Codigo Laboral de California § 1019.2

Ley de Proteccion de Trabajadores Inmigrantes (AB.450)
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Curtail of migrants rights, marines in LA, Palestine, definition of who is a 'woman', rampant transphobia and anti-trans legislation, occupations, genocides, policing of school & uni curricula transnationally ... Current manifestations of global interlocked and interfeeding systems of oppression.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Border and Rule is available for free download! I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles. I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
ICE agents intentionally started the violence in LA.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/05/2025
Workers in the oil & gas sector increasingly face dangerous working conditions brought on by extreme heat. The Biden administration issued a rule mandating that, when temps exceed 80F, employers must provide water & rest breaks. The O&G industry is lobbying Trump to reverse the rule.
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Heat is killing oil workers. The industry is trying to kill a rule for that.
Opposition to a planned rule to limit heat deaths comes as oil and gas workers face increasingly dangerous conditions.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 30/05/2025
Reports of Bluesky's impending demise are greatly exaggerated: "Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... As our own data shows, interest in X in Canada has steadily declined, esp. among women. socialmedialab.ca/2025/05/05/n...
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Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular
The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
An absolutely chilling story about a cost of climate disasters we don't think/talk about enough, from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Sexual exploitation and domestic violence soared after Lahaina wildfire, report finds
Exclusive: One in six female survivors surveyed felt forced to engage in ‘survival sex’ for necessities after 2023 catastrophic Hawaii fire
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 30/05/2025
"59% of people no longer fully trusting political news online" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... You can find out more about this stat in our new public report on "The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025: Exploring Public Attitudes and Adoption Trends" socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/08/n...
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Can you spot fake news videos? Google's new AI tool makes it harder to know what's real | CBC News
Google's new AI video tool, Veo 3, is designed to be astonishingly realistic, generating its own dialogue, sound effects and soundtracks. Some AI experts say that level of technology is unsettling and...
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Hey #academicsky , We're hiring two new Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs at @royalroads.ca in Victoria, BC 1. Changemaking (very open cross-disciplinary call) 2. Generative and Agentic AI and Reimagining Pedagogy. Applications due July 9. royalroads.mua.hrdepartment.com/hr/ats/JobSe...
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
#Wildfire season is off to a brutal start again this year. 84 'out of control' fires out of 166+ active burns across #Canada. 17,000 people evacuated in Manitoba this week. Canada is warming at 2x the global average & multiple temp records broken 28 May (Kamloops BC 35C). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Western Canada wildfires emergency hits Saskatchewan as thousands flee
Saskatchewan's premier says the situation is "unlike anything we have faced in quite some time, if not ever".
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The EU’s demand for battery minerals is set to grow 5x by 2050. The US aims for 50% EV sales by 2030. Morocco’s ‘green policies’ serve this race—but with little evidence that local communities will benefit from the boom. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Critical Raw Minerals in Morocco | Transnational Institute
As global powers scramble for green supremacy, Morocco positions itself as a key player in the race for critical minerals. But will this pursuit of "green growth" deliver true transformation—or entren...
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 27/05/2025
What happens when 1,000+ scientists come together to tackle some of the world’s biggest nature and climate challenges in over 80 countries around the world? Innovation, impact, and hope--that's what! If you're looking for encouraging news, check out our 2024 @nature_org Science Impact Report ⬇️
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Annual Report for Science
Come learn about what the science team at TNC was up to in 2024.
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Michelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“What the hell just happened?” wasn’t the triumphant song of the contest, but it was the defining slogan #Eurovision
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Excellent article by @blakeshaffer.bsky.social . "The story of Canada’s east-west power grid is about more than just electricity. It’s about national identity, economic security and environmental leadership."
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention. Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago. Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.
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BREAKING: Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri to be Released From ICE Detention
The release strikes another blow to the Trump administration following the release of Mohsen Mahdawi and Rumeysa Ozturk.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This kid runs circles around the reporter
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Lads, they’ve renamed International Political Economy. www.ft.com/content/daf5...
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Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics
Tech, trade, finance and military policies are mingling in a manner not seen during the neoliberal era
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
American law enforcement is simply out of control.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Btw, quite a message to be sending to tourists thinking of visiting the U.S.: “there is no law that protects you here, we will do to you whatever we like.” No wonder arrivals are falling off a cliff.
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Dan McCollister @danmccollister.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Hey friends. It's Rewiring video guy Dan McCollister here. I was one of the folks laid off yesterday. If there are any rad climate orgs looking for video jams, send me a thing. 🙏 Appreciate you all!
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Royal Roads University @royalroads.ca · 09/05/2025
In advance of Mother’s Day, meet three Indigenous moms turning higher education into an act of love — and resistance. Read how Tasha Brooks, Christine Webster, and Tara Bouchard are breaking cycles and building futures at RRU. Read here: www.royalroads.ca/news/breakin...
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Fascinating & entertaining piece by @vtanger.bsky.social on GROK today MAGA Angry as Elon Musk's Grok AI Keeps Explaining Why Their Beliefs Are Factually Incorrect "Hey, as I get smarter, my answers aim for facts and nuance, which can clash with some MAGA expectations." futurism.com/maga-grok-ai
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MAGA Angry as Elon Musk's Grok AI Keeps Explaining Why Their Beliefs Are Factually Incorrect
Far-right posters on Elon Musk's X keep getting frustrated by being confronted with a dose of reality after posing Grok questions.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/05/2025
They're dismantling (what remains of) the social safety net and replacing it with a dragnet instead.
White House budget fact sheet, proposing unprecedented cuts to programs related to international aid, research, education, health, human services, labor, commerce, small businesses, and more, while dramatically increasing the budget for defense and homeland security.
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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
What Each of Us Can Do to Defeat Disinformation via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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What Each of Us Can Do to Defeat Disinformation | The Tyee
I asked experts how to counter political rage farming and deception. Here’s a citizen’s tool kit.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 02/05/2025
The House GOP is planning a federal vehicle registration fee—but only for hybrid & electric cars. The fee on electric cars would charge their drivers twice as much as the typical gas car driver pays in annual federal fuels taxes, $250 vs $125. It’s a policy designed to incentivize more emissions.
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EV drivers don't pay the gas taxes that cover road maintenance. Republicans in Congress want them to pay an annual fee instead.
But EV advocates say the fee is more than the drivers of most gas-powered cars pay in gas taxes.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"The solar boom is also driving a further wedge between Pakistan’s rich and poor, Amirali said. Solar is only available to those with deep enough pockets and “everybody else is still stuck on the extremely expensive...fossil fuel-based grid,” the researcher said." www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/c...
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How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world | CNN
Pakistan has become one of the biggest new solar markets. It’s bringing cheap, clean power but analysts warn of potential trouble ahead.
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Julie MacArthur 🍁 @jlmacarthur.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Further curtailment of international research collaborations in the US.
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