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Erik Ness — The Lemonadist

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Thinking and writing about climate, environmental change, paddling canoes.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 23h
tbh i still can't wrap my head around even *this* supreme court allowing the trump regime to deport individuals to third countries where they lack cxn, can be subject to abuse, & lack any guarantee against non-refoulement. it is just so blatantly illegal & at scale such a crime against humanity.
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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Three billionaires gave more than 90 percent of the money raised by Representative Tom Tiffany, the Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin" Tom Tiffany is the most bought and paid for candidate we've ever seen in Wisconsin. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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3 Billionaires Have Largely Funded Republican Nominee for Wisconsin Governor (Gift Article)
Under its current rules, Wisconsin has not had a race in which a small number of donors have made up such a large share of a campaign’s funding.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
A MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN QUESTION AT THIS POINT And we definitely need more reporting on this issue: HEAT Data centers devour electricity and water, dump heat into communities, and Big Tech is building them faster than lawmakers are dealing with the consequences.
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Erik Ness — The Lemonadist @lemonadist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Monona skies.
Dramatic pink and blue skies over Lake Monona. Half of the horizon is close, and wooded. Half is distant, and road berm.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Erik Ness — The Lemonadist @lemonadist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New OS game unlocked: finding the obscure settings to turn off the AI "tools." Apple, please stop.
Apple's AI logo with a red circle/slash stop sign overlaid.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is human trafficking on a massive scale.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:
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Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
LMAOOOO
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
Wowww. A federal prosecutor in Minnesota was going to bring charges against ICE agent Castro for shooting Sosa-Celis, but Blanche’s DOJ blocked it. Castro was let out of prison by Gov. Abbott last week in defiance of state prosecutors extradition warrant. www.propublica.org/article/doj-...
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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Levi Damien @levidamien.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The top priority is to repeatedly send the message loud and clear that ICE agents can gun down anyone they like with complete impunity. So whenever Trump calls upon them as his personal militia, they don’t hesitate. And so everyone else lives in fear of this fact.
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Andy Olsen @andyo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
30 million acres of corn for ethanol, much carved out of forests. Also, solar with good land stewardship has native plants that hold soils in place, provide habitat for pollinators and other critters and does not require chemicals as does ag. It also results in less soil loss and water pollution.
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The link between Iowa corn and the dead zone in the Gulf » Yale Climate Connections
The Mississippi River carries fertilizer runoff from the Midwest to the Gulf – and increasingly extreme rain is making the problem more urgent.
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Scary Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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A meme that has been sitting on my phone since 2022 apparently. Das Kapital and 9 to 5 represented by torches. 9 to 5 glowing significantly brighter and with far less pointless heft than DK.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Erik Ness — The Lemonadist @lemonadist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I loved Dolly's collaborations. Among my favorites, and appropriate to the day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKSW...
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris - Farther Along (Oscilloscope Visualizer)
YouTube video by Honky-Tonk Highway
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.
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Prominent climate scientist argues it's time to ditch the 'myth of neutrality' | CBC Radio
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bob McDonald about the polarization of science and why she thinks scientists should stop pretending to be neutral when it's our planet at risk.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i’m dying. i’m dead
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026
This piece is great and I wish to staple it to several scientists' foreheads. And while it's about the creation of text, I think it also applies to writing codes, since many (for example, cosmological) codes are publicly available, which means LLMs have vacuumed them up.
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 23/08/2026
I would like a Speaker who has a plan to provide some kind of voice/constituent services to Black people in districts gerrymandered out of representation so that they're not simply left to flounder. Where is the solidarity? Adopt-A-District until gerrymandering is federally banned? SOMETHING!
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 19/08/2026
What can individuals and institutions do in the face of government attempts to shape science and industry through intimidation? That’s one of the key questions our guest blogger, J. Nathan Matias, an Associate Professor at Cornell University, explores in this post:
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Protecting Science from Government Intimidation - Union of Concerned Scientists
Protecting Science from Government Intimidation August 18, 2026 | 7:00 am US Customs and Border Protection/Jerry Glaser J. Nathan Matias Associate Professor, Cornell University Last year when Blake, an early-career computer scientist, counted the costs of publishing their latest peer-reviewed articl…
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Abolish ICE and salt the earth where it was allowed to grow
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DHS taunts detained Padres coach in fiery social media post
"NOBODY is above the law, and he will remain in ICE custody pending removal."
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What we hate tech bros, chapter four million. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/w...
"The matchmaker also puzzled over the Ivy League-education economist how said he wants to date only women who are thin, have large breasts, and are fluent in Mandarin, but who should have any artistic hobbies or talents."
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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The first rule of all things medical is Bodies Are Weird And Do Weird Things.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
One year $150M contract to a small Texas firm that lacks immigration law experience
Now that responsibility will fall on a law firm with 26 employees spread across eight offices. The firm bills itself as a "boutique" firm "known for elite counsel in high-stakes litigation, environmental, regulatory, and corporate matters." None of the lawyers for the firm list immigration law as an area of expertise, per a POLITICO review of the firm's site.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Bracing myself for Aaron Rogers eventual senate run.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I can’t believe we’re doing another cycle of pretending to have a deal with Iran. This is so stupid.
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Erik Ness — The Lemonadist @lemonadist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This, and a canoe.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New report from Ohio Immigrant Alliance: Of 59 criminal ICE and Border Patrol agents, 85% committed sex offenses, nearly 2/3 against children. "The sexual and physical violence against women and children documented in OIA’s report is not an aberration — it is a reflection of the agencies’ culture.”
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They Walk Among Us - Criminal ICE and Border Agents — Ohio Immigrant Alliance
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance released “They Walk Among Us: A List of 59 Sexually and Physically Abusive ICE and Border Agents,” an analysis of sexual and violent crimes committed by ICE and Border Patr...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
this is how dumb you sound, democrats, when you accept the absurd premise that this is an issue that you need to campaign on
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com
Hello,

I’m writing to let you know that I just canceled my DashPass because of DoorDash’s disgraceful campaign against D.C. home rule.

DoorDash is urging Congress to nullify a new D.C. law imposing a 20 percent tax on food-delivery services—not merely by overturning that law, but by prohibiting the District from enacting any new tax without prior congressional approval. That is an extraordinarily sweeping assault on D.C.’s right to govern itself and an odious insult to the District’s residents.

I am especially disgusted by DoorDash’s public claim that it is somehow defending D.C. residents while actively seeking to strip us of our right to govern ourselves through our own democratically elected lawmakers. Please do not pretend that disenfranchising District residents is an act undertaken on our behalf.

I intend to publicize DoorDash’s attack on home rule as widely as possible and urge everyone I know to boycott the company.

Shame on you.
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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Important New York Times story is out today on our investigation: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 21/07/2026
PC(USA) voted 458-18 to declare White Christian nationalism a theological error incompatible with the teachings of Jesus. That's not a close call. When the Presbyterians are done being polite about it, something has shifted. pres-outlook.org/2026/07/pcus... h/t @albert2021.bsky.social
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PC(USA) labels White Christian nationalism 'Theological Error'
Calling White Christian nationalism incompatible with the teachings of Jesus, commissioners approved a proposed constitutional amendment and a new policy statement opposing the ideology.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2026
the real discrimination is doing anything to fight discrimination, you see apnews.com/article/eeoc...
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US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
reminder that "fuck you, make me" is a surprisingly effective strategy that more institutions should try once in a while 👀
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
More evidence of that fictional "return to normal" so many thought would be the upside of throwing faculty and students under the bus and cash at the .gov bsky.app/profile/evod...
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.
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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.
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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 20/07/2026
i keep coming back to this. it's not about hating us. it's about degrading femininity as such, and reducing the definition of women to baby makers and ornaments. trans folk get in the way of that. so does women's sports. so does the fucking vote.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 20/07/2026
This is the way the winds are blowing and they will keep blowing this way until there’s an Atlanta 1996 moment where a whole lot of people get caught up in something they never expected to because they didn’t think it would affect them.
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MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We've crossed the Rubicon. First it was the corrupt 6-3 Supreme Court with immunity ruling. Now ice has been given a green light by FBI that you will not be investigated for murder or any other assault. We have now entered anarchy.
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Jonathan Koomey @jgkoomey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
An import point that most people don’t fully grasp. Generating electricity from renewables like solar and wind eliminates this wasted energy. We can deliver more energy services with vastly lower primary energy consumption.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Something I talked about repeatedly in 2024: 20 million people, to say nothing of 30, would be the largest forced population transfer in human history, larger any of the three post-WW2 transfers (partition of India, expulsion of Germans, partition of Palestine) or the post-WW1 Balkan cases.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸 www.npr.org/2026/07/17/n...
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