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Mark Gongloff

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This may shock you, but many banks who joined the Net Zero Banking Alliance (RIP) kept right on making money on coal investments www.climatechangenews.com/2026/10/02/m...
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Banks backed net zero then kept funding coal companies
New data shows coal finance has stayed steady at the global level since 2022, as international efforts to cut the ties between lending and emissions faded
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This thing keeps necessitating bigger charts
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seems bad when the "prices" growth line isn't falling at all and in fact is growing faster than this line
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Food shortages. Deadly heat. Crumbling California coast. All likely to come with El Niño, yes, but all DEFINITELY to come from climate change. We've had lots of warning about both, but how are we using that time? Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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The Godzilla El Niño Is a Rehearsal for the Rest of Our Lives
The longer you have to prepare for a disaster, the likelier you are to walk away from it mostly intact. Tornadoes can spin up in minutes, barely giving you time to hustle to a cellar or bathtub. Hurri...
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You might think nobody is really this dumb, but let me introduce you to my inbox
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ah yes, blackmail, the always implicit but seldom seen even-darker side of sportswashing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Man City Verdict Puts UK-UAE Diplomatic Relations Under Strain
A historic legal ruling against Manchester City Football Club has placed diplomatic ties between the UK and the United Arab Emirates under significant strain, with billions of pounds in projected fore...
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” It's not that mind-boggling! www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Decline in tourism hits US economy
Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"During a Vineland town hall meeting, DataOne CEO Charles Beyney told residents his data center would be 'polluting less than a farm'." Apparently he meant those kinds of farms that run 62 gas-fired generators 24 hours a day & pump out tons of NOx www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits
Records show Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming pollution before regulators stepped in
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In hindsight, it might have been a bad idea to trust the same guy who had already botched one execution not to botch this one, too. Anyway, it's time to end state-sanctioned murder. fox17.com/news/local/d...
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Doctor who oversaw failed Tennessee procedure to handle Christa Pike's execution
The same doctor who handled a failed execution in Tennessee will also oversee the capital punishment of Christa Pike.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let’s not forget this happened because the Supreme Court decreed it should happen the day before. A country run by a cabal of wild-eyed reactionaries who want it to be the 1920s again www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections
Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fuck right off
Headline of a NYT op-ed by a professor named Joe Cruz, in which he says he thinks it’s fine for students to use AI to write: “I’m a college professor. Writing isn’t as important as we think.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Richest country in the world, supposedly www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It’s just cruel’: US households hit by surge in electricity shutoffs amid record hot summer
Utility disconnections were up 28% in 10 states in July 2026 – the hottest month ever recorded in the US – compared with July 2024, data shows
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Central Appalachian coal miners have the highest rate of lung disease since 1978, even as coal production is less than half its record high. And Trump keeps kicking these people, his voters. when they’re down Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Chart: Black Lung Is Strongest in Central   Appalachia

The rate of pneumoconiosis among coal miners in KY, VA & WV has rebounded to levels not seen since the 1970..

It shows a chart of lung disease percentages among miners since 1974, broken down by years of experience. For those with higher levels of experience, rates are back to where they were before 1980, after dipping to lows around 2000. Current rate for 25+ years is more than 32%, up from less than 10 a generation ago.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Super Intelligence (Lifted from Reddit) www.reddit.com/u/Accomplish...
An interaction between Uber’s customer service AI and a customer:

AI: Please choose one of the following options or describe your issue.

Customer: Order never arrived

AI: what can I help you with about the order not arriving?

Customer: what can you help with if an order didn’t arrive?

AI: Please describe what happened with the order not arriving.

Customer: order didn’t arrive

AI: What happened with the order? 

Customer: Didn’t arrive 

AI: what happened with the order not arriving?

Customer: I didn’t get the food.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
COMPLAINING WORKS. For weeks, watchdogs have called out the bogus rationale for Alito not recusing from Suncor v Boulder, the climate-lawsuit case. Today, he finally recused. That's 1 less vote for the fossil fuel industry (though there are probably still 5) consumerwatchdog.org/energy/justi...
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Justice Alito Recuses From Landmark Climate Case
This month Consumer Watchdog revealed companies Alito invests in warned shareholders climate lawsuits pose financial risks — at least one company is a…
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No hurricanes in the Atlantic, and yet New Jersey is underwater and soon much of the central US will be too. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
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Hurricane Polo remnants to bring serious flood threat to Southwest, central U.S.
Ten states are forecast to see dangerous downpours and thunderstorms this week.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New paper: A quarter of the world's data centers are in areas already experiencing water stress. At 3C of global warming, that will rise to one in three pubs.acs.org/esthag/artic...
Chart showing 7032 data centers in places with 0 water-stress months per year, 961 in places with 1-4 water-stress months, 831 with 508 months and 523 with 9-12 months.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 24/09/2026
Imagine if a fraction of the national wealth being directed by a small cohort of the superrich toward extremely speculative AI investments was devoted to educating our young people, public health ... or food for the undernourished. The near certain pay-offs would be huge.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"AI investment is projected to total $10.3 trillion from 2025-32 ... a staggering 3.6% of GDP/year. Never before has the US economy been so dependent on the buildout of a single industry." And we were told a clean-energy transition was too expensive (gift link) www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Larry Ellison right now: "Things have changed, circumstances, Jerry... force majeure, acts of God." (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A photo of Carl from the movie Fargo pleading with a cop. He's the one who declared force majeure on the kidnapping.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TIL that if you want the world to know how much you love the taste of boot, you can buy and wear Palantir-branded merchandise. Much of it is, depressingly, sold out store.palantir.com
A photo of a black t-shirt with a white drawing of Atlas holding up the Palantir logo
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Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs @ashponders.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awesome thermal drone photography by my juntos photo cooperative comrade @caitlinohara.bsky.social. She worked diligently and thoughtfully on this. I am really proud of her; our whole coop is.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Urban heat island effects are bad enough. Clustering data centers in cities, each of which can produce the heat of 54,000 houses, will make it exponentially worse, especially in already hot places like Phoenix Gift link to this great @bloomberg.com infographic: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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AI Data Centers Release Heat, Posing New Problem for Cities
As facilities to power AI grow larger and are built in clusters, they are spreading hot air beyond their property lines
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Private jets exemplify what economists call a free-rider problem: They crowd & pollute the airspace & environment that belongs to everyone without paying an appropriate cost. In fact, we keep giving them tax breaks Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Private Jets Have a Free-Rider Problem
If you try to take a free ride on, say, public transit in New York City, you’ll get in trouble with the law. If your mode of transportation is a private jet, on the other hand, there’s a high risk you...
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
mAkE cOaL gReAt AgAiN "the Armes family is just one of many who have struggled with obtaining federal black lung benefits. "Those delays come as Trump moves to boost the coal industry and as cases of black lung are surging—reaching a nearly 50-year high" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Sickened coal miners plead for their black lung benefits as cases surge
"Do you have to be dead?"
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Huh, it's so weird how the AI that UnitedHealthcare uses overwhelmingly *rejects* claims by accident instead of overwhelmingly *approving* them by accident. What a lucky break for UnitedHealthcare. Which even after learning of the mistakes rejects claims anyway. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Private jets are to some extent Veblen goods so exorbitantly taxing them would raise utility for everyone. Should be taxed at 1000% and they should have to capture+sequester 5x their carbon emissions
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
*Earth’s Warmest Months in Millenia* Global Temperature Anomalies may reach +2°C this winter (above pre-industrial levels) for the first time in modern history, and very likely in over 100,000 years, before the last ice age… 1/
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Private fliers pollute 14x more than commercial Only the world's richest 0.003% flies private, and half of those flights are for fun. Private flight is 16% of FAA operations, but contributes less than 0.6% of the taxes financing the FAA. New report from @ips-dc.org ips-dc.org/report-high-...
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High Flyers 2026: The High Cost of Private Jet Excess - Institute for Policy Studies
High Flyers 2026: The High Cost of Private Jet Excess
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Half of all new online articles are now AI-generated, says a new Deutsche Bank report
Chart from Deutsche Bank tracking human vs. primarily AI-generated new online articles from 2020 to 2026. Went from a 100%-0% split to roughly 50-50 in just the past year.

Source: Graphite (citing 55.4k articles from Common Crawl examined by AI detectors)
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Imagine the response if any other industry openly admitted its products were built on crimes and likely to destroy humanity. Instead of criminally prosecuting these companies, we've hitched our whole economy to them
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Murphy Woodhouse @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My story on Utah’s eye-popping 2025 home insurance nonrenewal rate. Hard to overstate the significance of nearly 1 in 20 policies not getting renewed in a single year. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/economy/2026...
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In 2025, Utah had US’ highest home insurance nonrenewal rate; worrying figures seen across West
In 2025, roughly 4.5% of Utah homeowners policies — or nearly 1 in 20 — were not renewed by insurance providers. That’s the highest rate in the country, and 1.5% higher than the number two state Calif...
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Rob Shum @robshum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“…The 60 biggest US data centers under construction in August could produce 101.5 million tons of carbon-dioxide equivalent per year, according to a Financial Times analysis. That’s like putting an additional 24 million gas-burning cars on the road. …” 🔌💡
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If this AI bro doesn’t understand or simply wants to lie about climate, then you must question his general credibility. In fact, it’s a good moment to also note that AI’s clear & present threat to humans is environmental destruction already happening: (Gift link) www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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AI Is Already Damaging Human Life. We Gave It a Head Start
The AI-industrial complex is in turmoil after several of its executives and engineers warned the technology could kill some or all humans, possibly before the 2036 election. This could be real cause f...
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI doesn’t need a decade to start threatening human health and life. It’s hurting us already, with the enthusiastic assistance of Trump and Zeldin’s “EPA” Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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AI Is Already Damaging Human Life. We Gave It a Head Start
The AI-industrial complex is in turmoil after several of its executives and engineers warned the technology could kill some or all humans, possibly before the 2036 election. This could be real cause f...
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s actually an accomplishment to get this many things this fundamentally wrong in just one profoundly stupid paragraph
A Truth Social post from you know who:

Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less, because we are the Best Credit in the World — BY FAR. Our Country is BOOMING with new Investment! If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year. The word “Deficit” is nothing more than a fancy word for LOSS. We are “carrying” almost every country in the World, and that cannot go on any longer. LOWER THE INTEREST RATES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND FAST! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Murphy Woodhouse @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Utah is now fully one of the epicenters of the homeowners insurance crisis. At ~4.5% in 2025, it has the HIGHEST policy nonrenewal rate in the country. At least as astonishing is the fact that it well more than doubled from ~1.7% in a single year. content.naic.org/mcas_data_da...
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Home insurance companies are fleecing us with abandon and the regulators who are supposed to protect us are playing coy. See the spread of their opinions and the consequences for consumers (read: everyone) in my 13 page report 👇
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump once again proves his bona fides as our greatest accidental proponent of the clean-energy transition www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...
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Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisis - Carbon Brief
Global fossil-fuel emissions are set to fall by in 2026 amid the fallout from the Hormuz crisis, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I recently asked the National Association of Insurance Commissioners for some basic data behind a public chart. They declined. Turns out insurance commissioners never like sharing insurance data, as @publiccitizen.bsky.social report Seems bad in an insurance crisis www.citizen.org/article/regu...
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Regulating Insurance in the Dark - Public Citizen
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Jordan Haedtler @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Excellent overview of our report outlining how to fill the gaps in oversight climatecabineteducation.org/wp-content/u...
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Important read here. The climate adaptation status quo is heading really bad places: mainstream insurance companies drop homeowners en mass, leaving them to scammy, unregulated companies that can declare bankruptcy and cut town after a major storm.
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Bob Burgess @bobburgess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
TODAY'S MUST READ:
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