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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 9h
“Democrats are poised to achieve trifectas — control of the governor’s office and both legislative chambers — in at least three states in this year’s midterm elections, and maybe even more,” writes @dangearino.bsky.social at @insideclimatenews.org buff.ly/2Gjxtb9
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These State Elections Could Reshape Climate and Energy Policy - Inside Climate News
The prospects for state-level climate and energy legislation could hinge on the outcomes of just a few races.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 11h
Hurricane #Polo has made two landfalls in Mexico today, and will spread flooding rains of 2-7" over the next few days into the Southwest and Plains in regions that need 8+ inches of rain to pull them out of long-term drought. @bhensonweather.bsky.social and I have the details:
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After two landfalls in Mexico, Hurricane Polo's rainmaking journey has just begun » Yale Climate Connections
Moisture from Polo and ex-hurricane Odalys is helping spawn heavy rain and potential flooding from northwest Mexico into the southwest and central U.S.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This isn’t just a US issue, and that’s what really bothers me. You don’t have to censor research if you can shape the funding and networks around it. The fossil-fuel industry understood that a long time ago, while we’ve been slow to recognise what it really means. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says
Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you’ve bet on sports with FanDuel or DraftKings, you can help ProPublica understand how these apps respond to their users’ betting behavior.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/09/2026
"Refugees, many of whom have fled the very dictatorships the right holds up as symbols of Communist or Islamist evil—Iran, Cuba, Vietnam—face confinement in hotels repurposed as prisons; beatings and threats by guards; lack of adequate food..." In America.
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The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door
“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/09/2026
"This is an administration with zero policy expertise, zero patience for collecting evidence, and zero interest in getting the right solution." It won't work this time, either.
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Trump L’Oil: A Fake Fix for High Diesel Prices
His proposal to ban exports of U.S.-made diesel is likely to backfire spectacularly.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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La Marea @lamarea.com · 25/09/2026
«Siempre sucede lo mismo: en lugar de odiar a quien nos expone al frío, se guarda rencor a quien supuestamente compite por el calor de nuestro pequeño refugio», escribe @joseovejero.bsky.social respecto al ascenso de la extrema derecha en Europa.
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Alemania en otoño | lamarea.com
'Alemania en otoño' es la nueva entrega de 'Un momento para respirar', la sección con fragmentos del diario de José Ovejero.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026
USDA Replaces Food Stamps With One Giant Rutabaga To learn more about America's gaping wealth gap, head to youtube.com/politizane.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Extreme weather, U.S. funding cuts add pressure for Canada’s weather service: report #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
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Extreme weather, U.S. funding cuts add pressure for Canada’s weather service: report
A new report looking at the future of Canada’s weather service suggests the country needs a co-ordinated flash flood warning system and says European partnerships could be deepened as the United State...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/09/2026
The toll is on top of the early deaths resulting from temperatures already driven up by the climate crisis. It will strike across the globe, from Indonesia to India, and Nigeria to the US. Many further deaths are expected from the droughts, wildfires and flooding that El Niños bring.
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Huge El Niño projected to cause more than 450,000 deaths by February
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/09/2026
More than 40 actions across the country in August targeted AI data centers, tech lobbying and surveillance. Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas examine the protests alongside tech industry spending in the 2026 elections.
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Elected Officials Are Facing a Reckoning Over Their Collusion with Big AI
Across the country, Americans from all stripes are calling on politicians to dump Big Tech.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We have been assured that using expensive natural gas [methane] power for US data centers is not a competitive disadvantage. This has been one of the arguments behind the planned massive build out of gas power for data centers. But what if it's wrong? (it is).
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Is China’s Secret Power Advantage About To Trigger An 89% Crash In US AI Stocks | OilPrice.com
High costs, heavy borrowing and private-credit exposure could trigger bankruptcies and a broader technology-sector selloff.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Have Your SNAP Benefits Ever Been Stolen? Help ProPublica Investigate. We need your help to report on EBT theft. Please share our flyer or this link with others in your community who’ve found their SNAP benefits disappeared: propub.li/3TH6xoa
Flyer titled "Were your SNAP benefits stolen?" Text reads: Have your SNAP benefits ever gone missing? You may have been a victim of EBT theft. ProPublica, an investigative newsroom, is reporting on the widespread issue of electronic benefit transfer theft. We want to know: How did this affect you? Did you report the issue and, if so, was anything done? What questions do you have about EBT theft? Share your experience. Fill out the form at propublica dot org slash ebt theft. Email reporters at safety net at propublica dot org. Background illustration shows a hand and a shadow hand below it reaching for a green grocery bag labeled SNAP.
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Cathy Otten @cathyotten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 2025, Omer Shatz and colleagues submitted a second communication to the ICC: "European officials suspected of Crimes Against Humanity against ‘migrants’ on the Central Mediterranean route" www.crimesagainsthumanity.eu/en
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EU Crimes Against Humanity
Exposing Crimes Against Humanity of European Officials
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Unbelievable TIME interview with Myanmar‘s dictator Min Aung Hlaing in which they say his troops “stand accused” of war crimes & that he “denies wrongdoing.” they’re not accused of doing it, they have filmed themselves doing it, there’s no doubt that they did it.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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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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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 23/09/2026
Children’s lifetime fire risk is rising: Those born in 2025 in Europe may face up to 84% more extreme fire weather than those born in 1950, with stronger exposure in the Mediterranean. www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/the-next-gen...
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European children to face twice as much extreme fire weather as grandparents
A VUB study has found that young Europeans will experience years of dangerous fire weather over their lifetime as climate warms
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The big question is whether the GOP will be able to choose who votes or not. Voter suppression in many forms will be at work--fewer machines in blue areas, rigging the voting registration lists, ICE hanging out at polling stations. All of that can be overcome but mostly by tremendous turnout.
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silviallopis.bsky.social @silviallopis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Biblical Masculinity".
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
Late last month, ICE put 12 Somali men on a plane and told them they were being deported to Somalia, according to interviews with community leaders, friends, and family members who are in touch with the detainees. Instead, they arrived at the notorious US military base in Cuba.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants at Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"The New Nazis" A promise of violent oppression from Restore Britain's Campaign Director! meme via Pam Mercier
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Libération @liberation.fr · 20/09/2026
📣 Face au dérèglement climatique, ils ne sont pas écoanxieux mais en colère. Ils sont collégiens, lycéens, étudiants ou jeunes précaires et écolucides et ils appellent à manifester le 26 septembre ➡️ Tribune : l.liberation.fr/yjs
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“You should question whether there’s a sustainable business model for these labs. You should question those who argue that we have to build recklessly or lose to China. You should question those who don’t take seriously the prospect that China doesn’t want to slow down.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026
ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In New York, as air pollution fell, the toddlers' cognitive processing improved, the study found. In London, ULEZ coincided with improved lung health in children. When elected representatives take action to clean up air, our children benefit from better health: share.google/rnnWnmxNOzWF...
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Improved air quality linked to better mental development in toddlers, study finds
Long-term research in New York shows efforts to reduce air pollution associated with higher cognitive test scores
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18/09/2026
#OtD 18 Sep 1974 Flora Sanhueza Rebolledo, Chilean teacher, anarchist and Spanish Civil War refugee died as a result of the torture she suffered at the hands of the Pinochet regime, aged 63 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9057...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On Question Time Danny Kruger just explained that our crypto billionaire donors will "get absolutely nothing" in return for their donations. In unrelated news, we plan to cut capital gains tax on crypto assets from 24% to 10% and set up a Bank of England Bitcoin Reserve Fund.
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"We are simply too dumb to do our jobs" is an incredible cop out
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 18/09/2026
AFP Investigation: US aid cuts are killing Kenyan sex workers. AFP has confirmed the deaths of at least 24 HIV-positive sex workers in Kenya who were in good health until aid was slashed by the United States in early 2025, according to frontline health staff u.afp.com/SjRa
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The hole in the Earth’s ozone layer is significantly smaller than it has been in recent history, but it's healing slower than expected, according to the latest annual checkup.
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The hole in the ozone layer is healing, but extreme weather may be slowing progress down
Climate change, driven by humans, is making extreme weather more commonplace
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
bleak but essential read
Navarro told us that she was "shocked to see the growing number of websites in the network and the huge variety of the sites themselves - from cooking and space blogs, to small business and war news." What surprised her the most, though, was how so many of the sites under BBM's umbrella are effectively
"indistinguishable from one another, publishing the same kind of first-person Al-generated stories around self-help topics aimed at people who are lonely."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.
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False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work
As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The AI debate has forced me, somewhat agst my will, to grapple a bit more closely with the "longtermists", basically a movement or subculture of morons who propose novel forms of moral reasoning based on sci-fi ideas they imagine might happen hundreds, thousands or millions of years in the future.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care is not advocating for Paxton. It's advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Careful - don't want to get on the 80 side of an 80-20 issue"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/09/2026
Total unscientific nonsense spread via the media as a means of pretending they are doing some bastardized form of recursive self-improvement. Takes a lot to make me dislike a company more than OpenAI but Dario truly has taken the lead
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Gina Hinojosa: "While we've been fighting over culture wars ... 15 billionaires have amassed money, power, and all our data and are about to blow up the world. And if we don't come together fast to save ourselves -- this is it"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding, including renting out a private island. National security experts say it raises an urgent question: What motivated Kremlev to spend a fortune cultivating the connection?
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today is the 100th anniversary of the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926.
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Great Miami Hurricane 100th Anniversary Series #2 - NHC Sept 17 2026 #hurricane #nws
YouTube video by NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 14/09/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "We don't rule the Earth. We just think we do. And sure, we're changing the environment, but that makes us the ones to worry about, not the planet. When the Earth gets tired of us, believe me, it will shake us off like a summer cold." www.imdb.com/title/tt3103...
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Whatever comes of it, this is very cool really like the solidarity
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Please help me get the word out to people who might be interested in reading Democracy Americana in German: I hope I can build a readership large enough to carry this experiment of offering my work in two languages (it’s a struggle!). If you want to read the essay in English, you find it here:
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A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy
MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Yelling at the Sky @yellingatthesky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You are absolutely correct. It was one of the first things that was commented on - Venezuela would need billions upon billions of investment to make their oil suitable for our strategic reserve. www.pbs.org/newshour/eco...
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U.S.-Venezuela oil deal won’t reduce domestic gasoline prices anytime soon, experts say
Oil experts told PolitiFact gains for consumers will not materialize any time soon, and would likely take years — long after November’s midterm elections.
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