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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is so bad. And you can bet it is happening at Stanford and other US institutions of higher learning as well. What’s the cost of that lost learning? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine

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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A judge recently approved a $345 million verdict against Greenpeace over their role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Decisions like this serve to protect corporations and silence dissent. @ndreschang.bsky.social speaks more on this in his 2024 article for PRA: bit.ly/BigOilWantsT....

3 ways big oil exploits the legal system

From Big Oil Wants to Exploit the Legal System to Crush Protest & Dissent. We Cannot Let It Win by Andres Chang

disinformation
The oil industry has been laying the groundwork for climate protest suppression for decades by manufacturing climate denial and framing activists as an extremist, eco-terrorist, or violent threat. These disinformation tactics are dangerous because they provide the justification for harsh policing and legal treatment.

Anti-Protest Laws
The fossil fuel and energy industry has played a key role in the creation and spread of anti-protest laws. Following Standing Rock and since 2017, state lawmakers across the U.S. have introduced more than 280 bills that restrict the right to protest, with at least 25 introduced in the first two months of 2024. Once adopted into the conservative playbook, anti-protest laws more broadly have become a go-to measure used by right-wing lawmakers to punish and deter progressive organizing, especially the Black Lives Matter and pro-Palestine movements.

Judicial harassment
Fossil fuel companies and public prosecutors are targeting climate activists with sweeping civil litigation claims and criminal charges that seem intent to crush dissent altogether. Court systems are being exploited to saddle activists with burdensome legal fees, court dates, and the threat of prison time, largely for exercising their First Amendment rights. Our legal system should protect all of us, but the fossil fuel industry and aligned politicians have sought to weaken or control it for their own gain.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/08/2025

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

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Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea

I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

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Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

[1/5] There's a loophole in most banks' fossil fuel policies. It's like "saying they would never directly invest in cigarettes, but are happy to provide billions to tobacco companies” (h/t @makemymoneymatter.bsky.social for the quote)

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Anti-ICE organizing in New York City: People who showed up to the federal immigration building, referred to as just ‘26 Federal Plaza’ or ‘FP’ to protest & stop ICE from transferring people they arrested, were blocked by NYPD at numerous intervals for low level infractions.

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/05/2025

At least 50 of those men were here in the US legally and never violated immigration law.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

ICE threatening charges against people for asking supposed officers to show their badges is weakness. Not succeeding where they hoped to, left relying on threats that likely won’t go anywhere in court (harassment isn’t nothing, but it’s limited). It’s a sign to resist their abuses more, not less.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid

Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A direct strike on her home.

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Planet Over Profit @planetoverprofit.org · 17/04/2025

Migrant Justice = Climate Justice 🦋🌎🦋 JOIN US this Saturday in NYC as we march to demand: ✊ ICE Out of NYC ✊ Fossil Fuels Out of NYC ✊ Free Mahmoud Khalil ✊ Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Baffling! @nytimes.com story about the energy security risks of global gas dependence has zero mentions of renewable energy... in sunny Mexico, no less 🥴 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

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Mexico’s Reliance on U.S. Natural Gas Could Be Its Achilles’ Heel

Mexico’s imports of U.S. natural gas are surging, kindling fears that the Trump administration could weaponize this trade.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/04/2025

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Musk's DOGE goons physically dragged a high-ranking Social Security executive from his desk for not going along with their plan to list more than 6,000 migrants as dead despite being alive. www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...

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DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker from Desk

The high-ranking civil servant had opposed a plan to push out migrants by falsely listing them as dead.

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Troy Bouffard, Ph.D. @arctictroy.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Not seeing much coverage of this, and it seems like it might deliberately introduce the most damage and chaos yet. At the very least, it targets a significant power of Congress as well as Judicial resolve: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

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Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This has been bouncing around the back of my head for a while. Seems highly dependent on whether global economic fortunes stay coupled to the US, and whether the "China effect" Akshat and Amy describe can offset the chaos initiated by Trump 🤔 Better hope so

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Challenge accepted, Amy. So here's one bull case for the energy transition. Chinese economic growth will fall as a result of Trump's tariffs. Its leadership is already discussing injecting a stimulus. Now typically stimulus in a carbon-heavy economy is more emissions, but... 🧵

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I’m gonna say something that is going to sound crazy, but when has that ever stopped me from saying something publicly: there is a way in which the U.S. chucking its position in the world could actually fast-track energy transition. A few things that have me thinking this way 🧵

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The mass execution of paramedics in Gaza is a Nazi-like atrocity that should shock the conscience of the US and force Democrats who have continued to support Israel to face up to the fact that they have been complicit in a horrific evil. End all US aid to Israel.

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Massive crowd at Hands Off rally in St. Paul, Minnesota

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention— "Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."

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Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Fantastic write-up, and tracks what I've heard in personal convos w finance people for years: "no one is saving this dying industry." The best they can hope for is some predictability. Unfortunately, Trump's moronic trade policy doesn't help renewables either...

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

NEW: Mexico LNG projects threaten whales in the Gulf of California, and also a climate disaster Part 2 in a long investigation into LNG in Mexico gasoutlook.com/long-read/me...

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Mexico LNG threatens "world's aquarium" - Gas Outlook

Mexican LNG plans could make it the fourth-largest exporter but harm one of the world's most diverse marine environments.

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

War crimes: Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one and then buried them in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has confirmed. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 19/03/2025

given how quickly the right moved to criminalize pipeline protests i honestly wouldn't be surprised if we see a proposal in the near future designating tesla dealerships as critical infrastructure and juicing up penalties for vandalism

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Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Per @the-ilrc.bsky.social, the last time the "Alien Enemies Act" was invoked was when the US interned ~120,000 people of Japanese, German, and Italian descent (mostly US citizens) during WWII. Never again.

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Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

"the lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose" ...

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CNN @cnn.com · 17/03/2025

Days after federal immigration agents showed up to Ranjani Srinivasan’s apartment – prompting her to leave the country out of fear she would be taken into custody – the student is disputing the Trump administration’s account of her story.

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Another Columbia student targeted by ICE says she wasn’t involved in protests on the night of her arrest | CNN

Days after federal immigration agents showed up to her apartment prompting her to leave the country out of fear she would be taken into custody, Ranjani Srinivasan is disputing the Trump administratio...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Estimated number of people who could die within a year without American foreign aid for: H.I.V. prevention and treatment: 1,650,000 Vaccines: 500,000 Food aid: 550,000 Malaria prevention: 290,000 Tuberculosis prevention: 310,000

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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

WOW: the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security is asked how Mahmoud Khalil supported Hamas, and admits outright that his crime is just "basically pro-Palestinian activity."

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 15/03/2025

"This felt like a kidnapping because it was: Officers in plain clothes—who refused to show us a warrant, speak with our attorney, or even tell us their names—forced my husband into an unmarked car and took him away from me," said Mahmoud Khalil's wife. www.commondreams.org/news/mahmoud...

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'This Felt Like a Kidnapping Because It Was': Family of Mahmoud Khalil Releases Arrest Video | Common Dreams

The family of Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the United States now at risk of deportation because he helped lead pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University last spring, released ...

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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?" (From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)

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