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Perched above the park @parkperch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Does anybody know anything about two potentially propaganda feeds on Youtube: nick shirley and jdalmau? Seem to be part of the same network, and the comments are extremely censored (and maybe bot-generated).

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Jonathan Koomey @jgkoomey.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If you have a gas furnace and a central air conditioner, replace both with a heat pump. This also works if you have a central air conditioner and electric resistance heat. The switch will save money and reduce emissions substantially. Make sure you use an installer with experience, though.

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Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org · 10/02/2025

"As a for-profit company, Amtrak fails ... spectacularly. As a government agency, created half a century ago to carry out a public purpose recognized in law and in Supreme Court rulings, it is a spectacular success worth celebrating, supporting, and building up."

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Op-Ed: Amtrak Isn't Profitable — And That's Okay — Streetsblog USA

"As a for-profit company, Amtrak fails ... spectacularly. As a government agency, created half a century ago to carry out a public purpose recognized in law and in Supreme Court rulings, it is a…

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Bill Farley @archaeologytube.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Democrats are dead wrong about the public's perception of this sort of thing. Most people don't see resistance to tyranny as annoying or dishonorable, they see it as strong. When Dems hold themselves to an imaginary higher standard, they look weak. Exert. The. Power. You. Have.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Their names: Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

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Jack will show you to your room. I have given you the room in th @timescarcass.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The second Trump administration is already a catastrophe for US democracy; an orgy of illegality, bulldozing of the administrative state, corporate capture of government, and raging bigotry. @marisakabas.bsky.social captures it in this clear-sighted report. www.thehandbasket.co/p/musk-frida...

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

@kenmartin.bsky.social, however much is going on behind the scenes, the visible response from Dems as a whole - some exceptions - has been too quiet by several decibels. I would like to see consistent messaging on 1) The effect of tariffs. I got a 10% tariff on my heating oil now, at -9F. 2) This:

The Alt National Park Service describing Elon Musk and his associates straightforwardly committing several felonies

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 01/02/2025

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 01/02/2025

The NTSB says it will no longer email news outlets or reporters with notifications of upcoming press conferences, including those on plane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia. Instead, all notifications will be made on X. We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Attn: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system!

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Rebecca with a Cause @rebeccawithacause.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Exactly. I hope everyone is connecting the dots here.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"Fascist and authoritarian governments are always more fragile than they let on," says @amandamarcotte.bsky.social. Trump is "using shock and awe" because rushing through as much as possible is "their only hope." On the pod, Amanda is so good on Karoline Leavitt: newrepublic.com/article/1908...

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Trump Aide Karoline Leavitt’s Sleazy New Attack on Biden Is a Bad Omen

As Trump’s press secretary holds her first media briefing and viciously attacks Biden’s age, a shrewd observer of MAGA deconstructs the psychology behind her performance—and what it portends.

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Reluctantwitnessoftheanthropocene @lucyhnz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Just resharing this excellent diagram from TUMI (the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative). Cycling, pedestrians and buses are all very efficient ways to move people in cities. But nothing moves people more efficiently in a 3.5 metre wide lane than trains.

Diagram showing the passenger capacity of different transport modes in a 3.5 metre wide lane.

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/01/2025

Everyone should be aware of the line that has been crossed in the Trump trans military EO. No longer is this about "evidence," "science" or "protecting kids." Now, explicitly, black and white, it's about trans people being "liars," "dishonorable," "false." It's a big step towards very bad things.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

🔴Nigel Farage Says He Is ‘Open to Anything’ When It Comes to Replacing NHS With ‘Insurance-Based Model’ It’s the latest hint that Reform UK would privatise the NHS bylinetimes.com/2025/01/27/n...

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Nigel Farage Says He Is 'Open to Anything' When It Comes to Replacing NHS With 'Insurance-Based Model'

It's the latest hint that Reform UK would privatise the NHS

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Hedge Wytch @hedgewytch.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Terrifying stuff. Our current News and Journalism is mostly not fit for purpose. Byline Times should be coming into its own right now. People need to know who they can trust

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

That’s how fascism starts, destroy the independent knowledge base. We have experience with that here in Germany. (Btw. I’m looking for a postdoc.)

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"Trump and his allies’ vision is an egregious abuse of real history and the new Constitution it forged in the 1860s. If they succeed, then Grant has surrendered to Lee at Appomattox."--David Blight 🗃️ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Birthright Citizenship Is a Sacred Guarantee

The attack on it is a violation of the nation’s post–Civil War rebirth.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Perched above the park @parkperch.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

youtu.be/wZ5wOGseB4M?... All of their innovations are about obtaining power so they can charge us more.

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Tech Bros' Plan to Monetize Sunlight

YouTube video by Adam Something

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whitrb.bsky.social @whitrb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A fantastic interview with Canadian Scientist Katharine Hayhoe about solution aversion manifesting as science denial. A logically and emotionally intelligent perspective. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

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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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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

“I think disinformation mobilizes because it speaks to some aspect of somebody’s truth – whether that is an emotion they feel based on an experience or memory, whether that is a particular perception they have, whether that is a true piece of information that plays on fears.”

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Disinformation is often about power and fear of losing it, expert says - PEN America

We talked to Rachel Kuo about how disinformation spreads among identity groups and what people can do to spread accurate information.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type... 🧪🌎

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Federal Environmental Justice Tracker – Environmental and Energy Law Program

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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Members of the Cyber Safety Review Board were informed they have been dismissed pursuant to a DHS order disbanding all advisory committees. The board had been in the middle of probing the Chinese hack of U.S. telecoms, a review that now is in limbo and possibly terminated.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The Budde sermon, and Trump's reaction to it, distills nearly everything I've written about for the past decade. MAGA believes they define the only true version of Christianity in America. A Christianity that sees Trump as white Christian America's savior, and all other Christianities as dead.

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Perched above the park @parkperch.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This should be essential reading for white Christians. Still i worry that Pavlovitz is a hack.

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Perched above the park @parkperch.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Looks like some people are deliberately trying to recreate the dark ages.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This was a year ago. Ordered and drank 3 gin and tonics for breakfast on a workday. Sexual assault, ran two nonprofits into the ground, racist. Republican Senators are actually prepared to turn over the most lethal army in the world to this man. Because they’re afraid they’ll be….”primaried”??

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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Did you know jails and/or prisons in at least 43 states force people to pay hefty daily fees for their own confinement? I wrote on how this scheme upends lives, promotes recidivism, and harms public safety, on the occasion of one jail erasing $65M+ in pay-to-stay debt: boltsmag.org/jail-debt-an...

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This Pennsylvania County Wiped Out Millions in Jail Debt

After Dauphin County ended the practice of charging people while they’re detained in jail, Commissioner Justin Douglas pushed it to forgive more than $65 million in lodging fees.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 14/01/2025

How come people inside of motor vehicles are entitled to right-of-ways cleared at public expense but people outside of motor vehicles are not? In US cities, sidewalks are not private property. #PlowSidewalksToo Thread: bsky.app/profile/bett...

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Victor Shi @victorshi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

For fact’s sake: There was NO $17 million cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department budget this year. In fact, there was a $50 million INCREASE in the Los Angeles Fire Department. Cold, hard facts. Full stop. Period. To those who spread misinformation: issue corrections. Now.

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Perched above the park @parkperch.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I had no idea that Blackstone, the investment manager, now owns CCLI, which churches have to pay in order to have permission to livestream and digital projection! youtu.be/hb0mY6U3i3o?...

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The Worship Tax - How your church's worship profits secular investors via CCLI

YouTube video by Selling Jesus

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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles reminds you that drivers don't stop for people.

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ACCR @accr.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Equinor has retracted a claim that it stores about a million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually at its flagship carbon capture project after @desmog.bsky.social obtained data showing the real figure was as little as a tenth of that amount. www.desmog.com/2025/01/14/e...

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Exclusive: Norway’s Equinor Forced to Withdraw Key Carbon Capture Claim

This story is the tenth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Equinor has retracted a claim that it stores about a million tonnes of ca...

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

On an ideological level, just as the abolitionist and civil rights movements for Black Americans were inextricable from anti-colonial liberation movements, the US domestic backlash against DEI is inextricable from the backlash against efforts to remedy the historical injustices of colonialism.

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As BLM Goes Global, It’s Building on Centuries of Black Internationalist Struggle

Editor’s note: The following article is one of 30 that we’ve selected from our archives to celebrate World Politics Review’s 15th anniversary. You can find the full collection here. At approximately 8...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

From Jane Mayer *As late as 2023, someone meeting with Hegseth reported him knocking back three gin and tonics. At 10am. *Trump making the vote a loyalty test *Scared GOP Senators refuse to meet w Hegseth's accusers *FBI botched the background investigation www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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The Pressure Campaign to Get Pete Hegseth Confirmed as Defense Secretary

Supporters of Donald Trump’s nominee have intimidated potential witnesses and suppressed the F.B.I. background check of the former Fox News host in the run-up to his Senate hearing.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Striking juxtaposition in Jack Smith's final report: While riot raged, the TV where Trump was sitting showed rioter saying Pence was Trump's last hope to overthrow the election. *Then* Trump issued his tweet directing the mob to target Pence. When informed Pence's life was in danger, he shrugged.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

When you're at a startup (I've worked at a few!) there's very little you need from the government or that gets in your way from them. But once you're an incumbent you're part of the rentier class and want to use the power of the state to crush your competitors while giving yourself a break.

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

To the larger public, but especially to my community of urban planners who are more focused on adaptation: 1. The need for adaptation is now “baked-in”, AND 2. The first step to adaptation must be mitigation. Right now we are creating worse problems faster than any proven ability to adapt.

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I wrote a whole story about the communication problems during this firestorm www.torched.la/zero-percent...

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Zero percent containment

Reporting from a city, torched

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11

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