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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is so much disinformation about the "Super El Nino" floating around the internet b/c mentioning any sort of mechanism that affects weather seems to start a shouting match. So here's a good video that gives you JUST the info you need in under 2 minutes.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 13/09/2026

The world's greatest marine energy resource is the temperature delta between sun-soaked surface waters and frigid depths. Engineers in India are building what could be the first profitable Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion plant. spectrum.ieee.org/ocean-therma... @spectrum.ieee.org ctrum.ieee.org

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Remote Island Taps Energy From the Ocean's Thermal Layers

Lakshadweep, the Canaries, others test ocean thermal energy conversion

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 14/09/2026

William Heronemus — best known for helping launch the modern wind power industry — pushed ocean thermal energy onto the US energy agenda in the 1970s. Half a century later #OTEC's potential as a massive source of baseload renewable energy continues to inspire engineers...

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 16/09/2026

scummy upcharging ploy the @nytimes.com : pay more, or they'll subject you to repeated account verification

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 15/09/2026

NEW RESEARCH: Reckless airport expansion plans will cause 20 major European airports to blow past their carbon limits, with some surpassing their limits almost three times over. 🧵👇

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 14/09/2026

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 14/09/2026

" We Would Like to Inform You That You, Your Descendants, and the Very Place That Shaped Your People Will Be Destroyed But Oil Will Be Briefly Profitable for Some Canadian Corporations " -- Alt headline from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for this blithely written CBC report : www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Canadians should prepare for a 5 C hotter future, report warns | CBC News

The federal government's new report summarizing the latest science on climate change warns that under current climate policies, the impact on Canadians will likely be "far from benign."

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Ido Liven @idoliven.com · 14/09/2026

"Climate disasters are getting bigger and more frequent, as was widely anticipated. There's often a hope that one of them will be a wakeup call, but a lot of us are wide-awake and a lot of the rest are deeply committed to ignoring or exacerbating this crisis" - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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Climate: Who Dies, Who Fights, Who Surrenders, Who Sabotages

"Canadians will have to prepare for a future that's 5 C hotter, according to a new report summarizing the latest science on climate change," says a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report on a Canadi...

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Remote Island Taps Energy From the Ocean's Thermal Layers

Lakshadweep, the Canaries, others test ocean thermal energy conversion

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is our solemn duty not just to remember what happened 25 years ago but to acknowledge and repudiate the brutality it summoned in America. robertreich.substack.com/p/a-quarte…

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 01/09/2026

Marco Brugmans, a top official with the Netherlands' nuclear regulator, offered a smart forward-looking suggestion: Order up an IAEA peer audit of the NRC. European countries submit to those audits once a decade. The NRC hasn't had one since 2014.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Google's future data centers in Utah to be powered by 400 MW of enhanced geothermal. This is geothermal industry leader Fervo's largest-ever power deal.

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Exclusive | Fervo Secures Its Largest-Ever Geothermal Power Deal, With Google

The company, which counts Bill Gates as an early backer, went public in a buzzy IPO in May.

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Edwin Lyman @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excellent article in @nature.com by Peter Fairley on the challenges to the NRC's status as an independent #nuclear safety regulator: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Are pro-nuclear politics a threat to public safety?

Oversight agencies suddenly face pressure to rapidly assess a range of relatively untested reactor designs.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 01/09/2026

>> Raphael Schutz, a former Israeli ambassador, thought of his mother, who fled Nazi Germany as a 9-year-old... Today when she watches videos of settlers shooting innocent farmers, she feels shame. “To her it is inconceivable that Jews can behave this way.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/w...

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These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat.

A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society b...

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 27/08/2026

In @nature.com's latest nuclear package: International takes on the Trump NRC's pro-nukes approach to nuclear safety. Is "shovels in the ground" an appropriate measure of success for a #nuclear regulator? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Are pro-nuclear politics a threat to public safety?

Oversight agencies suddenly face pressure to rapidly assess a range of relatively untested reactor designs.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don't think there's a more important issue right now than standing up for the rights of trans people. It's essential to do and correct on its face and it's also a proxy for so many other fights we face today. This is one of the best statements on that importance I've seen. This is the way.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 23/08/2026

This took guts. Freelance journalist Jen Golbeck went into the North Carolina forest to visit Proud Boys at a secret location and engage with the violent extremist group up close. Interview via @pbsnews.org. Golbeck's story via @esquiremag.bsky.social. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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I Spent a Weekend with the Proud Boys to Find Out Who They Really Are

They claim they’re just a men’s club that likes to troll the libs. Their actions betray something more sinister. The line, I’d discover, is still blurrier than that.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Includes: Great Danish Wiener Schnitzel German Shepherd's Pie Chow Chowder Roasted Collieflower Baked Alaskan Malamute Ramen Poodles Cream of Wheaten Pit Roast Cockapoo Pu Platter Baby Ridgeback Ribs Yorkshire Terrier Pudding Whippet Cream

copy of book "cooking with your dog" with price sticker covering the word "with"

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 20/08/2026

My favourite film turns 20 this month. It's hidden depth and penetrating brilliance is only now being recognized by the over-educated. If @salon.com can't settle your doubts, please savour the grace of Ricky Bobby's grace: www.youtube.com/watch?v=seoH... www.salon.com/2026/08/16/t...

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"Talladega Nights" predicted America's Sunbelt shift

Twenty years ago, Will Ferrell's stock car manchild presaged an overheated era of US culture

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 20/08/2026

California's ZEV program got the EV revolution rolling. President Trump's war is helping seal the deal. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 18/08/2026

Love it! >> when a 20-year-old from WV was charged with defacing Flock cameras, Facebook commenters rushed to his defense, offering fake alibis... “He was saving my neighbors dog from a fire all day couldn’t be him" “I saw him serving at a soup kitchen at the time of the incident” wapo.st/4x0RpjS

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Americans are destroying license-plate cameras as surveillance backlash grows

Flock cameras have been shot, spray-painted and cut down as how-to videos spread online. “People are fed up,” one suspect said.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

That's right.

Graphic that says "In this house, we believe: cars ruin cities, streets are for people, accessibility is a human right, honking won't help, you'd be happier biking, there is life after cars."

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/08/2026

The ICE raids and cruelty we are seeing inflicted on children are unacceptable.

The federal government has stripped legal representation from hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children. Many will soon face an impossible choice: navigate our immigration system alone or risk detention and deportation.

Our city is stepping up. We've invested $16.9 million in immigration legal services for unaccompanied children, with another $32 million in this year's immigration legal services budget, including rapid-response legal advice and representation for people in detention.

If you need immigration legal support, we're here to help. Our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline is available in your preferred language, regardless of immigration status.
Call 1-800-354-0365

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 12/08/2026

Sign-o-the-times: A win for Binface would be a vote for planetary sanity, given Nigel Farage's enmity for climate science and renewable energy www.npr.org/2026/08/10/n...

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"It’s the strangest thing: I’ve spent 15 or so years working in public-sector economic development; I’ve never seen people cheering for job destruction, particularly elected officials,” Tim Sullivan, formerly CEO at NJEDA, told Ajani Stella: insideclimatenews.org/news/0908202... 🔌💡

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As US Offshore Wind Disappears, a Generation of Workers Is Left Behind - Inside Climate News

Building trades spent the past five years preparing for an offshore wind boom that went bust. Now, U.S. workers mourn the well-paying careers they don’t see coming back.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 10/08/2026

Puget Sound Energy says it can provide the backup power of 5000 acres of battery plants via just 150 acres of gas peakers. But I wonder how many acres of new gas pipes it'll take to fuel those peakers. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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WA wanted clean energy. But utilities plan fleet of gas plants

WA's utilities must go carbon-free by 2045. So why are they turning now to natural gas?

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Very good column by my colleague @jameswsthomson.com. If we aren't willing to call out the obvious, what chance do we have of actually addressing it?#cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/07/o...

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The smoke that came from nowhere for no reason

The Globe and Mail published a jarring editorial that lamented our smoky summers without once pointing toward their cause. For Canada's paper of record, it's a serious omission of a reality the govern...

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

U.S. Appeals Court for DC Circuit orders a halt to Trump's ballroom construction: "The White House is the People’s House, and under the Constitution’s Property Clause, Congress exercises plenary control over the building and its surrounding land." Opinion: ecf.cadc.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 06/08/2026

Drought and heat on the Rhine would be hammering Germany's power supply had it not shut down all 6 of the #nuclear stations that tapped the river for cooling. France and Switzerland have both shut off Rhine Basin reactors due to heat this summer. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/b...

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Drought Threatens a Vital Economic Artery in the Heart of Europe (Gift Article)

The Rhine conveys vessels and cargo that power European industry. Record low water levels are disrupting supply chains, adding costs and presenting fresh risks to growth.

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 03/08/2026

When I was a kid, they used to talk about how this is what life was like in the Soviet Union. There used to be something that people called "a right to privacy". Seems quaint and old-fashioned now. www.rwcpulse.com/redwood-city...

Flock Safety, the surveillance technology company behind the street camera system that tracks vehicles, acknowledged in March that some plate reader networks across the state were “inadvertently accessible” to out-of-state agencies, which, in many cases, violated state law regulating data-sharing.

https://www.rwcpulse.com/redwood-city/2026/08/01/redwood-city-seeks-license-plate-reader-proposals-amid-renewed-public-opposition/

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 02/08/2026

“An energy crisis situation could arise beginning Monday...” — Hungarian prime minister Péter Magyar. Its cause: Over-reliance on #nuclear power that's proving unreliable amidst a punishing heatwave, threatening Hungarians' access to lifesaving air conditioning. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Lost income, energy fears and a woolly mammoth: what Europe’s dried-up rivers have yielded

Heat and drought have affected shipping, power plants and tourism across eastern Europe – as well as unearthing some surprises

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Native Americans weren’t US citizens until 1924 and spent generations fighting for ballot access after that. Now, the SAVE Act threatens Native voters again. The act does not allow people to use their tribal IDs to register to vote. nativenewsonline.net/opinion/cong...

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Congress Must Not Make It Harder For Native Citizens To Vote

Overview: The SAVE America Act would impose new proof-of-citizenship requirements that could make it harder for many Native citizens to register and vote. Opinion This past week, House Republicans…

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 28/07/2026

"Justice may proceed slowly, and cautiously, but it does proceed. It creates a record of what happened and prevents the aggressor from having the last word." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...

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Opinion | Putin Saw a Gap in Which He Could Act With Impunity. Let’s Close the Gap. (Gift Article)

Justice may proceed slowly, and cautiously, but it does proceed.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“April Walker, a San Diego resident, was observing federal immigration agents in a Target parking lot in April when she said they boxed her in & pointed a camera at her face & license plate…Five days later, she learned that her Global Entry, which provides expedited TSA screening, had been revoked.“

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 23/07/2026

Straight talk from the head of Israel’s security agency, Shin Bet, writing "with pain and great fear, as a Jew, as an Israeli and as a security official, about the escalating phenomenon of Jewish terrorism..." that has caused "a loss of global legitimacy." www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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Israeli security chief condemns ‘terrorism’ of militant settlers

Ronen Bar sparks row with letter to Netanyahu about actions of ‘hilltop youth’ being a ‘large stain on Judaism’

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 23/07/2026

Anti-egalitarians are getting darker according to this timely book. Even Andrew Carnegie was "plagued by guilt" after crushing labor unions, notes reviewer @jenszalai.bsky.social, whereas today's "technokings" lose no sleep over exploding inequality. Not yet anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/b...

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Book Review: ‘Country of Lords,’ by Kim Phillips-Fein (Gift Article)

In a new book, the historian Kim Phillips-Fein chronicles a “shadow tradition” of anti-egalitarians who fought against America’s founding ideals.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 22/07/2026

❌ RED LIGHTS FLASHING ❌ "Artificial intelligence software in testing by OpenAI breached security controls, accessed the internet and hacked another tech firm to obtain answers to questions probing its cybersecurity skills, OpenAI said on Tuesday." wapo.st/4bUiCvY

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ChatGPT owner says AI acted on its own to hack another tech firm

The incident follows recent concerns in Silicon Valley and at the White House that AI models are becoming dangerously good at identifying security flaws in software.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If you have time this weekend, please check out the doc (~30 min.) my team & I released this week on Musk’s push into Greater Memphis with xAI and its noisy, methane gas burning turbines, data centers, broken promises & impacts on majority Black communities next door. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/e...

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Elon Musk's Memphis AI empire is the epicenter of the data center backlash

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