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Peter Cherbi

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Journalist 📰 Investigations & news: Judiciary, Courts, Justice & Law 🧑‍⚖️⚖️ Wildlife 🐘🐋🐺🐝 Nature 🌳🦉 & otters 🦦 along for the ride Email: scottishlawreporters@gmail.com Website : petercherbi.blogspot.com

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Peter Cherbi @petercherbi.bsky.social · 23h
So .. "Why are data centres such a big deal in Scotland?" 🤐 well, they are a big deal ofc .. power & environment sucking polluters which, like the polluting Salmon farm owners - will find massive public cash handouts from politicians for favours & 'things' .. 🤝🤑 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Why are data centres such a big deal in Scotland?
At least 23 huge data centres are planned in Scotland, causing significant concern for campaigners.
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 7h
Chief Justice John Roberts' order to transfer the Federal Circuit Judicial Council's disability investigation of a suspended 99-year-old judge to another court offers the neutral evaluation the judge has long been asking for, but attorneys are concerned about transparency. www.law360.com/artic...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15h
Tory £6bn inheritance tax cut plan Increase threshold from £1m per couple to £2m+home. In 2024-25, 30,400 estates paid IHT, may rise to 52,100 in 2029-30. IHT cut for the richest, paid by cutting benefits for old, sick, disabled, unemployed. How will it help economic growth, reindustrialization?
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Kemi Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes
Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 6h
Republican candidates are desperately running away from AI and calling for data center moratoriums, and Trump is shitting on them every single day. Here he is saying, "The problem with data centers is they are so good."
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404 Media @404media.co · 6h
SCOOP: 404 Media obtained body cam footage of the first Flock camera searches ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, and highlights how the system has turned otherwise mundane traffic stops into interrogations for drivers. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports:
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Watch Footage of the Flock Search a Judge Ruled Unconstitutional
"I saw her go by, and I just started running her info on Flock."
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Peter Cherbi @petercherbi.bsky.social · 23h
Action to Protect Rural Scotland has created a map of Data Centre projects across Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Worth joining their campaign to protect Rural Scotland, indeed to protect all of Scotland from the Data Centre greed menace aprs.scot/data-centre-...
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Data Centre Map - Action to Protect Rural Scotland
We have made a map of the hyperscale data centre projects being planned in Scotland. Click on the map to find out information on the capacity, stage of planning, developer. And each proposed site has ...
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Peter Cherbi @petercherbi.bsky.social · 23h
1GW data centre planned for the ex nuclear power-plant Chapelcross site near Annan in Dumfries and Galloway Scotgov will be rubbing their hands at the cash flow on this one, & cant say impressed with the Greens 'protests' - who wont matter if Swinney says Yes to it 😅🤑 news.sky.com/story/gigant...
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Gigantic £16.5bn data centre planned for former nuclear plant site in Scotland
The Scottish Greens, who oppose the Chapelcross project near Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, claim the proposed 1GW data centre would be the biggest in world.
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Peter Cherbi @petercherbi.bsky.social · 23h
So .. "Why are data centres such a big deal in Scotland?" 🤐 well, they are a big deal ofc .. power & environment sucking polluters which, like the polluting Salmon farm owners - will find massive public cash handouts from politicians for favours & 'things' .. 🤝🤑 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Why are data centres such a big deal in Scotland?
At least 23 huge data centres are planned in Scotland, causing significant concern for campaigners.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UK govt plans £1bn energy bills help for poorer households. How about cutting energy profit margins, 100% windfall tax on excess profits before turning to the public purse. UK energy sector is mostly foreign-owned. Dividends paid without any UK tax deduction. End this perk, raise billions.
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Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
MPs call for investigation following suicide of BGC Partners whistleblower Simon Andriesz and failure of Financial Conduct Authority to take his allegations seriously.
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JOE.ie - MPs call for investigation following death of Epstein whistleblower
British trader found dead and MPs want answers One British trader who exposed links between a US secretary and Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in Thailand, as reported by the BBC. Following the de...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/10/2026
Trump wanted to jam more hens into smaller spaces - making it harder for inspectors to access them - and making living conditions for egg laying hens worse. All so businesses could sell cheaper eggs.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 06/10/2026
TODAY is your LAST CHANCE to speak up to protect the Roadless Rule. The public comment period closes TODAY, Oct. 6. This is just a small glimpse of who these roadless wild areas protect — from colorful candy darters to mighty grizzly bears. These species all deserve a safe place to call home.
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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
During yesterday's SCOTUS argument, CJ Roberts & other conservatives were more concerned about a flood of lawsuits than the literal floods that climate change unleashes. They thus were sympathetic to blocking the Colorado case based on what I call the "dormant Nothing Clause." Details on the blog. 👇
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
All this talk about Alito is pretty silly. He’s not an Originalist. He’s a GOPist who privileges religion, hates unions (a lot), and has no empathy for the poor and powerless while favoring the rich and powerful. The rest doesn’t matter. Mostly, he’s a GOP partisan.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
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Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My office seized cash, gold bars, multiple aircraft, luxury items, and more from Yuma doctor Irfan Fazil after he was caught defrauding our state's Medicaid program of $36.5 million. He'll spend 7.5 years in prison and will pay back every dollar he stole from taxpayers. www.azag.gov/press-releas...
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: Popok joins Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse for a special briefing on alleged corruption in the Trump DOJ, the “grand conspiracy” probe before Judge Cannon, the Mar-a-Lago Jack Smith report, possible contempt investigations, and scrutiny of Trump-appointed federal judges. Tune in below!
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Blanche is a HOT MESS as Senate INVESTIGATES whether Trump Judges have CONSPIRED with Admin!!!
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Devoid of ideas, Tories vow return to Thatcherite policies. They want to cut social spending, build prisons, cut taxes for the rich, free childcare for individuals earning £1m. What will they privatise, sell to foreign investors? No ideas on infrastructure investment, regulation of capitalism.
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Kemi Badenoch positions herself as modern day Thatcher and vows to revive Tories
The Tory leader dismissed suggestions that her focus on cutting benefits and building more prisons signalled a return of the ‘nasty party’
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From the Scottish Enlightenment to the Scottish Endarkenment Scotland’s universities are falling apart. Edinburgh is axing 90 degree courses in arts and humanities including single honours Scottish Literature. These are the courses that teach Scotland about Scotland In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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The Scottish Endarkenment has dawned in this dumbed-down nation
The mass closure of university courses is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the unravelling of Scottish culture today, says Neil Mackay
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks again to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for highlighting Kemi Badenoch's banning of journalists she doesn't approve of, which very few other journalists in the country seem willing to mention for some reason inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...
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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 06/10/2026
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 06/10/2026
Finland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concerns
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Finland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concerns
Regulators have ordered the company representing the US web giant in Finland to stop building data centers until it can demonstrate compliance with environmental laws. Officials are investigating whether trees and soil were cleared before the company carried out an impact study.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ken Paxton, caught on video admitting he’s lost control of his own campaign: “I’ve never been in a race where I felt less control… it’s all coming… from DC.” Texas deserves a senator who answers to Texans — not Washington operatives pulling the strings.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm having quite the day in right wing media.😂
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Y'all...
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 06/10/2026
The Environmental Protection Agency official who has overseen some of the Trump administration's most consequential efforts to roll back climate and air pollution regulations resigned effective last week, the agency said on Tuesday.
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EPA air chief leaves agency after overseeing Trump regulatory rollback
The Environmental Protection Agency official who has overseen some of the Trump administration's ​most consequential efforts to roll back climate and ‌air pollution regulations resigned effective last week, the agency said on Tuesday.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Does protesting actually work? Yes — just look at history. My friend, activist and author Annie Leonard, explains why protesting is so important and why we must protect this powerful tool of dissent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rvafufqH7g
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Why Protest Is More Powerful Than You Think (ft. Annie Leonard)
Does protesting actually work?Yes — just look at history.My friend, activist and author Annie Leonard, explains why prot
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 05/10/2026
Now final — the OT25 recusal stats docs.google.com/spreadsheets...: — 82 total — Alito had most with 34 (27 due to stocks) — No other justice in double figures Just updated — the OT26 recusal stats docs.google.com/spreadsheets...: — 11 total — Alito has most with 5 (4 due to stocks)
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OT25 Recusals Compiled by Fix the Court
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: Oil companies face a skeptical SCOTUS in their effort to stop Boulder’s climate change lawsuit. With Justice Alito recused, eight justices questioned if they should be hearing the case and pushed back on Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil’s broad constitutional arguments. Today, at Law Dork:
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Oil companies face a skeptical SCOTUS in their effort to stop Boulder’s climate change lawsuit
With Justice Alito recused, eight justices questioned if they should be hearing the case and pushed back on Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil’s broad constitutional arguments.
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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For the first Monday in October, @jamessample.bsky.social and I discuss Trump's absurd claim that his appointees have been disloyal. They and the Roberts Court overall have done very little to block the president's agenda. www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/10/the-...
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The Biggest Damn Fool Mistake: Trump and the Roberts Court
Today the Supreme Court opens its October 2026 Term, though the idea of a term with a beginning and an end is mostly ceremony now. In the sh...
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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today’s oral argument on Boulder’s climate change lawsuit was very complicated. Here’s a sad truth though: big business almost always wins in the Roberts Court. That’s not complicated-tragic-but not complicated.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Overcrowding in UK A&E depts and treating patients in corridors linked to hundreds of deaths. Neoliberals urge cuts in public spending, silence on human consequences. Delayed care leads to premature deaths People sacrificed to gods of fiscal policies.
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Overcrowding in A&E linked to 'hundreds of deaths a week', study finds
A review of more than 19,000 adult patients found that for every 10% increase in emergency department occupancy, the chance of dying in the following 28 days increased by 1%.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The next crash could be an economic bloodbath
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The next crash could be an economic bloodbath
The author warns that the massive capital investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure creates a systemic economic risk that could trigger widespread financial instability if projected prod…
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📣Last day to speak up for America’s Roadless Areas and the wildlife that depends on them. Nearly 45 million acres of America’s forests could soon be opened to road construction and logging putting intact landscapes and critical wildlife habitat at risk. Take action now: ow.ly/yWkU50ZUHNR
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the last hours of Kristi Noem's tenure as Homeland Security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man's firm at a substantial markup, documents show.
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seattle Times editorial board complains about $30,000 bonus for Sound Transit head, but apparently had no problem with $50,000 bonuses for three Seattle police command staff (Barnes, Sayles, and Powell), all of them just thank-yous for taking top jobs here.
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Sound Transit CEO's $30,000 bonus shows a big disconnect | Editorial
When private corporations award employees performance bonuses, that’s between the corporation and their shareholders. Not so with a public utility.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Tufted Titmouse surrounded by Fall color.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 05/10/2026
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Supreme Court to test legal system’s limits for Canadian victims of cryptocurrency fraud
Top court agrees to hear appeal of 2025 decision involving Binance cryptocurrency exchange
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Burnham scraps Starmer-era plans to curb jury trials. A victory for common sense. The Bill would have been defeated in the Lords. Due to Tory cuts, there is a backlog of over 81,000 Crown Court cases in England & Wales. Govt must invest in public services.
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Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
Funny how their “originalism” dissipates when there’s a Republican/billionaire imperative at stake. I don’t think “originally” corporations were people, or presidents had immunity, or agencies couldn’t make “major” rules, or Congress couldn’t set terms of office. What a joke.
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Opinion | Justice Samuel Alito: Even Originalists Make Mistakes
An interpretive method disciplines the decision-making process, but it doesn’t free judges of the need to exercise judgment.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
lol ok
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/10/2026
When the Trump administration started dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system earlier this year, scientists, fishermen and Congress fought back. On Saturday, a 238-foot ship set sail to reinstall the first batch of monitors in the waters of the Pacific.
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After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea
Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cocchiarella: You said that you do support a moratorium on data centers, but if there were to be one that had to be built, Mar-a-Lago seemed as good a place as any. Nixon: They have a huge golf course that it can be dropped onto.
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