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Peter Christian Hall

@peterchristianhall.bsky.social
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Author (AMERICAN FEVER: A Tale of Romance & Pestilence), filmmaker (DELINQUENT), poet, and editor who loves hiking, history, music, what's left of nature, and Squidley.

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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Creativity! 'Under the streets of Paris, a 75-mile labyrinth of pipes is at work trying to keep the parts of the city cool. They’re carrying water that’s been chilled in special plants before being sent across the French capital, to offices, malls and museums including the Louvre.
bloomberg.com
How Paris Is Using the Seine to Try to Keep Cool in Scorching Heat
Chilled water and miles of pipes create eco-friendly air conditioning for the city
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 26/06/2026
Kristi Noem spent more than $700 million of your money buying warehouses to detain immigrants. Now ICE is planning to sell or give away most of them. This was a signature initiative of the Trump deportation agenda, and it is collapsing under the weight of its own incompetence.
nytimes.com
ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Welcome US citizens? Trump is near gone.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Getting rid of well-respected high ranking members of the military in order to install loyalists is what you do when you are planning to do the wrong thing and want to make sure the military complies with your orders.
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Cartoon by @dptoon.bsky.social
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
'hearing from the “abortion abolition movement,” using the label adopted by some activists pushing for women to be prosecuted for having abortions [Vance] hinted at the potential peril...in expressing opposition to the idea, saying that “we can’t be immune to the realities of modern politics.”
nytimes.com
Support Builds on the Right for Prosecuting Women Who Get Abortions
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It needs a roof to spare the innocent ducks from Donald's idiocy.
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
SpaceX stock trading ...
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
'Russian-installed authorities suspended civilian fuel sales until at least Wednesday...authorities announced parts of the peninsula would be left without street lighting & all public events had been cancelled. “I want to go back to Moscow. This is just horrible” one Russian tourist said in a video
theguardian.com
Ukraine intensifies attacks on Crimea to raise cost of Russian occupation
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says strikes on oil facilities part of ‘long-range sanctions’ intended to isolate the territory
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
There goes the AI rally! Is China Closing the A.I. Gap Faster Than Expected? "Silicon Valley & corp America are increasingly turning to cheaper, open-source artificial intelligence models built in China ... especially as newer models are quickly closing the gap with American rivals.'
nytimes.com
Is China Closing the A.I. Gap Faster Than Expected?
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I think it likely that Trump and Vance dream of coopting bipartisan criticism of Israel by charging in front of the global parade. Will it work?
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
'Economists reckon drivers don’t react much to oil prices, but those assumptions didn’t account for the rise of EVs. If you have a plug-in hybrid, or one conventional & one electric car, you can instantly switch when gasoline gets too pricey. China’s army of dirt-cheap electric taxis ...'
bloomberg.com
The Mystery of China’s Oil Demand Drop Is No Mystery
It’s the biggest conundrum in the world economy right now: How has China managed to go on an oil detox?
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ukraine blows the TOP off a Moscow oil refinery in another, even bigger drone attack.
facebook.com
444K views · 7.7K reactions | Eyewitness footage shows the top of a fuel storage unit being blown off as Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Moscow as part of one of the largest long-range Ukrainian attacks on Russia since the war began. Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/GkxOeB | ABC News
Eyewitness footage shows the top of a fuel storage unit being blown off as Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Moscow as part of one of the largest long-range Ukrainian attacks on Russia since...
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“targets the Enterprise tier of Microsoft, the blast radius isn’t limited to personal data—[can]surface anything the user has access to inside the organization including emails, meeting invites & notes..“Depending on how M365 is connected to the environment, the blast radius could extend even wider”
futurism.com
Microsoft's Copilot AI Caught Letting Hackers Steal Your 2FA Codes Through a Single Click
Microsoft was forced to patch a vulnerability that allowed researchers to turn the chatbot into a "one-click data exfiltration weapon."
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Trump's Reflecting Pond is evolving fast!
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Disclaimer: "Musk projects."
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Trump couldn't stop it from passing gas, but he damaged the future of wind power.
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
How many will die now? 'Once Trump is truly a lame duck...there’s a good chance he will care even less about what voters want. Just like there’s a good chance he will care even less what congressional Republicans want or need to get reelected...That’s a recipe for electoral disaster.'
bloomberg.com
Giving Trump $70 Billion for ICE Is a Time Bomb for Republicans
It was a year ago this month that President Donald Trump gave many Americans their first glimpse of his long-promised campaign of mass deportations. He deployed the military and immigration agents to ...
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
'This surge in EVs...is irreversible. People who buy EVs rarely switch back to gas-powered cars, especially in countries that have the infrastructure & charging stations to support EVs. & more EVs on the road create political & economic pressure to upgrade the infrastructure to facilitate their use'
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Happy birthday, Don! '... Iran’s top negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said there was “no point” in continuing talks if the US lacked the “will and ability” to fulfill its commitments and stop Israel from bombing Lebanon...Israeli attacks on Beirut wouldn’t go “unanswered.”'
bloomberg.com
Iran Signals No Deal Will Be Signed by Trump’s Sunday Timeline
Iran pushed back on US President Donald Trump’s assertion an interim peace deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz was imminent, as an Israeli strike on Lebanon posed a potential new risk to any agreement...
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Bon Anniversaire, Don! "Trump’s behavior is “not only erratic but also extremely unsteady and constantly shifting,” said Bardella in the interview, which will be released in its entirety Monday. ... "There’s a Monday attitude, a Tuesday attitude, a Wednesday attitude.”
politico.eu
France’s far-right front-runner rejects Trump’s backing
Jordan Bardella called the U.S. president’s behavior “erratic but also extremely unsteady and constantly shifting.”
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Mosquitoes gather with enthusiasm at the Reflecting Pool Trump just "fixed" for the otherwise revolting Sunday evening tropical gladiator salute at what was once our White House.
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Lowest national oil reserves since the buildup started under Reagan. As for the commercial reserves, Trump's two score of peace announcements may not come soon enough to save MAGA summer ...
cnn.com
The tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma, are hitting bottom. The oil market is about to hit a tipping point | CNN Business
Cushing, Oklahoma, dubs itself the pipeline crossroads of the world. The tagline is emblazoned on a giant roadside sign fashioned out of pipes on the corner of Main Street and South Stiles Road. It ha...
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
MAGArt: 'painting of a Black man with an American flag draped over his head at the Houston Museum of African American Culture...when two young white men...entered the museum. “They took something like a screwdriver or some scissors, and they scraped across part of the painting, and put a hole in it”
nytimes.com
Vandals Damage Work by Black Artist at Houston Museum, Officials Say
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 12/06/2026
Tesla market cap: $1.4 T Toyota market cap: $270 B Tesla revenue: $97 B Toyota revenue: $337 B Tesla isn't even one of the top 15 auto makers (by production volume) but is valued 5x as much as the largest auto company. Its all a con
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Would YOU hire an accounting firm that proudly makes it all up? KPMG just hallucinated a report and spread it around the world.
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
While White South Africans are welcome, people who fled persecution in Iran are sent by Rubio’s State Department to countries they’ve never visited. DECK:'The women are among nearly two dozen people slated to be sent to a country where the U.S. government has advised “Do not travel for any reason.”'
nytimes.com
Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
That Magic Trump Touch, as with the Knicks on Monday!
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Keir Starmer "take action"?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Best thing about Mamdani is that he's one of the only Democrats who understands you can just do things
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
David Wallace-Wells: 'Voters in many of the country’s largest & most high-profile cities appear to have responded to signs of urban decline not by shifting right, as many expected, but left, as so many insisted would be impossible in the aftermath of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter & “peak woke.”'
nytimes.com
Opinion | What Spencer Pratt’s Defeat Tells Us About the American City
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
America 2026.
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
'top 1% by wealth are responsible for about 40% of all “ownership”-based emissions [by businesses & associated with privately owned financial and physical assets] which themselves make up 60% of global carbon output...bottom half of the world wealth accounts for just 3% of ownership-based emissions'
theguardian.com
Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says
Greenpeace calculates that wealthiest contribute nearly $1tn of damage a year with ownership-based emissions
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We're gonna party like it's 1929! 'When Tesla’s carmaking business is mired in a multiyear decline, the company’s market value has soared to new highs almost exclusively on the billionaire CEO’s fantastical promises of a future in which all cars will drive themselves & robots will babysit the kids.'
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Gee, what a red flag for the Space X IPO (yawn). BuyBuyBuy!
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The biggest drawdown ever. Since the reseve can't be emptied without badly damaging its structure, there ain't much left for civil society. I've seen arguments that it can't go under 300 million barrels. The Pentagon, which needs a reserve for defense, has to be terrified. Not Hegseth, though!
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Trump and his deranged spending and grifting will ensure that Social Security hits the wall even earlier under the Democrat who succeeds him as president. AI and the GQP will propose ever-less-practical solutions that do not include taxing the ultra rich.
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
World's richest wannabe streetfighter Elon Musk, spawned by South African apartheid: 'Crowds including masked men burned vehicles and houses and blocked roads in and around Belfast on Tuesday night, hours after Elon Musk, Tommy Robinson and other agitators exhorted people to take to the streets...'
theguardian.com
Violence erupts in Belfast after protests over knife attack
Crowds, including people in masks and hoods, burned vehicles and properties after calls for demonstrations from far-right figures
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
As the US economy flies high on AI overbuild ...
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Great column that cites Peter Turchin in examining the crisis of overproduction of young elite human beings and concludes sensibly on a promising note about population shrinkage.
bloomberg.com
Asia’s Gen Z Talent Is Becoming a Political Threat
I hated taking exams. I’d cram and strategize and fret as I imagined trick questions, bizarre equations or scenarios in which obscure sections from my textbooks emerged as soul-wrecking conundrums. Bu...
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Washington loves these—PLOPUS doesn't.
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This thing is much worse than I had imagined. Great suit! '...selling premium tickets to the event for more than $1 million... Trump purchased between $15,000 and $50,000 worth of stock in TKO Holding Group, the parent company of U.F.C., in March—while he was in the process of promoting the event.'
nytimes.com
Lawsuit Aims to Stop U.F.C. Fights at White House on Trump’s Birthday
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The Albert Speer Iran Memorial Arch looks to be very impressive. We can all make comments here: parkplanning.nps.gov/documentsOpe...
parkplanning.nps.gov
ParkPlanning - Documents Open For Comment
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I was not the only person insisting that Bitcoin & its offspring constituted a massive waste of money & energy—now overshadowed by the booming AI & data center catastrophe. Crypto's time has certainly come, though. “It lost that hot-new-thing label and now it’s just another asset class..."
bloomberg.com
There Are Millions of Crypto Tokens. Almost None Have Any Value
Charles Hoskinson is angry.
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Dejan Pantic @serbianism.com · 06/06/2026
Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.
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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
No Kings marches every few months? Here's a demo!
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