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Environment, liberal, progressive, Ukraine, anti-Fascist, anti-Conservative, anti-Republican.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 7h
“The town of Oleshky and the surrounding district in southern Kherson Oblast in Ukraine are under a total blockade imposed by Russian occupation forces,” write Elise Lauriot Prevost, Nadiia Vaskivska, and Anastasiia Vorobiova from Global Rights Compliance, in this op-ed.
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Russia's methodical use of starvation in Oleshky
The town of Oleshky and the surrounding district in southern Kherson Oblast in Ukraine are under a total blockade imposed by Russian occupation forces. Since May 26, 2026, no humanitarian aid has rea...
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 6h
‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 23h
Trump Promises to Hand Out More Cash, This Time to Help Data Centers Donald Trump is definitely going to make good on this promise. newrepublic.com/post/216029/...
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Trump Promises to Hand Out More Cash, This Time to Help Data Centers
Donald Trump is definitely going to make good on this promise.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026
Meta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. nyti.ms/3VlavDw
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump Sharply Scales Back Fuel Economy Rules for New Cars The move marked the final step in the administration’s efforts to dismantle policies aimed at speeding the shift to electric vehicles. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/c...
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Trump Sharply Scales Back Fuel Economy Rules for New Cars
The move marked the final step in the administration’s efforts to dismantle policies aimed at speeding the shift to electric vehicles.
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ANALYSIS: Ukrainian Intel Exposes Russia Helping Iran Target US Forces Moscow also reportedly offered to halt its intelligence-sharing and targeting-data pipeline to Iran in exchange for the US severing its vital intelligence support to Ukraine. www.kyivpost.com/analysis/856...
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Kyiv Intelligence Exposes Russia-Iran Satellite Link Targeting US Forces
Kyiv says Russian satellites tracked US and Gulf military sites before and after Iranian strikes, deepening concerns over Moscow-Tehran intelligence ties.
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can only agree: "Governments must treat the climate as they would other threats to national security, such as sabotage by hostile states." Richard Nugee, a retired general and security expert. Why would such a report be suppressed? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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The Ubiquitous J-Man @theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another banger Theo! 😂 #CdnPoli 🇨🇦 #MapleMAGA🍁 #PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou🤥 #NeverPoilievre 🚫 #NeverVoteConservative 🚫🗳️
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram
Cyclists taking the lane stretching kms of a city street
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you're on the wrong side of an 80-20 issue, it's generally a bad idea to dig in -- and a *really* bad idea to lie about the other side's position on it. And yet. #cdnpoli
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Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.ai · 28/09/2026
Waratah Super Battery reaches full commercial operations ->pv magazine Australia | More on "Australia's battery energy storage expansion" at BigEarthData.ai | #RenewableEnergy #Battery
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Waratah Super Battery reaches full commercial operations
The more-than $1 billion (USD 700 million) Waratah super battery built by Akaysha Energy on the site of the former Munmorah coal-fired power station on the New South Wales (NSW) Central Coast has reached full commercial operations. With a total capacity of 850 MW and storage of 1,680 MWh, the Waratah battery energy storage system (BESS) is set to play a key role in NSW’s energy transformation, supporting the growing volume of renewable energy entering the grid and helping to deliver reliable electricity as ageing coal-fired power stations retire. NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe confirmed on Monday that the battery has now received approval to operate at full capacity from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). “The Waratah Super Battery is a game changer for NSW,” she said. “As ageing coal-fired power stations retire, this project will help keep the lights on for homes and businesses while enabling more renewable energy to flow through the grid.” “This is exactly the kind of infrastructure NSW needs to deliver a reliable, affordable and modern energy system for generations to come.” The BESS forms the foundation of the Waratah Super Battery Project, that also includes a 700 MW / 1,400 MWh system integrity...
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good morning☕at #Bluesky 💙🤝 #Ukraine 💔😨 #russianwarcrimes @kareemrifai.bsky.social Rape of girls as young as 4 and women as old as 82 Routine genital electrocution of male #Ukrainian prisoners This is just a fragment of the absolutely nightmarish stuff from the just-released #UN report 1 - 4‼️
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'Abhorrent acts' — Russian forces committed widespread sexual violence in Ukraine since full-scale invasion, UN reports
Russian forces are responsible for the vast majority of sexual violence in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announced in a new report.
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Democrats Organizing For America @democratsofa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Putin bears sole responsibility for launching Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. Allowing him to participate in a G20 Summit in the U.S. raises serious concerns about legitimizing and normalizing a government that continues to attack Ukrainian civilian targets every day.”
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Republicans and Democrats Unite to Call on Trump to Keep Putin Out of G20
A group of Republican and Democratic senators is pushing President Donald Trump to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin away from the upcoming G20 summit in Miami, arguing his presence would give leg...
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Cathie from Canada🍁 @cathiecanada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
Israel ‘categorically rejects’ publication and says businesses on database have committed no wrongdoing
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UN adds 61 firms to settlements blacklist over alleged human rights violations against Palestinians
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/c...
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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option apnews.com/article/hous...
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House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option
House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda if the party sweeps control in the November elections.
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
8/8 As tech giants eye Alberta to power the global AI rush, rural communities are drawing a hard line. For Premier Danielle Smith, courting Silicon Valley risks alienating the conservative heartland. Source: Emily Williams, CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Data centres are unpopular in Alberta, poll suggests. Are they a political liability? | CBC News
Janet Brown Opinion Research found in poll commissioned by CBC News that many Albertans are wary of data centres. One political expert says the province welcoming a data-centre goldrush risks alienati...
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At least 300 children reportedly killed in Gaza in past 300 days share.google/cwFSNz3dbO8G...
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At least 300 children reportedly killed in Gaza in past 300 days
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Talk to John Roberts. The Long Con of John Roberts progressive.org/magazine/the...
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The Long Con of John Roberts
As a young attorney in the Reagan Administration, he aimed to destroy the Voting Rights Act and undermine democracy. Now the Chief Justice has finished the job.
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CPAC TV @cpac.ca · 22/09/2026
"This is a pragmatic, practical action that works towards the preservation of the possibility of a two-state solution," says PM Carney as he announces $100M in international assistance for Palestine and discusses planned trade restrictions targeting E-1 Israeli settlements. #cdnpoli
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump’s wickedness has contaminated our discourse. Its relentlessness is equal parts overwhelming and numbing. In addition to a completely cowed GOP that seems pathologically committed to raising concerns in private while publicly fawning over all the president does is disgusting and repulsive.
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Politico: Trump is airing a pro-Trump midterms ad on TV that -includes “paid for by the U.S. government” disclaimer text -features a song by an artist who says they didn’t approve it’s use and are now looking for a lawyer
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Trump administration launches pro-Trump TV ad ahead of midterms
The 30-second ad, apparently paid for by U.S. tax dollars, features photos and videos of Trump, the American flag and military aircraft.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why a healthy seafloor matters for the Earth system phys.org/news/2026-09...
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Why a healthy seafloor matters for the Earth system
The seafloor is more than just the ground beneath the sea. Two-thirds of Earth's surface is covered by oceans, which have an average depth of almost 4 kilometers (2.5 miles). For a long time, the seaf...
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Suncor Helped Lead Climate Denial Group Spreading ‘Uncertainties’ With a U.S. Supreme Court decision looming on whether the company can be held liable for climate deception, internal documents show a campaign to question science. www.desmog.com/2026/09/21/s...
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Suncor Helped Lead Climate Denial Group Spreading ‘Uncertainties’
With a U.S. Supreme Court decision looming on whether the company can be held liable for climate deception, internal documents show a campaign to question science.
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated – Report The Gulf petrostate is forging alliances with radical right-wing parties across the world. www.desmog.com/2026/09/23/u...
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UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated – Report
The ties between Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been described as “extensive and troubling” in a new report. The analysis by FairSquare, a non-profit which researches...
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amy Westervelt’s new book Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy is a must-read for anyone tracking the machinery of climate denial and delay. The book offers a forensic account of how corporate America built a vast apparatus of public.. DeSmog
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2002 sinking of the Prestige tanker off Spain’s northern coast poured 20 million gallons of oil into the Atlantic ocean — Go inside the biggest oil spill you've probably never heard of in Spain: The Lawless Sea, a 2004 FRONTLINE/World documentary that's newly available on our YouTube channel,
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Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.ai · 24/09/2026
Germany plans to end use of fossil fuels in energy sector by 2045 ->Climate Home News | More on "Germany's fossil fuel phase-out plan" at BigEarthData.ai | #FossilFuel #ClimateChange
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Germany plans to end use of fossil fuels in energy sector by 2045
Germany wants to stop using fossil fuels in the energy sector by 2045 at the latest, with plans for how to do that set out in the country’s transition roadmap published today on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The blueprint focuses on electrifying transport, home heating and industry, while gradually replacing fossil fuel power generation with renewables. Renewables supplied about 55% of Germany's electricity last year and the government wants that to reach at least 80% by 2030. All coal-fired power stations - which generated almost a quarter of Germany's electricity last year - must close by 2038 at the latest. That deadline has been set in German law since 2020, but the roadmap says the government is exploring the possibility of bringing the end date forward to 2035. New gas-fired plants that receive state funding must be "hydrogen-ready" and run on climate-neutral fuels by 2045. The roadmap doesn't specify what those fuels are but they generally include biofuels and green hydrogen. At the same time, Berlin wants to install 2,000 more wind turbines and reduce the need for power plants by boosting the use of batteries. At the UN General Assembly in New York, Secretary-General António Guterres...
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Guterres calls on countries to set clear timelines for transition away from fossil fuels news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Guterres calls on countries to set clear timelines for transition away from fossil fuels
“We are the first generation with the tools to end the fossil fuel age – and the last who can avert climate catastrophe,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday, calling on countries ...
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rohingya refugees deserve a future beyond survival, not endless displacement news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Rohingya refugees deserve a future beyond survival, not endless displacement
Nine years after the mass displacement of the Rohingya from Myanmar, their situation remains one of the world's most protracted and complex refugee crises, marked by years of persecution and uncertain...
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Iran, China, and groups like IntelEye in Israel used swarms of AI agents in novel ways this summer to create first-of-their-kind influence campaigns on social media. Sadly, this may be the first of many operations like this one @sheeraf.bsky.social for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/t...
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Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns (Gift Article)
The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation.
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump's 8 AM Canada Meltdown, Fact-Checked Line by Pathetic Line He can't win the trade war, so he's inventing a Canadian collapse from his Truth Social bunker. deanblundell.substack.com/p/trumps-8-a...
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Trump's 8 AM Canada Meltdown, Fact-Checked Line by Pathetic Line
He can't win the trade war, so he's inventing a Canadian collapse from his Truth Social bunker.
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Michael O’Grady 🇨🇦 @mog7546.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
FBI Eyed Susan Collins Over Defense Contractor’s Donations PROBE: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show. There is a CONFESSION : #MOG8 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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RaySCline @lastmandarin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He's a Russian agent. The greatest thing any person or nation can have is friendships, alliances, & respect. He's killed all of that as Putin's servant. This is fundamental wrecking work of our international stature & long held positions of 'proper' diplomatic equanimity & mutual global respect.
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@lucid)
Trump’s banning of entire media outlines is part and parcel of what authoritarians do to a free press. Authoritarians simply do not like a free press — and the latest escalation from Trump is a danger...
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At UN, Trump lumping what he calls the "climate change hoax" "the Russia hoax" "the Ukraine hoax" as the same people with those calling to regulate AI. Seems Trump has no intention of acknowledging reality or ever regulating AI. He's completely out of touch with reality.
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In his UN speech, Trump referred to North America which happens to include Canada and Mexico as the "American" continent. While failing to mention his drastic life saving US Aid cuts, he showered praise on Melania for convening a meeting to help youth around the world.
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Donald Trump Loses in Court, Solar Energy Funds to be Reinstated cleantechnica.com/2026/09/21/d...
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Donald Trump Loses in Court, Solar Energy Funds to be Reinstated - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of c...
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Chances are astronomically low that anybody is even listening much less acting on this laugher. As per France tv, Russia demands Europe lift sanctions on all Russian businesses.
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Donald Trump dreams of a beautiful police state There was apparently little thought about the optics of placing snipers alongside a massive angel atop a giant monument to American greatness. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | Donald Trump dreams of a beautiful police state
Trump saying snipers and drones will be deployed at his 250 foot tall triumphal arch in Washington perfectly meld his aesthetics and violence
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progsrock @progsrock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump administration advances plan to open national forests to development The proposal would repeal the roadless rule, opening up nearly 45 million acres of national land to roadbuilding and logging, despite widespread opposition from scientists and the public. grist.org/politics/tru...
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Trump administration advances plan to open national forests to development
The proposal would repeal the roadless rule, opening up nearly 45 million acres of national land to roadbuilding and logging.
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