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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/10/2026
Solar panels are so popular in Pakistan they’re being used as wedding dowries. That boom is now challenging a power sector that owes billions to China, and exposing snarls in Beijing's drive to dominate the global energy transition. bloom.bg/4xQoheN 📷️: Asim Hafeez/Bloomberg
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Denmark built so much wind that some blustery hours the turbines out-produce what the whole country is using. When that happens, the extra power doesn’t sit idle. It moves through Denmark’s links into the wider European network and heads to neighbors like Germany, Norway, Sweden. #ActOnClimate
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-growin... That glacier collapse left 99 percent of the ice up there—and there are tens of thousands of glaciers in the region If we’re serious about stopping this, we need all-out climate action now
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The growing rumble
Politics--alas--is what we need
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/vo...
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Protect our elections: Vote NO on Trump’s USPS nominees!
This latest power grab, which would entirely reshape the leadership of the Postal Service, is part of a broader strategy of this administration to upend our elections to control the outcome.  Tr...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There's a secret reason your electric bill is going up — and not enough people are talking about it.
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The Secret Behind High Electricity Bills
Private utility companies like PG&E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans — and they're usin
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Did you know that thanks to climate change the US is expecting its worst wheat harvest in half a century? We're pushing up against physical limits, and we're pushing hard. billmckibben.substack.com/p/reality-in...
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Reality intrudes
We can’t actually keep on like this
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tell NY Governor Hochul: Ban Octopus Farming & Wild Animal Circuses www.congressweb.com/AWI/558?fram...
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Tell NY Governor Hochul: Ban Octopus Farming & Wild Animal Circuses
New York state residents: We need your help pushing two animal protection bills across the finish line! New York is one step away from enacting S.7421B and A.5850, bills to ban industrial octopus farm...
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Stop Congress from Damaging the Marine Mammal Protection Act www.congressweb.com/AWI/504?fram...
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Stop Congress from Damaging the Marine Mammal Protection Act
For more than 50 years, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) has served as the cornerstone of marine mammal conservation in the United States, safeguarding whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, polar...
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National Wildlife Federation @nwf.org · 15/08/2026
The endangered Rice’s whale no longer has the full protection of the ESA in the Gulf due to oil and gas leasing activities and can no longer call its Gulf home safe. 🐳 Read NWF blog to learn more about the Rice’s whale and how you can help. 📲https://ow.ly/HjSi50Zz2Ar
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 26/07/2026
Picture a bear traipsing through a wet, mossy expanse of Alaskan rainforest. This is the Tongass, the largest national forest in the U.S. & the biggest old growth temperate rainforest left in the country. This is a 17 million acre forest containing trees up to 800 years old! bit.ly/4wZdO0K
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The Largest Old-Growth Forest Left In America
The biggest old-growth forest left in America is a rainforest in Alaska. Meet the Tongass: thousand-year-old trees, bears, and salmon.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/07/2026
“Where is the money? There is no transparency and the US government does not inform us.” From @financialtimes.com, on Venezuela giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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The US has collected about $13bn of Venezuela’s oil money. Where is it?
Washington has given diverging accounts of where the earthquake-shattered country’s funds are going
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 10/07/2026
"For the first time ever, a presidential administration now claims that species protected by the Endangered Species Act shouldn’t be safe from habitat modification that destroys where they live, raise their young, or search for food," said Earthjustice attorney Kristen Boyles.
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‘Death sentence’: Trump’s EPA to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining
Habitat destruction strongest driver of species loss, with legislation keeping 99% of listed species from going extinct
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NRDC @nrdc.org · 02/07/2026
Big Oil must pay for polluting our lands. Submit a comment now to stop this disastrous plan in its tracks: on.nrdc.org/4eTiJZH
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 30/06/2026
Venture Global is behind a whole complex of methane gas (#LNG) terminals being built in Cameron, Louisiana. This LNG boom comes despite a lack of need for new fossil fuels and a worsening climate crisis that is already battering Cameron residents with hurricanes. #NoLNG bit.ly/4v4ZzWH
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What Happened When an LNG Giant Came to Town - Inside Climate News
Venture Global has left a trail of frustrated customers and former employees. But people in tiny Cameron, Louisiana, say the gas exporter has upended their lives.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The roots of some of our worst climate policies, it turns out, lie in an intellectually corrupt Ivy League collab with Big Oil. It should piss you off billmckibben.substack.com/p/youre-payi...
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"You're paying the bills, buddy."
Princeton, BP, and a sad but extremely revealing chapter in the climate fight
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/06/2026
The Galápagos Islands were a remote archipelago with no predators, where life moved at a languid pace perfect for a tortoise—until humans arrived, @helenlewis.bsky.social writes. She visited the islands to see what remains of the splendor that Charles Darwin made famous.
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Paradise Revisited
What Darwin saw in the Galápagos
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 28/06/2026
U.S. banks are fueling climate chaos at staggering rates. Wall Street’s biggest banks provided billions to fossil fuel corporations in 2025: J.P. Morgan Chase 💰 $58.2B Bank of America 💰 $47.3B Citi 💰 $45.3B Wells Fargo 💰 $42.5B Find out more at bankingonclimatechaos.org #BankingOnClimateChaos
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Act Now to Protect State Laws Benefiting Farmed Animals www.congressweb.com/AWI/522?fram...
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Act Now to Protect State Laws Benefiting Farmed Animals
In a shameful response to a growing number of state laws requiring improved housing conditions for farmed animals, two bills have been introduced in Congress: the Food Security and Farm Protection Act...
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Urge USDA to Strengthen Protections for Vulnerable Dogs! www.congressweb.com/AWI/545?fram...
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Urge USDA to Strengthen Protections for Vulnerable Dogs!
Across the country, hundreds of thousands of dogs are currently living in commercial settings, including laboratories and pet breeding facilities. These operations are subject to the Animal Welfare Ac...
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It's Time for NY to End the Use of Wild Animals in Circuses www.congressweb.com/AWI/518?fram...
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It's Time for NY to End the Use of Wild Animals in Circuses
Wild animals used in traveling performances are often kept in chains and small cages, denied the opportunity to engage in normal behaviors and form social bonds with members of their own species, forc...
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell your governor: No tax breaks for Big Tech data centers . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell your governor: No tax breaks for Big Tech data centers
When Big Tech receives tax breaks for data center construction, our communities pay—and in more ways than one. Local budgets lose out on billions of dollars in tax revenue, forcing schools to cut p...
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using toxin from dart frog, UK says
There is no innocent explanation for the toxin, called epibatidine, being found in samples taken from Navalny's body, the Foreign Office said.
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Tell Congress to End the Slaughter of American Horses www.congressweb.com/AWI/541?fram...
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Tell Congress to End the Slaughter of American Horses
Each year, tens of thousands of horses are exported to Canada and Mexico from the United States to be butchered in slaughterhouses. The entire process of horse slaughter, from transport conditions to ...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 27/01/2026
We’re entering this year with a message: the planet will not thrive under the same financial systems that are driving its destruction. We’ll keep confronting the drivers of environmental harm, strengthen relationships with frontline communities, & advocating for human rights. bit.ly/3Ma1wAI
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Looking Ahead: Meeting the Moment in 2026 - The Understory - Rainforest Action Network
At Rainforest Action Network we are beginning the new year reflecting on the most urgent question of our times: What future are we creating together? This question drives our work,...
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Help Protect Vulnerable Farmed Animals During Transport! www.congressweb.com/AWI/536?fram...
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Help Protect Vulnerable Farmed Animals During Transport!
Each year, millions of farmed animals are subjected to long, grueling journeys across the US. Their only source of federal protection from stress and suffering on these trips is the Twenty-Eight Hour ...
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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation, indicated that the Pentagon’s move here is illegal. ‘This policy operates as a prior restraint on publication which is considered the most serious of First Amendment violations,’ Mr. Stern said. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
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Pentagon Expands Its Restrictions on Reporter Access
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/09/2025
On modern autocracies. With Brad Carr youtu.be/mqXOLNnqoeA?...
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How Dictators Really Control the World I Anne Applebaum
YouTube video by Brad Carr
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
?text=Join me in taking action with @ucsusa on global warming, our broken food system, and more: www.ucsusa.org/action-cente...
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Take Action
We are experts and everyday people, fighting for change together.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 30/06/2025
Thank you @climatetown.bsky.social for covering such an important topic! The global demand for #PalmOil is driving deforestation in rainforests around the world. And in turn, forest destruction is contributing to the climate crisis. Learn more: youtu.be/roIOgtrjFGU
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We're Deep Frying The Rainforest | Climate Town
YouTube video by Climate Town
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 29/06/2025
Industrial palm oil companies have cleared tracts of rainforest, often illegally, for monoculture plantations. This destruction has been especially rampant in the #LeuserEcosystem of Indonesia We've been fighting to protect this ecosystem for over 10 years. More: observatory.wiki/Conservation...
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Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed
As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n... think my peers in commercial television are talented and devoted journalists but they've chosen to work in a corporate mainstream that trims their talent to fit the corporate nature of American life."
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Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, has died at 91.
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Act Now to Protect Primates from the Cruel Pet Trade www.congressweb.com/AWI/521?fram...
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Act Now to Protect Primates from the Cruel Pet Trade
Nonhuman primates are wild animals, not pets or playthings. Instead of swinging from trees and nurturing social bonds, primates kept as pets endure a lifetime of deprivation and pose a serious threat ...
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NRDC @nrdc.org · 23/06/2025
Senators are pushing for a fire sale of over 3 million acres of public lands—that’s an area larger than Connecticut. Families would lose access to some of their favorite trails and parks close to home. Once the land is sold and the no-trespassing signs go up, there is no going back.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 21/06/2025
Big banks poured a $869 BILLION into fossil fuels in 2024 alone – with Wall Street banks Chase, Citi, Bank of America, & Wells Fargo leading the pack. The new #BankingOnClimateChaos report reveals just how much these banks are contributing to the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds
Two-thirds of the biggest 65 banks increased financing by $162bn from 2023 to 2024, walking back climate promises
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 21/06/2025
The science tells us our climate can’t afford a single new fossil fuel project – yet big banks committed over $429 billion to fossil fuel expansion in 2024. These banks are making massive profits at the expense of us all. We demand they #DefundClimateChaos now! insideclimatenews.org/news/1706202...
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The World’s Banks are Still Betting on Fossil Fuel Industry Growth - Inside Climate News
The biggest funders of fossil fuel expansion are U.S. banks that, like those in other countries, are retreating on their climate commitments.
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
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Opinion | Senator Padilla: This Is How an Administration Acts When It’s Afraid
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/06/2025
Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report
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Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report
False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised Rampant climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe, according to the authors of a new report. It found climate action was being obstructed and delayed by false and misleading information stemming from fossil fuel companies, rightwing politicians and some nation states. The report, from the International Panel on the Information Environment (Ipie), systematically reviewed 300 studies. Continue reading...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 27/05/2025
The US House & Senate released dual letters within days of each other criticizing banks, including Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan, & Wells Fargo, for their climate backsliding. These banks are major fossil fuel financiers, contributing $135 billion in 2023 alone. www.epw.senate.gov/public/index...
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Whitehouse, Warren Launch Investigation into Major Banks’ Abandonment of Climate Risk Management Initiatives
Financial institutions’ failure to address climate risks is raising costs for families and undermining the U.S. economy Washington, D.C.—Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member o...
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John Ainger @johnainger.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The EU's agriculture industry is losing €28 billion a year due to increasing climate risks, such as droughts and flooding, according to a new study. That's equivalent to around 6% of production. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Europe’s Farm Sector Loses €28 Billion a Year From Climate Risks
The European Union’s agriculture industry is losing €28 billion ($31.5 billion) a year due to increasing climate risks, such as droughts and flooding, according to a new study.
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Take Action to End Mink Fur Farming www.congressweb.com/AWI/520?fram...
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Take Action to End Mink Fur Farming
A growing body of science indicates that mink on fur farms incubate respiratory diseases that can be passed to humans. The crowded conditions on fur farms, where wire cages are packed together and the...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12/05/2025
Lots of points of this story where I groaned out loud.
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Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?
The Amazon founder was once thought to be the newspaper’s savior—now its journalists are fleeing for the exits. Clare Malone reports on how the paper that brought down Nixon is struggling to survive t...
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A Warning From Justice Souter: Democracy Is in Peril www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u... "An ignorant people can never remain a free people. Democracy cannot survive too much ignorance."
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A Warning From Justice Souter: Democracy Is in Peril
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Act Now to Protect Ocean Life from Offshore Oil and Gas Development www.congressweb.com/AWI/517?fram...
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Act Now to Protect Ocean Life from Offshore Oil and Gas Development
The Trump administration and some members of Congress are attempting to drastically expand offshore oil and gas development and dismantle safety regulations designed to prevent major oil spills. Throu...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 04/05/2025
Oreo-maker Mondelēz just released its annual "Snacking Made Right" report. Senior Forest Campaigner, Maggie Martin, responds: “Once again, Mondelēz has missed a critical opportunity to prove that it’s truly committed to ending deforestation and protecting human rights.” www.ran.org/press-releas...
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Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Trump's top spy chief blasted as Raw Story exposes 'crazy' cash grab www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Trump's top spy chief blasted as Raw Story exposes 'crazy' cash grab
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is open for business — on social media at least.Gabbard has been DNI since February, yet a Raw Story review of h...
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency, According to 35 Legal Scholars www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
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Opinion | A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency (Gift Article)
A diverse group of legal scholars flash red warning lights about the future of America.
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Trump’s Biggest Beneficiary: Himself www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...
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Opinion | Donald Trump Is Selling the White House to the Highest Bidder (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has set a new standard for egregious and potentially illegal behavior.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 19/04/2025
Interesting attempt by to break into the Indonesian market. Ironically, Oreo-maker Mondelēz sources palm oil from suppliers that destroy hectares of Indonesian forest & threaten the livelihoods of communities in the process. The hypocrisy is out of this world 🌌 campaignbriefasia.com/2025/04/14/f...
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From milk to Milky Way: OREO reimagines the iconic dunk via new Leo Indonesia campaign
OREO, cherished worldwide for its special bond with milk as epitomized by the "OREO dunk", has reimagined this classic ritual. To introduce its limited-edition Space Dunk cookies in Southeast Asia, OR...
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Here is the full interview with Senator Van Hollen: youtu.be/_lRgr3G21Ig
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Exclusive: Senator Chris Van Hollen talks with Rachel Maddow live from El Salvador
YouTube video by MSNBC
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rabelaisclay.bsky.social @rabelaisclay.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Inside DOGE’s push to defy a court order and access Social Security data www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Inside DOGE’s push to defy a court order and access Social Security data
Musk’s cost-cutting team repeatedly sought to get around a judge’s order to gain access to private details about millions of beneficiaries.
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