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@rationalman.bsky.social
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Anti fascist/racist/capitalism Lover of science and technology 20 year skeptic

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections. Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it. Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win. (via @levernews.com)
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
They think you're stupid.
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Lees dit artikel op Trouw www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...
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Opinie: De klimaatcrisis is een desinformatiecrisis
Hoe kan het dat de wetenschap een klimaatcrisis aantoont, maar we de afspraken van Parijs maar niet nakomen? Mario Veen wijt dit aan hardnekkige desinformatie.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Illinois has same-day voter registration! Make sure you show up at YOUR assigned polling place with 2 forms of ID!
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ændra. @aendra.com · 16/11/2025
I don't ever ask for support or donations on the News feed because its infrastructure is all run on Graze, which provides an incredible service to the Bluesky community. Please consider sending them a few bucks to help with costs if you find this feed useful! 💚
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/01/2026
ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland. (Published November)
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“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy new year, and don't ever stop talking about injustice. aje.io/4ugwjl
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All the countries Israel attacked in 2025: Animated map
Israel has carried out attacks in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Qatar and Yemen, as well as in maritime waters.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 22/12/2025
Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise. It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
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The Neglected Front in RFK Jr.’s War on Science — Assigned
As trans healthcare is decimated no one is standing up for the integrity of the scientific process for these patients.
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/12/2025
Multiple social media users noticed on Monday that the 60 Minutes episode was available via the Global TV app. To view the episode, viewers need to connect to the app from a Canadian IP address. People then uploaded copies of the episode to a variety of file sharing sites and services.
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Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/12/2025
“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.” @samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.
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I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/12/2025
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
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Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Stop streaming ICE recruitment ads NOW!
The Trump administration has funneled billions of dollars into these dystopian ICE recruitment ads. Meanwhile, cities are being terrorized by ICE agents who are running rampant with abuses of power, s...
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Ik wil graag dit NRC-artikel met je delen: "Minder vlees is ook gezonder voor toekomstige generaties": www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Minder vlees is ook gezonder voor toekomstige generaties
Gezondheidsraad nieuw advies: meer peulen, minder vlees
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
www.amnesty-international.be/doe-mee/onli... #gaza #palestine #genocide #amnesty
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Stop de genocide in Gaza
Al meer dan een jaar zien we onmetelijk veel leed, verwoesting en verlies van levens in Gaza. Door de brute aanval van de Israëlische leiders zijn tienduizenden Palestijnse mensen gedood. Ze hebben he...
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Bekijk dit! - campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/sl... #overheid #palestine #genocide #nederland #degoedezaak
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Nederland: Sluit de genocide geldkraan!
Nederland draagt bij aan de Israëlische genocide in Gaza. Als 's werelds grootste investeerder in Israël pompen bedrijven vanuit ons land miljarden in de Israëlische oorlogsmachine waarmee Palestijnen...
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
open.substack.com/pub/levremem... #epstein #maga #trump #implosion #republicans
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The "Secrets" Are Spilling: Trump, Epstein, and The WSJ with Lev Parnas
A recording from Lev Parnas and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It was such a pleasure to speak with @aaronjbastani.bsky.social for @novaramedia.com about my book Empire of AI. Really thoughtful and thorough questions that explored the many human stories I highlight in my book. Order the book here: empireofai.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...
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Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult Like AI Companies | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/07/2025
🇨🇱 In Chile, where AI data centers threaten the country’s precious water resources, Karen Hao makes the case that AI firms are building their wealth off resource extraction and labor exploitation reut.rs/3GmhZPy
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Karen Hao on how the AI boom became a new imperial frontier
The author of “Empire of AI” traces how OpenAI’s global reach is reshaping labor, energy and power — and why she sees echoes of empire in its rise.
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
www.democracynow.org/2025/7/4/emp... #ai #chatgpt #democracynow #environment #globalwarming @karenhao.bsky.social great interview exposing the true costs to both our environment and our democracy. Must watch!🔥🔥🔥🔥
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“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World
In our July Fourth special broadcast, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new book Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power...
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
www.patreon.com/posts/133207... #israel #spy #lowkey #ddn
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The SECRET Israel PLOT to INFILTRATE UK & BAN Palestine Action | Double Down News
Get more from Double Down News on Patreon
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 27/06/2025
The world has come out to celebrate Pride month ✊ These Pride protests show people coming together to fight for the rights of LGBTI people, but not everyone can. In other places, Pride is actively shut down by governments and law enforcement agencies. #ProtectTheProtest
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Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · 26/05/2025
NASA is asking the public to help with studying this phenomena. Noctilucent clouds form high in the atmosphere and may hold clues about climate and upper air changes. You can contribute with just your camera. #CitizenScience #NoctilucentClouds #Atmosphere 📷🧪⚒️ science.nasa.gov/get-involved...
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Space Cloud Watch Needs Your Photos of Night-Shining Clouds  - NASA Science
Noctilucent or night-shining clouds are rare, high-altitude clouds that glow with a blue silvery hue at dusk or dawn when the Sun shines on them from below
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Fifteen Years After Largest U.S. Offshore Oil Spill, Researchers Reveal Most-Polluting Rigs insideclimatenews.org/news/1605202...
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Fifteen Years After Largest U.S. Offshore Oil Spill, Researchers Reveal Most-Polluting Rigs - Inside Climate News
Satellite imagery shows the worst sites worldwide for oil slicks and methane emissions. Report authors expect pollution will only increase as the Trump administration opens more waters to drilling.
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micchiato 🎋 @micchiato.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“The Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948 was the first major systemic campaign of violence carried out by [Zionists] to dispossess and … displace Palestinians from Historic Palestine. With the … complicity of the Global North, this ethnic cleansing and mass expulsion campaign is now 77 years strong”
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The Nakba, 77 Years of International Humanitarian Law Violations: Terror, Slaughter, and Systemic Ethnic Cleansing
The Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948 was the first major systemic campaign of violence carried out by the Zionist movement to dispossess and forcibly displace Palestinians from Historic Palestine. With...
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 16/04/2025
If you often say "wow I relate to developers" then I have the perfect job for you Developer Relations role just listed! There's also a bunch of other recent additions on the jobs page bsky.social/about/join
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Jobs - Bluesky
View open positions at Bluesky PBC
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/04/2025
ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.
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The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.
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Kat 🕊️ @smith83k.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Politicians in the 'West' have been quiet. Imagine if Russia would have done this in Ukraine. "On 23 March contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza. A week later their bodies were recovered from a mass grave." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline
A week after contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza, their bodies were found in a mass grave
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Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
@tweakers.net heel leuk om te zien dat jullie hier op Blue Sky zijn 🎊🎊❤️❤️
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The OECD released a report last year, Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity, detailing some of the education responses to this issue, which helps give us some guidance on a way forward www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity
Rising disinformation has far-reaching consequences in many policy areas ranging from public health to national security. It can cast doubt on factual evidence, jeopardise the implementation of public...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.
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mediaed.bsky.social @mediaed.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We're thrilled to share that our new film The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism will be screening at the Sedona International Film Festival next week on Feb. 24th & 26th! Learn more about the film here: bit.ly/4b8MEL0 @peterhutchison.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
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Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. European and UK ministers are still talking as if their biggest potential security problem is a withdrawal of US support. But that is not their biggest potential security problem. It’s that, under ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.
Steve Bannon makes a Nazi salute at the end of his speech at CPAC
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
What if working within the system no longer works? Here’s a call not for revolution but for new creative forms of collective self defense. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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The Shriek of the Fox
In the February darkness, a glimpse into a terrifying moment unlike any other in our history...
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
There's a piece today from @brockm.bsky.social that comes to similar conclusions to my own. It threads the ideology of the Silicon Valley folks involved and how it's evolved over the past 20 years. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...
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The Plot Against America
How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
ICYMI from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social, in the months between November 5 and January 20, at least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army
At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
As always, if you're a government worker or tech worker, you can reach me on Signal at velliott88.18
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Y. Marie Stout @stoutpotentials.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Most people have no clue as to the vital role NIH plays in funding basic health research, much less Musk! No basic research = NO NEW or safer DRUGS OR TREATMENTS. The whole pharmaceutical industry depends on basic research. There’s a legal process to investigate. This is ILLEGAL.
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Wow. This new paper in Science shows how we will be toast at 2.7C unless we have big changes. phys.org/news/2025-02...
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An Arctic meltdown is accelerating global warming: How will we adapt?
In 2016, nearly 200 world leaders pledged to do everything possible to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Since then, policymakers across the globe have designed countless laws around the as...
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Liz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Interestingly, in Loper Bright vs Raimondo, the conservative majority on SCOTUS ruled just last year that the judiciary can in fact overrule regulatory decisions made by the executive branch especially when those decisions are not specified by Congress.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Liz Cheney to JD Vance: "You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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nursesarah18.bsky.social @nursesarah18.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This was YESTERDAY. #HandsOffOurMedicaid
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=CVgN... Great and very needed pep talk by @aoc.bsky.social don't give up in advance ! Dont go down without a fight. Thank you AOC for showing leadership when it matters, I truly believe you will become president one day . #usa #trump #politics
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Breaking: DOGE Arrives at NOAA on Same Day that Neil Jacobs is Nominated as the Agency’s Head
SciLight has received reports that Elon Musk’s “DOGE” arrived at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) this afternoon.
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RationalMan @rationalman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals | grist.org/science/a-th... All hell is breaking loose in front of our eyes, and all we can talk about is US politics
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A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals
Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, a new report shows.
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