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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yay!!! Pinehurst Light Rail Station opens just 6 blocks from our house. We plan to ride Sound Transit home when we return from our trip.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump: ** Prices are getting lower ** We're winning the war with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is completely open ** I'm more popular than ever ** The planet is getting cooler Must be nice to live in a world where reality is anything you say it is.

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R. Boj @roquerol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

EV sales un France more than doubled (+108%) in September, with record units sold: 65,243, and record market share: 42%. Remember, this is not a tiny country like Norway or Denmark, this is Europe's third biggest car market shifting to electric cars at an accelerating pace.

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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨 As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow in the Eastern Pacific, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything we've previously seen, it doesn't even fit on the same axis.”

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Incoming El Niño Is so Extreme It Doesn’t Have a Scientific Name - Inside Climate News

As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow in the Eastern Pacific, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything ...

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

www.reddit.com/r/QuotesPorn...

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Greg Shill @gregshill.com · 29/09/2026

They did the cartoon!

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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 27/09/2026

The "Environmentalism that builds things" is here. It is the same Environmentalism everyone has been shitting on for the last decade. Now it is saving all of our asses again. Join up if you want to win. God bless @hollybender.bsky.social and the @texassierraclub.bsky.social

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Old dogs, new tricks. Well known for its effective advocacy to stop dirty energy projects like coal plants and pipelines, @sierraclub.org is leaning into speed permitting for clean energy infrastructure. @hollybender.bsky.social www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...

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Ditch Your Stereotypes of Environmentalists; The Energy Transition Will Not Succeed Without Us

It’s time to get to work building the good, and the environmental movement will help lead us there.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Please, tell us more about the Antichrist, Peter.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.

Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not only guilty of genocide against Palestinians, he abetted the murder of thousands of Israelis.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also good article in the @newrepublic.com. The most popular messages included: " Our leaders should be fighting to make all of our lives better,” and, “We need leaders willing to stand up to right-wing corporate interests that hold influence in both political parties.” @monicapotts.bsky.social 3/

newrepublic.com

Bashing Trump Isn’t the Best Way to Win These Fickle Voters

A new research survey reveals which messages are most persuasive in convincing low-motivation voters to support Democrats.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sun Belt voters were more likely to agree with a populist worldview blaming the nation’s problems on “an economic system where the richest 1% have taken $79 trillion in wealth from 90% of Americans over the past few decades” than attacks on big gov, immigrants, or "wokeness" 2/

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Phenomenal story on the Guna people on the Caribbean coast of Panama. We were fortunate to do a kayak trip in this area last year -- amazing, resilient culture that has maintained its identity and resisted assimilation

nytimes.com

They Kept Outsiders Away for 500 Years. Their World Is About to Change.

My father dedicated his life to studying the Guna people of Panama, and they may soon allow unprecedented development through their land. I went on a trek through the jungle to find out why.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The love affair continues …

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What's next -- executing kids selling dime bags on street corners in US cities? I am sure some of the thugs in Trump's team would love to see that.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt. Hollywood couldn't write this in a script.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I constantly think about the fact that the people we are murdering are fisherman from poor, often indigenous villages. Zero evidence has been presented that they were running drugs, but even if they were they were mules, pawns forced by poverty to accept the work. Unconscionable evil.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Voters increasingly aren't buying what Trump and the GOP are selling. it. “I actually feel really gaslit because I’m constantly hearing from Republicans, from conservatives just in the media in general, that ‘don’t believe your lying eyes, everything’s great, wages have increased." @nytimes.com

nytimes.com

Democrats Gain Edge as Trump Drags Down G.O.P., New Poll Finds

Even some Republicans are losing faith in Trump’s economy, a New York Times/Siena poll found, and Democrats were favored on the top issues as the sprint to the midterms gets underway.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

White House: "we need to hunt down and prosecute anyone who is leaking information to the press and ban any media outlets publishing these leaks.... well, oopsie" www.status.news/p/white-hous...

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The Source Behind The Ban

The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Something I want to be very clear about is that it is literally impossible for Musk to have used Starlink to change the results of elections and Musk's rantings on the subject shouldn't be taken as evidence that it happened, it should be taken as evidence that he's a drugged-out bugfuck pyscho

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have thought about the revolutionary turned deranged dictator in "Bananas" a lot as Trump's dementia and megalomaniaworsens. Turns out I am not alone. @pkrugman.bsky.social

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It’s “Underwear on the Outside” Time

Trump’s continuing downward spiral into sundowning

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The Republican Party has a neo-Nazi problem," our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. "This is not slander or pejorative or innuendo; it is the plain truth of the matter, a conclusion drawn from simple observation. And the problem has been getting worse." nyti.ms/3T8DPwi

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Opinion | The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End

The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Golden is a DINO and I am glad he is retiring.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Democratic consultants telling candidates to stay mum on a 70-30 issue sacrifice all credibility. Time to demand strong regulations for AI and data centers. @rbreich.bsky.social

robertreich.substack.com

The Rise of AI Populism

Are we on the cusp of a political realignment against corporate power?

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Diesel export embargo will NOT lower prices.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cool (well, very hot to be exact). Thermal batteries are starting to be deployed at scale, allowing industries to take power from grid when it is cheap or free, while maintaining continuous operations. @janrosenow.bsky.social

janrosenow.substack.com

Thermal batteries aren’t coming. They’re already here.

Half of all operating thermal batteries came online since 2025. Policy, not technology, is now the main constraint.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hilarious-- everyone should go out and buy Tillamook extra sharp white cheddar (the best US cheddar) or Tillamook Mudslide (the best ice-cream). As someone who pays property taxes in Tillamook County, this latest fake controversy is especially funny.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And let's not forget Boebert's unique way of making sure her date enjoyed Beetlejuice. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UMgT...

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Boebert caught 'explicitly groping' on tape at family-friendly play, apologizes

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Seattle writer Danny Westneat wrote a piece on a project a good friend of mine did back in college in the 70's, asking 50 prominent people to tell him what the American Dream meant to them. Amazingly, most sent personal letters with their thoughts www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

seattletimes.com

This Seattle man has an archive of the American dream

When he was a freshman in college, Michael Martin, now 73, asked 50 of the most famous people in the world about the American dream. Incredibly, they wrote back.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

tl;dr: The US gets what it already has, Greenland and Denmark get to stop wasting their time on the US or meeting with half wits. Trump's goal was full control of Greenland: goal failed.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

RIP. A tremendous scientist and advocate.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026

I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great news. The Wash State Supreme Court strikes down initiative that was intended to perpetuate gas hookups to buildings. This is a "clear refutation of this cynical tactic by the fossil fuel industry” to rollback climate policies with a “misleading initiative.” Dylan Plummer @sierraclub

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