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Left Coaster, painfully awake. "Here we are, like mites on a plum" - Carl Sagan. Without justice there is no peace.

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Miley @miley-not-cyrus.bsky.social · 18h
dawg I work for a popular used car lot and someone recently got a 2013 Honda Ridgeline for $19k, but at 27.99% for 84 Months, which makes it a $42,000 13 year old Honda Ridgeline
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Jim 🔥 @jim.chat · 01/10/2026
AI that escapes its sandbox capable of creating organic life … what could possibly go wrong?? nourished.news/story/flw4zy...
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Anthropic’s AI-led biology lab reports CRISPR-like patterns
Scientists at the company announced their first finding: a group of enzymes whose function is unknown.
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mjmnys.bsky.social @mjmnys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The boundless, limitless egos of mediocre white men are going to be the death of us all.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So understanding the difference between a war and a genocide confirms that 1srael is definitely committing genocide!
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António Costa @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu · 24/09/2026
Upholding international law isn’t optional - it’s our responsibility. #UNGA81
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Should be reposted every month....
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"So every year you failed to deliver what's necessary, the following year is harder... if the problem gets harder every single year, I don't call that progress. Progress is only when that you make you're either delivering what you need to or you're going over & above that"-@kevinclimate.bsky.social
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Climate Scientist: Why Net Zero 2050 is a Dangerous Delusion | Kevin Anderson
YouTube video by Climate Unf*cked
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
After talking with his buddy (boss) Putin, Trump has declared that Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil infrastructure are responsible for the increase in diesel prices. TOTAL BS. Trump's Iran war is the cause. Russian diesel exports are so heavily sanctioned that few nations buy them.
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Get ready for a 30% jump in heating oil costs this winter as Iran war drives up prices | CNN Business
The cost of electric heat is projected to increase 9%, while heating with natural gas is expected to rise by 5.8% in price.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just in case anyone still had any questions, today Trump proved beyond all doubt that has absolutely no idea how the economy, trade, or finance work. It would be genuinely difficult to cram more falsehoods, backwards statements, and sheer gibberish into his statement.
Trump social media post declaring "Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less, because we are the Best Credit in the World – BY FAR. Our Country is BOOMING with new Investment! If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year. The word ‘Deficit’ is nothing more than a fancy word for LOSS. We are ‘carrying’ almost every country in the World, and that cannot go on any longer. LOWER THE INTEREST RATES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND FAST!"
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JD Montana @johndvb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The US once had 17 military bases on Greenland, but has closed all but two. The decisions to close were 100% US decisions. Neither Greenland nor Denmark requested the closures. Luckily for Trump, he base is immune to reality. Hopefully for the rest of us, most American's aren't.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In the past, ownership of American broadcast media was limited to Americans. Trump's FCC just approved the takeover of CBS, CNN, HBO, MTV, Paramount, and a dozen others by a group largely controlled by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. Yeah, that's the world we're living in now.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
With Trump once again gaslighting America by falsely claiming that the price of "almost everything is way down," it is worth repeating this reality check.
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Medoyid_ua @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Announcing a purchase from a country that has nothing to sell is peak reality-TV tradecraft. Lukashenko gets the photo op, Canada gets the middle finger, and Moscows fertilizer proxy gets a free foothold. Masterful dealmaking, truly.
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World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) @wcrpclimate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What next for the research community following UNEP’s “Limiting Overshoot” report? WCRP’s RIfS Core Project will host two online fora exploring overshoot trajectories, consequences, mitigation and adaptation. More info: loom.ly/T0xHuw0 Report: loom.ly/9M4aTj8 #LimitingOvershoot
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Asylum seeking people don’t have the freedom to work, they don’t even have the freedom to shop using cash or choose where to shop, in temp accommodation they don’t have the freedom to cook or choose their own food - honestly this headline is batshit
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A humbling reminder from Carl Sagan: Even if you read 1 book a week for your entire life, you'd only scratch the surface of human knowledge.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Because Trump is mad at our closest ally, Canada, he decided to buy potash (a key fertilizer ingredient) from one of the world's most notorious cruel dictators, Belarus' Lukashenko. Typical for Trump, he didn't bother to check before announcing his big deal. Belarus doesn't have any potash to sell.
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saltwater sally @sally-forth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Zohran Mamdani is 5'10"...
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 22/09/2026
This is how you get Palantir workers saying “wait, I didn’t sign up to provide the machine learning systems for powering a genocide” while not understanding the moral harm they are already engaged in
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‘Warsaw Will Disappear in 2 or 3 Days’: Kremlin Threatens Poland - www.kyivpost.com/post/84548
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Putin’s Aide Threatens to Wipe Poland Out in ‘2 or 3 Days’
Nikolai Patrushev threatened to use Russia’s “entire arsenal” against Poland after Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said NATO could quickly defeat Moscow if attacked.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 21/09/2026
This year's El Niño event is moving into record territory, with the daily Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) tying the record previously set during the 2015/2016 super-El Niño. My latest over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nice try, but regulatory capture is a function of the entire US.... not just a single man, or state. Nation heal thyself, Eat. The. Rich. End corporate citizenship. End the predator class.
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Jennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image.
A small digger trying its hardest to dig out the Ever Given ship that has run aground. It says, “Structural Problem” on the giant Ever Given and, “Making different personal choices” on the tiny digger.
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saltwater sally @sally-forth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
lronically true, however what follows is a string of dangerously apathetic comments. Wake up, smell the roses and TAKE ACTION otherwise the death spiral continues.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
step 2: "oh, look, a systematic issue that I cannot solve individually, no matter what I do." "That means solving it is impossible! Time to feel paralyzed. I am very good at understanding what 'systematic issue' & 'collective action' mean"
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
ISRAEL: New reporting in Haaretz reveals that Hamas offered to release the hostages at 7pm on October 7th and the Israelis weren't interested. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @zeteo.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS1X...
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Roy B ☮️ @rewerbyor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Please watch this.
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saltwater sally @sally-forth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump is the symptom, not the disease.
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Democrat-God @shamballa-warrior.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A simple decoding of ... Idiotic Maga Trump Logic 😂😆😄
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saltwater sally @sally-forth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Here we all are, hot fleas gulping in the dark" - Dylan Moran
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Again, absolutely wild that Republicans in Congress, so recently just spluttering mad about Hunter Biden, have decided that the most blatant corruption imaginable is in fact legal for this one guy
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*shrugs* *gesticulates contemptuously* *drapes sweater around neck*
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 15/09/2026
“We shouldn’t just cry into our beer about it. We should actually try and do things about it." ☝️ BAS' Professor Michael Meredith for @newscientist.com. He's talking about the impact of El Niño on marine ecosystems - how we should be acting now to build resilience and protection approaches. 🧵 1/3
King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on the beach of the French sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Ocean (Photo by Annette Scheffer)
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ACW1234 @acw1234.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🙃🍁
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saltwater sally @sally-forth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Too late. Ed's dead.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As Jeffrey Simpson wrote in The Friendly Dictatorship, they are the most ideological of all the parties, with an ideology that drives them to do anything to get elected. That makes them Canada's natural governing party.
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spooky content enthusiast @wuhanclams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Maybe if Carney makes air travel awful, he'll finally be doing something positive for the environment.
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The Broad Majestic Shannon @shanathalas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This makes me very angry. I’ve been through so many shitty airports and I am always so impressed when I come back to YVR. Private equity ruins everything. I hate Carney’s great Canadian Fire Sale. I feel like he’s stripping the country for parts.
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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
YVR has been ranked the best airport in North America for 15 of the past 17 years but you know what it really needs? Some billionaires trying to squeeze personal profit out of it. This always makes things better. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Government to open up Canada's 4 largest airports to private investment, Carney says | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will open up Canada's four largest airports to private investment, but that Ottawa will maintain ultimate ownership.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
they have one button - accuse of antisemitism and suppress - and they are going to keep slammig it long after it becomes obvious to everyone else it's not connected to anything
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
*Don't everybody line up at once blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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saltwater sally @sally-forth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why tho?
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"This swirl of toxic policies and governmental overreach opened the door to something beyond bin Laden’s wildest dreams, the rise of an even more effective terrorist who has crippled the U.S. in countless ways and sought to strangle the best of the country... Trump" theintercept.com/2026/09/11/b...
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Osama Bin Laden Won
The architect of the September 11 attacks dreamed of the destruction of America. In the last 25 years, his wish has come true.
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Sintas @sintassays.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A piece worth reading. And the first paragraph disgusted but didn't surprise me. That slime's narcissism knows no bounds.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has refused to attend the ceremony at Ground Zero marking the 25th anniversary of the Al Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center - reportedly because he wanted to deliver a speech, and the annual event has long barred remarks by politicians. Trump, a native New Yorker who has often employed 9/11 as a rhetorical device, will instead head to the Pentagon, which was also attacked that day, where he can rant, rave, bellow, and bemoan whatever he is worked up about. He may, in the process, also pay cursory tribute to the victims in an aside.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NOTABLE: The majority in today's decision compares ICE's mass detention policy to Japanese internment during World War II — and says that historical blight on America is "limited in scope" compared to the detention policy the Trump administration is pursuing today. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Appeals court rejects ICE detention policy, setting stage for SCOTUS
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compared ICE’s policy to Japanese internment.
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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here’s what I chose to remember about 9/11 on its 25th anniversary. I remember 2003. I remember the shock, the fear, the anger, the grim certainty the world turned on a new axis. You could say every day since then has been 9/12. And I remember how the Bush administration used that to start a war.
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