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Sally Hillary

@sallyjh.bsky.social
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Retired teacher, off grid, concerned about climate, LGBTQ, MMT, troubled about the direction of our country.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21h
Let's Try Bernie's Way.......
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/10/2026
Video bsky.app/profile/zoan...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Closing in on the Nazi infestation problem:
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This thread is everything. Trust me.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fixed it for Trump.
Trump's post announcing a diesel deal with Russia. I've covered up false claims he made with grey boxes, and in yellow text written what is true, including that "receiving bribes from Vladimir Putin" is his greatest priority.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Having untaxed billionaires is a policy choice.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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AltUSCustoms @altuscustoms.altgov.info · 04/10/2026
🧵🧵🧵 on the Cornell Seven. I didn’t write this and I don’t know who did, but it perfectly sums up how I feel and how I’ve felt for a very long time. (If you see this and you wrote it, please speak up. I don’t want to be credited with something I didn’t write)
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AOC understands this and I'm extremely excited to campaign for her because of it.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Ethan Tapper @howtoloveaforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
5 ways to help The Forest Year (out in 6 days!) be a success! Thanks so much for your it support!
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just saw a film about the AI-enabled apocalypse. Only it's not science fiction. It's not even in the future. It's in the present. The film is called NAZA. See it. @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com youtu.be/98xLCdc7t7E
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Apocalypse is here
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“From Bordeaux to Paris, via Rennes in Brittany and Die in the southeast, thousands – 120,000, according to organizers – turned out ‘for the climate, for life, for peace, for social justice.’”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trailer: Musk posted: "Gibney is a douche." "Musk... is selling us dreams. That's not happening..." "This [Tesla Cybertruck] is a car that lies to you about what it's doing" "What are his actual motivations?"
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026
This belongs in the Smithsonian.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 22/09/2026
Between his war in Iran and absurd tariffs with our closest allies, Trump is making hardworking Vermonters pay a lot more for their essentials.
 Remember that these are policy choices the administration has made. They can reverse course at any time - they're choosing not to.
Trump has forced Vermont farmers to spend $1,479 more to fill up their farm fuel tanks
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O @omagus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Like @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social said, Mamdani just pushed the button.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/09/2026
Exactly. I’ve been saying this since I started the tracker last year, and it’s why I don’t call them deportations. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...
I am using the term "third-country removals" instead of "third-country deportations" here, because the latter is a legal process in which a migrant is resettled in a safe third country. What is actually happening, in nearly all cases, more closely resembles chain refoulement, rendition, or kidnapping - and may violate U.S. and
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
“our ai broke out and hacked some organisations” = "we failed to set up appropriate safeguards, failed to continuously monitor our experiments, and ignored a basic principle of reinforcement learning: if hacking gets rewarded, the system learns to hack"
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯
Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to financethemselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria
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Stephanie Kelton @stephaniekelton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Decided to write something about AI. stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/brer-rabbi...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
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 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
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https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
No one should be allowed to talk about "dangerous super-human AI" until they have listen to this podcast (available on Spotify etc for non-apple users).
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
STOP SCROLLING Why I’m sounding the alarm: VoteSafe. org is run by Elon Musk’s America PAC, the same political operation working to turn out Republican voters in the midterms. The site collects voter and political info, and allows your information to be shared or sold to business partners.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/09/2026
French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.
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VTDigger @vtdigger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since late June, Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark has sued the Trump administration an average of twice per week. “We will keep exercising our rights under the Constitution and standing up for our country,” she told David Goodman on this week's Vermont Conversation podcast.
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Vermont Conversation: ‘We are the patriots fighting for democracy.’ AG Charity Clark on suing Trump and winning $92.7M from Meta - VTDigger
The attorney general’s office has brought lawsuits defending birthright citizenship and challenging cuts to medical research funding, the dismantling of the Department of Education, voting restriction...
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Sally Hillary @sallyjh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You’re right on that! And that makes sense for that and some other sports like wrestling….it’s weight not whether or not they are trans. Crazy that this has been made into such a huge thing though.
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Sally Hillary @sallyjh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So if a girl is physically large compared to the other girls then we will not let her play? Or if a small boy wants to play but the other boys are big….we shouldn’t let him play? This is unfair. Period.
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Sally Hillary @sallyjh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
More on this with Gary Marcus: garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
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The Case for Boycotting Generative AI
I believe the time has come
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Sally Hillary @sallyjh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Read Gary Marcus. Even he has found this worrying.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 09/09/2026
The time for burying our heads in the sand is over. If the people working directly on these technologies are saying this, it’s time to pump the brakes.   We can’t let these massive AI companies literally gamble with the future of humanity.
@EvanHub: Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

QT: @hilbertspaess: The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
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dransct.bsky.social @dransct.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"AI wins not when it becomes more human, but when humans become more like AI: disengaged and devoid of original thought." . "I am AI disobedient, and I will stay that way." -Sarah Kendzior
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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Spoke to Simon Mundy for FT Moral Money about my new book, The Common Good Economy (out now in the UK, US and Netherlands) and why shaping markets is not the same as suppressing them. Read the interview ➡️ www.ft.com/content/864b... The Common Good Economy ➡️ marianamazzucato.com/books/the-co...
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Jay @jaylboh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is what we’re dealing with.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I actually think the structure of these questions has to change (bc they will use the same dodges they always do, "I don't know what Elon means"). WHY DO YOU REFUSE to speak up against Elon's antisemitic comments? WHY DO YOU REFUSE to condemn Elon's non-consensual porn?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is SUCH an important story. It explains why NYT framed the influencer story the way they did. It explains why influencers are important if you want credit for fixing govt. It shows the stories that NYT refuses to cover, bc it doesn't fit NYT's narrative conventions.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 07/09/2026
Thank you!
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Sally Hillary @sallyjh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hmm…I’m trying to understand what that would look like, from your perspective. Podcast focus is a deep dive into renewable energy stuff yet I find he doesn’t shy away from more political kind of messages related to the messaging within his podcast.
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Sally Hillary @sallyjh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I listen to his podcasts all the time. The recent one highlighted an organization, Goodpower, that works on messaging to counter the misinformation. It seems that putting that out there is DOING something.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
China's net greenhouse gas emissions *fell* this past quarter. Why? Because rapidly expanding electric vehicle use is putting a serious dent in oil demand. We could do that too. But we're not. We have the slowest EV update in the developed world, thanks to Trump.
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The great thing about this new report from @unep.org, besides the always wonderful cover, is that it’s gotten us to talk about carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in a serious way here.
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RichLBI @richlbi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Now that is responsible journalism. Chances are 100% of what Trump says are lies anyway.
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