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Dinos Gonatas

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Astrophysicist extraordinaire. Enron alumnus (Latin America)

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Dinos Gonatas @smokeygeo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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The New Old Age
What a new life stage can teach the rest of us about how to find meaning and purpose—before it’s too late
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Dinos Gonatas @smokeygeo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
excellent excellent graphic
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Huge decision - we will see how this all fairs in the court of appeals.
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"On Monday, it ceded more of that authority by formally rescinding EPA's carbon rules for power plants, the largest industrial source of U.S. climate pollution." (2/2) www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
EPA rollback may worsen Trump’s Supreme Court climate headache
The move could undercut the legal theory the administration is relying on to block climate lawsuits from advancing in state courts.
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Angeliki T. 💎 in NYC @ellinidata.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Good morning 🌞 Image: Folegandros island, Greece
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Jonathan Corbin @jonathancorbin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This continues to be one of the most devastating stories that's not getting nearly the coverage it should. USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health share.google/gMCG88hfBTIU...
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says www.stripes.com/branches/arm... #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #climate #environment #pollution #science #Blues
stripes.com
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/08/2026
An interesting exchange over California’s proposed 5% wealth tax — especially the question of how to tax wealth that exists largely as private-company equity rather than cash.
Ro Khanna & @RoKhanna
X.com
The California Democratic Party and the California labor movement just stood with @BernieSanders and me in supporting 5% wealth tax on 250
California billionaires.
California voters want a Democratic Party that will stand up for the working class over the billionaire class.Mark Cuban & @mcuban • 13h
Ro, I like you. You know that. But you need to read the state of the state.
The number of Deca Unicorns in Cali is growing by the day as investors chase amazing startups.
A unique feature of these 10b startups is that even if they raise a billion, little, if any of that money goes to the founders, who are now worth billions of dollars over night. They are the definition of cash poor, stock rich
How are you going to tax them ? Make them borrow money against their shares, if they can?
They just raised money to grow their company and a bank will come along and loan them money? A company that has been in business maybe less than a year ? lol
Will you take their stock if they can't?
Do you really think each of multiple founders, who started an amazing company in Cali and is now a billionaire, can each just pull out $250m per billion of net worth from their raise ? You know they can't.If this passes, and it doesn't directly impact me at all, I won't be a cali resident, but you can bet if I'm investing in a multi billion dollar startup, l'm asking them to move from California first.
IMO, if this passes, only idiot startup founders stay in Cali.
I've done it before and will do it again. Dallas.
Pittsburgh. Indiana. I will make NOT being in California a pre requisite for an investment
Ideology is not a strategy Ro.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My man looks like someone left a head of cauliflower in a tanning bed
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Dinos Gonatas @smokeygeo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Nothing in here from the US Attorney how the President has no business communicating with US Attorneys and interfering with prosecutorial decisions www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
nytimes.com
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"The secrecy was agreed to by nearly everyone involved, from utility executives to the governor’s office to a local elected official who knew about the talks with Meta and sold 300 acres of his own property for the project."
nytimes.com
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My statement on the United States administration’s intention to impose new tariffs on Canadian goods:
My statement on the United States administration’s intention to impose new tariffs on Canadian goods.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Cracking up at Messi turning into Jimmy Conway after talking to Bellingham yesterday
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To stop the Project 2025 takeover of science, public comments are half a plan. But they won't get us all the way there. Here's the second half of the plan - and what you can do: samwang.substack.com/p/building-h...
samwang.substack.com
Comments are Half A Plan To Stop the Takeover of Science...
...here's the second half.
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Mike Madrid @mikemadrid.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Right/Left spectrum is officially dead. What can we expect in this populist moment? open.substack.com/pub/greattra...
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The Era Of Populism: The End Of The Right And Left
A few weeks have passed since the New York primaries, and the bottles have all been thrown.
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Dinos Gonatas @smokeygeo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is extremely important. A few years ago i drove by Altamont pass and about 1/3 of the turbines weren't even spinning. Brookfield is doing a great job
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Andrew Gelston @agelston.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Seems like a hard life
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
Scott Pelley
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 02/06/2026
BREAKING: A group of states led by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social sued the Trump administration over its deal with TotalEnergies to buy back two offshore wind leases worth nearly $1B. Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social with the details: heatmap.news/energy/total...
heatmap.news
New York Just Filed the First Major Challenge to Trump’s TotalEnergies Deal
Attorney General Letitia James leads a group of states suing the administration’s move to buy back two offshore wind leases.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If Big Brother doesn’t like your science topic you won’t be funded and if Big Brother doesn’t like your results you will be defunded. A recipe for backwardness that seems to be designed by people who want America to humiliate itself and collapse. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
elizabethginexi.substack.com
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
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Forbes @forbes.com · 01/06/2026
Pelley, who has been at CBS for more than two decades, reportedly railed against the new executive producer of "60 Minutes" in a tense staff meeting Monday.
forbes.com
CBS News’ Scott Pelley Accuses Boss Bari Weiss Of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’
Pelley, who has been at CBS for more than two decades, reportedly railed against the new executive producer of "60 Minutes" in a tense staff meeting Monday.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
i’ll admit i did not think the retired judges’ motion to re-open the Trump v. IRS case would succeed. but now that is has…lfg? at a minimum, DOJ will be forced to justify its conduct in writing
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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
independent.co.uk
Trump administration ‘restricts US scientists’ role in Ebola response’
New restrictions prevent US health experts from contributing during conference calls with the World Health Organisation and limit those only listening to “small groups”
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Zf...
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Frank Jewell @ff-jewell.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I had many disagreements with Alberto Gonzales when he was Attorney General. I like how he is pushing back here. It is worth reading the entire speech because it touches on so many of the terrible things Trump and his minions are doing, but in the most positive way. www.threads.com/@sanderlinr/...
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Rebekah Gleaves Sanderlin (@sanderlinr) on Threads
Alberto Gonzales, former U.S. Attorney General under George W. Bush and current Dean of Belmont University Law School, recently gave this remarkable speech to the Nashville Bar Association. The speec...
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Two police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot have sued to block Trump's slush fund. They raise APA claims and an ultra vires claim. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
PRAYER FOR RELIEF Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Court grant the following relief: A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. An order under 5 U.S.C. § 706 holding unlawful and setting aside Defendant Blanche’s action creating the Anti-Weaponization Fund; An order under 5 U.S.C. § 706 holding unlawful and setting aside Defendant Blanche’s and Defendant Bessent’s actions certifying payment of $1.776 billion from the Judgment Fund to the Anti-Weaponization Fund; An order under 5 U.S.C. § 706 holding unlawful and setting aside Defendant Blanche’s action authorizing the Fund to assume the debts and obligations of insurrectionists on behalf of the United States; Insofar as any transfer of funds from the Judgment Fund to the Anti-Weaponization Fund has already occurred, an order enjoining Defendants to reverse that transfer; An order enjoining Defendants from making payments out of the AntiWeaponization Fund to any claimant; An order declaring Defendants’ conduct unlawful, in excess of statutory jurisdiction and authority, and unconstitutional;  An award of Plaintiffs’ costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees; and Such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper.
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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Buying a home in America used to cost 2-3X median household income, but now 4-10X. Cities below 5X are either in demand and build aggressively, or are in relative decline. If your city is in demand and not building, it's a problem. You can find yours on this graph live in the reply link.
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LizzyJo, Daisy & Po @lizzyjo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I too like cottage cheese & pears mahm #corgicrew
Daisy the corgi
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Tennessee NAACP goes to court to stop "late-decade Congressional redistricting," and the law sure looks to be on their side.
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Brian Fitzpatrick was also one of two Republicans who voted against the OBBBA in the House: www.eenews.net/articles/pro...
eenews.net
Pro-renewables Republicans file bill to revive credits
The GOP last year moved to phase out a host of energy tax incentives. Some Republicans want them back.
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Dinos Gonatas @smokeygeo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
wsj.com
Why the U.S. Is Such an Outlier on EVs
Plus, Trump’s plan to keep old coal plants open runs into trouble, and Sam Altman’s fusion side hustle
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Eos @eos.org · 22/04/2026
Some cities in the United States are warming much faster than the nation as a whole. Reno, for example, has warmed nearly three times as much as the national average since the first #EarthDay in 1970. eos.org/research-and...
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Temperatures in Nearly All Major U.S. Cities Have Warmed Since First Earth Day - Eos
After more than half a century of Earth Days, one planetary challenge—climate change—threatens our planet more than ever. In 1970, the year Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wisc., organized the first Earth Day ...
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
trump's former "commander-at-large" of the border patrol greg bovino says mass deportations, not deporting "worst of the worst" will "correct" places like Plano, Texas having a diverse population
Our time is short 
@SaraGonzalesTX
 .  Mass deportations will correct this, worst of the worst won’t.  If Plano, Texas, of all places, has this problem, then you can see how there are 100 million illegal aliens in our country.  Commence mass deportations .         
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At a park in Plano, TX with my 5-year-old. 

We are surrounded by foreigners, speaking multiple foreign languages, making it more difficult for my son to make friends. 

This is my hometown. It’s unrecognizable.

I want my country back.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Measles is NOT "just like chickenpox". It can kill years later. This woman was so brave for coming forward with her story. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
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Pam McElwee @pammcelwee.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
As someone who used to be on the Board of Scientific Counselors providing outside science advice to EPA’s ORD, this is excruciating. No more ORD, no more independent advice, no more scientific discovery that doesn’t fit with political appointees views.
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
In an era of unaffordable electricity, I am not sure why anyone would think it makes sense to bypass a competitive bidding process for multi-billion dollar transmission projects ... unless you're the monopoly utility who wants the project no matter what. www.utilitydive.com/news/entergy...
utilitydive.com
Entergy, Xcel, others seek to upend competitive transmission bidding in MISO, SPP
Ending competition for regional transmission would be “counterproductive and not in the interest of consumers,” former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Neil Chatterjee told Utility Dive.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Trump is pissing away our opportunity to be market leaders on renewables but it's gonna happen because it's cheaper and more durable.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/04/2026
One of the weirdest things about getting older is that young people start talking nostalgically about periods of history that you lived through, in truly bizarre & selective ways. Like, the way Gen Z talks about the 90s ... as tho the entire country was composed of single-earners who owned houses.
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isaac @sevier.io · 04/04/2026
A fertilizer crisis that causes famine for a billion people is the sort of thing that will change history forever.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Every day Pete Hegseth confesses to war crimes in front of the whole world.
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Rebecca Ingber @becingber.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
So many law review articles and he just tweeted it out
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Still undecided, waiting for the “Yes Kings” protest before choosing.
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Bennie & Violet 🚫🧊8️⃣6️⃣4️⃣7️⃣ @thomasthecorgi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Sir Charles is spot on again. Reminds me of his book, I Might Be Wrong But I Doubt It.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.
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Mike Madrid @mikemadrid.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Donald Trump just made Eric Swalwell the most important Democrat in America open.substack.com/pub/greattra...
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Trump just made Eric Swalwell the most important Democrat in America
The future of Trump resistance has been made clear - A California congressman has emerged as public enemy number one for the administration
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Dinos Gonatas @smokeygeo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast." — Ron Burgundy in “Anchorman” describing a violent clash between competing San Diego TV news teams
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
QUEEN.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A Venezuelan who was sent to CECOT under Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation, has filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act in DC seeking for damages for 4 months of beatings, inhumane treatment, trauma. ... 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Complaint – #1 in LEON RENGEL v. United States (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01008) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number BDCDC-12317453) filed by NEIYERVER ADRIAN LEON RENGEL. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Civil...
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Missy 🌈 Tilly, and Poppy Corgi @missyandtillycorgi.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Strait of corgmuz
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