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Susan Kraemer

@susankraemer.bsky.social
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Science reporter covering R&D in concentrated solar energy for solar fuels, CSP, and thermal storage for the IEA at SolarPACES.org Kiwi obsessing over my adopted nation going fascist but trying to let it go. I like finding out ways to make things better

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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Has Trump run out of laws to break and institutions to destroy? I’m just not seeing the daily barrage of even 6 months ago
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Prism @prismreports.org · 29/05/2026
“We’re starting to see the extinction of an entire way of life. This is one of the last bastions of naturally occurring affordable housing & we’re seeing an elimination of it.” 200+ Silver Court Trailer Park residents are facing eviction to make way for redevelopment, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.
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Mobile home closures grow in Miami as residents face displacement
Over 200 residents of the Silver Court Trailer Park are facing forced eviction from one of the city’s last remaining affordable housing options
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 27/05/2026
"Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America." - @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas AG Ken Paxton will now face state Rep. James Talarico in the November general election.
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Could waste brine from desalination plants help make steel greener? Any innovative new brine treatment creates the chemistry that is needed www.solarpaces.org/could-waste-...
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Could waste brine from desalination plants help make steel greener? - SolarPACES
A novel BALIO desalination process is designed to yield the ingredient needed to turn iron ores in green steel
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Sad but wow. Bombed back to the pre-industrial age, with no needed supplies Gazans hand-built simple mechanical machines to make the one raw material they can access - rubble - into building bricks.
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Gaza Is Rebuilding With Lego-Like Bricks Made From Rubble
As reconstruction materials remain blocked, Palestinians are crushing debris into interlocking blocks to build shelters from destruction.
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DeirdreF @deirdrebf.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I wonder if the money Trump is giving the Jan 6 insurrectionists is payment for what they did, or funding for what they're going to do.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/05/2026
Tillis: "To call Paxton 'ethically challenged' is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder. He's gonna be an anchor on our caucus"
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
www.science.org/content/blog...
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The Latest News in Vaccine Obstruction
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I'm trying to keep up with the surge in CSP projects in China for SolarPACES (the IEA network for researchers) and not done, yet but have mapped some of the projects to date, I know there's another 6 under construction expected online in 2026 www.solarpaces.org/worldwide-cs...
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is Yana, membership growth manager here at the Kyiv Independent. Today, I want to share something personal. Recently, I was on a work trip outside of Ukraine, and someone asked me a question I hadn't heard in a long time: “Russia started the war in Ukraine because of NATO expansion, right?”
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
No paywall: www.wired.com/story/a-fede...
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A Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming DOGE. Now She’s Running for Congress
Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
www.wired.com/story/anthro... Evidence? Anthropic's Claude blackmailed its user to avoid being replaced. Anthropic tested others like Grok etc and found the same risk of independent self preservation.
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Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 28/03/2026
There are 500 hundreds in 50,000. Listen…we have one person working social today. I’m trying my best to manage several accounts to keep people informed. Mistakes will be made. It’s hard to estimate crowd sizes in the moment. Sorry!
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Netanyahu claims that victory over Iran would bring peace to Israel. He should look closer to home | Dahlia Scheindlin
As Israelis grow weary of sheltering from missile attacks, their prime minister is using the war to distract from the Palestinian issue, says political analyst Dahlia Scheindlin
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Great news:
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All of DOGE’s work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds
Musk’s X posts bragging about DOGE may trigger reversals of its biggest wins.
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
www.wsj.com/us-news/five... Gift article
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Five Takeaways From the WSJ Investigation of Government Assault Claims
A deep dive into public records found that most of the accusations against U.S. citizens for attacking immigration officers were unsubstantiated.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 08/03/2026
Democrats want to get TSA agents paid, but we won't help Republicans cut a blank check to help Stephen Miller terrorize Americans.    And I won’t let Trump blackmail Democrats into funding rogue ICE agents just because he started a war with Iran.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
If there's a draft, ICE agents should be first in line.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 09/03/2026
Top Trump officials rush to purchase nuclear war-proof bunkers after Iran attack: report
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Top Trump officials rush to purchase nuclear war-proof bunkers after Iran attack: report
Since President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Iran last week, at least two top Trump administration officials have raced to purchase their own survival shelters designed to withstand an apocalyptic nuclear war scenario, The Telegraph reported on Sunday.The revelation comes from Texas reside...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 09/03/2026
⚡️Zelensky shares new update on liberated Ukrainian territory, says Kyiv 'more positive' than at end of 2025. Ukrainian forces have liberated up to 435 kilometers of Russian-occupied territory in the south, thwarting Moscow's efforts to mount a southern offensive, President Zelensky claimed.
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Zelensky shares new update on liberated Ukrainian territory, says Kyiv 'more positive' than at end of 2025
Ukrainian forces have liberated up to 435 kilometers of Russian-occupied territory in the country's south, thwarting Moscow's efforts to mount a southern offensive, President Volodymyr Zelensky claime...
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/02/2026
The Trump administration fired Alexis Goldstein for confronting members of DOGE last year over access to sensitive personal information of U.S. residents at a key watchdog agency. Now she's running for Congress.
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CFPB Staffer Alexis Goldstein Fired for Confronting DOGE Members, Announces Run for Congress
The Trump administration has fired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau program manager Alexis Goldstein for documenting a meeting a year ago between the agency and Elon Musk’s Department of Governmen...
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 19/02/2026
It's so crazy how the US military just does things—completely leaderless, an unaccountable black box—and keeps putting the dear anti-war President in sticky situations
Nyt push alert "the US military has mixed into place for possible strikes in Iran, leaving President Trump with high-stakes choices."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I had been trying to find out more regarding this civil contempt in Minnesota, and an update in the Fox9 report from Paul Blume (whose tweets are below) suggests the gov't miraculously found the man's ID documents quickly after the civil contempt finding. www.fox9.com/news/federal...
Provinzino ordered Isihara to pay daily fines of $500 for everyday Soto Jimenez does not have his identifications moving forward.
The fines start accruing on Thursday.
In an update Wednesday night, Soto Jimenez's attorney says the government has since provided a tracking number for overnight delivery of his identification paperwork. They expect to have the documents in hand on Thursday, and that would nullify any fines imposed by Judge Provinzino.
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
excellent expose of fascist ICE preying on those following the rules at the New Yorker www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap
Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/02/2026
We need to rein in ICE and CBP. We need to call out the avalanche of lies. And most importantly, we need to stand up for our communities—because they are being terrorized by their own government. The American people are demanding Congress meet this moment.
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The Nobel people have leverage. Use it!. Tell Trump exactly how to win a Nobel Prize. Promise you will now be the bigliest Peace President. No more masked hooligans smashing car windows and dragging women on the ground. Apologize to the American people. Withdraw all the troops attacking us
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Where Trump went wrong in his quest for a Nobel Peace Price
In exclusive interviews, Norway's prime minister and the head of the Nobel Institute tell Isaac Stanley-Beckett and Simon Shuster how they handled the president's pressure campaign.
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
NPR uncovered an unbelievably scammy payday loan to help desperate businesses pay these new upfront tarifffs to stay in biz. That charge 90% interest!! Too bad there's no more CFPB. www.npr.org/2026/02/09/n...
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A shadowy industry is helping small businesses pay tariffs — at a high cost
How about $350,000 within hours? The pitches flood small businesses: "No hidden fees, No BS." These financial lifelines are barely regulated and can turn into trip wires.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 15/02/2026
"Roberts does not perceive the same danger. Immersed in the same media environment as his colleagues, he does not see Trumpism as a sustained assault on democracy. He sees criticism as overheated, institutions as fundamentally sound, and the courts as neutral guardians"
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The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America
A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 15/02/2026
Last week: "The two shooters during the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota on January 24 were Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from South Texas. The same place I’m from."
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My Home Is Treated Like a War Zone. That Militarization Expanded to Minnesota.
There have been many violent murders at the hands of Border Patrol agents. This is not an aberration but part of a broader federal apparatus built and refined over decades.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/02/2026
"As I went outside...that tear gas got into me. And I’m breathing in, and it kind of felt like glass shards in my nose and my throat."
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I’m a Minneapolis postal worker. This is what I saw.
Come rain, shine, tear gas, or ICE shootings, postal worker Bianca Sonnenberg is delivering the mail.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 15/02/2026
How many people have to be murdered by ICE and CBP agents in cold blood until Republicans join Democrats to stop the tyranny and lawlessness?
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 14/02/2026
Trump still saying he won the 2020 election is more than just a deranged old guy with a bruised ego yelling about how he didn’t actually lose. Trump is the President, and what he says matters.   He is trying to normalize election denial, and we cannot let that happen.
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Check your voter registration if you protested ICE www.wired.com/story/dhs-da...
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DHS’s Data Grab Is Getting Citizens Kicked Off Voter Rolls, New Complaint Says
As states check voter registration against a mashup of federal data, a new complaint says US citizens are getting kicked off state voter rolls as a result.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 14/02/2026
If ICE and CBP don't want to be called secret police, then don't wear masks.    If they don't want to be accused of kidnapping, then don't drag people out of cars & houses without warrants.   And if they don't want to be accused of being lawless, then start following the law.
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
so new ICE is all new thugs. Using polygraph lie detectors that reddit r/ICE_ERO candidates failed - they selected for MAGA thuggery WSJ:Within DHS, Noem n Lewandowski fired or demoted roughly 80% of the career ICE field leadership that was in place when they started. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026
Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 12/02/2026
The SAVE America Act would impose outrageous voter suppression requirements on American citizens. One example: married women who take their spouse’s name & whose last name may not match their birth certificate. Do they not get to vote? This bill is DOA in the Senate.
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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“Senate Democrats just blocked a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, after Republicans tried to advance a spending measure that they had already rejected. The measure fell short of the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster with all but one Democrat voting to block it in a 52-47
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Keystone Kops Kakistocracy: El Paso Air space shut down because CBP thought party balloons were eMeMii dRoONeSS !! Gift: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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A Laser Weapon Targeted Suspected Drones. It Hit Party Balloons Instead.
CBP fired the laser thinking it was aiming at cartel drones, leading the FAA to close the airspace over El Paso—and causing an uproar in Washington.
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Susan Kraemer @susankraemer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
ICE plans to share hallways and elevator bays with medical offices and small businesses. It will be down the street from daycares and within walking distance of churches and treatment centers. Its enforcement officers and lawyers will have cubicles a modest drive away.. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
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The ICE Expansion Won’t Happen in the Dark
People have a right to know who their neighbors are, especially when it’s ICE.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11/02/2026
Kristi Noem has to go. Gregory Bovino has to go. Stephen Miller has to go.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Insane levels of corruption. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man? LYONS: Yes mam McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees. "This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Rita558 @rita558.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Republicans in Congress could impeach Trump for so many things and yet none have the guts, women included. Let me remind you of the people on Flight 93 on 9/11 that stood up for democracy! They stopped the hijackers! And you are worried about Trumps wrath?? Do the right thing! Grow a set!
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