This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

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Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!

Recently, Instagram viewers got a glimpse of Embassy Chef Eilif #behindthescenes, #cooking up some delicious treats! We are excited to introduce him to our BlueSky audience! Check out his first video of a classic #grilledcheese with Norwegian #Jarlsberg (@JarlsbergUSA).

UPDATE: We went to court to get the antitrust complaint against Pepsi, implicating Walmart, unsealed. (The Trump FTC dropped the case just before it was to be made public.) The judge just ruled in our favor. Pending a potential appeal, we should get a look at the details of the scheme next week.

“Fantastic.” “Original.” “Best thing in my inbox.” People are loving the California Sun. www.californiasun.co

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Flagging this very damning retraction of a 24-year-old study on glyphosate's toxicity: US Right To Know has an article: usrtk.org/pesticides/l...

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I spent months talking to many, many people for this long post-mortem of the Inflation Reduction Act: What forces were responsible for creating it, and how could it be gutted so unceremoniously? What might come next? No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity newrepublic.com/article/2027...

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Our Latin America bureau @mongabaylatam.bsky.social won the Global Shining Light award last night 🏆 💯 One of the highest honors in investigative journalism, it's given at the annual @gijn.org conference Their winning project moved Peruvian officials to protect land defenders in the Amazon:

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Nearly 350 gleaning operations throughout the U.S. are reducing waste and increasing food security at the community level, supported by the National Gleaning Project, which provides policy and legal support to local efforts.

Several provisions included in the agriculture funding bill passed Wednesday could make it harder for the USDA to implement plans to reorganize the agency, move employees out of Washington, D.C., cut staff, and close field offices.

Someone should go there and show them the clips of Trump's Great Gatsby party. I bet they'd be so happy to know he's having fun.

This is an instant pre-order - @sesmith.lol is an amazing writer and thinker. Mostly I'm just mad I have to wait until the end of July 2026 to read this!

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

🚨BREAKING: 2 fed courts have issued orders blocking Trump’s attempt to defund SNAP. Congrats to @democracyforward.org, its co counsel and clients, and Dem State AGs.

The weaponization of the justice system is escalating - with the DoJ now acting openly and aggressively as the regime’s instrument to go after the political opposition. It’s not a consolidated autocracy yet. But this most definitely isn’t rule of law either.

This is terrifying:

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

An excellent thread on Greg Bovino's court hearing in Chicago today:

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

SF, Oakland, Alameda: Alameda reports that DHS is starting to arrive in Alameda tomorrow. Join the planning tonight: prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/T... @indivisibleeb.bsky.social #nokings

Fascinating proposal from @rewiringamerica.bsky.social: cost- effectively meeting the energy needs for data centers by replacing inefficient electric resistance heaters with heat pumps. 1/ www.rewiringamerica.org/research/hom...

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic. We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”

So many of you say you love indie & feminist media, but why then are so few of you subscribing to @theflytrapmedia.com, the worker-owned publication co-founded by longtime feminist writers (including me & some of your faves: @andreagrimes.com, @sesmith.lol, @nicolefroio.bsky.social, etc)?

Genuinely: Paywalling content is not a thing I love doing. I'd rather create in a world where writers & artists could share our stuff literally freely. The Flytrap is cooperatively owned by its founders, who put in a ton of as-yet unpaid work to produce ALL our content—including one free post/month.

Despite their standing as Republican strongholds, rural areas may now represent new opportunity for Democratic candidates as Trump administration policies continue to hit the heartland.

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"As the shutdown persists, here’s what we know about the work that will—and won’t—get done at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)." #govtshutdown #agsky civileats.com/2025/10/01/t...

The opposite of a timeline cleanse, but important and necessary reading:

A lovely timeline cleanse for a Friday morning. Via @kottke.org prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/10/23/c...

"We believe everyone who eats should know how policy decisions shape their food options." Hear from our Operations Director @mattwheeland.bsky.social and Senior Staff Reporter and Contributing Editor @lisaelaineh.bsky.social in a Q&A interview with @npcinstitute.bsky.social. ⬇️

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US. And nobody covered it. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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At @civileats.com, @lisaelaineh.bsky.social is up with a fascinating interview with influencer Jessica Knurick, who recently rose to fame on Instagram with her reels fact-checking MAHA. civileats.com/2025/09/30/j...

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

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Hey folks, since I'm getting my newsletter going on Ghost, I'm getting an order of magnitude fewer page views than I got when I was on Substack. Could you do me a solid and repost/share my latest post to help me get those numbers back up? I'd be grateful! www.bugbeardispatch.com/the-autumn-o...