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The same @capital_climate you've known and loved since 2010 at The Other Place.
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Don Moynihan
about 4 hours ago
The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family āradical agitatorsā
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Dr. Aaron Thierry
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Sandy Trust, the reportās lead author & director of sustainability risk at Baillie Gifford, says the use of inadequate models inside the finance industry has left banks, insurers & asset managers accepting a āchance of failureā... ā100X greater than the chance we accept of insurance company failureā
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Josh Marshall
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the only good thing about this part of the horrible shooting story is that it may turn out to be a gut shot for the carcass of
@cbsnews.com
and that's great. and unlike the ICE goon CBS has real internal bleeding.
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Aaron Gleeman
about 17 hours ago
Kyle Tucker signing with the Dodgers pushes the NL West's combined payrolls to almost $1.1 billion.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/o...
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Opinion | Something Bad Is Brewing on Venezuelaās Border
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/opinion/venezuela-maduro-colombia-petro-eln.html
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Philip Bump
1 day ago
Not only has Rand Paul increased this cost by a factor of 10,000, there was actually useful science behind the research as I explained in 2021.
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Luke Steuber
about 19 hours ago
Beautiful graphic of the day (because that should be a thing: Our Solar System By my data hero Eleanor Lutz
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derek guy
about 19 hours ago
Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee
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D. Earl Stephens
about 20 hours ago
šURGENT: Trump's regime is trying to turn Stars & Stripes into state-run media. I was the ME of S&S. It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops. So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
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Pentagon says it will ārefocusā Stars and Stripes content
The Pentagon suggested it would take over editorial decision making for Stars and Stripes, which has long retained independence under a congressional mandate.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-01-15/pentagon-refocus-stars-and-stripes-content-20415816.html
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Molly White
about 20 hours ago
If anyone was still pretending this isnāt just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
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āNewport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdownāTrump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes
The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/15/newport-middle-school-co-ed-cheerleading-team-at-the-center-of-trump-transgender-athlete-crackdown/
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SpaceNews
about 20 hours ago
Congress passes minibus spending bill that rejects proposed NASAĀ cuts Congress has approved a fiscal year 2026 spending bill that largely restores funding proposed for deep cuts to NASA while canceling one major mission.
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Congress passes minibus spending bill that rejects proposed NASAĀ cuts
Congress has approved a fiscal year 2026 spending bill that largely restores funding proposed for deep cuts to NASA while canceling one major mission.
https://spacenews.com/congress-passes-minibus-spending-bill-that-rejects-proposed-nasa-cuts/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Robert Reich
1 day ago
Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling peopleās things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. āI felt like I was going to p
https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
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MyRadar
1 day ago
Florida and Deep South gang āĀ not liking the cold? Here's where your air is coming from! Yep. You're breathing in air that, a week ago, was over Siberia, the Bering Strait, Chukchi Sea and northern Alaska above the Arctic Circle.
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Zack Labe
1 day ago
An additional dataset in showing that global ocean heat content (0-2000 m depth) is surging off the charts after another new record in 2025... š Graphic/data (anomalies) from
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD
1 day ago
āthe Antarctic region recorded its warmest year on record and the Arctic its 2nd warmest.ā (Copernicus ECMWF)
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Nicky Schwenzer
1 day ago
āIt's time to officially let X go. That platform's decline from a vibrant public square to what is now a platform for hate & disinformation has been painful to experience.ā
@rweingarten.bsky.social
AFT President / Teacher "US teachers union says it is leaving X" - Raphael Satter Reuters - 2/5š§µ
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Kate Marvel
2 days ago
The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of: - Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute - operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history - Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
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MLB Trade Rumors
2 days ago
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Nationals Depart MASN, Turn Broadcasts To MLB
The Nationals announced Wednesday that theyāre stepping away from their local broadcasting deal with the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network. Major League Baseball will handle in-market distribution via streaming on the leagueās MLB.tv platform and through yet to be announced cable/satellite partnerships. Chelsea Janes of The Washington Post and Mark Zuckerman of MASNsports.com were among those toā¦
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Minnesota Star Tribune
1 day ago
Some protesters have reported being hit with rubber bullets close to the scene of a reported shooting in north Minneapolis involving federal agents in the area of W. 25th Street and Lyndale Avenue N. Federal agents have deployed chemical irritants. Updates here:
bit.ly/4sI4z3q
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Acyn
1 day ago
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
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Justin Wolfers
4 days ago
"Argentina's done it. Russia's done it. Turkey's done it. Venezuela's done it. And Zimbabwe's done it. It's a thing that tin pot dictators do... right before starting a hyperinflation and destroying their own economies."
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John Morales
2 days ago
Important update about Congressional efforts to prevent the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from being dismantled. Last week the White House threatened to veto any appropriations bill that protects NCAR. Despite this attempt at intimidation ... (1/ )
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Minnesota Star Tribune
3 days ago
Video shows a chaotic scene from earlier Tuesday a couple of blocks from where Renee Good was killed. Agents released a high-powered smoke grenade to clear the way through a crowd of protesters at the intersection of Oakland Avenue and 34th Street. Video by Louis Krauss.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
3 days ago
The majority of the leadership team inside Minnesotaās U.S. Attorneyās Office resigned Tuesday in protest of directives from federal officials in the wake of the killing of Renee Good, according to sources familiar with the decision.
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Joe Thompson, U.S. Attorney who uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota, resigns from office
Thompson has been at the center of the national debate around fraud in Minnesota and has claimed that billions have been stolen from tax payers.
https://bit.ly/4b3MFSF
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Carl Quintanilla
3 days ago
Four-byline alert: šØ ā.. fierce blowback .. now threatens to undermine President Trumpās effort to assert dominance over economic decision-making.ā
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Carl Quintanilla
3 days ago
ā.. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo, 'Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to?"
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jael holzman
4 days ago
NEW: A federal judge today struck down a stop work order Trump issued before Christmas on a big New England offshore wind project under construction Itās a huge ruling and suggests other stop work orders against offshore wind farms in progress may very soon fail too
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How Trumpās Case Against Revolution Wind Fell Apart (Again)
A federal court has once again allowed Orsted to resume construction on its offshore wind project.
https://heatmap.news/sparks/trump-revolution-wind-order
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
4 days ago
š» Live from Antarctica! Today, NOVA
@pbs.org
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@ucsandiego.bsky.social
geophysicist Jamin Greenbaumāstudy the rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier, one of the most consequential glaciers on Earth.
www.youtube.com/live/W7ejeYD...
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Live from the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica with Miles O'Brien | NOVA | PBS
YouTube video by NOVA PBS Official
https://www.youtube.com/live/W7ejeYDFuk4
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NPR
4 days ago
The judge ordered the restoration of nearly $12 million in funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including money for rural health care and the identification of disabilities in children.
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A judge orders HHS to restore children's health funding as a lawsuit continues
The judge ordered the restoration of nearly $12 million in funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including money for rural health care and the identification of disabilities in children.
https://n.pr/4jEOjMz
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Ken Caldeira
4 days ago
The Republican Party has become an overtly racist party. They are done with the "dog whistles" that only their neo-Nazi supporters can hear. Now they are saying it out loud to all of us.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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Trump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being āVery Badly Treatedā
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/trump-interview-white-people-discrimination.html
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Conor Sen
4 days ago
I'm starting to suspect that 20-30 year long bull markets in specific asset classes may occasionally lead to unworthy individuals becoming very wealthy and powerful.
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Casino bankrupter attacks the dollar itself. 'Sell America' trade: Dollar drops, gold surges as Trump's Fed pressure campaign raises fears
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/s...
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'Sell America' trade: Dollar drops, gold surges as Trump's Fed pressure campaign raises fears about U.S. system
The "Sell America" trade is a hot topic after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's bombshell announcement that he's under criminal investigation
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/sell-america-trade-trump-powell-investigation.html?__source=androidappshare
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Adding market manipulation to the grift: Stock futures slide as Trumpās DOJ opens criminal investigation into Fed Chair Powell: Live updates
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/11/s...
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Stock futures slide as Trump's DOJ opens criminal investigation into Fed Chair Powell: Live updates
Traders are preparing for the kickoff of earnings season, with major Wall Street banks set to report results in the days ahead.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/11/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
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Peggy March
5 days ago
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Himalayan winters are seeing less snowfall as more ice melts
Experts say dwindling snowfall during winter will impact the lives and livelihoods of millions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyndv7zd20o
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Jon Corsiglia
5 days ago
Europe and allies are doubling down on clean power as the US moves to exit the International Renewable Energy Agency. At IRENAās assembly they called the energy transition āunstoppableā and reaffirmed funding and cooperation to keep renewables rising. šā”ļø
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Governments defend clean energy transition as US snubs renewables agency
Trump's move to withdraw the US from IRENA would cut a fifth of the agency's core budget, but other countries tell its assembly clean energy is here to stay
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/01/11/europe-governments-defend-renewables-us-trump-irena-international-agency/
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Bribery Barbie
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Washington National Opera joins artists exiting Kennedy Center
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Washington National Opera leaves Kennedy Center, joining slew of artist exits
The WNO is just the latest to say they will no longer perform at the Kennedy Center since Trump took over last year.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/10/nx-s1-5671107/kennedy-center-canceled-trump-washington-national-opera-wno
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Bankrupter of 6 casinos says this is a great place to invest 100s of billions of dollars in the oil industry.
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Ryan
6 days ago
DCA actually broke a daily precip record today, mostly because the existing record was just 0.81ā, the second weakest in the entire calendar year behind only Feb 5th at 0.80ā. Records in DC go back to 1871
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Because it's easier than Mars!
#broligarchy
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Scott Horton
7 days ago
In 1916, the United States ceded any interest it had in Greenland to Denmark as part of its compensation for the Danish West Indies, which are now the US Virgin Islands. News you won't hear on Rupert Murdoch TV, nor, indeed, any actual facts or history.
www.diis.dk/en/research/...
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Why is Greenland part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History
From the Vikings to Trump: Greenlandās historic development negates recent White House territorial demands.
https://www.diis.dk/en/research/why-is-greenland-part-of-the-kingdom-of-denmark-a-short-history
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Parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes region seeing record high temperatures - in the middle of the night. Near record warm Gulf waters feeding unusual moisture and warmth ahead of slow moving storm system via
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Parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes region seeing record high temperatures - in the middle of the night
Near record warm Gulf waters feeding unusual moisture and warmth ahead of slow moving storm system, which will also yield potential for significant flash flooding and some severe weather in the South.
https://open.substack.com/pub/balancedweather/p/parts-of-the-midwest-and-great-lakes?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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The new season of Breaking Bad is getting really weird.
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Alan Gerard
8 days ago
The number of people on the right using what happened yesterday to compete for the title of worst human being in history is actually rather impressive.
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Baltimore Banner
8 days ago
Ledo Pizza cofounder Thelma Beall ate pizza once a week, even at 101
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Ledo Pizza co-founder Thelma Beall ate pizza once a week, even at 101
Thelma Beall, the matriarch of Ledo Pizza, died New Yearās Eve.
https://www.thebanner.com/obituaries/ledo-pizza-thelma-beall-obituary-RLPDFMA6DJHGNNJL2QDEWQ6DBE/
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Goodbye, national interest. Hello, ego gratification and profits for the ruling clique. "Trump has been remarkably transparent about his goals in Venezuela: Itās all about looting."
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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The Looting of US Foreign Policy
Goodbye, national interest. Hello, ego gratification and profits for the ruling clique.
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-looting-of-us-foreign-policy?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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