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Emily Sanders
7 days ago
And RAGA is at it again. After successfully getting a federal agency to remove the climate science chapter from a reference manual for judges, now they're demanding the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine take it off their website.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
12 days ago
So the United States will only use empty warehouses to house people it wants to terrorize, not people it wants to shelter from the cold. We really are not a very good-natured country.
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Robert Reich
11 days ago
If this country was truly âpro-life,â we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isnât about âlife.â Itâs about control.
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"[V]ehicles that burn more fuel cost car owners more at the pump ... in addition to the costs to the climate, public health and industrial competitiveness."
#MakingAmericaUnhealthyAgain
#CheapOilCheapLives
##ClimateActionNow
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
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With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/climate/endangerment-finding-auto-emissions-regulations.html
11 days ago
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"... the Trump administration would erase limits on greenhouse gases from cars, power plants and industries that generate the planet-warming pollution."
#ClimateHitSquad
#FourHorsemen
#ApocalypseNow
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
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Trump Allies Near âTotal Victoryâ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/climate/endangerment-finding.html
17 days ago
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Robert Reich
19 days ago
Leaders of the so-called âpro-life, small governmentâ party who relentlessly warn of tyranny are standing by as masked agents roam the country and brutalize its people. The hypocrisy isnât surprising â but itâs staggering. Remember this.
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Christopher Webb
23 days ago
Heads are going to explode đĽ Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that âimmigrants are bleeding us dryâ noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
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âThe cheapest electrons we can add to the supply side of that equation are stuck on Secretary Burgumâs desk...â
#FreeTheElectrons
#ClimateActionNow
#DumpTrumpAgain
#MAGAMakesNoSense
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...
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A Trump âBlockadeâ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/climate/wind-solar-projects.html
22 days ago
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Greenpeace International đ
24 days ago
Winter sport needs snow-not fossil fuels Eni, one of the worldâs biggest oil and gas corporations, is using the Winter Olympics to greenwash its fossil-fuelled destruction If you agree that polluters shouldnât get a podium at the Games, share the video (Proudly human-made. No AI)
#WinterOlympics
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Justin Mikulka
24 days ago
The technology is not the issue. There are huge amounts of technologically recoverable oil and gas in the world. The cost is the issue. And as the headline states, this oil is "high cost."
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Exxon says it has the technology needed for Venezuela's high-cost crude
Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods told analysts on Friday that the company has the technology that would be needed to produce higher cost barrels from Venezuela.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-says-it-has-technology-needed-venezuelas-high-cost-crude-2026-01-30/
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THXâ˘1138
26 days ago
Canadianđ¨đŚ Renewable Energy Just makes Economic Sense 100 per cent affordable, reliable, clean electricity in Canadađ¨đŚ is possible and it will bring climate, health and economic benefits to communities.
davidsuzuki.org
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Timothy Snyder
25 days ago
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a âlarge deportationâ promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
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Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio
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Kevin J. Kircher
26 days ago
About 90 million acres of US farmland grow corn. 35-40% of the corn goes to ethanol production.
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Ethanol's outsized place in the U.S. energy system
https://frontiergroup.org/resources/ethanols-outsized-place-us-energy-system/
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UN Environment Programme
26 days ago
She watched a wetland die before she was old enough to understand why. Ahead of tomorrowâs
#WorldWetlandsDay
, see how Julie Mulonga is bringing new life to Africaâs wetlands and the people who depend on them.
bit.ly/49KW4xd
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UN Environment Programme
26 days ago
If we canât live without water, why are we poisoning our rivers? If we canât live without forests, why are we cutting them down? If we canât live without soil, why are we stripping it of life? We depend on nature, not the other way around. It's time we stop pushing our best ally to the brink.
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"The rightâs echo chamber is so powerful and so hermetically sealed that even serious conservatives can fall for the administrationâs disinformation."
#ParoxysmOfAnger
#MAGAMadness
#MeltTheICE
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
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Opinion | What MAGA Sees in the Minnesota Mirror
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/opinion/truump-ice-minnesota-noem-miller.html
28 days ago
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"A neoroyalist world is not good for the United States, and it is not good for humanity. Its primary goal is extraction for the few rather than safety or prosperity for the many."
#Neoroyalism
#VoteThemOut
##DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
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Opinion | This Theory Explains Trumpâs Baffling Foreign Policy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/opinion/trump-foreign-policy-neo-royalist.html
about 1 month ago
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On the Media
about 1 month ago
ââSomeday we will tell our children about this month of January 2026 in world politics, and they will not be able to fathom what we chose to do as a country to ourselves.â Garrett Graff
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
on how Trump is damaging US global standing.
on-the-media.visitlink.me/IitPv8
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On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the weekâs big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
https://on-the-media.visitlink.me/IitPv8
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"We can either invest into natureâs destruction or power its recovery â there is no middle ground...â
#DefundDestruction
#NatureIsNotForSale
#TaxNatureNegativeActions
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about 1 month ago
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Yale Environment 360
about 1 month ago
In a first, Europe generated more power from wind and solar than from fossil fuels last year.
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In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels
Last year, for the first time, wind and solar supplied more power than fossil fuels to the E.U., according to a new analysis.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/europe-wind-solar-fossil-fuels?x-craft-preview=9bc398ee7c3c9aa9a69802f250d0a62239f473592351800b6529c577611306bfqjjhyaimxx&token=8xaiydhh1LoPvmt3SypG1uRhwY_bfSZ6
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"... experienced "lilliputian hallucinations" â the psychiatric term for the perception of tiny human, animal or fantasy figures."
#ISeeSmallPeople
#LilliputianWorlds
#MysteriesOfScience
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'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people
about 1 month ago
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Union of Concerned Scientists
about 1 month ago
NEW: A UCS report published today shows that powering data centers with clean energy could avoid trillions in climate and health costs. Here's what you need to know đ§ľâŹď¸
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Data Center Power Play
Unmitigated data center growth puts the public at risk of higher utility bills and public health costs.
https://ucs.org/resources/data-center-power-play/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bs
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"He sees himself less as president of the United States and more as president of his United States."
#GreatDivider
#TwoAmericas
##DumpTrumpAgainNow
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
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Opinion | Trumpâs Norway Letter Proves This Isnât Sustainable
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/trump-norway-letter.html
about 1 month ago
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Video: Inside Trumpâs Deportation Machine
Data obtained by The New York Times illustrates the differences between President Trumpâs and President Bidenâs approaches to deportations. Our data reporter Albert Sun describes what we found.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010652139/inside-trumps-deportation-machine.html
about 1 month ago
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âIt was a bunch of empty promises from a bunch of Wall Street types who abandoned their pledges when it was no longer convenient...â
#Climate$hame
#CleanEnergyNow
#ThinkGloballyInvestLocally
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/c...
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How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/climate/how-wall-street-turned-its-back-on-climate-change.html
about 1 month ago
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#GoldRushGoneBad
#CryptoCriminals
#FarmsNotFools
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Data center âgold rushâ pits local officialsâ hunt for new revenue against residentsâ concerns
Twiggs County commissioners recently approved a massive data center project, sparking a legal battle and deepening distrust between citizens and their elected officials in the rural middle Georgia com...
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/data-center-gold-rush-pits-local-officials-hunt-new-revenue-against-residents-concerns
about 2 months ago
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How does a lake drain empty overnight? Welcome to the
#Anthropocene
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Quebecâs Lake Rouge vanished â but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions?
Experts and community trying to untangle mystery of outburst that saw water travel almost 10km overland into a bigger lake
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/10/quebecs-lake-rouge-vanished-but-was-it-a-freak-natural-event-or-caused-by-human-actions
about 2 months ago
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Dr Paul Dorfman
about 2 months ago
IPCC AR6 reports
#renewables
now 10 times more efficient at CO2 mitigation than new
#nuclear
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Yale Environment 360
about 2 months ago
Humans are altering the planet on an unthinkable scale. Satellite images from NASA show the growing imprint on planet Earth.
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Our Changing Planet, as Seen From Space
A plankton bloom in the Baltic Sea in July. Scientists say manure and fertilizer runoff from European farms is fueling blooms. NASA
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/nasa-satellite-images-2025?x-craft-preview=39f2dab3865069bfbd7ec020d9417858d8d0be2aa21f25b4edbcf2ea041598eeemmspcjqtj&token=F5m6jrEgT35pO65KrBaa6dZhYPksqC5J
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Union of Concerned Scientists
about 2 months ago
âPresident Trumpâs withdrawal of the United States from the bedrock global treaty to tackle climate change is a new low and yet another a sign that this authoritarian, anti-science administration is determined to sacrifice peopleâs well-being and destabilize global cooperation." Read UCS Statement:
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Trump Sinks to New Low by Announcing US Withdrawal from 66 International Organizations, Including UNFCCC and IPCC
President Trump announced today that he is removing the United States from the UNFCCC and IPCC, as well as 64 other entities or U.N. organizations. Statements by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
https://www.ucs.org/about/news/trump-sinks-new-low-announcing-us-withdrawal-66-international-organizations-including?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bs
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Peter du Toit
about 2 months ago
The US has announced it is withdrawing from among others the: IPCC IREA International Solar Alliance UNFCCC It describes these as âcontrary to the interests of the United States.â I guess the greatest polluter on earth wants to ensure it maintains its status as such.
www.whitehouse.gov/p...
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"... if the Constitution says that the big guy should win, well, then the big guyâs going to win, because my obligation is to the Constitution."
#SCOTUSRigged4Wealthy
#TheMeekShaltSuffer
#PoisonedPlanet
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
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Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich, Economists Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/supreme-court-study-rich-poor.html
about 2 months ago
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"Republican majorities in the House and Senate have abandoned all semblance of institutional and constitutional integrity, passively allowing Trump to wrest away their powers over taxing and spending, turning Congress into a collection of sycophants."
#DumpTrumpAgain
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
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Opinion | Why Does Trump Get Away With It?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/opinion/trump-pardons-republican-party.html
about 2 months ago
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Robert Reich
about 2 months ago
Market concentration â Less competition â Higher prices for consumers â Corporate profits at 70-year high â Record stock buybacks â Higher shareholder value â More power for corporations and the rich. How do we fight back? Break up monopolies and rebuild union power.
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Yale Environment 360
about 2 months ago
The Arctic just had its hottest year on record, while measures of sea ice hit a new low. via The Guardian
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Sea Ice Hits New Low in Hottest Year on Record for the Arctic
The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the worldâs northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less ice-bound due to the climate crisis, scientists have reported.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/2025-arctic-report-card?x-craft-preview=219e52d3a3fedc0db74b039f9ff2ab372c0d55a01e81a2d150ef0d39ab8b2f78beafaxkbhe&token=yZoPnNk7BeQ1TLd777NhOBY318rnQG87
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
2 months ago
Instead of going through the time and tedium of subpoenas, hearings, and due process, Congress should just do as the Pentagon does: acting on a vague hunch without any evidence, declare that Pam Bondi is a "narco-terrorist" and bust some doors down.
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"MAGAâs internal culture has always rewarded theatrical confrontation over achievement. Boorishness commands attention, and boors mistake attention for leverage. Pseudo-martyrdom becomes an end in itself. Loyalty tests proliferate."
#OmnidirectionalIncoherence
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
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Opinion | The Strange Death of Make America Great Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/opinion/turning-points-americafest-maga.html
2 months ago
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Union of Concerned Scientists
2 months ago
"We see Illinois as an inspiration for other states, taking action to address rising electricity costs and signaling that it will not allow the Trump administration to dictate a dirty energy future for its people." Learn more in James Gignac's blog:
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Illinois Passed New Clean Energy LegislationâWhat to Look for in 2026
Illinois clean energy advocates are justifiably still giddy over the state legislatureâs passage of the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act (CRGA, or surge-ah as we call it). The wide-ranging legislation contains several energy policy updates to help Illinois achieve its clean electricity goal
https://blog.ucs.org/james-gignac/illinois-passed-new-clean-energy-legislation-what-to-look-for-in-2026/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bs
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âWe are no longer in a normal time. We are now in a time when the [DOJ] has surrendered ... its independence and the president is directly commanding his [AG] and her leadership team to use their prosecutorial authorities against his perceived political adversaries.â
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
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Ex-C.I.A. Chief Asks to Keep Justice Dept. From Steering Case to Favored Judge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-doj-investigation-judge-cannon-brennan-cia.html
2 months ago
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"The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and the court has given us the worst of all worlds: an ultrapowerful presidency without an actual president at the helm."
#NoKings
#DumpTrumpAgain
#TermLimitsForSCOTUS
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
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Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/opinion/trump-presidential-power-miller-vought.html
2 months ago
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www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
#DumpTrumpAgain
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Read the full special counsel report on Trump's Jan. 6 actions
Smith says he stands behind his decision to bring criminal charges against Trump and believes the Republican would've been convicted had he not won the 2024 election.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-full-special-counsel-report-on-trumps-jan-6-actions
2 months ago
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NPR
2 months ago
Kwigillingok, Alaska, has long grappled with erosion and flooding. Residents want to move to higher ground, further inland, especially after the remnants of Typhoon Halong damaged nearly every house.
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Houses floated away in this Alaska Native village. Now residents want to move
Kwigillingok, Alaska, has long grappled with erosion and flooding. Residents want to move to higher ground, further inland, especially after the remnants of Typhoon Halong damaged nearly every house.
https://n.pr/4pDXQpz
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Robert Reich
2 months ago
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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"Wind, solar and other renewable power sources overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity this year." When will the USA join the movement to
#MakeAmericaGreenAgain
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www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025
Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251212-seven-quiet-wins-for-climate-and-nature-in-2025
2 months ago
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
3 months ago
Over a million Georgians will be forced to choose between an astronomical insurance bill and no coverage at all next year. This shouldnât be happening in the wealthiest nation on the planet.
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"Combined with the presidentâs unfettered pardon power, the authority to fire any government employee could effectively allow a president to run the federal government as a criminal enterprise."
#ThreeLegStool
#SCOTUSwatch
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/opinion/supreme-court-limits-failing-constitution.html
3 months ago
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Robert Reich
3 months ago
The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people â not Wall St., corporations, and consultants. Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.
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"Itâs common sense that you cannot solve a problem by giving power to those who caused it..."
#ClimateActionNow
#EndOilSubsidies
#CommonSense
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RELEASE: Fossil fuel lobbyists flood COP30 climate talks in Brazil, with largest ever attendance share | Kick Big Polluters Out
https://kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick-Out-The-Suits-COP30
3 months ago
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#ItsAWonderfulWorld
#AuroraBorealis
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Nasa astronaut films the Northern Lights from space
Zena Cardman captured the footage of the display from the International Space Station on 17 November.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c15733pqy48o
3 months ago
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Robert Reich
3 months ago
Iâve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. Iâve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but hereâs how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
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The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
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