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Justin Gerdes
3 days ago
Mamdani "inherits a world-leading experiment in retrofitting buildings to slash emissions, open questions about how to transition to cleaner power sources, and a patchwork of adaptation efforts," writes
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NYCâs next mayor Zohran Mamdani has a big climate policy to-do list
The mayor-elect did not talk a lot about climate change on the campaign trail. But the city has major electrification plans that he can help accelerate.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/policy-regulation/zohran-mamdani-clean-energy-building-decarbonization
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Nick Turse
3 days ago
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administrations says the U.S. is in a state of "armed conflict" with 24 cartel groups The groups don't even know it. The list is secret -- even from members of Congress For more on Trump's secret fantasy wars, see my latest
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Trump Has a Secret List of 24 âDesignated Terrorist Organizations.â We Got Some of the Names.
The U.S. claims it is engaged in âarmed conflictâ with Tren de Aragua, EjĂ©rcito de LiberaciĂłn Nacional, and CĂĄrtel de los Soles, among others.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/07/trump-dto-list-venezuela-boat-strikes/
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Devin đ Thomas OâShea
4 days ago
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John Kostyack
4 days ago
The data center industry says "people would be more supportive if they simply knew more about companiesâ ongoing sustainability efforts." So, concerns about pollution and water consumption are apparently solvable with ... "education."
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jael holzman
4 days ago
my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics⊠âŠand then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!
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The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics
Activists on both the left and the right are pushing back against rampant AI development.
https://heatmap.news/energy/data-centers-left-right-opposition
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Jason Koebler
4 days ago
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/
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The Guardian
4 days ago
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdaniâs supposedly radical policies as ânormalâ
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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdaniâs supposedly radical policies as ânormalâ
Critics of New York Cityâs mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe itâs a given
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/europe-zohran-mamdani-policies-normal?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762444469
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Heatmap News
6 days ago
Zohran Mamdani ran an ultra-disciplined campaign for mayor â one that barely touched on climate change. Once he's in office, how will the one-time self-described "ecosocialist" govern? Here's
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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heatmap.news/politics/zoh...
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Zohran Mamdaniâs Silent Climate Politics
The self-described âecosocialistâ ran an ultra-disciplined campaign for New York City mayor. Once heâs in office, the climate issue could become unavoidable.
https://heatmap.news/politics/zohran-mamdani-climate
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UCSF Benioff Homelessness & Housing Initiative
5 days ago
Why are so many people being pushed into homelessness? âïž Nearly half of all U.S. workers now earn less than the hourly wage needed to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment. âïž In CA, workers must earn nearly $50 an hour to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment.
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#FOTW: In 18 States, Renters Must Earn More Than $30 an Hour to Afford A Two-Bedroom Apartment at Fair Market Rent
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Joel S.
5 days ago
This statistic will be used by groups like the ADL to say "an overwhelming majority of NYC Jews rejected Zohran Mamdani." Which is true! But it's also true that a higher percentage of NYC Jews voted Mamdani than Jews nationwide who voted Trump in 2024, and Trump Jews are not marginalized by the ADL.
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Tim Murphy
5 days ago
check in on your landlord friends today
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
6 days ago
thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co⊠Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-laidoff-teen-vogue-editors-recover
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
5 days ago
the Teen Vogue politics section's last newsy story đ„Č Rainesford knocked it out of the park
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Inkstick Media
6 days ago
Despite Threats, the Boeing Strike Continues Inkstick's
@hurwitz.bsky.social
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inkstick.substack.com/p/despite-th...
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Despite Threats, the Boeing Strike Continues
Since taking to the picket lines on Aug. 4, striking machinists have voted down four of the company's offers.
https://inkstick.substack.com/p/despite-threats-the-boeing-strike
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Allegra Kirkland
7 days ago
Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
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Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com
According to CondĂ© Nastâs announcement, the outlet will keep its âunique editorial identity and mission.â
https://www.thecut.com/article/teen-vogue-folding-into-vogue-com.html
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Allegra Kirkland
7 days ago
Alli Maloney,
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were forces of nature who made the politics section what it was Conde mostly saw us as a thorn in their side + underinvested in TV overall, repeatedly slashing budgets, not backfilling roles + now folding TV into Vogue. It's a damn shame
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
7 days ago
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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Sam Biddle
9 days ago
Nvidia is helping facilitate ICE investigations, federal procurement records show
theintercept.com/2025/11/01/i...
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ICE Investigations, Powered by Nvidia
ICEâs investigative division, increasingly involved in street-level immigration enforcement, struck a software deal with Nvidia.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/01/ice-nvidia-software-hsi-surveillance/
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More Perfect Union
10 days ago
Microsoft is now warning investors about the pushback against its massive data centers. The tech giant's latest earnings reports says: âWe also face community opposition, local moratoriums and hyper-local dissent that may impede or delay infrastructure development."
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
10 days ago
Why are ebikes which have to share the road with cars given a speed limit lower than cars? This is also just going to push even more delivery people into (polluting) scooters.
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Alleen Brown
12 days ago
Trump keeps turning to the right-wing Capital Research Center for nonprofits to attack. These are the environmental organizations in its crosshairs. Their alleged violation? Supporting civil disobedience. 1/
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A Trump Target List of Environmental Organizations
Every month, I assemble a round-up of stories Iâm following and issues Iâm covering, with palate cleansers at the end. Please consider a paid subscription so I can keep up my independent reporting. C...
https://alleenbrown.ghost.io/a-trump-target-list-of-environmental-organizations/
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Rainesford Stauffer
20 days ago
Student journalists in Appalachia! đš PAID writing opportunity before end of the semester: 100 Days in Appalachia is assembling a series of dispatches on the biggest issues facing campuses. Pieces are short, not as heavy a lift reporting-wise. Email
[email protected]
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Inkstick Media
12 days ago
Suggested reading in this week's Critical State: -
@donalgill.bsky.social
on US-Canada ties
@thedialmag.bsky.social
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@nickturse.bsky.social
on Trump's deadly Yemen strikes
@theintercept.com
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@hrw.org
on excessive force in Chicago -
@hurwitz.bsky.social
on the Boeing strike - And more:
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Critical State: US-Canadian Trade Under the Boot of Nationalism
If you read just one thing this week ⊠read about the future of US-Canadian relations in an age of tariffs.
https://inkstick.substack.com/p/critical-state-us-canadian-trade
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
14 days ago
"If everyone has to cobble together their own constellation of individual creators $5 at a time? Thatâs not a media ecosystem. Itâs a privatized patchwork of tip jars. Counting on people who pay you directly isnât the same as not having a boss. You have 100 and canât afford to piss off any of them."
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Patron-Supported Journalism Canât Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patron-supported-journalism-cant-be-the-future-of-news
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a dispatch from fighterland, USA
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Melissa Gira Grant
14 days ago
Television Jamaica is streaming hurricane coverage live on YouTube:
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Tracking Melissa with Milton Walker | Oct 27, 2025
YouTube video by Television Jamaica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7YMtoTrP1c
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)
16 days ago
ICE is tear gassing schools
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ECIU
16 days ago
Is Shell to blame for a âsuper typhoonâ? Philippines survivors to sue oil giant in legal first Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021.
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Manny Ramos
18 days ago
Federal agencies paid $1.5 million to a local nonlethal weapons manufacturer in Chicago for air-powered guns and pepper balls. It also paid $7.3 million to a downtown real estate company to relocate ICE agents leading up to Operation Midway Blitz.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/23/c...
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Chicago-Area Companies Raked In Millions From Feds As Operation Midway Blitz Intensified
One Chicago-based company was awarded more than $7 million to relocate ICE employees while a suburban weapons manufacturer was paid nearly $1.5 million in two weeks to supply pepper balls and air-powe...
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/23/chicago-area-companies-raked-in-millions-from-feds-as-operation-midway-blitz-intensified/
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New York Review of Architecture
17 days ago
About time New York had a Review.
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Financial Times
17 days ago
Just in: Florida-based Unusual Machines, a little-known drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr, said the US army had contracted it to manufacture 3,500 drone motors, alongside various other drone parts.
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Emanuel Maiberg
17 days ago
Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of âSynthetic Influencersâ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
https://www.404media.co/a16z-backed-startup-sells-thousands-of-synthetic-influencers-to-manipulate-social-media-as-a-service/
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Inkstick Media
17 days ago
Thousands of Boeing union members have been on strike since Aug. 4, and many have had to second jobs and food pantries to get by. By:
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inkstickmedia.com/the-boeing-s...
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Grist
24 days ago
An absurdist theater artist prepares New Yorkers for climate disasters. "Sometimes a one-page pamphlet translated into two languages isnât the best way for people to receive information, but a song about go-bags played on the synth is."
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#Art
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An absurdist theater artist prepares New Yorkers for climate disasters
Sometimes a pamphlet translated into two languages isnât the best way to reach people but a song about go-bags played on the synth is.
https://grist.org/culture/an-absurdist-theatre-artist-prepares-new-yorkers-for-climate-disasters/
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Grist
18 days ago
Why one of the worldâs greenest countries is betting its future on oil. The rainforest nation of Suriname says it can build an oil industry without harming the planet. Is it climate pragmatism â or wishful thinking?
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Why one of the worldâs greenest countries is betting its future on oil
Suriname says it can build an oil industry without harming the planet. Is it climate pragmatism â or wishful thinking?
https://grist.org/international/suriname-offshore-oil-energy-transition/
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ryan cooper
18 days ago
"Building inspectors, yes. And safety inspectors. Is the water in the ICE office clean? Cut it off, to test it. Fire drills. Tickets on their parked cars. Brake light violations. Health inspections. Sidewalk construction. Street closures. More fire drills. More fire drills!"
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ICE vs. NYC
The feds will not have a good time here.
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
24 days ago
âGaza is covered with an estimated 61 million tons of rubble, much of which contains asbestos, unexploded munitions, and unburied human remains. âThe environmental situation in Gaza before October 7 was a disaster,â said Tareq Abuhamed, who leads the Arava Institute and is Palestinian.â
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From genocide to ecocide: After years of war, Gaza faces an environmental crisis âabove imaginationâ
A new report by scientists in Israel details the emerging environmental crisis in Palestine.
https://grist.org/international/from-genocide-to-ecocide-after-years-of-war-gaza-faces-an-environmental-crisis-above-imagination/?fbclid=PARlRTSANfQcJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp_xsr8TWAwqyg8YYdXIvyTLDzlX0D_bPGMxJV_h5oH91RnFBVqkm8aRqdURK_aem_6TfG4LHW5HUYa6w5LO5kEw
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Mother Jones
19 days ago
Poisoned soil, contaminated water, rubble, unburied human remains: a new report details the warâs horrific consequences.
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Devastated by Israel, Gaza faces an environmental crisis "above imagination"
Poisoned soil, contaminated water, rubble, unburied human remains: a new report details the war's horrific consequences.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/devastated-israel-gaza-ecocide-environmental-crisis-un-report/
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Allegra Kirkland
19 days ago
At least 5 federal agencies were involved in a massive immigration raid on Canal Street on Tuesday
@jumaane.bsky.social
: "I think this simple-minded president is, at some point, going to flood our streets with federal agents and that should concern everybody.â
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...
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Federal Agents Detain Mix of Protesters and Migrants in Massive Manhattan Sweep
NEW YORK â At least five federal agencies were involved in a...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal-agents-detain-mix-of-protesters-and-migrants-in-massive-manhattan-sweep
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Hunter Walker
19 days ago
DHS confirmed *five federal law enforcement agencies* were involved in the Canal Street raid. They have not confirmed the number of people who were arrested and detained.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...
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Federal Agents Detain Mix of Protesters and Migrants in Massive Manhattan Sweep
NEW YORK â At least five federal agencies were involved in a...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal-agents-detain-mix-of-protesters-and-migrants-in-massive-manhattan-sweep
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Prof Bill McGuire
20 days ago
This is the problem - renewables not replacing fossil fuels but complementing them We need emissions to at least halve within 50 months, but they continue to head upwards Our prospects are truly dismal
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global use of coal hit record high in 2024
Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite âexponentialâ growth of renewables
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/global-use-of-coal-hit-record-high-in-2024
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hannah gais
22 days ago
Savanah was one of a dozen propagandists who participated in Trumpâs anti-antifascist round table, where they called for antifascists to be labeled terrorists on par with ISIS. Here she is running away from a bunch of older protesters. In the replies, someone tells her to âstay safe.â
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Gwynne Hogan
20 days ago
Federal agents many in masks at Broadway and Canal moments ago questioning a man, a bunch more agents just walked away. "Can i call my mom," the man asks, he's now being loaded into a car and being driven away. More TK
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Judd Legum
22 days ago
1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information. Records reveal ICE has increased spending on âsmall arms" â a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives â by 700% compared to 2024 levels
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Emissary Of Night | ÙÙÙÙ
24 days ago
No Kings tomorrow in my East Texas city is cosponsored by SJP and the County Democrats
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Nicholas Slayton
24 days ago
Everything is the St. Louis Gun Couple and American Shigalyovism, example 2418
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Akshat Rathi
24 days ago
BREAKING: The US and Saudi Arabia have succeeded getting a majority of countries to postpone the decision to adopt a carbon charge on pollution by one year.
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evy kwong
24 days ago
in this thread of guides we have: - protest guides against government surveillance - what a faraday pouch does - best VPNs to protecting your privacy online - background on âno kingsâ organizers - what tools the trump administration is deploying to surveil protesters and his âenemiesâ - and more
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Rachel de Leon
28 days ago
Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police sheâd been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse. Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.
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