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A new project for the new year - sharing a favorite podcast episode from a year ago, monthly. Up first, January 2025: 99% invisible on the development and evolution of the Tennessee Valley Authority
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Valley So Low
https://pca.st/episode/b7ec9899-863a-4084-b667-7130cb424228
4 months ago
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2 Kings 6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
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2 days ago
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Sean Casten
3 days ago
So there's a really important debate on civil liberties and national security going on on the House floor right now. It is shameful that it's taking place at this late hour of the night / morning. But I'm going to at least do something productive & try to explain here:
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Scott Brown
5 days ago
The Crimson continuing to break stories the Times could only wish it landed.
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Marisa Kabas
6 days ago
NEWâI got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usaid-abortions-barney-nicholas-enrich-into-the-wood-chipper-book-exclusive
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TGI Tuesday
12 days ago
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For the car shopper in your life
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15 days ago
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
21 days ago
I know Iâm a broken record on this but: A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administrationâs effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.
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Taniel
22 days ago
An abortion ban survived at the North Dakota supreme court last year: 3 of 5 justices voted to strike it down, but it would have taken 4. One of the two justices who voted to uphold the ban (Jerod Tufte) is up for reelection this year; no one has filed to challenge him yet, with 9 days to go.
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Sooo, got that wildly misrepresenting "Justice for Democracy PAC" mailer... Bad enough to sue over?
24 days ago
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jamelle
25 days ago
this goes for so much of the right wing ecosystem. the same guys who scream âDEI hireâ would sink to the ocean if they werenât kept afloat by their far right sugar daddies
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Some guys impersonating police officers from a restricted number wasted an embarrassing amount of my time.
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30 days ago
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Adam Rose
about 1 month ago
At CBS News Radio, my dad interviewed the Beatles at peak of Beatlemania, Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, Gene Autry, Marlene Dietrich, Jack Benny... and he was just one random reporter living the dream! Hard to fathom the role CBS News Radio played in building the America these people are tearing down.
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Capital Weather Gang
about 1 month ago
Welcome SPRING, officially.... We declared winter over yesterday, and spring officially arrives right now (at 10:46 a.m.) with the vernal equinox. At this moment, the sun is positioned directly over the equator, bringing roughly equal day and night across much of the globe.
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I know there are a few different reasons, but wow the Metro is eeeempty today.
about 1 month ago
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Well that was certainly a high speed car no headlights with siren in pursuit for a residential street at 2 am
about 1 month ago
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This discussion starts to answer questions I've long had about how it looks to manage (or not) fossil fuel infrastructure with falling utilization.
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about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
6/6 If youâre serious about climate solutions and what it takes to make them real in the world, I strongly recommend this major new work. Thank you, Nick, for once more explaining something essential to us all.
press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...
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The Growth Story of the 21st Century | LSE Press
<!-- CLOCKSS system has permission to ingest, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit --> <p style="color:red"><b>Read online or download for free</b></p> <p>The world stands at a crossroads. The next ...
https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.tgs
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SFH
about 2 months ago
Brava
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In Loving Memory â Braddock Road On-Street Parking (1932â2026)
https://elenah77.github.io/parking-obituary/
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Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy
about 2 months ago
Thank you, Ryan. We need so much more of this. ICE Employees: if you see something, say something.
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Tim Onion
about 2 months ago
Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.
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No cheating your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist. I win
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about 2 months ago
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After voting, snuck in one last brunch at Whiskey and Oyster before it closes in a week.
about 2 months ago
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Ryan Packer
2 months ago
Sitting here open-mouthed at this Sound Transit board presentation, because it was just explained that making Ballard Link's Seattle Center station "slightly trapezoidal" would save the agency a HALF BILLION DOLLARS.
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Susanna
2 months ago
At one point there was a sizable science communications community here. If youâre still around, hereâs a great undergraduate internship opportunity.
#science
#scicoms
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Communications ASPIRE Undergraduate Intern
Do you have a passion for storytelling, creative design, and digital engagement? The Communications Intern (Summer 2026) will contribute to building awareness of SRNL's mission to tackle the most crit...
https://ewvl.fa.us8.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/jobs/preview/1962/?keyword=Communications+ASPIRE+Undergraduate+Intern&mode=location
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Tim Onion
2 months ago
Front page of this monthâs edition of The Onion.
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Marisa Kabas
2 months ago
If you want to understand how far-reaching the corporate rot in media is, read this gutting piece about the fall of Oregon Public Broadcasting. (And follow
@ryanjhaas.bsky.social
and
@leahsottile.bsky.social
âs new publication
@thewesternedge.bsky.social
which will be amazing bc theyâre amazing)
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Arizona Right Watch
2 months ago
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf mustâve thought before he died by suicide: âHe might have thought âhow is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over thisâ maybe he said âthis site was not subject to local zoning.ââ
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 months ago
This
@bostonreview.bsky.social
piece by
@adambonica.bsky.social
and
@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.
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How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-not-to-defeat-authoritarianism/
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- Nanomechanics - Physical chemistry - Chemical physics - Acoustics - music theory
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3 months ago
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Avery Trufelman
3 months ago
I couldn't focus on any of my other work today and made this
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Clerical Collar
A dispatch from Minnesota
https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/clerical-collar
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Musicology Duck
3 months ago
overheard people talking about having to collect data for this
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Trump administration targets 14 blue states, DC with federal funding review
Itâs the latest step in the administrationâs long-standing effort to choke off funding for states that have opposed the president.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/22/trump-administration-federal-funding-blue-states-00741440
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The Old Town
#ALX
Ross closes for good tomorrow, after at least 43 years in that location.
3 months ago
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Life changing spaghetti in an Osaka Museum cafe
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3 months ago
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Adam Rose
3 months ago
My colleagues at
@pressfreedomtracker.us
are investigating and writing up as events unfold, so expect more reporting on MN incidents at this link. It already has three from November:
pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...
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Incident Database
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is a database of press freedom incidents in the United States â everything from arrests of journalists and the seizure of their equipment to interrogations at the U.S. b...
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/?state=27
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Costa Samaras
3 months ago
No kidding climate philanthropy should buy this newspaper
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Adam Rose
3 months ago
What are the best accounts to follow of people who are posting from on the ground physically in Minneapolis, Minnesota? I started a list but pretty sparse so far (mainly
@jcollins.bsky.social
who is doing a great job out there for
@mprnews.org
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German Embassy London
3 months ago
50 runaway sheep ram-paged through a German supermarket in rural Baa-varia, causing shear mania on Monday morning. After breaking away from their 500-strong herd, the brazen sheep spent 20 minutes milling around in the Penny supermarket before ewe-turning and seeing themselves out.
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A new project for the new year - sharing a favorite podcast episode from a year ago, monthly. Up first, January 2025: 99% invisible on the development and evolution of the Tennessee Valley Authority
pca.st/episode/b7ec...
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Valley So Low
https://pca.st/episode/b7ec9899-863a-4084-b667-7130cb424228
4 months ago
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2025 was a strange year, appropriate to end it with an impromptu living room dance party with my little one.
4 months ago
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Rick Carusoâs Private Fire Crew
4 months ago
I know one of you has to have a billionaireâs phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
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Damion Schubert
4 months ago
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
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Highly relevant to the Bluesky demographic - mementos scattered across so many formats and fragile storage media
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Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever
If you used a digital camera in the early 2000s, there's a good chance whole chapters of your life have been erased.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251212-why-your-early-2000s-photos-are-probably-lost-forever
4 months ago
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Still in pilot mode, but only $7k for solar plus storage and management in a literal backyard box.
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4 months ago
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Add Oliver Sacks to the long list of if it sounds too storybook to be true...
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4 months ago
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John Smillie
8 months ago
Okay, 3 days later, an incomplete list of Trump admin policy with direct connections to making electricity more expensive. 1. Passage of the OBBB, which stripped tax credits from wind and solar (wind, solar, batteries are now ~90% of the interconnection queue)
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
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Susanna
5 months ago
I know youâre probably being sarcastic, but this is exactly the attitude that kept me from pursuing a career in the arts for years. Now, in late middle age, I am finally doing what Iâm good at, and Iâm happier and more financially secure than I ever was working tech jobs.
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The indispensable and inevitable episode
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5 months ago
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Semafor
5 months ago
COP is 'drowning in stupid homework'
www.semafor.com/article/11/1...
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View: COP is âdrowning in stupid homeworkâ
Juan Carlos Monterrey GĂłmez is on a mission at COP30 to save the trees â specifically the untold numbers that are sacrificed for the production of UN reports that no one reads.
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/18/2025/cop-is-drowning-in-stupid-homework
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Ryan Belmore
5 months ago
This is an interesting read.
www.notus.org/perspectives...
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The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn't Endorse. I Read Them All.
Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America â and how it could be fixed.
https://www.notus.org/perspectives/the-washington-post-got-21-000-emails-after-it-didnt-endorse-i-read-them-all
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