Dan Stormont
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Computer engineer and game designer with a passion for computational sustainability.
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CREW
3 days ago
Donald Trump cannot get away with suing the IRS for $10 billion and then settling with a DOJ *he* oversees for a $1.7 billion slush fund dedicated to granting his allies payouts. This is absolutely unconstitutional and unethical.
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Trump poised to drop IRS suit, launch $1.7B 'weaponization' fund for allies: Sources
President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion IRS suit in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund for victims of governmental "weaponization," sources say.
https://abcnews.com/US/trump-poised-drop-irs-suit-launch-17b-weaponization/story?id=132962661
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Christopher Webb
2 days ago
The Supreme Court weaponized the Voting Rights Act against the very people it was written to protect. âDestroying Black representation in the South.â Jim Crow 3.0
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Michael E. Mann
2 days ago
What version of hell is this where the National Academy of Sciences is being lectured by Lauren Boebert about what constitutes âgold standardâ practices?
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
2 days ago
Oh. My. God. This is despicable.
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David Roberts
2 days ago
Cool that we've basically decided that this one rich asshole can just break the law whenever he wants.
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Elon Muskâs xAI adds more unpermitted gas generators for data centers
Mississippi residents want relief from the air and noise pollution caused by 46 'temporary' generators â and the 41 permanent ones the state just approved.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/data-centers/elon-musk-xai-unpermitted-generators
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Drew Harwell
2 days ago
The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road
www.wsj.com/business/boe...
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Boeing, Toyota Donated $1 Million Each to Transportation Secretaryâs Road-Trip Show
A video series will feature Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and his family on a road trip to mark Americaâs 250th birthday and promote tourism.
https://www.wsj.com/business/boeing-toyota-donated-1-million-each-to-transportation-secretarys-road-trip-show-bccbe412?mod=e2tw
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David Roberts
2 days ago
Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.
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The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace
A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 â 10 times the amount added just four years prior.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/world-installing-grid-batteries
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
COLLINS: What about Trump's promise in 2024 that if he was reelected, gas would be under $2 a gallon? JIM JORDAN: Well, gas prices were coming down until we had to deal with this situation. But that's life.
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Marc Elias
6 days ago
đšBREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this yearâs congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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SCOTUS greenlights 11th-hour Alabama redistricting plan for 2026 election
The order means that Alabama will discard its court-ordered congressional map for the 2026 primary elections and use a 2023 map that courts previously struck down as a violation under Section 2 of the...
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/scotus-greenlights-11th-hour-alabama-redistricting-plan-for-2026-election/
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Project Drawdown
10 days ago
20-30% of global emissions come from food, agriculture, and land use sectors as well as indirect emissions. Reshaping our food system means targeted solutions: better fertilizer in India, rice farming in SE Asia, forest protection in Brazil, diet shifts in the US. đ
drawdown.org/food-and-climate
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Mark Gongloff
10 days ago
US wildfires have *doubled* the previous record for this time of year. We've already burned more land than in many full years this century
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This is so good! (And hits far too close to home.)
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Emily Atkin
10 days ago
A Super El Niño is approaching, potentially the strongest El Niño weâve seen in a century, and Trump is proposing to cut weather agency NOAA by 26 percent to save money for taxpayers Meanwhile the amount itâs proposing to cut from NOAA is equivalent to 1.3 days of taxpayer spending on the Iran war
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Trumpâs NOAA cuts would save less than a day and a half of Iran War spending
There's always money for war. But when it comes to protecting people from climate disasters, suddenly we're told the cupboard is bare.
https://heated.world/p/as-super-el-nino-approaches-trump
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Jonathan Cohn
10 days ago
I donât know how you can watch what is happening across the country and think âDo you know what MA needs? MAGA voters to get a say in which Democrats get elected.â
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Indivisible Tucson Action Alliance
10 days ago
Thank you Rep. Kevin Volk for making public how all Republicans in the AZ State Legislature targeted southern Arizona for cuts in the budgets, especially Pima County.
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Iris van Rooij đ
10 days ago
You can still support our message and sign the Open Letter "Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academiaâ Sign here:
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Iris van Rooij đ
10 days ago
âWe are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.â
www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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âOpposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessaryâ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm â including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/opposing-the-inevitability-of-ai-at-universities-is-possible-and-necessary
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It should come as a surprise to no one that education spending does not necessarily correlate to outcomes. One thing for sure: Arizona is dead last no matter how you look at it.
www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-state...
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Ranked: The States Getting More From Education Dollars
Florida and other Southern states punch above their weightâdelivering strong results with far less funding.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-states-getting-more-from-education-dollars/
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Tory Stephens
10 days ago
We at
@grist.org
just dropped a new Imagine 2200 short story. "The Forty-Seven Vacant Floors of Ur" by T.K. Rex It's about tech collapse, displacement, and what quietly assembles in the space that's left.
grist.org/climate-fict...
#Climate
#Fiction
#SolarPunk
#ClimateFiction
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Forty-Seven Vacant Floors of Ur
Climate fiction: On the empty 47th floor, the third-to-last user experience writer in Silicon Valley makes a decision.
https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-forty-seven-vacant-floors-of-ur/
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Aaron Rupar
13 days ago
Trump is crazyposting at 3pm
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
14 days ago
And now Republicans are working overtime to erase black members of Congress. Take a history lesson about how the Republican party became the party of Jim Crow and then join us in the real world, Rafael.
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Mueller, She Wrote
16 days ago
FYI: If you have an active Naval blockade, there's not a ceasefire. So even if you claim a ceasefire pauses the War Powers Resolution 60-day clock, there's not a ceasefire right now.
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Jenny Cohn
16 days ago
â[A]n audience member wondered whether partnering w/ âjurisdictions that haveâŠarguably even higher status, like federally recognized tribes,â might present a workaround [to enable ânetwork statesâ]. [Joe] Lonsdale agreed. He had just spoken with someone from the Chickasaw ÂNation.â (2025) 1/
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Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation
And hope to gobble up some land near you.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/tech-crypto-native-american-musk-balaji-network-state/
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I wonder how many guesses he got?
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Greg Sargent
16 days ago
Many liberals had long hoped for deescalation, because gerrymandering is bad. But watching Rs openly vow to seize on SCOTUS ruling to maximally gerrymander makes it clear those hopes are dead. The option of deescalation is always there, but it must be mutual.
newrepublic.com/article/2098...
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Try getting your money out of that one later! Maybe it pays out in Trump bucks.
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Dr. Jeff Masters
19 days ago
Climate Central has documented 5 U.S. billion-dollar disasters so far in 2026, with 2 more under investigation. I expect the current severe weather outbreak will add to the list.
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Zack Labe
19 days ago
đ New data release today! Check out the latest state-by-state tools for tracking U.S. billion-dollar disasters, as well as disaster and risk mapping! 2026 already has 5 events tallied so far this year ($12.4 billion). Explore the data with
@climatecentral.org
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www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
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George Takei
19 days ago
Iâll take that bet, Lindsey.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
19 days ago
People always wonder how we live in a country that could elect a dishonest conman like Donald Trump. I don't.
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Erectile dysfunction, male pattern baldness, halitosis - anything can be solved with a ballroom!
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A Ballroom Would Have Solved This
Many historical disasters would have been prevented if we had one of these in the White House.
https://share.google/K7u4m6IoP6T5Nxjgg
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Jana Segal-Stormont
20 days ago
Tucson! APRIL 29TH AUCTION PROTEST Protest the auction of 160 acres of State Trust Land requested by Hudbay Minerals. Hudbay wants to use this land as a dump for its toxic mine waste called tailings. Wednesday, April 29th at 10am Details here:
desktopactivisttucson.blogspot.com/2026/04/prot...
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Protest the auction of 160 acres of State Trust Land requested by Hudbay Minerals.
APRIL 29TH AUCTION PROTEST Protest the auction of 160 acres of State Trust Land requested by Hudbay Minerals. Hudbay wants to use this land ...
https://desktopactivisttucson.blogspot.com/2026/04/protest-auction-of-160-acres-of-state.html
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Jana Segal-Stormont
19 days ago
Rainwater Harvesting & Keep Cool With Storm to Shade Enjoy recording of the Sustainable Tucson Water Committee February meeting where Dan Stormont presented on rainwater harvesting and why it is important in Tucson and Xochitl Coronado-Vargas presented about Tucson Water's Storm to Shade program.
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Rainwater Harvesting and Keep Cool With Storm to Shade
YouTube video by Sustainable Tucson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU0a-7EUr7M&t=8s
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Helen Carmichael - Game Dev
20 days ago
Announcement: đ» We created a Steam Festival of over 150
#FakeOS
games đČ InterfaceX26 is live on Steam! Enjoy discounts, game announcements and a fantastic showcase event with some of your fave streamers! Please check it out, đ+ đ
store.steampowered.com/sale/Interfa...
#indiedev
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InterfaceX26
Celebrating Fake OS games: Interface Sims, Desktop/Phone Sims, Found Device games and more. 150+ games in a week-long Steam sale and a live showcase.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/InterfaceX26
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Dr. Damien P. Williams can't think of a fun display name right n
20 days ago
Ah shit, Gerry Conway died. He created the punisher & was very outspoken in saying "if you're a cop who wears a punisher logo, frank castle fucking HATES you." He said the punisher only existed because of a fatally flawed system, & so those most harmed by that system have more claim to the symbol:
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How do you stop the far-right using the Punisher skull? Make it a Black Lives Matter symbol
Gerry Conway, co-creator of the popular Marvel outlaw, has been appalled to see his iconography appropriated by white supremacists - and aims to turn the tables
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/11/how-do-you-stop-the-far-right-using-the-punisher-skull-make-it-a-black-lives-matter-symbol
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jack
20 days ago
hard at work on the game. here's something from last month: my old pathfinding stuff wasn't quite cutting it, so I caved and refactored my old A* pathfinding from a grid-based system to a fairly standard navmesh system
#gamedev
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Jonathan Cohn
20 days ago
John Fetterman is now pro-funding Trump's ballroom, continuing his descent into an old man brain-poisoned by Fox News.
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Typical logic from this regime: we need to build this 999 person ballroom to have a safe venue for the 2500 person WHCD. I'm sure this also means Trump will never do another rally, right?
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DoJ pressures group to drop lawsuit against Trumpâs ballroom after gala shooting
Trump officials use incident at correspondentsâ dinner to pitch case for $400m project, arguing it will be âsafe spaceâ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/27/doj-trump-ballroom-gala-security?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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27 days ago
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Robert Reich
27 days ago
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trumpâs inauguration. He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions). Apple donated to Trumpâs White House ballroom. And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ. Remember this.
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Urban Truth Collective
27 days ago
How come they keep spelling âopenâ wrong? Does that street look closed to you? Only if youâre a car⊠and presumably thatâs the real problem.
#UrbanTruth
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Urban Truth Collective
28 days ago
âThe infamous Koch brothers have bankrolled climate deniers, propped up polluting industries, and even tried to turn the black community pro-fossil fuel. But, as a recent New York Times story shows, the billionaire conservatives have been steadily exerting pressure against public transit as well.â
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The Koch brothers hate public transit. But they canât always stop projects in their tracks.
The Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity has been fighting public transit across the country for years. Here's where they've succeeded and failed.
https://grist.org/article/the-koch-brothers-hate-public-transit-but-they-cant-always-stop-projects-in-their-tracks/
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Ned Resnikoff
27 days ago
Once again need to remind everyone that the supposedly crime-infested hellhole of New York is one of the safest cities in the country in no small part because most people in the central area donât drive. America has a much bigger car problem than a violent crime problem.
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jamelle
29 days ago
it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trumpâs moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html
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Mark Gongloff
29 days ago
SCOTUS in its current configuration isnât just bad for democracy, itâs actively working against a livable environment
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News Eye
29 days ago
UPDATE, Saturday: The Strait of Schrödinger remains open and closed, safe and dangerous, insurable and uninsurable, blockaded and free. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
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The AZ International Film Festival has started!
30 days ago
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30 days ago
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Jana Segal-Stormont
about 1 month ago
Register for Santa Cruz River Research Days. This FREE event shares progress & info among researchers & all who love the river. In-person and virtual event & field trip Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan turns 25 Conservation & Restoration in San Rafael Valley Hike the Borderlands Wildlife Preserve
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