Russell Chisholm
@baristanomics.blog
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Coffee + climate cogitator. Holler to holler. Home in Appalachia.
https://linktr.ee/baristanomics
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This is the West Virginia Solidarity Fund and it is a beautiful thing to support and share.
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Donate to the WV Solidarity Fund supporting WV Solidarity Fund
Donate to the WV Solidarity Fund
https://wvsolidarityfund.betterworld.org/campaigns/donate-wv-solidarity-fund#campaign
about 1 month ago
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Just a full-throated boast about transferring wages from people who are already struggling to fossil fuel corporations and wealthy investors while murdering Iranian schoolchildren.
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why would salted caramel mocha latte drinkers do this
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Daniel Suitor
4 days ago
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
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Truthout
4 days ago
It has been more than a year since the tents and banners of 2024’s pro-Palestine student encampments came down. But dozens of faculty members, staff, and students nationwide are still navigating the backlash that followed, fighting continued campus repression.
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The Fight to Defend Pro-Palestine Speech on Campus Isn’t Over
Targeted for pro-Palestine speech, these academics are refusing to back down.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-fight-to-defend-pro-palestine-speech-on-campus-isnt-over/
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isaac
4 days ago
TPUSA is teaming up with Google and NextEra in both municipal and statewide races in Arizona, in part to control the future of a gigantic, publicly owned water and power utility, the Salt River Project. Note the coalition here. Masks are coming off at the utility and energy intersection.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
4 days ago
My family drives an electric car, but I don't feel especially smug about being protected from all the ways oil shocks will ripple through the global economy. For one I care about the people who still have to get to work and school and health care w/o electric cars.
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Alleen Brown
4 days ago
The U.S. war on Iran is good for plans to revive the Keystone XL pipeline, according to the CEO of South Bow (the new KXL owner) “Those realities are a great backdrop for us to provide maybe a solution.”
energynow.ca/2026/03/sout...
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South Bow Says US, Canada Policy Shift Boosts Prospects for Keystone XL Revival - Canadian Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events - EnergyNow
(Reuters) - The company behind a plan to revive the Keystone XL pipeline system to increase Canadian oil exports to the United States is hopeful a North American policy shift in favour of energy devel...
https://energynow.ca/2026/03/south-bow-says-us-canada-policy-shift-boosts-prospects-for-keystone-xl-revival/
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Floodlight
4 days ago
Along the Gulf Coast, shrimpers are losing their catch, wetlands are vanishing, and communities are choking on pollution as Trump’s second term supercharges the LNG boom. “For us, it’s about continuing to exist.”
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Trump-fueled LNG boom has fenceline Gulf Coast communities on edge
Residents cite pollution, loss of fishing and diminished tax revenue as liquefied natural gas production accelerates here, feeding demand from Europe and Asia
https://floodlightnews.org/trump-fueled-gas-boom-has-fenceline-gulf-coast-communities-on-edge/
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Ian Boudreau
5 days ago
People need to get over the idea that Karoline Leavitt is a source of actual information, someone asked her a question about ground troops, she didn't have an actual answer, so she made sounds that are statistically likely to sound tough and change the subject
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That isn't what she said and you should delete this.
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Parker Molloy
5 days ago
This is an irresponsible, misleading post that misrepresents what Leavitt said. There's enough awful stuff happening. Don't confuse people.
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Daniel Swain
8 days ago
Whew. All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.
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hell yeah
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7 days ago
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jae holzman
8 days ago
one google data center in virginia two million gallons of water per day information only released under court order & risk of contempt
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Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react
A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...
https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2026/02/26/google-data-center-water-estimates-go-public-residents-in-roanoke-and-botetourt-react/
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The firings should continue until morale improves. Sen. John Fetterman (PA.) Sen. Maggie Hassan (NH) Sen. Tim Kaine (VA) Sen. Andy Kim (NJ) Sen. Gary Peters (MI) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (NH) Sen. Elissa Slotkin (MI)
8 days ago
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Prisonculture
11 days ago
I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.
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Why are you asking me?
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11 days ago
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد
12 days ago
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:
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Maybe this is the war that finally brings safe, clean water to my West Virginia neighbors.
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andy™
13 days ago
“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me
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Heatmap News
15 days ago
Our latest Heatmap Pro poll found that support for data centers has plummeted. The massive computing warehouses are now 24 points underwater with voters, compared to 2 points above in September 2025. Here’s the full story from
@alexckaufman.bsky.social
for The Fight:
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
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Data Center Support Plummets in Latest Heatmap Pro Poll
The proportion of voters who strongly oppose development grew by nearly 50%.
https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/spotlight/data-center-support-plummets-poll
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"Veterans are politically powerful — though Trump often tries to reduce us to being used as political props, the country understands that breaking promises to those who served carries consequences." Notching a win for disability justice along the way. Phenomenal.
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15 days ago
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"An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct." 🔥🔥🔥 from the US District Court for the Southern District of West by God Virginia.
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https://www.wvsd.uscourts.gov/sites/wvsd/files/opinions/2_26-cv-00066_Goodwin2-19-26.pdf
16 days ago
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ApocalypticaNow
16 days ago
Got it in one guess. Click through to see if your guess is right too!
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Peter Steward Scholtes
17 days ago
With protesters calling for an eviction moratorium at Minneapolis City Hall this morning (to quote the banners): “We fought ICE to keep our neighbors here”; “now we’re fighting to keep ‘em in their homes.”
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Puff the Magic Hater
19 days ago
After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.
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“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis
“This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.
https://organizingmythoughts.org/we-belong-to-each-other-now-lessons-from-minneapolis/
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Marisa Kabas
18 days ago
more of this!!!
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Maine ICE observers sue, say agents threatened to add them to a database of domestic terrorists
Maine residents Elinor Hilton and Colleen Fagan say they were observing immigration officials when the agents started to record them.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/02/23/maine-ice-observers-sue-say-agents-threatened-to-add-them-to-a-database-of-domestic-terrorists-2/
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The Ryan Schwank revelations are damning but Teyana Gibson Brown was asked to relive this horror through her testimony. We owe it to her to hear every word and dismantle ICE and DHS until there's nothing left but the record of their atrocities.
www.c-span.org/clip/public-...
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https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/user-clip-teyana-gibson-brown-testimony/5194070
18 days ago
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Chris Geidner
18 days ago
NEW: Maine immigration observers sue over Trump administration "domestic terrorist watchlist" threats. The First Amendment lawsuit will seek class-action relief. Today, at Law Dork:
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Maine immigration observers sue over Trump admin "domestic terrorist watchlist" threats
The First Amendment lawsuit will seek class-action relief. Also: The Supreme Court will be hearing an important climate case next term. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/maine-immigration-observers-sue-over
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350 Triangle
19 days ago
“For the Corps to endorse unchecked expansion of methane pipelines while the wounds from repeat flooding due to climate chaos are still raw across our region is unconscionable and immoral.”
@powhr.org
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@baristanomics.blog
appvoices.org/2026/02/20/s...
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approves permit for SSEP pipeline
Yesterday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit for the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, an interstate pipeline proposed by Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC.
https://appvoices.org/2026/02/20/ssep-404-statement/
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One of the things I love about this is how snow plow operators are almost universally admired and appreciated.
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18 days ago
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Solving the people problem by making home energy bills so expensive nobody can afford to eat.
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20 days ago
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🧵This LA Times story (sorry, they don't offer gift links) sounded disturbingly familiar.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-02-17/ai-powered-campaign-may-have-killed-key-vote-on-air-quality
20 days ago
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WEATHER IS HAPPENING
20 days ago
CHARGE UR BATTERY PACKS
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Kyle Cheney
21 days ago
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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“We have lived for generations with big business coming in, taking the resources, using the people and leaving them with the effects of that — health, environmental and otherwise — and now we’re going to get more of the same.”
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21 days ago
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Public transportation, e-bikes, water filtration, GIS, GPS, weather radar, social media before shit bag billionaires ruined it for the rest of us.
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"This was Jackson's second trip to a coalfield rally. His appearance at the end of April drew 10,000 to 15,000 and had traffic into Wise backed up for miles." RIP.
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Jackson calls for better pay, benefits - UPI Archives
Workers in the 1990s will no longer accept government symbolism without good pay and benefits, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told more than 10,000 cheering members...
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/09/03/Jackson-calls-for-better-pay-benefits/6604620798400/
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28 days ago
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Ketan Joshi
28 days ago
New drone footage from
@floodlightnews.org
- the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>>
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Faine Greenwood
28 days ago
I wrote about MAGA’s war against normal American drone users - and how they’re trying to take control of the skies for themselves.
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The U.S. Is Launching a Regulatory Assault on Drone Users
New restrictions try to shield ICE from being watched from above.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/12/united-states-trump-drones-china/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=dW5pdGVkLXN0YXRlcy10cnVtcC1kcm9uZXMtY2hpbmE=&pid=PNI6oXabXq1ydw6
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Robinson Meyer
29 days ago
What we know (and still don’t know) about the Trump admin’s most significant attack ever on US climate law:
heatmap.news/climate/enda...
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What We Know About Trump’s Endangerment Finding Repeal
The administration has yet to publish formal documentation of its decision, leaving several big questions unanswered.
https://heatmap.news/climate/endangerment-finding
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Costa Samaras
about 1 month ago
Do you live in the United States and enjoy drinking water? Ask your elected representatives to ensure your drinking water utility is climate resilient. There's a good chance the utility faces climate risks and they are not doing much about it.
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Marisa Kabas
about 1 month ago
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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This is the West Virginia Solidarity Fund and it is a beautiful thing to support and share.
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Donate to the WV Solidarity Fund supporting WV Solidarity Fund
Donate to the WV Solidarity Fund
https://wvsolidarityfund.betterworld.org/campaigns/donate-wv-solidarity-fund#campaign
about 1 month ago
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That'll do, winter.
about 1 month ago
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Project Salt Box
about 1 month ago
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from
@actualkatherine.bsky.social
, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here:
tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
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Ken Ward Jr.
about 1 month ago
UPDATE from
@mtnstspotlight.bsky.social
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@erinbeck.bsky.social
on the federal judges in West Virginia rejecting Trump immigration crackdown:
mountainstatespotlight.org/2026/02/04/t...
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Third ICE detainee released in West Virginia by federal judge
U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston ordered the release of a third immigrant detained by ICE in West Virginia.
https://mountainstatespotlight.org/2026/02/04/third-ice-detainee-released/
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Taniel
about 1 month ago
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
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Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts
Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?
https://boltsmag.org/virginia-spanberger-quits-ice-program-287g/
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Ketan Joshi
about 1 month ago
When you build an unprecedented amount of renewable energy but it gets used to meet new data centre demand instead of replacing fossil fuels
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