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yes Vought meant he has tried harder than anyone else to kill FEMA
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Puget Sound waterspout!
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about 18 hours ago
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doesn't seem like Trump's unholy war is over does it
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Trump working hard to move Florida back into the Democratic column
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Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami charity of funding to house migrant kids
The move comes amid rising tensions between the administration and American Catholics.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article315410233.html
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The only part of the Vought testimony worth watching: "VOUGHT'S CUTS KILL PEOPLE"
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tune in now!
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I understand why right-wing evangelical Protestants engage in pope-bashing (the right-wing Protestant-Catholic alliance is only a temporary one to overthrow civic democracy) but it's structurally a bad move for right-wing Catholics
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I wonder if the nuclear accident guaranteed by Trump's wrecking of the NRC will happen while he's still on the throne
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we should probably only elect women but if we're going to elect guys I'd rather pick the ones who apologize about being assholes and idiots in their 20s than the ones trying to stay that way
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Brad Johnson
Ryan Goodman
1 day ago
Today, these Dems likely to hand Trump-Kash Patel FISA Section 702 power to access Americans' emails, texts, calls without a warrant
@meeks.house.gov
@jahimes.bsky.social
@adamsmith.house.gov
"undecided" While Trump admin appears poised to abuse such powers against bogus "antifa" affiliates.
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Zoom today with the filmmakers: The White House Effect explores how Bush 41 went from campaigning on addressing global warming during and in the wake of the then-record heat wave and drought of 1988, to heading an Administration that undermined the science.
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The White House Effect: In Conversation with the Film Makers and Climate Council Chair
Democrats Abroad strives to provide Americans abroad a Democratic voice in our government and elect Democratic candidates by mobilizing the overseas vote.
https://www.democratsabroad.org/secretary_dait/the_white_house_effect_in_conversation_with_the_film_makers_and_climate_council_chair
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Four of the five known emperor penguin breeding sites in the Bellingshausen Sea collapsed in 2022, with the loss of thousands of chicks. Another colony in the Weddell Sea collapsed in 2016. The current emperor penguin population has fallen by 10% between 2009 and 2018.
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Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction
Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice are having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/mass-drowning-of-chicks-puts-emperor-penguins-at-risk-of-extinction
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Neomi Rao and Justin Walker are part of Trump's coup against our Constitutional democracy
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Appeals Court Halts Contempt Inquiry Over Deportation Flights
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/14/us/trump-news#deportation-flights-trump-contempt
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Fiat iustitia, ne pereat mundus.
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Vought’s proposed budget consolidates the regime’s victories in implementing Project 2025 through the DOGE chainsaw in the pursuit of a Big Brutal Box vision of a landscape of warehouses for incarcerating people and fueling computing hyperclusters...
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The Week in Climate Hearings: Carbon Summer and Nuclear Winter
Take your -===
https://hillheat.news/p/the-week-in-climate-hearings-carbon-summer-and-nuclear-winter
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The staff of
@cleanh2oaction.bsky.social
is unionizing, here's a letter to CWA in support of voluntary recognition of the
@cleanwaterunion.bsky.social
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We Are The Clean Water Guild, support our voluntary recognition campaign!
Since our founding in 1972, Clean Water Action has grown tremendously thanks to incredible grassroots support and progressive messaging. Born from the influential environmental movement of the 1970s, ...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/we-are-the-clean-water-guild-support-our-voluntary-recognition-campaign
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Chris Wright takes the stage on the Hill this week I have no idea why the preview says "Take your -==="
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The Week in Climate Hearings: Carbon Summer and Nuclear Winter
Take your -===
https://hillheat.news/p/the-week-in-climate-hearings-carbon-summer-and-nuclear-winter
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lol Stephen Miller ain't planning to have them leave on Dec 31
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oops
@gluesenkampperez.house.gov
has joined the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge Wall of Shame: "Broke pledge by taking tens of thousands of dollars in oil money". To correct the record, she also took coal and fracked-gas money
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looks fun to me
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The Trump DOE budget is a real pick-your-own Torment Nexus of nuclear winter ($30 billion nuclear weapon budget), global burning (elimination of $20 billion in climate & clean energy funding and increase of $2 billion for fossil fuels), or grey goo ($1 billion for AI)
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DOE’s FY27 Budget Request: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Surprise! It’s a double album drop with the release of both the President’s Budget Request (PBR to us, not Pabst Blue Ribbon) and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Budget Justification for Fiscal Year ...
https://fas.org/publication/does-fy27-budget-request/
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lol the
@nature.org
"The president’s proposed budget falls short when it comes to investing in nature." The budget proposes to shoot Mother Nature and set fire to her corpse.
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President Trump's Proposed Budget Falls Short When It Comes to Investing in Nature
United States President Donald Trump released his administration’s proposed fiscal year 2027 budget. TNC released a statement in response to this news.
https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/fy27-presidents-budget/
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The popular uprising against the Big Brutal Box Era is just beginning
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Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal
Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259
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Blasphemous Jones ↙️
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"A well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio" (1/2) Source (video not split here):
old.reddit.com/r/interestin...
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We're really in the CACO phase of appropriations Congress Always Chickens Out
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The 'Nexus' Plot: Trump Has Seized Congress's 'Most Compleat and Effectual Weapon'
New memos claim the presidential power to use the Treasury at will.
https://hillheat.news/p/the-nexus-plot-trump-has-seized-congress-s-most-compleat-and-effectual-weapon
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who did it better AI eating the world:
@newyorker.com
and
@motherjones.com
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my unwillingness to say we lost the war is only motivated by my expectation that the war is far from over (we have only gotten to the q in quagmire)
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in case you want to know which US Senators are in the pocket of the AI industry, the trick is to check who is co-sponsoring the bills written by the industry S. 3269, The Liquid Cooling for AI Act, is co-sponsored by McCormick (R), Coons (D), Budd (R), and Schiff (D)
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3269/text
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what it's like to be in a room with war criminals.
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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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some things are worth fighting for
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Not doing a very good job at that either
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@aptshadow.bsky.social
have you read / done any explorations of A.R. Luria's research into how literacy changes the way people are capable of perceiving the world?
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Soviet Psychology: Psychology and Marxism Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/archive/luria/works/1979/mind/ch04.htm
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Oblong Knoblong
3 days ago
It's worth noting here that these aren't bombings. This is demolition The IDF are able to freely walk around here and rig these obviously residential properties with demolition explosives, so it's not like there's any threat at all to them This is, VERY clearly, the war crime of wanton destruction
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It's going to be blazing hot in DC this week...
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View from the secretary's seat of the
@ward1democrats.org
endorsement meeting
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Abundance agenda!
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Solidarity in action: Ezra Klein has now used his template "I admire other podcasting bros" essay for both Charlie Kirk and Hasan Piker now
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Plot twist: Trump is a
@greenpeace.org
sleeper agent
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The Ward 1 Dems endorsement meeting was an amazing event! It took the whole effort of the precinct representatives on Ward One Democratic Committee to manage check in and credentialing, ballot design, production and distribution, and counting... So much counting!!
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This is gonna be big!
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Yesterday former secretary of state John Kerry told Jen Psaki of The Briefing that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had urged presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and George W. Bush to strike Iran, and they all refused him. Only Trump was willing to go along.
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April 10, 2026
It feels like something shifted in the United States this week after President Donald J.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-10-2026
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Most people who only see her on TV don't know that Collins is a giantess
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I have to agree with Mike Johnson (R-La., no relation) here "The midterm election will be a contrast between common sense and crazy..."
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Brad Johnson
Tech Policy Press
about 2 months ago
From lithium mines in Nevada to salt flats in Chile to towns and cities across the US, the AI boom's resource demands link local communities to global supply chains—and the same fight for environmental justice, write Hannah Lipstein and Tamara Kneese.
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US Critical Mineral Aggression Abroad Connected to Data Center Fights at Home
We must phase out fossil fuels—not endlessly reshuffle environmental sacrifice zones around the planet, write Hannah Lipstein and Tamara Kneese.
https://buff.ly/5VmFN3j
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In a shocking twist, "Alligator Alcatraz" is a concentration camp
www.scrippsnews.com/politics/imm...
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Finally a politician who knows how to panda to the voters
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Amazing time last time catching up with
@triofrancos.bsky.social
and other climate and critical minerals nerds. There are good people in the world. Hold them close
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Boommm
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
7 days ago
Absolute banger from
@samforstag.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/reel/DW7Z2ym...
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