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The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the federal government can legally shut down TikTok in the U.S., delivering a stunning blow to the viral video app used by about half of Americans. www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...

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The European Commission has ordered Elon #Musk to fully disclose recent changes made to X's algorithm, stepping up an investigation into the platform's role in politics www.ft.com/content/a6dc...

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

submitted 37 days ago • 179 comments

Experts warn the evidence suggests that Russia was behind explosions at logistics depots in Europe last summer, which may have been a dry run in terror attacks on cargo flights to the US www.ft.com/content/b5f5...

submitted 38 days ago • 14 comments

Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire, according to multiple media outlets 👇 #Israel #Hamas #Gaza #Ceasefire

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

New data from a report I'm working on: The U.S. added a record amount of solar capacity in 2024. The country added 34 GW of utility-scale solar, which is 74% more than last year's record year.

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Nick Clegg replaced at Meta with a Republican www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

submitted 51 days ago • 49 comments

Didn't expect the defining image of 2025 to turn up quite so quickly.

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Russian gas has stopped flowing to Europe via Ukraine, closing off a route that’s operated for five decades www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #ONGT #Energysky #natgas #Ukraine #Russia

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Man creates toxic dump site: “Please plant flowers here.”

submitted 55 days ago • 247 comments

Kill and hide. Azerbaijani officials tell media that Russia hit flight J2-8243 with a missile and then jammed electronics and denied permission to land, steering the damaged plane into the Caspian Sea so that it would crash there and Russia’s role would never be discovered caliber.az/en/post/prel...

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NEW ODD LOTS: We talked to outgoing DOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm about Biden's legacy on energy, and what will endure in the next administration and beyond. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

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Santa, underrated climate hero: 1. Spreads anti-coal message to impressionable young hearts and minds 2. Flies on 100% carrot-powered sleigh 3. Works from home 364 days of the year

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How the defence tried to frame Gisèle Pelicot in court (from Sophie Smith's essay in @londonreview.bsky.social).

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Reuters Exclusive: Trump transition team to roll back Biden EV, emissions policies #USpol

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A few months agoTrump was threatening to send Zuckerberg to prison “for life” if he interfered in the election Now Zuckerberg is funding Trump This is how it works www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Austria has terminated its gas contract with Russia’s Gazprom. “Russia attempted to use energy as a weapon against us—but it failed. Gazprom violated its contractual obligations…which was originally set to run until 2040… Austria’s energy supply is secure. We will not be blackmailed by Russia.”

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Elon #Musk - already the world's richest person - is now worth $400 billion. His wealth has increased by 66% since #Trump's election victory www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Our faculty is offering 8 fully-funded PhD studentships to support Black British researchers across a range of research areas, including Geography. The deadline for applications is 28 February 2025.

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Oil prices rise as the market amid amid the toppling of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a move that weakens #Iran’s network in the region and lifts tensions near several oil producing countries #Energsky #Oil #WTI #OOTT #Syria #Iran

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NO ONE EXPECTS TO NEED A FOOD BANK, ESPECIALLY AT CHRISTMAS But with more than 16 million people now living in poverty in the UK - a staggering 24% of the UK population, @trusselluk.bsky.social urgently need our help to provide emergency food, support & hope to people this winter

submitted 76 days ago • 23 comments

Most Syrians don't remember anything before the Assads. 53 years. Hafez Assad took power via coups, and held it with brutal violence. His son Bashar continued that, even using chemical weapons on civilians. Hard to know what comes next, but good riddance to them, and good luck to the Syrian people.

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Regional officials suspect #Assad fled to either Russia, his regime’s longtime backer, or the UAE on.ft.com/49qP4Uo #Syria #AlAssad

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#Syria

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Syrian state TV is now broadcasting just a single, still image. It reads: “The great revolution has triumphed and the Assad regime has fallen.” History. #Syria 🇸🇾

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FT: French parliament topples Barnier #TomorrowsPapersToday

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🔴Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK The Reform Leader is joining forces with a US-based Christian legal group, which campaigns for abortion to be outlawed around the world, @mc00.bsky.social reports

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BREAKING #COP29 FINAL (?) TEXTS A new package of texts has been published as "draft decisions" – usually means final, but given all we've seen here, who knows – $300bn finance goal – "Baku to Belem roadmap to $1.3tn" – no stocktake progress tracking, just a 2yr chat www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/3

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The final #cop29 plenary has kicked off. Just 30 hours after the talks were due to finish. This is it, deal on new finance, or collapse.

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New McKinsey report finds that the O&G industry could cut its upstream emissions of methane in half with low- to zero-cost measures -- but it requires infrastructure beyond what any one company could build. www.mckinsey.com/industries/o...

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The multi-millionaire who bought farmland to avoid tax… And the man who decimated farming to progress his own career …are now the self-appointed saviours of farming On today’s pod we discuss how people have lost their damned minds. Listen on link below…

submitted 94 days ago • 205 comments

Just an incredible sentence to appear in a news story about the man who might be the next attorney general.

submitted 96 days ago • 763 comments

My head hurts.

submitted 97 days ago • 44 comments

If the election underscored anything about the internet, it was how far social media platforms had moved to the right. The change was an unintended consequence of a series of decisions made by some of the biggest social platforms nearly four years ago.

submitted 97 days ago • 74 comments