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#GVerse #MustWatch: Pete Buttigieg just laid out the best case yet for the future of the Democratic party. This is incredible. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

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"If you're conservative, they want you to spend 20% of your income on a car. It's a waste of money, and deadly. 42K people die every year from traffic violence. Car dependency makes you unhealthy, depressed and anti-social. It turns you into a paranoid, aggressive, anxious misanthrope."

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Would be a shame if TACO Trump started trending.

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I can feel my hand cramping already. gizmodo.com/ai-cheating-...

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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Chinese HSR does Beijing-Shanghai – which is about the distance as NYC-Atlanta – in just over four hours, and gets six times the ridership of airlines. $1.8 billion in net profit last year. scmp.com/economy/chin...

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The GOP tax bill will significantly increase US carbon pollution over the next decade. In return, it will increase our dependence on foreign oil, blow up the deficit, raise interest rates, make the country’s energy supply more volatile, and weaken strategic industries: heatmap.news/politics/tru...

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A reminder that as Trump advances a bill to give himself a huge tax cut and f--k over working people, he's probably pocketed a billion dollars this week from illegally exploiting the Presidency. Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, slot - Trump is a walking embodiment of the 7 deadly sins.

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My thoughts on @davidjbier.bsky.social's excellent @cato.org study showing that most Alien Enemies Act deportees had no criminal record and many (perhaps majority) entered US legally: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

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A climate scandal? About DAC? All the usual characters (CDR opponents, engineering whiz’s, and misinformation specialists) jumped on board to wag their finger Except the reality is so much more boring. First of a kind facilities are hard. More from me here: heatmap.news/ideas/climew...

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The Chargers have done it again. Part 1

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The Commanders will make history by playing the first NFL game in Spain. They face the Dolphins (the designated home team) in Madrid on Nov. 16.

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This chart is incredible, have used it myself in the past. www.ft.com/content/f867...

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The tech bro billionaires got what they paid for

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This is flatly unconstitutional, but the SCOTUS says presidents are immune from prosecution so here we are.

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Ahhh, that time of year that Lake Michigan gives me free AC.

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In the first 3 months, the Trump family has become $3B wealthier. That’s $1B per month. Stop and think about that. A presidency lasts 48 months (at most, we hope). Trump has been enriching himself at a truly unprecedented scale since day one of his second term.

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Pope's intro youtube.com/shorts/xsIoq...

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CHICAGOAN POPE!!!! OUR WORLD CONQUEST CONTINUES APACE!

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Is anyone else's anxiety climbing with an upcoming trip? When they blame Biden for the next mishap, remember what they are doing.

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Tomorrow, a new tool to create mixed income affordable housing called “green social housing” is going before Council. It’s not going too far, I think, to say this is one of the most consequential things Council could do to support affordable housing—all over the city.

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Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto. Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

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If the danger these clowns are putting the US weren't so serious, this could actually be funny.

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Incredible corruption and ethics violations: Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says - CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

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Trump used a version of Signal (that prob violates license) created by an Israeli firm, with messages run through a server in Israel. Cool cool cool

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They're dismantling (what remains of) the social safety net and replacing it with a dragnet instead.

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New study from @worldresources.bsky.social on biomass has all kinds of interesting conclusions. Basically, biomass can make a modest contribution to decarbonization, but not through burning it. Burning biomass for energy is insane. www.wri.org/research/bio...

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www.wcvb.com/article/harv... Harvard Faculty pledges 10% of their salaries to help fight Trump.

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Today on Volts: I talk with @jbpritzker.bsky.social, the governor of Illinois, about standing up for climate progress in the age of Trump. We touch on industrial decarbonization, the "fiscal cliff" facing state transit agencies, lawsuits against the feds, and why Dem elites have been so timid.

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This will take some time to watch, but if you have the time, spend the time and watch it all. Pete Buttigieg alone with Jon Stewart makes for very entertaining, but informative time spent. Pete discusses what Dems need to do differently. One, moving on to the next generation. A good listen.

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WSJ: The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

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