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Kash Patel wants to weaponize the FBI against journalists, government officials, nonprofit organizations and ordinary Americans. The Senate will vote on Patel’s nomination for FBI director on Tuesday. Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or email: act.indivisible.org/sign/demand-...

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Wage-Price Freeze vs Higher Interest Rates to Control Inflation youtu.be/tiMZCgpXuO4?...

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"Every crime you can think of is exponentially easier because of crypto." youtu.be/U3cRv42xT1k?...

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Enormous Heist from U.S. Taxpayers Chris Hayes MSNBC - "audacious scheme" by Senate Rs to buy $100+ billion in U.S. gold reserves with bitcoin ... huge bailout to crypto world ... turn a speculative asset into real cash on your dime via David Sacks, DJT's Crypto Czar youtu.be/qWANiC28M8o?....

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Is everyone following @jessicadenson07.bsky.social ? Finally, someone is addressing mine and many others' concerns. She is not afraid to share her views. Please repost.

submitted 107 days ago • 12 comments

Thanks for the shout-out, Neil Young! m.neilyoungarchives.com/news/2

submitted 107 days ago • 52 comments

Inspiring Story of Pat Brown, the Impossible and His Quest to Save Our Climate & Biodiversity public.3.basecamp.com/p/DbSTbLv2cf...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

There are many versions of this image out there. The good ones illustrate why “better cars” will never be more than part of the answer, and actually help “lock in” the #CarDependency that’s the REAL problem. They also do a good job showing why status-quo interests want to focus on the vehicles.

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and car-free/light neighborhoods with passivhaus + mass timber social housing. this is my election platform

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Overall, the global food system does more damage to the planet than anything else we do, even burning fossil fuels. drawdown.org/insights/how...

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Their spoken values were [about family], but their out-of-pocket values were something else. So I think the role of the mayor of the city is ... figure out ... how to communicate something. ... once informed, people make good choices. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/26/h...

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We know that climate change — the problem — will hurt the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people the most. But did you know that climate solutions might help lift people out poverty altogether? Read more: drawdown.org/publications...

submitted 119 days ago • 7 comments

Governor Gavin Newsom on preparing for the authoritarianism of the Trump administration. #Trump. #GOP #authoritarianism youtu.be/v1tykijDI7g?...

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

Federal employee salaries make up 4% of the budget

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100%. It's a simple, elegant plan for Elon and his cronies: Step 1: gut the federal workforce Step 2: secure a zillion dollars in extra contracts to perform all the functions you just gutted at a massive markup

submitted 120 days ago • 81 comments

This place is too cozy, so let me be a little provocative: In the last 5 years or so, the climate movement had the opportunity to pivot away from No No No (fighting/blocking things) to Yes Yes Yes (supporting abundance, more RE, more housing, more building). But ...

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"The right has a genius strategy for developing their own social media bubble to ensure their messages get repeated!" "The left has taken leave of their senses by cloistering in their own social media bubble."

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Trump's Win, Crisis for Democrats Senator Chris Murphy youtu.be/j_5qZtKzdA8?...

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Trump pledging to claw back unspent funds from IRA, “getting money out the door is critical .. unspent money is at risk of not getting spent,” .. “If you make stuff in America, like solar panels, EVs & batteries, you have jobs here .. much harder to repeal.” www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...

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Chris Wright, Energy - " no climate crisis" Marco Rubio, State - questions if human activity is the cause Doug Burgum, Interior - downplays the role of fossil fuels Lee Zeldin, EPA - questions if climate change is a problem Pete Hegseth, Defense - climate change denier heated.world/p/trumps-ent...

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Food Costs & Taxes & Insurance Costs are all increasing due to worsening climate change. The costs of climate damage by 2050 are 6-fold higher than the cost of mitigating climate change to 2 deg C of global warming. youtu.be/2i0XJDNQ3GM?...

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"the debacle of the 2024 election is that big corporations .. have shafted working Americans .. Democrats have offered no .. agenda for remedying it. Trump's baseless explanation [immigrants, 'deep state', transgender kids] .. are the only ones available. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Our latest Drilled investigation shows that every time scientists and global leaders move to act on #climate, industry mobilizes to thwart progress. No one can possibly argue in good faith that they need to be at #COP29 or future COPs (petrostates included) drilled.media/news/IPIECA1

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My first goal is to stay sane. My second goal is to try and help protect democratic norms and institutions. I will try and save my outrage for things I think can’t be undone, for attacks on the structural integrity of the institutions and not trumps aesthetics.

submitted 122 days ago • 124 comments

'compared to even electric vans' and that's before taking into account the embodied carbon savings of e-bikes over electric vans (another 10-20 tons CO2), plus the co-benefits: healthier workers, better air quality, less road noise, safer streets, etc.

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Remember, whenever you hear that “speed wasn’t a factor” in a deadly crash, what they mean is that the car involved wasn’t technically speeding. At least not by much. It presumes that the speed limit wasn’t too high to begin with. When it comes to death from collisions, SPEED IS ALWAYS a factor.

submitted 122 days ago • 5 comments

this is great. ecococon's prefabricated passivhaus-certified exterior straw wall panels sequester carbon at a rate of ~100kg/sq.m. so a 5-story twinned point access block 30-plex can easily sequester 50-60 tons of CO2 just in the facade.

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Democratic governors are taking action to protect their states’ progressive policies from Trump. Check out our new toolkit to see how the 17 states with Democratic trifectas can prepare for Trump 2.0: indivisible.org/resource/democrats-safeguarding-democracy-blueprint-blue-states-prepare-trump-20

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"Cui's group recently released an analysis showing that if most major economies ramp up climate ambition in the next few years and achieve the goal of hitting net-zero emissions by 2050, it is still possible to keep global temperature rise to 1.7 or 1.8 C." www.kuow.org/stories/coun...

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The gov't of Denmark has reached a landmark agreement among parties that will dramatically reduce the use of nitrogen in fertilizer, take a bunch of land out of agricultural production, & plant 250K hectares of new forest. Transformational. cphpost.dk/2024-11-18/n...

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this is what a climate forward transportation plan would have included there are 60% more cars on seattle roads today. we will not EV our way to climate adaptation. 'faster, fairer, more local' hidalgo is the most incredible climate mayor www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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