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It took me longer than I hoped to finish but I'm really happy about the outcome: My big picture piece about Musk and Trump visiting Fort Knox. The headline tells you what you need to know but its also a very accurate summary of every step of my argument www.crisesnotes.com/a-scam-built...

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I spent some time reading Elon’s tweets this morning (one of my least favorite activities) and it’s hard to overstate how much he and his allies have constructed an alternate reality for their audience to believe in. In their world, Elon is a superhero fighting government fraud, like fanfiction

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Introducing a new type of Notes on the Crises piece: the Off Topic one. This will be kept to weekends. First up is a very personal topic, my Aunt Frieda Tankus who was Co-Founding Vice President of Disabled in Action with her childhood best friend Judy Heumann www.crisesnotes.com/my-aunt-frie...

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This is so incredibly relieving. I think i am not even doing a saturday piece. (Will get into why i have more confidence in this than i did in court injunctions on tuesday monday)

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I’m working on updates the Capitol Riot Map—an interactive visualization of the more than 1,500 individuals connected to January 6th. I’ve spent more than 3-years and devoted hundreds of hours to this project, and there’s still more work to be done. Details on how to support this project below👇🏼

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Advanced a theory: The Hawk Tuah memecoin rug pull is the apotheosis of Bag Culture defector.com/the-hawk-tua...

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"Just by democratizing the payment system—something that we did out of the mainstream or the media's radar—we were able to make major changes."

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More bad news for the Muskrat. This is going to be a huge hit to his already ruined social media site. I love this for him.

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"the American New Deal used large-scale public employment and public arts initiatives that directly connected millions of people with financial opportunities, meaningful roles in which to provide care for their neighbors and communities, and a sense of shared purpose..." jacobin.com/2024/10/deat...

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It's true that bluesky isn't great for news and commentary about Palestine. Maybe it will get better, maybe it won't. But we have to keep trying because it's crucial to talk about Palestine precisely where it feels unwelcome.

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BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

submitted 92 days ago • 216 comments

Ever wanted to see the world through someone else’s eyes?

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Keep an eye out for duplicate efforts in other red states. This is really dangerous folks!Though couched as combatting mistrust, this is aimed at identifying democratic voters (by name) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/u...

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My 2022 paper on hydrogen for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. It's neither an easy nor an uplifting read. "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

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this is contemptible www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

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Repugnant. This column. This paper. This logic. They’re not slick. But they also don’t think they need to be.

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Flashback post.

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My latest on our collective climate delusions in The Saturday Paper. In the words of Seinfeld’s George Costanza: “It’s not a lie if you believe it.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

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This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

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Okay so so far we have starter packs for Lebanon bsky.app/starter-pack... Palestine bsky.app/starter-pack... via @danaelkurd.bsky.social Egypt bsky.app/starter-pack... via @maitelsadany.bsky.social

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Don't stop talking about Gaza!

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Ready for another round of “is it the 70s or is it the 30s”

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Marx on Elon Musk From x.com/philosophycuck www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

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Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome! We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:

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I’ve trained so many wonderful students in data methods If you are one of them and are looking to make change check out this thread

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The Guardian will not longer be sharing its articles on X: www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

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Israel has killed 1 out of every 55 people in Gaza.

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I meant to do this ages ago but finally got around to it - this is a 'getting started on climate bluesky' doc that gathers up basic intro stuff, climate starter packs and climate feeds Please reply with everything I've forgotten (which is a lot), I had to smash this out quickly last night!

submitted 112 days ago • 65 comments

What is the difference between weather and climate. This #dataviz shows the "Central England" average temperature for periods ranging from 1 day (weather) to 30 years (climate). This shows the climate signal emerging. Note the varying y axis that covers the range of the data.

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Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay

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Radical Tim Walz destroyed Minnesota by implementing the agenda of infamous communist... [checks notes] Herbert Hoover. 🗃️

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