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Here's your daily dose of climate fiction! Heirloom. by Joy Donnell In a haven city defined by scientific progress, one woman hides a gift from her ancestors that contains a key to the future. grist.org/climate-fict... #Climate #Fiction #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #Blacksky

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We’re definitely seeing a spike in Washington DC jobless claims:

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ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area: grist.org/accountabili...

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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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Big court win: judge rules Exxon, Shell, Chevron, BP and others must face claims by Puerto Rican towns in a RICO case alleging the companies engaged in a coordinated, decades-long deception campaign to conceal the true dangers of fossil fuel consumption. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

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Follow all these amazing journalists and storytellers in the climate space and help combat #climate #misinformation! #FollowFriday

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The Trump administration told Congress on Thursday that it believed President Trump had the constitutional power to summarily fire administrative law judges at will, despite a statute that protects such officials from being removed without a cause like misconduct.

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at some point if you're willing to admit that this salute mimicks another recent famous salute you might as well just say which historical salute both are mimicking. but apparently nobody wants to be the first to say "Nazi"

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I regret* to inform you that @propublica.org has updated our DOGE tracker again with a bunch more names: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do... *delight

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Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees. Thankfully, @propublica.org has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names just added to the list today.

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So a fossil fuel company that bought a CO₂ removal (CDR) startup for $1.1 billion plans to use the CO₂ captured from the atmosphere to get more oil out of the ground. It's…not great at all.

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I kept warning that sepsis wards are going to comeback as a thing and sadly I appear to be right. If you don’t know what sepsis wards are and why they went away, go look it up. There is a good documentary called “The Janes,” about what we are being forced back to.

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The people who feed America are going hungry. Climate change is escalating a national crisis, leaving farmworkers with empty plates and mounting costs. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Food #Hunger #Farms #Agriculture #Immigration

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“The Republican attorney general in Texas wants the NCAA to take its transgender policy a step further and require gender testing for athletes who compete in women’s sports. “ apnews.com/article/texa... #Trans #NCAA

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Republicans once embraced ‘green banks.’ Trump is trying to raid them. EPA chief Lee Zeldin has launched an attack on the agency’s $20 billion clean energy loan program. grist.org/politics/tru... #GreenBanks #Climate #Banking #Trump #EPA

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Here's your daily dose of climate fiction. Tangles in the Weave. by @katharinetyndall.bsky.social . The time for Ever’s metamorphosis has arrived. Read it here: grist.org/climate-fict... #Fiction #ClimateFiction #SolarPunk #Climate

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Bucha Has a Question: Does Trump Remember the Russian Massacre? Residents of a Ukrainian suburb that was the site of notorious attacks on civilians after Russia invaded are alarmed by President Trump’s warm words for Moscow. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w... #Ukraine #Putin #Trump #Bucha #Zelenski

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I talked to developers about Microsoft's newly announced generative AI model, Muse, and its role in video games: "When we rely on this stuff we are implicitly empowering a class of people who own these tools and don’t give a fuck about how they reshape our lives." www.wired.com/story/xbox-m...

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SCOOP: USDS Engineering Director Resigns Anne Marshall, who was only promoted to the role in December, resigned from USDS/DOGE on Wednesday following dozens of terminations at the organization. "This is not the mission I came to serve." More here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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My latest Substack on why and how Governor Kathy Hochul shoukd hold a hearing on removing Mayor Eric Adams from office. mayawiley.substack.com/p/governor-k...

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Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood. grist.org/accountabili... #IRA #BIL #Climate #Climate #Trump

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77% of the American people want to cap credit card interest rates. It is about time that we listened to them. Congress must provide financial relief to working families struggling to pay for the high price of groceries, rent, gasoline, and prescription drugs.

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While Trump appoints 13 billionaires to his cabinet and Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg see their wealth increase by $217 billion since the election, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 25% of seniors live on $15g or less and millions cannot afford rent. SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.

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Trump and his American oligarchs are now openly aligning themselves with Putin and his Russian oligarchs. This Putin-Trump alliance means abandoning our allies, supporting authoritarianism and undermining our democratic traditions.

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Hell. Fucking. No. Trump and Musk are coming for the World Trade Center Health Program. I’m one of thousands of 9/11 First Responders that are enrolled in the program. They actually called me last week to schedule my annual appointment. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

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A series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get.

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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I’m so sick of people saying this shit, especially elected officials. He’s the president. Declaring himself a king after issuing an order just the day before that says he’s the final authority on all laws isn’t a goddamn distraction.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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A document marked “confidential” but seen by Brussels Playbook reveals how 136 Socialists and Democrats MEPs are plotting to fight the growing power of the far right in the European Parliament. Here's what you need to know about the Socialists’ plan 👇

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Millions face continued exposure to lead and toxic chemicals as Trump halts key water reforms. capitalbnews.org/trump-water-...

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I want a painting like this

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Murphy: "The game is clear. We can see it. They're not even hiding it. There is not a rule of law anymore. There is one set of law for people who are loyal to Donald Trump, and there is one set of law for people who care criticize him. That is not democracy."

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Here's your daily dose of climate fiction. Tangles in the Weave. by @katharinetyndall.bsky.social . The time for Ever’s metamorphosis has arrived. Read it here: grist.org/climate-fict... #Fiction #ClimateFiction #SolarPunk #Climate

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Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil former leader Bolsonaro knew and agreed to a plan to poison President Lula, top prosecutor says.

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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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CNN Made FOIA Request About DOGE—Only to Learn FOIA Staff Was Fired "Definitely never seen this type of response to a FOIA request," quipped one journalist. www.commondreams.org/news/cnn-foi...

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If you haven’t purged your websites and other social media of links to X, it’s worth doing. It helped drive more folks to the spaces I actually participate in (like this one).

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How “the high one” became Mount McKinley again, and its climate implications. grist.org/indigenous/i...

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Here's your daily dose of climate fiction. Meet Me Under the Molokhia A seed researcher meets a mysterious spirit in the field, leaving both with a choice about where they will call home. grist.org/climate-fict... #CliFi #Climate #ClimateFiction #Fiction

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TPM reported on the DOGE demand for "extensive system access" to the IRS last week. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-ir...

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let me strongly recommend the flu shot to whoever hasn't gotten one for this season. i just had a terrible bout with the flu that almost certainly would have been WAY worse had i not been vaccinated

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