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It's almost as if the White House *wants* Congress to exercise its authority. Who knew?
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It's almost as if the White House *wants* Congress to exercise its authority. Who knew?
Ellis: "Requiring the government to comply with its obligations under the Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment, is simply not a harm."
06.11.2025 17:22 β π 1365 π 334 π¬ 5 π 28Poster from 1936 says: Join the March to Old Age Security, with a long line of happy people
Poster with picture of old man holding pipe: More Security for the American Family (1939)
The Social Security Administration used to have an incredible communications arm, including even a film unit. This was crucial in helping people understand the program, and how it would work. From 1936, 1939.
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
05.11.2025 04:38 β π 18623 π 4399 π¬ 165 π 357An antibiotic for superbugs? "They discovered an intermediate compound β called premethylenomycin C lactone β whose antimicrobial activity was 100 times stronger than that of the final product. Tiny doses of it killed strains of bacteria known to cause hard-to-treat infections"
03.11.2025 05:54 β π 42 π 21 π¬ 3 π 3centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
28.10.2025 00:08 β π 9396 π 2004 π¬ 226 π 112The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute learned that the Government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan delivering his "Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade," dated April 25, 1987. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address, and the Government of Ontario did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter. We encourage you to watch President Reagan's unedited video on our YouTube channel.
The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t
22.10.2025 23:22 β π 13308 π 4715 π¬ 1005 π 622The clean energy transition in three charts On the left is the way California supplied power in 2022. By 2024 (middle chart) we can start to see the impact of more solar and battery storage on the grid. Carry this trend forward to see the future of electricity. Data from www.caiso.com. https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Electricity-Supply-01.jpg
Wonβt be long now until our use of gas peaker plants is only required on rare occasions.
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Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.
Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.
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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
βThe ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
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Renewables produced more electricity than coal
Renewables surpass coal for electricity in 1H2025.
Crucially, gas down slightly despite the investment boom in LNG in recent years
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01.10.2025 14:38 β π 25118 π 8371 π¬ 666 π 2202It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot moreβand a lot worseβgoing on here.
The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadershipβs partisan alignment with the administration.
How? 1/
In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years β combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others.
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Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."
24.09.2025 03:45 β π 20016 π 4200 π¬ 223 π 167a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
20.09.2025 17:06 β π 2910 π 700 π¬ 70 π 88thereβs a lot of talk about big tech and corporations but so many international academic colleagues are also on H1Bs.
no university is going to pay 100k extra a year to keep them. if this holds, it would essentially mean the end of foreigners on tenure track jobs at US universities.
i donβt think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.
i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night
20.09.2025 12:59 β π 1415 π 579 π¬ 69 π 134π‘ Good idea π‘
βHyperscalers should pay for heat pumps, rooftop solar, and storage to get the capacity they need on the grid now, while setting us up for an affordable, reliable, and clean energy future.β
Bingo. We understand just fine. And reject their odious or stupid beliefs
18.09.2025 15:28 β π 257 π 71 π¬ 1 π 2I loved this piece. God, gorgeous. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
17.09.2025 01:17 β π 113 π 17 π¬ 7 π 9China is sending its world-beating auto industry into a tailspin reut.rs/3IdaxHp
17.09.2025 05:05 β π 32 π 12 π¬ 3 π 3I know jumping to politically-advantageous conclusions is just what we do now, but its still striking how many right wing folks have immediately jumped to "violent leftist," as if there hasn't been a sustained, decadelong hate campaign against Charlie Kirk from those to his right.
10.09.2025 20:14 β π 4342 π 834 π¬ 98 π 112Stop Acting Like This Is Normal www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
08.09.2025 14:45 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction π§ͺ
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