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The people who have been pushing the “electric cars are too expensive” myth apparently forgot to tell folks in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Djibouti, Tajikistan, Ethiopia ….

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We live in a paranoid nation with over 400 million civilian owned guns.

Maria was a house cleaner. She accidentally went to a wrong house & got shot in the head. Now, her 4 children are motherless.

#GunsDontMakeUsSafer

What the hell are we doing?

This should be getting more attention.

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.

Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.

She was later released with NO CHARGE.

A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.

You decide…

Chemistry so simple General Chemistry students can understand! #iteachchem

What we should be talking about after watching Bigelow's 'A House of Dynamite' nuclear thriller Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, is a welcome and useful reminder that the dangers of nuclear weapons never went away—and an invitation to discuss how to deal with them.

🚨 JUST IN: Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, is a welcome and useful reminder that the dangers of nuclear weapons never went away—and an invitation to discuss how to deal with them, Mark Goodman writes in @thebulletin.org.

#kathrynbigelow #ahouseofdynamite #nuclearweapons #nukesky

The stakes couldn’t be higher, and the outlook isn’t rosy. SCOTUS is set to hear an emergency appeal from the order barring federal troops from being deployed to Chicago. My guide to the legal challenge, and tips on how to survive the fallout, in my piece today. Link in the replies.

We put a ring on it!

The question is, will we prove to be a good partner for planet Earth?

Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.

Planetary Rings

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This is not normal behavior. Do not excuse it.

“The U.S. has relied heavily on foreign-born doctors; half the country's oncology workforce, for example, comes from overseas. Now, …the Trump administration's cuts to science, medicine and research funding, as well as new immigration policies, fewer physicians can — or want to — come to the U.S” 😢

From: https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/crop30-why-burning-food-for-land-hungry-biofuels-is-fueling-the-climate-crisis

“When crops are burned for fuel, new land can be needed to grow new crops for food or fuel. This can lead to indirect land clearance and deforestation. Staggeringly, biofuels globally therefore today emit 16% more CO₂ emissions than the fossil fuels they replace.”

Whether you agree or disagree with Christianity, I think we all can agree that a group of people meeting together to worship peacefully should not have to hide from the government for fear of arrest. That is exactly what is happening in China, and has been happening for a number of years.

This is so demonstrably false.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

This is not how our government should act.

This is not the way we should treat people. Disgusting

This is racist. Disgusting

Look at this video. Take a long, hard look at this scene. Masked federal agents, armed like soldiers on a battlefield, a dozen of em, taking down & detaining one immigrant. On our streets. Take a long, hard look at this. And then pass it on to others. This is Trumpism. This must not be who we are.👇

Chicago just went all in on renewable energy » Yale Climate Connections From City Hall to O’Hare Airport, every city-owned building now runs on renewables.

Chicago just went all in on renewable energy and is demonstrating that it works. Chicago now powers EVERY city-owned building – from airports to police stations – with renewable energy. That includes O’Hare airport.

It’s Watergate, Every Day Plus: What’s more America First than bailing out foreign countries with MAGA-ish leaders?

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/its-waterg...

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EVs are so much more efficient.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Just a reminder: 10 of the 11 states with the most WindWaterSolar as a % of electricity demand have electricity prices 2 c/kWh or more below the U.S. average

web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

Wind is the greatest electricity source in 7 of those 11 states.

web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

But the good news is, RFK Jr is in charge of public health.