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Dennis Higgins

@dennismhiggins.bsky.social

Retired professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. Now farming beef and chickens in Otego, NY.

7 Followers  |  8 Following  |  35 Posts  |  Joined: 10.03.2025  |  1.7544

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Can we rain on Trump's parade? No Kings Day... organized by Indivisible and other groups this coming June 14

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

06.05.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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May 1st, Delhi and Oneonta NY www.mobilize.us/commoncause/...

Also May 3 Delhi.

29.04.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Did Over-Reliance On Solar & Lack Of Grid Inertia Cause Spain’s Blackout? An electrical engineer told me β€œit’s highly likely” that Spain’s reliance on solar energy contributed to the power failure.

robertbryce.substack.com/p/did-over-r...

29.04.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Photos show massive "50501" anti-Trump protests across the country Nationwide anti-Trump protests today aim to unite millions across all 50 states against recent presidential policies.

www.newsweek.com/photos-show-...

19.04.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New York Times columnist David Brooks calls for national β€˜uprising’ against Trump β€œIt’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising,” said Brooks.

what do the conservatives think should happen? thepostmillennial.com/new-york-tim...

19.04.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I don't usually post personal content. This is Ross Park Zoo something like 12 or 14 years ago... My four daughters posing with close friends Ken and Lindsay Morgan.

18.04.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Queenslander's support nuclear power! Add your name calling on the Queensland Government to lift the ban on nuclear power and push the federal government to allow QLD to build nuclear power stations.

act.weplanet.org/queenslander...

17.04.2025 10:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Trump Is Trashing America’s Reputation His foreign policy is doing irreversible damage to the greatest geopolitical brand ever created.

www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

09.04.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Deaths from fossil fuel emissions higher than previously thought Fossil fuel air pollution responsible for more than 8 million people worldwide in 2018

Nuclear 'waste' can be reprocessed for fuel. In the history of commercial nuclear reactors, nuclear waste has never harmed anyone. Meanwhile, 8 million people globally die every year from fossil fuel 'waste', i.e., emissions seas.harvard.edu/news/2021/02...

06.04.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My back in this photo with repurposed sign. 400 people stood in the rain at 40F -- chanting, cheering, signing --in Hands Off rally.

06.04.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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40 years ago, the US understood what the French seem to realize. A crook should not be president. www.cnn.com/.../marine-l...
"French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds"

06.04.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Is Gaslighting Us Trump is an agent of chaos, and chaos has a human cost.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

05.04.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel’s Genocide Has Reportedly Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined At least 232 journalists have been killed amid the genocide, a new Costs of War report finds.

More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the β€œworst ever conflict” for reporters in history.

01.04.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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Scientists stunned by discoveries after studying electric bills from thousands of homes: 'A negative trend' It's a big deal for our energy future.

If you're installing solar, you might be getting less power than you paid for.
tech.yahoo.com/articles/sci...

02.04.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Former Air National Guardsman Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Unlawfully Disclosing Classified National Defense Information A former member of the U.S. Air National Guard (USANG), Jack Douglas Teixeira, 22, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for retaining and transmitting hundre...

What should happen to Hegseth? www.justice.gov/archives/opa...

30.03.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Daughter Patricia AKA 'Bootsie' in blue here, rowing today in Ithaca. Her V3 boat at 7:24 was faster than every other V1, V2, V3 W boat today.

29.03.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No surprise to freshman in Econ 101, but apparently a mystery to the US government... tariffs cause a deadweight loss as well as higher prices for consumers.

29.03.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Possibly, you don't have to be a broker to interpret market response to FailedEconomics#47 trade policies.

28.03.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I usually post on politics, energy, environment. But 10 years ago, here is our Maxie Dane, who lived to be 11. And little Newton, who grew to 150 lbs. Newt -- now gone a couple of years -- never could be out in public, but we were very attached to him. Maybe a photo of current Dane Roxie to follow.

28.03.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Gallop Poll shows about 60% of public think Trump's economic plan stinks. Here's the first on Signal-gate.

28.03.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is only waste if you waste it. It can be -- and is -- recycled as fuel.

27.03.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For and Against Climate Progress in the Atomic Garden A new book opposing nuclear energy unintentionally highlights how 1970s opposition was a dead end for the Left. By examining contemporary arguments, it becomes clear that this historic stance has hind...

Good read on the mis-guided anti-nuclear movement. jacobin.com/2024/08/clim... [A lithium-thionyl] battery factory in South Korea caught fire when batteries exploded ...Twenty-three workers died...

That's twenty-three more deaths than [from radiation] Fukushima in 2011 jacobin.com/2024/08/clim...

25.03.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Nobody elected Elon' rally sees thousands of angry protesters descend on Washington DC

25.03.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

signed.

25.03.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For and Against Climate Progress in the Atomic Garden A new book opposing nuclear energy unintentionally highlights how 1970s opposition was a dead end for the Left. By examining contemporary arguments, it becomes clear that this historic stance has hind...

this is a pretty comprehensive discussion jacobin.com/2024/08/clim...

25.03.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"White House Inner Circle Discussed Secret Military Plans in Extraordinary Breach
Pete Hegseth disclosed war plans in a group chat that included a journalist hours before [attacks were launched in Yemen]." We know about the Atlantic journalist. Were others on the call who never came forward?

25.03.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Military veterans are becoming the face of Trump's government cuts and Democrats' resistance Congressional lawmakers are scrambling to formulate a response to President Donald Trump’s slashing of the federal government as one group takes a front and center role: military veterans.

apnews.com/article/trum...
Military veterans are becoming the face of Trump’s government cuts and Democrats’ resistance

24.03.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pres and VP need no help to look bad but...Vance leaked on Musk: "Everything he’s doing, he's getting criticized in the media. He's making us look bad.” Trump is destroying the economy, but Musk helps, according to Vance: "if he wants to tank the economy and his cars, maybe that's what he deserves,"

24.03.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Switzerland's Anti-Trump Protestors Wear Giant Middle Fingers on Their Heads During March
www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

24.03.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

will be there with Anna -- last of 4 Higgins girls to play in the orchestra.

24.03.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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