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journalism versus webcam challenge

“If we’re not there we can’t inform the people about what the President is up to in real time,” okay how is this working for you so far?

Trump says may go to Egypt where Gaza ceasefire talks are under way Negotiators finalising the details of Trump's 20-point plan that both Israel and Hamas have largely agreed to.

"A senior Palestinian source tells Al Jazeera mediators in Egypt have assured the Palestinian delegation that if an agreement is reached, US President Donald Trump will announce the end of the war in Gaza."

Announcement fanfare vs reality on the ground challenge starts now

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Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

there are a lot of "what ifs" in the world that easily could make all sorts of things much better but unfortunately just aren't so

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

Imagine if in the first Civil War, the Confederates had been just as denialist and obscurantist as the current neo-Confederates. "We're not fighting for slavery, we are just fighting against woke Union over-reach interfering with our state authority to maintain traditional labor structures!"

The south launched the Civil War to defend slavery and Trump is launching the reboot based on some dumb antifa b-roll he saw on Fox News.

won't anyone think of the poor, poor Saudi royal god-wealthy tyrants?????

Jamal Khashoggi was my friend and colleague who was killed and dismembered in 2018.

Do you know how many times I’ve written against Saudi Arabia’ coverup over the last seven years?

The sportswashing? The paying of influencers to visit Saudi Arabia?

Saudi’s censorship of Hasan Minaj?

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YouTube video by Technology Connections Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool

Gather 'round children, and listen to an in-depth explanation about how We Ancients used to watch TV on weird CRT-based TVs and projectors.

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IMO the right's whole fantasy was that Republicans would *use* Epstein info to hunt & seek for any Democrats or liberals they could then persecute & lock up, and the only source of their anger on this topic is that Trump hasn't done the QAnon-style "storm" against their hated enemies

I wish one Dem would say that Republicans can reopen the government whenever they want. GOP just lacks the will.

good lord

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in… Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

How Zohran Mamdani Came to Embrace the Palestinian Cause

The bar is on the floor, but it is striking to see the New York Times candidly and forwardly acknowledge that Mamdani's views on Palestine were formed out of an explicitly anticolonial framework, by way of his father's explicitly anticolonial intellectual work, by way of being from the Third World.

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

"Energy dominance," you say?

As of this year, *China is exporting more clean-energy technology than the US is exporting the dirty stuff*.

The future is green energy & China, not the US, is set to dominate it.

cattle lobbies now get to own words

White House announces radical new plan to allocate tariff revenue without Congress The Constitution gives Congress what’s known as the “power of the purse.” When Trump tries to claim he has his own purse, there’s a problem.

On the White House’s WIC plan, we’re not supposed to have a system in which a president can:

- impose his own tax without Congress

- create his own pile of money that Congress never approved

- allocate funds, at his discretion, to whichever cause he deems fit, without Congress

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

yeah we're in one of those movies in which the scientists are pleading with people and esp decisionmakers to avoid the clearly close catastrophe and everyone scoffs at the pointy-heads with their foolish worrying

The verdict? "... the stability of these four tipping elements has declined in recent decades, suggesting that they have moved towards their critical thresholds, which may be crossed within the range of unmitigated anthropogenic warming."

Cool. Cool cool cool.

Just your latest reminder that, although everyone has decided to stop talking about climate change, it is still very much happening -- worse and faster than predicted.

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

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I don't have words to express how sickened, weary, and *extremely* pissed off I and my fellow Chicagoans are with Trump's fascist bullshit.

​Case in point: this delightful pamphlet, which appeared this week in the lobby of my apartment building.

well, sure, but right now we have a governing norm throughout the federal government and much of the country that decent behavior is illegal if not terrorist