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"On Saturday, Trump began selling access to his social media posts to Wall Street trading firms milliseconds before they go public, permitting them to buy and sell with insider information. The cost for this service, according to Marina Dunbar of The Guardian, is up to $100,000 a month." HCR
Dem leadership should be demanding that Stevens apologize for what she just said on Twitter
Getting astonishingly little attention inside the US. South Korea's stock market just collapsed -44% in 40 days, erasing $2 trillion in market cap. A harbinger for other tech savvy markets?
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
i am very certain that ditching gas is why my oldest didn't develop asthma after being pretty clearly pre-asthmatic
Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 2w agoInsane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers found that for every 200 EV's added to a California neighborhood, NO₂ air pollution fell by 1.1%. Cleaner air isn't just a goal anymore - it's achievable. #CleanAir #ElectricVehicles #ESG @sciencex.bsky.social @momscleanairforce.org phys.org/news/2026-01...
Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution
When California neighborhoods increased their number of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) between 2019 and 2023, they also experienced a reduction in air pollution. For every 200 vehicles added, nitrogen ...
phys.org
if i'm being honest taylor swift and travis kelce had a medium sized indian wedding
a quarter!!
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · last mo.Probably the best example of a rapid bottom-up energy transition: Pakistan imported more Chinese solar last year than any country on earth. No big subsidy, no rooftop scheme, no feed-in tariff. Solar is now around a quarter of electricity. More in my piece👇 www.thenewworld.co.uk/jan-rosenow-...
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
People need to make a bigger deal out of Elon Musk's endorsement of "Reconquista." This is naked fascism. newrepublic.com/article/2119...
Fun fact, the Reconquista led to major declines in Spanish agricultural technology, engineering knowledge, craftsmanship, and scholarship due to the expulsion of Muslims, I think I hear history trying to rhyme
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2mo agoPeople need to make a bigger deal out of Elon Musk's endorsement of "Reconquista." This is naked fascism. newrepublic.com/article/2119...
There is no god but god, Knicks in four, Muhammad is his prophet,
Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
A reminder, as Obama and Mamdani come together for the first time in person, that Mamdani is everything the GOP said Obama was... but wasn't: an African-born socialist Muslim. #justsayin
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4mo agoBarack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ to kids in NYC
One of Harmeet Dhillon's 1st acts as head of Civil Rights Div was to terminate a 2023 settlement to install functioning sanitation in a poor, predominantly Black area in Alabama. Highly informative article by @qjurecic.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Harmeet Dhillon Is Not Wasting Any Time
She arrived at the Department of Justice with radical changes in mind. One year later, she has completely reshaped the Civil Rights Division.
theatlantic.com
“Of all the prevailing media narratives around @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, the one that is most conspicuous by its absence is how under its two-term governor California became the top performing economy not just among its 49 siblings but also any developed nation.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
People make fun of government agencies for still being on Flickr but photos produced by the government are copyright-free and I have yet to see a better photo-centric platform for delivering higher resolution photos that anyone can easily download.
Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert@elakdawalla.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...
Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.
Stretching across 800 miles (1,287 km), the Karakoram Highway links Pakistan and China via the stunning Khunjerab Pass, which rises to 15,397 feet (4,693 meters). Often referred to as the “Eighth Wonder of the World,”
"Please place your hand on the Quran": words never before spoken on inauguration day in Richmond, spoken today at the swearing-in of our new lieutenant governor Ghazala Hashmi.
📜 From Old Books, 16th Century “The speech of the learned is a blessing; the speech of the ignorant is a disaster. The silence of the learned is a disaster; the silence of the ignorant is a blessing.”
Another look at the year that was — this one from The New York Times. #economy #markets #investors #investing @nytimes.com
Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.
The meandering trajectory of coffee and coffee-related culture from the Islamicate world, into Western Europe and America, then into the entire world, and hence back now to different parts of the Islamicate world, is a really wild ride
How Cafe Culture Is Reshaping Tehran
For Iran’s youth, coffee has become a symbol of refinement, an economic opportunity and a means of socializing that can hold a frisson of rebellion
newlinesmag.com
One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
