(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Building the industrial backbone for the clean economy @ industrialzones.org. Helped design/implement Obama- and Biden-era energy and manufacturing policies. Clean economic development, climate, running, PNW hoops. I still believe in America.
Important to note that "consensual, mutually beneficial exchange" is basically "having an economy".
Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW@johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's been pointed out that Trump fundamentally does not believe in consensual, mutually beneficial exchange. He just believes in power and domination. In his mind all mutually beneficial exchanges involve someone being cheated. (This is core fascist stuff.)
Trump family crypto earnings: $1.4 billion $TRUMP meme coin: -98% $MELANIA meme coin: -99% “Perhaps the most blatant example of corruption in the history of American politics.” — Bilello
Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’
ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show.
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the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis, with EVs and public transport among the key factors. Oil consumption fell by 9% overall and by 16% for transport. 🧵
Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 6d agoNEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/P3nHdbA
The corruption never ends. One of the energy companies that agreed to cancel an offshore wind farm has promised to instead buy a $900-million stake in a natural gas project from a Trump mega-donor's private equity fund: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
$900 million from a canceled wind deal will benefit a Trump donor
The Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon offshore wind projects and boost investment in fossil fuels is set to deliver a windfall to a private equity firm run by one of President Donald Trump...
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Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...
What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals
The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.
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DEVELOPING STORY: A Florida grand jury investigating the Hope Florida scandal found that key members of the DeSantis administration engaged in a “sophisticated scheme” to divert $10 million of a Medicaid settlement into a political activities and the Republican Party of Florida.
Hope Florida grand jury describes public money ‘misused for political purposes’
The not-yet released reported was obtained by CBS News Miami and detailed wrongdoing but also an inability to bring criminal charges.
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They’re robbing us in broad daylight www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
$900 million from a canceled wind deal will benefit a Trump donor
The Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon offshore wind projects and boost investment in fossil fuels is set to deliver a windfall to a private equity firm run by one of President Donald Trump...
washingtonpost.com
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)
WELKER: Do you think democratic socialists have a place in the Democratic Party? VAN HOLLEN: Yes they do as part of the debate. I think that those in the Dem Party who are afraid of a healthy debate are missing the point, because Democratic voters do not want a return to the pre-Trump status quo
An experimental cancer vaccine kept melanoma from coming back. It’s the first successful late-stage mRNA study validating decades of custom-treatment research.
Moderna, Merck Vaccine Succeeds in Preventing Melanoma From Returning
Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines.
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It's insane. Like you can tell people how the water rights system works and they literally will not believe it could possibly work like that because it's so stupid bsky.app/profile/high...
Encinitas Highlands Surfer@highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 3w agoIt's the way ag water has these sinks of pure waste that really grates. Some of the most efficient farms in the world in California, but some of the least too, because of old water rights bleeding into the now. Cities fight tremendously to conserve drops that ag bleeds out in wasted buckets.
The guy who oversees the U.S. Forest Service called in a ton of extra federal firefighting support for a small fire near his mega-ranch in Idaho, even as many larger blazes burned elsewhere. Rage-inducing @washingtonpost.com investigation: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
Top Trump official asked for more aircraft to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch
Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more resources to contain a seven-acre blaze last month, officials said.
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Trump says he has a good relationship with Kim Jong Un, asks the lifeguard he's honoring to co-sign his attacks on the press, and then snaps at a woman reporter: "Be quiet! Be quiet!"
I’m a little surprised the other 29 owners are on board with the league office letting Ballmer get away with it. Aren’t they mad their richest rival is showing that they could spend more money on their basketball teams if they wanted to? Don’t they want everybody to think the cap is super real???
“No evidence” is some chicanery. Sure, there’s no video of Ballmer carrying a briefcase of cash marked K Leonard. A star got paid under the table on his watch! Meanwhile, Dundon is robbing Portland in broad daylight. League is disintegrating; Silver’s gotta go. www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/RueB...
From the nba community on Reddit: [Holmes and Charania] The NBA has found no evidence showing LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer funneled money through team sponsors to pay Kawhi Leonard in order to circ...
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AI is falling to the China scale and China price. But more important is situated communities of knowledge. Is the US going to be early leader & innovator on AI & then fail on process knowledge & diffusion to the Chinese? Good note by Sarah Guo on 'What Shenzhen Knows' x.com/saranormous/...
Trump is simply stealing tax money to build himself a golden palace
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 4w ago$900 million would cover a year of food assistance for 400,000 people wapo.st/4xe1GJT
A core conservative demand is being able to benefit from living in a society without incurring any obligations. A philosophy for infants
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoNIH Director Jay Bhattacharya: "We shouldn't be keeping kids out of schools because their parents have made different decisions than other parents" (Note that Trump is asleep)
Amazon is building the nation’s largest fossil fuel plant exclusively to power artificial intelligence As my colleague @emilypont.bsky.social notes, the plant’s permit allows for essentially double the emissions of the most polluting power plant in the U.S.
Amazon Is Building America’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Plant to Power AI
The company confirmed its plans to market research company Cleanview.
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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
It's a tough job, but literally no one has to do it
You wouldn’t know it from the general media environment, but a recent study’s 20 Happiest Cities of 2026 include SF, three other liberal California hellholes, and the Seattle Anarchy Zone… plus a bunch of college towns www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/r...
The Happiest Cities of 2026
A study mined data on emotional, physical and financial health, as well as community and environmental factors, to find the happiest Americans.
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Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."