When I was a kid, they used to talk about how this is what life was like in the Soviet Union. There used to be something that people called "a right to privacy". Seems quaint and old-fashioned now. www.rwcpulse.com/redwood-city...
🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸
@peter.fairley.ca
Fan of power grids, democracy & bike lanes. Journalist covering energy+climate for too long. Bylines: NYT TheTyee Sierra TheAtlantic IEEESpectrum ... Awards: SEJ, Covering Climate Now, SPJ ... Portfolio: http://fairley.ca
The right's culture wars come for its own. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/m...
What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right (Gift Article)
The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.
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“An energy crisis situation could arise beginning Monday...” — Hungarian prime minister Péter Magyar. Its cause: Over-reliance on #nuclear power that's proving unreliable amidst a punishing heatwave, threatening Hungarians' access to lifesaving air conditioning. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lost income, energy fears and a woolly mammoth: what Europe’s dried-up rivers have yielded
Heat and drought have affected shipping, power plants and tourism across eastern Europe – as well as unearthing some surprises
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Native Americans weren’t US citizens until 1924 and spent generations fighting for ballot access after that. Now, the SAVE Act threatens Native voters again. The act does not allow people to use their tribal IDs to register to vote. nativenewsonline.net/opinion/cong...
Congress Must Not Make It Harder For Native Citizens To Vote
Overview: The SAVE America Act would impose new proof-of-citizenship requirements that could make it harder for many Native citizens to register and vote. Opinion This past week, House Republicans…
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"Justice may proceed slowly, and cautiously, but it does proceed. It creates a record of what happened and prevents the aggressor from having the last word." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...
Opinion | Putin Saw a Gap in Which He Could Act With Impunity. Let’s Close the Gap. (Gift Article)
Justice may proceed slowly, and cautiously, but it does proceed.
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“April Walker, a San Diego resident, was observing federal immigration agents in a Target parking lot in April when she said they boxed her in & pointed a camera at her face & license plate…Five days later, she learned that her Global Entry, which provides expedited TSA screening, had been revoked.“
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago“The lawsuit was filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and three legal observers around the country…”
Straight talk from the head of Israel’s security agency, Shin Bet, writing "with pain and great fear, as a Jew, as an Israeli and as a security official, about the escalating phenomenon of Jewish terrorism..." that has caused "a loss of global legitimacy." www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
Israeli security chief condemns ‘terrorism’ of militant settlers
Ronen Bar sparks row with letter to Netanyahu about actions of ‘hilltop youth’ being a ‘large stain on Judaism’
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Anti-egalitarians are getting darker according to this timely book. Even Andrew Carnegie was "plagued by guilt" after crushing labor unions, notes reviewer @jenszalai.bsky.social, whereas today's "technokings" lose no sleep over exploding inequality. Not yet anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/b...
Book Review: ‘Country of Lords,’ by Kim Phillips-Fein (Gift Article)
In a new book, the historian Kim Phillips-Fein chronicles a “shadow tradition” of anti-egalitarians who fought against America’s founding ideals.
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Always dreamed of seeing Antarctica? Here's a meal for thought. Via @theconversation.com. h/t @howardbreen.bsky.social theconversation.com/i-cant-work-...
‘I can’t work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore’: why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs
The moral struggles of guiding tourists through a pristine landscape.
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❌ RED LIGHTS FLASHING ❌ "Artificial intelligence software in testing by OpenAI breached security controls, accessed the internet and hacked another tech firm to obtain answers to questions probing its cybersecurity skills, OpenAI said on Tuesday." wapo.st/4bUiCvY
ChatGPT owner says AI acted on its own to hack another tech firm
The incident follows recent concerns in Silicon Valley and at the White House that AI models are becoming dangerously good at identifying security flaws in software.
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Great subhed.... "Durham University researchers find cataclysmic direct hit with Gaia Sausage sent Milky Way into its current position" www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Milky Way flipped in collision with dwarf galaxy 10bn years ago, astronomers say
Durham University researchers find cataclysmic direct hit with Gaia Sausage sent Milky Way into its current position
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I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
If you have time this weekend, please check out the doc (~30 min.) my team & I released this week on Musk’s push into Greater Memphis with xAI and its noisy, methane gas burning turbines, data centers, broken promises & impacts on majority Black communities next door. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/e...
Elon Musk's Memphis AI empire is the epicenter of the data center backlash
Data center-related policy proposals, protests and litigation are underway across the country citing Colossus and Memphis as a cautionary tale.
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He reportedly called his ex-wife to ask her to "lie for him" and to "cover for his character."
Ex-wife ID’s ICE agent who fatally shot man in Biddeford
David Brouillette has been identified as the ICE agent who killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Biddeford.
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Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."
The movie marathon to end all
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists@thebulletin.org · 3w agoA chronological list of the best nuclear Doomsday films, compiled by Bulletin senior fellow Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social, shows how the nuclear perspective unfolded from the earliest days of the atomic age to the present. See which 13 films made the cut on our site: buff.ly/CIxUEcs
Candidates need to share their passions, and show leadership. Al Gore famously left climate out of his presidential campaign. It probably cost him the race.
Leah Stokes@leahstokes.bsky.social · 3w agoDemocrats have stopped talking about climate. Strategists say that's smart—but they're wrong. Making climate a top priority wins votes, and barely 1 in 10 voters will vote against climate action. Read all about it in my newsletter, "Notes from the Electric Era." electricnotes.news/p/yes-democr...
If we built more pipeline we'd be so rich we could afford to buy gas masks for everyone in Toronto.
Clare Blackwood@clareblackwood.bsky.social · 3w agoI am not exaggerating one bit when I say that the world outside my apartment window is currently what paint companies would label "Apocalyptic Orange." www.cp24.com/weather/2026...
Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social say that part again about climate action not being economical? "It would have been too expensive for Canadians. Canadians who are already struggling with affordability."
Steve Russell@steverussell.bsky.social · 3w agoThe view of the Northern Ontario forest fire haze engulfing the Toronto Skyline from Humber Bay Park West. #ForestFire #TorontoHaze #TheBigSmoke #Toronto
- The UN put Israel on a blacklist for sexual violence in conflict - Britain raised sexual assault in Israel’s detention at the UN security council - Australian police investigating rape and torture allegations - French prosecutors opened a war crimes inquiry www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘They want to break our will’: Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention
Anna Liedtke files criminal complaint in Israel over alleged attack by female guards and says abuse was intended to silence campaigners
theguardian.com
Remember back in May, when Hungarian results were coming in, we were watching if the opposition to Prime Minister Viktor Orban would manage to win a supermajority? They did, & they just used it to pass a constitutional amendment to also remove the president from office. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hungary parliament votes to remove president from office
Tamás Sulyok was widely seen as a loyalist of former prime minister Viktor Orbán, who lost power in April after 16 years.
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A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
“Most of the people I know in the industry are working on the assumption that there is going to be no investment coming out of this deal,” said one senior industry official who is trying to push forward a Westinghouse AP1000 project. wapo.st/44tyT7d #nuclear
Trump says a nuclear renaissance is coming. The deals aren’t.
The administration touts breakthroughs for the industry as it cites AI’s enormous energy appetite. So why aren't commercial reactors getting built?
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The longer we allow grandpa to rage post to distract from the EPSTEIN Files, the more danger he creates for the safety & security of the world. Any doubt he would use nuclear weapons in a heartbeat if he thought it would benefit himself? I'm with Maj. Jason Watson: IMPEACH. CONVICT. REMOVE 🇺🇸
"Israeli soldiers have frequently posted apparently incriminating photographs and videos of themselves during the war. Rights groups say it reflects a cultural shift in the military that is at odds with its insistence that such incidents break its rules and norms" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/w...
Israel Investigating After Photo of Stripped and Bound Detainee Is Shared (Gift Article)
The Israeli military confirmed the authenticity of the photo, which circulated widely after it was shared by a Palestinian activist. Israeli rights groups said it depicted a war crime.
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This should horrify all of us! Women in ICE detention underwent invasive medical procedures without informed consent. Senator Jon Ossoff’s bipartisan investigation called the findings “nightmarish & disgraceful” Everyone deserves dignity, bodily autonomy & human rights! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance
'I Deliver Parcels in Beijing' is a rare look into the lives of workers whose circumstances are such that speaking publicly about their experiences or critiquing their employers could have serious consequences. 📦 @jackie-wong.bsky.social reviews. thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
This Book Explained Chineseness to Me | The Tyee
‘I Deliver Parcels in Beijing’ is a memorable search for dignity and beauty in the face of the inhumane.
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