Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Identity, whether gender or nationality or any other, is an individual choice; fluid, contingent, and perhaps multiple. This is the only way to live at peace in a Free society, and is therefore a non-negotiable demand on every State, backed by force.
Get fucked in the same earholes your brains are dripping out of, Donny Smallhands.
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 12h ago
HVAC heat pumps are outselling fossil-fueled furnaces. But did you know you can also purchase a heat pump water heater? There are now 17 brands on the market! We are very happy with our HPWH. It delivers 344% efficency year round in HP only mode. 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋 cleantechnica.com/2026/10/08/1...
17 Manufacturers of Heat Pump Water Heaters Are Now on the Market (With More Coming Soon) - CleanTechnica
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Joseph D. Ortiz@earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 2d agoThe invisible hand of the market is lifting up clean, renewable technologies. #FossilFuels are #Expensive #StrandedAssets 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.canarymedia.com/articles/hea...
no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt
Politico@politico.com · yesterdayHouse Democratic campaign arm says it needs $17 million, and fast politi.co/3Wh1xra
I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...
Because the media supports Trump and want him to rule over us like a king.
Cai : go see DIGGER@annenotation.bsky.social · 13h agobiden's numbers were way higher than this and the news cried about it, trump's numbers here are SHIT and you don't hear a peep
The last couple days of Republicans on Twitter insisting something was seriously wrong with Talarico and the deep denial they were in that was just the flu is just gonna be a preview if he prevails in November Seriously some of them are not going to take it in a healthy manner
MLC@chicyph80.bsky.social · 14h agoTrafalgar with a new poll showing Talarico up by 3.5 in Texas Senate lol When Trafalgar can’t even find Paxton ahead 🤣🤣🤭🤭
Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is.
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · yesterdayI GOT TO VOTE FOR TRAINS! Fuck yeah Front Range Passenger Rail!
My first two reactions were "the FUCK we are buying from them", and, "the FUCK they are selling to us", and nothing I've seen has dissuaded me from either position.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · yesterdayThe United States is now importing fuel from Russia, per President Trump.
Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it
Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · 2d agoFiguring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register
The key to Trump's election fuckery is you absolutely take it seriously, & you take it seriously by knowing you've got the numbers behind you to follow through on your principles. This is the United States & the way we rule ourselves is not subject to the whims of an old orange shitsack.
Fucking hell. The Frontier AI companies are all menaces to society, and people need to start going away to prison for their Obvious Crimes.
Stephanie Farr@farfarraway.bsky.social · yesterdayHoly hell. Anthropic's AI model submitted a false tip about a HOMICIDE to the Philadelphia Police Department's online public tip form. The release today from the PPD:
As ETA has detailed, at around $7.7B for 1.25 mi, this extension would be by far the most expensive subway on Earth—and so deep that it would require 5+ mins just to reach the platforms. Now is the time for the MTA to push for a shallower, cheaper, more usable subway: www.etany.org/reports/digg...
Digging Out of a Very Deep Hole: Saving Billions on 125th Street — Effective Transit Alliance New York
A 125 St subway should be a slam dunk. But at $7.7B and with stations more than 100 ft underground, it would be the most expensive subway in the world, and cost riders more than 5 minutes every trip b...
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The MTA is beginning the environmental impact process for the 125 St Subway. Right now the project is focused tunnels, with station and other infrastructure to come later. Deep tunnels, however, would lock in the project's main downsides: depth and cost. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Planned Harlem Crosstown Subway Gets Environmental Review
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is starting an environmental review of a proposed crosstown subway line along Harlem’s 125th Street that could serve an estimated 164,000 weekday rider...
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huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
WH Press Pool Reports@whpresspool.bsky.social · yesterday“But what I try to remind people is, look, this is a guy who committed, in my view, the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of 9/11, the people that he was meant to treat, the Army soldiers that he was meant to treat for mental illness and other problems, he took them at their (3/4)
The anti-child bigotry in America is an enormous problem and one that too many people celebrate
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · yesterdayFar too many people simply hate children for existing
![After the Court required a further submission to explain this incongruity,
respondents submitted an affidavit from Brenden Cuni, a Supervisory Detention and
Deportation Officer with ICE, who was responsible for conducting the background
searches. DE 20-7. Cuni was notified “some time before 5:50 PM” that “Petitioner was detained.” Id. ¶3. He searched five separate federal databases, all of which “yielded
negative results.” Id. ¶5 (emphasis added). Cuni then “issued and signed the I-200,
Warrant of Arrest, and checked off the boxes relating to ‘biometric confirmation of the
subject’s identity and a records check of federal databases . . . .’” Id. Of course, since the
records checks were negative, it was undeniably false, though represented as true in the
warrant, that “biometric confirmation [and] records check of federal databases
affirmatively indicate” that the petitioner lacked immigration status. DE 7-1. Cuni
explains that ICE then processed the petitioner, and in so doing, entered his data into
those various databases. After processing (and after the warrant was signed and
executed), Cuni ordered another officer to run “a second records check of the electronic
federal databases, which then yielded positive results . . . because Petitioner’s information
was now part of the system.” DE 20-7 ¶7 (emphasis added).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreidqylhmhwshnfs3a5dq2g3wiulejbwwwgoia34tsntiszybms4j6m)
Once we begin to force our Public Utilities to implement policies to cause these slopes of PV Power Plant interconnection queues to start declining, we're really going to start to see the share of fossil fuels powering our grid to quickly decline. #EnergySky
If Hegseth follows through with this execution live stream, he needs to die in prison, there's just no way around it.
ICE has shot 3 immigrants since July, all in their cars. Also: they shot this man, then handcuffed him and sat him on the ground. When the NYPD arrived, they took him to the hospital . IOW, ICE was gonna let him bleed out. wapo.st/4yHk7qY
ICE officer shoots man in car on New York street during arrest attempt
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said a 5-year-old child was in the car when Oscar Belgal, 28, was shot. DHS said that an immigration officer fired his weapon during a “targeted enforcement operation.”
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As a former Wallingford-Swarthmore School District taxpayer, and as a former asthmatic high schooler who remembers avoiding the ne'er-do-wells who congregated in the bathrooms, I highly approve of this design and wish it were in more places.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d agoINSANE: (Bathroom layout that is in a lot high-end restaurants)
New Haven's Historic District Commission has come out against pedestrianizing Temple Street where it cuts through the Green. Preservation, everyone! www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/10/07/p...
Preservationists Pan Green Plan - New Haven Independent
The city's Historic District Commission (HDC) has formally asked the Elicker administration to hold off on pedestrianizing part of Temple Street and building a new food kiosk and bathrooms on the Gree...
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this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
Sorry the pictures from @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov Airo ride aren’t better. I was too amazed by how nice the train was and distracted by the amazing views.
Runway Girl @runwaygirl.com · 2d agoInside Amtrak Airo as trainset enters service on Cascades route runwaygirlnetwork.com/2026/10/insi... A #nosetotail trip report by @airlineflyer.net #rail #paxex
In a civilized society, this driver would have charges filed against them and their license suspended as a matter of course. We, on the other hand, must live in the umbra of the Philadelphia Police Department.
Peter Flax@pflax1.bsky.social · 2d ago"A parent participating in a bike-to-school event in Philadelphia's Queen Village neighborhood was struck by a vehicle Wednesday morning." "I heard a car honking behind me and revving and before I knew it there was a jeep that had run me over.....I was on the ground" 6abc.com/post/parent-...
Join us next Tuesday at 6pm for a postcard-writing happy hour at Dock Street Brewery South! We'll be writing postcards to send to City Council in support of city funding for our Zero Fare Program and SEPTA Key Advantage.
I get that a candidate in Michigan can't run explicitly against the UAW, but they don't have to plagiarize the UAW's positions which they in turn plagiarized from Donald Trump. (And if they do, it's mandatory for Democrats in the other forty-mumble states to shut that shit down.)
ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️@ellenteapot.ca · 2d agoThe Democrats will not save Canada from the people who want to forcibly deindustrialize our country.