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Research and Editorial Manager @cplusc.bsky.social (opinions expressed are my own) • sometimes writing at www.terrain.news • former professional poker player • based in Tuscaloosa, AL

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2 wars in 4 years. This war will accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security.

"rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels & the whims of idiots"

Be like Spain. bsky.app/profile/jere...

06.03.2026 18:01 👍 66 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 0
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I’m Cuban American. For the sake of both countries, Trump’s siege must end | Danny Valdes Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, crushes our people and calls it freedom. We want engagement, not escalation

Important piece by @dannyvaldes.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

06.03.2026 18:10 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is why I chafe at jokes about how high gas prices are part of the "war on cars." People won't suddenly stop driving because gas prices are high. We need to make bicycling safer, we need to make transit more accessible and efficient. We know that safe bike infrastructure entices people to bike!

06.03.2026 18:08 👍 109 🔁 13 💬 5 📌 1
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Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

05.03.2026 22:13 👍 899 🔁 611 💬 15 📌 82
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate.
In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate.
A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership.
"Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

www.wsj.com/business/med...

06.03.2026 06:12 👍 4270 🔁 856 💬 100 📌 226
Photo of Pete Hegseth at a press conference, with the following quote: “Hegseth: Flying over their capital. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. We're playing for keeps. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise, and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it. This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be.”

Photo of Pete Hegseth at a press conference, with the following quote: “Hegseth: Flying over their capital. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. We're playing for keeps. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise, and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it. This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be.”

This quote distills, better than any other, this administration.

Its aesthetic: the most bombastic and brainless action movie, with the most hackneyed script writing.

Its psychology: sadistic gratification in domination, with particular pleasure beating those who are helpless.

06.03.2026 03:56 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

I think there's a deep, subterranean ideological assumption that civilian causalities are the result of insufficient care, insufficient attention, or insufficient technology. They're really just a basic consequence of choosing to go to war.

06.03.2026 03:50 👍 89 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 👍 9911 🔁 5225 💬 620 📌 627
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How electrifying a Bay Area rail system made trains faster, cleaner, and more frequent A $2.4 billion upgrade to Caltrain is shaving time off trips, boosting ridership, and reducing riders’ exposure to toxic diesel pollution.

How electrifying a Bay Area rail system made trains faster, cleaner, and more frequent | grist.org/transportati....

05.03.2026 18:37 👍 105 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 10
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

05.03.2026 16:09 👍 5928 🔁 1549 💬 286 📌 527
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Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the environment. Where’s the pushback? Climate deniers expected more resistance to the fossil fuel blitz. But Democrats, billionaires and activists have gone silent

"'Democrats in Congress have been silent...There has been no pushback on this,' Morano said."

Why is longtime climate denier Marc Morano is happy that Democrats have stopped talking climate? As I told The Guardian, because it helps the Trump regime. Obviously.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

05.03.2026 12:54 👍 50 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 3
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Trump Is Threatening to Cut Transit Left and Right Donald Trump’s new transportation proposal will hurt transit funding in every single American state, undermining affordability across the board. From red states to blue states, and from drivers to non...

Here's the @jacobinmag.bsky.social where he breaks down exactly how Trump's proposals work and how much states stand to lose: jacobin.com/2026/02/trum...

04.03.2026 18:01 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Hello Houston Full Episode - March 3, 2026 YouTube video by Houston Public Media

ICYMI: Watch our Transportation and Policy Manager Emmett Hopkins on @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social talking about how Trump's threats to cut transit funding will hurt both red and blue states: www.youtube.com/live/dCT9DSr...

04.03.2026 18:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No segments on Evening News broadcasts. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

"A death count on par with the Oklahoma City bombing is relegated to the back page."

04.03.2026 17:28 👍 74 🔁 44 💬 2 📌 4

Their lives are precious. How dare these people treat human beings this way

04.03.2026 21:27 👍 158 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 1
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Groundwork is launching an article series introducing our Class Alignment Electoral Strategy! Do we elect candidates to raise the red flag? To demonstrate our movement's ability to govern? Our approach synthesizes these ideas into a plan to win Socialism.
Link:
www.groundworkdsa.com/building-up/...

02.03.2026 19:00 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 3
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Zohran Mamdani Wants to Build Housing. He Should Build Green. After his White House meeting last week, Zohran Mamdani has a tentative plan to build 12,000 units of affordable housing in Queens. It’s a chance to tackle the climate and affordability crises simulta...

Excellent new article from @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and @batul.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/03/mamd...

04.03.2026 17:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

04.03.2026 03:29 👍 4606 🔁 928 💬 28 📌 11

so true

04.03.2026 04:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump

Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

03.03.2026 19:51 👍 2632 🔁 835 💬 15 📌 15
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Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

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Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies. Question wording effects can swing opinions by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights.
That's a problem for people who interpret polls for a living.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

03.03.2026 13:00 👍 1039 🔁 301 💬 72 📌 141
A young grizzly bear stands on a rock face and looks toward the viewer. He is friend-shaped, but I do not recommend hugs!

A young grizzly bear stands on a rock face and looks toward the viewer. He is friend-shaped, but I do not recommend hugs!

A grey Wolf sits in front of a fallen log on the BC Coast.

A grey Wolf sits in front of a fallen log on the BC Coast.

Two African Wild Dog pups playing with a branch.

Two African Wild Dog pups playing with a branch.

A female leopard staring out into the distance. Photo taken in South Africa.

A female leopard staring out into the distance. Photo taken in South Africa.

Today is #WorldWildlifeDay and I have been fortunate to experience so many magic moments with wildlife. We need to continue to work towards protecting wildlife and the places that they call home.

03.03.2026 15:56 👍 200 🔁 55 💬 10 📌 1
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We are the consequences We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable.

Another striking and defiant piece by @erikhane.bsky.social writing from besieged Minneapolis.

"I have come to believe something else too: we are the consequences. We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable."

www.welcometohellworld.com/we-are-the-c...

02.03.2026 23:58 👍 177 🔁 62 💬 1 📌 3

Even military drone pilots experienced PTSD symptoms. Autonomous weapons solve this and other problems for the military. Moral and legal culpability are dispersed throughout the whole system. Murder becomes a function; murder of the innocent becomes a glitch. No one is to blame.

02.03.2026 16:04 👍 69 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 2
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Gas prices up by around 50% today.

A painful reminder that relying on imported fossil fuels is a risky strategy.

02.03.2026 15:03 👍 621 🔁 208 💬 35 📌 34
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The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org

The video you see here is confirmatory proof:
Wolves. Love. Blueberries.

As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.

02.03.2026 13:58 👍 1642 🔁 604 💬 19 📌 79
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By Tesla's own math, it reveals that its robotaxis are 4x worse at driving than humans, with redactions hiding even more details | Fortune By NHTSA standards, the Tesla Robotaxis are 8x worse than human drivers.

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.

02.03.2026 03:16 👍 1964 🔁 708 💬 27 📌 42
Today should be your 38th birthday..
When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

02.03.2026 00:24 👍 21277 🔁 5333 💬 472 📌 313
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Public Power Advocates Have Learned From Past Failures After a disappointing referendum in Maine, campaigners in New York are taking their arguments straight to lawmakers.

Great article from Benjy Sachs on the fight for public power and the strategy from below in Hudson Valley with @sarahana.bsky.social representing @mhvdsa.bsky.social and her community in the legislature!

Features @lucyhoch.bsky.social of @publicgrids.org & Winston Yau of @cplusc.bsky.social!

25.02.2026 23:05 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong.
They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel
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They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary.
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Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood
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Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

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