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Keene, NH has been replacing their stop-lighted intersections with roundabouts, resulting in big reductions in pollution, accidents & injuries, and costs. “Slowly moving is better than waiting at a light any day.” [nytimes.com]
Cutting Emissions, the Roundabout Way, in New Hampshire
Despite its small stature, the city of Keene, has become an example of the safety and climate benefits of swapping traffic lights for roundabouts.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Keene, NH has been replacing their stop-lighted intersections with roundabouts, resulting in big reductions in pollution, accidents & injuries, and costs. “Slowly moving is better than waiting at a light any day.” [nytimes.com]
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You can still find this info at First Street...also, the NYT article below in the quoted post is a gift link.
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
You can still find this info at First Street...also, the NYT article below in the quoted post is a gift link.
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Gift article well worth reading.
wapo.st/48jMEIx
wapo.st/48jMEIx
‘We won’t win this war without women’
An art student, an accountant, a sniper, an acrobat and a journalist: Ukraine’s all-women drone unit stakes its place in a male-dominated military.
wapo.st
November 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Gift article well worth reading.
wapo.st/48jMEIx
wapo.st/48jMEIx
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Well, if I’m gonna criticize the New York Times for their trash I’m also going to hand it to them when they get it right.
Great article about David Sacks.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Great article about David Sacks.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Well, if I’m gonna criticize the New York Times for their trash I’m also going to hand it to them when they get it right.
Great article about David Sacks.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Great article about David Sacks.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
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New York Times Gift Article: The Unraveling of the Justice Department. Sixty attorneys describe a year of chaos and suspicion.
"I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear’: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
New York Times Gift Article: The Unraveling of the Justice Department. Sixty attorneys describe a year of chaos and suspicion.
"I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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"Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime.'” - Todd Huntley, Georgetown Law (Gift article)
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
wapo.st
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime.'” - Todd Huntley, Georgetown Law (Gift article)
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Feed: "PCMag.com - Technology Product Reviews, News, Prices & Tips"
Published on Sunday, November 23, 2025
Published on Sunday, November 23, 2025
Mainstream US Publications Are Linking to Pro-Kremlin Disinformation Network
The Atlantic, Politico and others linked to sites created by Russia's Pravda disinformation network while treating them as legit sources. The content has also been scraped by AI chatbots.
www.pcmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Feed: "PCMag.com - Technology Product Reviews, News, Prices & Tips"
Published on Sunday, November 23, 2025
Published on Sunday, November 23, 2025
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A look behind the (bot, troll, Russia and beyond) attempt to divide and destroy America. With help from tech bros Russia and others are so happy.
#momsky
www.theverge.com/news/827298/...
#momsky
www.theverge.com/news/827298/...
About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem
X’s About This Account reveals the scale of its foreign troll problem, confirming that many MAGA accounts aren’t actually American.
www.theverge.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
A look behind the (bot, troll, Russia and beyond) attempt to divide and destroy America. With help from tech bros Russia and others are so happy.
#momsky
www.theverge.com/news/827298/...
#momsky
www.theverge.com/news/827298/...
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. | MIT Technology Review
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. | MIT Technology Review
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. | MIT Technology Review
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. | MIT Technology Review
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The warming planet could create millions more climate refugees in the coming years. Most will come from countries in the Global South, which are "suffering disproportionately the impacts of climate change but have not contributed to it."
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/20/climate_refugees
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/20/climate_refugees
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The warming planet could create millions more climate refugees in the coming years. Most will come from countries in the Global South, which are "suffering disproportionately the impacts of climate change but have not contributed to it."
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/20/climate_refugees
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/20/climate_refugees
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"Finance, fossil fuels & forests" are key issues at at this year's U.N. climate talks.
Climate Crisis Displaces 250 Million Over a Decade While U.S. & Other Polluting Nations Close Borders
As we broadcast from the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, calls are growing for stronger protections for refugees and migrants forcibly displaced by climate disasters. The United Nations estimat...
www.democracynow.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"Finance, fossil fuels & forests" are key issues at at this year's U.N. climate talks.
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Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin explains the roots of the genocide in Sudan.
“The UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.”
“The UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.”
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin explains the roots of the genocide in Sudan.
“The UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.”
“The UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.”
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Author Omar El Akkad has just won a National Book Award for "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" about Israel's genocide in Gaza and Western double standards on human rights.
Watch our two-part interview with El Akkad from earlier this year.
Watch our two-part interview with El Akkad from earlier this year.
“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”: Omar El Akkad on Gaza & Western Complicity
We speak with the award-winning author and journalist Omar El Akkad, whose new book about the war on Gaza is titled One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The book expands on a viral tw...
www.democracynow.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Author Omar El Akkad has just won a National Book Award for "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" about Israel's genocide in Gaza and Western double standards on human rights.
Watch our two-part interview with El Akkad from earlier this year.
Watch our two-part interview with El Akkad from earlier this year.
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Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre explains how cattle ranching leads to the Amazon's deforestation.
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre explains how cattle ranching leads to the Amazon's deforestation.
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The Amazon rainforest now produces more carbon emissions than it removes from the atmosphere.
The Race to Save the Amazon: Top Brazilian Scientist Says Rainforest Is at “Tipping Point”
As we broadcast from the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, we are joined by one of Brazil’s most prominent scientists, Carlos Nobre, who says the Amazon now produces more carbon emissions than it...
www.democracynow.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The Amazon rainforest now produces more carbon emissions than it removes from the atmosphere.
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This interview of Ro Khanna has profound insights into how he split the GOP to get his Epstein files bill passed. And lessons for how Democrats can build an enduring majority that wins policies that change lives. No paywall.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
Opinion | The Democrat Who Split MAGA Over the Epstein Files
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This interview of Ro Khanna has profound insights into how he split the GOP to get his Epstein files bill passed. And lessons for how Democrats can build an enduring majority that wins policies that change lives. No paywall.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
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At the moment, the official voice of the US government is a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating.
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
At the moment, the official voice of the US government is a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating.
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Coal is the dirtiest source of fossil fuel energy and a major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, making it bad not just for the climate but also for human health. That makes coal a good target for cutting global emissions. theconversation.com/can-the-worl...
Can the world quit coal?
Nearly a third of all countries worldwide have pledged to phase out their unabated coal-burning power. But China and India are still adding coal plants – for now.
theconversation.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Coal is the dirtiest source of fossil fuel energy and a major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, making it bad not just for the climate but also for human health. That makes coal a good target for cutting global emissions. theconversation.com/can-the-worl...
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Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
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On today's front page: Trump is
—adamantly refusing to pay $5 billion appropriated by Congress to feed the nation's poorest.
—quietly diverting *hundreds* of billions in “unlegislated tax cuts" to the superrich elite, private equity, and billionaire investors.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
—adamantly refusing to pay $5 billion appropriated by Congress to feed the nation's poorest.
—quietly diverting *hundreds* of billions in “unlegislated tax cuts" to the superrich elite, private equity, and billionaire investors.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
On today's front page: Trump is
—adamantly refusing to pay $5 billion appropriated by Congress to feed the nation's poorest.
—quietly diverting *hundreds* of billions in “unlegislated tax cuts" to the superrich elite, private equity, and billionaire investors.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
—adamantly refusing to pay $5 billion appropriated by Congress to feed the nation's poorest.
—quietly diverting *hundreds* of billions in “unlegislated tax cuts" to the superrich elite, private equity, and billionaire investors.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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Every factory on earth, except those located in the United States, can get the inputs they need from China, without paying an additional 145 percent markup.
April 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Every factory on earth, except those located in the United States, can get the inputs they need from China, without paying an additional 145 percent markup.
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Story on early changes from @vinnovase.bsky.social work on food systems transformation @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘If there’s a free alternative, I’ll eat healthily’: how Sweden devised brilliant school meals
A pilot scheme where students eat nutritious breakfasts using donated surplus food builds on the ‘folkhem’ welfare model to boost health and sustainability
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Story on early changes from @vinnovase.bsky.social work on food systems transformation @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.
How times change.
How times change.
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.
How times change.
How times change.