O Douglas Price
@odouglasprice.bsky.social
Sustainability professional; social democrat; climate hawk; active mobility advocate; recovering architect; Scouting America girls troop leader
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Retribution as a system of power: Reuters identified 247 people and entities singled out by name for punishment, and another 224 swept up in crackdowns on groups of perceived opponents, not named publicly but part of a broad retribution campaign. Explore the data: reut.rs/49B2UWt
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Retribution as a system of power: Reuters identified 247 people and entities singled out by name for punishment, and another 224 swept up in crackdowns on groups of perceived opponents, not named publicly but part of a broad retribution campaign. Explore the data: reut.rs/49B2UWt
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This is a really, really important ruling that could keep many, many thousands of people from unnecessary detention.
New: A federal judge in California ruled that Trump's administration cannot impose mandatory detention on thousands of migrants held by U.S. immigration authorities nationally without first giving them an opportunity to seek release on bond. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
This is a really, really important ruling that could keep many, many thousands of people from unnecessary detention.
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This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
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Yes, I called this.
Yes, I hate being right.
No, this will not end any time soon.
Avoidable deaths of babies & children will only increase until #Wormbrain is gone & #Quackery is kicked to the curb at DHHS.
#AmericasOnLifeSupport
#VaccinesWork
#ImpeachAndRemove
www.wlwt.com/article/kent...
Yes, I hate being right.
No, this will not end any time soon.
Avoidable deaths of babies & children will only increase until #Wormbrain is gone & #Quackery is kicked to the curb at DHHS.
#AmericasOnLifeSupport
#VaccinesWork
#ImpeachAndRemove
www.wlwt.com/article/kent...
Third Kentucky infant dies from whooping cough as statewide cases surge
A third Kentucky infant has died from whooping cough in the last 12 months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health said Monday.
www.wlwt.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Yes, I called this.
Yes, I hate being right.
No, this will not end any time soon.
Avoidable deaths of babies & children will only increase until #Wormbrain is gone & #Quackery is kicked to the curb at DHHS.
#AmericasOnLifeSupport
#VaccinesWork
#ImpeachAndRemove
www.wlwt.com/article/kent...
Yes, I hate being right.
No, this will not end any time soon.
Avoidable deaths of babies & children will only increase until #Wormbrain is gone & #Quackery is kicked to the curb at DHHS.
#AmericasOnLifeSupport
#VaccinesWork
#ImpeachAndRemove
www.wlwt.com/article/kent...
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“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
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This is something you’d be interested in, Mike.
The Government Architect in Sydney has set up a program of expedited approvals for group of well-designed mid-rise apartment buildings following a pattern book approach. Documentation is available at a low cost.
www.planning.nsw.gov.au/government-a...
The Government Architect in Sydney has set up a program of expedited approvals for group of well-designed mid-rise apartment buildings following a pattern book approach. Documentation is available at a low cost.
www.planning.nsw.gov.au/government-a...
Pattern designs | Planning
The NSW Housing Pattern book contains designs for low- and mid-rise housing developments, including semi-detached homes, terraces, row and manor homes.
www.planning.nsw.gov.au
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This is something you’d be interested in, Mike.
The Government Architect in Sydney has set up a program of expedited approvals for group of well-designed mid-rise apartment buildings following a pattern book approach. Documentation is available at a low cost.
www.planning.nsw.gov.au/government-a...
The Government Architect in Sydney has set up a program of expedited approvals for group of well-designed mid-rise apartment buildings following a pattern book approach. Documentation is available at a low cost.
www.planning.nsw.gov.au/government-a...
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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WHOOOOPS I impulse bought the newsroom a poster at the transit museum gift shopppppp
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
WHOOOOPS I impulse bought the newsroom a poster at the transit museum gift shopppppp
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So apparently the correct response to shopping centre Santa ringing his bell is not to shout "bring out your dead!"
No sense of humour, some people...
No sense of humour, some people...
December 16, 2024 at 1:09 PM
So apparently the correct response to shopping centre Santa ringing his bell is not to shout "bring out your dead!"
No sense of humour, some people...
No sense of humour, some people...
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It's much simpler than that. The Boy Scouts aren't maximally cruel to trans kids and so Republicans believe it should be destroyed.
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It's much simpler than that. The Boy Scouts aren't maximally cruel to trans kids and so Republicans believe it should be destroyed.
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People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)
Everything changed in the last few weeks. The Republicans, assumed by themselves and too many others, to be unstoppable got stopped again and again. Public opinion manifested in many ways: as an elect...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
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I gotta say as a white person...we're really not beating the accusations against us
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I gotta say as a white person...we're really not beating the accusations against us
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We may be getting the Epstein Files in December, but they’re still hiding the Jobs Report, the Inflation Report, and the GDP Report.
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
We may be getting the Epstein Files in December, but they’re still hiding the Jobs Report, the Inflation Report, and the GDP Report.
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I just want to point out that there is a lane for someone to start a small media company whose express mission statement is "nothing we put on the internet was made by AI" & every time a category gets overrun like this, they branch out
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I just want to point out that there is a lane for someone to start a small media company whose express mission statement is "nothing we put on the internet was made by AI" & every time a category gets overrun like this, they branch out
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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The thing is we've known that housing the homeless is cheaper than neglect, we've known that Ubi is effective at eliminating poverty, we've known that heavily subsidized housing and education leads people into the middle class, we've known all of these things in some cases for 70 years.
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The thing is we've known that housing the homeless is cheaper than neglect, we've known that Ubi is effective at eliminating poverty, we've known that heavily subsidized housing and education leads people into the middle class, we've known all of these things in some cases for 70 years.
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Pete Hegseth keeps demanding to be taken seriously and then spends all his time talking down to accomplished military leaders, rebranding his department and renaming ships, engaging in culture wars bullshit, shitting all over the military's sense of ethics and generally making an ass of himself.
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Pete Hegseth keeps demanding to be taken seriously and then spends all his time talking down to accomplished military leaders, rebranding his department and renaming ships, engaging in culture wars bullshit, shitting all over the military's sense of ethics and generally making an ass of himself.
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Just a heads up, but if you are at the point of authoritarian consolidation where the fascist paramilitary troops are destroying security cameras and evidence of their crimes, not just publicly, but in court as well, you are far past the point where this ends peacefully
If ICE has nothing to hide from its raid in San Antonio, why did they smash security cameras?
If authorities are so sure they arrested 51 members of Tren de Aragua, why can’t they offer proof? www.kens5.com/article/news...
If authorities are so sure they arrested 51 members of Tren de Aragua, why can’t they offer proof? www.kens5.com/article/news...
The latest: 51 of 143 detained in major San Antonio raid are Tren de Aragua members, FBI says
The Nov. 16 raid in the area of San Pedro and Basse was the result of an investigation into a drug dealer, according to records.
www.kens5.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Just a heads up, but if you are at the point of authoritarian consolidation where the fascist paramilitary troops are destroying security cameras and evidence of their crimes, not just publicly, but in court as well, you are far past the point where this ends peacefully
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the "view that working-class individuals are more prejudiced towards immigrants & ethnic minorities is shown to be a function of economic threat - highly educated people also express prejudice towards these groups when the latter are described as highly educated & therefore pose an economic threat."
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
the "view that working-class individuals are more prejudiced towards immigrants & ethnic minorities is shown to be a function of economic threat - highly educated people also express prejudice towards these groups when the latter are described as highly educated & therefore pose an economic threat."
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More elections are already around the corner, mere days.
And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida.
And that's just the tip of a busy election month.
My new guide, just out:
And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida.
And that's just the tip of a busy election month.
My new guide, just out:
The 25 Elections to Watch This December - Bolts
On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have opportunities to gain further ground in December runoffs and special elections. They’re hoping for upsets in conservative territory, fro...
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
More elections are already around the corner, mere days.
And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida.
And that's just the tip of a busy election month.
My new guide, just out:
And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida.
And that's just the tip of a busy election month.
My new guide, just out:
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The only response is, "So you're saying service members SHOULD comply with illegal orders?"
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The only response is, "So you're saying service members SHOULD comply with illegal orders?"
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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At a certain point, our leaders must ask themselves what should the rest of the society be asked to sacrifice to enable the voraciousness of Big Tech:
www.eenews.net/articles/spr...
www.eenews.net/articles/spr...
Spread of data centers raises risk of winter outages, grid monitor warns
Regions where peak electricity demand has risen quickly face the highest risks, says the North American Electric Reliability Corp.
www.eenews.net
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
At a certain point, our leaders must ask themselves what should the rest of the society be asked to sacrifice to enable the voraciousness of Big Tech:
www.eenews.net/articles/spr...
www.eenews.net/articles/spr...