@quizzical24.bsky.social
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I am more of a post-election refuge from the Washington Post. I wasn’t going to put up with subscribing to see Trump’s stunts and antics dominate the headlines and comment sections flooded with hundreds or thousands of trolls and bots. Time to try something new.
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Saturday News: DoJ “releases heavily redacted cache of...Epstein files”; “Trump Complains the FBI Made a Mess of Melania’s ‘Panties’”; “UVa’s board chose speed over legitimacy. Predictable crisis to follow”; “Sunshine is free. Don’t let Dominion try to block the sun” bluevirginia.us/2025/12/satu...
Saturday News: DoJ “releases heavily redacted cache of Jeffrey Epstein files”; In Speech Supposedly on Affordability, “Trump Complains the FBI Made a Mess of Melania’s ‘Panties’”; “UVa’s board chose s...
by Lowell Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, December 20. Was 2025 the year that business retreated from net zero? ("From retail...
bluevirginia.us
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Saturday News: DoJ “releases heavily redacted cache of...Epstein files”; “Trump Complains the FBI Made a Mess of Melania’s ‘Panties’”; “UVa’s board chose speed over legitimacy. Predictable crisis to follow”; “Sunshine is free. Don’t let Dominion try to block the sun” bluevirginia.us/2025/12/satu...
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NEW INTERVIEW: Chris Hall of Remote Area Medical: "Our health care system is broken."
Chris tells Kanew why RAM, which provides free health care in places like Tennessee to people who can't afford it, shouldn't have to exist. #MedicareForAllNOW
FULL: youtu.be/Qe0ZAj6HDVw?...
Chris tells Kanew why RAM, which provides free health care in places like Tennessee to people who can't afford it, shouldn't have to exist. #MedicareForAllNOW
FULL: youtu.be/Qe0ZAj6HDVw?...
December 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
NEW INTERVIEW: Chris Hall of Remote Area Medical: "Our health care system is broken."
Chris tells Kanew why RAM, which provides free health care in places like Tennessee to people who can't afford it, shouldn't have to exist. #MedicareForAllNOW
FULL: youtu.be/Qe0ZAj6HDVw?...
Chris tells Kanew why RAM, which provides free health care in places like Tennessee to people who can't afford it, shouldn't have to exist. #MedicareForAllNOW
FULL: youtu.be/Qe0ZAj6HDVw?...
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The guy who has spent 70 million of YOUR money playing golf this year believes a one time payment of 2k will take care of ALL your health insurance needs. Also, a bellicose dictator trying to bribe troops already deployed in American cities & coaxed into war crimes is bad f’n news.
December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The guy who has spent 70 million of YOUR money playing golf this year believes a one time payment of 2k will take care of ALL your health insurance needs. Also, a bellicose dictator trying to bribe troops already deployed in American cities & coaxed into war crimes is bad f’n news.
US natural gas companies are high on the list for having potentially stranded assets
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ownership of power plants stranded by climate mitigation - Nature Sustainability
Meeting climate mitigation goals requires the early retirement or retrofitting of fossil fuel power plants, creating financial risks from stranded assets. A study now finds that state-owned companies ...
www.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
US natural gas companies are high on the list for having potentially stranded assets
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Don’t think that all of Trump’s protectionist policies meant to protect his oil and gas donors from stranded assets are going to work
youtu.be/yR_d0DFNMo8?...
youtu.be/yR_d0DFNMo8?...
THE US IS BEING LEFT BEHIND: 18.5 Million EVs Sold in 2025 (China & Europe Explode)
YouTube video by The Electric Viking
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Don’t think that all of Trump’s protectionist policies meant to protect his oil and gas donors from stranded assets are going to work
youtu.be/yR_d0DFNMo8?...
youtu.be/yR_d0DFNMo8?...
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“NCAR has played a greater role in advancing weather prediction & atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social
Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH
Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH
Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center
Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the National Science Foundation "will be breaking up" the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
www.nbcnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“NCAR has played a greater role in advancing weather prediction & atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social
Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH
Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH
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it's so cool that he was able to run for president again and people elected him. just awesome stuff.
NEW: Jack Smith told lawmakers he developed "proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump engaged in a “criminal scheme” to overturn his election loss.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election
Smith testified about his investigations into Trump during a closed-door hearing with members of the House Judiciary Committee.
www.nbcnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
it's so cool that he was able to run for president again and people elected him. just awesome stuff.
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My collaborator and friend Chris Piecuch's new paper confirms: despite what the Department of Energy claimed, sea-level rise is indeed accelerating around the contiguous US
Rebutting a Trump report, study shows U.S. sea-level rise is accelerating
“It’s not politics. That’s what the data say,” said the study’s author, who examined 70 tide gauges around the country.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
My collaborator and friend Chris Piecuch's new paper confirms: despite what the Department of Energy claimed, sea-level rise is indeed accelerating around the contiguous US
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We are failing our kids
Ford aims to survive to the next bailout
Ford’s EV retreat highlights industry dilemma: Build for the US or the world? - www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Ford’s EV retreat highlights industry dilemma: Build for the US or the world? - www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Ford’s EV retreat highlights industry dilemma: Build for the US or the world?
Ford reflects the broader conundrum facing auto executives in the wake of Trump-administration policies that stripped the industry of EV subsidies and eased restrictions on tailpipe pollution.
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Ford aims to survive to the next bailout
Ford’s EV retreat highlights industry dilemma: Build for the US or the world? - www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Ford’s EV retreat highlights industry dilemma: Build for the US or the world? - www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Weird that a student loan default cliff is arriving at same time as the loss of ACA subsidies, which is a second cliff.
www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
Student Loans For 6.4 Million Borrowers Are Heading Toward A Dangerous ‘Cliff’
Many Americans are struggling with their student loans and millions are heading toward a default cliff, with potentially major financial consequences.
www.forbes.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Weird that a student loan default cliff is arriving at same time as the loss of ACA subsidies, which is a second cliff.
www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
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EU bends to automakers’ pleas to let them lose the EV race to China
EU bends to automakers’ pleas to let them lose the EV race to China
Europe has proposed to roll back its 2035 all-electric target, instead replacing it with a softer 90% reduction in automakers’ fleet CO₂ emissions, in what will be a major blow to the European auto industry’s global competitiveness which they, for some reason, are celebrating.
more…
electrek.co
December 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
EU bends to automakers’ pleas to let them lose the EV race to China
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He's not building a ballroom.
substack.com/@thedreydoss...
substack.com/@thedreydoss...
Trump Isn’t Building a Ballroom
When Trump announced a $300 million ballroom at the White House, something went off in my brain.
substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
He's not building a ballroom.
substack.com/@thedreydoss...
substack.com/@thedreydoss...
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"Trump has spent years cultivating the idea that lawsuits are weapons he can deploy without personal exposure. That belief holds only as long as discovery remains abstract." But in his Florida suit against the Pulitzer Prize board, discovery is finally starting to matter. [@jeffquinton.bsky.social]
Trump Wanted a Lawsuit. He Got Discovery.
Discovery has a way of clarifying things.
quintonretort.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"Trump has spent years cultivating the idea that lawsuits are weapons he can deploy without personal exposure. That belief holds only as long as discovery remains abstract." But in his Florida suit against the Pulitzer Prize board, discovery is finally starting to matter. [@jeffquinton.bsky.social]