@wcshaw.bsky.social
Writer, editor, teacher. Sacred Monkey River, WWNorton; The Power Line, A Novel, and novel The Manager, from Miller Pond Editions. Cshaw.net. Adirondacks/VT. (Guaranteed 100% AI-free.)
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Stop calling them ICE agents. They’re not actual law enforcement. They are thugs-for-hire recruited from the Proud Boys, J6ers, and others. They are violent predators given the freedom to run wild against the people they have demonized. Every one of them must be brought to justice when this is over.
November 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Stop calling them ICE agents. They’re not actual law enforcement. They are thugs-for-hire recruited from the Proud Boys, J6ers, and others. They are violent predators given the freedom to run wild against the people they have demonized. Every one of them must be brought to justice when this is over.
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Clyburn calls out Bessent for trying to take credit on a project in his district initiated by Biden.
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Clyburn calls out Bessent for trying to take credit on a project in his district initiated by Biden.
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it's cool how every media company's response to workers unionizing their highly successful publication now seems to be folding said publication and laying everyone off. it's giving real Cashing Out at the Casino vibes
"nearly 10 years, Teen Vogue was an improbable home for...the sharpest justice journalism in the country. While other outlets chased clicks or softened language, Teen Vogue published incisive essays on prisons, abortion criminalization, police violence, & democracy"
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Shuttering of “Teen Vogue” and the Silencing of Progressive Voices
The disappearance of the platform is bigger than one newsroom.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
it's cool how every media company's response to workers unionizing their highly successful publication now seems to be folding said publication and laying everyone off. it's giving real Cashing Out at the Casino vibes
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OK I recorded a pod on balcony solar & folks it is f'ing awesome. I was vaguely excited about this before digging in & now I'm *extremely* excited about it.
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
OK I recorded a pod on balcony solar & folks it is f'ing awesome. I was vaguely excited about this before digging in & now I'm *extremely* excited about it.
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80 people. Basically, Trump and Hegseth are prolific serial killers. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
U.S. Strike Kills 4 on Boat Trump Says Was Smuggling Drugs
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
80 people. Basically, Trump and Hegseth are prolific serial killers. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
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"Also amazing are pancakes, folks. A new word nobody has ever heard. I came up with it. They're like cakes but from a pan. I call them pancakes. Christians too. Adopting to pancakes. Very big stuff. Ballroom. Huge. And some say flarpnozzle bing. Bingidy bangidy. So sad. Flurp."
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"Also amazing are pancakes, folks. A new word nobody has ever heard. I came up with it. They're like cakes but from a pan. I call them pancakes. Christians too. Adopting to pancakes. Very big stuff. Ballroom. Huge. And some say flarpnozzle bing. Bingidy bangidy. So sad. Flurp."
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I'm tracking how minerals needed for the energy transition are finally making it into the UN climate talks at #COP30 in Belém.
This is mostly happening under negotiations to ensure that the shift from fossil fuels to clean energy is fair, sustainable and doesn't foster new social injustices.
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This is mostly happening under negotiations to ensure that the shift from fossil fuels to clean energy is fair, sustainable and doesn't foster new social injustices.
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⛏️ COP30 could be the first to discuss the impacts and opportunities of mining the minerals needed for the energy transition.
tinyurl.com/392badee
The UN climate talks have never addressed the material dimension of the energy transition before.
I'm going to be tracking those discussions here👇
tinyurl.com/392badee
The UN climate talks have never addressed the material dimension of the energy transition before.
I'm going to be tracking those discussions here👇
COP30 could confront "glaring gap" in clean energy agenda: mining
Resource-rich developing countries want the impacts and benefits of mineral extraction to be part of climate talks
www.climatechangenews.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I'm tracking how minerals needed for the energy transition are finally making it into the UN climate talks at #COP30 in Belém.
This is mostly happening under negotiations to ensure that the shift from fossil fuels to clean energy is fair, sustainable and doesn't foster new social injustices.
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This is mostly happening under negotiations to ensure that the shift from fossil fuels to clean energy is fair, sustainable and doesn't foster new social injustices.
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#TruthWarriors #HearthWarriors 🫂strike boycott blackout
🧵🧵 defend the hearth 🫂 ... defund the billionaires 🐷
"billionaires are killing off the growing edges of their people"
🧵 bsky.app/profile/jord...
🧵🧵 defend the hearth 🫂 ... defund the billionaires 🐷
"billionaires are killing off the growing edges of their people"
🧵 bsky.app/profile/jord...
In the fine print, though it should *absolutely* be emphasized in HUGE ALL-CAPS: " we ask that all participants purchase goods needed from community-owned stores and markets..." Similarly obscured on the blackoutthesystem website, I managed to find this:
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#TruthWarriors #HearthWarriors 🫂strike boycott blackout
🧵🧵 defend the hearth 🫂 ... defund the billionaires 🐷
"billionaires are killing off the growing edges of their people"
🧵 bsky.app/profile/jord...
🧵🧵 defend the hearth 🫂 ... defund the billionaires 🐷
"billionaires are killing off the growing edges of their people"
🧵 bsky.app/profile/jord...
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Do your part. I'll do mine. www.falloffreedom.com
Fall of Freedom
Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation.
www.falloffreedom.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Do your part. I'll do mine. www.falloffreedom.com
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Corporate Dem apologists are out in force today trying to rewrite this capitulation into a win somehow. They’re back to blaming progressives and ignoring the corruption in their own party.
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Corporate Dem apologists are out in force today trying to rewrite this capitulation into a win somehow. They’re back to blaming progressives and ignoring the corruption in their own party.
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Happy Veterans Day.
One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.
Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.
Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Has Forced Out An Alarming Number Of Federal Workers — And Now We Have An Exact Number
“The performance of our government across the board is being diminished,” warned Max Stier, CEO of Partnership for Public Service.
www.huffpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Happy Veterans Day.
One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.
Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.
Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Not only no but hell no. 🖕
And just like that, a newly emboldened GOP adds a poison pill to likely tank ACA subsidies. I feel like we’re living through the national equivalent of a home invasion, only rather than defending ourselves, we unlock the door because we worry the invaders might hurt themselves trying to kick it in…
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Not only no but hell no. 🖕
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NEWS: Senate Republicans are threatening to block the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies—unless Democrats agree to tougher abortion restrictions.
Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions to extend Obamacare funds
Democrats say that’s a nonstarter, arguing there are already limits on abortion access. The dispute could torpedo a deal, leading to higher health insurance premiums for millions.
www.nbcnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I'm shockedshocked
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NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳
But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"
Read more 👇:
But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"
Read more 👇:
COP30’s agriculture showcase sponsored by agribiz interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying
Sponsors of the sustainable agriculture pavilion at COP30 will include pesticides giant Bayer, alleged by campaigners to be driving “massive deforestation” on the continent, and a branch of Brazil’s l...
unearthed.greenpeace.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳
But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"
Read more 👇:
But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"
Read more 👇:
Just occurred to me: Do you ever hear about massive layoffs at insurance companies? Bailouts? Buy-outs? Not that much. Am I wrong?
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just occurred to me: Do you ever hear about massive layoffs at insurance companies? Bailouts? Buy-outs? Not that much. Am I wrong?
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Today on Volts: as you may have heard, there were some elections last week. How did they go for climate world? To find out, I did my annual check-in with @spears.bsky.social of @climatecabinet.org. I don't want to spoil anything, but folks ... they went well. Really well.
So, there were some elections. How'd they go?
I talk with Caroline Spears about the stunning results in key state and local races and the lessons for 2026.
www.volts.wtf
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Today on Volts: as you may have heard, there were some elections last week. How did they go for climate world? To find out, I did my annual check-in with @spears.bsky.social of @climatecabinet.org. I don't want to spoil anything, but folks ... they went well. Really well.
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Americans are enraged, and they want fighters: an opposition party that communicates that they share and understand that rage. The Senate Democrats showed Sunday that they still don’t get that, and it’s not clear that some of them ever will. trib.al/mZfi6Qw
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Americans are enraged, and they want fighters: an opposition party that communicates that they share and understand that rage. The Senate Democrats showed Sunday that they still don’t get that, and it’s not clear that some of them ever will. trib.al/mZfi6Qw
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U.N. climate negotiations begin Monday at a meeting on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon, with leaders pushing for urgency, cooperation and acceleration after more than 30 years fighting to curb global warming by drastically reducing the carbon pollution that causes it.
Climate talks start with call for faster action and more togetherness, but without the US
U.N. climate negotiations begin Monday with leaders urging urgency and cooperation to curb global warming.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
U.N. climate negotiations begin Monday at a meeting on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon, with leaders pushing for urgency, cooperation and acceleration after more than 30 years fighting to curb global warming by drastically reducing the carbon pollution that causes it.
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Absolutely correct
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Absolutely correct
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I double dog dare ANYONE to give me one legitimate reason why we need health insurance companies.
Besides making money for themselves and frustrating the shit out of needy people, what actual necessary service do they provide?
Besides making money for themselves and frustrating the shit out of needy people, what actual necessary service do they provide?
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I double dog dare ANYONE to give me one legitimate reason why we need health insurance companies.
Besides making money for themselves and frustrating the shit out of needy people, what actual necessary service do they provide?
Besides making money for themselves and frustrating the shit out of needy people, what actual necessary service do they provide?
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MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
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I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
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Back pay was legally OBLIGATED!!
They did not “get” back pay. The promise now to offer back pay was a negotiating tacit that obviously swayed our weak as soup water Senators.
Schumer’s Suckers caved for NOTHING!
They did not “get” back pay. The promise now to offer back pay was a negotiating tacit that obviously swayed our weak as soup water Senators.
Schumer’s Suckers caved for NOTHING!
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Back pay was legally OBLIGATED!!
They did not “get” back pay. The promise now to offer back pay was a negotiating tacit that obviously swayed our weak as soup water Senators.
Schumer’s Suckers caved for NOTHING!
They did not “get” back pay. The promise now to offer back pay was a negotiating tacit that obviously swayed our weak as soup water Senators.
Schumer’s Suckers caved for NOTHING!
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.