Turquoise Sky
@climateturquoise.bsky.social
Lover of books and cats, playing Stardew valley for second time, works on mitigating effects of climate change
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This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.
There must be consequences.
There must be consequences.
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Gonna shift my 8 House 4 Senate mantra to 218 House and 66 Senate.
Because if we start NOW then impeachment COULD be viable, even without first staging a coup against Mike Johnson, which nevertheless is a possibility.
Because if we start NOW then impeachment COULD be viable, even without first staging a coup against Mike Johnson, which nevertheless is a possibility.
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Gonna shift my 8 House 4 Senate mantra to 218 House and 66 Senate.
Because if we start NOW then impeachment COULD be viable, even without first staging a coup against Mike Johnson, which nevertheless is a possibility.
Because if we start NOW then impeachment COULD be viable, even without first staging a coup against Mike Johnson, which nevertheless is a possibility.
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.
I think the core point is that trump had a honeymoon in which capital/media/political opposition all decided he was the one true voice of america. he did a lot of horrible things with that (including murdering 100s of thousands), but didn't consolidate power...
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.
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I always learn from @davekarpf.bsky.social . His response to the NYT piece on the Sierra Club is very enlightening, not just (or even especially) as media criticism, but more as a discussion of civic associations and progressive advocacy at this moment. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Every generation gets to recreate the environmental movement to suit its own purposes
Some big-picture reactions to a recent NYT piece
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I always learn from @davekarpf.bsky.social . His response to the NYT piece on the Sierra Club is very enlightening, not just (or even especially) as media criticism, but more as a discussion of civic associations and progressive advocacy at this moment. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
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I want to say thank you to everyone who reads and supports Strength In Numbers. The organized backlash I'm getting from hacks and the centrist-contrarian-consultant industrial complex is proof of the value SIN brings to an otherwise insular and epistemically closed space. You make it possible! <3
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I want to say thank you to everyone who reads and supports Strength In Numbers. The organized backlash I'm getting from hacks and the centrist-contrarian-consultant industrial complex is proof of the value SIN brings to an otherwise insular and epistemically closed space. You make it possible! <3
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Peeps, here we go.
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Peeps, here we go.
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Without UC, remaining hurdles in the Senate:
– Up to 30 hours of debate
– Vote on adoption of the motion to proceed (simple majority)
– Wait two days
– Vote on cloture on the substitute amendment (60 votes)
– Up to 30 hours of debate
– Vote on adoption of the...
– Up to 30 hours of debate
– Vote on adoption of the motion to proceed (simple majority)
– Wait two days
– Vote on cloture on the substitute amendment (60 votes)
– Up to 30 hours of debate
– Vote on adoption of the...
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Without UC, remaining hurdles in the Senate:
– Up to 30 hours of debate
– Vote on adoption of the motion to proceed (simple majority)
– Wait two days
– Vote on cloture on the substitute amendment (60 votes)
– Up to 30 hours of debate
– Vote on adoption of the...
– Up to 30 hours of debate
– Vote on adoption of the motion to proceed (simple majority)
– Wait two days
– Vote on cloture on the substitute amendment (60 votes)
– Up to 30 hours of debate
– Vote on adoption of the...
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It is important to note that anyone other than probably CCM who has any interest in being relevant in dem party politics and isn't retiring soon noted out of this deal.
This was a grenade fall, which means leadership almost certainly blessed it.
This was a grenade fall, which means leadership almost certainly blessed it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
It is important to note that anyone other than probably CCM who has any interest in being relevant in dem party politics and isn't retiring soon noted out of this deal.
This was a grenade fall, which means leadership almost certainly blessed it.
This was a grenade fall, which means leadership almost certainly blessed it.
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
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But what do you think about current Dem leadership and are you calling for a change after this massive failure? That's power you have right now.
We should be asking this and related questions of all Senate Dems. Stay tuned for more tomorrow.
We should be asking this and related questions of all Senate Dems. Stay tuned for more tomorrow.
Tonight, I am voting no on a procedural vote on an appropriations deal that would re-open the government. Since July, I have been clear: to earn my vote, Republicans would have to do something to bring down the cost of health care for working and middle-class Michiganders. (1/4)
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
But what do you think about current Dem leadership and are you calling for a change after this massive failure? That's power you have right now.
We should be asking this and related questions of all Senate Dems. Stay tuned for more tomorrow.
We should be asking this and related questions of all Senate Dems. Stay tuned for more tomorrow.
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Do you support a change in Senate leadership after this surrender?
Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.
Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.
As I've always said, I will not support a government funding bill that continues to raise our costs, jeopardizes our health care, and hurts the people of my state.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Do you support a change in Senate leadership after this surrender?
Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.
Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.
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Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
This is a lovely sentiment but Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2028 and he knows this. At which point he will be 77/78. There's no mechanism to recall a sitting senator AFAIK.
Let’s be clear: Chuck Schumer is the one ending this shutdown, no matter how the votes read.
Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.
He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country
Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.
He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
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me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider
today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted
should have known better
today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted
should have known better
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...
prospect.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider
today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted
should have known better
today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted
should have known better
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A new bill poised to pass the Senate after clearing the House will govern how the federal government thins, burns and otherwise manages nearly 200 million acres of the nation’s forests.
Fix Our Forests Act divides environmental community - High Country News
But it’s a rare instance of bipartisan lawmaking and the biggest wildfire legislation in recent history.
buff.ly
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A new bill poised to pass the Senate after clearing the House will govern how the federal government thins, burns and otherwise manages nearly 200 million acres of the nation’s forests.
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One thing I will say, as a big “affordability” guy, is that it’s interesting how if you want to focus on “kitchen table issues” you’re a hack, consultant brain moron but if your pushing “affordability” you’ve got yr eye on the pulse, have vanquished neoliberalism and r generally killing it.
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
One thing I will say, as a big “affordability” guy, is that it’s interesting how if you want to focus on “kitchen table issues” you’re a hack, consultant brain moron but if your pushing “affordability” you’ve got yr eye on the pulse, have vanquished neoliberalism and r generally killing it.
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We’re about to hear these worthies explain the history of @talkingpointsmemo.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
We’re about to hear these worthies explain the history of @talkingpointsmemo.com
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Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?
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serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
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When we launched this campaign, we said we wanted to knock on one million doors across the five boroughs by the June primary.
Some people laughed. You got to work. We hit 1.6 million.
In the general, we said let's do it again. Another million.
We just passed three.
Some people laughed. You got to work. We hit 1.6 million.
In the general, we said let's do it again. Another million.
We just passed three.
November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
When we launched this campaign, we said we wanted to knock on one million doors across the five boroughs by the June primary.
Some people laughed. You got to work. We hit 1.6 million.
In the general, we said let's do it again. Another million.
We just passed three.
Some people laughed. You got to work. We hit 1.6 million.
In the general, we said let's do it again. Another million.
We just passed three.
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Trump confirms he is weaponizing hunger
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Trump confirms he is weaponizing hunger
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A reminder that less than two months ago, the Trump administration abruptly ended the federal government's 27-year practice of collecting data on hunger and food insecurity.
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A reminder that less than two months ago, the Trump administration abruptly ended the federal government's 27-year practice of collecting data on hunger and food insecurity.
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Anyone besides me worry that Wired is owned by Conde Nast?
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Anyone besides me worry that Wired is owned by Conde Nast?
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This bathroom looks like the set for an unpleasant scene in a Ingmar Bergman film where the storyboard just says GRETEL CONFRONTS ALIENATION
October 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This bathroom looks like the set for an unpleasant scene in a Ingmar Bergman film where the storyboard just says GRETEL CONFRONTS ALIENATION