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Urban Planning
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By attempting to abdicate any legal responsibility to provide for a healthy environment, the U.S. is running in the opposite direction as the global legal community, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports:
America Is Living in a Climate-Denial Fantasy
On climate, the U.S. and the rest of the planet are now in “completely separate worlds.”
bit.ly
August 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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June 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Trump in 2013: “Remember what I previously said--Obama will someday attack Iran in order to show how tough he is.”
June 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Unfreedom at the Washington Post ... simply brilliant open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Unfreedom at the Washington Post
How an editorial line fosters authoritarianism
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
The War Trump Chooses
That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason
snyder.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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DOGE recommended firing workers at:

-FDA, which oversees Neuralink

-FAA, which oversees SpaceX

-USAID, which probed Starlink

-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.

"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
March 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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what a day
March 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Good debunk of a notorious fossil fuel lie.

In reality, as low-cost wind and solar enter the dispatch queue, high-cost fossil fuel plants in the stack go off-line, saving consumers money. The more they are off-line, the more the savings.
No, renewables don't need expensive backup power on today's grids
The actual story is the opposite: renewable energy pushes the most expensive fossil fuel plants out of business, lowering costs for consumers
www.theclimatebrink.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Enforcement at the Federal level has already been kneecapped due to Sackett. Now it's happening at the state level in Kentucky:
Kentucky bill would give coal, other industries the right to pollute our water | Opinion
Senate Bill 89 is being promoted as a win for industry, particularly coal, but the consequences for our water supply would be disastrous.
www.courier-journal.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create”

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The End of the Postwar World
Trump and Vance are sending a dark message to America’s allies.
www.theatlantic.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Yo DOGE,

Found your waste! 👇🏼
February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I know so many atheists who are so much more Christlike than any MAGA member.

Because atheism does't require rejecting the actual teachings of Jesus. MAGA does.
February 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM