Gregory Todd
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Another lovely geology day in the Hebrides. An Sgùrr on Eigg is magic combination of a highly satisfying walk, amazing scenery and a cracking geological detective story (complete with smoking gun).
June 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Another lovely geology day in the Hebrides. An Sgùrr on Eigg is magic combination of a highly satisfying walk, amazing scenery and a cracking geological detective story (complete with smoking gun).
Never a good idea to sell assets to support your lifestyle.
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Republicans to Pay for Trump Tax Cuts With Sales of Public Land
House Republicans have added a plan to raise billions of dollars to help pay for US President Donald Trump’s massive tax cuts through the sale of thousands of acres of federal land — a politically cha...
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May 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Never a good idea to sell assets to support your lifestyle.
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The Major Questions Doctrine - news to me, but here is what could boomerang back on the President
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Opinion | Will This Conservative Legal Doctrine Undo Trump’s First Months in Office? (Gift Article)
What goes around, comes around. And it is not likely to be good for the White House.
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April 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The Major Questions Doctrine - news to me, but here is what could boomerang back on the President
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/o...
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Today's headline in Japan's Nikkei Shinbum: "Standard-bearer for free trade, America, suddenly announces "Sakoku" [Edo era closed-country] policy. Turning point in post-War order".
Yup.
Yup.
April 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Today's headline in Japan's Nikkei Shinbum: "Standard-bearer for free trade, America, suddenly announces "Sakoku" [Edo era closed-country] policy. Turning point in post-War order".
Yup.
Yup.
**A MUST READ**
The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
Opinion | The Rise and Fall of Elon Musk (Gift Article)
His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.
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April 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
**A MUST READ**
The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
Should we care at all about the lives of chickens?
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This little-known company is a major funder of right-wing politics. You’ve probably eaten their chicken.
And no, it’s not Chick-fil-A.
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March 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Should we care at all about the lives of chickens?
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The philosophy behind Trump’s Dark Enlightenment - on.ft.com/3DUYvQD via @FT
In which Peter Theil and others state flatly that freedom and democracy or incompatible - So democracy must go
In which Peter Theil and others state flatly that freedom and democracy or incompatible - So democracy must go
The philosophy behind Trump’s Dark Enlightenment
An English magus of anti-democratic neoreaction has become a touchstone for the alt-right
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March 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The philosophy behind Trump’s Dark Enlightenment - on.ft.com/3DUYvQD via @FT
In which Peter Theil and others state flatly that freedom and democracy or incompatible - So democracy must go
In which Peter Theil and others state flatly that freedom and democracy or incompatible - So democracy must go
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/c...
No more environmental suits.
This is the Peter Thiel approach: Spend millions on legal fees, but bankrupt your opponent
No more environmental suits.
This is the Peter Thiel approach: Spend millions on legal fees, but bankrupt your opponent
Greenpeace Is Ordered to Pay Energy Transfer, a Pipeline Company, $660 Million (Gift Article)
The environmental group had said the lawsuit, over its role in a protest movement, could mean an end to its operations in the United States.
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March 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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No more environmental suits.
This is the Peter Thiel approach: Spend millions on legal fees, but bankrupt your opponent
No more environmental suits.
This is the Peter Thiel approach: Spend millions on legal fees, but bankrupt your opponent
If you don't know about Peter Thiel, you should read up. The quiet Elon Musk.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Peter Thiel’s Network Is Quietly Shaping Trump’s Government
The tech magnate has many links to the new Trump administration and the cost-slashing effort led by Elon Musk.
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March 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
If you don't know about Peter Thiel, you should read up. The quiet Elon Musk.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
"As much as 5,000,000 pounds, or 548 tons, of carbonic acid is formed by respiration in London alone in 24 hours. And where does all this go? Up into the air."
- Michael Faraday, Lecture VI, The Chemistry of a Candle (1859) (lectures at the Royal institution)
- Michael Faraday, Lecture VI, The Chemistry of a Candle (1859) (lectures at the Royal institution)
March 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"As much as 5,000,000 pounds, or 548 tons, of carbonic acid is formed by respiration in London alone in 24 hours. And where does all this go? Up into the air."
- Michael Faraday, Lecture VI, The Chemistry of a Candle (1859) (lectures at the Royal institution)
- Michael Faraday, Lecture VI, The Chemistry of a Candle (1859) (lectures at the Royal institution)
Unfortunate, but this is where we are
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Redirecting...
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March 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Unfortunate, but this is where we are
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“I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.”
--- Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME), 1950
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--- Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME), 1950
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February 23, 2025
Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday.
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February 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
“I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.”
--- Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME), 1950
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
--- Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME), 1950
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"Razin' Caine" - totally unqualified. Maybe Trump really is a Putin agent?
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February 22, 2025
Last night’s Friday Night News Dump was a doozy: Trump has purged the country’s military leadership.
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February 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
"Razin' Caine" - totally unqualified. Maybe Trump really is a Putin agent?
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He is living in a "disinformation space". Even his former Vice President denounces him as a liar.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...
Fact-check: Did Ukraine start its war with Russia, as Trump claims?
Trump has blamed Ukrainian President Zelenskyy for starting the war with Russia, fuelling a war of words amid talks.
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February 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
He is living in a "disinformation space". Even his former Vice President denounces him as a liar.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...
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Pasteur and the Mer de Glace! Great stuff www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/s...
Louis Pasteur’s Relentless Hunt for Germs Floating in the Air (Gift Article)
In 19th-century France, the young chemist challenged the theory of spontaneous generation and discovered an invisible world of airborne microbes.
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February 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Pasteur and the Mer de Glace! Great stuff www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/s...
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February 17, 1740, birthday of Horace Benedict de Saussure.
He argued that naturalists should collect observations and measurements in the field. He climbed some of the highest peaks in the Alps, studied alpine-type minerals & described large-scale folding
He argued that naturalists should collect observations and measurements in the field. He climbed some of the highest peaks in the Alps, studied alpine-type minerals & described large-scale folding
February 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
February 17, 1740, birthday of Horace Benedict de Saussure.
He argued that naturalists should collect observations and measurements in the field. He climbed some of the highest peaks in the Alps, studied alpine-type minerals & described large-scale folding
He argued that naturalists should collect observations and measurements in the field. He climbed some of the highest peaks in the Alps, studied alpine-type minerals & described large-scale folding
gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...
How Elon Musk and the Right Are Trying to Recast Reporting as ‘Doxxing’ (Gift Article)
Right-wing influencers are criticizing journalists who have published public information about government employees.
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February 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...
Much food for thought. Dem leaders need to read these letters, all.
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Opinion | The only cure for Democrats’ woes is a long, hard look in the mirror
Introduce bills. Ditch identity politics. Recruit charisma. Democrats have to snap out of it.
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February 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Much food for thought. Dem leaders need to read these letters, all.
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wapo.st/4aVLPoG
I see. It's about Ukraine.
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Visualizing the international reach of U.S. funding cut by Trump
Using graphics to illustrate the scope of U.S. foreign aid spending and analyzing how the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts could play out across the world.
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February 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I see. It's about Ukraine.
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🎁 Gift : Don’t Let Trump Turn X and TikTok Into State-Run Social Media www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Don’t Let Trump Turn X and TikTok Into State-Run Social Media
The platforms are in danger of essentially being nationalized by the president.
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February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🎁 Gift : Don’t Let Trump Turn X and TikTok Into State-Run Social Media www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/w...
Foreign Strongmen Cheer as Musk Dismantles U.S. Aid Agency (Gift Article)
Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on U.S.A.I.D., which many authoritarians have seen as a threat.
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February 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/w...