Joe Sabol
@josephsabol.bsky.social
Chemical polymer semiconductor metal/oxide consultant; organic vegetable farmer; skiing, foodie, jazz & blues aficionado; rule of law, duty of care. Reduce atmospheric CO2, CH4, N2O, CFCs, SF6. Have fun, smile, and learn something new each day. Wisc & Mich
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Joe Sabol
@josephsabol.bsky.social
· Jun 14
![Projection screen showing a slide that says, "We all do better when we all do better." ~ Paul Wellstone [former U.S. Senator from Minnesota.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:urvhorsp3mbfyqa5n3ebhxhf/bafkreihctol5fj4adrwormro6lywruojz5guroeuezmnv6uxata7pu6bqi@jpeg)
ALT TEXT: Projection screen showing a slide that says, "We all do better when we all do better." ~ Paul Wellstone [former U.S. Senator from Minnesota.]
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
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About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
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2/ Other separations were just as mundane. In South Carolina, a Colombian family showed up for a routine fingerprinting appointment, only for the parents to be detained while the children — ages 5, 11 and 15 — went into the federal shelter system for months.
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
2/ Other separations were just as mundane. In South Carolina, a Colombian family showed up for a routine fingerprinting appointment, only for the parents to be detained while the children — ages 5, 11 and 15 — went into the federal shelter system for months.
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
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I’m still flabbergasted — and not a little bummed out — that we could write a long series of stories listing zillionaire after zillionaire who didn’t pay taxes for years and years — and basically nothing happened
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I’m still flabbergasted — and not a little bummed out — that we could write a long series of stories listing zillionaire after zillionaire who didn’t pay taxes for years and years — and basically nothing happened
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An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
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We are spending 175 billion dollars on ICE to brutalize communities and traumatize children for life.
This is being done in your name, with your tax dollars, on our watch. Don’t look away.
This is being done in your name, with your tax dollars, on our watch. Don’t look away.
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We are spending 175 billion dollars on ICE to brutalize communities and traumatize children for life.
This is being done in your name, with your tax dollars, on our watch. Don’t look away.
This is being done in your name, with your tax dollars, on our watch. Don’t look away.
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Cartoon by David Horsey.
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Cartoon by David Horsey.
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People who find feminism threatening are both ill educated and bigoted.
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
People who find feminism threatening are both ill educated and bigoted.
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An average family of four now pays over $1,000 each month for groceries. But Trump’s “main priority” is building his ballroom.
He doesn’t care about whether you have to put something back on the shelf after checking the price tag.
He doesn’t care about whether you have to put something back on the shelf after checking the price tag.
U.S. grocery prices have hit a record high — the monthly cost for a family of four is now $1,030.
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
An average family of four now pays over $1,000 each month for groceries. But Trump’s “main priority” is building his ballroom.
He doesn’t care about whether you have to put something back on the shelf after checking the price tag.
He doesn’t care about whether you have to put something back on the shelf after checking the price tag.
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Big online retailers want you to forget that humans type in all the products, and humans pack and ship your orders.
They need you to believe that it's "easier" to shop with them.
Then they slash products and services to maximize profits.
That's not fair to their workers.
Or to you.
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They need you to believe that it's "easier" to shop with them.
Then they slash products and services to maximize profits.
That's not fair to their workers.
Or to you.
🧵
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Big online retailers want you to forget that humans type in all the products, and humans pack and ship your orders.
They need you to believe that it's "easier" to shop with them.
Then they slash products and services to maximize profits.
That's not fair to their workers.
Or to you.
🧵
They need you to believe that it's "easier" to shop with them.
Then they slash products and services to maximize profits.
That's not fair to their workers.
Or to you.
🧵
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Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
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Its interesting that no one really talks about the fact they also took down the existing extremely good team that looked for cost improvements
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Its interesting that no one really talks about the fact they also took down the existing extremely good team that looked for cost improvements
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Congress Rebuked Trump On His Epstein Cover Up. Now It Must Rebuke Him On His Surrendering Of Ukraine To Putin
open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
Congress Rebuked Trump On His Epstein Cover Up. Now It Must Rebuke Him On His Surrendering Of Ukraine To Putin
“The President’s appeasement plan to Russia is forcing our hand" - Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.)
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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The US now has the Thiel-Vance foreign policy, the Steve Witkoff foreign policy, the Jared Kushner foreign policy, the Marco Rubio foreign policy, and once in a blue moon the Donald Trump foreign policy... and Putin and Netanyahu plus Saudi, UAE & Qatar drive most of it.
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The US now has the Thiel-Vance foreign policy, the Steve Witkoff foreign policy, the Jared Kushner foreign policy, the Marco Rubio foreign policy, and once in a blue moon the Donald Trump foreign policy... and Putin and Netanyahu plus Saudi, UAE & Qatar drive most of it.
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Thomas Massie says the FBI is sitting on information that implicates 20 other men in Epstein's child sex trafficking operation
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Thomas Massie says the FBI is sitting on information that implicates 20 other men in Epstein's child sex trafficking operation
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
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Trump keeps propping up expensive, unreliable coal plants and your energy bills keep rising.
Cheap energy is clean energy. Trump’s fossil fuel obsession makes families pay more. www.lcv.org/blog/how-tru...
Cheap energy is clean energy. Trump’s fossil fuel obsession makes families pay more. www.lcv.org/blog/how-tru...
How Trump’s Coal Plant Obsession is Making Energy More Expensive
Coal plants are dirty, expensive, and unreliable. President Trump is determined to keep them open anyway. Here's how the rest of us are paying the price.
www.lcv.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Trump keeps propping up expensive, unreliable coal plants and your energy bills keep rising.
Cheap energy is clean energy. Trump’s fossil fuel obsession makes families pay more. www.lcv.org/blog/how-tru...
Cheap energy is clean energy. Trump’s fossil fuel obsession makes families pay more. www.lcv.org/blog/how-tru...
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All I can say is if that’s a real poem from RFK Junior, he’s an even worse writer than Nuzzi or Lizza. This whole thing offends me on a talent level more than anything else.
The bamboo metaphor is back: Ryan Lizza has dropped Part 2.
Below are the opening paragraphs, but most of it is behind a paywall.
(My apologies in advance.)
Below are the opening paragraphs, but most of it is behind a paywall.
(My apologies in advance.)
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
All I can say is if that’s a real poem from RFK Junior, he’s an even worse writer than Nuzzi or Lizza. This whole thing offends me on a talent level more than anything else.
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In one moment, more than 39,000 feet of lights wrapping the 68-foot Norwegian evergreen came to life, as fireworks lit up downtown Chicago and thousands let out a cheer for the holiday season.
City lights official Christmas tree at Millennium Park
chicago.suntimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
In one moment, more than 39,000 feet of lights wrapping the 68-foot Norwegian evergreen came to life, as fireworks lit up downtown Chicago and thousands let out a cheer for the holiday season.
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BREAKING: Alito has issued a temporary administrative stay BLOCKING the order that found Texas’ gerrymander to be racially biased. 1/ apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court blocks order that found Texas congressional map is likely racially biased
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas’ 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump likely discriminates on the basis of race.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
BREAKING: Alito has issued a temporary administrative stay BLOCKING the order that found Texas’ gerrymander to be racially biased. 1/ apnews.com/article/supr...
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"Mamdani's Masterclass at the White House: Mamdani just ran circles around MAGA and the Democratic Establishment."
Filmed the video right before boarding my plane and just wrote this while flying, but I had to get it out. Let me know if you agree.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/mamdanis-m...
Filmed the video right before boarding my plane and just wrote this while flying, but I had to get it out. Let me know if you agree.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/mamdanis-m...
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"Mamdani's Masterclass at the White House: Mamdani just ran circles around MAGA and the Democratic Establishment."
Filmed the video right before boarding my plane and just wrote this while flying, but I had to get it out. Let me know if you agree.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/mamdanis-m...
Filmed the video right before boarding my plane and just wrote this while flying, but I had to get it out. Let me know if you agree.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/mamdanis-m...
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.
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NEW: Arizona’s AG asks the state Supreme Court to revive the criminal case she brought against Trump’s inner circle. It’s the third time in two weeks a court or prosecutor breathed life into a case stemming from Trump’s 2020 election gambit.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Arizona attorney general asks state supreme court to revive case against Trump’s 2020 allies
It’s the third time in recent days that local courts or prosecutors breathed new life into criminal cases stemming from Trump’s 2020 election effort.
www.politico.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
NEW: Arizona’s AG asks the state Supreme Court to revive the criminal case she brought against Trump’s inner circle. It’s the third time in two weeks a court or prosecutor breathed life into a case stemming from Trump’s 2020 election gambit.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...