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joeallenjoe.bsky.social
One year later and it’s *still* the Wild West out there after the LA fires when it comes to making sure homes are safe. I’m stunned by some of the reports I see from firms doing testing…
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Insurers Said They Could Return Home. Our Tests Found Neurotoxins in Their Bodies.
A Times investigation has found that insurers are driving families into homes contaminated by smoke. Lab results show how one family was exposed to neurotoxins and carcinogens.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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mzjacobson.bsky.social
Battery pack storage costs for WindWaterSolar are dropping so low that they eliminate the argument for using fossil fuels or nuclear moving forward.

Battery pack prices for stationary storage now down to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% decrease in just one year.

www.ess-news.com/2025/12/09/b...
BNEF: Lithium-ion battery pack prices fall to $108/kWh, stationary storage becomes lowest price segment - Energy Storage
According to BNEF, battery pack prices for stationary storage fell to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% decrease from 2024. This represents the steepest decline among all lithium-ion battery use cases and and ma...
www.ess-news.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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mzjacobson.bsky.social
California continues to run up the numbers:

Parts of 221 days and 14% of all hours during 2025 with WWS meeting >100% of demand

2024: 7.7% of all hours
2023: 2.6%

Gas is down 38% v '23
Solar up 39% v '23
Batteries up 180% v '23

CA will be 100% WWS 24/7/365 by 2039.
December 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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erininthemorning.com
One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.

The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
Coyote in the snow.
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.

I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.

They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation, which grows roughly 21% over the last year
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Brain food on our brain drainage system to help keep you healthy, with @jonykipnis.bsky.social
erictopol.substack.com/p/how-our-br...
December 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
eladn.bsky.social Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 9d
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
akivamcohen.bsky.social AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 9d
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.

Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
CBS Pulled a “60 Minutes” Story Because the White House Refused to Comment — That’s a Veto on Journalism
Pulling a finished investigation because the administration refused to comment isn’t journalism. It’s submission.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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ciarancuffe.bsky.social
Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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erictopol.bsky.social
The one validated intervention to slow aging and extend healthspan is not for sale.
It's exercise.
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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mclem.org
This is a focus group of Gen Z Republicans in the United States of America. Now.

They get their news only from social media/podcasts, and they express warm sympathy for Adolf Hitler and for (Nazi) Nick Fuentes.

Fascism will destroy their future.

www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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evcurvefuturist.com
The real story isn’t “renewables are cheaper” — we already knew that. An 82% renewable grid breaks marginal pricing. Once wind, solar + batteries dominate, fossil generators stop setting peak prices. Scarcity rents collapse. Volatility dies.
That’s the system shock incumbents fear — not ideology. ⚡🔋
Electricity generation costs would be a third lower with 82% renewable grid, CSIRO says
Modelling suggests main electricity market could run almost entirely on renewables without increase in generation cost by 2050
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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jrfhanger.bsky.social
Good morning with good news: US energy storage installations jumped 31% to 5.3 GW in Q3 2025, compared to 2024.

Residential storage surged 70% in Q3 2025, rising for 6 quarters.

Woodmac raises too its 5-year utility-scale storage forecast by 15% to 93 GW!
cleanpower.org/news/us-ener... #energysky
REPORT: US Energy Storage Installations Through Q3 2025 Surpass 2024 Totals | ACP
Utility-scale five-year forecast increases 15% compared to H1 2025 5.3 GW installed in Q3, 31% YOY growth Utility-scale leads with 4.6 GW, 27% YOY growth WASHINGTON, D.C., December 16, 2025 […]
cleanpower.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
2 new studies that show how fasting/caloricrestriction can help vs breast cancer in the experimental model
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dietary restriction reprograms CD8+ T cell fate to enhance anti-tumour immunity and immunotherapy responses - Nature Metabolism
Dietary restriction promotes the expansion of effector T cells via ketone bodies, which enhances anti-tumour immunity and synergizes with immunotherapy in mice.
www.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Important new, large (N>28,000 women) randomized clinical trial of breast cancer screening: age-based vs risk-based by polygenic risk score, genomics
"opportunity to modernize screening"
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Risk-Based vs Annual Breast Cancer Screening
This randomized clinical trial examines whether risk-based screening is a safe and effective alternative to annual mammography for detecting breast cancer in women 40 years and older.
jamanetwork.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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evcurvefuturist.com
If you’ve tracked lithium, EVs, AI, solar, China, batteries & renewables for two decades, nothing here is “unbelievable.” It’s the inevitable collision of S-curves, compounding trends and industrial scale. Not surprising — just timely. In truth, this is what the future has been signalling for years.
December 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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explore.org
Wolf at sunrise
December 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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shipwreck75.bsky.social
Maybe someone should tell Petey about this math….
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December 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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douglewin.bsky.social
Solar + wind growth is outpacing global demand growth by more than 5% through the 3rd quarter of this year. Add nuclear and clean energy is outpacing demand by 10% per this Canary Media graphic. Michael Liebreich showed what 3% growth over 40 years would do... 1/2
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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douglewin.bsky.social
ERCOT demand is up 5% year-over-year & 23% since 2021 with nearly all of the demand growth being met by wind, solar & batteries, according to EIA. Solar has gone from a barely perceptible sliver to nearly 15% in only 4 years, with most of the growth in the last year. 1/2
October 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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jeremydehartwx.bsky.social
From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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jrfhanger.bsky.social
Good morning with good news: Why did global EV sales skyrocket 26% in 2025 for Jan-Sept, reaching 2.1 million sales in September?

LEAF 2011 versus Leaf 2026 shows why: HUGE EV improvement with a 33% price drop.

EV innovation also is just starting!
cleantechnica.com/2025/10/25/t...
#energysky
October 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM