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Dave Price
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Let’s solve the climate crisis.
SUNY adjunct teaching comp and intro lit. PhD. 2018 dissertation on Joyce, Pound, Yeats (transcendence and deconstruction).
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davidho.bsky.social
Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.
kingtides.bsky.social California King Tides Project @kingtides.bsky.social · 4d
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
See from above, water covers an off-ramp of highway 101 and a parking lot next to the highway and bikepath.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
prof-price.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials
Co-founders’ acquisition of Venture Global shares before key permit granted draws scrutiny as pair deny wrongdoing
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social
"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou WORKING PAPER 34524 DOI 10.3386/w34524 ISSUE DATE November 2025 Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms. 令 1 1 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Year Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
prof-price.bsky.social
cleantechnica.com/2025/11/12/t...
The People’s Solar: How Plug-In Solar Could Bring Affordable Energy To 60 Million Americans - CleanTechnica
A new white paper makes the case that with just a handful of state-level reforms, plug-in solar could reach 60 million Americans by 2035 and slash household electricity costs -- without a dime of publ...
cleantechnica.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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volts.wtf
America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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colinreports.bsky.social
It got overshadowed by the pipeline news, but NYS’s deal to allow Greenidge Generation to keep operating an upstate gas plant *for the sole purpose of mining bitcoin* might be almost as big of a reversal gothamist.com/news/upstate...
Upstate NY Bitcoin mine agrees to slash emissions, will get air permit from the state
The move comes days after Hochul’s administration paved the way for a new natural gas pipeline in New York Harbor.
gothamist.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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timhirschelburns.bsky.social
On January 19, USAID was in line for bad but limited cuts. Project 2025 only called for cutting USAID back to 2019 funding levels.

Then Elon Musk came in and three weeks later USAID was functionally eliminated. Millions of people will die and hundreds of thousands already have, mostly children
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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glenpeters.bsky.social
Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.

This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.

www.unep.org/resources/em...

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A figure showing all ghg emissions rising
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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atrupar.com
complete batshit insanity
Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/21/fda-stayed-silent-potential-tylenol-risks-internal-reports/
October 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
SNAP benefits expire in one week.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Oct 23
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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evangillespie.bsky.social
"DJ died of an asthma attack when he was 10 years old on June 11, 2023. His school picture is featured prominently on an altar at the Detroit Institute of Arts for the museum's annual Día de Muertos celebration. The altar is dedicated to people whose health was harmed by industrial pollution."
DIA's Dia de Muertos altar honors Detroit child, others killed by pollution
Three Wayne County residents are honored at a Detroit arts museum exhibit after their deaths were attributed to industrial pollution.
www.detroitnews.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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kjephd.bsky.social
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
October 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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bernybelvedere.bsky.social
Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.
October 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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acarv.in
The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.
Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi
I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.
wapo.st
October 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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trance.bsky.social
WHAT THE FUCK

www.themirror.com/lifestyle/fo...
Frozen meals from Walmart and Trader Joe's leave 4 dead and 19 hospitalized
The CDC is warning consumers to check their fridges as two ready-to-eat pasta meals sold at Walmart, Kroger, and Trader Joe's locations nationwide have been recalled due to Listeria contamination.
www.themirror.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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annackramer.bsky.social
This is what I’ve been reporting on for months. Agencies are taking money and repurposing it against Congressional instructions, and there’s no way to know what they are taking the money from or what they are using it for.
Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Have Become Virtually Untraceable
The Trump administration’s aggressive approach to overhauling the executive branch has obscured how federal dollars are actually being spent — even for the members of Congress.
www.notus.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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🤷🏼
September 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
prof-price.bsky.social
Just donated $60 to PBS to get full access to their excellent library of content and to support much needed public media that isn’t bullied into decisions by corrupt politicians abusing their power. Win! Win!
September 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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vixenbite.bsky.social
Im not adding my email to anything!!! So the wording slowly fades away in article. Hopefull, you can see enough to know where we are headed.
They always planned to not only stop people from entering this country, but also stop Americans from leaving. Any opportunity to use to their advantage
September 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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propublica.org
The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.

A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Screenshot of article excerpt: The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant. “I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.” ProPublica obtained a copy of the grant application and confirmed that those words were included.
September 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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joshgerstein.bsky.social
NEW: 4th Circuit gave #SCOTUS an earful this morning as clearly frustrated judges puzzled at how to apply emergency docket rulings in other cases, despite little or no explanation from high court about the rationale for those decisions. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Judges, desperate for guidance, plead with Supreme Court justices: ‘Write an opinion’
“They’re leaving the circuit courts, the district courts out in limbo,” one judge said during appeals court oral arguments that turned into a venting session about the high court’s terse emergency rul...
www.politico.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.

But we do need your time. ⏰

zohranfornyc.com/events
September 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers.

FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...
Newsroom ASB Notice NASS discontinues select data collection programs and reports Issued August 28, 2025, by the Agricultural Statistics Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service. For more information, contact Lance Honig at Lance.Honig@usda.gov or (202) 690-8141. USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is discontinuing the Mink Survey (OMB Control Number 0535-0212) and the Agricultural Labor Survey (OMB Control Number 0535-0109), as these collections are deemed duplicative and/or no longer necessary. This action is taken under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) as part of the government’s efforts to improve efficiency and eliminate unnecessary burdens. The Notice of Discontinuance of Information Collections submitted to the Federal Register can be found here. ### NASS is the federal statistical agency responsible for producing official data about U.S. agriculture and is committed to providing timely, accurate and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture.
August 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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andrewdessler.com
Nice article about the DOE report and how the scientific community is responding

www.newsweek.com/why-trumps-m...
Why Trump's move to undo climate regulations could put businesses at risk
The Trump administration wants to revoke a key part of climate-related regulation to save businesses money. But many businesses worry it could cost them more.
www.newsweek.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM