Vivek Govil
@vivekgovil.bsky.social
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1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
September 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
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Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
September 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
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This article is a tough, tough read if you are a Labour supporter...
But unless your plan for the next 4 years is to live in a little bubble of self-delusion then watch the party you support disappear into oblivion, you need to.
Bitter medicine, but necessary.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But unless your plan for the next 4 years is to live in a little bubble of self-delusion then watch the party you support disappear into oblivion, you need to.
Bitter medicine, but necessary.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
May 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This article is a tough, tough read if you are a Labour supporter...
But unless your plan for the next 4 years is to live in a little bubble of self-delusion then watch the party you support disappear into oblivion, you need to.
Bitter medicine, but necessary.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But unless your plan for the next 4 years is to live in a little bubble of self-delusion then watch the party you support disappear into oblivion, you need to.
Bitter medicine, but necessary.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Back in the day, Keir Starmer himself argued that Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - the one we're all lumbered with, and the one that Starmer said he would vote for - was full of holes, including that it has very little support for services, and that it will make things harder for artists and musicians.
May 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Back in the day, Keir Starmer himself argued that Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - the one we're all lumbered with, and the one that Starmer said he would vote for - was full of holes, including that it has very little support for services, and that it will make things harder for artists and musicians.
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There's been a shift in the language of climate urgency in the Anglosphere over the last year. Interesting to see China and France issuing a joint statement recognizing "the URGENCY of responding to THE CLIMATE CRISIS and its impact on ecosystem, civil society and global economy"
May 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
There's been a shift in the language of climate urgency in the Anglosphere over the last year. Interesting to see China and France issuing a joint statement recognizing "the URGENCY of responding to THE CLIMATE CRISIS and its impact on ecosystem, civil society and global economy"
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When and how do bright kids from poor backgrounds fall behind? Everyone should read this paper by @johnjerrim.bsky.social & Maria Palma Carvajal: great data, corrects past work, nails the method, and is super readable.
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
May 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
When and how do bright kids from poor backgrounds fall behind? Everyone should read this paper by @johnjerrim.bsky.social & Maria Palma Carvajal: great data, corrects past work, nails the method, and is super readable.
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
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Blaming migrants for a housing crisis and failing public services lets the real culprits off the hook: landlordism, chronic underinvestment and deepening inequality.
Labour was elected to tackle those, not parrot Reform’s scapegoating, which will never improve people's lives.
Labour was elected to tackle those, not parrot Reform’s scapegoating, which will never improve people's lives.
May 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Blaming migrants for a housing crisis and failing public services lets the real culprits off the hook: landlordism, chronic underinvestment and deepening inequality.
Labour was elected to tackle those, not parrot Reform’s scapegoating, which will never improve people's lives.
Labour was elected to tackle those, not parrot Reform’s scapegoating, which will never improve people's lives.
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Wanna see something cool?
At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.
The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.
The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
May 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Wanna see something cool?
At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.
The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.
The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
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Frantically learning all the wrong lessons.
People who want Reform policies will vote Reform.
People who want Labour policies ... well, perhaps they'll just have to vote Green.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
People who want Reform policies will vote Reform.
People who want Labour policies ... well, perhaps they'll just have to vote Green.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Labour targets international students claiming asylum after election losses to Reform
Exclusive: Ministers understood to be drafting white paper this month in move to reduce legal migration
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Frantically learning all the wrong lessons.
People who want Reform policies will vote Reform.
People who want Labour policies ... well, perhaps they'll just have to vote Green.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
People who want Reform policies will vote Reform.
People who want Labour policies ... well, perhaps they'll just have to vote Green.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
May 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
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Like an opening fan, five people at a bus stop lean sequentially to the left as they try to read the number of the bus coming up the road.
May 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Like an opening fan, five people at a bus stop lean sequentially to the left as they try to read the number of the bus coming up the road.
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More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
April 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
The power of a song.
The Byrds release “Mr. Tambourine Man” today in 1965.
“If you’re someone who grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, the song is like a little telegraph, said David Byrne. “Hearing that, I realised: I have to get out of here because .. there’s a whole world out there that I don’t know anything about.”
“If you’re someone who grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, the song is like a little telegraph, said David Byrne. “Hearing that, I realised: I have to get out of here because .. there’s a whole world out there that I don’t know anything about.”
April 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The power of a song.
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‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing
‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing
Five thousand new homes alongside a paradise for newts appears to fly in face of government’s ‘false wedge’
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing
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Her small body rides in my arms by Mosab Abu Toha
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Her small body rides in my arms by Mosab Abu Toha
Her small body rides in my arms as I run to the hospital. There is no electricity and the inner hallways are a forest lined with cots. The g...
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March 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Her small body rides in my arms by Mosab Abu Toha
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This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Imperialism Has no Clothes
JD Vance in Greenland
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March 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
March 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
What a horrifying story.
powerful detailed account of ICE captivity
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
What a horrifying story.
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The Dacca Gauzes By Agha Shahid Ali
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The Dacca Gauzes By Agha Shahid Ali
The Dacca Gauzes Those transparent Dacca gauzes known as woven air, running water, evening dew: a dead art...
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March 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The Dacca Gauzes By Agha Shahid Ali
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