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Here's my reporting partner, @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social in a terrific video on the impacts of lead poisoning in the communities in Nigeria that we focused on in our investigation of lead recycling. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People
Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning children — and we know because we tested them. Will Fitzgibbon, a reporter at The Examination, describes how children in Nigeria developed lead level...
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Here's my reporting partner, @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social in a terrific video on the impacts of lead poisoning in the communities in Nigeria that we focused on in our investigation of lead recycling. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Good thread for policy wonks, energy nerds, climate aware people, and/or AI haters
I reckon the most interesting subset of discourse here is when presumed [good] factors are actually either actually bad, or there to downplay or dismiss the bad even if the amount of good is way smaller than the bad.
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
I would love it if public discourse on data centers could be just a skosh more sophisticated than "data centers good vs. data centers bad."
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Good thread for policy wonks, energy nerds, climate aware people, and/or AI haters
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You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.
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Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
October 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
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We were told that our video of the emissions at Elon Musk's xAI facility in Memphis has been taken down at Twitter/X.
At least we can share it freely here. Please do.
More communities will be poisoned by data centers replicating this model.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWg...
At least we can share it freely here. Please do.
More communities will be poisoned by data centers replicating this model.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWg...
xAI Colossus Data Center Memphis Tennessee 05/13/2025
YouTube video by Oilfield Witness
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We were told that our video of the emissions at Elon Musk's xAI facility in Memphis has been taken down at Twitter/X.
At least we can share it freely here. Please do.
More communities will be poisoned by data centers replicating this model.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWg...
At least we can share it freely here. Please do.
More communities will be poisoned by data centers replicating this model.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWg...
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is anyone else thinking obsessively about the ramifications of the ai data center boom mind-melding with the fossil fuel industry elite or is that just me
October 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
is anyone else thinking obsessively about the ramifications of the ai data center boom mind-melding with the fossil fuel industry elite or is that just me
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Smith grotesquely calls a new pipeline a "moral imperative." Nonsense. To approve new fossil fuel infrastructure of this scale in the year 2025 – in the wake of three consecutive summers of the worst wildfires on record – is a willful act of arson...
October 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Smith grotesquely calls a new pipeline a "moral imperative." Nonsense. To approve new fossil fuel infrastructure of this scale in the year 2025 – in the wake of three consecutive summers of the worst wildfires on record – is a willful act of arson...
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Will Canada repeat past mistakes or truly learn and do better?
Bill C-5 could lock us in for even more climate change, pollution, conflict, and more. 😱
Send a letter to Prime Minister Carney urging criteria to define a “project of national interest”.
www.wcel.org/blog/nationa...
Bill C-5 could lock us in for even more climate change, pollution, conflict, and more. 😱
Send a letter to Prime Minister Carney urging criteria to define a “project of national interest”.
www.wcel.org/blog/nationa...
Our checklist for national interest projects
Parliament passed Bill C-5 giving the federal government sweeping powers to fast-track projects deemed to be in the “national interest.” We’ve set out seven non-negotiable criteria for what truly coun...
www.wcel.org
August 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Will Canada repeat past mistakes or truly learn and do better?
Bill C-5 could lock us in for even more climate change, pollution, conflict, and more. 😱
Send a letter to Prime Minister Carney urging criteria to define a “project of national interest”.
www.wcel.org/blog/nationa...
Bill C-5 could lock us in for even more climate change, pollution, conflict, and more. 😱
Send a letter to Prime Minister Carney urging criteria to define a “project of national interest”.
www.wcel.org/blog/nationa...
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We formed this giving circle in partnership with six friends in Gaza, whose individual survival funds weren’t getting the support they needed. Every week we distribute funds equally among them.
Food, shelter, more. Simple. 1518/2300 by Friday night: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Food, shelter, more. Simple. 1518/2300 by Friday night: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
August 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
We formed this giving circle in partnership with six friends in Gaza, whose individual survival funds weren’t getting the support they needed. Every week we distribute funds equally among them.
Food, shelter, more. Simple. 1518/2300 by Friday night: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Food, shelter, more. Simple. 1518/2300 by Friday night: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.
Iran
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...
www.ricksteves.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.
Write a letter to urge the Canadian government to withdraw Bill C-2, and protect refugee rights: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Protect Refugee Rights and Withdraw Bill C-2
Bill C-2 would give the current and future governments sweeping powers to erode refugee rights and protections guaranteed the Canadian Charter and international law.
Many people already face danger b...
actionnetwork.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Write a letter to urge the Canadian government to withdraw Bill C-2, and protect refugee rights: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
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this is who we are.
SOS: Migrants held in Texas fear notorious El Salvador prison
Venezuelan detainees in Texas fear the Trump administration will send them to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum security prison.
www.reuters.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
this is who we are.
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An attempt to annotate this excellent thread of excerpts from the Declaration of Independence with recent headlines.
April 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
An attempt to annotate this excellent thread of excerpts from the Declaration of Independence with recent headlines.
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Call to action for 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸: We need a 0% tariff on books – essential tools for building community and fighting fascism.
Here’s how you can help. #booksky 1/
Here’s how you can help. #booksky 1/
March 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Call to action for 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸: We need a 0% tariff on books – essential tools for building community and fighting fascism.
Here’s how you can help. #booksky 1/
Here’s how you can help. #booksky 1/
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Park and Forest Managers are public servants.
The folks who track storms and respond to disasters are public servants.
The people who keep us safe from pollutants and toxins in our environment and food are public servants.
The experts who keep us safe in the air are public servants
Times infinity!
The folks who track storms and respond to disasters are public servants.
The people who keep us safe from pollutants and toxins in our environment and food are public servants.
The experts who keep us safe in the air are public servants
Times infinity!
Repeat after me: Federal Employees aren't bureaucrats. They are Public Servants.
"She made $39,000 a year, a pay cut from her previous job teaching middle school, but just enough to cover her mortgage and bills."
"She made $39,000 a year, a pay cut from her previous job teaching middle school, but just enough to cover her mortgage and bills."
February 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Park and Forest Managers are public servants.
The folks who track storms and respond to disasters are public servants.
The people who keep us safe from pollutants and toxins in our environment and food are public servants.
The experts who keep us safe in the air are public servants
Times infinity!
The folks who track storms and respond to disasters are public servants.
The people who keep us safe from pollutants and toxins in our environment and food are public servants.
The experts who keep us safe in the air are public servants
Times infinity!
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Measles cases by U.S. state before and after the measles vaccine.
February 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Measles cases by U.S. state before and after the measles vaccine.
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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...