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Rob Shum@robshum.bsky.social |
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Public policy (#climate/energy policy, more specifically) & #IR prof (but also ex-šØš¦-#trade diplomat). PoliSciSky šŗļø, GreenSky š±, & EnergySky šš”.
Cf. same handles on birdsite & mastodon.social/@robshum
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 āMandate for Leadershipā document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Stephen Webb
@stephenwebb.bsky.social
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Props to the AP for a headline that contains the whole story
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Gabe OrtĆz
@tusk81.bsky.social
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Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025 Project 2025
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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my takeaway from a lot of thisāsubstantive "what should the dems do" questions aside because I have no ideaāis that people are incredibly weird about aging and disability
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Michael Paulauski
@mike10010100.bsky.social
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I'll keep repeating it until people understand, this is how you know it's a ratfucking operation and not a serious effort to determine if the president is mentally fit. None of these people care about policy, their entire industry is in it for controversy and clicks. It's a ratfucking op.
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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
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It is absolutely, 100% a mass hysteria event. A complete and all-consuming loss of perspective, because all of you get all of your ideas from these internet and media narratives and refuse to admit it
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LG Katzen PhD Votes Biden
@lgkatzphd.bsky.social
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Trump has made no secret of it: He's a sexual predator and boasts about it.
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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I spoke to a friend I knew in high school who told me he "doesn't follow politics." I asked him what he thought about the election. He said, "I hear Biden's a senile wreck." He also said he hadn't heard of SCOTUS granting Trump immunity and has never heard of Project 2025. Media's doing a great job.
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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
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Biden didnāt get up and perform athletic feats but it seems like a pretty normal interview from an old guy? This is the single greatest moment of political derangement I have ever witnessed in this country. The president gives a normal interview and everyone saysā¦ he must join Nixon and resign?
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator
@ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social
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Stephanopoulos asked him about his approval rating and campaign strategy. What are we doing here? This is why the Biden people thinks the press sucks. Imagine if they asked him *what* his administration did in the past month.
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e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.io
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What's the penalty for a decade-long self-driving fraud that has killed multiple people?
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Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
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Musk is suggesting executing at least around 50 million people (making very conservative assumptions that the only people who oppose SAVE are 50% of adult Democrats)
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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher
@kevinjkircher.com
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Electric vehicles can save lives by polluting the climate less than fossil-fueled vehicles in most places. Yet EVs are much heavier and accelerate faster, so are more dangerous in crashes. @costasamaras.bsky.social argues that increased car-crash deaths could be on par with lives saved via climate.
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Preet Bhogal
@preetbhogal.bsky.social
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I just donāt understand this way of thinking. Who is this magical unicorn that will appear and win the Dems the election? Cause Harris or Newsom aināt make that happen. jacobin.com/2024/07/bide...
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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American "politics" reporters, boy, I dunno
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Making Chips
@enceladusty.bsky.social
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Not great. An order of magnitude less than the VW diesel scandal or your typical petrochemical polluter, with a customary slap on the wrist.
EV sales were up 40% in Q2 vs last yr, making up 3.2% of total units sold. Fwiw
www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/07/...
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Rob Shum
@robshum.bsky.social
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We must surely, at all costs, pRoTeCt ouR producers with tariffs. They have clearly always acted in good faith and with the consumersā best interests at heart.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/c...
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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Incredibly, if you make this argument today you will still be accused of overreacting
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John Morrison
@localcelebrity.bsky.social
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āWeāre gonna install a dictator. If you donāt let us, weāll kill you.ā
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Rob Shum
@robshum.bsky.social
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āā¦I donāt know what to do other than to hope the Democrat wins this election and that somehow breaks the spell for enough of Trumpās followersā¦ We need to take advantage of the remaining leverage that we have, but we also need to be clear that weāre getting painted further & further into a cornerā¦ā
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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Assistant to the Professor
@darinself.bsky.social
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Dems: Joe Biden, who is currently governing quite well but is also old, should drop out. GOP: Trump, who is a convicted felon and led a coup, is our nominee and we will eviscerate anyone in the party who disagrees Media: The bigger story here is age.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the North allows it to be" Jefferson Davis, 1861
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Rob Shum
@robshum.bsky.social
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š Do we have Weimar beat yet, or what?
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen
@aussiastronomer.bsky.social
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Me, on Monday: This probably invalidates the hush money federal charges. Phil: No, that was while he was a candidate though. Me: They'll find a way. The way:
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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āSEE DAD? Iāve destroyed two and a half centuries of America. WHOāS NEVER GOING TO AMOUNT TO ANYTHING NOW?ā
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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"Politics would be interesting again" Oh, jeez, I'm sorry that SCOTUS Team 6 waterboarding democracy to pave the way for a felon-messiah-king who's vowing to use the presidency to deport millions and imprison his foes for treason hasn't been INTERESTING enough for you. Let me jangle some car keys.
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David Haralson
@laughlax.bsky.social
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šš”
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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"Balance" means printing obvious Republican lies about Biden and also printing obvious Republican lies about what Republicans think.
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Michael Powers
@terrawatts2010.bsky.social
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Japanās delivery driver shortage is set to worsen, with the workforce projected to plummet from 660,000 in 2020 to just 480,000 by 2030 ā a 36 per cent deficit that could leave the transport industry unable to meet freight demands within six years. šš”
www.scmp.com/week-asia/ec...
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Becca's Mullet
@beccasmullet.bsky.social
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Funniest damn thing!
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Judah Grunstein
@judah-grunstein.bsky.social
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I don't get it, I said. There's plenty of work, the roads are well-maintained, the TGV runs on time, life is pretty good. So why is everyone so dissatisfied? She laughed and said, Don't worry, you'll understand eventually. That's just how France is.
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Judah Grunstein
@judah-grunstein.bsky.social
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I remember the runup to the 2002 French presidential election. I'd arrived in the country the year before and was living in a small village in the south. After reading yet another article describing popular discontent with a country in decline, I expressed my incomprehension to my then-wife. š§µ
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Elle
@elleisanisland.bsky.social
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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases
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Rob Shum
@robshum.bsky.social
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Remember: messages of doom are sometimes true and correct. (To put it another way: Facts donāt care about feelings.)
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Schroedingercat
@schroedingercat.bsky.social
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We have had thousands of citizens detained by ICE, largely due to database error and bureaucratic failure. One guy was held for 1273 days! Nothing was done to fix it. The executive branch holds this authority, and no one can check that plenary power. www.latimes.com/archives/sto...
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Rob Shum
@robshum.bsky.social
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can be made.
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Elrond Hubbard
@danmitchell.bsky.social
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What I've said all along is explicitly stated here: Bezos never meddles in the newsroom. Believing that he does tends to obscure the real problem: that the media's dysfunction is mainly a result of a weird, cult-like approach to journalism that is everywhere.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Hayes Brown
@hayesbrown.bsky.social
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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task
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Rob Shum
@robshum.bsky.social
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Should be on all columns: āDISCLAIMER: I am well-off enough to simply depart the American experiment when it all goes wrong in November and old enough to not care about the end of democracy and āthe climateā and WWIII and stuff. Absolutely do not listen to me and maybe do not do this. But maybe do?ā
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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The institutions have failed to defend themselves
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Miles Grant
@milesgrant.bsky.social
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Boston Globe op-eds on Biden Old in the last week: 5 Boston Globe op-eds mentioning Trumpās āBlack jobsā rant: 0
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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Burning coal is the most dirty, polluting, and inefficient way to get electricity.
As early as 1306, Edward I banned Londoners from burning it, due to its noxious smog.
So which countries are phasing it out the fastest now?
Greece and the UK lead the way!
Source: www.wri.org/insights/cou...
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists.
See:
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. š§µ
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hammancheez
@hammancheez.bsky.social
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swearing is authenticity I'm tired of pretending otherwise
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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@tpm.bsky.social plays this correctly:
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Rob Shum
@robshum.bsky.social
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āā¦ There are a handful of passing references to Canada in The Man in the High Castleā¦ Bob Hope is still alive, though, and Frink wonders how he āgets awayā with his irreverent humour. āOf course, he has to broadcast from Canada,ā she thinks to herself, āAnd itās a little freer up there.ā ā¦ ā
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Seth Masket
@smotus.bsky.social
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Oh look a country where people strategically try to prevent the anti-democratic party from taking power
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