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politics @lemmy.world•Ilhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her Citizenship
2·2 days agoYou can use archive.is or register with the link I gave before. Your choice. The specific quote:
Last year, [Trump] reportedly quipped during a campaign meeting that if it was up to Mr. Miller, the population of the United States would be only 100 million people and they’d all resemble Mr. Miller
The US population is something above 300 million
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politics @lemmy.world•Ilhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her Citizenship
31·3 days agoThe step from revoking visas of foreign nationals to going after citizens is a big one. They’re qualitatively different things
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The Onion@midwest.social•DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of EntertainmentEnglish
7·9 days agoBeen that way since they did Bush’s inauguration speech. He didn’t accomplish everything the Onion mentioned, but he sure tried.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared1·10 days agoThe key problem is that openly organizing for that kind of action lands you in prison fast. That’s why you don’t see people doing it, and the bigger groups shy far away from what you’re suggesting
silence7@slrpnk.netOPtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•California Sues to Block Trump From Weakening Fuel Economy Rules | The lawsuit is the 97th the state has filed against the Trump administration over the past year and a half.
2·15 days agoAbout 1/3 of the time winning actually changes policy. Its not worthless, but far less effective than it should be
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Climate@slrpnk.net•California gets a new eye in the sky to track planet-warming methane4·15 days agoMethane spotting like this makes it possible to do rapid response to otherwise undetected leaks. I regard that as a win.
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Green Energy@slrpnk.net•California Governor Newsom green-lights balcony solar
5·17 days agoNewsom had a public appearance with the Spanish PM in New York City at a climate discussion a few days ago. Probably his most recent public appearance in a climate-related context
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politics @lemmy.world•Dems Vow to Investigate Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Midterms Ads Promoting Himself
4·18 days agoThey wheeled a wax dummy into the Senate and pretend.
That’s why he hasn’t done an interview
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Trump Sharply Scales Back Fuel Economy Rules for New Cars | The move marked the final step in the administration’s efforts to dismantle policies aimed at speeding the shift to electric vehicles.7·19 days agoThe oil executives who bribed him have wet dreams about 4mpg trucks and $10 gas happening at the same time
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politics @lemmy.world•Big Oil has an audacious request for the Supreme Court
15·20 days agoThey generally interpret this is only covering states rights to enforce slavery and other racial oppression
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Why Democrats stopped talking about climate | A Sunrise Movement co-founder is running for Congress. He’s talking more about data centers than climate.3·21 days agoWhat you see in this community is very very far from what most Americans run into.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•AI Data Centers Release Heat, Posing New Problem for Cities | As facilities to power artificial intelligence grow larger and are built in clusters, they send hot air into surrounding neighborhoods4·21 days agoWould be good. But they’re not doing that.
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News@lemmy.world•Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children
1·27 days agoDNA comparison
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisis1·30 days agoThe point where the Keeling Curve change can be eyeballed is the point where we have actually won. This is a very modest “things get worse a little less quickly” change right now
Archive.is came out of gamergate as a tool to enable kicking women out of video game journalism. It’s not shocking that the person who controls it behaves badly. They’re also by far and away the most reliable way to hand out a paywall bypass. Which completely stinks
They’re also the only ones who mean that people don’t need to register to access the NYT right now
There is more than one kind of evil in the world. They’ve changed which one they are
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News@lemmy.world•Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous | The two latest deaths suggest that the true number of infections is much larger than reported.
19·1 month agoIn an ideal world, we’d get everybody vaccinated, the disease would go extinct like smallpox, and we wouldn’t see the vaccine again outside of limited military preparedness needs.
We got soo close to that with this one.












Some surely is about offshoring, but most of it is about how electricity is generated.
There was work to quantify it a few years back
https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2