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Drilling beneath the headlines since 2005. https://t.co/HlDFWtIv8o
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Joined August 2008
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As Silicon Valley CEOs anxiously figure out how much computing it will take to propel artificial intelligence forward, the real question we should be asking is how much more artificial intelligence the planet can take. https://t.co/Z4sx0PEHA2
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As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
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ICE detained a child care worker inside a Chicago preschool as kids watched. https://t.co/MNfD9tXzv8
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Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, Trump removed that protection.
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Backlash to Energy Star cuts signals political risk for Republicans. https://t.co/VTCvwmOTGa
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Resounding wins at the polls for efficiency advocates and backlash against plans to kill the Energy Star program give Democrats an opening.
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The U.S. has attacked 15 vessels in the Caribbean since September, killing 64. Venezuela says it’s about oil and sovereignty — not drugs. The people? They’re organizing for war. https://t.co/UOemXTGxBe
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Following a decade of economic sanctions on Venezuela, the current wave of boat strikes isn’t actually aimed at stopping drug trafficking.
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Mamdani’s win was historic, but billionaire opposition is far from over. https://t.co/hX61nNkb9t
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While the roadblocks it bankrolled in the primary and general elections failed, the billionaire class' opposition has just begun.
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The notorious 287(g) task force program is expanding — and raising fears of widespread racial profiling. https://t.co/I0KCWkaIw2
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The notorious 287(g) task force program is expanding — and raising fears of widespread racial profiling in the Lone Star State.
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In Green Bay, the chant “We own you” has a double meaning. https://t.co/iJJs6eIkXe
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In Green Bay, where fans can expect to wait 35 years for season tickets, the chant “We own you” has a double meaning.
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As the microchips behind artificial intelligence grow in complexity, each generation requires more energy, minerals and water than the last, driving a ruinous cycle with no end in sight. https://t.co/Z4sx0PEHA2
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As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
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The United States helped design a global system that undermined Black sovereignty abroad; now it blames the resulting misery to justify racial exclusion at home. https://t.co/AF72cnTVRL
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How an obscure 20th-century tax rule ensured that newly decolonized nations would never fully escape the orbit of their colonizers.
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While the world tried to build climate cooperation, Exxon worked to break it. https://t.co/kHUSx7D9SU
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Evidence emerges that Exxon mailed checks to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
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Wall Street panicked when Americans actually used their health insurance. https://t.co/29WibA1IMV
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When insurance companies' stock prices dropped sharply, business journalists fretted about the future profitability of the sector.
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Debs spent a lifetime organizing workers and challenging war profiteers — now he’s quoted by NYC’s next mayor. https://t.co/RtJB52SxgN
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The mayor-elect chose his words carefully on election night—signaling his Democratic socialist beliefs and issuing a call to action.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt said we must be judged by how we treat those with the least. Trump’s shutdown proves just how far we’ve strayed from that test. https://t.co/8kDsXCNrBr
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A great day at the polls lights a path forward for Democrats and away from a world of Gatsby-themed billionaires’ balls.
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Mamdani’s victory should put to rest the lie that workers are drawn only to simpleminded economic populism that casts social justice questions as distractions. https://t.co/VCUFeOZaTS
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How Zohran Mamdani beat the odds with a vision of municipal governance that serves the needs of working-class people.
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Over the past decade, MeToo films — from “The Assistant” to “She Said” — trace an arc from systemic exposure to industry self-congratulation. https://t.co/fm1bievQI6
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“After the Hunt” is a fitting bookend for a genre that feels less about a movement than the solipsistic impulses that emerged in its wake.
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The suspense in “Nuremberg” builds to a virtuous climax that follows history through to the nooses. https://t.co/BpeDnAbKg8
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James Vanderbilt’s "Nuremberg" revisits the trial of Hermann Göring, and his relationship with an American psychiatrist sent to examine him.
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Trump’s crackdown is feeding fear, not America. https://t.co/fq8ChU26zM
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Trump has cast the H-2A program as a quick help for farmers. But the program has been suspended during the government shutdown.
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This week’s elections exposed the GOP’s identity crisis—and its looming post-Trump power vacuum. https://t.co/l74b5KqA0Q
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From Nick Fuentes to Zohran Mamdani, recent events suggest the future of a headless, increasingly neo-Nazi Republican Party is screwed.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.’s longtime delegate, is facing growing concerns over her fitness for office amid reports of cognitive decline and a recent scam incident at her home. https://t.co/yTtQ7RzQ5r
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To understand the Democratic Party’s troubles, look no further than the race for D.C.’s nonvoting congressional representative.
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