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Derrell Durrett
Derrell Durrett
@derrelldurrett.bsky.social
Ex physics. Software. Life-long observer of the public morality. Devoté of Poe's Law. Potentially voluble. Boulder Colorado Born at 318 ppm CO2.
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7/ The consequences of this rollback could not be more serious. Methane traps 80x more heat than CO2 over a 20-year span. It's responsible for ⅓ of the global warming we experience today. All to save just 0.4% of US oil and gas production, per an industry estimate cited by Trump's EPA itself.
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4/ Back in June, I wrote about the billionaire Trump donor whose former lobbyist was appointed by Trump to lead the methane rollback at the EPA: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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2/ The big change: loosening requirements for leak inspections and equipment upgrades at hundreds of thousands of low-producing “stripper wells.” These wells produce just 6% of the country’s oil and natural gas — but studies show they're responsible for roughly half the sector’s methane pollution.
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What does Trump's rollback of methane rules mean for the climate? Read this thread ⤵️
1/ Last month, I obtained details of a plan by Trump's EPA to weaken restrictions on methane pollution from oil and gas wells. Last night the EPA largely confirmed what I had seen. Here’s what it means for the climate — and who stands to benefit:
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The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)
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Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi — known as "Los Javis" — have turned four pages of an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca into a sweeping epic about the persecution of gay men in Spain. n.pr/4yVvWJy
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From college football tailgates to conversations in Ann Arbor, Michigan voters tell NPR they're worried about everyday costs, frustrated with the two-party system and increasingly reluctant to discuss politics openly. n.pr/48iZ2aF
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Pennsylvania courts say court-appointed attorneys should act “expeditiously” to secure new trials for clients who believe they were wrongfully convicted. Our records review found delays as long as 19 years without a single court filing. with @inquirer.com
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Turns out the combination of sycophancy and lack of persistent experience of reality is irresistible COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/clankor PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
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Brazil's opposition party accepts Lula's election victory, but Flávio Bolsonaro won't concede, while President Trump calls the vote "rigged" without offering evidence. n.pr/4zbfl54
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I don’t know why Democrats haven’t been getting under Princess Pea’s skin for the last 10 years It’s the easiest layup and they just keep passing the ball
Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"
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Between 2015 and 2025, at least 15 children in an Idaho faith-healing sect died of treatable conditions. State law allows that to happen: Parents who say their faith prohibits giving their children lifesaving medical care can’t be prosecuted.
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Sen Roger Marshall (R-KS) summons Pete Hegseth's personal chaplain to explain that Methodists are dangerous, far-left crazies.
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Two headlines in the last 24 hours: New York Times: "The New Worst-Case Scenario for Election Officials: Federal Interference" Me: "Republicans have cheated in elections for a long time"
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“Good enough” is only good enough for so long. It’s political laziness. It’s doing the same thing over and over again when that thing is serving only some of the community. It’s allowing ICE to use Louisville’s deadly jail to perpetrate its own crimes. It’s building data centers on the sly. #Shameka
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The Paxtons’ blind trust invested $600K in a convicted fraudster’s new company. Experts say the trust wasn’t truly blind as the Paxtons reported losses from it on their taxes. Angela Paxton also sat on an affiliate’s advisory board for several years. with @texastribune.org
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Low clouds cool and high clouds warm. All clouds reflect some sunlight. But high clouds have cold cloud tops, so they absorb relatively warm thermal radiation coming up from below but re-radiate at the cold temperatures of their cloud tops, making them net thermal absorbers. contrails.org
Seriously. If I, someone who loathes talking on the phone, have taken the time to call you, whom I do not know, it's because I didn't accomplish my desired goal in using your website. Have a useful customer service number, folks. Them robots aren't yet up to snuff for everything.
When I call customer service, I dislike hearing “you can access your account 24/7 online” — like I didn’t know the internet exists.
True. It's been this way since the explosion of pop music (ever heard of The Monkees?). But if you can play it live, I won't care. If it's live, it's not fake. So buy your music from them.
Controversy over an artist being fake — or someone thinking they are — is hardly new. Here are some of the craziest moments in recent music history when the boundary between real and fake collapsed. n.pr/4ip6W7a