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In 2025, wind and solar met 99% of the increase in power demand and fossil fuel energy fell by 0.2%. Unlike the other rare years that fossil fuel generation has slightly fallen (ex. early COVID), this was the first year it was caused by structural change alone rather than a crisis #goodnews
WELL NOW, would you look at that?
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
#Election #Florida #Congress #Vote
A reminder that EMT & Firefighter Bernard Taylor is running for Congress. This is a grassroots campaign, and the best way to make sure that it succeeds is to volunteer.
You can find ways to help here:
www.bernardtaylorforcongress.org/get-involved
Also, what a beautiful outfit. 🙏
Menswear writer here. 👋 Let me tell you why you shouldn't wear an armband like that. 🧵
Don’t put it off. Take a couple minutes today to double-check your information so you’re ready to vote when it counts.
Let’s make sure every voice is ready to be heard this election… every vote counts!
#ConradCable4Congress #GeauxVote #VoterRegistration #Election2026
#registration #election #vote Reminder to make sure you're registered BEFORE May 16th. That's less than one month away!
Truly, thank you everyone who showed support! Thank you everyone who came out to collect Signatures! Thank you, everyone who pushed for people to sign my sheets to make the ballot!
NONE OF THIS would be possible without ANY OF YOU! It will be up to us to take our power back!
CHANGE IS HERE! ✊
I VANCE BOSTIC FOR NY-8 OFFICIAL STATEMENT They're Scared, and They Should Be. Hakeem Jeffries and the establishment are scared of a real working-class challenger, so they're dispatching 3 machine operatives to try and kick me off the ballot. He knows we have a winning message that truly works for the people, he knows he can't beat us at the ballot box, so they're trying to stop us from getting there at all... That's what the establishment does when they're scared OF THE PEOPLE! NAME OF CANDIDATE Vance Bostic Vance Bostic Vance Bostic DATE FILED 4/9/26 12:57 pm 4/9/26 12:57 pm 4/9/26 9:44 pm OBJECTOR Stuart Heier Alan Maisel Belinda Harrell > 1/4
VANCE BOSTIC FOR NY-8 OFFICIAL STATEMENT Challenger: Alan Maisel Former New York State Assembly Member representing District 59 (parts of Brooklyn, including Canarsie, Mill Basin, Bergen Beach, and Marine Park). He served from 2006 to 2022. He is a known quantity in Brooklyn Democratic politics. Maisel is a long-time establishment Democrat with deep ties to the Brooklyn Democratic machine. His involvement definitely says this challenge is coordinated. >2/4
VANCE BOSTIC FOR NY-8 C OFFICIAL STATEMENT Challenger: Stuart Heier Less publicly visible than Maisel, but he fits the pattern. In Columbia County petition challenges (2025), objectors testified in court that they were provided draft objections by government officials before filing them. One objector testified: "I let it be known that if they needed someone to do something, I would do it" 3/4
VANCE BOSTIC FOR NY-8 OFFICIAL STATEMENT Challenger: Belinda Harrell Very limited public information available on Belinda. However, this pattern is clear. Three objectors filing simultaneously, this is coordination, Definitely from Hakeems camp and the Brooklyn establishment to push us off the June 23rd ballot in NYC. 4/4
🚨Our movement for NY-8 has learned that 3 establishment operatives have filed objections to our ballot access petitions!
These individual objectors are surrogates, regular people recruited to file objections on behalf of a campaign or political operation and are a placeholder for the establishment!
Awe lil guy... I'm so sorry he's passed but I'm glad he was able to be with you for so long.
New York, District 8 Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bergen Beach, Brighton Beach, Brownsville, Canarsie, Coney Island, East New York, Gerritsen Beach, Gravesend, Homecrest, Manhattan Beach, Marine Park, Mill Basin, New Lots, Ocean Hill, Sea Gate, Sheepshead Bay, Spring Creek, and Starrett City.
Brooklyn NY-8 Neighborhoods:
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bergen Beach, Brighton Beach, Brownsville, Canarsie, Coney Island, East New York, Gerritsen Beach, Gravesend, Homecrest, Manhattan Beach, Marine Park, Mill Basin, New Lots, Ocean Hill, Sea Gate, Sheepshead Bay, Spring Creek, and Starrett City.
“True Net Worth is your regular net worth, combined with the money you’ve donated, that we appreciate like you still own it,” Lane explained.
Lane described it as an incentive structure to encourage billionaires to give more of their wealth away.
On Wednesday evening, Randall Lane, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, announced a new layer to the publication’s wealth-tracking of billionaires: How much money they are giving away.
A speaker in a dark blazer and flat cap stands on the iconic red circle of the TED stage, gesturing toward a large screen behind him. The screen displays a horizontal bar chart titled "Forbes Top 5 True Net Worth," with a legend indicating "Original Net Worth" (darker blue/green) and "Appreciated Giving" (lighter shades). The rankings shown are: #1 Elon Musk at $858B ($839B original plus $19B giving); #2 Bill Gates at $464 Billion, up from #19, with $108B original and $356B in appreciated giving; #3 Warren Buffett at $363 Billion, up from #9, with $149B original and $214B in giving; #4 Larry Page at $284 Billion ($257B plus $27B); and #5 Sergey Brin at $278 Billion ($237B plus $41B). The x-axis scales from $0 to $900B. Gates and Buffett are highlighted in green to emphasize the dramatic ranking change when charitable giving is counted.
BREAKING GOOD NEWS: Forbes announces 'True Net Worth' to track how much billionaires give away
Needs Dolly Parton for scale.
Forbes has a new global wealth ranking list, and it factors in charitable giving to calculate “true net worth.”
The traditional method of producing ammonia for fertilizer requires extremely high temperature and pressure, which contributes to CO2 emissions. Microbiologists think they've found microbes that can produce ammonia more sustainably at ambient temperature and pressure. #goodnews
With the new changes, the overall number of “lost” birds, as defined in a 2022 study, dropped to 120 from the 163 listed when the list was first published.
Research on the world's largest community-owned black soldier fly larvae farm in Madagascar found that insect farming can address malnutrition, food security, and reduce deforestation--as well as generating fertilizer as a byproduct. #goodnews
Australia has over 1,700 threatened species, including koalas, wombats, pygmy possums, and many more.
We're close to the world's first-ever broad-spectrum antiviral. In a breakthrough, researchers at the City University of New York have identified a promising path to the development of an antiviral that could be used to fight a wide range of deadly viruses, including future pandemic threats.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
The First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels will meet at the end of this month, uniting 85 countries aiming to chart a more aggressive economic roadmap to decarbonization outside the UN's more restrictive consensus rules at Cop30 #goodnews #climatechange
Remember, there is no universe where the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) or KIDS Act as they stand will actually work and protect anyone, let alone kids. Their sole purpose is to assist in digital surveillance, queer genocide and silencing dissent, and no amount of court "victories" will change that.
#important #illinois #ohio #election #candidate #primary
Mrvan and Landsman gotta go. LaVetta Sparks-Wade and Damon Lynch IV are better candidates for their respective districts.
Keeping Dems out of office who vote in line with the GOP will build a safer, more secure future for us all.
#homeless #shelter #research #usa
Just a quick reminder that we have the means to make homelessness a thing of the past here in the USA, if only congress wanted to make it so. Make them care.
Safety nets and income are just the beginning. We need to legislate housing monopolies out of existence.
