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BBC: Renewables overtake coal as world’s biggest source of electricity<\/a><\/h2>\nRenewable energy overtook coal as the world’s leading source of electricity in the first half of this year – a historic first, according to new data from the global energy think tank Ember.<\/p>\n
Electricity demand is growing around the world but the growth in solar and wind was so strong it met 100% of the extra electricity demand, even helping drive a slight decline in coal and gas use.<\/p>\n
However, Ember says the headlines mask a mixed global picture.<\/p>\n
Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including the US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation.
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Daily Kos: Trump team thinks if you can\u2019t see a law, it no longer exists<\/a><\/h2>\n…
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\n…<\/p>\nThe Trump administration also just recently removed information<\/a> from the Treasury Department website regarding an 1866 law saying that no living person can appear on currency, making way for plans to mint an incredibly ugly Trump coin<\/a>.
\n(Daily Kos more…)<\/a><\/p>\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – October 7, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved. Marc Caputo of Axios<\/em> broke the story of the new OMB memo this morning. Caputo pointed out that in 2019, during the last government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed a law designed to make it clear that furloughed workers would get paid. Caputo notes that the OMB\u2019s new reading of the law is \u201ca major departure from the administration\u2019s own guidance issued\u2026last month.\u201d<\/p>\nTwo people familiar with the administration\u2019s plans told Jacob Bogage of the Washington Post<\/em> that officials are hoping the memo will give the Republicans more leverage against Democrats in negotiations over the shutdown.
\n…<\/p>\nPolls show that most Americans blame Republicans for the shutdown and that 78% of Americans want to see the premium tax credits\u2014the issue of healthcare costs on which the Democrats are making a stand\u2014extended. That the administration is concerned about the healthcare issue showed in Trump\u2019s statement to reporters yesterday that \u201cwe have a negotiation going on right now with the Democrats that could lead to very good things\u2026with regard to health care.\u201d Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said \u201cTrump\u2019s claim isn\u2019t true\u2014but if he\u2019s finally ready to work with Democrats, we\u2019ll be at the table.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of the threat to withhold back pay for furloughed employees, a senior White House official told Caputo: \u201cOMB is in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n
The power being wielded by unelected officials in the Trump administration echoes the conditions of the U.S. government a century ago. …
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In the second Trump administration, the president does not seem especially interested in governance. He seems to want to use the government to persecute those he considers his enemies and to protect and enrich himself.<\/p>\n
Attorney General Pam Bondi encapsulated that approach to the government when she appeared today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She refused to answer questions, instead attacking Democratic senators. …
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBulwark: The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your \u2018oversight\u2019 couldn’t matter to us less.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Ken Klippenstein: Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7<\/a><\/h2>\n\u201cWe\u2019re expanding the watchlist,\u201d FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror cases.
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\nAs the federal government begins to implement President Trump\u2019s new national security directive<\/a> to investigate the so-called radical left as domestic terrorists, a little known FBI organization, located in an affluent and leafy suburb of Northern Virginia, is at the center of it all.
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Joyce Vance: A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Guardian: Federal agents taunted Chicago woman to \u2018do something\u2019 before shooting her, attorney claims<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Daily Kos: Trump team thinks if you can\u2019t see a law, it no longer exists<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nThere\u2019s really no other way to explain the recent deletion<\/a> of references to the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act<\/a>\u2014signed into law by President Donald Trump himself\u2014mandating back pay for furloughed federal workers.<\/a>
\n…<\/p>\nThe Trump administration also just recently removed information<\/a> from the Treasury Department website regarding an 1866 law saying that no living person can appear on currency, making way for plans to mint an incredibly ugly Trump coin<\/a>.
\n(Daily Kos more…)<\/a><\/p>\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – October 7, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved. Marc Caputo of Axios<\/em> broke the story of the new OMB memo this morning. Caputo pointed out that in 2019, during the last government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed a law designed to make it clear that furloughed workers would get paid. Caputo notes that the OMB\u2019s new reading of the law is \u201ca major departure from the administration\u2019s own guidance issued\u2026last month.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two people familiar with the administration\u2019s plans told Jacob Bogage of the Washington Post<\/em> that officials are hoping the memo will give the Republicans more leverage against Democrats in negotiations over the shutdown.
\n…<\/p>\nPolls show that most Americans blame Republicans for the shutdown and that 78% of Americans want to see the premium tax credits\u2014the issue of healthcare costs on which the Democrats are making a stand\u2014extended. That the administration is concerned about the healthcare issue showed in Trump\u2019s statement to reporters yesterday that \u201cwe have a negotiation going on right now with the Democrats that could lead to very good things\u2026with regard to health care.\u201d Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said \u201cTrump\u2019s claim isn\u2019t true\u2014but if he\u2019s finally ready to work with Democrats, we\u2019ll be at the table.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of the threat to withhold back pay for furloughed employees, a senior White House official told Caputo: \u201cOMB is in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n
The power being wielded by unelected officials in the Trump administration echoes the conditions of the U.S. government a century ago. …
\n…<\/p>\nIn the second Trump administration, the president does not seem especially interested in governance. He seems to want to use the government to persecute those he considers his enemies and to protect and enrich himself.<\/p>\n
Attorney General Pam Bondi encapsulated that approach to the government when she appeared today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She refused to answer questions, instead attacking Democratic senators. …
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBulwark: The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your \u2018oversight\u2019 couldn’t matter to us less.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Ken Klippenstein: Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7<\/a><\/h2>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re expanding the watchlist,\u201d FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror cases.
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\nAs the federal government begins to implement President Trump\u2019s new national security directive<\/a> to investigate the so-called radical left as domestic terrorists, a little known FBI organization, located in an affluent and leafy suburb of Northern Virginia, is at the center of it all.
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Joyce Vance: A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Guardian: Federal agents taunted Chicago woman to \u2018do something\u2019 before shooting her, attorney claims<\/a><\/h2>\n
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