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James L. Agneta @jlagneta.bsky.social · 4h

Forget mounting antlers or eagles on top of a steam locomotive headlight.

Crabs are where it's at. 🦀

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A brass crab named "Crabitha", mounted atop the headlight of NYSW 142, a 2-8-2 steam locomotive.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 54m

I said this when he was sworn in for this term, but the parents of SpEd children whose funding is at risk of cuts are 100% going to be braying for blood if and when that money disappears. This is literally a matter of life & death for them. This *absolutely* risks political violence.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2h

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 3h

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. This is nothing new, people were doing this with Onion articles, tabloids, and North Macedonian agitprop (including doubling down when called on it) for decades.

Even here, it was common for people to say "but that it's believable tells you something, right?"

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 4h

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 6h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 3h

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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eat me @benconneran.bsky.social · 1d

If you said this to me in person we would be crossing blades

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

YES

Wiseowl374 @wiseowl374.bsky.social · 1d

This man is your friend he fights for freedom poster but it’s portland frog hero

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eat me @benconneran.bsky.social · 2d

Ballot measures to amend the California constitution only need to get 51% of the vote to pass. It's one of the reasons why California is so messed up

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 3d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 3d

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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eat me @benconneran.bsky.social · 3d

I started playing a road trip game called Keep Driving (incredible game, check it out on Steam) and this just started playing on the car radio and I was hooked

youtu.be/cG_8EQL-v5Y?...

Westkust - "Weekends" (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Run For Cover Records

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eat me @benconneran.bsky.social · 3d

Westkust. It's maybe the best American alt rock/pop punk I've ever heard and they're Swedish

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not-a-watchmaker.bsky.social @not-a-watchmaker.bsky.social · 3d

I have this from 2020. Somehow applicable?

Meme image saying: the president needs a photo op.

Are you a bad enough dude to teargas a priest?

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3d

i think there should be christian preachers in front lines of every protest unsubtly doing the “sinners in the hands of an angry god” thing

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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eat me @benconneran.bsky.social · 3d

The Portland cops are openly contradicting the regime's narrative about the ICE facility being under seige. They also don't like the fake war-zone story because it paints them in a bad light. These cracks in the facade tell us a lot about the regime's weaknesses.

eat me @benconneran.bsky.social · 3d

That's precisely why it's so interesting. Chicago area cops opened an assault investigation against an ICE agent - they're not supposed to do that. That's breaking the blue wall. ICE is so evil, one of the worst PDs in the country won't stand with them.

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eat me @benconneran.bsky.social · 4d

Well luckily I wasn't talking to Hamas

eat me @benconneran.bsky.social · 4d

I was referring to the attitude of many leftists who celebrate the murder of Israeli civilians but decry the murder of Palestinian civilians

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eat me @benconneran.bsky.social · 4d

It's wrong to kill civilians even if you don't like them

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eat me @benconneran.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think you can impose a thousand year reich if even the Chicago cops hate your regime but you never know

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

CBS News current president Tom Cibroski praised Weiss on the call, saying "Bari's energy and passion is infectious and you will feel it, big time." He also added that the Free Press and CBS News "are going to learn a lot from each other...that's what this is all about."

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Able @ablearcher.bsky.social · 4d

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