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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1h

It's the apotheosis of the rhetoric elevated by the party imo. Especially since the ascent of the Tea Party.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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BlueVoter @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 22h

Ribbit! #political #humor #resist

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 9h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 9h

En todo mi perfil profesional (linkedin) hay gente felicitándola. No me malinterpreten, no me gusta Maduro. Pero no me entusiasma la compañía que tiene ella.

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Rafael Dochao @rdochao.bsky.social · 21h

Que no te engañen : MCM participó en el acto de VOX con la extrema derecha internacional llamado Europa VIVA 25.
Una auténtica vergüenza de Nobel de la paz.

Guillem Martínez @guillemmartinez.bsky.social · 1d

Ya pasó, ya pasó, ya pasó

Live Updates: María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 12h

RIP Diane Keaton.

Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 14h

What it felt like seeing some of the more smug coverage of Argentinas recover earlier this year

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 17h

Real Austrian economics has never been tried...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqbH...

Why Argentina’s Economic Crisis is Still Getting Worse

YouTube video by TLDR News Global

www.youtube.com

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 15h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 15h

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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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 15h

"With gaffs like these, who needs an opponent?"

My sports history book of all the teams I'm a fan of.

Chapters include:
"Each week we face 2 opponents: ourselves and the other guys"
And
"Why do what works when we can fail with style?"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 15h

Based on their home game attendance I figure about half of UCLAs fans traveled to EL for this game.

Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

The man is frozen in time.

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

How is that a HBP?!?

Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for sharing this! I love your work!

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 1d

thanks! @commiedharma.bsky.social I also wrote a response to that piece from Commune, years ago when it was published fwiw viewpointmag.com/2019/05/16/p...

Plan, Mood, Battlefield - Reflections on the Green New Deal - Viewpoint Magazine

"At every node in this global chain, the technical and the political are intimately entangled. Declaring by fiat that decarbonization is unlikely or impossible amounts to an avoidance of the complex, ...

viewpointmag.com

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

That's interesting, it could be proximity (as in i follow them) but @triofrancos.bsky.social has a great new book that is all about the costs of green. And it joins a broader literature of 21st-century environmental costs of our economy (see red cobalt among others).

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

And that's the side that derailed this more than someone mentioning climate justice or tying it to an anti-meat or IDpol argument.

The loud latter group above gets into office more than the climate progressives do.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

very curious where the debates are at these days re: "climate politics should be about the wonky details of energy transition" vs "climate politics and advocacy should be vocally connected to all the other progressive issues"

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

Catch all of these and more on the compilation album Now That's What I Call Authoritarianism Vol. 6!

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

From the people who called anti-war protesters commies and universal healthcare socialists here's their new smash hit: exercising your 1st amendment right makes you a terrorist.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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