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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1h

Sounds like fun!

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1h

That's nothing, America is going full throttle to destroy the world.

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 9h

The numbers of electric vehicles sold in Europe in 2024 are in:

⚡ 1.45 million new battery-only EVs registered
📈 +32% growth in the total electric fleet
🔋 13.6% of all new car registrations are electric

Europe is going full throttle to a clean future.

link.europa.eu/cNKjkh

A color-coded map of Europe titled "Share of electric vehicles sold in each EU country in 2024," showing the share of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as a percentage of total new passenger car registrations. The EU average is 13.5%. Countries with the highest shares (>20%, darkest shade) include Sweden (35%), Netherlands (34.5%), Finland (29.5%), Luxembourg (27.4%), Belgium (28%), and Denmark (51%). Other countries like France (16.5%), Portugal (19.9%), and Austria (17.5%) are also in the <20% range. Several Eastern and Southern European countries (including Italy, Spain, Poland, and Czechia) have shares below 10% (the lightest shades).

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 23h

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

www.oregonlive.com

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 6h

the ongoing amphibious assault in Portland from Antifa

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 14h

This is (1) undermining and mocking the despicable claim that the anti-Trump protests are terroristic AND (2) quietly reclaiming frog symbolism from the alt-right. Our amphibian friends deserve better than the notoriety of perpetual Pepe.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 16h

I love this image.

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 16h

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 18h

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 18h

rescind his diploma now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 18h

talking about Trump winning the Nobel Peace prize is like talking about a 12 year old winning the Nobel Chemistry prize because he got a chemistry set and added base to acid with phenolphthalein.

Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 20h

Sure everybody here knows this but..."Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize close on 31 January of each year, according to the awards website, just days after T***p took office."

Guy was never gonna win anyway...

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 21h

Does everyone realize that had Trump been in power we would still be polluting the air with leaded gasoline, poisoning our children with water from lead pipes, and giving each other cancer by smoking at restaurants, bars, and public transportation. I feel like a character in a dystopian novel.

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 21h

Reagan was a conservative but could make an exception if convinced it could help people. Trump claims to be a conservative but will make an exception if convinced it could harm people.

hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 7d

It is true that undocumented immigrants get health care benefits in this sense: under a law signed by Ronald Reagan, hospitals cannot turn away patients who need emergency care but are not insured. They have to treat them.

digby @digby56.bsky.social · 7d

This ostentatious Christian with the big cross around her neck is really saying that people who cannot prove their citizenship in an emergency room should be left on the sidewalk to die. And that's what she believes.

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 22h

Many of those who claim to have nominated Trump are dishonest sycophants who could never do the actual research to support a nomination but want to tell Trump they nominated him, and know that Trump won't find out they didn't for fifty years.

Colin Boylett @baggiesman.bsky.social @baggiesman.bsky.social · 1d

The Noble Prize Committee gets thousands of suggestions for winner of their Peace Prize. 99% are from Trumputin.

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

It is called the Prize of Conviction and is awarded at the Hague

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Do they have a prize for blowing up boats in the Caribbean and then bragging that people who made their livelihood fishing there for generations are now afraid to go out on the water?

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

If Kennedy wants to benefit humankind he could get together with the others around this table, implement the 25th amendment, and get rid of pathological Trump derangement syndrome once and for all.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Hhs sec is a rich failson who lacks a basic understanding of human anatomy but like most aristocrats is adept at kissing ass bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

anyone who doesn't have Trump Derangement syndrome is not sentient.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Hhs sec is a rich failson who lacks a basic understanding of human anatomy but like most aristocrats is adept at kissing ass bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

He wants to be a Burger King, but always ends up being Ronald McDonald, the clown.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

This is like asking a physics Ph.D. candidate "what is Newton's law", having them answer "the hypotenuse is the sum of the squares of the other two sides", and giving them a Ph.D. anyway.

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem should never have been confirmed after this. It ended up being a perfect representation of what she would do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem should never have been confirmed after this. It ended up being a perfect representation of what she would do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

Knowing Trump, I am sure the arch will be golden.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

it's giving Germania

"On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial"

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

Instead, the committee crafted a citation that could have been entitled "Advice to America".

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

honestly it would have been extremely funny if they just gave Obama another peace nobel

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps this explains why Musk was so cavalier about breaking laws during his time as head of DOGE. He is getting more confident in his spacecraft?

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

Minneapolis, 1903

The first automobile theft in the city has been reported. That shows that people are beginning to have confidence in the ability of the machines to travel into the next state without breaking down.
--Minneapolis Daily Times, 31 Mar 1903

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

Minneapolis, 1903

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

So Trump was right, Portland is under amphibious attack!

Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 1d

I am glad that the left has taken back frogs from the right. Frogs rule. Thank you Portland. Get wrecked Pepe.

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

Too bad he didn't get an IgNobel, where in this case Ig would refer to ignorant.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

By voting for a criminal every MAGA has forfeited the right to be welcomed into polite society, to be served by the community in any way, and that goes for those representing this dictatorial regime such as ICE, especially those who do so willingly. No violence just cold refusal to help in any way.

Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago and Portland showing us how it’s DONE!!