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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 10h

Dear very rich people in other cities. It appears you can prevent ICE mobilization in your vicinity.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 12h

If & when federal courts (& SCOTUS) insist on deferring to the President's determination that deploying the Natl Guard is necessary for the enforcement of federal law, safety, etc. - please remember Trump says he's making such decisions based in part on what the CEOs of Salesforce & NVIDIA tell him.

Truth Social post - "Great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, & others have called saying that the future of SF is great."

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 10h

I guess that whole Onion thing fell through?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 2d

"PITY THE NATION"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves ...

Pity The Nation
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by tortur e.
Pity the nation what knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation - or, pity the peop le who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty

copyright Lawrence Ferlingetti

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 12h

Good plan!

ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 12h

For the most part oolong tea isn't sold in compressed form. The only real exception is Zhangping Shui Xian from Southern Fujian. It is often sold in these cute little tile shaped pillows. This is a very nice example from Rivers and Lakes tea.

#RiversAndLakesTea #OolongTea #WulongCha #TeaSky

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 1d

"The East Wing was built on top of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center". Is the point perhaps not the ballroom, but expanding and improving the PEOC?

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit, this cartoon.

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! I usually pick the tea the night before. I really hate making decisions in the morning before I've had my tea.

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 1d

What tea do you drink on your birthday? Do you pick a special tea or a special type of tea? Or just drink your usual teas? I picked this "Lotus Peak Shui Xian" from Tong Xin She Teahouse as a special tea to start the day and the next year of my life.

#RockOolong #YanCha #TongXinSheTeaHouse #TeaSky

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 4d

Opening the bag, it is very obvious that this is gardenia flower scented tea. Pleasant enough, but not something I would search out.

#EcoChaTeas #OolongTea #TaiwanTea #TeaSky

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 4d

This was a bonus sample from the Eco-Cha tea club. Reading the label, "Gardenia Flower Oolong Tea", I wasn't sure if it was Oolong tea with gardenia scent characteristics or if it was Oolong tea scented with gardenia flowers.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6d

"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..."

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 7d

Who is the "we" here? Sounds like he is saying American boots on the ground in Gaza aiding IDF.

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 7d

Dear NPR, perhaps instead of talking to Republican politicians, you could interview people who aren't going to be able to afford health care if the health care subsidies are allowed to expire. @npr.org

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 8d

Taxation without representation.

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 8d

"What could possibly go wrong with non-expert oversight of complicated physics projects?" He says as the planet slides down the event horizon into a black hole...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 10d

They squandered their early momentum attempting to appeal to the center-right.

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 10d

Plus, they want to do away with all of what they deem "Non-Essential" jobs and services provided by the Federal Government. They want to shrink the government down until it can be drowned in its own bassinet.

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 10d

The domino albums are still up, but loveless was Sire/Creation? But so was Tremelo, which is up?

ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe the Nobel committee could acknowledge Alfred Nobel's past and create a new award, the Nobel Dynamite Award, for the person most likely to cause a new world war...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11d

What To Know About NSPM-7 https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-nspm-7/

Q: Is this like that book Minority Report was based on?

A: We’d avoid referencing books from now on.

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 11d

"If you don't cave in to our demands, we will continue to act on our worst possible instincts." Isn't really the selling point Republicans think it is...

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ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 14d

First they co-opt my exercise, then my healthy food, now my sobriety? What's next MAGA? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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