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Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 44m

I honestly don't know how Aaron Rupar does this without getting brown spots on his brain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 3h

Their organizations (churches, summer camps etc) are run top down as microcosm of a society they'd like to see at large. The biggest reason abuse scandals run unabated in those institutions.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 3h

To be fair, Northern cites had the same freakout...usually led by those who already randomly the suburbs and weren't even voting.

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Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 1d

This is the "concepts of a plan".

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, this is the view on the Himalayas from Jainagar (India). The mountain chain is 150 km away and still beautifully visible - I’m sure this was a particularly clear day but it’s a truly wonderful sight. Source: buff.ly/aTj63aD

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Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 1d

Got some serious David Wooderson vibes going on here...only a few more decades older.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 1d

Anti-vax is for suckers.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 1d

They should send the National Guard to SF...to occupy the Salesforce Building.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think there's any better example of leopards eating faces than the Lebanese immigrant who opened a Trump-themed burger restaurant and then got arrested by ICE.

Chron.com @chron.com · 2d

🍔 Houston’s Trump Burger appears to have shut its doors after a brief run on Chimney Rock: bit.ly/46LpQAx

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Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 2d

I have to ask...how secure are these files? They can't hold out forever - are they frantically shredding any documents with DT's name on it?

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know - sounds like a cool name for a band.

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 2d

Subtropical Storm Karen forms in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Azores, becoming the eleventh named storm of the 2025 hurricane season.

A subtropical cyclone is a system that has both tropical and extratropical features.

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Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 2d

So, this is like pass interference in football?

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 3d

Hamilton insists the president's decision is "unreviewable."

Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 2d

This solar farm would have produced more electricity than Niagara Falls - the US and Canadian hydro-plants there have a capacity of 5 GW per day.

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

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

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2d

The San Andreas and Cascadia Earthquake Faults May Be Linked www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The Most Infamous Faults in the U.S. May Produce Synchronized Earthquakes

Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in quick succession over the past 3,000 years

www.scientificamerican.com

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Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 2d

If I was working a Norwegian fishing boat, I'd might stay on land today.

Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 2d

There are no libertarians during a financial crisis.

t0ussaint @t0ussaint.bsky.social · 2d

"[Argentina] fears that a sharper depreciation will reignite expectations of high inflation, & they also wish to conserve those IMF funds to help cover nearly $20 billion in interest and principal payments on dollar debts coming due in the next 15months" #econsky theconversation.com/why-argentin...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 2d

Springsteen was too young but Dylan was on Cash's TV show in the early 70's. And there was the Folsom Prison deal.

Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 2d

I wouldn't be surprised if the Gaza cease fire goes down the drain immediately after the prize is awarded to someone else.

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Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 2d

No paywall for the obit:

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt

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Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 2d

Have to believe sometime during prep school or Harvard this guy was taught the scientific method.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 3d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 3d

Animated map shows the global shipping routes in 1770. Trade was dominated by three European empires. HT Niloofar Joulaei

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Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 3d

As everything Trump does is basically a scam I'm very skeptical on the Mideast peace deal until I see it work. I suspect it's more of a desperate Hail Mary heave to the Nobel Prize committee.