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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah this is the correct read of Pritzker. It is clear when the chips are down, he's going to defend the fascist system he is always pretending he is railing against.

Not exactly a huge surprise a billionaire is a gaslighter I suppose.

dustin d'wind @dustinheron.bsky.social · 2d

His state police spent today protecting ICE while they kidnapped daycare teachers.

Jesse @itshoje.bsky.social · 2d

From the top rope

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unplanned-obsolescence @itsahothouse.bsky.social · 2d

what??

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

A hearing of the Senate Transportation Committee went off the rails on Wednesday as Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) accused Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) of tracking the VINs on her teams' cars, reported Dan Diamond of The Washington Post.

'Creepy': GOP senator under fire for tracking Democratic colleague's cars

A hearing of the Senate Transportation Committee went off the rails on Wednesday as Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) accused Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) of tracking the VINs on her teams' cars, reported Dan Diamond of The Washington Post.According to Bloomberg News, Moreno was personally trying to investigate ...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery

absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 2d

the first what now

Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC

Fifa unveils a new Peace Prize to be awarded at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, citing a mission to honor efforts to end conflict

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Dr. Robert Wisdom @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 3d

These people are going fuckin nuts partying over a guy who campaigned on affordable housing, and subsidized childcare and busses. Like c’mon man. There is a very obvious path forward to fight the horrors. Praying the right people realize that

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 3d

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 2d

The robber barons of America are going to do everything they can to destroy Mamdani.

They will follow the SF playbook: they will run wedge campaigns, pay PR firms, manipulate social media, encourage cop work slowdowns then crow about crime, and run impeachment campaigns.

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Jun 25

crying, screaming, throwing up

"Hearing that real estate and business leaders in New York City are convening a 2 pm call to discuss The Zohran Situation"

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.*

Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

Every word of advocacy we say is supposed to be "hidden by the First Amendment" from the government. In a free country, our speech should be completely invisible to the governnment.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3d

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

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unplanned-obsolescence @itsahothouse.bsky.social · 2d

she'd crush him. he'd end up getting support from republicans just like cuomo

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Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social · 2d

Folks - let them think this. I’ve spent 25 years doing campaigns - when you think like this after a loss like last night, you are doomed to lose again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 3d

This person took this when they called the race

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 3d

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

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Hoeratio Hornyblower @chestaheadinc.bsky.social · 3d

Mamdani had pretty much every major media org and all the big money people in American politics trying everything to beat him and they all ate shit tonight. One of the biggest fuck you's ever to the powers that be.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

What ceasefire??? The IDF is still mass-murdering Palestinians and razing what remains of Gaza

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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3d

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.

Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

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unplanned-obsolescence @itsahothouse.bsky.social · 3d

dems should keep going. they will never stop

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

A good, democratic purge occurs through free & fair elections that remove all of the ghouls

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect

It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...

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unplanned-obsolescence @itsahothouse.bsky.social · 3d

apparently they just hated the shitty handpicked candidates?