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in Jorts City, there's only one rule. american in milano 🇮🇹 (formerly: indy). returning ~2028. engineer/PM in green energy mfg PIVOT TO WIKI! 🧦🔰 WIKI -> publish.obsidian.md/pivot-point DMs open for wiki submissions

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 1d

blinken overrode state dept findings to falsify the Leahy report so that they could continue selling weapons to Israel. he lied to congress about it.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 36m

how much time did you get to speak with him? hope it was productive

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Democrats @democrats.org · 2h

It’s been 11 days since the government shutdown started.

Republicans refuse to come to the table to negotiate about Americans’ health care.

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 2h

fresh kermit at NY and Delaware

new bike box at New York and Delaware in downtown Indy

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Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 4h

“In China, the longest ultrahigh-voltage power line stretches
the equivalent of the distance from Idaho to New York City. That’s a single power line. China has 41 others. Each is capable of carrying more electricity than any utility transmission line in the United States.”

How China Powers Its Electric Cars and High-Speed Trains

www.nytimes.com

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 4h

I'm talking like, very short term just to keep these people surviving as civil servants

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 4h

sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 4h

announced in conjunction with the Obama Foundation.

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 4h

It's time for Pritzker to explicitly and loudly announce the Democratic Shadow Cabinet, which he will fund in the short-term to absorb current fed gov purges, but will requisition blue states to contribute to. Based in Chicago. any angry GOPers may counter this move with federal civ service reform.

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 5h

I wrote a few other words here but besides that I'll leave you be

publish.obsidian.md/pivot-point/...

abolish ICE - pivot point mini-wiki - Obsidian Publish

ICE abolition is necessary but a weak argument to rally around. people will forget the abuse and cruelty, and the core problem we face is not ICE. it is that we have a underclass of millions of peopl…

publish.obsidian.md

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 5h

I get that this is a "where they should be" exercise. and I am not trying to push a popularism on you. but I think grading people on this is setting a trap for ourselves when there's not a coherent alternative out there that people are pushing for. it should not be how we rank people

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 5h

and while I think we should do it if we have power, we'd be making a big mistake in making it our central argument because we **just** went through the abolish/defund the police slogan discourse which utterly failed and this is literally the same thing. amnesty should be our argument

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 5h

on "End ICE" I'd adjust your baseline to be more about, are they calling out abuses? and are they explicitly affirming the humanity of immigrants? very very few people outside the internet are to the point of calling for that

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 5h

Harris, Buttigieg

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 17h

the basic idea is like, if you go outside ever, you should be able to tap your phone to your friend's phone and a friend of a friend of a friend at least should be someone willing to be non-anon and verified

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 18h

but while it takes effort, it does feel good even just to build a mini wiki of the things I think about, even if I only have a handful of URLs to throw on the page

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 18h

personally it drives me crazy that it doesn't drive other people crazy that *nobody knows what they know*. in my pivot to wiki article I ask people to take 3 things they care about and analyze their ability to produce a complete set of resources on the subject. I can't even do that for myself

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 18h

if the question is "do I have to do this" when it comes to information or writing, the answer is yes. it doesn't have to be wordy or especially compelling. but we have to adopt a cultural mindset of this sort of record-keeping. write what you can with the intent for someone else to adapt it later

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 19h

Like how can we have endless pieces about fucking dissertation plagiarism and not one about "the spokesperson for DHS tells specific, easily-disproven lies constantly to provide cover for serious crimes against the public" how is that not a big deal? Do I have to write this shit myself?!?!?

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 18h

I'm doing what I can to try to wake people up to the lack of even the simple behaviors, but it's hard. it's cultural. thank you guys for what you do

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 18h

This is what I do with a lot of my time right now. It's so wild that the "simple" things—like keeping the chronology, pointing to specific events—are so hard right now. But they need doing.

Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 21h

The clear story in Immigration this week is the escalation of—and pushback against—the Trump administration’s militarized raids and warrantless stops in Democrat-run major cities. We’ve updated our timeline with a lot of events in this zone:

unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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