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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 7h

More specifically, the GOP wants more people to die so corporate profits can be higher. They are so profoundly mercenary.

John B Des Moines @john-b-des-moines.bsky.social · 12h

Medical care should be a right, not a privilege. It's hard to figure out why we're even arguing about such a thing, but the Republican plan for health care is for people to die. Lots of people.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 13h

Well, he’s already bombed Venezuela – or at least Venezuelan people in Venezuelan boats off the coast of Venezuela – so Norway would have to be next.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 13h

The frustrating thing about María Corina Machado‘s Nobel Prize win is that one guy who did not win is so frequently going to be referenced, when Maria’s work deserves the whole stage. Even those who applaud her and loathe him will mention him.

We must learn to put our attention elsewhere.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 22h

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 · 22h

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

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 13h

A Venezuelan.

I look forward to learning more about her good work for her neighbors and country.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 13h

Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.

www.theatlantic.com

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 22h

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

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 13h

LOL, I stand corrected! Rioja is better anyway. And I forgot to mention Paella!

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 21h

Tomorrow, I’m going to see Mary Chapin Carpenter in Madison, Wisconsin. I’ve seen her a number of times before. Her music is one of the main soundtracks of my life. Can’t wait.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

I'm sorry, but what's wrong with giving health care to immigrants? Republicans don't even want to give health care to citizens, but I don't understand the argument against keeping people who contribute billions of dollars to the economy healthy. It's also less expensive in the long run.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 23h

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

Craven and despicable. Ubisoft joins Columbia University, ABC, CBS, NBC, Disney . . . ad nauseum.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

This seems like a BFD. Oklahoma!

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

This seems like a BFD.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

20+ years ago, in Costa Rica, I got an infection. Went to a clinic. They gave me penicillin and painkillers, said to come back for surgery, which I did. They remedied the problem. A week later, I went in to have the bandage changed.

Total cost: $110. Benefit: felt cared for.

Do unto others.

John B Des Moines @john-b-des-moines.bsky.social · 23h

A tiny proportion of 0.4% of all Medicaid/Medicare money is spent on the undocumented, and even this is the bare minimum to keep them from dying in the ER.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Context matters

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

20+ years ago, in Costa Rica, I got an infection. Went to a clinic. They gave me penicillin and painkillers, said to come back for surgery, which I did. They remedied the problem. A week later, I went in to have the bandage changed.

Total cost: $110. Benefit: felt cared for.

Do unto others.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

Ohh, you get a gold medal for that one!

a coin with a laurel wreath on it

ALT: a coin with a laurel wreath on it

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

Those ellipses are VERY hard-working, and very clear.

Good writing is like alchemy.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

This is a helluva statement by AG James. Her delivery couldn't have been more powerful if she'd been coached by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

This is a helluva statement by AG James. Her delivery couldn't have been more powerful if she'd been coached by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

Johnny Cash has ALWAYS been a legend. Always. Nice of Mr. Fasman to acknowledge that fact, however belatedly. Funny that he thinks he isn't the last one to board the train.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

Johnny Cash has ALWAYS been a legend. Always. Nice of Mr. Fasman to acknowledge that fact, however belatedly. Funny that he thinks he isn't the last one to board the train.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

Wishing you peace, justice (however long delayed), safety, and joy in your new home. Tapas and sangria, too. See Guernica, El Greco, and Gaudi. And Toledo. GREAT country, wonderful, warm people.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 1d

After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 1d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

The Republican shutdown continues.

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