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Julie Patton Lawson @srfrjulie.bsky.social · 2h

Good morning to @salvagni.org and other #chesbay nerds youtu.be/8e-tUiXVtBY

Sub Aquatic Vegetation Tango (SAV)

YouTube video by Them Eastport Oyster Boys - Topic

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 2h

YAAASSSSS!

a group of scuba divers standing in front of a yellow submarine in the ocean

Alt: Life Aquatic dance - a group of scuba divers standing in front of a yellow submarine in the ocean

media.tenor.com

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 5h

Is traditional legacy media incapable of meeting a moment in which power relies on propaganda and political theatre?

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 3h

These are mind numbingly dangerous numbers

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3h

Sports-Bet Operators Put a Casino in Everyone’s Pocket. For Some Young Men, It’s a Near-Fatal Gamble

Americans gambled $150 billion on online sportsbooks last year. Far too many almost lost everything.

Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 14h

I posted this over a year ago:

"It will take cigarette-level destruction for any meaningful changes to gambling and gambling advertising in this country.

Like, hundreds of thousands of bankruptcies, money laundering crimes, minors gambling, suicides, for anything to change."

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11d

Amazon is now integrating betting platform FanDuel directly into Amazon Prime.

Bettors will be able to link their FanDuel accounts to their Prime profiles and see how their NBA wagers are playing out in real time, according to Amazon’s latest announcement.

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 3h

Effing 🎯

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 15d

If nothing else, I hope Trump's executive order convinces anti-fascists to stop using "antifa" in public. Just think how (more) absurd his EOs would appear if "antifa" were replaced with "anti-fascist." It's a bad communications failure.

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump's Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

theintercept.com

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 3h

Y'all ever look in the mirror and think, "man, I should really look at my life choices and do something worthwhile and beneficial for society instead of stenography for fascists" or nah? Straight up verbatim copaganda repetition for this fascist regime.

You dangerous fucking clowns.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 3h

Vice President JD Vance said that Trump is "looking at all his options" as the president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Vance says Trump is 'looking at all his options' as the president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act

The Insurrection Act would allow the president to deploy the U.S. military domestically for law enforcement purposes.

nbcnews.to

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 3h

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 4h

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 3h

Meritocracy tho, Sir

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 4h

This is coins they find in the couch cushions level of "enforcement" and no, of course it won't change musk's behavior or their corporate culture.

We have very little consumer and environmental protection regulation in this country, quickly moving towards zero.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

After Nevada regulators dropped a penalty against The Boring Co. from $3 million to $242,800, critics questioned whether it was enough to change operations at the Elon Musk-led company, which was valued at $7 billion in 2023.

With City Cast Las Vegas

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 20h

Eleanor Holmes Norton has served Washington, DC honorably for a long time. It is time for her to pass the baton to new leaders.
www.notus.org/money/eleano...

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s Reelection Campaign Is Nearly Broke as Challenges Mount

The Democratic congresswoman, who has represented D.C. since 1991, is facing internal pressure to retire.

www.notus.org

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 4h

No sarcasm at all, but how can it not, if every second or third tv spot is for gambling and ESPN etc literally weave gambling into their coverage or in some instances betting IS the coverage. It'll be generational damage, like smoking.

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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 7h

📫 Do postcards work?

📊 We've got the data.

www.environmentalvoter.org/updates/2022...

2022-2025 Overview of Volunteer Postcard Experiments

Key findings from multiple randomized controlled trials conducted by the Environmental Voter Project from 2022 – 2025 testing which types of volunteer-written postcards tend to increase turnout among ...

www.environmentalvoter.org

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 17h

Also, regardless of your political leanings, it's absolutely embarrassing that with the amount of $$ our military industry complex is swimming in that so many of our enlisteds live paycheck to paycheck. It's been embarrassing for a long while.

Army Times @armytimes.bsky.social · 1d

Due to processing time, Congress would need to act to ensure military pay Monday or earlier in order to avoid troops' checks being delayed, DFAS confirmed.

Troops request assistance at ‘unprecedented’ rate as shutdown persists

Due to processing time, Congress would need to act to ensure military pay Monday or earlier in order to avoid troops' checks being delayed, DFAS confirmed.

www.armytimes.com

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 16h

I'm consistently told that it's uncouth to speak about common sense gun laws after a shooting—mass shooting or otherwise— but see, then the issue becomes that we have so very many shooting murders that we can never speak about common sense... oh...

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Four dead, 12 injured after a mass shooting in Leland, Mississippi, following a homecoming football game. (NYP)

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 6h

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 16h

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 14h

I posted this over a year ago:

"It will take cigarette-level destruction for any meaningful changes to gambling and gambling advertising in this country.

Like, hundreds of thousands of bankruptcies, money laundering crimes, minors gambling, suicides, for anything to change."

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11d

Amazon is now integrating betting platform FanDuel directly into Amazon Prime.

Bettors will be able to link their FanDuel accounts to their Prime profiles and see how their NBA wagers are playing out in real time, according to Amazon’s latest announcement.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 20h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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KC Complains a Lot @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 15h

America has convinced people that yelling your unsolicited opinion at a stranger is free speech but someone telling you to fuck off in response is oppression.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 15h

New evidence shows the Aisuru botnet, which outpaces all other IoT-based botnets, is drawing most of its firepower from hacked IoT devices hosted on US ISPs (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 18h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 15h

Clownass fucking post

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 17h

The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors

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