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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 4d
You should all be using…

“Remove Paywall - Free online paywall remover.”

It works on Bloomberg, FT, WSJ, WaPo, NYT, etc, damn near every site you can think of.

There’s a browser extension for desktop, and there’s even a *mobile*-browser-shortcut thing:

www.removepaywall.com
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 6h
That’s what I told him 😆

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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 4d
“include a couple of decks of parking as mandatory for any structure in that area.”

That would add tons to the cost of every building, which is the opposite of what we’re trying to do :)
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 11h
MAY 22, 2023 was indeed in the past 😆
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 11h
UPDATE:

“Gov. Newsom introduced CARE Court to bring more people experiencing severe mental illness into treatment.

It has helped fewer people than he projected, but a new law will make more people eligible for it.”

calmatters.org/health/menta...
New California law expands Newsom's mental health court. Will it help more people?
Gov. Gavin Newsom's CARE Court has helped fewer mentally ill people than he projected. He just signed a new law that will make more people eligible for it.
calmatters.org
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 16d
“Neither Roberts nor any of the supposedly originalist members of the court seem to either know or care that the presidency, as envisioned by the framers, was meant to be insulated from direct popular influence, not an expression of it.”
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 16d
Read this whole thing

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | This Is About So Much More Than Lisa Cook
www.nytimes.com
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 11h
“link to the past”
a close up of a person wearing sunglasses with the words `` wait , what ? ''
ALT: a close up of a person wearing sunglasses with the words `` wait , what ? ''
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12h
I made a horrible decision last night and told chat that I’d do a 24-hr livestream if we raise $100k with these streams by the 19th.

So if that’s an incentive to tune in… there you go.
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Joe McKirdy @joemckirdy.bsky.social · 1d
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promises to do a 24 hr livestream if her campaign reaches $100k in donations. If you want an unapologetically pro-democracy Congress, please consider donating. If you want to see her stream for 24 hours, please donate to the stream specific url.
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 17h
Near Charlottenburg thanks to Nate and Dickie 🩵🧡 have you seen one?
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 13h
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bri-ll🎃-ween @briween.bsky.social · 13h
think i found it
Scoop: Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones cancels fundraiser amid "two bullets" backlash
The scrubbed fundraiser is another indication that Jones' campaign is in crisis mode.
www.axios.com
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 13h
Ahhh, thx.

People in the DC / Virginia area always forget that the rest of us don’t really pay attentions to these campaigns….
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 13h
I have the same question.
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 13h
Who is “Jay Jones”?!
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 14h
“Raghu had been on an expired visa.

He said he had tried to keep his status current by retaining an immigration lawyer to help before the expiration date, but the attorney, who no longer works with him, didn’t file the paperwork in time.“

www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic
Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.
www.nbcnews.com
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Kyla @boysek.bsky.social · 16h
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...
WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
www.chicagotribune.com
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d
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.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d
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.
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 14h
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · Sep 3
“You may say, ‘Don’t you feel bad?’ Well, no, I don’t,” Bovino said.

“I’m not trying to be callous here, but it’s because we are giving them an out.”

That out, he said, is Trump admin announcement in May that it was offering $1k and a flight home to any undocumented immigrant who self-deports.”
The Border Patrol Chief Leading the California Immigration Crackdown
www.nytimes.com
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 14h
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · Sep 3
“You may say, ‘Don’t you feel bad?’ Well, no, I don’t,” Bovino said.

“I’m not trying to be callous here, but it’s because we are giving them an out.”

That out, he said, is Trump admin announcement in May that it was offering $1k and a flight home to any undocumented immigrant who self-deports.”
The Border Patrol Chief Leading the California Immigration Crackdown
www.nytimes.com
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 15h
“CA expungement law offers a fresh start to rehabilitated ppl-
I’m one of 8M Californians living w/ a conviction record. Having an old criminal record creates all kinds of barriers. It hinders our ability to find jobs, housing & education, & often keeps us stuck in a cycle of post-conviction poverty
Opinion | California expungement law offers a fresh start to rehabilitated people held back by a conviction
A 2022 law gives many Californians a chance to expunge old convictions and make greater contributions to their communities.
cal.news
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 15h
"A new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications spells trouble for those like Coverdale in rural parts of the country who rely on immigrants to fill vacancies in skilled professions like education and health care."

apnews.com/article/immi...
Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee threatens rural schools and hospitals reliant on immigrant workers
The new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas spells trouble for rural parts of the U.S. that rely on immigrants to fill vacancies in skilled professions.
apnews.com
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 16h
"More subtly, many experts also suspected the factories would have taken a physical toll on those forced to eat their dust, making it hard for them to build a better life."
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 16h
"At the same time, lower-earning folks get pulled into the spaces they vacate, because in this era before the automobile, you’d often want to live close to where you were manning (and womaning, and childing) the mills."
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 16h
"And once they’re gone, it’s hard to lure back those amenities — think universities, theaters, markets, museums. Their flight sets off a hard-to-reverse cascade of changes. Bourgeoisie burghers leave for less pollution or perhaps more parks."
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 16h
“In England, we see that botanical gardens that were on the east side, they had to move into the west because the plants didn’t survive in the east because of the pollution,” Heblich told us.

“So you see that a lot of amenities migrate to the richer area.”
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 16h
"that answer raises a deeper, more important question: Why doth pollution persist so much?

Well, for starters, it appears that when factories arrived upwind, the little luxuries that attract rich residents decamped for cleaner ground."
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 16h
"In her PhD thesis, she found that “census tracts downwind of highly polluted 1970s industrial sites are associated with lower housing prices and a smaller share of skilled employment three decades later, a pattern which became evermore prominent between 1980 and 2000.”
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T.L. 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 16h
"A quick count of Americans in metro areas where the winds tend to blow east shows that more than half of them live in metros with higher poverty rates on the east side."
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