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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 1d

You expect aromantics to care about national debt?

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 2d

Brb sending to my single friend in DC

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Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 3d

There must have been a game at some point that commented on this by showing clearly innocent people marked as hostiles right? Where immorality is baked into your UI.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 3d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 3d

Okay I keep seeing this image and I can never understand what arch Linux has to do with anything, what’s going on?

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 5d

The global far right are slowly working through:

1. We want to deport all minorities
2. But without them demographics will implode the economy
3. What if we brought them all back but this time without rights

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 5d

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 5d

Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a program that existed for 64 years and was destroyed by a bizarre historical fluke. A normal conservative government would have downsized it. We will have to sell foreign aid to the public in a new way, but that was always true.

Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 4d

I got one in early august and it really only hurt for a couple days, then it was just weird and annoying for less than a month

Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 4d

These are related - residency slots are capped, results in extremely competitive and overworked residencies. The cap causes a doctor shortage and increases doctor pay.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

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Zombytrope @zoey.bsky.social · 6d

ME: Wonder how bsky is doing this afternoon.
NORMIE MUTUALS AT 3PM ON A SUNDAY: Fuck this, it's all over. I'm going to kill myself.

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Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah that one might be true, I wasn’t around to see how he was on that a decade ago. One of his thing is finding niche social edge cases he can complain about leftists on and unfortunately he settled on chiseling around the edges of trans rights

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Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 6d

Everybody else is going insane, he's been insane the whole time. He's better at farming engagement and then living through it than anyone else on twitter. People say "wow MattY is getting worse" -- no he's always had the exact same political views. He is the twitter apex predator.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6d

This is the state secret police committing acts of public humiliation and torture. Americans don’t have a language for this in the public consciousness but that is what this is with no exaggeration or embellishment.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 7d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 10d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 7d

I think if I gave 20% less of a shit I would be the most productive person alive

Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 7d

Me whenever I turn something in late

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7d

amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say

The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

amp.miamiherald.com

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 7d

genuinely impossible to overstate what the secret police are doing. It is state hooliganism. It is gangsterism as policy. It is the jouissance of the original klan nightriders that followed the civil war. they terrorize minority communities while intentionally paralyzing local governments.

Skyflyer Channel 8 News @skyflyer82.bsky.social · 7d

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

www.cbsnews.com

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 7d

Instead of filling Taylor Swift's private plane with jet fuel one mouthful at a time, I instead send her a representation of my labor called money. Using raised capital, a vendor has purchased a jet fuel truck. Taylor then pays the vendor to fill her plane.

That's the magic of capitalism.

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Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 8d

Didn’t know before that galaxy “银河” is just “silver river”, very pretty

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 8d

American elites: Clearly the electorate has issued a crushing and total reputation of liberalism. We have no choice but to honor the will of the volk and dismantle the republic.

American peasants: I voted for increased taxes on imports to make them cheaper but it made them more expensive instead :(

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Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 8d

Save me Pakistani cafe

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Beaz @beazletown.bsky.social · 9d

Does that mean that they gave congress the power to remove trump from office with a majority vote?

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