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BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 6h

a close up of a person 's face with the words " the horror , the horror " written below it

Alt: Col. Kurtz: " the horror , the horror "

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 8h

Inside Portland’s War Zone (Spoiler: It’s a Farmers Market

Inside Portland’s War Zone (Spoiler: It’s a Farmers Market)

YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 7h

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 7h

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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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 16h

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

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BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 6h

gettin them radula WORKIN'

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BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 6h

Lowly!!!

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Sarazando @sarastar80.bsky.social · 7h

The little worm from children’s book author Richard Scary, driving his apple car with the words “My other car is in RFK JR’s brain” written on its side.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 17h

This week’s JAMBOROO topper is about Slow Horses, which is a perfect TV show. defector.com/how-slow-hor...

How 'Slow Horses' Explains The World | Defector

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE,...

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T.W.Wombat (aka Jim White) @twwombat.bsky.social · 8h

Stone of a peach, it's a 2d20 random table. With an 18 and 12, I rolled "piss-sucker".

What did you roll?

BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 9h

Intriguing...

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 11h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 9h

Intriguing...

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BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 10h

Eh, nothing really gets the creative juices flowing like sheer panic.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 11h

Letitia James is a former public defender and public advocate. She's spent most of her career on the side of the marginalized and underprivileged. And let's be honest: Trump is attacking her because he doesn't want Black women in positions of authority in this country.

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gettysburg2024.bsky.social @gettysburg2024.bsky.social · 1d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

We discussed the importance of education and how it shapes our communities and informs our democracy. It all felt so incredibly relevant to what we are facing right now.

I really do hope you get a chance to see this film at a screening near you. More details here: www.thelastclassfilm.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

BlinkRX, an online prescription drug delivery company, stands to benefit from proposed changes by Trump that would allow pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs directly to patients.

His son, Eric Trump, is on the company’s board.

Always follow the money.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h

Letitia James is being criminally charged for the ‘crime’ of holding Trump accountable. This indictment is the clearest sign yet that Trump’s project isn’t just corruption — it’s monarchy. He’s using the power of the federal government to punish his public servants and protect himself.

New York Attorney General Letitia James charged in fraud case after pressure campaign by Trump

New York Attorney General Letitia James has been charged as part of a mortgage fraud investigation aggressively pushed by the Trump administration.

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BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 10h

I think this has something to do with it:

whereofonecanspeak.com/2023/03/02/y...

You’ve Probably Never Heard of “Murc’s Law”, But You’ve Seen It in Action Lots of Times

Murc’s Law is “the widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics”. In other words, Democrats are responsible for Republican…

whereofonecanspeak.com

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 11h

why are so people so absolutely convinced that there is a button that Senate Democrats could push that would Just Solve The Problem that they are refusing to push? this belief apparently extends to like, every single corner of the political spectrum on here and it utterly baffles me.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

DOJ prosecutors in Virginia under Erik Seibert didn't believe they gathered enough evidence to charge Letitia James.

So Trump pressured Seibert to resign and replaced him with a loyalist (and former personal attorney) who would.

Even Nixon made efforts to hide his corruption.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 11h

“Fre’Drisha Dixon can still recall the laughter that once spilled across… the now-shuttered Clyde Woodworth Elementary School in Inglewood. Just as clearly, she can conjure up the loud banging of the bulldozers that plowed through the school’s classrooms last year.”

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BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 10h

Soooo, now the AI slop bots speaking in Turkish are publishing AI slop pictures of waterfalls instead of flowers.

WTF?

BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 12h

“As far as I am concerned,” Guyatt recounted telling people affiliated with SEGM in a recent conversation, “you are not evidence-based.”

It was a burn that only the guy who coined the term “evidence-based medicine” could give."

BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 12h

In which transphobes willfuly misinterpret scientific data and terminology to push their hateful lies:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown

The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

www.motherjones.com

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 13h

I look forward to watching Tish James humiliate him once again.

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 14h

BREAKING: NY State AG Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia

State Attorney General Letitia James has reportedly been indicted for alleged mortgage fraud.

www.cityandstateny.com

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