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Bill Shein

@billshein.bsky.social

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Writer. Journalist. Friend to animals. Founder/Editor berkshireargus.com.

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · Sep 9

I thought this was poems by Vikings and was *very disappointed* to discover otherwise.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 20h

Part of a 1977 series, all vital.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 20h

“Fired in error”

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

YES.

“Even though Mr Rimmington started to feel unwell after day one, he continued to feast on the chewy treats. He even went for a carvery on the third day, before finishing the bag for dessert.”

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps ironically, in 1951 we issued a stamp honoring the 75th anniversary of the American Chemical Society, and another celebrating the ACS’s hundredth anniversary in 1976.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

In 1981, we honored Rachel Carson on a stamp because she eloquently warned that chemicals were destroying our environment and poisoning us. (“Woke” before her time...)

Today, chemical-industry lobbyists hold top jobs at the Envrionmental “Protection” Agency.

Will they get their own stamps?

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

Work to be done, pronto, to ensure we can link “justice” with “forever.”

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

Um, yes, dog #philately *is* a thing. Duh.

Dog sitting in chair next to a table covered with postage stamps.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

#caturday pose

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

Timely, still.

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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently providing aid to foreign countries benefits America. Now, if only we had an agency for that sort of thing…

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 2d

Today in 1963, the Limited Test Ban Treaty—shown being signed by President John F. Kennedy on October 7 after US Senate ratification—entered into force, ending 18 years of unconstrained atmospheric nuclear testing by the United States (215 tests), the Soviet Union (219), and the United Kingdom (21).

A color photograph of President John F. Kennedy sitting at a desk in the White House and signing a copy of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, as a group of senators stands behind him. Vice President Lyndon Johnson stands at the far right in the dark suit, hands clasped.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

Prediction: Imminent announcement of a new "American Patriot Peace Prize" whose inaugural recipient will be a certain president who has complained about not winning a certain other peace prize.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 2d

Judge issues temporary restraining order against DHS in Chicago, affirming attacks on press during ICE protests "clearly violate" constitution.

ln further win for transparency, agents also required to wear badges or other visible ID with unique number.

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

blockclubchicago.org

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

When I was finally old enough for my four cups of Manischewitz at seder I quickly switched back to Welch’s Concord grape juice.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 3d

Lee Greenwood has been married five times, so not sure that’s a great role model for the kiddos, Mr. Speaker…

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 3d

Must read from David Wallace-Wells on ICE, the targeting of journalists, and this authoritarian moment.

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

www.nytimes.com

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 5d

Uggghhhh.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 6d

“…data centers as symbols of our seemingly limitless demand for digital connection and the steep, often unseen price it exacts.”

Opinion | What it looks like in the world’s data center capital

Among cemeteries, baseball fields and homes, these Northern Virginia buildings power the internet.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 6d

That difference is … substantial.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 7d

A sentence for our times—one tied to an election that has unleashed myriad horrors: “Miss Sassy’s owner told police her pet had been eaten by Haitian immigrants before the cat was found in her basement.”

Algorithm Nation | Jacob Weisberg

Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That's because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.

www.nybooks.com

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 8d

The Hatch Act is dead, long live the Hatch Act.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 10d

Well said, Ben.