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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 4h

The man is frozen in time.

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 4h

How is that a HBP?!?

Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks for sharing this! I love your work!

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 14h

thanks! @commiedharma.bsky.social I also wrote a response to that piece from Commune, years ago when it was published fwiw viewpointmag.com/2019/05/16/p...

Plan, Mood, Battlefield - Reflections on the Green New Deal - Viewpoint Magazine

"At every node in this global chain, the technical and the political are intimately entangled. Declaring by fiat that decarbonization is unlikely or impossible amounts to an avoidance of the complex, ...

viewpointmag.com

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 16h

That's interesting, it could be proximity (as in i follow them) but @triofrancos.bsky.social has a great new book that is all about the costs of green. And it joins a broader literature of 21st-century environmental costs of our economy (see red cobalt among others).

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 16h

And that's the side that derailed this more than someone mentioning climate justice or tying it to an anti-meat or IDpol argument.

The loud latter group above gets into office more than the climate progressives do.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h

very curious where the debates are at these days re: "climate politics should be about the wonky details of energy transition" vs "climate politics and advocacy should be vocally connected to all the other progressive issues"

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.

heatmap.news

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 18h

Catch all of these and more on the compilation album Now That's What I Call Authoritarianism Vol. 6!

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 18h

From the people who called anti-war protesters commies and universal healthcare socialists here's their new smash hit: exercising your 1st amendment right makes you a terrorist.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 18h

Seems to me to be the logical conclusion of them having spent for sure the last 20 years and as far back as the last 50 years calling any form of dissent "unamerican"

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18h

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Only 10 senators voted for Bernie Sanders's amendment to reduce the Pentagon budget by 10% and instead expand veteran dental care:

Baldwin (D-WI)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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vx-underground (automated mirror) @vxundergroundre.bsky.social · 26d

DO NOT GIVE PLANTS WEAPONS

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/tari...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

the "doing politics the right way" continues

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

I went ahead and did the starting work for someone who wants to chase this angle. Most right-wing influencers who participated in the "Antifa" roundtable at the White House yesterday have easily provable ties to TPUSA (8 of 12). The other four need a closer look I don't have time for right now.

right-wing influencers standing for a photo together at the white house

(Left to Right)

Jack Posobiec - TPUSA employee
Seamus Bruner - Government Accountability Institute (GAI)
James Klug - TPUSA Ambassador
Jonathan Cho - TPUSA employee
Nick Sortor - Influencer
Julio Rosas - Former TPUSA, Blaze Media
Nick Shirley - Influencer
Andy Ngo - Human Events Media Group*
Brandi Kruse - Influencer
Savannah Hernandez - TPUSA employee
Katie Daviscourt - Former TPUSA, Human Events Media Group*
Cam Higby - TPUSA employee

(Human Events Media Group is closely tied to TPUSA. https://humanevents.com/about-human-events )

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the latest effort to try to find the switch to turn off liberalism (also these people hate the idea of a free society)

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

A window into how policy is made in this White House

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 2d

A good thread on RW instigating at peaceful protests.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

abcnews.go.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

“Milei wants to avoid a peso devaluation because it would fuel inflation just ahead of midterm elections on Oct. 26, in which half of the seats in Congress are up for grabs.”

Argentine Rates Soar Above 80% as Peso Crisis Sparks Cash Crunch

Argentine short-term interest rates soared on Wednesday as the government stepped up efforts to defend the peso, deepening a cash crunch that’s throttling an already fragile economy.

www.bloomberg.com

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 2d

I think the best part about taking a Benadryl is I addition to the allergy re🥱lief is that I someti😴😴😴😴😴

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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