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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 13h

now there’s a name i’ve not heard in a long time

damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 23h

regardless of its other politics, any actual movement intended to make america great again would have “build stuff like the hoover dam” at the very top of its list

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.

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

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 23h

i assume that’s what the link says

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 23h

crazy that jane goodall died of natural causes and sister jean was clubbed to death by chimpanzees news.luc.edu/stories/news...

A Loyola Icon with an Enduring Legacy, Sister Jean Dies at 106

The Loyola University Chicago community mourns the passing of Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM, who died on October 19 at the age of 106.

news.luc.edu

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 1d

wild what a paper tiger “big pharma” turned out to be

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 1d

maybe this is recency bias because i saw rilo kiley last night but jenny lewis is way way up there

(also in defense of taylor swift, if dylan had written "you kept me like a secret / but i kept you like an oath" for a song on blood on the tracks, it would be the best line on blood on the tracks)

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

he’s finding a character that works for him, he’s never gonna be ric flair

damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

wow jeffries finally learned how to cut a promo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jeffries to Lawler: "You're a complete and total embarrassment. You're embarrassing yourself and your district right now. And you're going down to defeat next year."

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

running the country by freaking out in the middle of the street with the complete conviction of someone who’s never had anything actually really bad happen to them

Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 2d

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

note to this dude, the move to convince people this is bad is “antifa are the REAL fascists,” not “antifa has been messing with the good guys since the days of adolf and benito”

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 2d

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 3d

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

this is mostly true except she's not anonymous, her name is camille zapata and while i don't know if she's underpaid right now, she is unlikely to be by the time campaign season is in full swing www.calonews.com/featured-top...

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

imo if they wanted to offer a positive influence on american youth they should have booked GOOD bunny for the halftime show

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

this is good and i really appreciate the exercise but i do feel like people who use screen readers should know about santa punisher’s swoop of trump hair

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 3d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 3d

You could doomscroll, or you could literally go take a shower and then go to bed earlier than usual. One of those options will make you feel better than the other. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 3d

in the goonies the ultimate
villain after the crime family and dead pirates is the developer who wants to force all the families out

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3d

It used to be understood that real estate developers were evil in movies, we gotta get back to that. Not just a politics thing it’s just a good plot device.

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 3d

i know what you’re saying but refusing a deployment is incredibly difficult and i understand why they might be hoping they’re mostly gonna end up standing around

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 3d

these dudes didn’t sign up for an unprecedented deployment to chicago and when you make jokes about their appearance you sound like fucken pete hegseth

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 4d

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 4d

comics panel where j. jonah jameson holds up a photo of an astronaut and says "the youth of this nation must learn to respect real heroes--men such as my son, john jameson, the test pilot! not selfish freaks such as spiderman--a masked menace who refuses to even let us know his true identity!

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 4d

still absolutely fucking wild to me that the dudes wearing masks to keep from being identified in this video are federal law enforcement agents

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 4d

you know what i actually do believe that bill belichick wrote that obsequious letter to trump in 2016 www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

Report: UNC staff has been directed not to tweet Patriots-related content

With nothing about its current football program to celebrate, North Carolina could have taken a social-media victory lap last night following the biggest NFL win from former UNC quarterback Drake Maye...

www.nbcsports.com

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 5d

do you not see the difference in the things we are talking about or are you just trying to change the subject

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 5d

we were talking about posting

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