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joel hanes @joelhanes.bsky.social · 6h

It's Cleek's Law all the way down

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 8h

Their goal is revenge against every scientist who told them something they didn't want to hear or made them feel inferior by knowing more than they do.

Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 9h

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Patrick Doran @patrickdoran.bsky.social · 1d

I found this map showing which states used Dominion Voting Machines in the 2024 race. With an election denier as the new owner of Dominion which is now Liberty vote, I definitely would advise all states to get out of their contract with them & find a new one.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 15h

I was writing this anyway, and then the Russian Duma dumped the agreement once and for all.

Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 15h

A Guy Walks Into A Reactor Shop With 34 Tons of Plutonium…

A Guy Walks Into A Reactor Shop With 34 Tons of Plutonium... - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This article is about 34 tons of plutonium that the US government doesn’t know what to do with. The current suggestion is to use it to power nuclear reactors to run all that AI nobody wants. The article lacks historical grounding and thus gets a lot wrong. There’s a story about that plutonium, but it’s […]

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 16h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 16h

Looking scared when confronted by masked armed secret police is officially a reason why they can now detain you.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 17h

"Believe it or not, Hamas was not ready to agree to Gaza becoming a protectorate under the management of Viceroy Tony Blair in October 2024 or January 2025" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

The Deal? - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Most any discussion of Israel-Palestine in the United States these days boils down to intra-coalitional warfare. Unsurprisingly, the ceasefire that began yesterday is being weaponized for conflict wit...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 19h

The important thing is RIFs also cost money in the long run, because all of these jobs will get brought back as contractors or rehired, basically.

This is basically pointless pain and administrative stupidity brought about by a moron.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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joel hanes @joelhanes.bsky.social · 16h

To connect with people developing a better approach,
you might take a look at The Land Institute of Salina, KS

Perennial Grain Revolution - The Land Institute - Join Now

Discover revolutionary perennial grains at The Land Institute. Join our mission for sustainable agriculture today! Visit the site and support our cause.

landinstitute.org

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joel hanes @joelhanes.bsky.social · 16h

> why are we still running 20 ton tractors on vast monocrop fields?
1. very low production cost because of economies of scale
2. agribusiness companies ( chemical, ferttilizer, implement, petro, hybrid seed, buyers like ADM ) subsidize research and teaching of this approach at agriculture colleges

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joel hanes @joelhanes.bsky.social · 19h

Trump's recent preoccupation with heaven is, I think, the surest evidence that his health is rapidly declining and he expects to die fairly soon.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20h

Qatar gave Trump the luxury 747 that he wanted and now we are LETTING THEM BUILD A MILITARY BASE ON US SOIL

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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joel hanes @joelhanes.bsky.social · 20h

There are very few Democrats from whom I am less interested in hearing than James Carville, and that's been the case for a couple decades now.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 22h

Letitia James. Lisa Cook. Fani Willis. Gwynne Wilcox. Carla Hayden. Telita Crosland. Peggy Carr. And the 300,000 Black women who have lost their jobs since January.

Letitia James Is Among Prominent Black Women Targeted by Trump

www.nytimes.com

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joel hanes @joelhanes.bsky.social · 20h

It's a really simple game, actually :

Start :
Chop wood
Carry water
go to Start

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22h

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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joel hanes @joelhanes.bsky.social · 21h

I am surprised that, given cast iron's resurgence, no "prestige" brand that grinds shape and surface as Griswold did has arisen, because Lodge is frankly kinda mid.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 22h

This is why nation stuff is complicated. The Maduro regime is oppressive and illegal. The opposition seeks democracy. But it’s probably not going to be a flavor you like.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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joel hanes @joelhanes.bsky.social · 21h

This is why I could drive all the way across Iowa in mid-July with only a dozen or so bug splats on my windshield.

In my youth, that would have been thousands.

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Elizabeth Hilborn @elizabee.bsky.social · 2d

Jim, with conventional corn production in the US, more than 90% (past estimates >95%) of corn fields will make those field-side borders death traps for pollinating insects. Systemic insecticides like neonicotinoids move outward from fields and contaminate plants nearby. 1/n

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 2d

We need to talk much more about corn. And with it, excessive fertilizer use.

www.ewg.org/research/fer...

Fertilizing ‘continuous corn’ drives major source of farm greenhouse gases, but conservation can help

Millions of acres in four major Corn Belt states are used to grow "continuous corn” on the same fields year after year, requiring significant use of

www.ewg.org

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