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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 6h

At some level how long am I required to tell people to stop their multi decade obsession with hurting "Mexicans" at their own peril, literally working politics and NPOs to save people in terrible circumstances and pain before I'm allowed to say "Fuck it, feel free to touch the hot stove moron"

Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 7h

Increasingly hard to ignore the fact that a significant number of people on this site think that the US should be some penitent/martyr-state kept in a permanent immiseration by the priest-theorist class for its corrupt original sin.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 6h

That's okay tho because those losses will be compounded with losses from grid drain due to AI and right around the time people pay 700+ buck a month power bills maybe they'll learn

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 7h

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 · 8h

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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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 6h

Like explain to me what else I needed to do? I showed them the math. I showed them the budgets. Now they're all like "I didn't trust you, person whose extended family lives here who invested time in local politics, I trusted a new York city pedophile rapist who loves firing people"

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 6h

I'm allowed to lose my mind when a rural city i spent loads of time in and did political advocacy in had it explained to them that their hospital & grocer were supported ENTIRELY by public $ and that their continued insistence on voting R would mean they'd lose both, and now that's happening.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

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Mom @milph.mom · 13h

Thinking about how Newgrounds’ policy during this whole thing has been, “If you can give us money or you’re old enough to know what The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny is, you’re clearly 18. Now leave us alone” and it’s worked out for them.

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Mako @mako69.bsky.social · 13h

It can't be ignored that a despicable villain and POS like Argath is now the median Groyper rightoid Trump voter today.

Are we headed in the right direction? lol

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Mako @mako69.bsky.social · 13h

OMG @grok is this true?????? 🤯😱💥

lol I get to live through 2 financial crises

Winning.

Jacob Graveison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 14h

So, how fucked are we when the AI bubble inevitably bursts?

"The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together," Deutsche Bank has said per TechSpot.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 16h

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17h

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21h

Marjorie Taylor Greene more honest than the NYT and WaPo when it comes to who is responsible for the shutdown.

Imagine being a newspaper that's less trustworthy and honest than a sitting Republican and one of Trump's closest allies. Truly wild shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1d

It is remarkable that of all the celebrities from the '80s who've gone full fash Axl Rose of all people zoomed in the other direction.

Meia tigela @brunodoamaral.bsky.social · 1d

No show do Guns N' Roses de ontem em Bogotá, o Axl recebeu essa bandeira da plateia durante a música Civil War.

Cantor Axl Rose, homem branco de meia idade com cabelo louro, segura uma bandeira da palestina com o logotipo do Guns N' Roses e escrito "I don't need your civil war".

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

he probably doesn't! most American police forces are some combo of rogue paramilitary and criminal gangster conspiracy! but that's all the more reason to start standing up some loyal formations bsky.app/profile/kitc...

kitconway.bsky.social @kitconway.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker seems to be semi waving the white flag on that and acting like he doesn't control his state police. Hope he reconsiders.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

in retrospect it was just great how milquetoast centrists decided the best way to react to the AWESOME police corruption and brutality exposed by the George Floyd protests was to go "actually, defund the police is a bad slogan, the Unserious Left needs to shut up" bsky.app/profile/mcle...

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

They've known they have little to no control over these forces since 2020 and all chose to ignore it during the Democratic administration that might have given them some cover to do something about it!

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 2d

This is, and ought to be, sobering.

I had not thought about it in quite this way.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

Social media is very effective at creating sin-eaters. A sin-eater is different from an ephemeral main-character. It's a recurring "well would you look at that guy" person you see screenshotted on your feed constantly, who is meant to stand in for the evils of some larger group you dislike

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highnumber @highnumber.bsky.social · 1d

"Republicans have a Nazi porn problem, again."

www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

"I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights."

Then don't expect trans people to sacrifice themselves for your rights either. We are all free or none of us are, and if you can't stand and die on this hill, your country isn't worth dying for.

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I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can't protect ANY groups if we can't win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That's not "erasing" them; it's long-horizon strategy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

if the democratic party starts stepping away trans people they might as well sign this country away to the far right forever

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 3d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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