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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10h

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 · 10h

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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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 51m

👇🎯 Your regular reminder that marginal & capital gains taxes are too low & this represents an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2h

Reporter: Why didn’t Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Nobel committee chair: We only give the award to people of courage and integrity.

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nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 2h

How low can you go.

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 2h

🤣🤣🤣😢🤣 www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

Lee Greenwood makes his case to replace Bad Bunny

The Outrage Machine has been on overdrive lately, as it relates to the NFL's decision to tap Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl LX halftime show.

www.nbcsports.com

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nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, just shut up man, will ya?

Conflicts @conflicts.bsky.social · 2h

White House reacts to Nobel Peace Prize announcement: ‘They place politics over….’

https://www.europesays.com/2481464/

Updated on: Oct 10, 2025 05:01 pm IST “Once again, the Nobel Committee has proved they place politics…

White House reacts to Nobel Peace Prize announcement: 'They place politics over....' - EUROPE SAYS

Updated on: Oct 10, 2025 05:01 pm IST

www.europesays.com

nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 2h

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nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 2h

It was worth it.

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 4h

We have reclaimed the humble frog from the right

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 2h

Can anyone just sit back and listen?

Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 4h

True rock aesthetes despise Boston as slick and commercial and Zeppelin as skilled but derivative, bloated and drug addled. The Who and Pink Floyd were both far better rock bands in that era (1971-78). So were The Rolling Stones. Fleetwood Mac too if we’re being honest.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19h

Jack Posobiec spread antisenitic hate on Twitter for years, including tagging Jews with triple parentheses.

JD Vance wrote the forward to Posobiec’s book, Unhuman.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

By all means, let’s switch to biannual financial reporting. 🤡

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Dean Booth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that WaPo endorsed Bondi as qualified and serious. Unfortunately, WaPo is neither.

ATTORNEY GENERAL
Pam Bondi [thumbs up]
Florida's former attorney general is qualified; lawyers who have worked with her report that she is serious.

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nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 1d

As I always suspected......

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 1d

Follow the Bucks County Beacon for the very best in resistance journalism. You have my word on it.

Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 1d

Moms for Liberty CEO & Co-Founder Tina Descovich verbally attacked the @buckscountybeacon.com at Harrisburg-area event last week while introducing Bucks Chapter Chair Jamie Tromba. Our crime? Journalism. Read more here: bit.ly/46XkOQh (And don't forget to support progressive, independent media!)

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nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 1d

Another shit.

Maine Public @mainepublic.org · 1d

At his campaign launch in Belfast, Bush referred to himself as “a disrupter” and promised to bring economic development to the state by reducing taxes and clearing regulations for more housing development:

Jonathan Bush, cousin of former president, launches campaign for Maine governor

At his campaign launch in Belfast, Bush referred to himself as “a disrupter” and promised to bring economic development to the state by reducing taxes and clearing regulations for more housing develop...

www.mainepublic.org

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 1d

“We took the freedom of speech away.”

No, you didn’t.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"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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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 1d

It's dumb goober time!

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 2d

The Constitutional crisis you've been waiting for is here.

The right moment to speak up—that moment of clarity you've been waiting for—that's here too.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 2d

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hotelalhamra.bsky.social @hotelalhamra.bsky.social · 2d

As a Floridian it cost me $100 to fill up my F-250 every three days but I save money by not sending my children to college nor having healthcare.

nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 2d

Tom Nichols sounds the alarm. At last.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d

The U.S. armed forces may soon face the choice of whether to refuse illegal and unconstitutional orders, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. What will they do? https://theatln.tc/MnJ75n1c

nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 2d

I've been buying those for years. Nothing new.

nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 2d

And our problem is.......

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