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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 8h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

"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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

If you ever stuck up for "ideological diversity ' or good faith debate or whatever and thought guys like Thiessen were part of that congratulations you are a huge sucker and Thiessen and the other conservatives are laughing at you now that they won.

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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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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 16h

pee is stored in the balls and autism is stored in the foreskin

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

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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Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 10h

most annoying bit is all the anti-Biden left-ish folks who were obsessed with it and just don’t give two shits about it now

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10h

Recall also that Trump promised repeatedly on the campaign trail not just to slow the rate of inflation but to reverse it and return prices to pre-Covid levels! His promises, not mine!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10h

(posts a chart showing prices on groceries are at the highest point in history) you fool. You rube! How dare you say grocery prices are high! You can clearly see the second derivative... bsky.app/profile/kevi...

kevinwglass.bsky.social @kevinwglass.bsky.social · 10h

Inflation for food was legitimately much worse between January 2021 and January 2024 than it has been for the last six months, that's why

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 11h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 12h

May the other states take note.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14d

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court.

The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on.

The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS - Bolts

Hawaii justices ruled that their state constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaiians—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.

boltsmag.org

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Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 13h

what are the odds you get him on the phone if you call the White House switchboard tomorrow giving a full Swedish Chef accent, saying you’re from the Nobel Committee?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Brooke Rollins: "It is just incredible how focused and just supportive of our farmers and ranchers this president is. Specific to soybeans, but not just soybeans -- sorghum, cotton, corn, wheat -- they are in this moment of uncertainty because China is not living up to the 2019 deal."

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Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 15h

“government bars you from leaving country due to your speech while you are receiving death threats from regime loyalists”

seems bad

Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 15h

granted, i don’t have much experience here, but aren’t most 79 year old americans pretty good at getting angry about an AI slop video they saw on their phone while wearing a diaper?

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 15h

never stop saying how deeply weird these people are

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Rollins: "We had an amazing cabinet meeting. President Trump walked in before the cameras were there. We all stood up & gave him a two minute standing ovation. There's so much love in that room & respect & just appreciation for him. No one could do what that man is doing today. So I was so grateful"

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Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 15h

stone strike more fishermen?

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Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 16h

is the weirdest thing about this that Trump went to war on Tylenol without trying to extort a bribe to prevent his jihad first?

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 18h

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 17h

9th Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson argued so vehemently Thursday that President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard into unwilling states on very little pretext that one suspects the arguments were doubling as his Supreme Court audition.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/9th-cir...

9th Circuit Trump Judges Enthusiastically Support His Ability To Deploy Military Anywhere At Any Time

9th Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson argued so vehemently Thursday that President Trump...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 17h

OH they're *all* frying their brains on AI-generated videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 17h

i'm just thinking about the algorithmic war currently going on behind the scenes between North Korea, Russia, China, online Nazis, Iran, Netanyahu, etc all trying to get their AI slop in front of the eyeballs of these credulous psychos

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Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · 18h

Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5)

Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩

Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...

Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social

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Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 20h

having worked in supply chain tech, they are absolutely dumb as shit about supply chain

but, i also think they’ve gotten fervent in their belief that AI will get them to the autonomous killer robots they want/need for their post-apocalypse rape bunkers

Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 20h

ah yes

deflation and mass unemployment

the tried and true recipe for happiness and stability

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