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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 5h

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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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 6h

Now I need to hear the Dersh’s “Risky Pimpin’l

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 6h

Yup! “Desert” identifies tourists immediately on MDI

Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 8h

I grew up on Mount Desert Island. #iykyk

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

Microsoft pulls the plug on a 244-acre data-center project in Wisconsin — after local opposition.

“.. I think they heard the message.”

$MSFT
www.jsonline.com/story/money/...

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 13h

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

(I mean… IANAL, but c’mon, this was a no brainer, wasn’t it?)

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 13h

Federal judge tosses out Drake's defamation suit against record label over Kendrick Lamar's diss track "Not Like Us." - reports in U.S.

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 19h

Most of us know about Silicon Valley pronatalism--people like Musk having as many kids as possible. But did you know that a peculiar kind of *antinatalism* is also becoming popular in the Valley? In this article, I name the phenomenon: replacement antinatalism. Read below:

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 14h

How I’m imagining it: a 2Pac-at-Coachella-style Charlie Kirk hologram singing a duet with Lee Greenwood, with Forgiato Blow and Tom McDonald features

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h

Turning Point USA announced it will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show, called “The All American Halftime Show,” as MAGA critics have been enraged over the selection of Bad Bunny as the 2026 headliner.

MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks an alternative show

Counterprogramming hosted by the group that Charlie Kirk founded spotlights the growing political polarization surrounding one of the biggest events of the year.

www.washingtonpost.com

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22h

*NHTSA OPENS PROBE INTO TESLA OVER TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS USING FSD
*NHTSA PROBE OF DRIVER-ASSIST SYSTEM INVOLVES EST. 2.9M VEHICLES
*NHTSA INVESTIGATING TESLAS DRIVING THROUGH TRAFFIC LIGHTS

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

I hope the Yankees give Aaron Boone a lifetime contract

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

Yesssssssssssssssssss

(Yankees are gone fishin’)

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

I eagerly await Matt Taibbi’s explanation of why this isn’t as bad as the Biden admin flagging some posts about Ivermectin to Twitter that were never even removed

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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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 2d

Same street corner

A small sticker—white block font on black—affixed to a gas pump: “TAX THE FUCKING RICH”

A partially torn down poster on a lamppost: a drawing of two ICE agents from behind leading away the Statue of Liberty with her hands cuffed behind her back. Below it reads “FUCK ICE”

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 2d

“‘See what horror! A gang of stupid people, protesting their pernicious power over the people, beat, stifle, oppress everybody. Savagery grows apace; cruelty becomes the law of life. A whole nation is depraved. Think of it! One part beats and turns brute; from immunity to punishment, sickens itself with a voluptuous greed of torture—that disgusting disease of slaves licensed to display all the power of slavish feelings and cattle habits. Others are poisoned with the desire for vengeance. Still others, beaten down to stupidity, become dumb and blind. They deprave the nation, the whole nation!’”

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 2d

"'Sometimes the authorities compel you to beat, and you do beat. Maybe you weep inside yourself with pity, but still you beat. People don't dare decline from beastliness--they'll be killed themselves for it.'"

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 2d

Local news is *crucial*

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 2d

a woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a cup .

Alt: a white woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a cup and does a spit take while laughing GIF.

media.tenor.com

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Will Carless, USA TODAY @willcarless.bsky.social · 2d

For context: When a group of protestors stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, a crew of Oath Keepers was standing by, waiting for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act so they could go get their stash of weapons, hidden across the Potomac.

This is far from normal.

Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 2d

When can the president invoke the Insurrection Act? What does invoking it allow the military to do? Is it the same as declaring martial law? A Brennan Center explainer has the answers. bit.ly/3GsFBhL

The Insurrection Act Explained

The law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform.

www.brennancenter.org

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 2d

it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out

lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 2d

More, from this same QAnoner’s channel (note: they’re blaming companies, not Trump or tariffs, but there is “dissatisfaction” to say the least)

A Telegram post from a QAnon conspiracy theorist and some replies: “Groceries Check in...
How much are your groceries on a weekly basis?
Drop your state and costs.
MD here... and wow.. just went grocery shopping and we're close to $350
every week.”

“Expensive. Too expensive....”

“Dose that include baby food and products?”

“About $75 a week but l'm a Homesteader so”

“Too much.
We dont import food. Why are prices still soo high?”

“Omaha Nebraska just for me and two cats average is $180 a week”

More replies:

“North Carolina, 2 people, 2 cats, and one dog about 400 per week”

“Michigan probably 500 a week but we are all organic nothing processed”

“Family of four, N. Florida, $400-450/week.”

“two person household is still about $200+ per week
i don't feel like these companies are ever going to lower the prices”

“My husband and I are both retired.were blessed if we can spend 300.00 a month”

“$300 / wk or $1200 / mo here in Idaho”

More replies:

“Family of two in Texas about $150 per week”

“About $300. And I'm SICK OF IT!!”

“In Los Angeles California, everything is expensive”

“Are they keeping them high to spite Trump? Are they "adding" in any tariff costs? I don't get it.”

“Just me and 1 child, so about $75/week. In PA. I shop the discount stores though.”

“To damn expensive”

“At least 300$ a wk for just two of us. Indiana. BUT, we purchase organic produce and local meat, dairy.”

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 3d

"'What is it that's wanted nowadays? What's wanted is that the people should be stirred up to revolt. Of course! Everybody thinks about it, but privately, for himself. And what's necessary is that he should speak out aloud. Some one person must be the first to decide to do it.'"

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 3d

"'What is it that's wanted nowadays? What's wanted is that the people should be stirred up to revolt. Of course! Everybody thinks about it, but privately, for himself. And what's necessary is that he should speak out aloud. Some one person must be the first to decide to do it.'"

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 3d

Just randomly remembered Yung Joc

Yung Joc - Dope Boi Magic

YouTube video by ThrdDegree

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 3d

"'The people want to go straight, and they fear no loss and no harm--you see?--all life is harmful to them; they have no place to turn to; they have nothing all around except "Stop!" which is shouted at them from all sides.'"

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