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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2h

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.

www.nytimes.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down

Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

www.404media.co

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 4d

Political party policy positions are simply not chess pieces that experts in public opinion can shuffle around to maximize vote totals. Parties take positions because party actors care about those policies, and also (less relevant with death penalty) because voters want solutions to big problems.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4d

I'm reminded of nothing so much as

TOO MANY COOKS

www.adultswim.com/videos/infom...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d

conspiracy to make a cop go slow

It was further part of the conspiracy that the co-conspirators, including
RABBITT, ABUGHAZALEH, MARTIN, SHARP, STRAW and WALSH, physically hindered and impeded Agent A and the Government Vehicle such that Agent A was forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed to avoid injuring any of the conspirators and in doing so slowly progressed towards the BSSA to discharge the duties of his office.

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valoy.bsky.social @valoy.bsky.social · 4d

Is he deregistering as a Republican or is he replacing Holyoak?

valoy.bsky.social @valoy.bsky.social · 5d

9/16 and the explanations made me want to beat the shit out of half of them.

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 5d

www.americansurveycenter.org/results/K8Cn...

Democracy is so important and I may never understand the median voter

My Quiz Result

I got 7 / 0 on this quiz from the Survey Center on American Life. Can you beat my score?

www.americansurveycenter.org

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 5d

This is precisely why the Virginia Attorney General’s race will be consequential.

If Republican Jason Miyares is re-elected, he will fight AGAINST new Democratic maps…and fight FOR Donald Trump.

I hope all Virginia Democrats think long and hard about this when they cast their ballots.

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NPR @npr.org · 5d

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

n.pr

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 6d

Isaac Chotiner how are you with a baseball bat

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Batogato @batogato.bsky.social · 6d

holy shit. killer interviewing. the lexis corporate comms team was quietly sending their resumes out while this was going on. that, or committing seppuku for letting that happen.

nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 6d

Just me getting the CEO of LexisNexis to ask his new AI research tool about birthright citizenship. Decoder! www.theverge.com/podcast/8071...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7d

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 6d

Don’t forget this Yale & Penn study finding Republicans would cause 51,000 preventable DEATHS every year by gutting healthcare and food aid.

Democrats have been fighting to stop this from the beginning, and we won’t back down.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 7d

Our local "Spirit Halloween" store has gone in for a transit theme this year. Massive respect...

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 8d

This is a DC area food bank that has helped laid off and unpaid government workers. They need help. If you have a few bucks to spare consider this charity. www.capitalareafoodbank.org?utm_referrer...

Food Bank for the Washington, DC, Region | Capital Area Food Bank

The Capital Area Food serves the entire Washington, DC, metropolitan region, providing meals to thousands of people a day while also addressing the root causes of hunger.

www.capitalareafoodbank.org

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 8d

“Nobody has heard of” Lesotho, President Trump joked, to the laughter of lawmakers. He’d just cut aid to the country.

Weeks later, he announced a 50% tariff on exports from “the denim capital of Africa.”

Today, Lesotho is under a state of disaster.

I recently traveled there for @bloomberg.com:

How Trump’s Tariffs Upended a Hub of Denim Manufacturing

YouTube video by Bloomberg Television

youtu.be

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valoy.bsky.social @valoy.bsky.social · 8d

AIPAC and centrism, both famously unpopular for white and rural voters. Also there’s seven other candidates and the election isn’t until next June, no need to be so horny for the Blackwater mercenary Nazi nepo farmer on Maine.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9d

People keep saying this but I strongly disagree that most people can successfully perform an emotion on camera or speaking in front of a crowd if you merely authentically experience that emotion. It's much harder than you think it is. bsky.app/profile/inep...

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 9d

It's still galling that a Democratic politician would need speech training and acting classes to learn how to convey anger at the demolition of the East Wing of the White House. So many Dem politicians are Turing Test failures, trapped somewhere in the uncanny valley between human and robot.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

discovering that i am blocked on here by lakshya jain. i suppose he doesn't want to have an argument!

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9d

The post below is incredibly dishonest. You don't need a graduate degree in statistics or survey analysis to see that the most common response to Mamdani is a lack of familiarity, *not* disfavor. In fact, he is viewed less unfavorably than Newsom, AOC, Harris or Schumer.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

ah but i was told the administration would be good on antitrust

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 10d

Not simply fascism. Monarchism.

Fox Business reporter Charles Gasparino, via Twitter:

https://x.com/cgasparino/status/1981496719863955913

SCOOP: A Trump official tells
@nypost
that the administration favors Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros. Discovery – and a number of rival bidders are likely to face stiff hurdles from US regulators in the blockbuster auction. “Who owns Warner Bros. Discovery is very important to the administration,” a senior Trump administration official told On The Money. “The Warner board needs to think very seriously not just on the price competition but which player in the suitor pool has been successful getting a deal done. And that points to the Ellisons.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

this feels completely banal? yes, a big tent political party is going to include voters who have bigoted views. i don’t think anyone has argued otherwise? the actual question at hand is “to what extent should a political party ostensibly committed to equality appeal to popular prejudices?”

Bigots in the tent

What did you think winning meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.

www.theargumentmag.com

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valoy.bsky.social @valoy.bsky.social · 12d

*familiar with the specific german term for the symbol, at least. I guess there’s a world where you learn a german term for your skull and bones tattoo and inquire no further.

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valoy.bsky.social @valoy.bsky.social · 12d

ICYMI this cites someone quoting him familiar with it a decade ago bsky.app/profile/greg...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12d

Jewish Insider just sent out an email with an article with more Platner info. And yeah, this guy is DONE done.

But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II.

“He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”

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