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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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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VinceDaily @vincedaily.bsky.social · 19h

Whoa! Did not have this on my authoritarian bingo card.

Shosh🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧 WokeAF💥GreenAF💚 Powered by Fury,Disbelief&Determination @shoshanade.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone is breaking up with #Shitler.

Nobody likes a loser😜

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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VinceDaily @vincedaily.bsky.social · 20h

How are they going to keep this a secret from the farmers of Iowa?

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d

Is Argentina now the new 51st state? Imagine taking healthcare away from American so they can help soybean farmers in Argentina.

China bought a quarter of Argentina's soybean crop on Sept. 23, 7 million metric tons. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

Guy who is zip-tying American children and shooting pastors on the head with pepper balls wants Peace Prize.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Ask yourself this: who exactly is “briefing” and “reporting” on ANTIFA? Why are far right YouTubers and content creators briefing our country’s senior leaders and mainstream news media? ⬇️

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Gothamist spoke to residents in East New York, Coney Island, Rochdale Village, Wakefield and East Harlem — and found widespread support for our plan to address public safety and the mental health crisis.

Mamdani mental health plan resonates in former Adams strongholds as NYC election nears

Interviews in five neighborhoods that were strongholds for the current mayor in 2021 suggest residents want the next mayor to focus on mental health issues.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 2d

As the Washington Post descends into irrelevance it makes sense to blame Bezos first and foremost but I urge everyone to also reserve some scorn for Will Lewis, the guy happily doing the day-to-day work of destroying the paper.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 3d

A hero can be anyone. Even someone doing something as simple and reassuring as making ICE stormtroopers look like pathetic little bitches by dancing around Portland in an inflatable frog costume.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Let's note that Christopher Caldwell, who gets to defend Hegseth’s rabidly bigoted, sexist speech in the New York Times, wrote a whole book about how the Civil Rights Act constitutes an illegitimate departure from the Constitution.

So, of course he is on board with imposing white male domination.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve lived in rural America long enough to know that the entire point was to bankrupt farmers…

We are all about to find out.

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VinceDaily @vincedaily.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks @mediaimpactfunders.bsky.social for sharing this news and great thanks @amdocdocumentary.bsky.social for the tremendous honor of this award. Documentaries tell the full story and philanthropy has a huge role in keeping them alive in challenging times.

Media Impact Funders @mediaimpactfunders.bsky.social · 3d

We’re thrilled to share that former MIF ED @vincedaily.bsky.social will be honored with the Trailblazer Award at @amdocdocumentary.bsky.social GalaFest: House Party 2025! 🎉 Join us on Tuesday, Nov. 11 in Brooklyn for an evening of connection, storytelling, and inspiration.

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VinceDaily @vincedaily.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible and yet somehow entirely predictable.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

Should elected officials be imprisoned for speaking out against an invasion of their cities? Hard to say. Very technical question. Really one for the lawyers to sort out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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"Do Not Obey In Advance" and "Don't give into the Lies" @pamdess.bsky.social · 4d

UnderdeskNews reported on the ICE raids on low-income apartment buildings Aurora, CO. Could the ICE raid on the South Shore drive designed to empty the apartment complex to benefit Donald Trump's rich buddies. Wells Fargo.

Just seems awfully convenient that the gangs always live together in buildings new investors want to

YouTube video by Under The Desk News

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 3d

My quote of the day

If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.

John McCain

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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