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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h

More. Of. This. Any city that allows a corporation to build a data center will be unlivable within a year of construction.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 15h

Fetterman is just Sinema in a Shrek suit. She never left Congress.

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Red Dirt Girl and Her Hound @reddirtgirlhound.bsky.social · 5h

#UglyDogs

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Alaska Rural Vet Outreach asking for donations for dog food due to flooding

I know it's a tough time for many, we give when we can.

Can Amazon food to them

Or donate through link and comment for dog food

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Allen Dell @urgeoverkill.bsky.social · 1d

Primary this huge disappointment.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 5h

All nonsense, of course, but if the point were to “give[] the minority a say” then the logic would require them to negotiate with Dems, not shut down the government and force them to swallow GOP priorities whole.

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 8h

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 7h

I know Mike Johnson says there is nothing for the House to do but there is.

You see by law a budget was supposed to be in place by Sept 30th, but Rs haven’t passed one. The reason? There isn’t a GOP budget. They haven’t even started working on one. This is what the House should be doing FFS!

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 9h

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 8h

Republicans own this shutdown—every job lost, every family hurt, every service gutted is because of their decisions.

A tweet from Russ Vought reads: "The RIFs have begun."

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Annette & Vizsla Tucker @vizslaspgh.bsky.social · 9h

At this rate, Congress will be off until the New Year. Mike Johnson should be dragged in the media.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Annette & Vizsla Tucker @vizslaspgh.bsky.social · 9h

The Puppy Killer and her Evil Twin must go.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10h

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Annette & Vizsla Tucker @vizslaspgh.bsky.social · 9h

They are sexually abusing our children and shooting our pets. Zip tying grandparents.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 10h

Once again: if President Trump & Russ Vought decide to do more mass firings, they are CHOOSING to inflict more pain on people. “Reductions in force” are not a new power these bozos get in a shutdown.

We can’t be intimidated by these crooks.

Vought sounds layoff siren: 'The RIFs have begun'

At least nine agencies appear to be affected.

www.politico.com

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Trump’s budget chief Russ Vought says that “reduction in force,” or mass firings of federal workers, have begun — a move that is likely illegal.

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Annette & Vizsla Tucker @vizslaspgh.bsky.social · 11h

We’d have had Democracy On Demand.

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 12h

Right wing billionaires are buying up the entire information environment. And now they are buying video game and voting machine companies.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 18h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 12h

Make it a tailgate party.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12h

Some Democrats are already doing this, but I think all of them should treat No Kings protests as mid-term mandatory attendance events, like the local fish fry or county fair. Push back on the sweaty Republican attempts to make them seem scary.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 19h

Remarkable. A caller with a worldview entirely in line with the right still knows Johnson is to blame for abandoning his role in the Constitutional order.

Not noted enough that he's the worst Speaker in modern US history and the single greatest abettor of dictatorship not on the Supreme Court.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

VIRGINIA CALLER: “As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party, and I'm very disappointed in you… I am begging you to pass this legislation. My kids could die... the audacity of someone who makes 6 figures a year to do this to military families is insane.” #TrumpShutdown

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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 19h

As a birder this breaks my heart. As a citizen of this extraordinary planet, this breaks my soul.

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 19h

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Annette & Vizsla Tucker @vizslaspgh.bsky.social · 15h

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 19h

Vermont Autumn Beauty at the Fluery Maple Farm in Richford Vermont

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