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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 14m

If you aren’t willing to put your name by the badge then you don’t deserve it that’s been a thing for hundreds or maybe even thousands of years

Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 27m

keep hearing admin flunkies claim ice goons need to wear masks to protect their “families” and i simply do not see any evidence that these are people capable of forming human relationships

Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · Jun 16

you can’t “dox” people who work for the government. that’s not a thing.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 11h

Dang I’m sorry to hear that. It’s a broken system.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

We won’t LECTURE you with ideology but also you better be patriotic lol like for real haha we’re all having fun here but capitalism should not be questioned but hey let’s all be pals as we all agree that Jeff Bezos is actually not bald but simply had very short hair in a fashionable way

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 12h

(So I’m forced to just pay off interest bc I can’t make qualifying payments under any plan, bc SAVE doesn’t exist.)

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 12h

My student loans have been stuck in the old SAVE payment plan that Trump canceled to own the libs. And my loan servicer has now taken over two months to process my switch request to the only other income driven plan. Hard not to let fascism overwhelm you with its shiftiness even in the mundane.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 19h

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 19h

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline:

AB 82/SB 497
AB 1084/SB 59
SB 418
AB 554
AB 728
AB 678
SB 590
SB 450

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 20h

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 19h

Congress has the power to stop this anytime. Instead, they’re being craven dipshits.

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 20h

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like.

Impeach, remove, disqualify.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 20h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20h

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 19h

A king taxing us and pocketing the money. Illegitimate and intolerable.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 20h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 23h

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 20h

All my homies hate Newsom and stan Pritzker

Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 20h

if i see one more person talk about Newsom as the "national leader of the Trump resistance", my brain will leak out of my ears

he is not the leader California nor the Democrats need

stop hyping Newsom up as a brave leader when he is carrying water for the fascist right

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 20h

There are good applications for machine learning, but not nearly enough to justify the investments that have been made believing that AI is magic and will solve all problems.

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 20h

A trillion for fancy linear algebra that sucks up energy and rots brains just to get things wrong. Got it.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 21h

Also a lot of people in the media seem to have magically forgotten that *this* exists

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 21h

This should be a five-alarm scandal that dogs the administration for the rest of its existence. We'll see if it is.

I think maybe yes. Median voters are obsessed with this story.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 21h

I’m not a lawyer what does that mean-

Oh

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 21h

Between elections, as individuals without direct access to the levers of power, we can still vote with our dollars and tell fascist collaborators to get fucked.

Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

fascism is the partnership of state violence with corporate power

the nation's finest corporations view Steven Miller's masked thugs as a business opportunity - yet they are still vulnerable to mass consumer boycotts/pressure so let's fuckin light Wells Fargo up

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

fascism is the partnership of state violence with corporate power

the nation's finest corporations view Steven Miller's masked thugs as a business opportunity - yet they are still vulnerable to mass consumer boycotts/pressure so let's fuckin light Wells Fargo up

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 22h

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 21h

Wow I wonder what the real difference could be

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 1d

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 3d

Was listening to a Drilled podcast episode where they broke down the MAGA faction tensions between conservative and far right. Conservatives definitionally like the status quo. Far right does not.

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