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Chris2fur1943 @chris2fur1943.bsky.social · 9m

Trump has transformed things. Carney didn't say Trump had improved anything.

Chris2fur1943 @chris2fur1943.bsky.social · 10m

The case of Portland, Oregon
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/o...

Why is Trump so obsessed with Portland, Ore.? - The Boston Globe

Perhaps he feels betrayed that this majority-white city doesn’t support him.

www.bostonglobe.com

Chris2fur1943 @chris2fur1943.bsky.social · 15m

Canada's largest companies need 7.7 GW of clean energy.
businessrenewables.ca/resource/ple...

From Pledge to Power: Translating ESG Goals into Renewable Energy Demand

Canada’s top 100 companies will need 7.7 gigawatts of renewable electricity by 2040, more than half by 2030. That demand could spark billions in investm...

businessrenewables.ca

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Jeff-Palmer Report Reader @milamjeff.bsky.social · 1d

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1d

Private prisons are ramping up capacity
Nearly 90% of people in ICE custody are held in facilities run by for-profit, private companies. Two of the largest, Geo Group and CoreCivic, are working to increase their ability to meet the administration's demand.
www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

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Chris2fur1943 @chris2fur1943.bsky.social · 24m

It is shocking that the U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is the largest in the world.
energyskeptic.com/2025/the-gro...

The growth of incarceration in the U.S. Causes and consequences. National Research Council 2014 | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse

Preservation of Knowedge, peak oil, ecology -

energyskeptic.com

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1h

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Nsignificannot @nsignificannot.bsky.social · 55m

Dear Leader was an accomplice to sex trafficking.

AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 1d

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 58m

Then they go on to call Qatar a terror state...no joke

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MAGA Focker @maga-focker.bsky.social · 1h

ChaosHole's robotic Nazi glitched while interacting with humans. It claimed that it's human handler has king like authority over all Americans.

‘There’s a Glitch’: Stephen Miller Makes Alarming Claim About Trump’s Power on Live TV Then Freezes After Realizing What He Said Out Loud (Atlanta Black Star)

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Milleris raising alarm bells with comments he made during an interview on CNN Monday, before he seemed to pretend h...

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Sciences @sciences.skyfleet.blue · 58m

Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology

The discovery that superconducting circuits can behave like quantum particles was a revolutionary development in the field of quantum technologies.

theconversation.com

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MadEP MaX @madepmax.bsky.social · 1h

[Posted yesterday]
Russia Goes Dark as Ukraine Strikes with New Weapons
YouTube video by Jake Broe
youtu.be/c26dttCGYaQ

Russia Goes Dark as Ukraine Strikes with New Weapons

YouTube video by Jake Broe

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Ro @ramblinro.bsky.social · 2h

Let’s face it, traitor tot has soooo many “boogey men” in his head, his hate and revenge has rendered him insane. It happens!

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1h

Trump's 5-point plan to 'rule forever' exposed by senator

www.rawstory.com

Trump's 5-point plan to 'rule forever' exposed by senator

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Chris2fur1943 @chris2fur1943.bsky.social · 1h

Are the congress and the country being shut down to protect Trump's ass?
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...

'We're in an Epstein shutdown': Rep. Eric Swalwell slams GOP for blocking Dem-elect from being sworn in

Democrats are calling on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify before the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case after he called the disgraced fina...

www.msnbc.com

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HRECEducation @holodomoreducation.bsky.social · 22d

𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿: 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘁𝗮 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗭𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘇 𝗚𝘂𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀–director–now available free. 𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗖 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗕𝗼𝗵𝗱𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗹𝗶𝗱 featured–𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞:
www.hstoday.us/ukraine/film...

Film Recounting First-Person Accounts of Forced Ukrainian Famine Now Online - HSToday

A documentary capturing first-person accounts of the Holodomor, the man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-1933 that starved millions to death, is now available to view in full on the Minnesota PBS...

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Zamafir @zamafir.bsky.social · 3h

“Frankly, we're not sure why anyone would consider purchasing a Model Y Standard when the Ioniq 5 SEL RWD can be had for almost exactly the same price.”

Yup, really no reason to buy a new Tesla. Or pretty much anything else for the same money.

www.edmunds.com

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Rap Bastardz® @rapbastardz.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, she's been protecting Epstein for a long time.

@deanobeidallah.bsky.social Substack:

deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/why-didnt-...

Why didn’t Pam Bondi as Florida AG investigate Jeffrey Epstein?!

Everything Bondi does is to protect Trump.

deanobeidallah.substack.com

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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein’s girls. Here’s what’s in them - @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social

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Thor @thorvalhallen.bsky.social · 2h

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 15h

In a nutshell.

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 2h

Maddow: "Since Trump has been back in office, he has just been destroying the top leadership of the U.S. military."

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 2h

As Troops Invade Chicago, Trump Threatens to Jail the Mayor and Governor www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As troops invade Chicago, Trump threatens to jail the mayor and governor

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

www.motherjones.com

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 4h

According to federal contracting records, which were first reported by the technology magazine Wired, ICE plans to hire at least a dozen contracted workers for the effort at its National Criminal Analysis & Targeting Center in Williston, Vermont, in addition to contractors in Santa Ana, California.

ICE Plans to Boost Social Media Surveillance Using Contractors

ICE plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 2d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Jill @gingerjill.bsky.social · 2h

He’s had to take one for the team, same as our UK PM. He’s buying time, and making the best of it. Very few countries can afford to antagonise him.

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Chris2fur1943 @chris2fur1943.bsky.social · 2h

Bill McKibben discusses how clean energy may play in loosening the grip of authoritarianism around the world.
Fossil energy is the seed of warped wealth distribution across the globe & the source of all modern wars. No wonder oligarchies fear sustainable energy.
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution – podcast

Why might authoritarians fear the rise of green energy? With Bill McKibben

www.theguardian.com

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