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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 8h

Just obscene.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8h

The White House is offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while slowing down or blocking solar and wind projects.

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10h

The most effective Democratic messenger of my lifetime is the guy who broke every single rule Democrats are currently trying to follow: Barack Hussein Obama, the guy with the weird name who talked like a professor, made sweeping appeals to higher principles, and never once appeared salt-of-the-earth

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 11h

I’m not sure how they can prevent the Dem controlled states themselves from holding midterm elections which means WI, MI, AZ, PA, NC will all be having meaningful elections along with CA and NY.

I do think shenanigans will happen though.

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 12h

putting down my bet: no 2026 midterms

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 11h

Can’t have that happen two years in a row

a man wearing a green shirt that says ' s.p.r. ' on it

ALT: a man wearing a green shirt that says ' s.p.r. ' on it

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 12h

That is truly the finest of asses

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 12h

Baseball has me hanging onto the thinnest of threads rn

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14h

This is so dark

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 12h

Every series but the Dodgers-Phillies exactly you see the vision.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 13h

a close up of a person 's face with a brown shirt on

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 13h

LMAO

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 15h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 13h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 13h

This has been the like 7th Trump quote in the last 48 hours that sounds like a barely veiled death threat.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump posts that Sen. Blumenthal “should be allowed to speak no longer”

Sanctimonious Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, perhaps the biggest “joke” in the United States Senate, is at it again! “Dick” lied until the midpoint of his political career, convincing everyone, in particular the Fake News Media, that he was a great “War Hero” who lived on the precipice of death in the jungles of Vietnam. He would talk about his life in the military in almost every speech, in particular the death defying dangers he faced in his many years “fight for freedom” while in Vietnam. He stated that “the battles were violent and long, but there was no going back” - And then it happened, Blumenthal was found out to be a FRAUD. The soldiers in his so-called “platoon” came forward and said that they had no idea who this guy was. He was revealed, broke down and admitted, tears flowing from his eyes, that he LIED, a Whopper, one that lasted 20 year. This guy shouldn’t even be in the U.S. Senate. It should be investigated, and Justice should be sought. Right now there is a Congressman sitting in prison for lying about his past during a campaign. Well, those lies were nothing compared to those of Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, perhaps the greatest phony in the history of the United States Senate. He should be allowed to speak no longer!

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 14h

The Yankees are so checked out rn it’s insane

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 14h

It’s almost Shakespearean. A fucking entitled and indulgent electorate shooting their own dicks off in exchange for nothing.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 16h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 15h

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 14h

He is so precious

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14h

SUPERMAN IS IN THE BUILDING

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jsaquella @jsaquella.bsky.social · 14h

The baby had a higher exit Velo than that single ball that Bryce made contact with this postseason

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 14h

“If I can get seconds, thirds and fourths on that raw milk now? Ooh boy!”

Bryce Harper on the birth of his fourth child, a boy, last week: "I've got an incredible wife, man. She pushed that thing out in three pushes and 30 seconds. She's an absolute monster doing it. Women, man, what a breed.
I'm serious, it's an incredible thing."

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 16h

Good point.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 16h

it's incredibly fun watching stuff like bondi's testimony today given that apparently the united states is now in the business of aggressively prosecuting any lying to congress

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 16h

Enough people in the House, Senate and WH want this that I think it will happen but these are obviously not the most competent people alive.

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 16h

Opportunities for those with the eyes to see

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 16h

Fine don't take it then. Nothing more annoying than people trying to maintain their conservative credentials while on the government dole.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h

“The worst thing we could ever want is a handout.”

Donald Trump is reportedly planning a significant aid package for soy farmers hurt by his trade war with China, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

While the package is expected to be billions of dollars, many say it misses the mark.

A 90-second crash course in Trump's betrayal of American soy farmers

Here’s the geopolitical beans.

www.motherjones.com

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