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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 2h

Friends of Ken. Nice work if you can get it.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

www.propublica.org

Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 5h

Reality has passed him by.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 5h

They plan to rebrand as Prork.

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 10h

Not to mention shooting (pepper balls) an actual pastor for no reason other than their own entertainment.

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 11h

JFK almost didn't get elected because of the anti-Catholic sentiment of a lot of Protestants. It was a huge deal.

Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 11h

ICE is literally shooting people for fun. If you look at the video of the incident, they're safe on a roof.

www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Raids/...

Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 11h

I'm in Montana, so solar isn't useful all year, but the way billing works here is that the excess power we generate in the summer is returned to us as credits in the winter so it's still worthwhile.

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 12h

We don't have an EV yet, but we upgraded our existing solar so we'll have enough for free power for it once we do.

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 13h

Once these assholes are out of power, we can't take the Gerald Ford route and simply "move forward." We need full and transparent trials for all the high level corruption.

David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 15h

"That’s is the thing about corruption. It is the price of admission and the reward for loyalty. But it also a double-edged sword when you fall out of favor." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller - emptywheel

By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.

www.emptywheel.net

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 14h

Garcia said he and his wife have spent more than 25 years trying to obtain legal status, hiring immigration attorneys in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Florida most recently.

“It was so bad. We spent so much money hiring different lawyers and different lawyers,” Garcia said.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19h

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 14h

I think they used baseline price. Some of the comments mention off-peak charging being much cheaper.

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 14h

The article let's you choose the state. Here's WA, as a comparison.

Cost to drive 100 mi in WA
Electric: $4.11
Hybrid: $8.48
Gas: $17.64
Electric (fast charge): $14.41

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 14h

It's called copyright, maybe if the industry can't live without theft, it deserves to die.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 1d

Also, all of them have medical degrees. Brainwork does not.

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

More are united around a simple message: RFK Jr should not be HHS Sec. His decisions undermine our public health capacity and put lives and health at risk.

As 6 former Surgeon Generals argue:

"He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans."

🎁
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Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

wapo.st

Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 1d

I like how beer and wine are considered proper, but coffee is a detriment to study.

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 1d

I saw a headline, too. It said that Johnson was the love child of Elvis and Bigfoot.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 1d

It's Borges's Library of Babel, a remix of every book leading to infinite nonsense.

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 1d

When you control all three branches of government, you have to work really hard to find a scapegoat.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Ron Johnson: "Quite honestly, by now it should be obvious to every American that it's not the Republicans that are a threat to our democracy. It's President Obama, it's President Biden."

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 1d

The problem is, if activist groups are doing the work, it's easier for those opposing to make (illegitimate) claims of bias. Better than nothing, though.

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see that companies are being held to account for generating bullshit instead of, you know, doing the work they're being paid to do.

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/d...

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report

Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

arstechnica.com

Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of the old joke, "Should we walk or do we have time for a cab?"

Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, @cnn.com , are your editors just asleep or working for the GOP?

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Winchell's
Donut Hors
Open
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Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 2d

Prepping for her presidential run.

Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 2d

Dude.

Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 2d

Irony just took its shoes off and slowly started walking into the ocean until it was never seen or heard from again…

Stephen Miller asks when in our history have we tolerated unlawful, riotous assemblies around government buildings

Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 2d

ICE lying again? Say it isn’t so.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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