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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 3h

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 6h

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11h

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11h

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 8h

And the whole time "law and order" is just a dog whistle for wanting everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like them in jail or deported.

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 8h

I cannot handle how the Dems' entire messaging strategy is devoted to chasing those three old white men in some Iowa diner who say "law and order" is their primary concern, to the expense of fighting fascism or standing up for immigrants or gay people or trans people or really standing for anything.

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 9h

I mean—Durbin is basically stating outright "We won't let ourselves hit Trump on his biggest proven weakness, because it might damage us with Trump voters."

Does he even realize how ridiculous that is? It's a weakness because voters don't like it!

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

Putting aside the many reasons they should include it, this is also negotiation 101: don't negotiate against yourself, such as by locking your demand in low when your counterparty refuses to negotiate.

Dems shouldn't take stuff off the table until Trump & GOP are truly negotiating.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9h

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 9h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11h

Reminder to @CNN about why this is a humiliating self-own by them.

1) Prez *does* have some legal power to change geog name, as used in federal documents. Thus Gulf of Mexico-->USA!

2) Prez has *zero* legal power to create, abolish, or rename a fed dept. Requires act of Congress.

STOP NOW CNN

Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 11h

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 12h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Texas Science @texasscience.bsky.social · 11h

UT Austin has a new “genius grant” recipient!

Texas Science professor Jason McLellan has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship — aka the “genius grant” — by The MacArthur Foundation.

#TexasScience @mclellanlab.bsky.social #MacArthurGenius @utaustin.bsky.social
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Virus Slayer Awarded ‘Genius Grant’ by MacArthur Foundation

The award recognizes Jason McLellan’s work to investigate how viruses infect our cells and to develop new treatments for infectious disease.

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Jason McLellan @mclellanlab.bsky.social · 10h

I'm honored to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. As always, I extend my sincerest thanks to all my wonderful mentors, colleagues, collaborators, admins, and trainees who make this work possible. #MacFellow

Texas Science @texasscience.bsky.social · 11h

UT Austin has a new “genius grant” recipient!

Texas Science professor Jason McLellan has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship — aka the “genius grant” — by The MacArthur Foundation.

#TexasScience @mclellanlab.bsky.social #MacArthurGenius @utaustin.bsky.social
cns.utexas.edu/news/accolad...

Virus Slayer Awarded ‘Genius Grant’ by MacArthur Foundation

The award recognizes Jason McLellan’s work to investigate how viruses infect our cells and to develop new treatments for infectious disease.

cns.utexas.edu

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 15h

Plant-based nicotine? What’ll they think of next

Poster ad for an e-cigarette claiming “100% Plant-Based Nicotine”

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 9h

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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