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realsporkman.bsky.social
Sporkman
@realsporkman.bsky.social
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Refugee from Xitter. Democrat 🇺🇸. Software engineer. Not as funny as I think I am. Suspected autist. #veteran Avi is me chipping at the Berlin Wall circa 1989.
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 9h
European labor regulations enacted nearly a century ago now impose costs on companies that discourage investment in disruptive technologies...

slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
How Europe Crushes Innovation - Slashdot
European labor regulations enacted nearly a century ago now impose costs on companies that discourage investment in disruptive technologies. An American firm shedding workers incurs costs equivalent t...
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 9h
U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology. Excluding these technology-related categories, GDP growth would have been just 0.1% on an annualized basis.

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...
Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune
Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?
fortune.com
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 10h
Also charged is former Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo, who was the on-site commander on the day of the shooting. Arredondo faces 10 counts of child endangerment and abandonment on behalf of the injured and surviving children in classroom 112.

abcnews.go.com/US/trial-dat...
Trial date set for former officer charged in failed response to Uvalde school shooting
One of the officers charged in connection with the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting will go on trial on Jan. 5.
abcnews.go.com
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 10h
The Energy Dept is considering billions in reductions, including two $50 million grants in Texas and Louisiana for direct air capture hubs to pull climate pollution out of the atmosphere like a vacuum.

One of the hubs, Project Cypress, is located in Johnson’s district.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/c...
Major climate pollution removal project in Johnson’s district could be on Trump’s chopping block | CNN
The Trump administration is eyeing cutting funds for two major climate pollution projects in Texas and Louisiana, including one in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s district.
www.cnn.com
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 10h
15 statements by US politicians, commentators and celebrities since the start of the war on Gaza two years ago that called for mass violence against Palestinians, painted them as inherently evil or dismissed Israeli atrocities as a justified necessity of war:

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
‘Not a punchline’: 15 dehumanising quotes on Gaza atrocities by US figures
Van Jones apologises for joke about dead Palestinian babies, but not alone when it comes to insensitive remarks on Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 10h
Views of Trump’s opposition, though, look very different today than they did eight years ago. In the run-up to the 2018 midterms, Democrats fared consistently — and significantly — better than the Republicans on party image. This time around, it’s a different story.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
The signs of a blue wave aren't there like they were in Trump's first term: From the Politics Desk
Plus, Trump seeks to ramp up the pressure on Democrats on Day 7 of the shutdown.
www.nbcnews.com
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 12h
So Well Done @schumer.senate.gov !
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 13h
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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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 10h
Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding.

www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-ros...
Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to raise money for public TV stations after funding cuts
Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations after federal funding cuts.
www.cbsnews.com
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 10h
Low-income people over 60 years old die an average of nine years earlier than high-income older Americans.

Generally, middle-income older Americans are also dying younger than wealthier people.

www.cbsnews.com/news/low-inc...
For older Americans, the cost of poverty is 9 years of life, study finds
Low-income older Americans on average die nearly a decade earlier than wealthier people, a new analysis finds.
www.cbsnews.com
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#BLM/#NMP/#ANTIFA🇲🇽 @sinnu1.bsky.social · 22h
Are we not going to talk about this…
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13h
No one in Canada will ever love you again — they know they’re living right above the madhouse.
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 10h
Some X users claimed that the company should have launched a new range of affordable cars instead of variants of existing models. A few also tagged the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, urging him to "do better".

www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/...
Tesla unveils cheaper versions of Model Y, Model 3: Unhappy fans ask Elon Musk to ‘do better’
In a tweet, Tesla announced that ‘Model Y Standard’ and ‘Model 3 Standard’ are the company’s “most affordable vehicles”.
www.hindustantimes.com
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11h
They’re really excelling at selecting woefully underqualified individuals. The Justice Department has appointed retired Marine Corps Colonel Daren K. Margolin as the new head of its immigration court system.
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 10h
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed former NFL star and political candidate Herschel Walker to serve as the United States' next ambassador to the Bahamas, filling a position that has been vacant for nearly 15 years.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Ex-NFL star Herschel Walker confirmed as first U.S. Bahamas ambassador in nearly 15 years
Former NFL star Herschel Walker won Senate confirmation to be US ambassador to the Bahamas - a job that hasn't been filled for nearly 15 years.
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 10h
Media will have to be treated like physical evidence, with a continuous chain of custody, etc.
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 11h
Their articles will be linked to & spread about on Xitter etc.
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ElizabethC @econklin44.bsky.social · 16h
The law protecting furloughed federal workers is clear. Basically the admin. is focusing on preventing availability of medical care for Americans because that discussion precludes focus on the Epstein files. Americans will suffer, while the pedophile is well cared for & doesn't care. #ProudBlue
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23h
A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.
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MrC_CareensHaphazardlyThroughTime&Space @oldmisterc.bsky.social · 11h
in many ways, the performances of [the fat, stupid rapist-felon] remind me of male chimpanzees & their dominance rituals
-- Jane Goodall shortly after the 2016 repugnac*nt presidential candidates' debates
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 11h
I suspect that even if these right-wing rags decrease to having zero subscribers, their billionaire owners will still keep them going at a loss to continue producing propaganda.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 11h
Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...
Post Traumatic Disorder
Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.
www.status.news
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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 19h
Two judges have told ICE to release Leqaa Kordia. They’re keeping her on accusations that she supports Hamas, because she sent money to help family members stuck in Palestine. She’s been locked up in an ICE detention center for over six months.
She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.
To keep her in ICE detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.
theintercept.com
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 12h
Vanished, and yet somehow undergoing a reboot.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h
honestly it's constantly jarring to me that I, as a child, knew several WWI veterans, including my great-grandfather. Soon WW2 will seem just as vanished in time.
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Midge @midge.bsky.social · 13h
Rider down, I repeat rider down
Photo of a broom that lies riderless in the road
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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 20h
There was a proposal in Harris's platform to limit or bar entirely the cornering of residential housing market by investors or corporations, but nobody with the campaign seemed too interested in promoting it. When I volunteered and made calls, voters were often happily surprised to hear it.
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