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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 7h

I reconnected with a girl who I hadn't hung out with since college, and when I asked her to marry me a few years later she said yes.

So that's pretty damn great.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 11h

Among the 107 Trump nominees confirmed en masse by the Senate GOP yesterday:
Palantir consigliere Jacob Helberg as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment
McKinsey global counsel Pierre Gentin as General Counsel of the Department of Commerce

The Week in Climate Hearings: The Vought Shutdown Enters Its Second Week

Somberos and Sharpiegate

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 3h

Here are the Subway/Metro Station design guidelines that were compiled by UMTA/USDOT in the 1970s in an attempt to prevent WMATA-style cost overruns again.

It got shelved when everyone at UMTA got laid off and we forgot it. But it's prescient about cost drivers -- rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11352

DOT ROSA P

ROSA P serves as an archival repository of USDOT-published products including scientific findings, journal articles, guidelines, recommendations, or other information authored or co-authored by USDOT ...

rosap.ntl.bts.gov

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

Chicagoans are furious that a convicted felon has sent his thugs here to commit violence against our community. Join us in fighting fascist Republican assholes.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 3h

We are not a people who will ever allow fascists to rule us

Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 17d

Great job Seven Bites restaurant in Orlando, FL. 💪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

They can erase crosswalks but not private property.

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Chelsea Ritter-Soronen @chelsearsoronen.bsky.social · 3h

Art is unstoppable. Always has been and always will be.

Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 17d

Great job Seven Bites restaurant in Orlando, FL. 💪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

They can erase crosswalks but not private property.

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 3h

Like, can you imagine, after we've burned these fascists back out of all aspects of daily life, what kind of memoirs and tell-alls are gonna come out of this clownshit regime? JFC

Craig @craigers.bsky.social · 4h

They're actually gold painted Home Depot items

www.homedepot.com/pep/Ekena-Mi...

The items from the Home Depot link below in a picture in the oval office but with gold paint on them. Cheap tacky trash

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 4h

My grandma used to sink a 1/2 barrel in the ground and plant the creepers (mint etc) in the barrel. Stops the spread for like a decade, still have the benefits of the ground's insulation.

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 4h

@mdcdsa.org gonna love this

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 7h

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 4h

It's weird, I see a TON of people wearing Expos stuff at a few particular games every season but virtually none typically. Like they're coordinating fits in the groupchat?

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 5h

In a functional democracy with a media ecosystem mobilizing to defend the republic this would be #FrontPage news.

POTUS refuses to answer - or is ignorant - to the significance of suspending habeus corpus.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 5h

Looking back at this article I wrote the day after the presidential election, it looks like I had pretty good foresight, which just came from paying attention:

Repeal of the IRA, withdraw from Paris Agreement, encouragement of pro-fossil fuel action abroad…

A Climate Scientist on What Trump’s Victory Means for Global Warming

Republicans might not actually repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s green energy incentives. But Trump can do plenty of damage to international climate progress without that.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 5h

Meanwhile, here's part of the amicus brief from the military brass also filed today in the same case, in support of neither party, but definitely not in support of Trump.

Our experience as military leaders has taught us that this commitment keeps our military
stronger and our communities safer. Any domestic deployment that fails to comply with the
foundational principles of the Posse Comitatus Act and similar authorities5
poses multiple risks to
the core mission of the Guard, the well-being of the troops, and the safety of the communities they
are committed to protect. First, deploying military personnel in the context of domestic law
enforcement diverts them from their primary mission, which is to train and to be ready to fight and
win the nation’s wars and protect communities after disasters. Accordingly, such assignments
come at the expense of local, state, and national safety, as well as troop morale. Second, activeduty National Guard personnel are neither intended nor specifically trained to conduct domestic
law enforcement operations. This poses a danger to the safety of both the troops and the public.
Third, use of federal military personnel in the context of law enforcement operations should be a
last resort to avoid the politicization of the military, which inevitably erodes public trust, hurts
recruitment, and undermines troop morale. Peaceful protests of government actions are
constitutionally protected political speech deserving of the highest protection, not intimidation by
the military

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

“They sponsor this? Fuck them. No, really. Fuck them—I mean it. And you can quote me on that.”

The US pays millions to Professional Bull Riders for advertising. Photojournalist Carrie Schreck reports on the bizarre spectacle.

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit

At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

www.motherjones.com

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JJ @jaynegallaghe20.bsky.social · 6h

A lot of 💡’s here on much needed new communications strategies

This is why truth in the participatory media landscape often looks different than truth in a peer-reviewed journal. It is shaped less by argument than by affirmation. A message feels true because the community says it is—because trusted voices repeat it, in familiar language, within a shared emotional world. People do not just believe what they see. They believe what they help spread.

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Dan McDonough @danluvsbeer.bsky.social · 6h

She lives in another state. You wouldn’t know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 9h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Truthout @truthout.org · 6h

Nine former tenants announced their joint refusal to pay back what the Debt Collective calls “immoral sums” of “illegally held” back rent demanded by Equity Residential, the fifth-largest landlord in the United States.

Tenants Launch US’s First Ever Rent Debt Strike Against Corporate Landlord

Nine tenants organized by the Debt Collective are refusing to pay back rent, hoping to inspire others to do the same.

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 6h

And we continue their legacy today

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Oct 24

Over next decades, millions made the Civil Rights Movement & pushed far with democratic tools against violent, fascist, white supremacist coalitions here.

It ended white-only voting, strict racial hierarchies in many realms, to create more freedom & justice.
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Bloody Sunday - SNCC Digital Gateway

On Sunday, March 7, 1965--what became known as Bloody Sunday--some 600 marchers lining up behind SNCC’s John Lewis and SCLC’s Hosea Williams in Selma, Alabama did not seem to expect much violence desp...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

Temporary Restraining Order to be granted tomorrow in the Chicago case filed by journalists, pastors, and others hit with riot control munitions by ICE!

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 9h

Ellis rules that the plaintiffs have standing for their case. She cites the "ongoing and sustained record of conduct" by federal agents gathered over the last month.

She further finds the plaintiffs have plausibly shown feds have "frustrated" efforts to "protect journalist safety."

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 7h

Trump said today with glee that CNN is dying like a dog and even though I hate him to the bone I chuckled because it -is- indeed funny that CNN is dying like a dog, and it is

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 11h

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

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 7h

Your regular reminder that there's a profession where the employees are so violent, so untrustworthy, that they are required by law to have personal video supervision every time they interact with the general public, just so there is any sort of factual record of what occurs.

Fucking brownshirts

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 8h

A federal judge in Chicago has found that ICE conducted numerous illegal warrantless arrests in Illinois and nearby states in defiance of a 2022 consent decree. It also prepared post hoc arrest rationales after the fact based on details agents "did not know at the time they made the arrests". /1

ICE Violated Consent Decree With Warrantless Arrests, Federal Judge In Chicago Says

Attorneys argued that the recent arrest of an Albany Park family at Millennium Park violated a consent decree that limits the conditions under which federal agents can make warrantless arrests.

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athenamaggie.bsky.social @athenamaggie.bsky.social · 7h

“But at oral argument today, Justice Sam Alito brought up an important, additional way that he thought Bost could be harmed by Illinois’s law, which Bost carelessly left out of his complaint: People could vote for Democrats.”

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

every so often Justice Alito says something during Supreme Court oral argument that makes me perk up and go uhh lol this man's brain is pickled in conservative crank juice fr fr

today was one such day

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/bost-...

Sam Alito Is Just Asking Questions About Mail-In Voting

In Illinois, Democrats passed a law making it easier for people to cast absentee ballots. Alito was ready to give the Republican challenging the law some free advice.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 7h

the shamelessness of the prime day shilling by media organizations baffles me more and more with every passing year

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