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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 1d

Helping ICE identify protesters.

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 4d

EMTALA

sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 6d

Only the best people!

sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 6d

www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

Bessent’s Text Messages Leak: Here’s What They Say About Argentina Deal

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins texted Bessent to point out that Argentina scored a big soybean deal with China after a U.S. bailout — while U.S. farmers were out of luck.

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 11d

Reporting in 2024 from The Atlantic and interviews with former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly alleged that Donald Trump said he wanted "the kind of generals that Hitler had". For some reason I can’t seem to get The Night of the Long Knives out of my head.

sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 11d

Let’s see, real estate guy tanks farmers,accumulates property for portfolio,sells to foreign investor.

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 15d

Justice is like buying hay for a dead horse.

sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 15d

dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/trumps-she...

Trump's Shell Game Threatens American Security

We're pushing to make anti-corruption a top priority on the political agenda to fight authoritarianism, strengthen the rule of law and protect democracy.

dekleptocracy.substack.com

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 20d

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Wendell Berry

sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 20d

Not sure which USAF fighter/bombers have canards? Could be some or in development?

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 21d

Pick your poison. Destruction by corporate power or destruction by oligarchy. The end result is the same. That is what the two ruling parties offer nothing else.

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 22d

Trump, for now, is the figurehead of warlord capitalism. But he did not create it, does not control it and can easily be replaced.

Pick your poison. Destruction by corporate power or destruction by oligarchy. The end result is the same. That is what the two ruling parties offer nothing else.

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 28d

In its imaginary, power is not so much justified as sanctified, excused by the lofty ends it proclaims, ends that commonly are antithetical to the power legitimated by the constitutional imaginary.
Sheldon S. Wolin

sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 28d

One consequence of the pursuit of an expansive power imaginary is the blurring of the lines separating reality from fancy and truth telling from self-deception and lying.

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · 28d

One consequence of the pursuit

Charlie Kirk may be gone, but the rhetoric he spewed lives on like a toxin in America’s bloodstream.

Charlie Kirk may be gone, but the rhetoric he spewed lives on like a toxin in America’s bloodstream. His words were not just careless, they were calculated to divide, to inflame, and to twist faith in...

www.dailykos.com

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · Sep 6

Running with scissors

sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · Sep 5

assault and battery?

sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · Sep 5

Fair-weather federalism

sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · Sep 5

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Hundreds arrested in immigration raid at Hyundai plant site in Georgia

The Department of Homeland Secuirty said agents had a judicial search warrant, alleging unlawful employment practices.

www.usatoday.com

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · Sep 4

Evil is perpetuated when immoral principles become normalized over time by people who do not think about things from the standpoint of others.

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · Sep 2

eartharchives.org/articles/in-...

In memoriam: Top 10 recently extinct animals

They once shared our world, some as recently as a few years ago. From the lions that fought at the Colosseum to the blind dolphins of China, they were exceptional in life and remain iconic in death. T...

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · Sep 2

-Ai

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · Sep 2

Humans have caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants. From a cold evolutionary perspective, this might be viewed as an example of an organism becoming "extremely successful".

Success does not guarantee humanity will have the wisdom to act in its own long-term interest.

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · Aug 23

The damned if you do, damned if you don’t nature of criminal justice in America today. Succumb to coercive tactics like evidence suppression and pretrial detention and begrudgingly accept a conviction with lifetime consequences. Or assert your constitutional rights and face certain retribution.

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sinkhole13.bsky.social @sinkhole13.bsky.social · Aug 17

Factors like poverty, unemployment, and underfunded schools often contribute to higher crime rates in these areas.-AI Overview