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Urv-eerie 👻

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There are many renewable resources in the world, time is not one of them. Now: caregiver in Silicon Valley. EV & Climate Policy. Past: Motiv Power Systems, Powerflex/EDF Renewables, Climate Finance Solutions, 2020 CA D12 DNC Warren delegate, SFWPC 🏳️‍🌈

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Urv-eerie 👻 @theurv.com · Feb 12

In case you’re wondering what’s going on with all these stories… I refer you to yesterday’s drawing of the day:

IT IS A COUP!

Drawing of a newspaper with the words IT IS A COUP

The newspapers won't say it plainly but Musk and Trump are ignoring the courts, congress, and the constitution...

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 5h

If Benioff is MAGA now that’s a huge signal that the Silicon Valley big money donor base is basically gone for Dems (it’s a signal of other things, too, obviously)

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Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 5h

What a crock of shit from Marc Benioff — who appears willfully ignorant of news and facts and so thirsty for approval and attention from the Trump tech bros (who in the past mocked him relentlessly) that he is soiling himself in public www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Urv-eerie 👻 @theurv.com · 1h

Drawing of the Day
US Government shut down, House covering up Epstein files, Senate ends the war in Iraq after 23 years, and Marc Benioff wants the National Guard in SF

Friday October 10, 2025
The U.S. Government is still shut down.

Speaker Mike Johnson sent the house home 3 weeks ago and today announced they won't be at work again next week. And covering up Epstein's scandals may be part of the reason why. Democrat Adelita Grijalva won a special election in Arizona and hasn't been sworn in yet, but once she is would provide the final vote on legislation to release the files.

Meanwhile in the Senate yesterday’s authorization of defense spending also officially ends the 2002 war in Iraq.

Trump sends stocks tumbling as he announces 100% tariffs on China

Billionaire Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls for National Guard in SF

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Urv-eerie 👻 @theurv.com · 8h

I’m sure I could go faster if I wasn’t doing it by hand but I’m leaning into analog instead of AI

Urv-eerie 👻 @theurv.com · 8h

Timeline cleanse: M is for Monkey

Drew this last night and have now done A through N

Ink drawing of a monkey drawing with a marker with the text:
M is for monkey (and marker)

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Urv-eerie 👻 @theurv.com · 20h

He only wants it because Obama got one too

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 21h

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, for her work promoting democracy.

María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Live Updates and Video

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”

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Urv-eerie 👻 @theurv.com · 20h

Anyone else worried Trump is going to bomb Venezuela more now that a woman from there won the Nobel Peace Prize? Also worried for Norway….

Screen shot of a press release saying:

Announcement, Nobel Peace Prize 2025

10 October 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 goes to a brave and committed champion of peace – to a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corina Machado.

She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

As the leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.

Urv-eerie 👻 @theurv.com · 1d

Drawing of the Day:
Where are the troops going?
US Gov still shut down, Israel accepts phase one of peace deal, federal judge says troop deployment in Chicago isn’t legal, and Trump’s DOJ indicted NY AG Letitia James

Thursday October 9 2025

Two troops are talking to each other, one says:
“I’m going to Israel. You?”
The other replies:
“Chicago”

The US Government is still shut down.

Israel approved the Phase I plan to end the war in Gaza with both Trump and Hamas publicly saying the war is over.

Trump is sending 200 troops to Israel to help with logistics. The plan is a ceasefire begins within 24 hours, with Israeli withdrawl from current lines to control 53% of Gaza after which 72 hours to return all hostages while the international community sends aid in.

Federal Judge April Perry ruled against Trump's move to send 500 troops into Chicago saying she had "seen no credible evidence that there is a danger of a rebellion"

Trump continues to attack his perceived enemies, and has indicted New York Altoney General Letitia James who called the charges baseless.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

If it were in charge, I'd be posting up billboards and mobile bus signage and YouTube ads to that effect esp in swing districts.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

NOTE: Leavitt says Trump will "stop by for his routine yearly check up."

But…Trump had his annual check up already. 5 months ago. On April 11.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

New — White House says Donald Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday.

"On Friday morning, President Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center for a planned meeting and remarks with the troops. While there, President Trump will stop by for his routine yearly check up. He will then return to the White House. President Trump is considering going to the Middle East shortly thereafter." - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 1d

WHO THINKS THERE SHOULD BE WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (no session since 9/19😡)? ✋

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is A Minor victory for Lamar

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Urv-eerie 👻 @theurv.com · 1d

Drawing of the Day
Peace?
Maybe
US Gov still shut down and Les Mis turns 40

Wednesday October 8 2025

Israel and Hamas Agree to Hostage And Prisoner Exchange - hoping it would be the 1st phase of a peace deal to end the war. While celebrations in the streets happened in both Gaza and Tel Aviv, the details are still in the works like if Hamas will disarm and if or where Israeli troops will withdraw to. Everyone is glued to the news waiting to hear when a truce might begin.

The United Nations will cut 25% of its global peacekeeping force due to U.S. funding cuts
While Trump is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize and now prioritizing Israel and Palestine to that end... he’s also cutting aid to conflict zones around the world

U.S Gov still shut down...

Les Mis, the musical, turns 40 this week!
(at least the English version).

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 2d

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Urv-eerie 👻 @theurv.com · 2d

Drawing of the Day:
What started in terror has only grown to suffering beyond belief. Two years of the current Israel - Gaza conflict

Tuesday October 7 2025

(the U.S. government is still shutdown)

"A humanitarian catastrophe on a scale that defied comprehension”
-UN Sec General Antonio Guterres

Since Oct 7 2023:
The largest attack on Jewish people since
World War 2: 1,195 people Killed, 251 hostages taken, of which 48 are still held, 20 believed to be alive.

A right-wing scorched earth military approach was taken, denying negotiations and starting a campaign now labled genocide by experts.

More than 67,000 Palestinians killed.
(20,000 children)
which is 1 of 33 people in Gaza

At least 169,000 Palestinians injured some with life-altering wounds. (1 of 14 people in Gaza

125 hospitals and clinics damaged. 1,722 health workers killed.

1 in 4 children is malnourished and 154 documented cases of children dying of starvation

658,000 school age kids lost access to schools due to bombings.

And with 270 journalists killed it’s been the deadliest conflict to cover outpacing WWI, WWII, Civil war combined.

Urv-eerie 👻 @theurv.com · 3d

Bucking legal precedent is referred to colloquially as breaking laws and ignoring judges…

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

NEW: The Ninth Circuit schedules oral argument for Thursday in the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Immergut's order temporarily blocking the deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

The panel assignment:
Susan P. Graber (Clinton)
Ryan D. Nelson (Trump)
Bridget S. Bade (Trump)

2025-10-09 9:00 am Courtroom 2, 3rd Floor Rm 330, James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse, San Francisco
Before: GRABER, R. NELSON, and BADE, Circuit Judges
Case No.
25-6268
State of Oregon, et al. v. Trump, et al.

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Jonah Owen Lamb @jonahowenlamb.bsky.social · 3d

New story about the case and deputy: www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

Urv-eerie 👻 @theurv.com · 3d

All three have affiliations with the University of California system, two at UC Santa Barbara and one at UC Berkeley. Investments in public education and world class universities lead to breakthrough innovation that benefits us all. The same type of research work that our government is defunding

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis win the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in quantum mechanics.

Nobel Prize for physics goes to 3 scientists for discoveries in quantum mechanical tunneling

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research into quantum mechanical tunneling.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

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Urv-eerie 👻 @theurv.com · 4d

Drawing of the Day: celebrating the Nobel Prize in Medicine, AI market shifts, and Texas troops on route to Chicago

Monday October 6, 2025
(government still shut down...)

Mary Brunow, Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi and Fred Ramsdell were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a key process in the immune system helps us understand how our bodies know to attack germs and not healthy cells. Their work has been critical in understanding autoimmune diseases and has lead to better disease research in diabetes, organ transplants, cancer, and more.

The Al industry's fate becomes more linked as OpenAl amounced it will also use AMD chips with an option to buy 10% of the company. Competitor chip maker NVIDIA also invested up to $100 billion in openAl.

Texas troops on route to Chicago as legal battle also continues alongside military movement