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Machu Pikacchu @judet.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
The day both Mexico and Ireland declared war on Boston.
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
Ford, Netflix, and Tesla paid more to their CEOs between 2018 and 2022 than they paid in taxes.
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Exposed: 35 corporations that pay their execs more than they pay in taxes
Top executives at dozens of major, profitable U.S. businesses received more in total compensation in recent years than their companies paid in federal taxes, underscoring the twin outrages of skyrocke...
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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
Texas school district confirms that a former school board trustee let an Evangelical film crew into a local high school without district permission or parental consent to film and interview students for an upcoming documentary: “God, Jesus, Trump” and the “WOKE agenda” in US schools
wfaa.com
WFAA obtains emails and texts surrounding film crew's controversial visit to Keller ISD school
A parent in the district who has raised concern about the issue said the findings of the open records request weren't surprising.
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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
In July NBC found only 4 high level Trump officials who would endorse him. One of them, Mark Meadows, was up to his ears in the J6 failed coup, and another, Richard Grenell, endorsed German neoNazis while serving as ambassador in Germany. By contrast former defense officials are especially scathing.
nbcnews.com
Dozens served in Trump’s Cabinet. Four say he should be re-elected.
Several of Trump's former Cabinet members are coy about whether they support his bid to return to the White House. Others outright oppose it.
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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
Alleline after getting Smiley and Control fired
“Imagine walking into a bar absolutely off your gourd and Toby Jones is DJing” (with a photograph of the very same)
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The Slides @theslides.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
"AFSC 35mm presentation slides," slide 5 of 24 [gallery]
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
We have such an invented idea that cruelty is something done begrudgingly, in spite of someone’s true intentions. I think it works to preserve a kind of innocence for humanity. But it’s really not the reality of power and domination.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Michael Yon accompanied multiple GOP House members on a trip to Latin America and helped Arizona's Rep. Andy Biggs with a doc on the border. He also was at the Capitol on J6, wrote about white genocide, and referred to immigrants as "apes" and "cannibals." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-g...
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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 15/03/2024
The internet still holds all human knowledge, it just increasingly also holds all human entropy and there's a lot more of that.
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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Extraordinary to think that we might already have lived through the internet’s useful lifespan.
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Are We Watching The Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected t...
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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
“At the Controls of an Aircraft of the Future”, from Popular Mechanics, May 1932” (books.google.co.uk/books?id=5uE...)
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 15/03/2024
Join us later today as we discuss verification strategies and how the role of a fact checker influences newsroom output. Link to join our live audience is below 👇
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
The airports are not empty. Told the US borders would close Sunday night, thousands of travelers overwhelm the airports, where some are screened but most not.
Philip Rucker @PhilipRucker

Travesty at Dulles:
-Hundreds packed in line for hours
-Passengers with corona in their own line, but no isolated area, meaning those without snaked & stood close to the infected
-No sanitizing of fingerprint pads
-No protocol for the ill, all free to go

From washingtonpost.com
1:33 PM • 3/15/20 From Earth@Michael_Sadler

Cleared customs about 3 hours later, now back at same line facing other way, made a u-turn, now waiting to get to screening for #COVID19 #Ohare #BreathingLessons

9:15 PM • 3/14/20 From Earth@realDonaldTrump 

We are doing very precise Medical Screenings at our airports. Pardon the interruptions and delays, we are moving as quickly as possible, but it is very important that we be vigilant and careful. We must get it right. Safety first!

12:34 PM • Mar 15, 2020Acting Secretary Chad Wolf
@DHS Wolf

DHS is aware of the long lines for passengers who are undergoing increased medical screening requirements. Right now we are working to add additional screening capacity and working with the airlines to expedite the process. 1(/2)
12:29 AM • 3/15/20 

2/2 l understand this is very stressful. In these unprecedented times, we ask for your patience. It currently takes ~60 seconds for medical professionals to screen each passenger. We will be increasing capacity but the health and safety of the American public is first & foremost.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Of course RFK Jr. is hyping Aaron Rodgers as a potential, uh, running mate. His campaign is a grift whose primary marks are young, insecure men who turn to conspiracy theories to soothe their fragile egos. An analysis. www.salon.com/2024/03/15/r...
salon.com
RFK Jr. and Aaron Rodgers illustrate how con artists exploit male insecurity
Voting for muscle-bound conspiracy theorists will not quell the nagging fear of mediocrity
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 15/03/2024
that crop, while necessary, misses an important detail that is often still relevant lol
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Here’s What Donald Trump’s America Was Actually Like Four Years Ago www.vanityfair.com/news/donald-...
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Did you think hermit crabs always live in snail shells? 🧪🦀 Some deep sea hermit species live symbiotically with anemones that DISSOLVE the shell and SECRETE a new one ("carcinoecium") made of chitin! The carcinoecium has evolved at least 3 times! Photo credits in alt text. @megdaly.bsky.social
Hermit crab (Pagurus prideaux) on the substrate looking up at you. Instead of a shell it is covered in an orange anemone (Calliactis palliata) with pink spots. Coming off that are neon pink silly strings, which are the anemone's tentacles!
Photo by Darryl Meyer
https://www.flickr.com/photos/27988477@N02/3992801991/in/photostream/Hermit crab (Sympagurus dofleini) in the deep sea. It is facing to the side, with a purple striped sea anemone (Stylobates) covering its posterior, with the anemone's tentacles facing down.  
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/waf/okeanos-animal-guide/Paguroidea015.html4 different views of the carcinoecium produced by the anemone Stylobates aeneus, which look exactly like a snail shell. But they are not.
Image by Chong Chen
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207492582127068&set=a.10200283324540134&type=3
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 14/03/2024
I wish I had the champagne franchise for the DNC today. www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
So the Smirnov guy whose lying to the FBI about Hunter Biden was the basis of the Biden impeachment push had been paid by a company with close ties to Trump? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
theguardian.com
US firm that paid indicted FBI informant tied to Trump associates, records reveal
Alexander Smirnov was paid $600,000 in 2020 – the same year he allegedly began lying to FBI about Bidens’ role in Ukraine business
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Van Wendigo @vanweezer.myatproto.social · 08/03/2024
Conspiracy theory of the day: There wouldn't be so many conspiracy theories if we didn't have GPS. Not having to remember how to get places has freed up too much space in our brains
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/03/2024
Trump claimed that the videos shown during the Hur hearing were "AI" — not because they were but because the advent of AI allows him to engage in his long-standing practice of muddying the truth.
washingtonpost.com
Analysis | Trump demonstrates why ‘A.I.’ will be so useful to him
In a social media post, Trump claims that a compilation of clips of him making verbal mistakes was computer-generated.
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Panasonic concept telephone (1996)
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Literally just the presence of a trans person at a Space Camp in Alabama has invited statements from three federal office holders www.al.com/news/2024/03...
Several Alabama politicians say they are concerned about children’s safety at Huntsville’s Space Camp after a parent complained about the presence of a transgender employee.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville and Reps. Dale Strong and Robert Aderholt posted statements on X, formerly known as Twitter, after a parent posted on Facebook complaining about the gender identity of one of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center employees. The topic was also picked up by the Libs of TikTok account.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
New, from me: The American far-right is fascinated with Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of a third-rate power with a declining population. Why? Because Orban offers a model of Christian nationalist authoritarianism that Trumpists plan to emulate. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/make-ameri...
donmoynihan.substack.com
Make America Hungary Again
MAGA's obsession with Orban reveals they want authoritarianism, not greatness
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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
macOS Sonoma 14.4 is causing some USB hubs to stop working, including hubs built into displays & USB-C multiport adaptors that worked perfectly up to 14.3.1. Gather logs, file feedback. appleinsider.com/articles/24/... #macOS #Sonoma
appleinsider.com
macOS Sonoma 14.4 update breaking USB monitor hubs
According to some scattered user reports, updating macOS to Sonoma 14.4 is causing some USB hubs embedded in monitors to stop working and there doesn't seem to be a clear fix.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/03/2024
surely another one of Biden's silly exaggerations ... well I'll be goddamned
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 12/03/2024
this is the most joe biden paragraph ever written.
The full transcript provides a more complete window into the back and forth between the two men, in which Biden frequently joked with prosecutors in a setting that seemed more chummy than antagonistic. (“I just warn you all: Never make one great eulogy because you get asked to do everybody’s eulogy,” Biden said at one point.) But the president also frequently digressed, with stories about trips to Mongolia and about the time he helped represent a client who lost one testicle and part of his penis. He also later twice mimicked the sounds of a car.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
“We did not find evidence of a crime we could prove in court” James Comey: 😒 Bill Barr: 😁 John Durham: 🤪 Robert Hur: 😡
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
"The move from settler colonialism to the current model can be measured, Immerwahr argues, not in the content of American imperial ambitions, but in the transformation of the tissue connecting the empire to its outposts." From 5 years ago. Holds up. fellowtravelersblog.com/2019/03/11/e...
fellowtravelersblog.com
Empire of Ignorance, Ignorance of Empire
A review of Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019). By Kelsey D. Atherton It is impossible to unmake an empire without descr...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/03/2024
weird realization of the morning: because we barely use the phone and her number is obviously saved as a contact, the reason I know my wife’s cell phone number by heart is probably because I regularly have to enter it at the grocery store for discounts
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
"united states nuclear programs"
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 09/03/2024
weekend vibe
Lionel Balestrieri 1910"Decadent" by Ramon Casas 1899Emma Sparre 1890"After Breakfast" by Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi 1890
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 09/03/2024
It's incredible how many stories like this can keep popping up, years later
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
Dont be fooled, it's just the Tanton network again. They have dozens if not hundreds of these "secret societies" to offer the illusion of broad and popular appeal where none exists
talkingpointsmemo.com
Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’
A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the...
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
One of the key challenges since the start of the Trump era has been to communicate effectively to the American public that something other than “politics as usual” is going on, that the threat of authoritarianism – that is embodied, but not caused by Trump – is real. 4/
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
There is an element of volkish ideology underneath the way the institutions treat Trump, an assumption that Trump channels “real America,” the Volk, and therefore is to be given wide latitude, as the will of the true people must not be impeded.
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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
THIS. "Boycotting" an election doesn't send the message that you're unhappy, because it doesn't lose them money like it would for a business. You're not the nation's customer. Refusing to vote sends the message that you're fine with whatever result you get, that other people can decide for you.
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Steve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
To felons in jail and those who have been pardoned, the renewed questions swirling around Donald Trump's indictments resonated in deeply personal ways. We spoke to these criminals about their thoughts on crime and the presidency.
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Slippery Jim diGriz ⚖️ @jimdigriz.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
ALERT: John Cena is wearing an ALF “G.O.A.T.” tshirt and that tells me JOHN CENA IS ON BLUESKY UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME. It could be anyway. Keep your eyes peeled, people.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
Priceless Biden double take when he sees MTG
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
And the winner is ... Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona. Have a quiet evening, Mr. Secretary, wherever you are. #DesignatedSurvior
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
truly, be like tad
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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
this happened and more people should be aware
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The Slides @theslides.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
"NORAD 35mm presentation slides," slide 9 of 41 [gallery]
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Exactly! All this “let the people decide” talk is remarkably backwards. The people decided in November 2020: Trump lost, and attempted an auto-coup in response. That is the sole reason why the insurrection clause came into play at all: January 6 was the anti-democratic part. 1/
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Propaganda works. The mainstream right in this country understands this way more profoundly than the mainstream left
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