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@dinolawyer.bsky.social
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Chicagoan by birth, Minnesotan by choice. Fighting against oligarchy. Everyone deserves a roof, food and healthcare.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Uuuuugh the prospect of having to make it policy to demand AI chatbot history for every alleged expert is extremely aggravating
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Clever girl
Velocibambi
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
NAOMI KLEIN
@think_and_exist
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
youtube.com/shorts/NfRi3...
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I think we’re entering the find out phase…
YouTube video by Farming While Beige
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Sergio Codespoti @codespoti.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Dennis Goris
Cartoon by Dennis Goris
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The plot to enslave America
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This could be solved pretty easily if we rolled back the tax breaks on the wealthy that the GOP (when they controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress) passed in 2017 and 2025.
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
no matter what's going on in your world today remember that they still haven't found whoever stole that truck full of kit-kats and somebody probably has spent an entire month on an epic sugar binge
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I kinda forgot about this guy. Sent 3 bombs to CNN and eight years later CNN anchors were dressing up in tuxes and gowns to go celebrate the president that encouraged the bombings.
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This should be the law everywhere.
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
If you've lived in New Mexico, this is hilarious
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
They think you're stupid.
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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers. #TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Keep in mind the terrible irony that NM is the 2nd biggest crude oil producing state in the nation.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Apart from the profanity and planning to do some war crimes (civilian power plants are not generally valid military targets), if you had told folks that the President would be posting 'Praise be to Allah' on Easter Sunday, they'd assume we'd lost a war. And be right, I guess.
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Can you imagine how apoplectic the right would be if Obama said "praise be to Allah", even if he said it exactly like DJT?
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 04/04/2026
Two chained women are inspected before being loaded onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. Empty shackles, returning from El Paso, will be brought to Whipple. The number of people loaded here this week, 67, is the highest since Feb 7-13, when Homan announced the end of Metro Surge.
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Stay for the end youtu.be/lf4ao1BWhDo?...
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Can Anyone Play The Fiddle? Ireland 1966
YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
so our president is just a psychopath, got it
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Never heard of a bigger paradox than “growing the workforce through AI”
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
yes, we have the most powerful navy in the world, but even we havent sent them there cuz we werent prepared, so our allies must be failing us cuz they arent prepared even tho we didnt even tell them we were going to war maybe he aint drinking these days, but he sure sounds like he's mid-binge
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/03/2026
Hegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that."
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Also, here's a great explainer from the AP that answers the questions from my original post last night and confirms everything I suspected about how poorly conceived and ill-advised seizing Kharg would be.
apnews.com
Seizing Kharg Island would risk US troops' lives and may not end Iran war, experts say
President Donald Trump is threatening to deploy ground troops to seize critical oil infrastructure on Iran’s Kharg Island.
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Contemplating the impermanence of life.
Staff Sergeant Tom Lovell, USMCR (1909-1997), “Combat Artist”
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We are 100% going to send under-supplied troops into the line of fire to try and create a beachhead with half-assed planning. This is tragedy in the making. taskandpurpose.com/news/middle-...
taskandpurpose.com
Pentagon looks for vendors to supply pre-made bunkers within 30 days
The Defense Department is trying to find vendors who can supply transportable bunkers that protect troops against blasts and shrapnel.
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This is the legislature fully and voluntarily relinquishing its constitutional power to the executive. You want dictatorships? Because that's how you get dictatorships.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Trump administration is considering purchasing a number of private immigrant detention centers across the US. Doing so may allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bypass state laws geared at curbing abuses in the facilities.
jacobin.com
ICE Is Trying to Avoid Oversight by Buying Private Prisons
The Trump administration is considering purchasing a number of private immigrant detention centers across the US. Doing so may allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bypass state laws geared at curbing abuses in the facilities.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
SCOOP — Select State Department offices will start moving into the US Institute of Peace building as early as next week, The Handbasket is first to report, with Kristi Noem’s “Shield of the Americas” among them. This is despite ongoing litigation since the DOGE raid on the building last March.
thehandbasket.co
State Dept. is moving into Institute of Peace building during ongoing litigation
After the 2025 DOGE raid, a court ruling on ownership of the building remains in limbo.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/03/2026
This is zuck one month after going on Rogan podcast claiming he would never takedown content based on government requests ever again
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
whoopsie daisy Or as Google translate says in Russian: Ой-ёй! youtu.be/Ao6h5kqIalQ?...
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Google Translate exposes Russian spy unit • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The US and Israel both have agency, and choose to be allies. Both want to cause regime change in Iran. Both have failed spectacularly to accomplish that through force of arms and death, so far. Both of them and Iran (it too has agency) are causing and will continue to cause misery on a global scale.
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It will be years before international travel is as accessible as it was just a month ago.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 23/03/2026
🌍 The amount of heat trapped by the Earth reached record levels in 2025, with the consequences of such warming feared to last for thousands of years, the UN warned Monday. ➡️ u.afp.com/SLK9
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Cleanest way this ends is Trump convinces himself that he's achieved some sort of victory (immaterial as to what) and withdraws forces. The strait moves from "peacefully open but contested" before the war to "Iran has permanent ability to close safe passage" but Trump can fake new normal is better.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 22/03/2026
A painting of a bird next to the words "what the fuck was I supposed to be doing?"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.
Images of an old silver 1999 Toyota Corolla for saleYou want a car that gets the job done? You want a car that's hassle free? You want a car that literally no one will ever compliment you on? Well look no further.
The 1999 Toyota Corolla.
Let's talk about features.
Bluetooth: nope
Sunroof: nope
Fancy wheels: nope
Rear view camera: nope...but it's got a transparent rear window and you have a fucking neck that can turn.
Let me tell you a story. One day my Corolla started making a strange sound. I didn't give a shit and ignored it. It went away. The End.
You could take the engine out of this car, drop it off the Golden Gate Bridge, fish it out of the water a thousand years later, put it in the trunk of the car, fill the gas tank up with Nutella, turn the key, and this puppy would fucking start right up.
This car will outlive you, it will outlive your children.
Things this car is old enough to do:
Vote: yesConsent to sex: yes
Rent a car: it IS a car
This car's got history. It's seen some shit. People have done straight things in this car. People have done gay things in this car. It's not going to judge you like a fucking Volkswagen would.
Interesting facts:
This car's exterior color is gray, but it's interior color is grey.
In the owner's manual, oil is listed as "optional."
When this car was unveiled at the 1998 Detroit Auto Show, it caused all 2,000 attendees to spontaneously yawn. The resulting abrupt change in air pressure inside the building caused a partial collapse of the roof. Four people died. The event is chronicled in the documentary "Bored to Death: The Story of the 1999 Toyota Corolla
You wanna know more? Great, I had my car fill out a Facebook survey.
Favorite food: spaghetti
Favorite tv show: Alf
Favorite band: tie between Bush and the Gin Blossoms
This car is as practical as a Roth IRA. It's as middle-of-the-When I ran the CarFax for this car, I got back a single piece of paper that said, "It's a Corolla, It's fine."
Let's face the facts, this car isn't going to win any beauty contests, but neither are you. Stop lying to yourself and stop lying to your wife. This isn't the car you want, it's the car you deserve: The fucking 1999 Toyota Corolla.

Google map of cars location
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
folks,
they're gonna spend $50B re-opening the Strait of Hormuz over the next 6 months and then act like it's this huge victory when they only thing they accomplished was restoring the pre-war status quo
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/03/2026
so the problem with trying to make predictions about what is going to happen with respect to iran is that nobody, including the president, has the slightest idea we bounce between “mission accomplished” and threatening escalatory war crimes multiple times a day at this point also iran has a vote
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The lack of basic human decency exhibited by the medical system and the entire judicial branch of Florida here is insane and reprehensible.
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If our president tried to play Jenga all he would do is punch the middle of the tower and then scream like a baby at you for wrecking it
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 18/03/2026
One candidate for city council in D.C.’s upcoming Democratic primary election says ranked-choice voting has changed the way she has been canvassing. “As a candidate, you have to be able to build a broad coalition to be able to win.”
boltsmag.org
D.C. Gears Up for First Ranked-Choice Election with Citywide Voter Education Effort
Election officials and community groups are holding education campaigns ahead of Washington D.C.’s first use of ranked choice, with many focused on older and low-propensity voters.
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Thank goodness someone is responding, because (speaking as someone who has been engaged with housing policy for 15+ years) Buchholz's position is crazypants
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