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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Does it include how much fossil fuel is used, not just expected?

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

High prices when Pinole (photo location) is a few miles from several big refineries.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Bright side: universities with admissions policies that use zip codes, % of high school graduates, or other such criteria cannot be prosecuted (or extorted) because they have another motivation as defined by Alito.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Welcome to the Plutocracy

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I will not be wearing nice clothes and accessories to race between terminals to catch a flight, nap on the floor, scrunch in an economy seat, have drinks spilled on me during turbulence, undress for metal detectors and repeated pat downs. Spend $1 billion dollars for on-time flights.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card). There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well. The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial www.usni.org/magazines/na...

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The Peleus War Crimes Trial

After sinking the Greek steamer Peleus in 1944, the captain ordered his crew to attack the survivors, three sailors survived and faced their attackers in a war crime trial.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Wouldn’t big tech move the division needing int’l employees to one of their many offshore offices?

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Nixon’s “price controls” to stop 70’s stagflation were price freezes. Sellers offered rebates instead of lowering prices in case it was frozen at a new low price. You paid sales tax on the high price and a rebate check was mailed to you.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 23/08/2025

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

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It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

From the WH Historical Association: White House is 85.5 x 152 = 13,000 footprint. 6 stories have = 55,000. At 90,000, the ballroom is a bit less than 2 football fields 300 x 162 x 2 =97,200.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

As to “why” it’s a cash cow.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The excise tax is waived, but the local sales tax is charged.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

California excise taxes on tobacco starts at 12.5% and marijuana 19% (up to 48% with local taxes). Alcohol is 20¢/gallon.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I question the USDA “harvestable land” data for California. There is massive acreage in alfalfa, nuts, fruit, grapes for wine, rice, vegetables, dates, etc. Just drive I-5 and 101 through the valleys of Sacramento, San Joaquin, Salinas, Imperial, Sonoma, and Napa - all “harvested” by farm workers.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

“He’s stealing our tax money and not following the laws.” That keeps it fresh in my mind because I have to pay taxes and follow the laws every day.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

One woman holding an American flag, shouting at federal agencies here in Paramount, CA. Still lots of chemical munitions, pepper balls, foam batons.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Ukraine’s new tactic as rendered the $831+ billion “Golden Dome” to history’s dustbin. Drones (most foreign made), automatic weapons, and bomb materials are already within the U.S. and available without restrictions. AI can show how to assemble and code an attack from within.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

So…”US health chief Kennedy targets 'environmental toxins' as cause of autism.” But…Trump gutted EPA & FDA. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Using AI to generate legal documents.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Julius & Augustus Caesar were caricatured in along the streets of Rome with graffiti, usually of a sexual nature.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

What are the Senate & House Dems options to stop the debt limit increase (and all its intended consequences)? How can Californians best fix the imbalance of Federal payments to receipts?

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Fight already. What do you mean “I stand ready to fight”? Your inaction for the past 32 days is angering.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Then filibuster the budget! Stop giving the rich more money and cutting the IRS!

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Matt Crosslin @grandeped.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Testing various Ai / LLMs has led me the opposite conclusion. People with advanced degrees (or experience) would easily note mistakes Ai makes, as well as nuanced details it often misses. People stop using Ai when it takes them longer to fix the output than do it themselves in the first place.

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Jeffrey Phillips @11thjeff.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It's really just Wealth anywhere. Saudi money, Russian oligarch money, Musk money and every single tech company that can wheedle into their account books. If you've got vast sums to spend influencing the White House, Donald Trump wants to talk to you.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Fire 3.8 million educated adults in order to give students free time to scroll X and porn to become unemployed, uneducated adults.

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Katie Whittemore✊🏻💙 @katiewhittemore22.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Daily action items‼️ Add these stores to your PERMANENT boycott list: ❌ Amazon ❌ Target ❌ Walmart ❌ Tesla 🤮 ❌ Meta ❌ Hobby Lobby NEVER shop there. Like ever. 🫶🏻 Add to your calendar and share! ❌ 2/28 - Economic Blackout ❌ 3/15 - Total Shutdown 📣 SHARE EVERYWHERE! 📣 #blackout228 #shutdown315

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

PLEASE add a way to edit one’s profile. Currently, one can only delete.

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Pivot Podcast @pivotpod.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"You can't disassociate. There's no disassociation allowed... It's the long fucking run with these people. You gotta stick in there." @karaswisher.bsky.social has some important advice amid all the Trump and Elon chaos.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The architects of #Project2025 explicitly said they had the first 180 days mapped out. FOR EVERY FEDERAL AGENCY. We're only 17 days into it, and we are already in profound crisis. I've said before that this country will be utterly unrecognizable in 6 months. www.project2025.org/playbook/

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Playbook | Project 2025

The fourth pillar of Project 2025 is our 180-day Transition Playbook and includes a comprehensive, concrete transition plan for each federal agency. Only through the implementation of specific action ...

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solardavegreen.bsky.social @solardavegreen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

@krassenstein.bsky.social Musk's long term plan is to privatize the flow of money through the Federal government, and he intends to be the head of the company that provides that service. That's why he has the baby-bros involved. They are collecting requirements and they will build the new system.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/01/2025

Trump: "FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather see the states takes care of their own problems."

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Start with supporting yourself, move to very close family & friends, then neighbors, co-workers, relatives, next your larger community. Gradually, you will be able to help on a large scale.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I donate every month to Wikipedia - information is the foundation of good governance.

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High Sierra Sky @highsierra.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Join CERT Community Emergency Response Teams to help neighbors when feds deny blue state $. Get off Meta, Amazon, switch to LibreOffice since MS is forcing AI on Word. No $ to businesses that give to T. Give to local charities to reduce taxes going to red states. Tell friends & family about BlueSky

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Revealing exchange between Douthat and Marc Andressen. Douthat says that DOGE won't save money b/c most programs are popular and you need people to run them. Reasonable! Andressen: the existence of the program reflects contempt for the taxpayer. Social media will allow us to weaken public support.

Douthat: I can imagine a remarkable new plan for making the federal government in various ways much more efficient. I can totally imagine that. I am skeptical that such a plan would, in the end make a big dent in the federal government’s costs.

Let’s say you have tons of dead wood in a particular federal agency. Well, you’re going to get rid of that dead wood. But in fact, you’re going to need to hire better people to replace those people. And you’re going to need to pay those people appropriately and so on. And all of this is in the shadow of Social Security, Medicare and a range of federal commitments.

There is no magical argument on social media that will suddenly make cutting those commitments popular. But this is, of course, the traditional, institutional, cynical Washington view.

Andreessen: I was going to say, but this is the traditional, institutional, cynical Washington view. And the way that reads to a normal person is absolute contempt for the taxpayer. Absolute contempt for the taxpayer by saying, “We can sit here in Washington, and we can ladle out $50 billion here and $100 billion there, and when we’re challenged on it, the answer is, ‘Eh, it’s a rounding error.’” Right?

Douthat: No, no. The answer when we’re challenged on it is: The actual spending that the federal government does is either big-ticket things that the average taxpayer supports or smaller things like funding for students with disabilities across public school districts or something that if the average taxpayer doesn’t support it, at least a very vocal and influential constituency supports it.

Those are the two groups. It’s not dripping with contempt for the taxpayer. It’s the taxpayer that because of their desire for large amounts of federal spending tends to support.

Andreessen: I will just tell you that what you just said comes across as total contempt for the taxpayer. Just absolute contempt. This will be part of the —

Douthat: But who is the taxpayer? I wrote many, many columns in support of various versions of Paul Ryan’s plan to cut Medicare or reform Medicare and reform Social Security. And the reason those plans went down to defeat was not that federal bureaucrats had contempt for the American taxpayer. It was that the American taxpayer, in election after election, likes and supports and votes in favor of Medicare and Social Security.

Andreessen: They’re not exposed to it. This is a big part of the bet. And look, maybe it’ll work, and maybe it won’t. But this is a big part of the bet, which is that the American taxpayer doesn’t experience it that way because they don’t actually have the insight into it.

Take what you would think would be a bulletproof program, like child disability in schools. It’s far from clear to me that the median taxpayer would support that if they really knew what that was. As you and I both know, what that has become is basically a medicalized mental illness. To the point where students in schools now are basically using fake diagnoses of mental illness in order to get drugs and in order to get extra time on tests. That whole program has run completely out of control, and everybody with kids knows that, but it’s not a discrete thing that people can wrap their heads around and understand. And it’s not a thing that gets exposed in the bright light of day.

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