ASRivers

ASRivers

@asrivers.bsky.social

FAA licensed UAV Pilot, Certified Marine Naturalist, Retired NASA PAO, Animal behavior-canines, primates, cetaceans. Love Janis Joplin Dual 🇺🇸🇨🇦

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As I have noted before at least four different NATO intelligence services have comprehensive transcripts of the Kushner-Witkoff WhatsApp chats with their Russian counterparts. They say exactly what Dexter reports here. And they have been thoroughly authenticated.

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Instead of saying "the Kennedy Center board decided to close" we should note that "a group of Trump appointees including Laura Ingraham and Dan Scavino decided to shut it down"

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social

The best and the brightest.

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SCOOP: A group of staffers from the right-wing think tank, America First Policy Initiative, have been detailed to the Census Bureau, where they have access to sensitive data +contributed to a public report that bolsters conspiracy theories undermining trust in elections www.wired.com/story/a-trum...

wired.comThe Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think TankThe US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...

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How not surprising that a president who acts like a petty mob boss is holding one of our nation’s treasured institutions hostage until we meet his conditions—that is, putting his stupid name on the building. I say we just put it in mothballs until he is gone.

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Peptide injections espoused by RFK Jr. and other wellness grifters are dangerous. “In July 2026, the Texas Department of State Health Services notified CDC about a group of patients who became sick after receiving intravenous (IV) glutathione at an outpatient wellness clinic”.

If Kamala Harris runs for president in 2028, I won’t vote. She lost in 2024 and hasn’t done a thing since to stand up to Trump and the GOP Congress. PLEASE Democrats, we need someone else…

To Democrat Leadership — Please talk with Democrats running as “Democratic Socialists.” Have them use the name Progressives. Too many independent voters aren’t aware of the difference between “socialism”and “communism.” Otherwise you’re shooting yourselves in the feet in 2026/2028

Trump had hotel bankruptcies in Toronto in 2015 time period & in Vancouver in 2020. He didn’t own the properties, but his licensed brand was prominent on the two failed ventures.Trump’s name was removed from both buildings. Of course this has nothing to do with his tariff war with Canada…

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𝐁𝐞𝐝𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐡: 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐛𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭🚨 Auxilio means help in Spanish. These ICE thugs are taking these women right from the hospital & manhandling the teen, still in her hospital gown. They have pending asylum cases. #ICELawlessness 🧵

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To paraphrase: "It's cool, the President said in the executive order telling the Post Office to do something illegal that they can't do anything illegal, so who knows, maybe it'll be legal, we can't say, it's just too early."

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

There's no standing for states to sue over that EO yet because it's just the president of the United States officially proclaiming his order to illegally interference in state elections, and you have to wait and see how and if agencies actually follow what he said first, is pants-on-head lunacy.

And in places like Texas…only a single ballot return box is allowed in counties, requiring mail-in voters in Houston who don’t want to mail back ballots to drive 2+ hours to deposit their votes…

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Starting a pointless trade war with our most reliable partner as a distraction from your failed war in Iran (that you launched as a distraction from your administration covering up the Epstein files) isn’t going to win you any votes.

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Trump calls JB Pritzker a "dumb, stupid slob." Just a reminder that Pritzker balanced the Illinois budget with a $0 deficit AND has signed relief for groceries and gas. Trump is a 5th grade bully who apparently needs to look in the mirror.

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Two influential Democratic senators are demanding that the Pentagon investigate quality-of-life issues aboard Navy ships participating in the standoff with Iran, according to a letter shared exclusively with CNN. https://cnn.it/3UxXk1u

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Jordan Klepper: “Can women be president?” MAGA: “No. Females have more hormones. She could start a war in 10 seconds.” Jordan Klepper: “Haven’t all wars been started by men?” MAGA: “Umm, yesss…”

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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

nytimes.com‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

Save our oceans. There are living individuals there

Science News@sciencenews.bsky.social

Animals from deep oceanic hydrothermal vents spend their youth near the surface, study finds, revealing a more connected ocean than previously thought. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sea-snail-journey-hydrothermal-vents

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Trump has been on a tear reviving some of the greatest mistakes in American history and now, by God, he's dug into the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930. If you were awake in your high school American history class, you should be panicking now.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net

ohmygod they actually did it, it's 338 tariffs, holy fuck www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

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He does realize that Michigan is a swing state?

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social

The latest round of Trump tariffs are pretty amazing. If they go forward North America will no longer have an integrated car production industry but country-by-country silos. Which also means... a lot less car production. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

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Big win today. A federal judge temporarily halted the proposed Warner Bros. and Paramount merger while our lawsuit proceeds. This is a critical victory for consumers, for objective and independent journalism, and for the workers, actors, artists and fans of our country's film and tv industry.

Trump just imposed 50% new tariffs on Canada now that FIFA is over. There goes the price of new cars and car parts among produce, steel, wood and other important products… I guess Trump couldn’t tariff Canadian wildfire smoke.

I hope Canada pulls its wildfire firefighting planes and firefighters (one of whom died fighting fires in Colorado) from the USA. US relies on Canadian resources during wildfire season. And smoke goes both ways…

Antifa = Opposite of Nazis

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

Rubio claims Iran and Cuba are aiding “antifa.” Seems like pretext to designate democrats a Foreign Terror Organization (FTO). abcnews.com/Politics/rub...

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Angus: MAGA politicians are threatening our sovereignty, saying they’ll cross the border if we don’t solve the climate crisis. We’ve always crossed the border to help each other. Today we’re mourning a Canadian firefighter who died helping fight a wildfire in Aspen, Colorado.

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Trump got utterly humiliated at the World Cup. Booed, pushed out of frame, photoshopped out, and he looks morbidly obese standing next to these athletes. He’s AT LEAST four Spanish soccer players wide.