Roger Grow

Roger Grow

@rogergrow.bsky.social

Star Trek, cats, model trains, politics, music and art, rugby; Vermont. Occasionally ideas found pondering…

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Jörg Hillebrand@gaghyogi49.bsky.social

I have spoken to my friends, we'll watch #StarTrekTOS' "Spectre of the Gun" on #StarTrek night on Wednesday. I hear it's also Walter Koenig's favourite Star Trek episode! It first aired on October 25th 1968, 58 years ago and it depicts events happening on October 26th 1881. LLAP, Walter Koenig! 🖖

They think this is all just a game, and they can only win if they cheat.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

Diabolical — Republicans appear to be sending fake pro-trans/LGBTQ mailers from Wyoming directly to kids in Texas (not their parents!) to piss off voters

Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin all need to be taken to a remote island and dropped there. With no way off, and no one else gets on. Nothing but the suits they love to wear. Three old white men should not be allowed to bring the world to WWIII. 🤬

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If we tax Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires appropriately, every child in America can have healthcare, education, and a well funded social safety net instead of some racist billionaire’s pathetic pr stunt

CNN@cnn.com

Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ

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Amanda Janoo@janooforvt.bsky.social

Our campaign has always been about bringing people together, celebrating what makes Vermont so special, and deciding collectively where we go next. (continued in the replies)

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the correct answer to people being mad about property tax is that the ultrawealthy should pay for the services that the working class funds with property tax. the ultrawealthy should be wealth-capped until everyone in the country is fed, housed, and has healthcare. abolish prisons. i can keep going

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since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

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California’s billionaires have a combined net worth of $2.4 trillion. Under Prop 40, their net worth would fall to…just under $2.3 trillion. What amounts to a rounding error for them would allow millions of their fellow Californians to afford healthcare. Vote yes on Prop 40.

theguardian.comThe ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire taxTech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax that will fund healthcare and

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Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.

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Oligarchs are free market absolutists when it comes to minimum wage, workers' rights and the environment. But when it comes to their businesses, suddenly free markets don't work, and they become ardent Socialists, demanding government handouts, tax breaks and subsidies.

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To be an American right now is to feel an intense sense of shame, for abandoning our allies and sucking up to dictators. Trump and Musk are not just betraying Ukraine, they're betraying the very idea of freedom. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

nytimes.comUkraine’s Exposure Grows as Satellite Use Is Restricted and Russia EscalatesA huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.

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If wanting everyone on earth to have peace, love, happiness, dignity, equality, food, shelter, a living wage, health care, education, child care, paid sick days, paid vacation time, paid family leave, safe neighborhoods, and a healthy environment makes you a hippie socialist commie, then sign me up.

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Homeland Security goons cart away possessions from Ilhan Omar's house. They're coming for all of us, you know that, right? Vote early, vote hard.

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WASHINGTON—Trump’s federal agents raid Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home over decades-old “immigration paperwork” her father filled out when she was a kid. No charges. Breaking DOJ norms. Over the cliff, folks.

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LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha

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Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

Today in DC: "Beginning Saturday, crews will start another major round of cutting at the historic public golf course. The first phase contains 169 trees marked for removal. The Trump Administration says as many as 529 could eventually come down..." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

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ICYMI: The @openmeasures.io research crew sat down to lay out the sorts of risks we're seeing (and, just as importantly, not seeing) ahead of midterms so far. There are still many unknowns, but this hopefully gives a sense of where things sit at the moment. openmeasures.io/2026-midterm...

openmeasures.ioThreat Briefing: 2026 US Midterm Elections - Open MeasuresOpen Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online content that impacts public discourse and global events.

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we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers

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When ISIS killed my friend James Foley on camera they put him in an orange jumpsuit as a direct reference to images of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Not fucking interested my government having a fucking propaganda CONVERSATION with tomorrow’s terrorists, thanks.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

Americans have lost the plot and gone back over the edge.

Truthout@truthout.org

The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”

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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.