schlekin.bsky.social

schlekin.bsky.social

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Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

Brad Johnson@climatebrad.hillheat.com

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

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Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

What was the most disastrous decision from the most recent presidents that had effects we feel today? Clinton: Lying under oath and getting away with it (paved way for Trump) Bush: Iraq Obama: Syria and Libya Trump I: Covid and pulling out of JCPOA Biden: Running again Trump II: Iran

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Wait a damn minute. The things Arday did, like the marathons, had been previously covered, with first hand primary sources, by English news orgs, contemporaneously?!?! And yet the Telegraph and others just kept repeating that he'd lied about them, despite tons of documentation they happened?! 🤬🤬🤬

middleeasteye.netJason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his deathClaims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found

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A young mother of four was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Now a local council member is calling for a federal investigation into Tasia Fortune’s death. Her case comes as questions still surround the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. Suri Crowe reports.

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Some politicians do what Cassidy did as a selfish act of self preservation. Cassidy had nothing to lose, and he did it anyway. If Cassidy “voted his conscience,” he doesn’t have a conscience.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BRENNAN: You are confident Blanche will uphold the Constitution with the upcoming elections? CASSIDY: Of course there's always existential anxiety. But I am ... as confident as you can be about the future you are. I cannot predict the future

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This is diabolical. Trump appears ready to just start drilling for oil in an allied country, despite explicitly being told not to.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social

⚠️ GREENLAND GAMBIT UNDERWAY? “An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities.”

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Damn, we’re at 10k views in three days. People seem to like it, and are hungry for something new. Well, artists, let’s give them what they want! #indiefilm #horror #scifi

Jeffrey Thomas@punktowner.bsky.social

Director Polly Schattel's short film AFTER THE FALL (based on my story by that name) can now be seen on the YouTube channel Crafty Short Films. Following a mysterious, possibly apocalyptic event, a grieving family contemplates their own lives in an unknowable cosmos.

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This. Cuts to the heart of the threat and the plan

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Himes: "The president was setting the basis for him to turn around on election night and say, 'I warned you that the Chinese were doing x, y, and z. It happened tonight. I'm deploying federal officers from DHS to 7 states. They will be seizing ballot boxes.'"

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Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

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If we had a functional Dem caucus, they would shut down Congress, deny quorum & camp outside GW hospital until we get answers on McConnell. When the base says our team doesn’t fight, this is EXACTLY what we mean. Hakeem & Chuck should set up shop at GW & refuse to budge until they get answers

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Andy Beshear should just steal mcconnell's senate seat the way mcconnell stole Obama's Supreme Court seat.

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PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

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This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

Matt Binder@mattbinder.bsky.social

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

schlekin.bsky.social reposted

Israel drops the world’s biggest non nuclear bomb on Lebanon. Corporate media is silent. The United States must hold these war criminals accountable.

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would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Democrats are preparing a hostile audit of Trump and his inner circle, intent on exposing — and ultimately ending — the most lucrative presidency in American history. Dems see the presidential gold rush as corruption personified — and plan to bury Trump's orbit in subpoenas if they win the House.

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Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

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The sitting Attorney General of Louisiana is technically now a wanted fugitive, journalists are being ARRESTED if they even ask questions about her indictment, which our governor has PROMISED to pardon her for if she is convicted and which our judges are working to block. Laws for thee. Not for me

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp couldn’t stay seated in his chair as he proudly stated: 'We kill people sometimes', while speaking to shareholders. (Feb 2026)

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A reminder George W. Bush “won” the Florida recount in 2000 (and hence the entire presidential election) by just 537 votes because of felony disenfranchisement laws (driven primarily by the racist drug war). Republicans conveniently overpurged Florida voter rolls right before the election.

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com

BREAKING: The Virginia Senate passes a constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions. The measure now heads to voters. If approved, thousands of Virginians — particularly Black residents — would no longer be shut out of the democratic process.

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This is really stupid, but the president has repeatedly claimed that Iran’s military capabilities were totally destroyed, so I feel obligated to rhetorically ask what the US is shooting at and retaliating to if Iran has no military anymore? Why does anyone indulges such transparent lies at all?

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"Don’t Be Fooled. The Netanyahu-Backed Plan to 'End' U.S. Military Aid to Israel Is a Scam" Israel, and its allies in Congress, want to replace military assistance with something much worse. Here's what you need to know, from Josh Paul, ex-State Dept:

zeteo.comDon’t Be Fooled. The Netanyahu-Backed Plan to 'End' U.S. Military Aid to Israel Is a ScamIsrael, and its allies in Congress, want to replace military assistance with something much worse. Here's what you need to know.

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The cruelty of our ultra-conservative Supreme Court knows no bounds. SCOTUS has chosen to serve Trump’s mass deportation regime, jeopardizing the legal status of thousands of families who escaped violence, war, and natural disasters. Democrats need to fight to protect TPS.

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The facts of this case are bad. County wrongly claimed family owed $2,000 in taxes, foreclosed on the home, and sold a house it assessed at $190K for just $76K and tried (unsuccessfully) to keep all $76K. Screwed a family out of tens of thousands to collect $2,000 that they didn't actually owe.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social

The Supreme Court's fourth opinion is Pung v. Isabella County. Per Alito, the court holds that when the state forecloses upon a house due to outstanding property taxes, it owes the former owner only "the price obtained in a tax sale" under the takings clause. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

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Obama: Shared values that make democracy possible. A belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution. A belief in the peaceful transfer of power after the people have spoken in fair and free elections.

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Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power. New piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social and me. Threading highlights below. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2119...

newrepublic.comElon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global ResponseThe violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.

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When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.