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Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

Ah yes, the lower up front investment cost and lower long term maintenance costs and zero fuel costs are famously bad.

Trump days Canada shouldn't have a healthcare system. What are the odds his healthcare plan he's been promising for 9.5 years is coming in the next 2.5?

VP Vance asks the guy running for Senate for help solving problems the president created 🤡

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

"Getting French-Canadians to the point of embracing the mindset of 'we must all hang together or we shall all hang separately' is an amazing feat. Only Trump could have made the US seem so awful that the Quebecois would embrace Canada First."

Also why Americans don't have national healthcare: employers would have to treat workers better if they weren't reliant upon their job to not die of treatable illnesses.

Enshittification in action: MSFT will now cap hours paid subscribers can use their subscriptions--but there's a payment option to purchase minutes beyond the cap. Microsoft announces cap on Xbox Cloud Gaming hours for Game Pass subscribers | PC Gamer share.google/4QCvpn4XCt2h...

The predictable Discourse is starting and I'm going to take a strong stand here: you can both want to abolish ICE and laugh really, really hard at Milo Yiannopoulos getting arrested by ICE after a decade of stoking the ethnonationalist hatred that led us to this point

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

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My kids, born in Tennessee, received books from Dolly Parton's Imagination Library til they were 5. As they grew, we donated them to keep the gift going. After moving to Washington, the program expanded here & we occasionally see the familiar sticker in a Little Free Library Thank you, Dolly.

Agreed! Let's start at the top.

I'm ok with data centers IF a) they use a renewable energy source such as solar or wind b) they dont use water resources for cooling c) do not release megawatts of heat into the environment d) they dont emit any subsonic or ultrasonic sounds Oh, and they need to be built in the neo-gothic style

I mean, stating historical facts isn't exactly arguing, but otherwise, yeah

Finding books was the reward for successfully completing a treasure hunt, and it hooked me on reading *hard* the year I was 8 and lived walking distance to my small town library.

To be fair, Trump has finally drained the DC swamp several times. He never said he wouldn't first create the swamp in the reflecting pool. That's on us for assuming he meant it metaphorically.

I've been reading On Writing Well (1976) by W. Zinsser. It's a lovely book, and I started noticing around 60 pages in that he uses the em-dash on most pages, and often several times per page. Let's all calm down about AI's favorite punctuation mark, because it's also mine & has a solid pedigree.

America had the best Covid, more Covid than anywhere in the world. Europe couldn't believe our Covid.

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

Which is why, 9 months later, he started a war to wipe out their nuclear potential that he already wiped out.

I don't think he has the stamina to blow anyone that hard anymore. His days with Bubba are long past.

Is he claiming Iran would have invaded, conquered, and begun ruling the United States within the next decade? So much for respecting our military.

Start a war. Lose the war. Pay $300 billion to your opponents to end the war. Call yourself the greatest dealmaker of all time.

He's admitting he's stealing oil, lol and stockpiling it so I can be released right before the midterms to temporarily lower prices and sway election results. I know this is a tired phrase at this point, but imagine if Obama...

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

I'm no expert, I'm just legally sworn to uphold something I don't understand.

Temu Russell Crowe wants to give Trump unlimited military powers

Weeks before the world cup is scheduled to begin, Mullin suggests dramatically increasing wait times to get through passport control.

People are already starving. Might as well give this a try.

The same for the Em dash and introductory adverbs. Honestly, we use them all the time--in both written text and verbal communication.

Trump is about to do something really dumb and internationally newsworthy. (He is in China, after all.) Happens every time Aaron takes a break.

If that's true, it's because you've emotionally abused your child by repeatedly scaring them with lies.

The electric car guy being beaten by China, the microchip guy who lost big in China, the nepo-sycophant son hoping to pick up any and all scraps. I just wish they weren't so blatantly self-serving. There's just no sense of decorum, no wit, no effort. All is smash and grab in full view.

Just a coincidence that I'm reading Hannah Arendt and Vaclav Havel writing about two different totalitarian states of the 20th century and finding so many parallels to the fumbling aspirations of the Trump regime, right?

Tell your hungry children the Dow was over 50k

Once again, I didn't have to watch to know he was addressing a woman.

Farm bankruptcies are at record highs, many farmers can't afford fertilizer costs and are leaving fields fallow. Meanwhile, the Trump admin:

Energy Secretary Chris Wright over a Fox News graphic showing the national average gas price at $4.55: "This is an administration all about lowering energy prices, and an incredibly successful record in doing that"

Jerky is a low fat, high protein, accessible food that doesn't require cooking. If you don't have cookware, a stovetop, $ for ingredients for a meal--if you don't have a house--it is valuable nutrition. Of course they're against it.

All citizens exercising voting rights. Making voting easy and accessible. This is the future leftists want.

Or... you know ... we could get more people to come here. Seems a lot better to me than 60hr work weeks