Doug

Doug

@wicksdoug.bsky.social

Today is a new day. I been everywhere, man. Beach walks rule. Love me a good biography of punk rockers. Pls, no porn, crypto or get rich marketing schemes.

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Have you ever looked at a tormented city and wondered how much devastation it takes to kill it? How much more can it endure? Where is the line after which survivors, if any remain, can no longer rebuild? ​We watch russia raze our cities one by one.

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THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Republican lawmakers are incensed about Trump's dismissal of Ukraine — and powerless to stop him. That frustration hit a new peak on Monday as they sought to address Trump’s decision to purchase Russian diesel, waive sanctions on Moscow, and potentially stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine.

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❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

I'm driving 9 hours for the timbers v Colorado match. At this point, friends and beer may be the highlights of the trip to pp.

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1/ US regulators were ordered by a Trump Administration political appointee to stop investigating suspected insider trading relating to Donald Trump's March 23 announcement that he wouldn't bomb Iranian power plants. The move is said to be "unheard of". ⬇️

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This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.

#TeslaTakedown@teslatakedown.com

In the last 24 hours, Elon added $5,423,645.66. New totals include: $13,131,789.48 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social $6,308,848.86 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social $5,117,111.82 vs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social $1,991,872.98 vs @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social $1,176,301.42 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social

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I have always liked the word bellwether. It derives from the practice of shepherds hanging a bell around the neck of a wether (a castrated male sheep) to lead and track the flock. The word evolved to be anything that guides or predicts the way forward. When I taught virology, I would

Wtg, maga.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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ANOTHER DHS VOTER FRAUD CLAIM COLLAPSES Trump’s DHS claimed as many as 15,903 noncitizens were on Nevada’s voter rolls. Nevada pushed back and demanded evidence. 15,903 became 185. Nevada checked the 185. The new number: ZERO. Every single one was a US citizen.

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Then this week, ProPublica dropped another shocking story, this time concerning an extensive FBI investigation involving Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), the perennially “concerned,” phony moderate (who confirmed two justices to the Supreme Court that destroyed abortion rights).

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more like this please. thanks. every member of congress has a nationwide tv network sitting in their phone. use it.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?

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I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

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Super excited for San Jose away days. It will be fun to watch the timbers beat the quakes and Bruce Arena in San Jose. Props to ta for making away days simple. #RCTID

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🇺🇦 Zelensky: Our Crimea is at the center of Putin’s war and all the crises caused in Black Sea. If Russia had not stolen Crimea, if Putin had not turned Crimea into a source of war and a huge military base, grain and fertilizers, diesel and oil would now be freely transported across the Black Sea.

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A prominent election denier with ties to Ginni Thomas was implicated in a far-reaching corruption plot involving Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). ProPublica reported that Martin Kao, former CEO of the Hawaii-based defense firm Navatek, told FBI agents and

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Trump's move to ban outlets he doesn't like from reporting inside the White House comes amid a wave of bad news less than 2 months before the midterms: *Record diesel prices, $4+ gas, ~7% mortgages, higher interest rates, high fertilizer prices, ~$7 beef. *Terrible polling for Rs, Trump *Etc Etc Etc

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on this day in 1961 "United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo." “You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know:...

Maha is not making us healthy ... it's killing is.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

RFK Jr. likes to claim that measles isn’t a dangerous disease. One of the deaths reported today in PA was an 18-year-old who developed a very serious neurological condition called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). Symptoms include headache, confusion, weakness and numbness.

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We owe Ukraine and Ukrainians a debt of honor. And if I have anything to say about it, Finland will continue to be known as the country that pays its debts.

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com

❗️Finland approved its 34th defense materiel package for Ukraine, worth €290 million, President Alexander Stubb announced. The package includes equipment urgently requested by Ukraine as it prepares for winter. Stubb said supporting Ukraine is also about the security of Europe and Finland. #Ukraine

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FT's AfD chart: vote share highest where foreign-national population is lowest. Matches Brexit district data (Goodwin & Milazzo, 2017), rural Trump counties, RN's French countryside, PiS Poland. Contact hypothesis holds up again — proximity to immigrants predicts less hostility, not more.

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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez: Jimmy Kimmel’s decision to keep his interview w/ a Senate candidate off the air shows just how far this Admin's campaign of censorship & control has gone. This is now the 2nd time..a late-night host has disclosed they had to bury an interview because of FCC intimidation

Sage advice for our time.

Saganism@sagan.bsky.social

"Power without wisdom is dangerous, and what our age needs is wisdom even more than knowledge. Given wisdom, the power conferred by science can give a new degree of well-being to all mankind; without wisdom, it can bring only destruction." — Bertrand Russell