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Recovering litigator, baby bureaucrat.

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"What I find a little bit funny is the tough-on-crime death-penalty murder-fishermen party also has a problem with abortions"

06.03.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

John Yoo crying into his soup rn

06.03.2026 13:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 9715 πŸ” 5126 πŸ’¬ 608 πŸ“Œ 615

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

06.03.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 1668 πŸ” 437 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 11

Not a lawyer, but it seems like Hegseth's explicit order to relax rules of engagement, thereby deliberately endangering civilians, would make this a war crime for which he is responsible. He should he prosecuted as a monstrous war criminal at the earliest opportunity. His order killed 165 children.

06.03.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 340 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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ICE detains reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 12049 πŸ” 7305 πŸ’¬ 287 πŸ“Œ 333

The reason we have β€œstupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

05.03.2026 23:15 πŸ‘ 22253 πŸ” 5458 πŸ’¬ 594 πŸ“Œ 170

But that young colonel was ITERATING. Nobody else in the world has guys who can iterate

06.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People say BlueSky is an echo chamber but we have road cyclists, gravel cyclists, mountain bikers, single speeders, fixie riders, cargo bike riders, e-bike riders, hybrid riders, recumbent riders, bikepackers, randonneurs, and I'm sure we even have a few unicyclists among us

05.03.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 818 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 32

I saw on r/nursing this week that a nurse reported a colleague for wearing meta glasses to work. That has a billion HIPAA and other legal violations written ALL over it and that person should be fired

05.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 712 πŸ” 187 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 6

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

05.03.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 1873 πŸ” 466 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 21

Inject this entire piece into my veins πŸ‘‡πŸŽ―πŸ’―

05.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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NIH Says It Will No Longer Recognize the Research Fellows’ Union NIH leadership said the union β€œshould never have been certified,” in an email to the union’s leadership.

NIH leadership wants to strip worker's rights from the majority of scientists on its campuses.

But, the NIH does not get to say whether we are a union or not. We do, and we are no strangers to having to fight for our union. Time for a short history lesson. 1/n

Disclaimer: all views are my own.

05.03.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 299 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 7

short for ":-3 meat," comes from ASCII animals

05.03.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am banned from the library of the Supreme Court of the United States.

05.03.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 598 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 5

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.

05.03.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 11911 πŸ” 3827 πŸ’¬ 484 πŸ“Œ 179

The point of packing the Supreme Court, for example, is not to destroy it, it’s to make it capable of doing its job and retaining β€œlegitimacy” in the long term. The right-wing alternative is to just override the court!

05.03.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I hadn’t realized the fuller context here (ship was unarmed and returning from a multilateral training exercise, sub made no attempt to rescue survivors) but even the underlying act was bad.

Strong Accountability Option is becoming increasingly unavoidable if we want to remain a country.

05.03.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Mar 5th 2026 (Tricky)
Four by five grid of green squares 
Solved in 03:23
You're among 25% fastest!
Only 45% others had a perfect solve.

Mar 5th 2026 (Tricky) Four by five grid of green squares Solved in 03:23 You're among 25% fastest! Only 45% others had a perfect solve.

getting better at this

05.03.2026 12:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Neighborhood-Scale Building Decarbonization A Toolkit for Advocates and Implementers

Despite everything, we are planning for and building a better world.

There's a new toolkit out to help people move forward shutting down the (explosive) gas system in their neighborhoods from @sonalj.bsky.social, a fellow @cplusc.bsky.social Fellow.

climateandcommunity.org/research/nei...

20.01.2026 22:53 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

boy that's a war crime

04.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 689 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 2

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

04.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 4123 πŸ” 1016 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 45

One reason, perhaps, is that the 11th Cir said if fed $ were committed, it would trigger NEPA review.

04.03.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sorry but if you can give everyone a $3,000 check by soaking 900 people, then those 900 people have too much fucking money.

04.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Press Release: New Study Finds On-Site Power at Virginia Data Center Could Result in $53 Million–$99 Million in Annual Health Damages - The Piedmont Environmental Council A new independent analysis finds that emissions from the Vantage Data Center’s permitted on-site power system in Loudoun County could result in $53 million–$99 million per year in health-related damag...

As the tech industry increasingly turns to onsite fossil fuel power for data centers, what does this mean for nearby communities? A new study evaluates the impacts of fine particulate matter from a VA facility's onsite power system & finds $53M–$99M/yr in health damages.

04.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

04.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 1385 πŸ” 597 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 112
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Neguse: β€œWhere's Safe America Media headquartered?”

Noem: β€œI don’t know.”

Neguse: β€œI don’t know either. We can't find it…You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that a $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquart

04.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 3386 πŸ” 1106 πŸ’¬ 110 πŸ“Œ 65

confused about current location of boots tbh

04.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Some friends of ours have a very femme son. They told him if he didn't feel like he was a boy, that would be ok. He said, no, I'm a boy and that was the end of it.

Other friends have a trans daughter. Same story.

If you make it clear you accept every bit if them, it's not fucking complicated.

04.03.2026 13:34 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0