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Frank Vehafric
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That is strange indeed.
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Frank Vehafric@fvehafric.bsky.social |
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Semi retired union rep, Oregon is home. I travel when I can afford it, interests in human origins, photography, fly fishing and restoring our US public lands..
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Frank Vehafric
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That is strange indeed.
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Frank Vehafric
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Plus Portland is farther north then they are...
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Frank Vehafric
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Thank you.
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Frank Vehafric
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Today's homemade: mozzarella, fontina, romano cheese, some chunks of genoa salami, dotted with nduja sausage, onion, jalapeno, sweet yellow peppers. The nduja- spicier than pepperoni with Calabrian peppers, slightly sweet, and slightly smoked, it renders into a little puddle of flavored cured pork.
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Tom Wrongbottom š¦
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Look. I could get a gun and shoot myself in the dick, maybe bleed out and die if I'm lucky, or I could stop gooning over my insecurities. We'll lose this democracy, this republic, because we have fee fees and tingles and anxiety.
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Zack Burley
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I like unions, we should have more of them.
coloradosun.com/2024/06/25/d...
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Gregg McLennan
@strayarc.bsky.social
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That's why I shop at the unionized grocery store. If you can afford ethical, it behooves you to do so. Your alright!
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earlyworm
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THEREāS A QUIET NEW DEAL GOING ON The antidote to Project 2025 is happening now and will die if Trump seizes power. So letās make some noise.
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Frank Vehafric
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I'm astonished at your mind reading ability. You ought to market that.
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Frank Vehafric
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Try being less dramatic, people might take you more seriously.
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Frank Vehafric
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Sometimes the best choice we can make, will still leave us feeling sad and a bit helpless, caught in the meatgrinder of the world. That's the way choices work. The idea that we can escape the moral consequences of a choice by refusing to choose is a delusion.
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Max Kennerly
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The mayor of Portage, Indiana, steered over $1 million in city contracts to a truck dealership, which then wrote him a $13,000 check. The conservatives on SCOTUSāwith extensive experience in being lavished with gifts after favorable rulingsāsay this is very legal and very cool.
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suzette sommer
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Glenn Levy
@levyglenn.bsky.social
Donald Trump stole nuclear secrets and other classified docs, and refused to return them. His appointed "judge" is stonewalling to help her benefactor. In a normal world, that would be front page news every day of the week.
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Frank Vehafric
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Apparently I am not going to get an answer as to how freaking out is going to help remedy the situation. I understand the stakes. I just want to know why freaking out is the recommended course of action? Aren't there more useful things we could be doing about it?
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Frank Vehafric
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It's a serious question. You advise freaking out, why? I understand the consequences of the decision, but it's the advice to freak out that puzzles me. Will freaking out delay or ameliorate the decision? Will freaking out cause the justices to reconsider? Why are we investing energy in a freak out?
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Frank Vehafric
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Freaking out will help, how?
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@19thwlifeisgood.bsky.social
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Start the day with good news
The Interior Dept.Ā designates a 4-million-acre conservation area in Florida that will support both wildlife and recreation.
www.doi.gov/pressrelease...
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Adam Serwer
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Starbucks union is close to a contract. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/b...
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Bloomberg
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President Joe Biden is giving mass clemency to US service members convicted of charges under a Cold War-era purge of gay and lesbian people
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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It was the nearest weapon at hand to club Hillary Clinton with and the press was happy to club her with it along with him
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Ashley Fairbanks
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Iām never going to say that voting is the path to our liberation. But if we donāt want to sacrifice a tremendous amount of Black, brown, Indigenous, queer, trans, and poor people, we HAVE to have both inside AND outside strategies. The system is fucked up. But we cannot concede it.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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It looks like someoneās taking one of those hairless cats to the vet to be euthanized
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Frank Vehafric
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Well, that's blockworthy.
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Frank Vehafric
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The electoral reality left of center Dems face.
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Max Kennerly
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See, you think money is a thing people acquire because it has uses, such as paying for stuff. Imagine you're a hollow, misanthropic bag of shit with lots of money. You have no purpose or personality, so you make the wealth your personality. You thus have to keep acquiring more to exist.
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Frank Vehafric
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Frank Vehafric
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It's a freaking talisman now.
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Frank Vehafric
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Still have it, of course. As long at it survives I will live!
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Frank Vehafric
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The truck died and was scrapped in Idaho in 1996.
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Frank Vehafric
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Since 1978, when I left PA and moved to Oregon, I've moved 6 times. The last time was 24 years ago. Only a couple of months ago I opened a box of miscellaneous crap in my workshop and found an unopened can of brake fluid for a 1976 Dodge pickup that I bought new 48 years ago.
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Espy
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This is exactly why she is so good at what she does. She doesn't ever compromise her goals or ideals. But she understands that compromising on process to make gains towards those goals is the key to reaching them and she proudly takes credit from the gains that are made. She's damn good.
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Frank Vehafric
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It's a form of ritual magic.
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Nobody Ever
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Somehow, the ads Secretary Clinton used made a subsection of people more likely to vote for trump. They attempted to highlight his words as bad. But they came from an establishment mentality. So they ended up spreading his message to more people.
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Jorge Rivera MarĆn
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No, you're supposed to pretend Biden and Trump are the same, and that Trump will potentially be an improvement over Biden on Gaza
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Andrew D Thaler
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Biden's second term would almost certainly make his the most consequential presidency for climate change in American history. Trump's second term would also almost certainly make his the most consequential presidency for climate change in American history. For very, very different reasons.
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Quasar Funk
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It's almost as if voting were a lifelong responsibility.
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Spaghetti
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Probably not, if you want to reclaim the Court youāre going to need to vote in 2028 too.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. š¦
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Some people who are very stupid are saying stupid shit in the replies here. I am blocking them. Some of you are trying to argue with these people as if they are expressing a reasonable and defensible point of view. This is clogging my mentions and wasting your time.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. š¦
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A lot of things that Biden wants to do are things I think are good things we should do. A lot of things Trump wants to do are things I think are bad things we shouldn't do. Therefore I will be supporting Biden even though I don't agree with him on everything. This is not complicated.
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L O L G O P
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If this piece is right, the Putinites see Trump as their revenge for the demise of the USSR, and, honestly, that's some pretty good revenge.
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Timothy Burke
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one of the "progressives" quoted here leads an explicitly anti-Semitic organization that forbids members from speaking to "the Zionist media" and praised Hamas on its website if you want to know how deep Bloomberg had to dig to find a source to meet the headline someone's editor demanded
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Zane Alexander
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Oh no! She is gaining allies in the party and climbing the ranks of seniority to a place where she can be more effective.
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Matthew Borus
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To underscore this very important point... The chief source of contemporary "lizard people" claims is David Icke, who actually used the antisemitic forgery _The Protocols of the Elders of Zion_ as a source in laying out his ideas. That's how fundamentally antisemitic the lizard people thing is.
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å·„an Monroe š°
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like she literally hasn't changed her positions at all. One of my favorite subplots these last four years is how Biden's biggest policy champions are the progressives and it's the centrist dipshits dragging their feet.
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å·„an Monroe š°
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they also don't vote and if they did vote it'd be a coinflip if they'd vote for GOP or Democrats
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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just keep that in the back of your mind next time you encounter someone like this in the wild, they donāt matter, they donāt exist electorally, donāt fool yourself into thinking theyāre worth arguing with
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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this is sort of important to note, i think, the kind of person who thinks AOC is too centrist is a genuine fucking weirdo, and while you might encounter dozens or hundreds or even thousands of them online, itās a country of 330M people, they basically donāt exist
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Put Not In Thine Broadsheets That I Became Angered
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"fake progressive because she wants to make actual progress" is A Take
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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like, i am not going to even bash āleftistsā here, any person who thinks AOC sold them out has politics and ideologies that are too fucking weird and nonsensical to even fairly categorize
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Frank Vehafric
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From the beginning you could see that AOC, while progressive, was smart enough to understand how progress is made. I was pretty confident she'd be a good representative and she has been.
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