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Cat person. Loves being outside, music and weather. Art and design. Beer nerd. Computer guy. Supports democracy. Chicago, Illinois.

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Today is my last day on social media. I need to step away for mental health.

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Tom Nichols's avatar Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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The Court has saved Trump, kneecapped Smith, and set up the conditions for an elective monarchy.

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It's not. That's the lie we tell ourselves. Our federal government is not a direct democracy. We like to pretend it is, but it's not.

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Ashley C. Ford's avatar Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social
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I was just in St. James Parish, LA interviewing local residents about the overwhelming pollution in Cancer Alley. I don’t think most people understand how bad it is. I didn’t.

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Nikhil Shah's avatar Nikhil Shah @grandmastershah.bsky.social
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What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more / By overturning Chevron, the Supreme Court has declared war on an administrative state that touches everything from net neutrality to climate change.

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Quite sad that I didn't move to Toronto when I was seriously thinking about it back in 2002. ☹️

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kilgore trout's avatar kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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they’re just ripping off rejected 80’s dystopian sci fi scripts now

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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Don’t believe “alarmist” lefties like me? Fair enough! But you should believe these rightwing leaders when they tell us that they aggressively reject the idea of a pluralistic democratic society and will use government as an authoritarian tool against it.

thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-proje...

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So corruption is basically legal now?

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Joshua Bowman's avatar Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social
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I’m so old that as a kid I *was* the TV remote.

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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What “Project 2025” offers is a story of decline and a promise to restore former national glory by purging enemies and deviants from the nation. Visceral disdain for any kind of pluralism and diversity channeled into a program aiming to extinguish it. That’s “Project 2025.”

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Just my luck that I move to Chicago and they have another Great Fire.

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Cats of Yore's avatar Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social
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“Go outside” they said. “You’ll enjoy the fresh air” they said. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

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Wonderful beer brewed right in my neighborhood. Dry, tart and bitter with some fruitiness up front.

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Filipe Campante's avatar Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social
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This cannot be emphasized enough: in healthy democracies, this is absolutely normal. It is in “banana republics” that criminals go into politics to stay out of jail.

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I need this painted in the style of Normal Rockwell.

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Osita Nwanevu's avatar Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald 's avatar Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
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It is both sad and spectacularly hilarious given how long WaPo has been huffing its own Watergate farts and using it to recruit and underpay people ... just to turn into the hacks sitting Judicial Watergate because a spot of flag incivility from Commander Alito and his Martha didn't seem newsworthy

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It's a is it gas pain from the lentil soup I ate yesterday or pancreatitis from the decadent omelette I made myself this morning kind of Sunday.

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As it is often said: the cruelty is the point.

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Grateful that I got to see the outstanding Maya Hawke in "Wildcat" earlier this afternoon with dad and director Ethan Hawke in attendance for a Q&A. Great movie. Seek it out.

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evacide's avatar evacide @evacide.bsky.social
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If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

www.reuters.com/technology/t...

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Why is this not surprising? 🙄

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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In recent U.S. history, student protest movements have consistently functioned as a necessary corrective: A thorn in the side of elites who were too blind, too complacent, or too complicit to see that America was failing to live up to its own promises and aspirations, at home and abroad. New piece:

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Dr. SkySkull's avatar Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social
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I would like to note again that Elon’s obsession with brain manipulation, robotaxis and Mars colonies means all his ideas are ripped off from Total Recall

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This is going to catch a lot of people off guard.

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After years (decades?) of use, I've uninstalled the Google Chrome browser. I was such a Google fan boi in the early 2000s. It's been replaced by Firefox (which I've always used occasionally) and the Edge browser built in to Windows 11.

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Ian Coldwater 📦💥's avatar Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @lookitup.baby
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Now is also a good time to order backup replacements for your HEPA air filters, because when the air quality gets bad enough you’ll need to replace them more often, you’ll need to do it RIGHT NOW, and everyone in town will be looking for them so they’ll be harder to find

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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I wrote about why the phalanx of elite opinionists who have told us for about a decade now that the “free speech crisis” on college campuses is a clear and present danger to freedom and democracy has had nary a critical word to offer about this violent suppression of speech.

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Erin Biba's avatar Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
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ATTN NEW YORKERS The NY Public Library has a plea out for signatures to push the city not to cut their budget and force them to reduce collections, end services, reduce maintenance, and close 2 days a week. It takes mere seconds to sign. They need 50,000. Pleas sign and SHARE WIDELY

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Jeremy Chao's avatar Jeremy Chao @jmchao.bsky.social
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Kent State is nervously wondering what school will finally take the terrible crown from them.

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My college experience seems absolutely idyllic compared to what kids are going through right now.

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