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2 upsides re: Trump/MAGA: (1) The attempt to institute a fascist, criminal, slaver society upon the U.S. is the most unequivocal test of Americans' commitment to pluralism, democracy, liberty, rule of law, & equity. If the U.S. cannot surpass & destroy this evil, we do not deserve to be free of it.

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Archaeologist/Anthro person here and 100% agree. We are Paleolithic brained and can only cope with limited shaming in norm setting. We need group acceptance far more, and positive feedback. Too much is bad. We always had to make space for others. Group survival was always paramount.

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Lilian Mowrer nailed it in 1937

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Ummm…hey Evergy…Kansas Corporation Commission…heads-up!

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Most Americans aren’t familiar with the state entities in charge of regulating energy utilities and setting prices: public utility commissions. But as Trump’s policies threaten to raise utility bills, a new poll finds broad concern over costs:

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Opponents speak out against Evergy adding two natural gas plants in Kansas kansasreflector.com/2025/04/22/o...

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I don’t know…”Earth Day” seems to be the global equivalent of debt-ridden white folks driving around with a “Native American” dreamcatcher hanging from the rear view mirror of their new oversized “off-road” truck listening to rap music, looking for people who “don’t belong” in this neighborhood.

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Own the libs. Pocket the money. Kill a planet. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/21/1...

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Thomas and Alito falling over themselves to burn American constitutional democracy and rule of law to the ground.

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ONE IF BY LAND TWO IF BY D.C. the north end church in boston it’s 250 years today @northendpage.bsky.social

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“In order to make earthly planetary survival possible, some versions of this world need to end.” Must read by @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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BECAUSE Ukraine is winning.

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Not just the best Star Wars show but one of the best shows, period. And yeah, relevant as hell right now.

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The short version: US food supply is no longer safe. It is going to continue to get less safe as corporations realize there's zero repercussions to killing a lot of people, while they can save a lot by basically ceasing to spend money on safety, QA, and inspections.

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energyandpolicy.org/hbo-the-dark...

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We’re Opening the AI “Bottle.” So, What Should Regulators Wish For? www.raponline.org/blog/were-op... Facebook won't share this article - it claims that according to its Community Guidelines this post looks like spam and is blocked.

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Precisely as it is intended to do. The Nazi death camps of 1930s-40s Europe were not all located in Germany. Nazi collaborator “governments” existed then and exist now. Deportation by secret jet flights = cattle car trains moving murder victims en masse. MAGA is an updated Nazi drag show.

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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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“there is no way to build the artificial mirror world that AI promises to construct without sacrificing this world – these technologies consume too much energy, too many critical minerals, and too much water for the two to coexist in any kind of equilibrium.”

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Jackie Robinson signed his contract to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers 78 years ago today. We learned from the Jackie Robinson Foundation that he played an exhibition game at Ebbets Field that afternoon against the Yankees. Jackie played 1st base. #biggerthanbaseball #americanhistory

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AI may well provide ways to cut climate pollution in certain sectors. But no one can state confidently today that it'll decrease emissions more than the data center boom is driving them up. So lofty promises shouldn't earn the industry a pass on that (too often dirty) energy consumption.

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The individuals building LLM AI that claim their AI will be a lifeguard for humanity allowing humanity to exist blissfully as a perennial pool party are themselves individuals who as lifeguards would be smoking dope and banging Phoebe in the boat house leaving an empty chair and turds in the pool.

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Asking “Why would Trump/ Musk/MAGA do _________ ?” is absolutely the same as asking “Why have some of the cells of this body become cancerous and why are they spreading and why are they killing the body?” There are facts that matter but they obscure the absence of original mechanism or meaning.

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Trump Admin Debuts Legal Blueprint for Disappearing Anyone It Wants flip.it/ylAClf either SCOTUS will affirm the 4th circuit—or affirm their powerlessness & the irrelevance of the rule of law & the constitution. SCOTUS doesn’t want to be sent to CECOT—so I’m still betting on ACB penning the later.

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"We know the Earth is warming due to human activity as well as we know that gravity exists," says historian Naomi Oreskes. The debate isn’t scientific – it’s political. Full interview here:

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With due respect to any actual skill or knowledge involved, but hybridizing "new species" into a devastated and deteriorating global ecosystem where we are annihilating thousands of species annually while labeling the creation an extinct species is frankly peak douche bro and just how we got here.

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www.themarginalian.org/2018/01/09/r...

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It only makes sense if you realize that none of this is meant to help our country. It is done in service to Putin and the oligarchs.

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It’s an engineered collapse of the economy so right-wing venture capitalists and techno fascists can swoop in and pick Americas bones and remake it in their image.

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Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

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Yes. Round 2. Of a long fight. That is going to be really painful. And that we cannot afford to lose or draw. Democracy. Must. Win. By any means necessary. Oligarchy. Must. Lose. By knockout and hospitalization.

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#ClimateReality Vs #ClimateCriminals

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"This is why power brokers want to replace artists with artificial intelligence. There must be no lingering memory of what was because that might remind us of what we thought we would be." -- THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

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1/ It seems, almost to a person, top to bottom, that the MAGA movement is driven by individuals attempting to expand their unearned privilege. As such, they do not meaningfully, accountably even understand what their privilege actually is, how it was created, by whom, or how to maintain it -

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Of course, it’s hardly news that anti-voting politicians are driven more by raw partisanship than by high-minded principles. But it’s worth highlighting every time they demonstrate it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/gop...

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You can’t be a libertarian (support a governmental values system based on the primacy of everyone’s individual liberty) and support MAGA. The only liberty valued by MAGA is that of the elites in power and their accomplices. That’s not a libertarian value system: it’s a libertarian DE-valuing system.

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