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IoT, ICS, Cyber Security. Love fixing almost anything. Old toys, cars. Learning to weld. Love taking pictures. Dream job would be part of a team restoring a 1900's steam locomotive. Abandoned Muskville. Here and on Mastodon [email protected]
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THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

President Donald Trump will have dinner with the top 220 holders of the Trump memecoin, the issuers of the cryptocurrency announced on Wednesday

wasn’t DEI another one of those issues democrats needed to abandon for the sake of public opinion?

WTF!

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

This is amazing

Greatest country on Earth. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Dolly Parton wrote ‘Jolene’ and ‘I Will Always Love You’ on the same day so don’t tell me democrats can’t figure out how to talk about more than one thing at a time

Jeff Epstein meets David Koresh

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Just for fun…

Major alert: Montana may be about to pass a major anti-trans bill that charges parents with felony endangerment of a child if their child is on trans youth care. It would apply to parents just passing through the state, visiting. Would be the first law of its kind to pass anywhere. Vote is TODAY.

Hard not to be a "PANICAN" when led by someone suffering from severe mental illness

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

If you haven't read this FANTASIC book, do it. Even if you didn't have the recommendation, know that Facebook took legal action to try to prevent you from reading it. That alone should be worth the read.

Come hang out with our @journalismfestival.com panel on Saturday to chat about protests, eyewitness news, and shitposting on Bluesky!

Spot on! Skilled jobs, not low paying unskilled ones.

Yup. Scared. We'll have to wait for Rachel and Lawrence on Monday.

📍Burlington, VT 📸 Canon 70D | 55mm - 250mm #blueskyartshow #portrait #sunset #newengland #human

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

And here we go…👇 We. Are. So. Fucked. ✨

32 Black Bellied Whistling Ducks and 1 Great Blue Heron. After a storm. On a lake in E TX. The Heron looks like it is giving orders to the ducks. #heron #birds #photography #calm

I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?

Republicans tank the economy; reward themselves with massive wealth transfer from the poor

NEW: Judge Boasberg is strongly considering holding Trump administration officials in contempt for what he said was a "bad faith" effort to avoid legal scrutiny of Trump's Alien Enemies Act deportations. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

In 2024, four women held four-star ranks in the military — the highest levels of the armed forces. Only 10 women have held the highest rank in their military branches in history. Now, there are none. Of the four women, two of them retired and two were ousted. bit.ly/4i1EWUO

Notable pushback to CISA cuts from House Homeland cyber subcommittee's Republican chairman: "I'm not thrilled with some of the stuff that happened."

Guess who showed up to defend Tesla? The Proud Boys, armed militias, and at one event in Idaho, and a guy dressed as Hitler. More on the "Tesla Takedown" protests here:

Booker’s decision to break from standard procedure was motivated by the unusual threat to the country President Trump represents. His office provided TPM with an embargoed copy of his opening remarks. More here:

“The Bureau employs some 2,000 people in the city of 29,000.” The Red Rural Recession. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-junkie-...

A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks, wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Not satisfied with purchasing a Presidential Election to become co-President, Sissy SpaceX now wants to buy himself a Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin. You can end his shopping spree, Wisconsinites! 🚫 💰 #VoteForJudgeSusanCrawford 🗳️ ✅ 👍 This is super important.

Pretty cool pic from a $24 surveillance camera. Sunrise starting over an Easter TX lake. #photography #sunrise #lake #calm

Oligarchs buying elections with million dollar giveaways. Hopefully people in Wisconsin won’t allow the South African to purchase a seat on your Supreme Court just like he bought the US federal government.

The idea that race is a social & historical construct has a long history. It was a central plank of the post WWII US consensus for obvious reasons given what pseudo-scientific racism had wrought. One of the central planks of the US right in the post WWII era was that race is a biologically reality.

Trump’s WH Faith Advisor is selling blessings for $1000-

"Waltz created the group chat for a very routine...reason: Asking principals who their main staffer would be to coordinate a meeting. Had it ended there...[it was just] a minor snafu....[I]t was Hegseth’s decision to use that...chat to [share] highly sensitive...info that turned this into...scandal"

Elon Musk and members of DOGE will appear on Fox News’ Special Report tonight for an interview with Bret Baier. "The 6 pm EST broadcast will be the first time DOGE staff have been interviewed since launching their slash-and-burn campaign against the federal government."

Tell 'em AOC!

NEW: How Elon Musk’s SpaceX secretly allows investment from China. They are funneled through offshore secrecy havens, according to court documents. @justinelliott.bsky.social & @josh-kaplan.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Sunrise Thames Estuary 2010 #photography #nikon #photographer #blueskyphotography #photo #landscapes #travelphotography

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

@mcuban.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social As this madness continues, I keep trying to believe in a better future. Thanks for your efforts. Two things that I see working... isolate! musk from the donald. Donalds supporters are much more inclined to see the evil in musk vs donald. And second

Yea!

For 40% of seniors, Social Security checks are their sole source of income—including 365,000+ in New Mexico. Trump’s billionaire class doesn’t care. Not being able to pay your bills doesn’t make you a fraudster.