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johnbonitz.bsky.social
I'm into my two awesome kids, public service, clean transportation, climate & energy, regenerative agriculture, anti-racism, YIMBY & New Urbanism, good food, art, and other lovely things like this. Allergic to bots and scammers. Unlikely 2 respond to DMs.
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Thank you for the succinct reminder, @johnthebad.bsky.social ! Indeed, it's so true that we are much more likely to succeed in building strong local community connections than to become billionaires.

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"I am lodging a complaint about data theft involving unauthorized access to federal Treasury records of U.S. taxpayers. The suspect is a White transient male of uncertain immigration status, and a drug abuser. He has violated several federal laws. His name is Elon Musk."

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Ding ding ding ding ding!

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Trump promised to end the weaponization of the DOJ. Now he’s using it to hunt down his own former officials—by name. This isn’t justice. It’s revenge politics. Even the Wall Street Journal editorial board just called it what it is: “Broken promise. Abuse of power.”

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

If we accept that non-citizens have no right to due-process, we are inherently accepting that CITIZENS have no right to due-process. Because all the bad guys need do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove your ARE a citizen.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

If we accept that non-citizens have no right to due-process, we are inherently accepting that CITIZENS have no right to due-process. Because all the bad guys need do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove your ARE a citizen.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It's paid off massively for Musk: He's fired staff from a half dozen agencies that were regulating, investigating, or otherwise "interfering" with his companies (SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink especially).

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I'm glad that Very Serious People like @peterzeihan.bsky.social are finally melting down about how bad Signalgate was for our national security. youtu.be/c7bmBoOWEGY?... (Hat tip to @DRvolts Dave Roberts for coining VSP.)

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

unhinged, wild theory: what if emotional intelligence is what we really needed, instead of artificial intelligence?

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Telling poor people to be more entrepreneurial is sick

submitted 15 days ago • 46 comments

“This does not just affect North Carolina,” Riggs said. “This is like dropping a match in a really dry forest. And if we let this kind of anti-democratic effort take hold, we will not be able to contain it. So this is a fight for the very soul of democracy. Today’s decision was deeply misinformed.”

submitted 10 days ago • 372 comments

I hope these 50k North Carolinians are taking action. Do it for all of us!

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

How Gene Sharp’s 198 methods of nonviolent resistance were used during the Arab Spring — and why their impact is still unfolding today.

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With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond — including the power of ridicule, writes @daniel-hunter.bsky.social.

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

I'm stunned to see Norm Ornstein (the guy who said "shrink gov and drown it in the bathtub") now speaking truth to power: The tarrifs are intended to shift taxes onto the masses so the Rs can give a $7trillion tax cut to the billionaires.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Honest question: If you were a foreign adversary of the U.S. and you wanted to sink its economy, destroy its role in the world, freedom of thought, and capacity for innovation, would you be doing ANYTHING differently from what this administration is doing right now?

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

Perhaps not coincidentally, we seem to periodically try this at right around the time everyone who actually had to live through the last try is dead.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Yes to this entire thread! Five posts deep. READ IT!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Crystal clear.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Sad and succinct.

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Rare good news! Thanks to Joe Romm, Ph.D. for highlighting this, and stimulating an insightful conversation about the all-in projected costs of competing forms of new -built electric generation. (I highly recommend digging into the thread below Joe's post.) www.linkedin.com/posts/joe-ro...?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

😳

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Well, now we can rest assured that Grok AI will be trained on the hateful writings of the 500m incels still posting on "X". Moreover, it will be trained in active interaction with (manipulation of?) those same people. The important question is "Why?" And "to what end?"

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It's a minor point amidst the serial violations of due process occurring here, but one of Trump's conditions to Columbia University for retaining funding was to ban masks. But the people sweeping up students are masked armed security officials.

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

How does it feel To treat me like you do? When you've laid your hands upon me And told me who you are? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP82txRCy/

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

without encouraging any theorizing beyond the evidence available this is a story people should keep an eye on

submitted 25 days ago • 43 comments

How did I miss this amazing "driveway moment" by Kai Ryssdaal a month ago? www.reddit.com/r/NPR/commen... P.S. This guy served in the Navy and in U.S. State Dept Foreign Service, in Canada and China. No wonder I love his reporting so much! 🤯

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Madness. Utterly stupid.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

“Free Palestine” was a white supremacist voter suppression movement and you young dummies fell for it

submitted 42 days ago • 48 comments