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richardthunderbay.bsky.social
Retired solid state physicist. I specialized in simulating nanoscale devices. Proud Canadian.
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Let’s send food safety inspectors to the coal mines’

submitted 15 hours ago • 1126 comments

Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

submitted 39 minutes ago • 187 comments

Clown show. on.ft.com/4ltDRrR US tech tariff exemption may only be temporary, says Lutnick

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

Seems pretty clear that doge is a total scam

submitted 3 hours ago • 560 comments

Think I caught the cats shooting their album cover in the bath

submitted 6 hours ago • 92 comments

Warren: "There is no tariff policy. It's just all chaos and corruption. That's all we have going on. And how can you believe any of these guys?

submitted 1 hour ago • 94 comments

Tapper points out to Hassett that the administration's messaging about tariffs has been completely contradictory

submitted 3 hours ago • 231 comments

The ripple effects of Trump's actions targeting specific law firms already are being felt beyond boardrooms, in declining interest in pro bono work for causes that are unpopular with the president.

submitted 1 hour ago • 49 comments

on the first night of passover

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

submitted 5 hours ago • 584 comments

Gotta admit this one is funny

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

El Salvador is a "proud and sovereign nation" but Canada is not.

submitted 18 hours ago • 73 comments

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

submitted 1 day ago • 850 comments

Just in case those of us fighting for democracy in court didn't need another challenge, Big Law turning collaborators is here and growing. My firm and others continue to fight. We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1178 comments

i was reliably informed that the tiniest American hands would be screwing iphones together until this country is great again

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

It’s been much more than 24 hours. Seems like this was fake news.

submitted 1 day ago • 606 comments

This is a fascist federal government abusing its power to harm its citizens. It’s time to fight back.

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

Elon Musk cutting that waste, fraud and abuse!

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

Happy #caturday to those who celebrate, from me & #emilymonster.

submitted 22 hours ago • 250 comments

Canadian conservative Pierre Poilievre went viral with a Trumpian anti-elite media playbook. But now, it’s starting to backfire.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 1 day ago • 872 comments

The US announced it removed the commander of the Pituffik Space Base in Greenland because of a “loss of confidence in her ability to lead,” after Vice President JD Vance’s controversial visit to the semiautonomous island last month.

submitted 2 days ago • 127 comments

The dollar crashing is great news for all of us Brits who've found the US unaffordable since Brexit, except when we try to visit we're going to be turned away at the border because we liked a tweet saying slavery was bad

submitted 2 days ago • 325 comments

The Supreme Court has ruled. Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be returned home. Now.

submitted 2 days ago • 677 comments

They are obviously slow learners

submitted 2 days ago • 3656 comments

I’m sick and tired of this administration www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Uh. Fire the guys who pay put the bonds that are propping up the whole shebang. That'll do wonders for investing in treasuries.

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COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

submitted 2 days ago • 170 comments

Linda McMahon is really leaning into that “no more education” message.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

After massive public backlash, the Social Security Administration is rolling back its disastrous cuts to phone services. This is a huge victory for the public against DOGE's rampage. Keep up the fight.

submitted 2 days ago • 653 comments