Dakota
@dakota.bsky.social
Mechanical Engineering Student NDSU
Fargo ND USA, focused in renewable energy and energy storage systems. Kraut-American. Hates Trump, Putin and Bibi. Loves cats+dogs.
Fargo ND USA, focused in renewable energy and energy storage systems. Kraut-American. Hates Trump, Putin and Bibi. Loves cats+dogs.
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Dakota
@dakota.bsky.social
· Feb 19
Millions of people who voted for Trump to screw over their least favorite neighbor for their own benefit are about to realize they are somebodys least favorite neighbor.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The Senate saw our No Kings protests and decided to make themselves High Lords.
read the actual bill text and this is quite literally a provision designed solely to impede civil and criminal investigations into United States Senators and their staff. www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The Senate saw our No Kings protests and decided to make themselves High Lords.
Talking to someone who's worked a few weeks without pay keeps Tim Kaine up at night. The hundreds of thousands of people killed from USAID aboition or torn away from their American families by Trumps Gestapo? Doesn't even give him so much as a nightmare. He's sleeping good now.
Tim Kaine on backlash he's getting: "I got the first good night's sleep last night that I've gotten since Oct 1, b/c I wasn't worried about being able to look Capitol Police in the eye when I walked in, or what a furloughed fed worker would say to me at church, or what somebody would say about SNAP"
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Talking to someone who's worked a few weeks without pay keeps Tim Kaine up at night. The hundreds of thousands of people killed from USAID aboition or torn away from their American families by Trumps Gestapo? Doesn't even give him so much as a nightmare. He's sleeping good now.
Senatus Delenda Est
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Senatus Delenda Est
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This is what a bunch of Democrats in the Senate just voted for:
"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This is what a bunch of Democrats in the Senate just voted for:
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Long thread I spent way too much time on today about all of the many challenges that stand between Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV's) having as good of emissions output and fuel effiency performance in the Real World compared to industry-claims
People typically aren't good about plugging in their hybrids, and the battery is dead weight if unused , gives the vehicle worse fuel efficiency than a ICE when the gas engine is doing the lions share of the work. This is a known problem in the auto-industry, with companies that used to release
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Long thread I spent way too much time on today about all of the many challenges that stand between Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV's) having as good of emissions output and fuel effiency performance in the Real World compared to industry-claims
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I am now pretty much sure that the U.S. will carry out operations in Venezuela if Maduro doesn't exit. Reopening an airbase in Puerto Rico and an Aircraft Carrier strike group located between Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, not to mention other assets, are extremely costly signals otherwise.
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I am now pretty much sure that the U.S. will carry out operations in Venezuela if Maduro doesn't exit. Reopening an airbase in Puerto Rico and an Aircraft Carrier strike group located between Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, not to mention other assets, are extremely costly signals otherwise.
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I’m not happy about it but it’s preferable to the alternative
Millions of people voted for republicans so we should get Republican government
Getting brutalizing immigrants and Venezuelan fishermen but no/minimal consequences for Americans is the worst outcome
Millions of people voted for republicans so we should get Republican government
Getting brutalizing immigrants and Venezuelan fishermen but no/minimal consequences for Americans is the worst outcome
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I’m not happy about it but it’s preferable to the alternative
Millions of people voted for republicans so we should get Republican government
Getting brutalizing immigrants and Venezuelan fishermen but no/minimal consequences for Americans is the worst outcome
Millions of people voted for republicans so we should get Republican government
Getting brutalizing immigrants and Venezuelan fishermen but no/minimal consequences for Americans is the worst outcome
..... oooooooooh I'm gotta be pissed about this for a long fucking time
of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
..... oooooooooh I'm gotta be pissed about this for a long fucking time
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Thinking about all the times the democratic senate mentioned the illegal ethnic pogroms terrorizing their urban centers with secret police disappearing people, torturing captives, and murdering innocent civilians during this shutdown and smiling 🙂
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thinking about all the times the democratic senate mentioned the illegal ethnic pogroms terrorizing their urban centers with secret police disappearing people, torturing captives, and murdering innocent civilians during this shutdown and smiling 🙂
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And every minute that Donald Trump retains the power of budget recessions he stole from Congress, someone dies due to his illegal USAID cuts. Every minute. People talk about folks on SNAP getting hungry, well I just read something the other day of a man in Malaysia where US aid was cut. He
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
And every minute that Donald Trump retains the power of budget recessions he stole from Congress, someone dies due to his illegal USAID cuts. Every minute. People talk about folks on SNAP getting hungry, well I just read something the other day of a man in Malaysia where US aid was cut. He
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mixed poison into his one daily meal of rice because he couldn't stand another day of starving, watching his family suffer. And somehow after reading that a delay in SNAP payments just doesn't seem that bad to me.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
mixed poison into his one daily meal of rice because he couldn't stand another day of starving, watching his family suffer. And somehow after reading that a delay in SNAP payments just doesn't seem that bad to me.
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To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
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just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
BREAKING
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
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You had the chance to force Republicans to hang Trump's entire administration on making people go hungry at Christmas and gave up on it because you still believe in the year 2025 that voters will reward you for doing the right thing.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
You had the chance to force Republicans to hang Trump's entire administration on making people go hungry at Christmas and gave up on it because you still believe in the year 2025 that voters will reward you for doing the right thing.
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Wood Mackenzie confirms new natural gas generation is expensive!
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Wood Mackenzie confirms new natural gas generation is expensive!
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
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I get why the people most directly personally impacted by the government shutdown are saying things like this but "the entire underpinnings of the country" have *already* collapsed and pretending they haven't isn't helpful
👇There it is, the alternative was to keep federal employees unpaid for 13 MONTHS. How the fuck do you think that would play out? A collapse of the entire underpinnings of the country, that's how.
Victory looks like a bill that extends the ACA subsidies OR (and this is a key or) keeps the government shut down until the midterms.
Yes. That's a victory too.
Yes. That's a victory too.
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I get why the people most directly personally impacted by the government shutdown are saying things like this but "the entire underpinnings of the country" have *already* collapsed and pretending they haven't isn't helpful
Self-described Liberal Zionists(laudatory) on the timeline are so fucking ready to risk it all in a confrontation with Trumpism. Wonder if it's because they've seen this song and dance before with Bibi and know it's better to fight early, even if it's painful, than planning to fight later.
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Self-described Liberal Zionists(laudatory) on the timeline are so fucking ready to risk it all in a confrontation with Trumpism. Wonder if it's because they've seen this song and dance before with Bibi and know it's better to fight early, even if it's painful, than planning to fight later.
Does anyone happen to have a best estimate of many people Donald Trump is going kill by USAID cuts or deport from this country by 2026/2028 if there isn't a significant check on the powers of spending, taxation, and reassigning Federal Law Enforcement to ICE/BP work Trump has stolen for himself?
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Does anyone happen to have a best estimate of many people Donald Trump is going kill by USAID cuts or deport from this country by 2026/2028 if there isn't a significant check on the powers of spending, taxation, and reassigning Federal Law Enforcement to ICE/BP work Trump has stolen for himself?
Every time you see one Trumps goons arrest another innocent migrant for coming to this great country at the wrong time with the wrong skin color, you remember these villians who voted to fund his reign of terror.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every time you see one Trumps goons arrest another innocent migrant for coming to this great country at the wrong time with the wrong skin color, you remember these villians who voted to fund his reign of terror.
I do not think Democrats should vote to fund a government that is going to use the money to blow up Latin American Fisherman for Truth Social content
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I do not think Democrats should vote to fund a government that is going to use the money to blow up Latin American Fisherman for Truth Social content
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She looks just like my baby but with darker colors!
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
She looks just like my baby but with darker colors!
@irhottakes.bsky.social A deal is a deal!
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
@irhottakes.bsky.social A deal is a deal!
The chief congressional correspondent at Fox News put out a piece stating the shutdown fight is a relitigation of ACA repeal, the GOP is getting absolutely hosed in the messaging war rn.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The chief congressional correspondent at Fox News put out a piece stating the shutdown fight is a relitigation of ACA repeal, the GOP is getting absolutely hosed in the messaging war rn.
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A Reagan-appointed judge has quit the bench so he can speak out against assaults on the rule of law (he is a senior judge so it doesn’t create a vacancy):
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A Reagan-appointed judge has quit the bench so he can speak out against assaults on the rule of law (he is a senior judge so it doesn’t create a vacancy):
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...