decitect
@decitect.bsky.social
Building a more perfect union; Bay Area denizen
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Did anyone ever get to the bottom of whether appropriate asbestos mitigation occurred in the rushed tear down or are we just going to treat this as unknowable like so many other things with this president?
Even the architect Trump hired to build his massive addition to the White House objects to the president's vision. The two have argued about the size of the 90,000-sq-foot project that would dwarf the mansion. @jonathanreports.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Did anyone ever get to the bottom of whether appropriate asbestos mitigation occurred in the rushed tear down or are we just going to treat this as unknowable like so many other things with this president?
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oh no they've done it
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
oh no they've done it
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🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Just rewatched some of this earlier this year. She stole the show.
Just rewatched some of this earlier this year. She stole the show.
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Just rewatched some of this earlier this year. She stole the show.
Just rewatched some of this earlier this year. She stole the show.
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“Network” premieres today in ‘76
“.. we thought we were making a satire,” said Lumet. “But the extraordinary and frightening thing is how quickly it stopped being satire .. When the truth becomes entertainment, when rage becomes a commodity, the culture begins to eat itself.”
@ditzkoff.bsky.social
“.. we thought we were making a satire,” said Lumet. “But the extraordinary and frightening thing is how quickly it stopped being satire .. When the truth becomes entertainment, when rage becomes a commodity, the culture begins to eat itself.”
@ditzkoff.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“Network” premieres today in ‘76
“.. we thought we were making a satire,” said Lumet. “But the extraordinary and frightening thing is how quickly it stopped being satire .. When the truth becomes entertainment, when rage becomes a commodity, the culture begins to eat itself.”
@ditzkoff.bsky.social
“.. we thought we were making a satire,” said Lumet. “But the extraordinary and frightening thing is how quickly it stopped being satire .. When the truth becomes entertainment, when rage becomes a commodity, the culture begins to eat itself.”
@ditzkoff.bsky.social
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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James Baldwin: "We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be, and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are so empty, so tame and so ugly."
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
James Baldwin: "We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be, and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are so empty, so tame and so ugly."
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OREGONIANS!!! Due to new legislation passed this year, the Oregon Public Utility Commission is developing new guidelines for how to divide energy costs between residential & commercial customers. TELL THEM DATA CENTERS NEED TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE!!!
apps.puc.state.or.us/docketpublic...
apps.puc.state.or.us/docketpublic...
Oregon Public Utility Commission - Submit Public Comment - DocketPublicComment
apps.puc.state.or.us
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
OREGONIANS!!! Due to new legislation passed this year, the Oregon Public Utility Commission is developing new guidelines for how to divide energy costs between residential & commercial customers. TELL THEM DATA CENTERS NEED TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE!!!
apps.puc.state.or.us/docketpublic...
apps.puc.state.or.us/docketpublic...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Throwback Thursday: The Black Thanksgiving Menu, Explained
This week, we give thanks to Black Thanksgiving with a series of tutorials on navigating one of the greatest holidays of all time.
dlvr.it
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Sounds just like Bush
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Sounds just like Bush
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NEW: The Department of Justice and Texas software-maker RealPage announced this week that they have reached a settlement in a case involving price-fixing allegations in some of the nation’s largest rental markets.
DOJ and RealPage Agree to Settle Rental Price-Fixing Case
The settlement is the latest development following a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed RealPage was helping landlords set rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like beh...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
NEW: The Department of Justice and Texas software-maker RealPage announced this week that they have reached a settlement in a case involving price-fixing allegations in some of the nation’s largest rental markets.
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Dreading the political fights over Thanksgiving dinner?
This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:
This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Dreading the political fights over Thanksgiving dinner?
This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:
This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:
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can u guys please like this post if you're on bluesky today/now?
tryin to see if bluesky is a ghost town atm to help me decide if i should drop my super top secret project right now or later
tryin to see if bluesky is a ghost town atm to help me decide if i should drop my super top secret project right now or later
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
can u guys please like this post if you're on bluesky today/now?
tryin to see if bluesky is a ghost town atm to help me decide if i should drop my super top secret project right now or later
tryin to see if bluesky is a ghost town atm to help me decide if i should drop my super top secret project right now or later
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From the Pearl Jam family to yours… Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
📸: Geoff Whitman
📸: Geoff Whitman
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
From the Pearl Jam family to yours… Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
📸: Geoff Whitman
📸: Geoff Whitman
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On this day in 1981, #SoftCell released their debut studio album, "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret".
The album's success was bolstered by the popularity of the cover version of #GloriaJones song "Tainted Love", which topped the charts worldwide and became the second best-selling British single of 1981.
The album's success was bolstered by the popularity of the cover version of #GloriaJones song "Tainted Love", which topped the charts worldwide and became the second best-selling British single of 1981.
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
On this day in 1981, #SoftCell released their debut studio album, "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret".
The album's success was bolstered by the popularity of the cover version of #GloriaJones song "Tainted Love", which topped the charts worldwide and became the second best-selling British single of 1981.
The album's success was bolstered by the popularity of the cover version of #GloriaJones song "Tainted Love", which topped the charts worldwide and became the second best-selling British single of 1981.
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"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Thanksgiving is a day for food, family, and films that make you grateful for your own life, no matter how messy it gets. These movies serve up drama, comedy, and heart, all centered around the quirkiest and most chaotic holiday of the year.
Must-Watch Films for Thanksgiving Chaos and Comedy | Black Girl Nerds
Grab some sweet potato pie (or a second helping of stuffing) and check out these Thanksgiving classics.
blackgirlnerds.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thanksgiving is a day for food, family, and films that make you grateful for your own life, no matter how messy it gets. These movies serve up drama, comedy, and heart, all centered around the quirkiest and most chaotic holiday of the year.
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Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1
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Among other travesties in this statement, National Guard soldiers are not "law enforcement"
REPORTER: There are people upset with the president, believing the National Guard members shouldn't have been there
PIRRO: I don't even wanna talk about whether they should've been there. We ought to kiss the ground and thank God that the president said it's time to bring in more law enforcement
PIRRO: I don't even wanna talk about whether they should've been there. We ought to kiss the ground and thank God that the president said it's time to bring in more law enforcement
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Among other travesties in this statement, National Guard soldiers are not "law enforcement"
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Biochemist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn was born #OTD in 1948.
She shared the 2009 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the enzyme telomerase & how chromosomes are protected by telomeres. This has 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 implications for the fields of #aging and #cancer research. #WomenInSTEM
She shared the 2009 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the enzyme telomerase & how chromosomes are protected by telomeres. This has 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 implications for the fields of #aging and #cancer research. #WomenInSTEM
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Biochemist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn was born #OTD in 1948.
She shared the 2009 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the enzyme telomerase & how chromosomes are protected by telomeres. This has 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 implications for the fields of #aging and #cancer research. #WomenInSTEM
She shared the 2009 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the enzyme telomerase & how chromosomes are protected by telomeres. This has 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 implications for the fields of #aging and #cancer research. #WomenInSTEM
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Instead of watching shitty action movies by a rapist, just put on a Johnnie To flick! Hong Kong's action films are some of the best. Action films from Hong Kong, Korea, China and Japan are all superior. Johnnie To is just my #1 of any director in the action genre.
Brett Rattner's rush hour just got distribution so I think it's gonna be a bad 3 years for movies (at least in amerikkka)
November 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Instead of watching shitty action movies by a rapist, just put on a Johnnie To flick! Hong Kong's action films are some of the best. Action films from Hong Kong, Korea, China and Japan are all superior. Johnnie To is just my #1 of any director in the action genre.
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Thank you for posting this.
People often mention the low average salaries in some EU countries (2k euros a month), but with universal healthcare, subsidized childcare, lower rental costs, and public universities people can manage.
All that is a HUGE chunk in the US. It is a different paradigm.
People often mention the low average salaries in some EU countries (2k euros a month), but with universal healthcare, subsidized childcare, lower rental costs, and public universities people can manage.
All that is a HUGE chunk in the US. It is a different paradigm.
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Thank you for posting this.
People often mention the low average salaries in some EU countries (2k euros a month), but with universal healthcare, subsidized childcare, lower rental costs, and public universities people can manage.
All that is a HUGE chunk in the US. It is a different paradigm.
People often mention the low average salaries in some EU countries (2k euros a month), but with universal healthcare, subsidized childcare, lower rental costs, and public universities people can manage.
All that is a HUGE chunk in the US. It is a different paradigm.
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As a comfortably well off retiree, this post is an eye opener. What kind of income does it take to ba full participant in society. And how bad the turbulence is if you’re near the boundary. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-... @charlesgaba.com
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
As a comfortably well off retiree, this post is an eye opener. What kind of income does it take to ba full participant in society. And how bad the turbulence is if you’re near the boundary. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-... @charlesgaba.com
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Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?
The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.