Gene Parmesan, Jr. 🇺🇦 🐸 🐢
@citizen-scientist.bsky.social
Awkward cat dad. Environmental science and map/GIS person. Runner, pretend photog, music fiend. Keystoner.
A heart, a conscience, and kindness.
“It’s a strange world out there. Let’s keep it that way.”
A heart, a conscience, and kindness.
“It’s a strange world out there. Let’s keep it that way.”
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I love how 'American exceptionalism' became 'just do what the worst countries do'
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I love how 'American exceptionalism' became 'just do what the worst countries do'
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Gillian Tett: Trump went to war with Brazil's Lula, and in the end, Lula got everything he wanted, while Trump gained nothing whatsoever. This is not a unique case. Trump's trade wars are going spectacularly badly for the United States.
Brazil offers lesson in winning the ‘Taco’ trade
Global politicians need to understand that White House policy is driven by melodrama and instinct
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November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Gillian Tett: Trump went to war with Brazil's Lula, and in the end, Lula got everything he wanted, while Trump gained nothing whatsoever. This is not a unique case. Trump's trade wars are going spectacularly badly for the United States.
Besides the fact that Trump unnecessary out those Guardsmen in that situation…
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Besides the fact that Trump unnecessary out those Guardsmen in that situation…
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It’s almost like occupying your own cities and treating your own people like enemy combatants encourages them to act like enemy combatants.
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It’s almost like occupying your own cities and treating your own people like enemy combatants encourages them to act like enemy combatants.
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Medicare has negotiated lower prices for 15 new drugs, including Ozempic.
This comes despite Trump pushing to repeal the law that made this possible — the Inflation Reduction Act — and his Big Ugly Bill exempting other high-price drugs from negotiations altogether.
This comes despite Trump pushing to repeal the law that made this possible — the Inflation Reduction Act — and his Big Ugly Bill exempting other high-price drugs from negotiations altogether.
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Medicare has negotiated lower prices for 15 new drugs, including Ozempic.
This comes despite Trump pushing to repeal the law that made this possible — the Inflation Reduction Act — and his Big Ugly Bill exempting other high-price drugs from negotiations altogether.
This comes despite Trump pushing to repeal the law that made this possible — the Inflation Reduction Act — and his Big Ugly Bill exempting other high-price drugs from negotiations altogether.
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Putin and Russia are counting on their asset, the US Government, giving them the win in Ukraine that their overrated and incompetent army couldn’t deliver.
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Putin and Russia are counting on their asset, the US Government, giving them the win in Ukraine that their overrated and incompetent army couldn’t deliver.
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All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
ATTN: Team Blue campaigns.
You win by running your own campaign, not theirs. You win by not rising to the bait every time Rufo claims you want to put a homosexual instruction poster in every first grade glass. You win, yes, by promising to spend money like it hasn't been spent for years. You do it by not singling anyone out -
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
ATTN: Team Blue campaigns.
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How To Use the Internet (1995): a 23-year-old Cory Doctorow shows off Usenet, the Internet Underground Music Archive, Justin's Links from the Underground, and more to the CBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How to use the internet, 1995
Computer consultant Cory Doctorow predicts video on demand while showing a CBC reporter some of the new medium's features. Aired on CBC's The National on June 19, 1995.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
How To Use the Internet (1995): a 23-year-old Cory Doctorow shows off Usenet, the Internet Underground Music Archive, Justin's Links from the Underground, and more to the CBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I hear the new guy is a fan of House music.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I hear the new guy is a fan of House music.
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A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood.
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood.
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
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I'm glad Trump has come around to agreeing that we should release the files that don't exist and are a Democrat hoax that Obama and Biden and Hillary invented, but which Bondi couldn't release because it would hurt the victims but also have nothing to hide
Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I'm glad Trump has come around to agreeing that we should release the files that don't exist and are a Democrat hoax that Obama and Biden and Hillary invented, but which Bondi couldn't release because it would hurt the victims but also have nothing to hide
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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 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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-...
Another disgusting racist move from this government to diminish the service and sacrifice of people of color. So fucking petty; I’m sure some white intern at HF was offended.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Another disgusting racist move from this government to diminish the service and sacrifice of people of color. So fucking petty; I’m sure some white intern at HF was offended.
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Pure 🔥🔥🔥from Sen. Rosen: "This is a Republican shutdown...You are in control of the White House, the House, and the Senate. If you went home to a food bank instead of going to Mar-A-Lago...while people are starving, you might see and hear your constituents. You are blind to the suffering."
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Pure 🔥🔥🔥from Sen. Rosen: "This is a Republican shutdown...You are in control of the White House, the House, and the Senate. If you went home to a food bank instead of going to Mar-A-Lago...while people are starving, you might see and hear your constituents. You are blind to the suffering."
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"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats
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Me tonight knowing woke is back.
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Me tonight knowing woke is back.
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$7 billion, you say? 🤔
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
$7 billion, you say? 🤔
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
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Poll: Americans say “too divided”
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive
Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes
Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left
Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive
Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes
Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left
Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Poll: Americans say “too divided”
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive
Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes
Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left
Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive
Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes
Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left
Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
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What’s draining tax dollars isn’t SNAP, it’s corporate welfare and billionaire tax breaks.
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
What’s draining tax dollars isn’t SNAP, it’s corporate welfare and billionaire tax breaks.
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
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The way you do this is to stop dwelling on the arguments and talk about the people who are making them. The argument is wrong and absurd, someone who raises or persistently is a traitor trying to undermine the constitutional order. The problem is media won’t take this second step.
I don’t know how you do it, but we have to be a filter of “come on, you don’t really believe that” on these arguments. Nobody believes that the 22nd amendment contained a hidden path to reward the diligent seeker with more than two terms. Shut up.
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The way you do this is to stop dwelling on the arguments and talk about the people who are making them. The argument is wrong and absurd, someone who raises or persistently is a traitor trying to undermine the constitutional order. The problem is media won’t take this second step.