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Kurt Nordback
@kurtn.toot.bldrweb.org.ap.brid.gy
Mostly housing, walking, bikes

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March 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Folks are sharing great information and photos about #teslatakedown protests here on Mastodon, but it’s a bit piecemeal and a lot gets missed.

To help spread the word, I created a TeslaTakeDown group via gup.pe. Gup.pe groups act like a megaphone…tag/mention the group in your protest-related […]
Original post on mastodon.online
mastodon.online
March 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Tesla stock is tanking, SpaceX just blew up its second rocket in a row, the broader market is melting down... the setup for a bank run on Elon Musk's confidence bubble couldn't be better

We gotta stay on it. We have three more weeks to wreck Q1 earnings, keep those crowds growing!

#TeslaTakedown
March 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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"It’s like we don’t want to cure cancer anymore." @kffhealthnews.org

NIH funding has real, immediate consequences. Medical research relies on stable funding, long-term planning, and a pipeline of researchers who dedicate their careers to solving some of our biggest health challenges.
March 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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DOGE effort to sell off federal properties inadvertently exposes CIA black site in Northern Virginia
- Bloomberg TV

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...
Trump Officials Take Down List of Federal Properties for Possible Sale
The Trump administration originally identified more than 440 federal properties that could be sold, which included the headquarters of the F.B.I. and Justice Department.
www.nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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March 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Elon Musk was shown with a swastika in his hand at the carnival in Düsseldorf, Germany.

See more amazing sculptures from the carnival 🔽 🔽 🔽 🔽 🔽
[Video] Original post on mastodon.online
mastodon.online
March 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Never forget, if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan cities for people and places, you get people and places.

Plan for the city you want.

HT Fred Kent
March 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Lots of public, vocal confrontations with Republican Fascist Members of Congress, e.g., North Texas, March 1, 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1RnsMh00cY 2/
March 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Saw an advert that said "Radio for sale, £10, volume stuck on full."

Thought to myself: "I can't turn that down."
March 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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A key, decades-old conservative insight is that people like most of what government does, so their only hope of victory is to relentlessly abstract away from anything specific to "government" or "spending" or "bureaucracy," empty linguistic vessels into which they can more easily pour bile.
Incredible chart
March 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Beyond parody — after taking a blowtorch to the federal government the Trump administration is now in court saying they can’t obey court orders because their staff has been cut 🤔
March 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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JD Vance Gets Trolled on the Slopes: Protesters Greet Him with Brutal Signs: https://streetartutopia.com/2025/03/02/jd-vance-gets-trolled-on-the-slopes-protesters-greet-him-with-brutal-signs/
March 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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"People *are* doing things. You will meet those people when *you* start doing things."
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
sherrilyn.substack.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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## JD Vance Gets Trolled on the Slopes: Protesters Greet Him with Brutal Signs

## JD Vance didn’t expect this man, and hundreds of others, to show up in the mountains of Sugarbush Vermont to troll and ruin his ski tip.

## What do you think out the vice […]

[Original post on streetartutopia.com]
March 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I just submitted my answer to WaPo's request for a "sign of hope":
People canceling Post subscriptions because of Bezos.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/28/signs-of-hope-submissions/
March 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Hmm, Boston had their own full band with a trombone line today... nobody buying Teslas at THAT dealership, either. #tesla #politics #uspol #protests #swasticar #teslatakedown https://bsky.app/profile/childpsychmdact.bsky.social/post/3ljdwcsmjrc2k
March 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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The deeply horrible things that Trump is already doing, so early in his new term, illustrate better than any hypothetical explanation ever could, how politicians are definitely NOT “all the same.”
March 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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AP: "This year’s harsh flu season – the most intense in 15 years – has federal health officials trying to understand if it sparked an increase in a rare but life-threatening brain complication in children.... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 19,000 people have died from […]
Original post on ai6yr.org
m.ai6yr.org
February 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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February 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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You know I love a good Venn Diagram. Been seeing this one around lately. Seems to sum up the times.
February 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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are there enough parking spots at this Boulder strip mall? who can say, really
February 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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We marched down Broadway from Times Square to Union Square. I walked in the front, following the American flag carrier leading the march, and became emotionally overwhelmed around 20th street. I joined in the chant of "NO KINGS!” down many blocks, feeling the […]

[Original post on masto.nyc]
February 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM