Dustin Debris
@objectiveunlocked.bsky.social
Willamette Valley, Oregon. Actual nobody. I don´t expect mutual followbacks, but thanks. I like my dog. My dog, nature, gardening, amateur culinary & medicinal mushroom cultivation, español, photography, public schools, public libraries, & charrería
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Trump says he didn't really need to demolish the East Wing to build his fancy ballroom, but he just didn't like it and wanted it gone.
He also claimed he's built many many ballrooms and "This will be one of the greatest ballrooms in the world.”
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
He also claimed he's built many many ballrooms and "This will be one of the greatest ballrooms in the world.”
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
Trump Admits He Could’ve Built Ballroom Without Destroying the East Wing, But ‘It Looked Like Hell’
President Donald Trump admitted that he could have built his new White House ballroom without destroying the East Wing, but it "was a poor, sad sight."
www.mediaite.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Trump says he didn't really need to demolish the East Wing to build his fancy ballroom, but he just didn't like it and wanted it gone.
He also claimed he's built many many ballrooms and "This will be one of the greatest ballrooms in the world.”
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
He also claimed he's built many many ballrooms and "This will be one of the greatest ballrooms in the world.”
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
What a disappointing...great period of time
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
What a disappointing...great period of time
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“Chuck @schumer.senate.gov and a critical mass of @democrats.senate.gov surrendered.”
“A key faction of Senate Democrats have, once again, shown us they have no fight left in them. They ended this shutdown in exchange for nothing but empty promises from the same Republicans who lied their way into this crisis in the first place ...”
"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“Chuck @schumer.senate.gov and a critical mass of @democrats.senate.gov surrendered.”
"The court agreed Monday to hear arguments in RNC v. Wetzel, a lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s law allowing a five-day grace period for late-arriving ballots mailed by Election Day."
🚨BREAKING: In a case with major implications for voting access, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether a mail-in ballot must be received by Election Day to count, or if it merely must be sent by then. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
SCOTUS to Hear GOP Lawsuit That Could Radically Restrict Mail Voting
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"The court agreed Monday to hear arguments in RNC v. Wetzel, a lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s law allowing a five-day grace period for late-arriving ballots mailed by Election Day."
Thanks for swerving, @schumer.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Thanks for swerving, @schumer.senate.gov
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I keep thinking, stuff like this doesn’t come down without a mandate from fairly high up, ultimately at least sanctioned by the top, to remove everything that positively mentions Black people. It’s not like the memorial to Black soldiers in the Netherlands was on anyone’s radar otherwise.
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 1:38 PM
I keep thinking, stuff like this doesn’t come down without a mandate from fairly high up, ultimately at least sanctioned by the top, to remove everything that positively mentions Black people. It’s not like the memorial to Black soldiers in the Netherlands was on anyone’s radar otherwise.
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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 9:23 AM
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. ⬇️
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It’s so cool how we’re only “playing god” when it comes to allowing people to have kids via medicine or when folks want to affirm their gender and never when we decide who gets to be detained without a warrant, die in prison, who gets to have medical care, and which kids get to eat today
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It’s so cool how we’re only “playing god” when it comes to allowing people to have kids via medicine or when folks want to affirm their gender and never when we decide who gets to be detained without a warrant, die in prison, who gets to have medical care, and which kids get to eat today
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Happy Saturday everyone! I have a jewelry shop at nora.jewelry!
I'm also drawing fruit/veg for people who donate $50 to @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social for SNAP replacement grocery gift cards; I'll do up to 20 of those this weekend. See thread for details and quotes of this post for availability.
I'm also drawing fruit/veg for people who donate $50 to @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social for SNAP replacement grocery gift cards; I'll do up to 20 of those this weekend. See thread for details and quotes of this post for availability.
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Happy Saturday everyone! I have a jewelry shop at nora.jewelry!
I'm also drawing fruit/veg for people who donate $50 to @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social for SNAP replacement grocery gift cards; I'll do up to 20 of those this weekend. See thread for details and quotes of this post for availability.
I'm also drawing fruit/veg for people who donate $50 to @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social for SNAP replacement grocery gift cards; I'll do up to 20 of those this weekend. See thread for details and quotes of this post for availability.
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I reckon the most interesting subset of discourse here is when presumed [good] factors are actually either actually bad, or there to downplay or dismiss the bad even if the amount of good is way smaller than the bad.
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
I would love it if public discourse on data centers could be just a skosh more sophisticated than "data centers good vs. data centers bad."
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I reckon the most interesting subset of discourse here is when presumed [good] factors are actually either actually bad, or there to downplay or dismiss the bad even if the amount of good is way smaller than the bad.
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
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“Nashville has its first reported measles case in 20 years, according to the city health department.
The announcement on Friday indicates the sick person was unvaccinated against measles and had been traveling. That person is now in isolation.”
The announcement on Friday indicates the sick person was unvaccinated against measles and had been traveling. That person is now in isolation.”
Nashville finds first measles case since 2005 as vaccine exemptions gain popularity
Nashville has its first reported measles case in 20 years, and the infected person is now in isolation.
wpln.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“Nashville has its first reported measles case in 20 years, according to the city health department.
The announcement on Friday indicates the sick person was unvaccinated against measles and had been traveling. That person is now in isolation.”
The announcement on Friday indicates the sick person was unvaccinated against measles and had been traveling. That person is now in isolation.”
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There is a tendency for popular science to fall back on "great man" theories for science (something Nobel prizes tend to reinforce), but if you read this article, you'll see that a lot of people contribute to the discoveries that get credited to just a few individuals.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
There is a tendency for popular science to fall back on "great man" theories for science (something Nobel prizes tend to reinforce), but if you read this article, you'll see that a lot of people contribute to the discoveries that get credited to just a few individuals.
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The ChatGPT suicide hotline is a hotline that talks you into committing suicide. Doesn't seem like a service that should be legal.
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The ChatGPT suicide hotline is a hotline that talks you into committing suicide. Doesn't seem like a service that should be legal.
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The Vietnamese Bach Ma Mountain Peak station recorded one-day rainfall of 1,739 mm - close to the global one-day record and perhaps a new record for the northern hemisphere. It is part of a deluge Viet Nam has seen in October, shattering 35 precip records. e.vnexpress.net/news/news/en...
Vietnam sees 35 rainfall records broken in October - VnExpress International
Vietnam's northern and central regions saw a total of 35 rain records broken in October alone as two storms, Matmo and Fengshen, caused unprecedented downpours.
e.vnexpress.net
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Vietnamese Bach Ma Mountain Peak station recorded one-day rainfall of 1,739 mm - close to the global one-day record and perhaps a new record for the northern hemisphere. It is part of a deluge Viet Nam has seen in October, shattering 35 precip records. e.vnexpress.net/news/news/en...
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I tried to whistle over a stray cat in my neighborhood and a woman walked by, who I worried thought I whistled at her. So I said “im whistling at the cat” but when I looked back down at it I realized it was just an old fast food bag
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I tried to whistle over a stray cat in my neighborhood and a woman walked by, who I worried thought I whistled at her. So I said “im whistling at the cat” but when I looked back down at it I realized it was just an old fast food bag
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My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.
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Candace Owens, world expert on what (((they))) don’t want you to know about Charlie Kirk’s murder, thinks the Tyler Robinson messages released by the FBI were on Discord and now can’t be found. But they were text messages, as the indictment clearly stated. youtube.com/shorts/9S5lH...
Candace Owens on Charlie Kirk’s death
YouTube video by CNN
youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Candace Owens, world expert on what (((they))) don’t want you to know about Charlie Kirk’s murder, thinks the Tyler Robinson messages released by the FBI were on Discord and now can’t be found. But they were text messages, as the indictment clearly stated. youtube.com/shorts/9S5lH...
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Ah, this reminds me of teaching Clash of Civilizations. GIven that Huntington's concept of clvilization was largley based on religion, how was South America a different civilization? European Catholics are part of the west but not South American ones? Brown Catholics don't count. So much racism
November 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Ah, this reminds me of teaching Clash of Civilizations. GIven that Huntington's concept of clvilization was largley based on religion, how was South America a different civilization? European Catholics are part of the west but not South American ones? Brown Catholics don't count. So much racism
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Republicans fucking *hate* Americans. I've never seen anyone since the second world war work harder to kill us than the Republican Party.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to prevent the full funding of SNAP.
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Republicans fucking *hate* Americans. I've never seen anyone since the second world war work harder to kill us than the Republican Party.
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My 11-year-old: Someday, the people who say "skibbidy toilet" will be the grandmas.
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
My 11-year-old: Someday, the people who say "skibbidy toilet" will be the grandmas.
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The thing this always reminds me of is the apocryphal stories of, like, a cargo cult or somesuch hearing a radio for the first time and thinking there must be a tiny man trapped inside.
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The thing this always reminds me of is the apocryphal stories of, like, a cargo cult or somesuch hearing a radio for the first time and thinking there must be a tiny man trapped inside.
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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
— George Orwell, 1984
— George Orwell, 1984
every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
— George Orwell, 1984
— George Orwell, 1984
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I wish Democrats fought for anything with the intensity that Donald Trump fights to starve poor people.
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I wish Democrats fought for anything with the intensity that Donald Trump fights to starve poor people.