@pinetreeguy.bsky.social
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Hegseth Set Up Signal on a Computer in His Pentagon Office
The app facilitated communications in a building where cell service is poor and personal phones are not allowed in some areas.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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We covered Andrew Cuomo's failure to get an endorsement from DC 37, NYC's largest municipal union, possibly because they were turned off by Cuomo's campaign wondering if libraries should start charging patrons... hellgatenyc.com/cuomo-librar...
NYC Library Workers Say Cuomo’s Campaign Asked If They’ve Considered Charging for Services
Cuomo’s team blamed a ‘volunteer.’
hellgatenyc.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We covered Andrew Cuomo's failure to get an endorsement from DC 37, NYC's largest municipal union, possibly because they were turned off by Cuomo's campaign wondering if libraries should start charging patrons... hellgatenyc.com/cuomo-librar...
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A WIRED investigation reveals that the US Department of Homeland Security has deployed at least 30 YouTube ads since April 1 to threaten irregular migrants with deportation and a ban on reentry. www.wired.com/story/dhs-yo...
The US Has Spent Over $500,000 on Hyper-Targeted YouTube Ads to Discourage Irregular Migration
A WIRED investigation reveals that the US Department of Homeland Security has deployed at least 30 YouTube ads since April 1 to threaten irregular migrants with deportation and a ban on reentry.
www.wired.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A WIRED investigation reveals that the US Department of Homeland Security has deployed at least 30 YouTube ads since April 1 to threaten irregular migrants with deportation and a ban on reentry. www.wired.com/story/dhs-yo...
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A cardinal convicted of financial malpractice intends to vote in the conclave to choose a new pope despite being deprived of his cardinal’s privileges and being named a “non-elector” by the Vatican
Cardinal Becciu intends to vote for new pope despite conviction
www.thetimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
A cardinal convicted of financial malpractice intends to vote in the conclave to choose a new pope despite being deprived of his cardinal’s privileges and being named a “non-elector” by the Vatican
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I’m still laughing at this one 😂😂😂😂
April 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I’m still laughing at this one 😂😂😂😂
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“If a car generates more potholes in our roads, takes up more parking space and poses more danger to pedestrians, cyclists and other car occupants compared with smaller vehicles, then it is only fair that its owner pays more for driving that vehicle.”
Via @theguardian.com
Via @theguardian.com
The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay
If a car generates more potholes, takes up more space and poses more risk, it is only fair that its owner pays more
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
“If a car generates more potholes in our roads, takes up more parking space and poses more danger to pedestrians, cyclists and other car occupants compared with smaller vehicles, then it is only fair that its owner pays more for driving that vehicle.”
Via @theguardian.com
Via @theguardian.com
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I think this is a brilliant framing of this issue. If the government can send people to a third world country to a lifetime of involuntary servitude, that is slavery. Query whether this meets the “jurisdiction” requirement of the 13th Amendment (the officials sending them are!)
Trump told America he had a deal with far-right El Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele to temporary hold U.S. deportees for a fee.
Now we know that was a lie.
Trump told Bukele he'd _sell_ him bodies to _own_—to be housed in his massive prison (CECOT) until death.
America is back in the slave trade.
Now we know that was a lie.
Trump told Bukele he'd _sell_ him bodies to _own_—to be housed in his massive prison (CECOT) until death.
America is back in the slave trade.
April 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I think this is a brilliant framing of this issue. If the government can send people to a third world country to a lifetime of involuntary servitude, that is slavery. Query whether this meets the “jurisdiction” requirement of the 13th Amendment (the officials sending them are!)
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OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.
April 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.
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I wish I could repost this 1,000 times.
Oh my god do I ever want good public transit.
Oh my god do I ever want good public transit.
![[Image is a neat looking high speed train, that has been used in many situations as the generic bullettrain.png image.]
"I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS
I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.
I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.
I want cities that aren 't built around cars-as-default"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreicjlsby44bhr5qpxvc5k6y54gphdtsv25s6px2c6lblbi2h6myneq@jpeg)
April 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I wish I could repost this 1,000 times.
Oh my god do I ever want good public transit.
Oh my god do I ever want good public transit.
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Recently took a cross country train trip and it was so much better than flying or driving cross country, it immediately made me believe that the death of commuter rail is some sort of auto-industry plot.
More train stops. More trains. Faster trains, and less roads for commuter vehicles please.
More train stops. More trains. Faster trains, and less roads for commuter vehicles please.
I wish I could repost this 1,000 times.
Oh my god do I ever want good public transit.
Oh my god do I ever want good public transit.
April 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Recently took a cross country train trip and it was so much better than flying or driving cross country, it immediately made me believe that the death of commuter rail is some sort of auto-industry plot.
More train stops. More trains. Faster trains, and less roads for commuter vehicles please.
More train stops. More trains. Faster trains, and less roads for commuter vehicles please.
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@propublica.org hits hard again, exposing fElon's Vegas tunnel.
"Despite its size, the project, because it’s privately funded, has not gone through the vetting typical of public transit systems, including lengthy governmental studies...Musk says regulation often stymies innovation."
Safety last.
"Despite its size, the project, because it’s privately funded, has not gone through the vetting typical of public transit systems, including lengthy governmental studies...Musk says regulation often stymies innovation."
Safety last.
#ICYMI: In building a 68-mile tunnel under Las Vegas, Elon Musk’s Boring Company has skirted building, environmental and labor regulations, according to records obtained by ProPublica and City Cast Las Vegas.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight
Given Musk’s role advising President-elect Donald Trump on ways to slash regulations and government oversight, Boring and the Vegas Loop project might be a harbinger for the country.
propub.li
April 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
@propublica.org hits hard again, exposing fElon's Vegas tunnel.
"Despite its size, the project, because it’s privately funded, has not gone through the vetting typical of public transit systems, including lengthy governmental studies...Musk says regulation often stymies innovation."
Safety last.
"Despite its size, the project, because it’s privately funded, has not gone through the vetting typical of public transit systems, including lengthy governmental studies...Musk says regulation often stymies innovation."
Safety last.
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Michael Waltz had TWENTY group chats exposing America's most sensitive military secrets??!!?
Sounds like we need TWENTY articles of impeachment to remove Waltz from office
Sounds like we need TWENTY articles of impeachment to remove Waltz from office
April 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Michael Waltz had TWENTY group chats exposing America's most sensitive military secrets??!!?
Sounds like we need TWENTY articles of impeachment to remove Waltz from office
Sounds like we need TWENTY articles of impeachment to remove Waltz from office
No! Avoid Billionaire-Big-Box stores like the plague!
Buy from independent grocers, and don't buy the junk you don't really need. For example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31584031/
Buy from independent grocers, and don't buy the junk you don't really need. For example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31584031/
April 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
No! Avoid Billionaire-Big-Box stores like the plague!
Buy from independent grocers, and don't buy the junk you don't really need. For example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31584031/
Buy from independent grocers, and don't buy the junk you don't really need. For example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31584031/
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“many women who are still paying, quite literally, for their decisions to speak out about the toxic workplace Cuomo fostered as governor. An investigation by New York State Attorney General Letitia James found that Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women while he was governor”
My legal bills as a nonparty will top $2 million before Cuomo’s legal abuse is over.
“I’ve spent roughly $1.5 million on lawyers so far…a figure that doesn’t include “hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of trauma therapy.”
@rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“I’ve spent roughly $1.5 million on lawyers so far…a figure that doesn’t include “hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of trauma therapy.”
@rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Andrew Cuomo's Exorbitantly Expensive Taxpayer-Funded Revenge Campaign
New York taxpayers have paid tens of millions to Andrew Cuomo's lawyers, who are now his biggest mayoral campaign boosters
www.rollingstone.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
“many women who are still paying, quite literally, for their decisions to speak out about the toxic workplace Cuomo fostered as governor. An investigation by New York State Attorney General Letitia James found that Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women while he was governor”
Homan sounds like every marble-mouthed, incompetent cop on YouTube, threatening arrest for not getting an ID with no reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime.
Sadly the only supervisor you can call is even dumber.
Sadly the only supervisor you can call is even dumber.
Presented with evidence that innocent people who are not members of any gang were wrongly deported to a slave prison in El Salvador, Homan flatly insists that all of them were in fact gang members (but he's unwilling to detail any evidence showing it)
March 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Homan sounds like every marble-mouthed, incompetent cop on YouTube, threatening arrest for not getting an ID with no reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime.
Sadly the only supervisor you can call is even dumber.
Sadly the only supervisor you can call is even dumber.
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March 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
March 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
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The Commerce Secretary of the US is telling people to go out and buy stock in a specific company on national television.
March 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The Commerce Secretary of the US is telling people to go out and buy stock in a specific company on national television.
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🔥Volcanic lightning - an electrical discharge caused by colliding particles of ash and ice rather than from a thunderstorm.
March 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🔥Volcanic lightning - an electrical discharge caused by colliding particles of ash and ice rather than from a thunderstorm.
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Expanding Protests at Bay Area Tesla Dealers and Beyond
Expanding Protests at Bay Area Tesla Dealers and Beyond
Saturday alone saw actions at Santa Cruz, Fresno, San Francisco and Corte Madera. Here are photos from San Francisco.
www.indybay.org
March 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Expanding Protests at Bay Area Tesla Dealers and Beyond
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SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, & committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon**, she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants.
March 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, & committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon**, she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants.
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Hummingbirds Hiding From the Rain 🕊️🌧️
March 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Hummingbirds Hiding From the Rain 🕊️🌧️