@spleener3.bsky.social
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"Only 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to date..."
www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/t...
With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program
Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump’s first term, his administration built about one-third of what the state was able to put up...
www.texastribune.org
June 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Only 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to date..."
www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/t...
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"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..."
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...
www.propublica.org
March 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..."
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
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Climate Trace pinpoints nearly every major source of greenhouse gas #emissions around the world all the way down to the individual source in real-time. 🔎
No more excuses.
The world is watching. 👀
#BlueEarth #ClimateCrisis
More ➔ climatetrace.org
No more excuses.
The world is watching. 👀
#BlueEarth #ClimateCrisis
More ➔ climatetrace.org
Climate TRACE
Climate TRACE makes climate action faster and easier by mobilizing the global tech community to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
climatetrace.org
March 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Climate Trace pinpoints nearly every major source of greenhouse gas #emissions around the world all the way down to the individual source in real-time. 🔎
No more excuses.
The world is watching. 👀
#BlueEarth #ClimateCrisis
More ➔ climatetrace.org
No more excuses.
The world is watching. 👀
#BlueEarth #ClimateCrisis
More ➔ climatetrace.org
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It’s right here: OPM.gov/fork
Fork in the RoadLock
Welcome to opm.gov
OPM.gov
January 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It’s right here: OPM.gov/fork
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Basically, the country’s been taken over by a bunch of internet trolls and podcasters who thought running the government would be as easy as complaining about it.
January 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Basically, the country’s been taken over by a bunch of internet trolls and podcasters who thought running the government would be as easy as complaining about it.
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The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
January 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
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I’m writing something about what government around the world should do about ocean-based climate solutions. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy had some reports I wanted to see, but when I visited, they’re just gone. Sad.
January 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I’m writing something about what government around the world should do about ocean-based climate solutions. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy had some reports I wanted to see, but when I visited, they’re just gone. Sad.
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Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"
January 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"
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Dear members of the press,
Can one of you, PLEASE just ONE:
When Trump says we deleted all the evidence, please for the love of God, push back. The evidence is all here:
www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
Can one of you, PLEASE just ONE:
When Trump says we deleted all the evidence, please for the love of God, push back. The evidence is all here:
www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
Select January 6th Committee Final Report and Supporting Materials Collection
www.govinfo.gov
January 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Dear members of the press,
Can one of you, PLEASE just ONE:
When Trump says we deleted all the evidence, please for the love of God, push back. The evidence is all here:
www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
Can one of you, PLEASE just ONE:
When Trump says we deleted all the evidence, please for the love of God, push back. The evidence is all here:
www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
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"When a movement or a philosophy utterly changes its tune, it is time to rename it."
Language isn't just a tool—it's a weapon in the hands of authoritarians, and it's time we call things what they really are. @jenrubin.bsky.social explains. contrarian.substack.com/p/distorting...
Language isn't just a tool—it's a weapon in the hands of authoritarians, and it's time we call things what they really are. @jenrubin.bsky.social explains. contrarian.substack.com/p/distorting...
Distorting Trump's Language
MAGA's terminology is an inaccurate means of describing our state of affairs--together, we must reframe and rename our political vocabulary
contrarian.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"When a movement or a philosophy utterly changes its tune, it is time to rename it."
Language isn't just a tool—it's a weapon in the hands of authoritarians, and it's time we call things what they really are. @jenrubin.bsky.social explains. contrarian.substack.com/p/distorting...
Language isn't just a tool—it's a weapon in the hands of authoritarians, and it's time we call things what they really are. @jenrubin.bsky.social explains. contrarian.substack.com/p/distorting...
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Martin Luther King Jr. said that “the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.” We are in a time of challenge.
The question for every leader, every citizen is where do you stand?
The question for every leader, every citizen is where do you stand?
Now Is the Time for Courage
From Marc | I started Democracy Docket to be fearlessly independent and unapologetically pro-democracy.
www.democracydocket.com
January 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Martin Luther King Jr. said that “the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.” We are in a time of challenge.
The question for every leader, every citizen is where do you stand?
The question for every leader, every citizen is where do you stand?
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Proud Boys back in DC today. Video by scootercaster.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Proud Boys back in DC today. Video by scootercaster.com
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It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.
January 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.
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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
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I always loved this image of Barack Obama looking at the statue of MLKJr.
January 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I always loved this image of Barack Obama looking at the statue of MLKJr.
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Trump could easily stay quiet on these fires until he is President, but he is so weak he needs a villan and needs to be the victim.
Never have I seen a whinier child in my life.
Never have I seen a whinier child in my life.
January 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Trump could easily stay quiet on these fires until he is President, but he is so weak he needs a villan and needs to be the victim.
Never have I seen a whinier child in my life.
Never have I seen a whinier child in my life.
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This is irrefutably true. Let’s see how long it lasts.
January 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is irrefutably true. Let’s see how long it lasts.
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Melania's life isn't that exciting. She was a girl with dreams of modeling who ended up moonlighting in prostitution and got shopped to a john, married for his money, had his baby while he was cheating on her with a porn star, blah blah blah.
It's not worth a movie.
It's not worth a movie.
January 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Melania's life isn't that exciting. She was a girl with dreams of modeling who ended up moonlighting in prostitution and got shopped to a john, married for his money, had his baby while he was cheating on her with a porn star, blah blah blah.
It's not worth a movie.
It's not worth a movie.