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“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” - B. Spinoza “A republic, if you can keep it.” - B. Franklin “I live sweat, but I dream light years.” - D. Boon Traveling yinzer, kamaʻāina, pākehā; Appalachian forest-grown

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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · Feb 28

This is what we’re fighting for. Whose side are you on?

Jeremy Sell @jeremysell.bsky.social · Feb 28

A small creek cascading over mossy rocks. Olympic National Park, Washington, 19 Apr 2015. #NationalParks

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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 10h

Trump & his lieutenants have given all the latent nazis & klansmen in our midst explicit permission to just let their freak flags fly, & now they’re coming out of the woodwork.

kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 11h

Sean Duffy: "Worsening air pollution, shoveling more money to oil companies, & abdicating our national security to the whims of Persian Gulf petro states are all good, akshully...."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Sean Duffy: "We are gonna save billions of dollars by getting rid of the fuel economy standards that are set way too high, that no combustion engine can meet, costing each car to the tune of thousands of dollars for the end consumer. We're in the process of getting rid of those rules."

kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 11h

Reminds me of an old Tom Waits quip: "The only thing worse than bluegrass played badly is... bluegrass played well."

I love bluegrass (the late, great Tony Rice FTW!), but can see where he's coming from. It's an acquired taste like the Dead or cilantro - people tend to either love it or hate it.

kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 13h

Looks like fun, bummed I'll have to miss it. Is this a regular gig or a one-off?

kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 14h

They're just gonna brazen it out, like Trump did with the infamous Access Hollywood tape, secure in the knowledge that the whole episode will be pushed down the memory hole within a week by a fresh batch of outrages.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 1d

Important: this is exactly how propagandists operate.

Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 2d

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 14h

In my experience, there’s no faster/better way to attract police to break up a party than to start playing drums

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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 1d

“But this is qualitatively different, because not even pretending to have a legal justification for murdering your opponents, real or perceived or fabricated, is crossing a legal Rubicon of great significance.”

When open murder becomes official government policy - Lawyers, Guns & Money

I want to follow up on this morning’s post about the Trump regime’s straightforward murder of suspected — or more likely “suspected” — drug smugglers. I think it’s a mistake to focus on whether the si...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 1d

Amy McGrath & Beto O’Rourke have entered the chat….

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red scary 🔪 @redscary.bsky.social · 1d

when actual college kids were saying “free palestine” these ppl wanted to violently arrest and deport them lmfao

Nathan Bernard @nathantbernard.bsky.social · 1d

the "kids" were mostly 30+ years old and said they love hitler

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d

Watch Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur, and Witness the Birth of Modern Animation (1911–1914)

Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. 'Sure, there have been talking animals, a few spaceships and whatnot, but the comics have rarely shown us anything truly bizarre.

www.openculture.com

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I just want to be very clear here. This is the Vice President of the United States saying it’s a regular practice among white people to enthusiastically endorse slavery, Hitler, and rape.

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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 1d

He looks really pissed that he didn't get cast as the railroad-baron villain in the new "Wild, Wild West" remake.

kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 1d

"Spiritual attacks"? Carl Sagan proved prescient again (and again, and again...).

Famous passage from Carl Sagan's 1997 book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark:

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A law was passed a long time ago to place a plaque on the wall to honor the officers who defended the Capitol on J6. The plaque is done and has been ready to hang up for a long time. MAGA Mike refuses to comply with that law, which is a slap in the face to every officer. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 1d

"Foundational truths"? Let's start with *e pluribus unum* you narrow-minded uptight bigoted motherfuckers.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

Justice Anthony Kennedy literally wrote the Citizens United decision that is destroying democracy — and yet he’s now on a media tour saying he’s worried about democracy’s survival.

And somehow not one media outlet he’s granted an interview has asked him about Citizens United.

Anthony Kennedy Is Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This

The retired Supreme Court Justice who authored Citizens United is suddenly worried about the future of democracy.

www.levernews.com

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 15 Oct 1940 Charlie Chaplin's first talkie The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany). The antifascist film ends with this impassioned speech to the audience opposing all forms of oppression stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8730...

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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 2d

Oof! Some heavy shots to the heckler’s ribs, then a savage combo drives him back against the ropes, & then a knockout uppercut to finish him off.

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 2d

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative @deepstewardship.bsky.social · 2d

🌊 Big win for the #DeepSea
At the #IUCNCongress members voted to adopt:
✅ Motion 032 – Protecting seamounts and vulnerable marine ecosystems from destructive practices
✅ Motion 035 – Protecting mesopelagic ecosystem integrity

Thanks to those who voted science into policy 👏

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 3d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 2d

beetle bailey arc where we learn who in camp swampy will obey orders to fire on american citizens once the insurrection act is invoked. my picks are rocky, zero, and, surprisingly, plato. killer surprises everyone by making a big show of not doing it. beetle simply goes AWOL

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 2d

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Mhairi Forrest🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤟🤟🤟 @mhairiforrest.bsky.social · 2d

I have a green card and signed up for the ACA for myself and my American kids as soon as it was available.

In order to get it for myself I had to enter my Alien Registration number to prove I was here legally.

Undocumented immigrants CANNOT obtain ACA coverage.

#ACA
#Obamacare
#GOPLies

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