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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 3h

No worries. Not like I was clear. But I posted a link above

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 3h

Soylent Green, Logan’s Run or that one Star Trek episode were not aspirational,you absolute antisocial jackasses.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 3h

The sidestepping of accountability and democratic process is so telling.

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NPR @npr.org · 23h

The Boring company owned by Elon Musk has started work on a transit tunnel for Teslas in Nashville. The project got approved by the Republican governor without input from city officials.

What to know about Elon Musk's Nashville tunnel project

Here’s everything we know so far about the Boring Company's proposed “Music City Loop" in Nashville.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 3h

No.

The Boring Company.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 3h

I cannot with the TN betrayal of democracy and the boring company fiasco.

The bad faith has moved into physicality all around us to such a tremendous degree.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 1d

I have such a consistent frustration with “move fast break things” creeping out of software into physical engineering. Just a pack of nerds awash in VC funding externalizing costs over and over again from their VC money-paid for homes

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 1d

A US tech bro corp in the US has decided the night sky should go away. They've made that decision for everyone on Earth.

Naturally they've named the first searing orbital array (many times brighter than the moon) after Eärendil, the light bearer, from Tolkien's work
www.space.com/space-explor...

Company's plan to launch 4,000 space mirrors alarms scientists

Reflect Orbital says their light-on-demand idea has generated significant interest from commercial and government customers.

www.space.com

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 20h

And I like chests!

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 20h

True. I just hate the chestiness

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 20h

Men keep your shirts on challenge.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 1d

Who sheriffs the sheriffs?

Blair Paddock @blairpaddock.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...

Despite Illinois Sanctuary Laws, At Least 17 County Sheriffs Have Contracts to Hold People in ICE Custody

To ascertain if county jails are complying with the state’s TRUST Act, WTTW News sent Freedom of Information Act requests to each of the 90 county jails in Illinois to obtain copies of intergovernment...

news.wttw.com

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 1d

Coming back to this bc I think my ex-evangelical lens is important. This “redemption” = continuation/enhancement of power & privilege is exactly how patriarchal, white Christian nationalists operate. It enables and perpetuates abuse. That’s why it is so vital that the Left NOT fall for that logic.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

This did so much damage to the exact sort of message we desperately need right now and candidates who can convey it who do NOT have a Nazi death's head tattoo on their chest. God Fucking Damn it.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I really liked what he was saying. But if there's any way to recover from "hey man you have a fucking SS Nazi tattoo on your tiddy and thought it was OK to have one," he did not find that path, and it's not puritanical or exclusionary to say so, and its ridiculous to even have to explain this.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 2d

A rally is not a protest but it is not worthless.

I always felt (a feeling is not a fact) that 50501 and the NK folks were not listening to Black people or other marginalized folks in this country enough.

I think there is a value in what was done this weekend lMany people taking important steps.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

Here’s what I said to our teenager and some other young folks who were around at the match: there’s a difference between a demonstration and a protest, and you need both because people are at different places in their engagement with a movement, and there are different kinds of power.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Can I ask, what did the No Kings protest actually accomplish? I mean, in real terms, what have these protests materially changed? I can't help but feel these one off protests are merely a heatsink for energy and anger rather than a path for meaningful change and disruption of the system.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 2d

The People’s House

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2d

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

It also can't be separated from two other realities: the conciergification of US society [get my order to me perfectly and fast] and the mistrust and aversion of *organization* [people desire a container for working with others & also few want to do the work to build them]

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for this. And yes. Techbros looking to make their fortune really did not help
All This. <waves hands>

The way through is intention practice community and collective working for the benefit of all - including the planet.

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 3d

This averages out at a violation roughly every four hours, around the clock, continuously since 10 October. At what point do we stop calling it a ceasefire when Israel has just literally not ceased firing

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 3d

I’m still thinking about Cori Bush leading a crowd of mostly white people of many ages in an Assata Shakur chant.

Still get tears of hope from it.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 4d

Rallies like this bring together multigenerational groups and the playfulness can help create enthusasim for big tent politics against the monoculture of fascism.

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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 5d

Heads up STL academic friends, Washington University in St. Louis' student paper is reporting that WashU is a late invitee to the Trump higher education "compact"

WashU meets with White House to discuss Trump higher ed compact - Student Life

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin met virtually with White House representatives on Friday afternoon to discuss President Trump’s higher education compact, which asks universities to commit to a range of po...

www.studlife.com

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 5d

He still has a stupid face.

Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.bsky.social · 5d

I just do not like his face.