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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 11h

IANAL, so I don't know - is the conflated use of "protective"/"protected" material a typo on the judge's part, trolling a lawyer's typo, or are those legitimately interchangeable terms?

Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 2d

This is an amazingly detailed report, btw. Kudos for putting this together.

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 2d

Does this mean rents equal to 50-80% of AMI are considered low-income housing? Or does this refer to the qualifying household incomes of the people that would be renting there?

Definitions of various levels of low income housing.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 5d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 5d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 5d

Utah (and all the rest in the top 5), are also in the top 10 for highest gas prices in the nation.
(src - gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-pr... )

Rankings of the highest regular gas prices in the nation. Utah is #9.

Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 5d

So an email between senior officials that says, "Hey, I want you to go over to the Attorney's desk and tell him he must charge this individual" would not be discover-able.

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 6d

“No warrant could authorize entering every single apartment, smashing down every door, and dragging every person out in handcuffs, which is what they did.”

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 7d

As Trump and ICE unleash terror on Chicago, due process is nowhere to be found.

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social unpacks ICE’s overreach
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/ice-is-out-of-control-aaron-reichlin

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for what you do. You came in handy the other day when I needed to provide someone with college course description of a class I took decades ago.

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 6d

I imagine you find an event, or a sponsoring cafe, as your destination, but how do you pick good starting points for your rides?

(Just picking your brain - in case I ever try to do something similar in my part of the world.)

Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 8d

Your honor, may I approach the bench?
(Mentally repeating : I must not ask to sit on his lap this time)

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 8d

This is a very cool idea. I'd love to hear more about people's experience doing this sort of thing.

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 10d

Stuart's been one of the better sources of info in the state regarding district maps. I recommend giving @stuart98.bsky.social a follow.

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 12d

I thought the tariff money was basically going to be mostly all spent reimbursing farmers for the losses they are suffering from tariffs.

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 14d

When watching "A Few Good Men", he's rooting for Colonel Jessup.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14d

Super neat feature on the @merriam-webster.com website: look at words that first entered print the year you were born

www.merriam-webster.com/time-travele...

Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Words from 1982

See which words were first recorded in 1982. Or search for other words by the year when they were first used.

www.merriam-webster.com

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 14d

Wow. They go back a lot of years.

Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 15d

This was my favorite EA game. Now the Saudis will have the power of beastfu.

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 15d

I'm glad. I only wish they had done this 15 years earlier when Aaron Swartz was still with us.

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 16d

I missed that detail. Thanks for sharing.

Nurses left the picket line to run toward the shooting. One representative said, "Human lives matter more than our labor dispute"

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 16d

The Trump Administration is cancels grants for programs for trails and bike lanes because they are ‘hostile to motor vehicles.’

apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump's transportation department pulls trail and bike grants it deems 'hostile' to cars

President Donald Trump's transportation department has been reversing grants for recreational trails and bicycle lanes.

apnews.com

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 16d

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 23d

Disclaimer - I have zero medical expertise. This is just something I'd want to ask a real doctor about before passing on the recommendation, based on my 30 seconds of googling & my anecdotal experience of seeing an autistic child have a seizure.

Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 23d

Firework sparks - very appropriate for funerals. If you don't know what type of flowers to send to your loved ones, your local firework dealer can help.

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 23d

I'm no pharmacist, but I have questions abt RFK's leucovorin recommendation:

"In children with seizures, leucovorin may increase the number of seizures that occur."
-mayo clinic

"Seizures are more common in individuals with autism than in the general population."
-autism.org

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 23d

"to trap them, the agents knocked down the ladders".

I'm no trap expert, but couldn't they just wait at the bottom of the ladder?

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