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Driftless Dan

@driftlessregion.bsky.social

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Perspectives on nature and culture from a scientist living in the Driftless Region. Damn...it turns out "may you live in interesting times" actually IS a curse. You can't spell revolution without evolution.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · Mar 6

I joined Twitter 16 years ago, but (literally) never posted anything. I got enough enjoyment reading everyone else's posts.

I joined BlueSky a few months ago, planning to post but avoid politics (who needs the extra stress?)

I cannot in good conscience stay silent any longer.

This is the way.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 7h

Who will the troops blame for this, when all the TVs on base are tuned to Faux News?

From the FedEmployees community on Reddit: A food bank lined up with military members who didn’t receive a paycheck this week

Explore this post and more from the FedEmployees community

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 7h

These contraptions are marketed as perpetual motion devices, but often hide a mechanism that uses a hidden source of electricity to create an electromagnet or induce magnetism.

Even if it uses a natural magnet, the magnet will eventually degrade and lose power in a process called demagnetization.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 7h

Trump: "Let them eat soybeans."

(OTOH, maybe this is not such a bad suggestion since he killed the Chinese market for U.S. soybeans so prices for domestic soybeans will plummet)

A lot at steak: US beef and cattle prices soar to record highs

From supermarkets to restaurants, rising meat costs amid tight supply and strong demand are hitting Americans hard

www.theguardian.com

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 8h

If he does, he'll be hurting a LOT of his own supporters, and he doesn't care because he doesn't need their votes anymore.

They've already given him everything he wanted (except the Nobel prize):

(1) "get-out-of-jail-free card"
(2) power to enrich himself
(3) power of retribution
(4) ego boost

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 8h

So, the precedent is clearly established for the next administration to cut only (and maybe all) Republican programs.

Hey Republicans: Qui tacet consentire videtur, right?

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nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 9h

Impeach and prosecute with extreme prejudice!

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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 1d

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 8h

In my defense, they do have other things in common.

Both attack their own people if they dare stand up to their leaders.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 20h

Willie Horton committed violent crimes while on furlough from prison, which helped take down Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis in the 1988 U.S. presidential election.

But it's fine if Republicans do it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 20h

And after school too.

Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 21h

Because the "all" isn't going to give you a heads up before they announce new tariffs so you could do some insider trading and make all your donated money back ten-fold.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 22h

Picture of three people wearing bubble soccer outfits.

Caption reads:

NEW: ICE PROTEST GEAR
- no sharp edges = non-threatening
- excellent pepper spray protection
- won't fit in the back of a squad car
- paintable, for a unique 3D protest sign
- inflate with helium for a quick escape
- just try to zip-tie that

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 22h

The more I think about it, the better this idea sounds.

Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 22h

And...probably you couldn't fit more than one of these in the back of an ICE van, to say nothing of a regular sized SUV.

Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 22h

Also a great defense against pepper spray.

Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 23h

Let them try to put a zip tie on THAT.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 23h

A pick up game of bubble soccer during the protest might be really fun.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 23h

"Not ICE" = NICE

I like it

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 23h

Is there a formal process for applying to get international election observers to come to your country?

Asking for millions of friends.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 1d

If asked, millions of citizens of this country would say that he'd terrifies them.

He also uses violence as a threat.

As they say, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...it's a terrorist.

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