@jrriver.bsky.social
Retired English professor. UT Austin and URI. Currently living in a rural red state and trying to be loud against the fascists. I read history.
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· Apr 12
Class action law suit against this is needed.
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The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation
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What? So he wants to replace the Snack Food Isle at the Grocery Stores, with the Road Kill Isle? He is nuts.
RFK Jr. wants states to ban junk food. No one knows what counts.
Retailers are scrambling to find out what thousands of foods will no longer be eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program come January.
www.politico.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
What? So he wants to replace the Snack Food Isle at the Grocery Stores, with the Road Kill Isle? He is nuts.
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Georgina Kermode #suffragette #metallurgist #engineer #entrepreneur Invented vending machine for postage stamps detected counterfeit coins. Post Office bought machines & installed 1st @ Houses of Parliament. Elected 1st woman memb @iom3.bsky.social #OTD 21 Dec 1916 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgin...
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Georgina Kermode #suffragette #metallurgist #engineer #entrepreneur Invented vending machine for postage stamps detected counterfeit coins. Post Office bought machines & installed 1st @ Houses of Parliament. Elected 1st woman memb @iom3.bsky.social #OTD 21 Dec 1916 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgin...
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"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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It's clear Tim Kane is in the Epstein files. It's why he opposes impeaching Bondi and voted with Republicans to take health insurance away from Americans. He wanted a distraction from Epstein.
December 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It's clear Tim Kane is in the Epstein files. It's why he opposes impeaching Bondi and voted with Republicans to take health insurance away from Americans. He wanted a distraction from Epstein.
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James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people
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I found this book in the banned book section of the book store. I read the first two pages and I was hooked. All the best books are the banned books!
December 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I found this book in the banned book section of the book store. I read the first two pages and I was hooked. All the best books are the banned books!
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Hey dem friends in Virginia, Kaine not up for reelection until 2030. But you sure can call his office and tell him what you think. Here's his office number: +1 202-224-4024
December 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Hey dem friends in Virginia, Kaine not up for reelection until 2030. But you sure can call his office and tell him what you think. Here's his office number: +1 202-224-4024
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"A new chart showing month-to-month changes to the job market since November 2020, when Trump lost his reelection bid to Biden.
"The red columns show the months in which Trump was in the White House, while the blue columns reflect Biden’s term."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
"The red columns show the months in which Trump was in the White House, while the blue columns reflect Biden’s term."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"A new chart showing month-to-month changes to the job market since November 2020, when Trump lost his reelection bid to Biden.
"The red columns show the months in which Trump was in the White House, while the blue columns reflect Biden’s term."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
"The red columns show the months in which Trump was in the White House, while the blue columns reflect Biden’s term."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Why do we put up with a system of voting that forces us to wait 4 years to vote again, when we find out that the person voted into office lied?
Why don't we have a system where when the people are betrayed the people can immediately remediate by removing the person harming them?
Why don't we have a system where when the people are betrayed the people can immediately remediate by removing the person harming them?
December 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Why do we put up with a system of voting that forces us to wait 4 years to vote again, when we find out that the person voted into office lied?
Why don't we have a system where when the people are betrayed the people can immediately remediate by removing the person harming them?
Why don't we have a system where when the people are betrayed the people can immediately remediate by removing the person harming them?
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so everyone who knows what is really in the epstein files has some excuse for not making the info public
this is how crimes continue, and criminals go free
I sure wish that Americans had the courage that Ukrainians have.
this is how crimes continue, and criminals go free
I sure wish that Americans had the courage that Ukrainians have.
December 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
so everyone who knows what is really in the epstein files has some excuse for not making the info public
this is how crimes continue, and criminals go free
I sure wish that Americans had the courage that Ukrainians have.
this is how crimes continue, and criminals go free
I sure wish that Americans had the courage that Ukrainians have.
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4. “Clio, Muse of History” by Charles Meynier at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is my favorite and she seems to be pissed off which is understandable.
December 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
4. “Clio, Muse of History” by Charles Meynier at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is my favorite and she seems to be pissed off which is understandable.
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The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms.
It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
#EpsteinCoverup is so blatantly hamfisted, it's political malpractice if Dems don't attack full bore: Impeach Bondi as the means to make it a defining issue next year in run-up to midterms.
Removing this obviously distributed-a-billion-times photo of Trump w/Melania, Epstein, & Maxwell from the DOJ release of files only points out the FBI team's foolish, slapdash attempt to cover up *any existence* of the adjudicated sexual assaulter FOTUS in them.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms.
It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
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One of the most fascinating facts about the ocean, is that there are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written.
Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old.
Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old.
December 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
One of the most fascinating facts about the ocean, is that there are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written.
Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old.
Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old.
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📌"Missing are FBI interviews with survivors and internal DOJ memos examining charging decisions — records that could have helped explain how investigators viewed the case and why Epstein was allowed in 2008 to plead guilty to a relatively minor prostitution charge."
Impeach Pam Bondi RIGHT NOW.
Impeach Pam Bondi RIGHT NOW.
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
📌"Missing are FBI interviews with survivors and internal DOJ memos examining charging decisions — records that could have helped explain how investigators viewed the case and why Epstein was allowed in 2008 to plead guilty to a relatively minor prostitution charge."
Impeach Pam Bondi RIGHT NOW.
Impeach Pam Bondi RIGHT NOW.
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December 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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This year—for the first time—the world produced more energy via renewable sources than with coal!!!
Because wind & solar have become cheaper. The US is squandering a huge opportunity.
Because wind & solar have become cheaper. The US is squandering a huge opportunity.
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This year—for the first time—the world produced more energy via renewable sources than with coal!!!
Because wind & solar have become cheaper. The US is squandering a huge opportunity.
Because wind & solar have become cheaper. The US is squandering a huge opportunity.
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Amazon signs contracts with school districts to be their vendor. Then it uses AI powered dynamic pricing to charge different prices to different schools.
Amazon Has Been Conning School Districts out of Millions - The American Prospect
Amazon Business is billed as a convenient one-stop shop for schools. Reality is more expensive.
prospect.org
December 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Amazon signs contracts with school districts to be their vendor. Then it uses AI powered dynamic pricing to charge different prices to different schools.
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December 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...