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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 14h

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

Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

“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 · 5d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 8d

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 · 10d

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 · 12d

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

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12d

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 · 12d

Wow. They go back a lot of years.

Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 14d

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 · 15d

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 · 15d

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Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

"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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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 24d

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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