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Ville Kellokumpu @spatialpolitiq.bsky.social · 6h

The Finns in their infinite wisdom of economic frugality have chosen to shoot themselves in the foot with a parliamentary agreement on a debt brake even stricter than the EU's Stability and Growth Pact. Institutionalization of permanent austerity in full swing.

yle.fi/a/74-2018827...

Yle sources: MPs set to reach historic 'debt brake' deal

The agreement would see political parties set joint targets for reducing state debt at the beginning of each parliamentary term — regardless of who is in government.

yle.fi

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16h

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · 6h

ofc we knew this

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Steve and Dave's @steveanddaves1.bsky.social · 6h

Directed by Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets premiered today in 1973. Starring Robert De Niro & Harvey Keitel, life in New York City’s Little Italy neighborhood is examined from the perspective of two young men trying to navigate a chaotic world of mob violence & familial honor.

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Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social · 20h

Happy Indigenous People's Day from an Italian heritage street festival in Chicago's Viagra triangle where, yes, Bob Fioretti, dressed in a "Dignitary" sash, is collecting signatures for yet another run for elected office

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 6h

signing a bunch of LGBTQ+ protections into law but then vetoing two other ones bc they would cost health insurance companies 0.00001% in yearly profits is just so Newsom

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 17h

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 13h

Harvesting Infinite Energy from sunlight is, uh, bad actually. Its woke...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 13h

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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 17h

My Dad is excellent at giving compliments

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 1d

does this mean that their plan to illegally pay the army isn't happening

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23h

say what you will about Trump, but he absolutely knows what he wants out of his foreign policy: corrupt autocrats ruling humanity with an iron fist. it's hard to even come up with a single statement about what Biden wanted other than "a sentimental recreation of the foreign policy of his youth."

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 21h

biden gave 14,000 mk84’s (the 2000lb bombs). almost all to possibly all of those were given in 2023. this is more than we dropped between 1999-2009 and slightly less than three times what we dropped against saddam in the first 6 weeks of OIF

By the time they were cut off (may, 2024) there was no

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23h

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 19h

I've noticed some troubling inconsistencies in the Ms Rachel lore

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

It's a legal right because of the law. It's an actual right because it's the duty of every society to enable its members to reach their full potential.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 1d

I only found out recently that the Columbus of US popular tradition can be traced specifically to a fictional biography by Washington Irving in 1828. It seems that during the 1800s writers engaged in intentional mythmaking. File it along with Mason Locke Weems' "biography" of Washington.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah the nice thing about Columbus is he neatly sidesteps debates about historical relativism by just being bad relative to every time. Superbad, but in the analytic philosophy way not the cool way.

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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah i mean lol it must be his raw animal magnetism and not that he'll suck up to anyone who praises him

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

These guys are terrified of the numbers that are going to turn out on Saturday, and that's all the more reason to put down your "wine mom protest" objections and join them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 1d

WHEW, baby. If *anyone* understands this moment....it's Scotland (shout out to the Travelers).

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 1d

Ty in any case!

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Kevin Snyder @guns.bsky.social · 1d

Good hawk

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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah i was just chiming in

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1d

Despite their crowing about innovation Silicon Valley might be one of the greatest enemies of progress. Trump & DOGE, aided by tech money and social media, is destroying innovation in medicine, climate, and consumer tech, while AI threatens to stall progress on decarbonization.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 1d

the biomedical advances of the past twenty years have also been incredible. in a way, it really feels like we’ve been slouching towards utopia, so to speak, while society collapsed out from under us bc of changes in information technology/media diets

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