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Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · Mar 27

Prelude: I am not proposing a legit read of Lord of the Rings in this thread. I AM proposing a legit read of #Project2025 and its circle. 1/6

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Mar 27

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 1h

Why Democrats aren't talking about climate change much anymore | Grist grist.org/politics/dem...

Why Democrats aren't talking about climate change much anymore

As Democrats reflect on the 2024 election, talking about the "planetary emergency" is out, and "cheap energy" is in.

grist.org

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Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 1h

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 1h

Hmm. Looks like the Feds are a lot less likely to start throwing you around if you have on a "can afford lawyer" business suit than if you're wearing athleisure.

New protest uniform?

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 2h

Hey, some actual good news!

Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 7h

The North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest whales on the planet, now numbers an estimated 384 animals, up 8 whales from the previous year, according to the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium.

Right whales were once hunted to the brink of extinction.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year

www.theguardian.com

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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 2h

“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” - Christopher Reeve

#RadioFreeAmerica

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Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 2h

Today's entry for Least Surprising News.

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 2h

All that shit they heave at protesters counts as "chemical weapons." Apparently they expect a lot more protesters.

They might be smarter than I thought. I, too, expect a lot more protesters opposing ICE.

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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 2h

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Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 2h

And oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are best cookies.

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 2h

They were the ones doing the shoving.

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 2h

They took the orders and kept the job. The order-givers are more culpable, but everyone has a choice. Their choices have included excessive use of force, racial profiling, and violations of due process.

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 2h

“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”
Attributed to commenter Davis X. Machina, in a post at Balloon Juice.

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 2h

A lot of unions are compiling resources so that’s a great place to start. The FedFam group is also compiling resources. Here is a great resource link for financial assistance.

Unemployment and Bank Assistance | FedFam

www.fedfam.org

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Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 2h

One instance does not make a pattern, but it sure makes me want to look for more instances of Comer being a hypocrite.

fortune.com/2023/12/14/j...

The Republican leading the probe of Hunter Biden for alleged corruption has his own shell company and complicated business dealings | Fortune

James Comer co-owns property with a campaign donor in a structure that allows him to hide it on disclosure forms.

fortune.com

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 2h

The Democrats did all sign the discharge petition; how much help does the Republican majority really need???

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 14h

you know how a locally prominent guy could just raise his own kooky regiment at the beginning of the Civil War?

My brain just presented me with the phrase “Judith Butler’s Hussars”

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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 3h

Every day's a good day to stop making it worse.

What, you haven't breathed enough smoke yet? Still pretending it's always been this bad? You're not even fooling yourself any more...

#ClimateChange

A political cartoon shows a stone bridge labeled with words like “FREEDOM,” “HEALTH,” “SAFETY,” “FOOD,” “AFFORDABILITY,” “HOMES,” and “JOBS.” The keystone in the center is labeled “CLIMATE,” and a construction machine is shown removing it, causing the bridge to crack and collapse.

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Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 3h

Did Truman get the appropriate permissions and a budget from Congress first? Were these appropriate renovations?

Because this is a teardown for an addition with no approvals, which already destroyed the grounds with no approvals, done with large "donations" that look like bribes.

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Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 3h

Which raises a whole other question:

How much asbestos and lead paint dust are they releasing as they squash the side of that building?

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 3h

Me: "Pretty sure that was Madison... Oh. Wait."

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 3h

'...but its “theme and architectural heritage will be almost identical.” McCrery Architects has been chosen as lead architect for the construction.'

I'm not an architect, but the plans previously shared didn't look almost identical to me.

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 3h

'White House staff say the ballroom will be “substantially separated” from the main building...'

Not sure why the whole East Wing is wide open, then.

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 3h

"Will Scharf, head of the National Capital Planning Commission board and White House staff secretary"

'Scuse me? Could we go back to one government job per person pretty please?

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 3h

Reading this with repeated WTFs.

'...give the White House the space to host “major functions honoring world leaders and other countries without having to install a large and unsightly tent approximately 100 yards away from the main building entrance."'

Unsightly annex SO much better.

SHRED @tshred.bsky.social · 1d

www.newsweek.com/demolition-c...

Demolition company tearing down White House flooded with negative reviews

"Shame on you," read one of dozens of reviews for the company demolishing the East Wing facade to build Trump's new ballroom.

www.newsweek.com

Elves are Also Better 🇺🇸 🌠 🦌 @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 3h

Assuming there's anything left to burn down?

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