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O Douglas Price
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Sustainability professional; social democrat; climate hawk; active mobility advocate; recovering architect; Scouting America girls troop leader
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This guy thought so, too. Ended up getting murdered. Maybe Vance should ponder.
Vintage photograph of William Poole, aka Bill the Butcher, notorious NYC gang leader and xenophobe, dressed as a butcher with apron saw and cleaver, and incongruously a top hat.
October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Goose chase meme: top panel is a goose in closeup saying "What is the ideology of the extreme extremist network?"; bottom panel shows the goose chasing a figure in a puffer coat saying "What is the extremist ideology motherfucker?"
September 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Text of post from X: Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins The family of Virginia Giuffre issued a new statement Wednesday on the meeting planned at the vice president's residence tonight regarding the admin's strategy on Jeffrey Epstein. "We understand that Vice President JD Vance will hold a strategy session this evening at his residence with administration officials. Missing from this group is, of course, any survivor of the vicious crimes of convicted perjurer and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Their voices must be heard, above all. We also call upon the House subcommittee to invite survivors to testify.
August 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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The difference, to me, is only the width of that period. Not enough to make the distinction easily legible. This may just be Bluesky's text rendering, but much of the internet is similar. Two spaces really is a help.
Screen capture image of chunk of text from Sarah Jeong's reply showing a period and space on one line and a space between words on another. The distance in each case is very close to the same.
July 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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And guess who finds Idi Amin very interesting. The guy manages to *always* find the absolutely worst thing to say!
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Before Mamdani began, Adams said, "I read your bio — you were born in Uganda. I was fascinated by Idi Amin," referring to the leader who had expelled Mamdani's father. Mamdani went into his pitch about free buses. He thought Adams seemed into it but sensed that the mayor's staff didn't "love that he loved the idea." Afterward, the mayor came up to him to reiterate how interesting he thought Idi Amin was. "I said, 'Well, you know, my dad was expelled by him. He has a lot he can share," Mamdani recalls. Adams said, "Take my number. Let's have dinner sometime." (A press representative says Adams is not fascinated with the dictator and that he was solely interested in Mamdani's father's story.
July 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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They want to drive everyone out of federal employment.
On the federal employee pension plan: In order to pay for the megabill, Senate Republicans are considering substantially hiking "federal employees' retirement contributions to 15.6 percent of their salary - compared with the 9.4 percent required in the initial version of the bill - while carving out an exemption for members of Congress and their staff," POLITICO's Lawrence Ukenye reports.
June 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Greetings from Sedona!
Photo of the night sky with the Milky Way shown at the center of the photo and silhouettes of pine trees at left, right, and bottom of image.
June 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Four men in casual clothes such as blue jeans, sneakers, flannel shirts, and baseball caps, and wearing masks over their lower faces and sunglasses stand in relaxed poses in front of a black SUV. No badges, uniforms, insignia, or labels identify them as law enforcement. They look like they are about to rob a bank.
June 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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I just want to reply with alt-text because everyone needs to see and hear these words.
It works like this, you look the ICE agent right in the face, cell phone in hand and say "Identify yourself as a real officer." Then you say, "badge number and serial number" because they are playing dumb. Start dialing emergency services. If they refuse two times you call 911 and say, "there is a man here impersonating a cop and he has a gun." Someone was assassinated by a fake cop. Time for ICE to stop hiding behind the masks. We need to learn who they are. NoKings
June 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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• Homeland Security agents entered Russell Elementary around 10 a.m. Monday. Shortly thereafter agents also entered Lillian Street Elementary. Both schools are in the Florence-Firestone neighborhood, west of Huntington Park. • School employees asked for identification. When staff tried to take information down, agents pocketed their IDs and refused to allow staff to write down names and badge numbers. The agents said they had permission from students' guardians to enter the school and asserted they had the right to enter the school. Per Carvalho: "We've spoken with the caretakers of these children, in some cases, parents, and they deny any interaction with these entities and certainly deny providing authorization for these individuals." • The principals of each school denied the agents entry and contacted the district's legal department. • The agents left.
April 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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It's like those hoof-and-mouth disease sanitizing mats, isn't it? But to protect nature from him.
Screen capture from White House video of an event where Trump moved some dirt with a gold shovel - he is standing on a square of artificial turf placed on top of the real turf as if contact with the natural world would allow his putrid essence to pollute the very ground he walks on.
April 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The only way I get it to work is to save it to my photos, grab the text there, then add the screenshot with alt text. It would be great to have a better tool for this!
03.31.2025 Party Politics / Law 囧 France 中 Stopping Marine Le Pen From Running Is a Bad Idea BY DAVID BRODER Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for office for five years. The sentence applies the law as written, but it turns her embezzlement conviction into a propaganda coup for her party.
March 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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"It's important you understand this. The people in this photo were residents of the USA that were denied due process. They were rounded up and shipped to a prison in El Salvador-without trial, without evidence- simply on suspicion of gang affiliation. This was done in defiance of our American courts that deemed the action illegal. They could be legal residents. They could be innocent bystanders. They could be asylum seekers. For all we know, they could be U.S. citizens. Now, they're trapped in one of the most violent prisons on Earth, enduring brutality beyond what most of us can imagine. If you don't find this morally repulsive, then you are morally repulsive!" - JOSHUA EAKLE, Executive Director, Project Liberal
March 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Series of three still images from the Hunger Games movies showing characters from District 1, the capital of Panem, in bright and outlandish costumes.
March 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Reposting this with alt-text.
Post from X by Carlos Turnbull @cturnbull1968 with text "Pete Hegseth removed Colin Powell's name from a list of notable Americans, buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Hegseth also removed the names of every person of color and every woman on the same list. Only white men were left in place." Portrait photo of a young Colin Powell in uniform standing before US and service flags.
March 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Trump is a traitor. Image with alt text.
Tweet by Ukraine Front Line @EuromaidanPR with image of Donald the Traitor in a red Z baseball cap, giving a thumbs up. "There is no doubt that the US provided all the intelligence information to Russia on the Kursk region. Logistics, location of warehouses and strongholds, and movements of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were provided to the russians. Which explains the instant and stunning success of the russians in the Kursk direction."
March 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Tweet by Russell Dobular @russelldobular with an image of two quotes on a black background, reading "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." - Elon Musk "The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." - Hannah Arendt
March 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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This was just sent to everyone at my college by the Provost. Nice to see administration stepping up given the threat posed by the Trump Administration to research and higher education.

New York City, Stand Up for Science, March 7, 2025, 12:00 to 3:00 PM, Washington Square Park
Flyer advertising the New York City Stand Up for Science 2025 rally in Washington Square Park, March 7, 2025, from 12:00 to 3:00 PM. A graphic of the Statue of Liberty against a pale blue background with the rally title and details on bright red blocks diagonally across the image, along with the slogan "Science is for Everyone"
March 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Image of cover of The Economist: photo of Trump in MAGA hat and blue suit without tie, standing on top of huge pile of dollar bills, holding a red can of gasoline in one hand and a burning dollar bill in the other, with caption “The revised economic outlook”.
March 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Not my home, but I know my way around.
Map of Pern from Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern series - image in light brown for land area and darker brown for ocean area, with two land masses, one north and one south, labelled with various halls, holds, and weyrs, the various settlements of the planet.
March 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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The Three Arrows symbol of the German Social Democratic Party of the late Weimar Republic. A black circle with three black arrows pointing in parallel towards the lower left. The symbol was often used to over paint swastikas as the three arrows would overlap much of the diagonal lines of a painted swastika.
March 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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But authoritarianism does not require the destruction of the constitutional order. What lies ahead is not fascist or single-party dictatorship but competitive authoritarianism—a system in which parties compete in elections but the incumbent's abuse of power tilts the playing field against the opposition. Most autocracies that have emerged since the end of the Cold War fall into this category, including Alberto Fujimori's Peru, Hugo Chávez's Venezuela, and contemporary El Salvador, Hungary, India, Tunisia, and Turkey. Under competitive authoritarianism, the formal architecture of democracy, including multiparty elections, remains intact. Opposition forces are legal and aboveground, and they contest seriously for power. Elections are often fiercely contested battles in which incumbents have to sweat it out. And once in a while, incumbents lose, as they did in Malaysia in 2018 and in Poland in 2023. But the system is not democratic, because incumbents rig the game by deploying the machinery of government to attack opponents and co-opt critics. Competition is real but unfair.
February 27, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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With alt text, because this needs to be searchable for everyone!
"Elon reached out to me to get hold of that script and it became apparent very quickly that he didn't understand coding as well as he made out. He asked, 'How do I run this Python script?"" Palmer said, per Crikey. "After I gave him the script, I wasn't a fan of him. He's a grifter, he sells a vision in hopes that he can one day deliver what he's promising, but he doesn't know that," Palmer added, per the outlet. "He's just really good at pretending he knows. That's very evident with the Tesla full-self-driving promise." https://www.businessinsider.com/dogecoin-creator-says-elon-musk-grifter-who-couldnt-run-code-2022-5
February 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Wait, what are you talking about with "some pundit"? Who are you referring to? Oh, David Axelrod, James Carville. I mean, those guys have not been in the trenches legislatively or electorally in a full generation. And there's a cottage industry out there of Democratic strategists. But in order to be a Democratic strategist, you actually have to do politics currently and not just podcast about it.
February 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Again, if Musk had been elected to some office, this would still be one of the worst abuses of executive power in American history. No one in the executive branch has the legal authority to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations. No one has the legal authority to turn the Treasury payments system into a means of political retribution. No one has the authority to summarily dismiss civil servants without cause. No one has the authority to take down and scrub government websites of public data, itself paid for by American taxpayers. And no private citizen has the authority to access the sensitive data of American citizens for either information gathering or their own, unknown purposes.
February 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM