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@saneenglish.bsky.social
· Feb 24
Who wants to breathe clean air and wield global power and be the reserve currency, what a bore
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To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center.
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
www.gadgetreview.com
October 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center.
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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Damn. What an icon. RIP
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
news.mit.edu
October 7, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Damn. What an icon. RIP
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The former Fox News host who is the president’s son’s former fiancée and current US ambassador to Greece asked for a $100k bribe from a discredited Kentucky lawyer and pizza restaurant mogul who wanted to get his song lyrics in front of Kid Rock
“Honey please I need you to get this done for me.” How Kimberly Guilfoyle pressed a MAGA ally to transfer $100,000 to her Amex account. on.wsj.com/4i9gzYx
Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
on.wsj.com
October 7, 2026 at 10:23 PM
The former Fox News host who is the president’s son’s former fiancée and current US ambassador to Greece asked for a $100k bribe from a discredited Kentucky lawyer and pizza restaurant mogul who wanted to get his song lyrics in front of Kid Rock
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October 7, 2026 at 2:07 AM
"always hated these stupid hats"
October 7, 2026 at 2:17 PM
"always hated these stupid hats"
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The Trump family runs the government, and the government pays the Trump family. This is not a coincidence – it's deep corruption that never would have been tolerated before a convicted felon took over the White House.
Vote against all Republicans.
Vote against all Republicans.
Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
abcnews.com
October 7, 2026 at 1:31 PM
The Trump family runs the government, and the government pays the Trump family. This is not a coincidence – it's deep corruption that never would have been tolerated before a convicted felon took over the White House.
Vote against all Republicans.
Vote against all Republicans.
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Whether it's Obama telling farmers to plant arugula in Iowa or Donald Trump telling Iranians to take out Los Angeles, both presidents made deeply insensitive statements about regions of the country.
October 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Whether it's Obama telling farmers to plant arugula in Iowa or Donald Trump telling Iranians to take out Los Angeles, both presidents made deeply insensitive statements about regions of the country.
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Trump is very good at saying horrific things in a fuzzy way that plausibly leaves an alternate interpretation. He's done it countless times. He knows what he's doing.
October 6, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Trump is very good at saying horrific things in a fuzzy way that plausibly leaves an alternate interpretation. He's done it countless times. He knows what he's doing.
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New shape just dropped www.newscientist.com/article/2590...
Mathematician discovers rare eight-faced shape | New Scientist
It isn't easy to demonstrate that a new geometric shape can actually exist in the real world, but one researcher argues that the genus-3 polyhedron can
www.newscientist.com
September 25, 2026 at 9:13 AM
New shape just dropped www.newscientist.com/article/2590...
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“This is a huge scheme, maybe the biggest, most illegal scheme anybody has ever seen.” — Donald Trump
Trump Drops Bombshell Evidence Biden Actively Campaigned Against Him
WASHINGTON—During an address to the nation Tuesday in which he claimed to have obtained definitive proof that the election was stolen, President Donald Trump presented bombshell evidence showing his o...
theonion.com
October 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM
“This is a huge scheme, maybe the biggest, most illegal scheme anybody has ever seen.” — Donald Trump
so we're gonna ignore this one?
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
October 5, 2026 at 11:51 PM
so we're gonna ignore this one?
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ICE has disclosed another detainee who died
We know:
-After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.*
He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect
An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.*
austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
We know:
-After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.*
He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect
An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.*
austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
austinkocher.substack.com
October 5, 2026 at 12:18 PM
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died
We know:
-After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.*
He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect
An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.*
austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
We know:
-After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.*
He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect
An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.*
austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
www.motherjones.com
October 5, 2026 at 6:48 PM
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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werewolves can be killed by shooting them through the heart with a silver bullet, which will actually kill most non-werewolves as well
October 5, 2026 at 10:09 PM
werewolves can be killed by shooting them through the heart with a silver bullet, which will actually kill most non-werewolves as well
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We're all leaving money on the table by not becoming fake Christian scammers. It doesn't look hard.
October 4, 2026 at 11:29 PM
We're all leaving money on the table by not becoming fake Christian scammers. It doesn't look hard.
As @thebradblog.bsky.social pointed out, the regime tried to indict a man for "vandalizing" the reflecting pool that Trump and his contractor ruined, but no one will be punished for this wanton desecration, which was also caused by Trump.
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
www.gadgetreview.com
October 4, 2026 at 9:05 PM
As @thebradblog.bsky.social pointed out, the regime tried to indict a man for "vandalizing" the reflecting pool that Trump and his contractor ruined, but no one will be punished for this wanton desecration, which was also caused by Trump.
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The administration has found yet another way to fuck with solar power.
The USDA just made it way harder for farmers to get grants for solar
Even farmers who were already promised funds from the REAP program may never get them under the Trump admin’s new restrictions. Some are suing.
www.canarymedia.com
October 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The administration has found yet another way to fuck with solar power.
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The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.
In excusable, nostalgia drenched coverage in lieu of exacting account of mentally unstable rants. This is truly reprehensible non-journalism. See: www.contrariannews.org/p/you-can-he...
In Alabama, Trump Relives His Glory Days (This Time With Some Empty Seats)
The Deep South was the birthplace of the mega MAGA rally. How do people on the Gulf feel about President Trump now?
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2026 at 12:22 PM
The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.
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One thing it's useful to remember is that right-wing donors have created a series of local-news-like content sites to poison the information well. And now we have a GOP Senate candidate attacking his opponent by citing claims made by one of these explicitly partisan sites.
October 2, 2026 at 1:46 PM
One thing it's useful to remember is that right-wing donors have created a series of local-news-like content sites to poison the information well. And now we have a GOP Senate candidate attacking his opponent by citing claims made by one of these explicitly partisan sites.
meanwhile
The #Ebola outbreak in DRC isn't getting much attention these days. It should be. www.statnews.com/2026/10/02/e...
An Ebola treatment center was burned down as the death toll in Congo passes 4,000
Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.
www.statnews.com
October 2, 2026 at 3:11 PM
meanwhile
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Trump benefits from being covered as a conman because it diverts from being covered as a monster.
October 1, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Trump benefits from being covered as a conman because it diverts from being covered as a monster.
"Democrats say the spots are illegal; the White House calls them public service"
The WaPo should just close up shop. It's over.
The WaPo should just close up shop. It's over.
WaPo: “Trump Fifth Avenue shooting incident draws flack” “Democrats say it broke laws…”. See: presswatchers.org/2026/09/the-...
October 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM
"Democrats say the spots are illegal; the White House calls them public service"
The WaPo should just close up shop. It's over.
The WaPo should just close up shop. It's over.
Thank goodness women do not exist, that would just cause problems
Hegseth hosts his first Project Meridian meeting with Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich.
They’re looking at ways to use tech to boost Hegseth’s agenda, most likely using AI for surveillance and weapons.
They’re looking at ways to use tech to boost Hegseth’s agenda, most likely using AI for surveillance and weapons.
October 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Thank goodness women do not exist, that would just cause problems
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Another person has died in Trump's concentration camps. 47-year-old Julian Curo-Churata was from Peru. He died on Sept. 29 after he was imprisoned for three months in Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. That camp is run by LaSalle Corrections. There's no cause of death listed.
Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.
www.ice.gov
October 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Another person has died in Trump's concentration camps. 47-year-old Julian Curo-Churata was from Peru. He died on Sept. 29 after he was imprisoned for three months in Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. That camp is run by LaSalle Corrections. There's no cause of death listed.
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The MTA on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign imports are on track to add $1 billion to the price of New York’s new train cars and buses.
gothamist.com/news/mta-say...
gothamist.com/news/mta-say...
MTA says Trump's tariffs added $1B to cost of NYC's new train cars, buses
New York's train cars and buses are manufactured in the United States, but they rely on loads of components manufactured all over the world.
gothamist.com
September 30, 2026 at 8:07 PM
The MTA on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign imports are on track to add $1 billion to the price of New York’s new train cars and buses.
gothamist.com/news/mta-say...
gothamist.com/news/mta-say...