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@abbeyarletto

Increasingly radicalized dissident from Northern New England. Yale Poli Sci, advanced cynicism. β˜„οΈ 🌎<shrug

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I'm not sure how European swallows would handle that climate. Maybe train larger African birds to fly above them and give them shade during the journey.

11.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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So many ways to do this. People with buckets, passing them hand to hand. Fixing oil crisis and unemployment crisis in one fell swoop. Or train birds to carry the oil in little baskets. Or, hear me out, simply pour it into the water and let the ocean carry it to the other side. Why is it so hard?

11.03.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is this the moment Trump became president of the United States of America?

11.03.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large

AI criticism – or β€œdoomerism”, as the technology’s proponents view it – has been mounting across sectors. But when it comes to its impact on students, early studies point to potentially catastrophic effects on cognitive abilities and critical thinking skills.

11.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's NSA director:

Baldwin
Coons
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kelly
King
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Whitehouse

10.03.2026 20:36 πŸ‘ 1470 πŸ” 642 πŸ’¬ 435 πŸ“Œ 932
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The future of social media is just AI bots posting at each other.

11.03.2026 01:22 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

What's the point of courts if they permit agencies and people to violate the very laws those same courts exist to protect?

10.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Oil Prices Spike Over $110 a Barrel, Highest Since Pandemic

1. We have huge oil reserves due to years of overproduction despite decreasing demand.

2. The stock market drives the global economy with a healthy mix of greed and hysteria.

3. Imagine if some sort of energy could be created without the use of a finite heavy pollutant. Wouldn't that be something?

09.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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'Everybody’s afraid not to wear them': Trump buys shoes for admin officials President Donald Trump is buying expensive shoes for his advisors, and people are scared of not wearing them. According to a bizarre Wall Street Journal report, during meetings, the 79-year-old presid...

According to a bizarre WSJ report, during meetings, Trump starts guessing people's shoe size and then orders them $145 pair of loafers known as Florsheims.

β€œAll the boys have them,” a female White House official remarked.

One joked, β€œIt’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them.”

09.03.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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Trump more popular than Harris, Newsom: Survey Despite a dip in job approval ratings, President Trump is still beating out former Vice President Kamala Harris (D) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in an overall popularity contest.Β  In new NB…

In new NBC News survey results released Monday, 41 percent of respondents expressed favorable views of the president.

Only 34 percent of those polled responded favorably to Harris, compared with 27 percent for Newsom.

10.03.2026 06:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump more popular than Harris, Newsom: Survey Despite a dip in job approval ratings, President Trump is still beating out former Vice President Kamala Harris (D) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in an overall popularity contest.Β  In new NB…

In new NBC News survey results released Monday, 41 percent of respondents expressed favorable views of the president.

Only 34 percent of those polled responded favorably to Harris, compared with 27 percent for Newsom.

10.03.2026 06:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ah yes, "unique".

09.03.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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'Everybody’s afraid not to wear them': Trump buys shoes for admin officials President Donald Trump is buying expensive shoes for his advisors, and people are scared of not wearing them. According to a bizarre Wall Street Journal report, during meetings, the 79-year-old presid...

According to a bizarre WSJ report, during meetings, Trump starts guessing people's shoe size and then orders them $145 pair of loafers known as Florsheims.

β€œAll the boys have them,” a female White House official remarked.

One joked, β€œIt’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them.”

09.03.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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Climate change will increase forest disturbances in Europe throughout the 21st century Wildfires, insect outbreaks, and storms cause large pulses of tree mortality. Climate change amplifies these forest disturbances, yet their future magnitude and extent remain uncertain. Here, we simul...

Across Europe, climate-driven forest disturbances, such as wildfires and insect outbreaks, are expected to increase over the next century, according to a new large-scale modeling study in Science, substantially altering forested landscapes continent-wide. scim.ag/4ldjSxP

09.03.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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09.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Americans aren't facing a democratic collapse. We’re living in its aftermath | Eric Reinhart The US was an oligarchy well before Trump’s first term. Recognizing this reality is essential to building a true democracy

"Americans are not living under threat of future democratic breakdown; we are living inside the aftermath of one that has already occurred."

09.03.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Oil Prices Spike Over $110 a Barrel, Highest Since Pandemic

1. We have huge oil reserves due to years of overproduction despite decreasing demand.

2. The stock market drives the global economy with a healthy mix of greed and hysteria.

3. Imagine if some sort of energy could be created without the use of a finite heavy pollutant. Wouldn't that be something?

09.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ah yes, "unique".

09.03.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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09.03.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientists, Engineers and Legal Experts Condemn Partisan Attack on Scientific Reference Manual for Judges - Inside Climate News Last month, a government agency erased climate change from a manual that helps federal and state judges understand complex science in court. The political attack on the nonpartisan publication β€œshould...

Scientists, engineers, lawyers, statisticians and other experts sounded the alarm Monday about the recent decision to remove a chapter on climate science from an influential reference manual designed to help judges understand complex scientific evidence.

08.03.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientists, Engineers and Legal Experts Condemn Partisan Attack on Scientific Reference Manual for Judges - Inside Climate News Last month, a government agency erased climate change from a manual that helps federal and state judges understand complex science in court. The political attack on the nonpartisan publication β€œshould...

Scientists, engineers, lawyers, statisticians and other experts sounded the alarm Monday about the recent decision to remove a chapter on climate science from an influential reference manual designed to help judges understand complex scientific evidence.

08.03.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfathomably massive, life critical news that 97% of people won’t know because of the cretins who own and operate the mainstream news.

(Sometimes it helps to say/write it out loud even though it does almost nothing at this point)

07.03.2026 10:56 πŸ‘ 146 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Abolish the entire fcking DHS

07.03.2026 09:58 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If we survive this, I really hope parents take a long look at how they are teaching empathy to their children. It's so obvious that that is the missing ingredient in huge chunks of the population, amplified by social media algorithms and cultural rewards for reactions rather than thoughtfulness.

07.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 2921 πŸ” 669 πŸ’¬ 129 πŸ“Œ 25
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This iceberg was once the biggest in the world. Now it has just weeks left - BBC News A23a was once twice the size of Greater London but now its 40-year journey is coming to an end.

'This iceberg was once the biggest in the world. Now it has just weeks left.' πŸ§ͺ www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

07.03.2026 09:53 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than β€œin a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Conservative MAGA ideologue Matt Schlapp has attempted to justify the killing of more than 100 young girls at an elementary school in southern Iran, by claiming they were saved from religious extremism.

By that logic, I suppose we should start bombing red states.

07.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El NiΓ±o

Global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years. The rate is higher than scientists have seen since they started systematically taking the Earth’s temperature in 1880.

06.03.2026 23:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would be true to form. Not a big enough location for a stadium that size though. My guess is he'll take Franklin Park.

06.03.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump plans to build a 100K-seat stadium near White House for his UFC birthday fight The proposed stadium would be yet another major real estate project undertaken by President Trump near the White House

Why is America allowing this man to vandalize and trespass on what belongs to the people? It does not belong to him. Evict him from the WH and kick him out of Washington.

06.03.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fetterman Announces He’ll Vote to Confirm Mullin as Trump’s New DHS Secretary: β€˜I Am an AYE’ Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) announced Thursday that he will be voting to confirm Markwayne Mullin as Homeland Security secretary.

Fetterman Announces He’ll Vote to Confirm Mullin as Trump’s New DHS Secretary: β€˜I Am an AYE’.

06.03.2026 05:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1