Frank Vehafric

Frank Vehafric

@fvehafric.bsky.social

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Semi retired union rep, Oregon is home. I travel when I can afford it, interests in human origins, photography, fly fishing and restoring our US public lands..

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Today's homemade: mozzarella, fontina, romano cheese, some chunks of genoa salami, dotted with nduja sausage, onion, jalapeno, sweet yellow peppers. The nduja- spicier than pepperoni with Calabrian peppers, slightly sweet, and slightly smoked, it renders into a little puddle of flavored cured pork.

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Tom Wrongbottom 🍦

Look. I could get a gun and shoot myself in the dick, maybe bleed out and die if I'm lucky, or I could stop gooning over my insecurities. We'll lose this democracy, this republic, because we have fee fees and tingles and anxiety.

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I like unions, we should have more of them. coloradosun.com/2024/06/25/d...

Denver city workers can't collectively bargain. That could change.coloradosun.com Denver is one of the only major cities in a blue state where city employees do not have collective bargaining rights.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

That's why I shop at the unionized grocery store. If you can afford ethical, it behooves you to do so. Your alright!

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THERE’S A QUIET NEW DEAL GOING ON The antidote to Project 2025 is happening now and will die if Trump seizes power. So let’s make some noise.

Why is The Quiet New Deal so quiet? | the earlyworm societywww.patreon.com Get more from the earlyworm society on Patreon

Sometimes the best choice we can make, will still leave us feeling sad and a bit helpless, caught in the meatgrinder of the world. That's the way choices work. The idea that we can escape the moral consequences of a choice by refusing to choose is a delusion.

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The mayor of Portage, Indiana, steered over $1 million in city contracts to a truck dealership, which then wrote him a $13,000 check. The conservatives on SCOTUS—with extensive experience in being lavished with gifts after favorable rulings—say this is very legal and very cool.

www.supremecourt.gov

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Glenn Levy @levyglenn.bsky.social Donald Trump stole nuclear secrets and other classified docs, and refused to return them. His appointed "judge" is stonewalling to help her benefactor. In a normal world, that would be front page news every day of the week.

The facts come out in drips and dabs, don’t they. 🤬 abcnews.go.com/US/special-c...

Special counsel probed Trump Mar-a-Lago trip that aides 'kept quiet' weeks before FBI search: Sourcesabcnews.go.com A Mar-a-Lago trip taken by Donald Trump that aides allegedly "kept quiet" before the FBI searched the property in 2022 raised suspicions among investigators, sources say.

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Start the day with good news The Interior Dept. designates a 4-million-acre conservation area in Florida that will support both wildlife and recreation. www.doi.gov/pressrelease...

Interior Department Establishes Everglades to Gulf Conservation Area to Conserve Habitat, Protect Wildlife and Support Recreation | U.S. Department of the Interiorwww.doi.gov The Department of the Interior today announced the establishment of the Everglades to Gulf Conservation Area in southwest Florida as the 571st and newest unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System, w...

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Starbucks union is close to a contract. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/b...

A Development in the U.S. Labor Movementwww.nytimes.com Starbucks and its union are on track to reach a contract.

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President Joe Biden is giving mass clemency to US service members convicted of charges under a Cold War-era purge of gay and lesbian people

Biden to Pardon US Service Members Convicted Because They Were Gaywww.bloomberg.com President Joe Biden will issue a proclamation giving mass clemency to US service members convicted of charges under a Cold War-era purge of gay and lesbian people, reversing a decades-long policy of d...

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It was the nearest weapon at hand to club Hillary Clinton with and the press was happy to club her with it along with him

That he ran and won on protecting classified documents is mind boggling.

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I’m never going to say that voting is the path to our liberation. But if we don’t want to sacrifice a tremendous amount of Black, brown, Indigenous, queer, trans, and poor people, we HAVE to have both inside AND outside strategies. The system is fucked up. But we cannot concede it.

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It looks like someone’s taking one of those hairless cats to the vet to be euthanized

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

See, you think money is a thing people acquire because it has uses, such as paying for stuff. Imagine you're a hollow, misanthropic bag of shit with lots of money. You have no purpose or personality, so you make the wealth your personality. You thus have to keep acquiring more to exist.

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Andrew Rothstein

This is exactly why she is so good at what she does. She doesn't ever compromise her goals or ideals. But she understands that compromising on process to make gains towards those goals is the key to reaching them and she proudly takes credit from the gains that are made. She's damn good.

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Somehow, the ads Secretary Clinton used made a subsection of people more likely to vote for trump. They attempted to highlight his words as bad. But they came from an establishment mentality. So they ended up spreading his message to more people.

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No, you're supposed to pretend Biden and Trump are the same, and that Trump will potentially be an improvement over Biden on Gaza

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈

Biden's second term would almost certainly make his the most consequential presidency for climate change in American history. Trump's second term would also almost certainly make his the most consequential presidency for climate change in American history. For very, very different reasons.

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It's almost as if voting were a lifelong responsibility.

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Probably not, if you want to reclaim the Court you’re going to need to vote in 2028 too.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈

Some people who are very stupid are saying stupid shit in the replies here. I am blocking them. Some of you are trying to argue with these people as if they are expressing a reasonable and defensible point of view. This is clogging my mentions and wasting your time.

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A lot of things that Biden wants to do are things I think are good things we should do. A lot of things Trump wants to do are things I think are bad things we shouldn't do. Therefore I will be supporting Biden even though I don't agree with him on everything. This is not complicated.

Excited to introduce a project I've been working on for a long time: a thorough comparison of Biden and Trump on the issues. "The stakes, not the odds," to borrow from Jay Rosen. The initial version has 6 topics, but I'll be adding more, as well as updating with new statements/policies. Gift link:

Where Joe Biden and Donald Trump Stand on the Issueswww.nytimes.com Here’s what President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medicare.

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If this piece is right, the Putinites see Trump as their revenge for the demise of the USSR, and, honestly, that's some pretty good revenge.

Putin Is Banking On a Trump Win for His New World Orderwww.vanityfair.com Donald Trump’s nickname in the Kremlin? The American Gorbachev. Officials believe his chaos will be the downfall of the US.

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one of the "progressives" quoted here leads an explicitly anti-Semitic organization that forbids members from speaking to "the Zionist media" and praised Hamas on its website if you want to know how deep Bloomberg had to dig to find a source to meet the headline someone's editor demanded

AOC's evolution from activist to pragmatist supporting Joe Biden's reelection is roiling some progressives

AOC Is Getting Too Mainstream for Her Progressive Basewww.bloomberg.com New Yorker known as AOC is Biden campaign emissary to young, minority voters.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

Oh no! She is gaining allies in the party and climbing the ranks of seniority to a place where she can be more effective.

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To underscore this very important point... The chief source of contemporary "lizard people" claims is David Icke, who actually used the antisemitic forgery _The Protocols of the Elders of Zion_ as a source in laying out his ideas. That's how fundamentally antisemitic the lizard people thing is.

It’s worth remembering that “lizard people” is an extreme version of antisemitism. There are people who don’t explicitly connect to Jews, and maybe they even don’t know, but the origins of conspiracy theory are 100% about us.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

like she literally hasn't changed her positions at all. One of my favorite subplots these last four years is how Biden's biggest policy champions are the progressives and it's the centrist dipshits dragging their feet.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

they also don't vote and if they did vote it'd be a coinflip if they'd vote for GOP or Democrats

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

just keep that in the back of your mind next time you encounter someone like this in the wild, they don’t matter, they don’t exist electorally, don’t fool yourself into thinking they’re worth arguing with