Geo B

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Pilot,BBQ seeker,Mac/Apple/Linux,BS-Math,cancer survivor, Sci-Fi, Steelers-Penguins-Penn St, military history, classic rock/metal, pro-nuclear, views are my own

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Things are going as expected at the Leopards Eating Faces convention.

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if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.

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Did this back in June: www.houstonchronicle.com/business/tec...

Devices to keep your phones and computers alive when power is outwww.houstonchronicle.com Battery packs and power banks to keep your cellphones, computers and internet running when electricity goes out.

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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To add to Popehat’s point: The vast militarization required to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, & all the apparatus built to carry out that vast deportation, would not be disbanded after the deportation is done. It’d be repurposed to harass, persecute, & hunt down all domestic opposition

/2 It’s also the vast militarization it’s going to require. We’re going to be an occupied nation. Detention of citizens and lawful residents is inevitable and in fact clearly intended. Large-scale violence against immigrants, suspected immigrants, and bystanders is inevitable and clearly intended.

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Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

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We should ban the gun an assailant used to try to kill Donald Trump Makes sense right?

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Hey just remember if you’re a journalist you don’t have to believe anyone who tells you they weren’t going to vote for trump until this happened but now they are. I’m going to let you in on a secret, they were already going to vote for him and they think you’re too dumb to realize that.

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Plans to ban legal weed and porn might be the sort of thing that gets some less engaged voters and “lol nothing matters” voters to care.

Project 2025 would include banning legal weed, right? We should talk about that one a *lot*

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Trump is literally a convict that ain't a painting, it's a photo

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A white supremacist, while trying to go to Ukraine to fight for Russia, allegedly tried to get someone to blow up an electrical substation in the US. The person he contacted, tho, was an undercover cop. Whoops! www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-j...

New Jersey Man Charged with Soliciting Destruction of Energy Facilitieswww.justice.gov Andrew Takhistov, 18, of East Brunswick, New Jersey, was arrested yesterday and made his initial appearance in court today for allegedly soliciting another individual to destroy energy facilities.

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There’s something really perfect about a multimillionaire country music singer who got divorced after fucking around on his wife singing to a multimillionaire from New York who fucked around on his wife about how both of them are humble small town folks who have the morality lacking in big cities

True to form, the bard of small town, "real American" vigilantism Jason Aldean will be headlining the closing concert at the RNC next week. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/jason-a...

Jason Aldean Song Triggered Renewed Attention On Racist Vigilante Justice And Small-Town Nationalismtalkingpointsmemo.com This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...

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Whitmire is really dedicated to being the absolute worst. THE ASTROS SOLD $5 TICKETS AND DOLLAR HOT DOGS, SO PEOPLE COULD GET AIR CONDITIONING AND FOOD AND WATCH A GAME. www.chron.com/sports/astro...

Whitmire questions whether Astros should be playing during outageswww.chron.com Houston Mayor John Whitmire clarified his comments about the Astros' game following Hurricane Beryl on social media late Wednesday night.

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jesus, at minute 22 he starts digging in on trump and just absolutely gores him deep over and over again, people talk about trump as if he's the only one ever able to score any points, but biden's calling trump a criminal, a rapist, an idiot and a traitor to absolutely *ROARING* applause

the contrast between *this* crowd overwhelming biden with WE GOT YOUR BACK at the 9 minute mark compared with the last 2 weeks of coverage is something to contemplate for a moment.

WATCH LIVE: Biden holds campaign event in Detroit as Democrats debate possible withdrawal from racewww.pbs.org Biden continues his effort to convince detractors that he can win his presidential race on Friday with a trip to Michigan, one in trio of "blue wall" states that his campaign now says is the clearest ...

@dwightsilverman.com article idea for you - UPS deals on Prime Day (and others!) after the fun we had in Houston this week

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"You've spoken about how you have an article 2 that gives you great power. Article 2 of what?" "Could you describe the main Christian beliefs in maybe 50 words?" "Was it good the Union won the civil war?"

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In the many years of teaching kids a unit on either slavery or the Civil Rights, I never had a white kid feel bad because they identified with the racists. They all thought they'd be part of the Underground Railroad, they all thought they'd be best friends with Ruby Bridges.

Without even clicking the link, I’ll guess the reason — all the talk of racism makes white kids feel guilty. Again, if your kids are reading histories of slavery or segregation and identifying with the racists in the story, that suggests you’ve got your own problems to work through. Leave us out.

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Anish makes the case for EVs with gas tanks -- range extended EVs, as I did @heatmap.news here heatmap.news/electric-veh...

🔌💡Hybrids have historically been the worst of both worlds - ICE and EV . Small battery, small gas tank. Only incremental improvement. Well now the big cars have the opportunity to design the best of both worlds. Enter the Extended Range EVs (or EREVs). #battchat 1/4

The Case for EVs With Gas Tanksheatmap.news Let’s talk about the Ramcharger 1500 — and why it’s different from a plug-in hybrid.

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Biden has a remarkable climate record. He has also failed to sell it to the public — even to the subset of the public that cares about climate change. Even a friendly press cannot do this for him; ultimately, the candidate must be able to make the case. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/bid...

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The IRS reported Wednesday that it has collected $1 billion in taxes and penalties owed by hundreds of wealthy households who accumulated past-due tax debts for years while IRS enforcement dwindled.

IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxeswapo.st For years, the tax agency simply didn’t try collecting sizable debts owed by 1,600 filers with annual incomes of at least $1 million.

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Dropped calls, can’t text, no internet on your cell phone after Beryl? Here's why By me. Gift link:

Dropped calls, can’t text and no internet on your cell phone? Here’s whywww.houstonchronicle.com Calls wouldn’t go through, or if they did, they’d quickly drop. Even texting, which cellular carriers during a disaster, failed

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Fear is like a monster in the dark. Shine a light on it, cast away the shadows, and its fangs grow shorter, its claws blunter, its power over you diminishes. Let your resolve be your light, and may you hold it high like the warrior you are.

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Sorry for the Xitter link, but this is brilliant: Using the Whataburger app to track power outages. #whataoutage x.com/bbqbryan/sta...

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The Outage Map problem wasn't the source of data, but the resilience of the servers. They were overwhelmed and brought down in the derecho. Rather than put it back up and have it crash yet again, they are rebuilding it from the ground up, on a more robust platform. Should return this month.