Rob Honeycutt

@robhon.bsky.social

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As long as Elon’s not here, I’m good.
Timbuk2 founder, climate advocate, patent holder, GA pilot, art lover, mushroom forager

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Giving up hope is also complying with authoritarians in advance. It’s saying that fascism is inevitable, that there is no other way to be. I know it’s hard to keep hope alive, but I hope you find a way. ❤️

Don’t despair — here’s why https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/04/fourth-july-us-trump-biden-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This Fourth of July, it’s hard to feel optimistic about the US. But I have hope | Margaret Sullivanwww.theguardian.com Let’s remember that we’ve come a long way – and the journey isn’t yet complete

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Thomas Zimmer

Unfortunately, this is not just the abstract manifesto of a feverish mind. It comes with concrete plans and a detailed strategy of how to take over and transform government into an autocratic revenge machine that can impose a reactionary vision against the will of the majority. /end

“Project 2025” Promises Revenge, Oppression, and Autocratic Rulethomaszimmer.substack.com The Right’s plans for a return to power are driven by a radicalizing siege mentality and a desperate desire to restore dominance

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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

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This is true and Harlan Crow and Charles Koch are smart enough to know they don’t really need more justices on SCOTUS. They have what they need. What they now aim for is a full authoritarian coup. That’s why billionaires put $100M into Project 2025. We are already in the crisis.

“The same megadonors who have created this blueprint are the same people who have been purchasing lavish gifts for Alito and Thomas, seeking to influence the court. And they want more justices like them seated.”

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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Official act. Immune.

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The more you read yesterday’s immunity decision, the more appalling it gets. My take: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | The Supreme Court Creates a Lawless Presidencywww.nytimes.com It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.

Here is by far the best discussion I’ve heard on the current state of the election. youtu.be/L1eL6RkET60?...

Here's What Needs to Happen. #2024election (w/ JVL & Sarah Longwell) | Bulwark Podcastyoutu.be The Secret Pod makes an emergency appearance to work through last night's terrible performance by Biden and to urge the Democratic Party to do the responsible thing in this moment. show notes Claire McCaskill on Biden's performance: https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1806542745307083200 Tim's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dApY6YT48kTh6j9xFDQch?go=1&sp_cid=90f369bc60a409fd28c5569dfb574025&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=5d681e2cdd8547c6 0:00 - Intro 1:46 - Donald Trump’s Bad Debate Performance 8:06 - Grading Debate Performance 12:47 - Aspen Ideas Festival Watching Debate 17:10 - Post-Debate Focus Groups 18:48 - Embarrassment Over Biden’s Performance 22:15 - Joe Biden’s Accomplishments as President 25:10 - Biden’s Inner Circle Counseling After Debate 29:26 - Pod Save America 30:04 - Biden’s Failure to Make the Case Against trump 31:35 - The Path Forward 37:22 - Who Could Replace Joe Biden 43:15 - What Can Joe Biden Do 50:30 - Possibility of Open Convention 51:38 - Hakeem Jeffries Response to Biden’s Debate Performance Send your mailbag questions here: [email protected] 🔥 Get 30 days of Bulwark+ absolutely free: https://thebulwark.com/freetrial ------ 🚨 Want to listen without ads? Join Bulwark+ for an exclusive ad-free version of The Bulwark Podcast. For a limited time, we're offering 30 days completely free: https://thebulwark.com/freetrial The Bulwark Podcast: Tim Miller and guests discuss the latest news from inside Washington and around the world. No shouting, grandstanding, or sloganeering. Conservative, conscientious, and civil. Browse episodes and add The Bulwark Podcast to your podcast client of choice: https://www.thebulwark.com/s/bulwarkpodcast

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Kevin M. Kruse

Oh and the "historical context of our country" is that the Founding Fathers knew from hard personal experience that the mixing of religion and government had caused centuries of war and chaos across Europe, so when they set up a new country here THEY VERY EXPLICITLY DID NOT DO THAT.

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Want to know tell your friends what Project 2025 says about abortion? Project 2025 says abortion is already banned in all 50 states and all they need is a President Trump to let everyone know.

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Seth Cotlar

Remember how Trump floated the idea that Covid would go away if we just stopped testing for it? People treated that like it was Trump being dumb, but it was actually him articulating his quite savvy, authoritarian way of handling information. Want climate change to go away? Just stop measuring it!

This should be posted by everyone, on every platform, every day until the election.

Importing this @volts.wtf thread from the bad place. It opens with a link to a piece that used official data to establish that yes, crime rates are indeed very much down recently. But here’s the thing, Project 2025’s Trump 2.0 promises to destroy that world in which we can “know” things like this.

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At the cutting edge of climate research, individual extreme event attribution now takes only days to quantify the human fingerprint. The latest analysis shows that the crippling early season heatwave enveloping the lower US and Mexico is 35 times more likely due to human-caused climate change.

Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likelyapnews.com Daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heat stroke in parts of the United States were 35 times more likely and 2.5 degrees hotter.

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

Okay, at what point do we call BS on this endless stream of snake oil? I propose new legislation called the “Put Up or Shut Up Act” that requires megacorps to sell us what the have NOW, not some fanciful notion of what they think they’ll do someday

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Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act & Bipartisan Infrastructure Law make the largest investment in climate resilience in history, and has billions of dollars for habitat restoration. It will help a lot of vulnerable folks be resilient to climate impacts. In the next climate bills, let’s include more.

@costasamaras.bsky.social All the future IRAs should include nature restoration. It’s hugely popular among the local and regional communities. Less contentious as changing the power system or transport, both being key to decarbonization but people should have nice things while at it

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Is climate change a threat? Yes Can climate change be an opportunity? Yes Will things get worse as we heat up the planet? Yes Can things get better despite heating the planet? Yes Will leaders never take all the steps we must to act? Yes Can we make leaders do lot more? Yes

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"Path-dependence of the Plio–Pleistocene glacial/interglacial cycles" | Our new PNASNews article on the surprising role of hysteresis in the climate trajectory of the past few million years, including mid-Pleistocene onset of the ~100 kyr sawtooch cycle www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Path-dependence of the Plio–Pleistocene glacial/interglacial cycles | PNASwww.pnas.org We find strong path dependence in the evolution of the Plio–Pleistocene glaciations using CLIMBER-2 Earth System Model simulations from the mid-Pli...

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Am sure this will get all sorts of dunks for seeming inconsistency, but important to stress what this makes clear. “Back the Blue” backers aren’t (have never) backed police per se. They back authoritarian social control, and see police as way to do that. Police who don’t back that aren’t covered.

Twenty-four states tell Judge Cannon that they want to file an amicus brief opposing the special counsel's request to modify Trump's conditions of release to stop him from inciting threats against law enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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dunking on oblivious threads hustlebros should be an olympic sport

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An essential read from the former research manager of Stanford’s Internet Observatory, on how spreaders of misinformation (people who have been deceived) and disinformation (people who know they’re lying) view even *labelling* a post as misinformation as censorship. More … 🧵

I feel seen. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complexwww.theatlantic.com Online conspiracy theorists turned me into “CIA Renee.”

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The right-wing trolls refuse to listen but they demand to be heard. Hard pass. Block them early and often.

Trolling + misinformation requires an audience: so when rather than responding, I simply block, they also perceive that as censorship. This latest accusation, for example, claims that, as a university professor, I am a public official and hence shouldn’t be allowed to block anyone on social media.

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The future is terror: a major misinformation research unit collapses after a concerted campaign by conservative media and lawmakers, y’know, the guys who go on about free speech www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I find this utterly insane. But I’m pretty certain Musk’s bonus package isn’t going to be worth much when the company fails to hit their revenue targets. www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/t...

Tesla shareholders vote to reinstate Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay packagewww.cnbc.com At Tesla's annual meeting on Thursday, shareholders were asked to vote on a dozen proposals, including CEO Elon Musk's 2018 pay package.

Perhaps Elon should figure out how to stay in his lane, both figuratively and literally.

So he’s saying he keeps putting his hand on a hot stove, which sounds about right

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Note to Russ Vought: My pursuit of happiness doesn’t involve conforming to your religious beliefs

Eliminating the Constitution, as the Founders intended. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-constitutional’ vision for second termwww.washingtonpost.com Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers.

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I really cannot overemphasize how serious those of us who say this might be the last meaningful election are this will not be anything like his first term and they are deadly serious about eliminating any possible opposition to their theocracy inside or outside the government

Eliminating the Constitution, as the Founders intended. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

How about we just ask them what they think about “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” and how they feel about those today who would work to limit these for select groups of people.

JD Vance on D-Day: "Ask the Greatest Generation what they feel about sex changes for minors."

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net JD Vance on D-Day: "Ask the Greatest Generation what they feel about sex changes for minors."

When the Republicans say they want to “expand Presidential powers” take careful note because that is a euphemism for establishing a dictatorship