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Posts by Jon Spaihts
Given that a fully charged and connected smartphone is now a de facto necessity for air travel, event attendance, and other basic functions, it's striking that our public spaces have not adapted with suitable charging infrastructure.
And 24 hours later, he is no longer here to save the Iranian people or slaughter them, but rather in cahoots with the Iranian regime in a toll-extraction enterprise.
What will tomorrow bring?
Trump went from liberating the Iranian people to liquidating the Iranian people mighty quick.
You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything?
That’s how the internet was.
I can’t stop thinking about how the HHS Secretary of the United States of America went on the news and bragged about doing coke off toilet seats and do y’all remember when Bill Clinton had to pretend like he never inhaled weed because it was a massive nationwide scandal? Wtf are we even doing here
A video still of Debbie Harry from a music video in which she and the set are styled by H.R. Giger.
H.R. Giger designed a Debbie Harry music video.
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Shot: Colbert explaining to his audience last night that the Trump administration ordered him not to air an interview with Texas Democrat and Senate candidate James Talarico - or even mention his name. (Scroll to 1:30) youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA
Solar panels are 95-99% recycable & so are wind turbines, despite all the haters out there.
Solarcycle — a U.S. company — will recycle 25% of ALL retired solar panels in the U.S. by 2030.
Carbon Rivers — a U.S. company — can recycle any wind turbine.
Stop the fear mongering about renewables ✊
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M of our tax money, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes, plus another 530 with minor traffic violations.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two civilian deaths. Trump is REALLY BAD at this.
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it
Yeah, posting up with their faces in the wall like the closing shot of Blair Witch is not exactly projecting power.
After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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NOEM IS LYING. I have seen people get taken! It was the same each time: armed men racing out of a blacked-out SUV, seizing a screaming or fleeing pedestrian, and pulling them into the car without any attempt to even learn their identity. Always a person alone on the street. Always a person of color.
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
The boy holding a bag of haribo confectionary is questioned by a masked IcE agent while three others with weapons stand by
The boy has head bowed, holding his confectionary, as he is taken away.
A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
The reason you have congressional hearings is so
stories like this HAVE to get coverage for the normies. There were TEN Benghazi investigations. Give me twenty ICE investigations, with big damn press conferences.
Like you just can't have this. You can't. The two largest papers in the country bought by billionaires for propaganda. Same with social networks. And television stations.
You can't have it. It's literally incompatible with a healthy society and we're seeing the consequences.
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"
I think yes for sure, and to an unsustainable degree. Something's going to break.
An observation post-Christmas shopping in Los Angeles: places aimed the affluent were teeming with shoppers in posh outfits spending freely. Areas serving more regular folks were sparsely attended or deserted, with a startling number of vacant storefronts. Few pop-up Christmas shops.
Trouble.
A USPS mailbox in New York City
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Go Into The Story interview: My in-depth conversation with screenwriter Jon Spaihts. His film credits include Prometheus, Doctor Strange, Passengers (2007 Black List script), Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two. www.patreon.com/posts/146815... #movies #screenwriting
There are only two offenses the Constitution goes out of its way to specifically say merit impeachment, and this is one of them.