BernardoVerda 🤔
@bernardoverda.bsky.social
Retired. Into science, environment, climate, literature, Proportional Representation, Esperanto, science fiction & fantasy... More interested in "policy" than "politics" -- but nonetheless prefers "woke" over "zombie". "Live & learn, or die an idiot."
I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.
The United States Treasury: An ATM for the Rich and Powerful
@jamestalarico.bsky.social for Texas US Senate gets it - under his opponent Ken Paxton and Gov. Abbott, data centers are running amok in TX. Talarico has a sensible plan to regulate data centers. Texas, he is the right choice for your next senator, not the corrupt, 15 home owning Paxton.
Apple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund check. Amazon got $600 million.: Walmart got $10 Billion. So basically they got to raise all the prices then cash in?
Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.
Right- "Soon the Messiah will come and all of you Palestinians will be our slaves". A Zionist settler tells these people that he has the right to steal their land. Left- Israeli raid deepens fears across West Bank refugee camps.
For Canadians, this definitely makes life harder than it needs to be (sometimes dangerously so). www.youtube.com/shorts/-Sjs7...
The US does not use imperial measurements
YouTube video by TomBacons
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Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
61 years after the Voting Rights Act became law, Texans are still fighting to be counted at the ballot box. Yesterday, the voice of the people was so loud that the Tarrant County Commissioners Court had no choice but to table their attempt to cut polling locations before the midterm election.
No amateur sports program is worth sexually abusing children to prove their gender
Punishing blue states by hurting red voters. www.youtube.com/shorts/aOKa9...
Trump is a profoundly stupid man
YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk
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Tear down the entire Department of Homeland Security. We didn't need it before 2003, we certainly do not need it in 2026. This is not some vital pillar of our national security with a illustrious history - it's a 20 year old add on.
It's hard enough to find people once ice gets them, the people with nobody looking for them are just fucking gone. It's going to be like after WWII when citizens had to be walked through the death camps and refused to believe it was real, the few reports from detention centers are horrific.
This is not radical. What’s radical is allowing ICE to continue it’s unabashed terrorism and violence
El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
Sanders: The irony is that the proper criticism of communism is that the Soviet Union was an authoritarian society. And then you’ve got the most authoritarian president in the history of this country. So I suppose when he says, “I’d be a great communist,” yeah, I think there’s some truth to that
This makes no sense at all. DIsabled people can vote by mail in private. All that is required is that they fill it out and put it in the mail box. Why the demand for access to voting in person by electronic means? They have to travel to do it. Makes me wonder why.
Lawmakers from Oregon, California, Nevada, Minnesota, and New Hampshire specifically called out Polymarket, which hosted bets in January 2025 on the wildfires in Los Angeles.
Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets
Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
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Ninth Circuit: Your AI Agent Can’t Violate Hacking Law. But You Might. The rise of AI is bringing a bunch of fascinating legal questions that are harder to answer than many expect. The... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/05/ninth-circuit-your-ai-agent-cant-violate-hacking-law-but-you-might/
Ninth Circuit: Your AI Agent Can’t Violate Hacking Law. But You Might.
The rise of AI is bringing a bunch of fascinating legal questions that are harder to answer than many expect. The latest one: who is liable if an agentic system running on its own hacks someone? That's the question a bunch of people have been asking this past week in the wake of multiple stories...
techdirt.com
GM Deal with China Exposes Trump Hypocrisy Toward Canada SAIC is state-owned. GM has been in a joint venture for ~30 years. Now the JV's extended for 20 more years. That ok but Canada's diplomatic relationship with China is "evil"? #cdnpoli #uspoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/gm-deal-wi...
GM Deal with China Exposes Trump Hypocrisy Toward Canada
Dear President Trump: Please explain why it's ok for America's biggest automaker to extend its joint venture deal with a Chinese government owned EV manufacturer
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Lloyd Robertson - The Long Lost "Golden Age" of Canadian TV News @jdvorkin, @UofT: Robertson probably wouldn't be hired by today's TV networks. #cdnpoli #lloydrobertson youtu.be/rHRfcR-YgtE
Lloyd Robertson - The Long Lost "Golden Age" of Canadian TV News
YouTube video by Energi Media
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One of the clearest descriptions of climate dynamics for laypeople that you’ll ever hear: “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse.”
This isn't the new normal. It's just the beginning
This summer’s disasters appear to have boosted climate multilateralism, at least within Europe, and underscored the need to tackle fossil fuels. But we may not be waiting long for the scientists' “wor...
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Anne, I am certain that Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Patriot Front, and others are already acquiring and training with them. Certain people want a Turner Diaries and haven't stopped working towards it.
