theoneGalen - Summer Breakin'
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Rock and roller, history teacher, and Jesus-follower. Deconstructed and reconstructed. Single AF. Nerd. equity matters, trans rights = human rights
Japanese engineers have developed a new method to recover 90% of lithium from used electric vehicle batteries by swapping standard sodium hydroxide for recovered lithium hydroxide in the chemical refining process. In America, we are making it impossible to afford learning the skills to do this.
The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.
The National Archives is shutting down its Chicago, San Francisco & Seattle research facilities. The closures rip public records out of the hands of the people, burying our history behind bureaucracy and darkness. This is NOT how democracy works!
This Day in History... July 23, 1923: John Dillinger joins the Navy in an attempt to avoid prosecution. Ah, those were simpler times. Now to avoid prosecution for countless crimes, one need only become president. www.history.com/this-day-in-...
The idea of Democrats in Congress growing a ballsack (or some powerful ovaries) and actually doing anything to help is still within the room of science fiction, I'm afraid. Keep voting in primaries.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump: "The Democrats are gonna terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance and then they're gonna approve DC and Puerto Rico as states. They get 4 more senators, 12 more congressmen, like 40 electoral votes ... you don't want to see me cry."
He died at Irwin, the detention center made notorious by allegations of unwanted gynecological procedures, and that Biden had shut down. Trump reopened it. Now it’s the site of yet another death in ICE detention following claims of medical neglect.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w agoICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:
From Ed's 's lips to the ears of the invisible hand of the market
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 4w agoI’m continually shocked how little anyone is discussing OpenAI’s direct risk to the future of Oracle - especially as Oracle stock is so crucial to the paramount/WBD closing in September! Also: this situation is one that’s uniquely resistant to bailouts as Oracle’s stock is valued in vibes.
Rare Lincoln Documents Exposed to Unsafe Heat in New Exhibit, NPS Staff Say dc.citycast.fm/news/lincoln...
Rare Lincoln Documents Exposed to Unsafe Heat in New Exhibit, NPS Staff Say · City Cast DC
Beneath the Lincoln Memorial, another potential disaster is brewing for the Park Service.
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someone tell serkis that middle-earth isn’t real and there aren’t actually white people in Arda
Bianca Michelle Parker@bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 4w agoFeels bad that a director of a major studio film is perfectly comfortable saying that casting non-white actors is just something you do to look woke and otherwise isn't remotely necessary
Remember when there were big incidents with some bad thing in produce and the CDC told us within days "oh yeah, it came from this spinach factory, on March 8, third line, don't buy bagged lettuce with IDs starting with 17000."
Gender affirming care for *some* members of the armed forces apnews.com/article/hegs... announces new policy to test troops for low testosterone
Hegseth announces new policy to test troops for low testosterone
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he's rolling out a new screening program for “testosterone deficiency” among troops.
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excellent @maragay.bsky.social on why the Dem establishment needs to wake the fuck up and face the fact that the electorate is to the left of them on pretty much everything: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
Opinion | The Democratic Establishment Had This Coming (Gift Article)
The Democratic Party needs shaking up.
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WATERS: I have here Trump' financial disclosure, which shows he made billions from his family's crypto businesses. This is an egregious conflict of interest ... do you believe Congress must put an end to it? WARSH: You've given us a big job, and I'm focused on that
Not relevant to the post but Jessica and our nieces finger-wove some of the sashes worn by some of the Osage in a few scenes!
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · last mo.Somebody (Rebecca Onion) didn't read the books. If they read the books, they would know the Black doctor is in the books. He nurses the Ingalls family through malaria. He's based on a real Black doctor who lived near the Ingalls family in Independence, KS, REBECCA ONION slate.com/culture/2026...
My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
i will voluntarily pay extra taxes to any country that agrees to drag our cops and elected leaders before an international court
Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · 4w agoNo, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
Maine Democrats asked "Should Graham Platner’s replacement be more progressive or more moderate than most Democrats?"
After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.
“I did believe the election was stolen and the rioters were patriots - until I turned off Fox News.”
Microbiologist & stem-cell researcher Dr. Ann Tsukamoto co-patented a process to isolate human hematopoietic stem cells, 1991. Her work laid the literal groundwork for modern regenerative medicine and cancer treatment. She was born #OTD in 1952. #WomenInSTEM #medsky
OPINION: "What (my mom) understood most was that those trips away from our small east Mississippi town were vital to who I would become," Torsheta Jackson writes. "She knew how easy it was to grow up in a bubble, believing that our little segregated world was the norm."
Editor’s Note | Travel Is the Best Classroom We Can Give Our Children
Systemic and Solutions Editor Torsheta Jackson writes that travel is important to her family because of the lessons that it teaches her children that they cannot learn from a textbook.
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i find it very funny that, canonically, the last character in this comic strip would be required by his belief system to murder you the instant you admitted to having used any kind of AI for any purpose
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought
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