If you think only those 8 Democrats in the Senate who actually cast votes to cave supported the Schumer plan, you’re hopelessly naive.
And if you think •all• the Democrats in the Senate (or everywhere) secretly supported it, wow are you ever naive.
And if you think elected officials of any stripe are the ones who are going to save us…hoo boy.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. hospitalized
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/11/12/jesse-jackson-sr-hospitalized-progressive-supranuclear-palsy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The car of the day.
#CarsOfMastodon
“Clark Gable's 1938 Packard Eight ‘Darrin’ Convertible Victoria. There were news stories at the time (which may or may not be true) that Gable had to sell the car shortly after purchasing it because he and the car would attract too much attention--with women constantly following him or trying to jump in the car from the street. Probably a bit of an exaggeration. Photos from Bonhams and RM Sothebys.” - Hollywood Garage
Service Credit Union Opens in Haverhill, Lends Support for ‘Those Who Serve Others’
(Additional photographs below.) Service Credit Union formally opened its freestanding Haverhill branch Wednesday morning at Westgate Plaza with a ribbon cutting ceremony and pledge to support the community. Service Credit Union Vice President Retail Banking Meghan Leach told a gathering of elected officials, business community and others the Portsmouth, N.H.-based institution was…
What flower is this? - All For Gardening
Northern California, this time of year (fall)Gardener (All For Gardening)
QB Jalen Macon scores 3 TDs and throws for a 4th in his 1st start for NIU, a 45-3 rout of UMass
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/northern-illinois-routs-umass-jalen-macon/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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State Awards Clean River Project Grant for Merrimack River Efforts
The Clean River Project was recently awarded a $39,750 grant from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust to help its comprehensive river cleanup efforts. The local outfit was one of 12 recipients sharing in nearly $500,000 in state grants to support conservation and restoration efforts of aquatic habitats “Proceeds from our environmental license plates goes to important projects—opening rivers for fish…
Talk Explores Impact of 500 Years of Colonization on Abenaki
The impact of 500 years of colonization on the Abenaki peoples of the Northeast is the topic of a free lecture offered by the Haverhill Public Library via Zoom. The virtual talk, “People of the Dawnland,” will be offered Tuesday, Nov. 25, from 7-8 p.m. and is part of a series organized by the Groton library. The speaker is Anne Jennison, a traditional Native American storyteller and historian of European and…
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Good people everywhere, do you have any reference about the fediverse and rural communities?
Success cases, servers managed in rural communities, rural business that benefit from being on the fediverse?
Any help or boost will be welcome
> Success cases, servers managed in rural communities, rural business that benefit from being on the fediverse?
Great question! I'm very curious about this too.
There’s no Rust on this Ironclad Kernel
#softwaredevelopment #ada #kernel #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2
There’s No Rust On This Ironclad Kernel
Rust is the new hotness in programming languages because of how solid its memory protections are. Race conditions and memory leaks are hardly new issues however, and as greybeards are wont to point…Hackaday
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#vegetable : plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division
- French: légume
- German: das Gemüse
- Italian: vegetale / verdura
- Portuguese: vegetal
- Spanish: vegetal
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A daily challenge to chain words together @ wordwallgame.com
TIL about graphene aluminum ion battery development
Not ready yet btw, so no eta on production
Lithium Ion battery graphene aluminum ion battery
graphenemg.com/graphene-produc…
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Not only did I wipe Lemmings from my hard disc, I overwrote it so's I couldn't get it back.
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett
Chop? - All For Gardening
I really don’t think the leaves on Figgy’s second stalk are going to recover. Should I chop near the top of that stalk?Gardener (All For Gardening)
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •But if you think that the Democratic party is a fractured and messy coalition that’s going through a genuine internal crisis over whether to be an opposition party, and the party needs to figure that out while •we• take the lead on forming an opposition…well, then, we can talk.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Even the most radical-minded regularly fall into the trap of thinking that politicians are leaders. (It’s an easy trap; we call them “leaders” all the time.) I’ve been seeing a lot of that thinking in the complaints in my TL the last couple of days.
Politicians are always lagging indicators of change. They can be a tool of change, they can help systematize change, but they rarely •cause• it.
Politicians follow. People lead.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •I’ve seen posts about how Democratic politicians have to be “punished” and then they’ll shape up — even one horrifying post basically arguing that we need a couple more years for fascism to fully materialize in order to reform our political system.
My dude…this “people will wake up when it’s bad enough” trope doesn’t work. It’s never worked. It’s been failing spectacularly my whole life — and if one Trump term didn’t do it…what will? And how many people’s lives will be destroyed along the way?
That thinking will kill us all.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Please complain about Schumer and his cohort. Please give the mushy centrists black eyes. Please light a fire under all the politicians.
But…please also look for work you can do that doesn’t center around elections. Start local. Help people. Throw sand in the gears. Whatever it is, do work that counts.
Create a context in which there •has• to be an anti-fascist opposition party, because that’s the work so many people are already doing. •That• is what the cynicism is trying to stop you from doing.
/end
Jeff Miller (orange hatband)
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •The Lack Thereof
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •I have been literally hearing this since my first presidential election.
Y'know, if Nader pulls off enough votes to put Gore behind, the party will have a reckoning and every candidate will pivot to my policies in particular!
Every. Fucking. Time.
And, yeah, maybe, like, undergrad age folks in their literal first election cycle can be forgiven for it, but at some point you have to develop pattern recognition.
Greg Bell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •🔏 Matthias Wiesmann
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •That's a thing I have seen a bit in social media, people [in the US] talking about Versailles and beheading people. Versailles was built by Louis XIV – basically ruining the country in the process, the french revolution happened under Louis XVI, two Louis and 80 years later.
Franco stayed in power for long…
Null Hypothesis
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Asbestos
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Greg Bell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Mastodon Migration
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •