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@rainontherocks.bsky.social

I’m just a guy who’s trying to keep informed. Not being very articulate myself, I hope to share posts of those who’ve said it better than I could.

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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

08.05.2025 13:14 — 👍 14773    🔁 4285    💬 217    📌 240
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We need the best educated workforce in the world.

We need the best teachers in the world.

We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.

No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

26.04.2025 15:12 — 👍 16860    🔁 4496    💬 833    📌 335
A penguin pointing w a stick at a pic sitting on an easel of a Tesla w a pigeon flying over head pooping on it as 3 pigeons look on

A penguin pointing w a stick at a pic sitting on an easel of a Tesla w a pigeon flying over head pooping on it as 3 pigeons look on

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04.04.2025 16:33 — 👍 36464    🔁 8263    💬 852    📌 704
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Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…

“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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22.03.2025 16:08 — 👍 44650    🔁 14540    💬 1196    📌 1085

It has now been 30 days with NO humanitarian aid getting into Gaza.

No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel.

That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.

03.04.2025 00:46 — 👍 7109    🔁 1457    💬 182    📌 70
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Dow drops over 1,200 points at open on trade war fears over new tariffs President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on imported goods, which were higher and broader than many expected. The new import taxes are expected to raise prices and slow growth in the U.S., while pus...

JUST IN: Dow drops over 1,200 points at open over global trade war fears following new tariffs

03.04.2025 13:36 — 👍 952    🔁 210    💬 71    📌 46

“She’s bought and paid for by the Democratic Party…” she says without irony while Elon is literally buying votes

02.04.2025 16:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No lies told here.

31.03.2025 18:32 — 👍 25654    🔁 7409    💬 828    📌 406
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Cutting Off NPR and PBS (Gift Article) Republicans say there is no reason for the government to fund the public broadcasters.

“When Mister Rogers’s testimony came up at the hearing last week, one witness said that Congress shouldn’t have listened to him.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/b...

02.04.2025 12:17 — 👍 570    🔁 134    💬 55    📌 22

Oof

01.04.2025 03:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This! As Kai Ryssdal says, “the stock market is not the economy.”

30.03.2025 16:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Musk’s SpaceX Could Secure Billions in New Contracts Under Trump The boost in federal spending for SpaceX will come in part as a result of actions by President Trump and Elon Musk’s allies and employees who hold government positions. Supporters say he has the best ...

Found some fraud and abuse…

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...

23.03.2025 19:12 — 👍 919    🔁 195    💬 23    📌 4

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