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silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Chemtrails Aren’t Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them? Banning chemtrails is “like banning unicorns or banning Bigfoot,” says one weather expert
10·3 days agoIn a couple states, yes. They don’t actually do anything to restrict the water vapor trails that aircraft routinely produce in cold air.
They in a couple cases impose restrictions on cloud seeding.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump jokes about Santa giving a child 'clean, beautiful coal' for Christmas
4·3 days agoRepublicans do stuff so ridiculous that you can’t easily tell.
What’s actually happening:
- Truth Social stock value dropped sharply because its not a platform with any real monetization potential
- a fusion company with no working product wanted to sell stock to the public so its founders could make off with a bunch of money
- so they merged to create hype for the truth social stock and to let the fusion company list shared without having to undergo the usual scrutiny
What hasn’t happened
- the silly name the Onion came up with
What might happen:
- large transfers of money from the federal government to the combined firm
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
18·5 days agoI expect it’ll be like Bloomberg’s conversion of a bus depot to a jail for people opposed to the Iraq war: toss up some fence-based cages inside and dont bother making sure people are treated acceptably.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test | The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican coalition.
11·6 days agoIts storytelling to build community, not something rational
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump May Give 775 Acres of a Federal Wildlife Refuge to SpaceX
16·6 days agoI promise you that there will be no public execute access, let alone group write access
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
5·6 days agoThey don’t care; its about how their owners do, not CBS itself
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
5·6 days agoIts been up and down on YouTube because CBS has lawyers sending takedown notices.
It’s up here for now https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist; This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
151·7 days agoAs practiced by Stalin, it was just another totalitarian government. Ownership might have been different, but when you make everything else worse, its still really destructive and kills a huge chunk of the population
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
6·7 days agoYes, and they replaced the boss with a Trumpist after that.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•US Is Said to Board Third Tanker Off Venezuela as Tensions Mount
61·8 days agoThe US is a net oil exporter, and has been consistently so since 2021

This is about getting more power and money for the rich.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
2·9 days agoThe big expenses from getting Hepatitis B happen a decade or more from when you get the infection. A different insurer picks up the tab if you decline to cover vaccination.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
4·10 days agoThe NYT will never say that unless he’s actually convicted.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•The U.S. Is on the Verge of Meteorological Malpractice | The Trump administration says it will dismantle a premier climate center, while somehow keeping weather forecasting intact.
1·10 days agoYou mean it’s supposed to snow in Norway in the winter? Nah. Don’t say anything about why though.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Senators freeze Coast Guard admiral’s promotion over swastika, noose policy
2·11 days agoWeb.archive.org only captures the first paragraph or two of Washington Post articles. You’re missing most of the content if you depend on them.
That’s why I included the above two ways to access the full article:
- gift link — registration required
- archive.today
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’ | A new workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of such symbols quietly went into effect this week.
1·13 days agoThey’re divisive against the American people. Which is the point of bringing in Nazis and racists.









Trump replaced their board with a bunch of his supporters, so that’s unlikely