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It's Friday! Sandwich day! Today I answer your burning question: who are the poor boys po'boy sandwiches are named after? The answer: Streetcar workers from the great New Orleans strike of 1929! Two brothers stepped up to feed them: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Thanks to @andrechemist.bsky.social, I've been thinking of movies with epic scenes that feature compressed gasses. Going to add to this thread as I remember them. Please add your faves in the replies! chemchat

Chain Reaction: Develop a technical solution for *cold fusion. Share the IP for cheap, clean energy with the rest of the world for free. *movie definitely involves some sort of fusion (not necessarily cold fusion tho)

In brief, this maneuver: - effectively converts employee status to "at-will" (meaning they can be fired for any--or no--reason), - redirects whistleblower complaints to internal agency counsel, & takes away these civil servants' rights to appeal adverse personnel actions.

Thanks to @andrechemist.bsky.social, I've been thinking of movies with epic scenes that feature compressed gasses. Going to add to this thread as I remember them. Please add your faves in the replies! chemchat

I'm sure that this will be a very effective tactic in keeping people from boo'ing.

Sounds like just Pt plating, probably over a much cheaper metal.

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So cool! <Buy Michele's art! It's all incredible>

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The people of East Palestine were poisoned when the rail company decided to burn off the toxic materials in some of the rail tank cars. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded this "controlled burn" was unnecessary. Pretty evil stuff. All for short term profits.

"a vent and burn of the contents of the tank cars carrying vinyl chloride monomer was based on incomplete and misleading information provided by Norfolk Southern officials and contractors. The vent and burn was not necessary to prevent a tank car failure, NTSB investigators found."

It's not like the price of platinum hasn't also been rising... cen.acs.org/business/ino...

chemchat Holy Jeepers ... Switching to Pt 'cause the Ag is too $$$

Unbelievable

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

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What, exactly, are they going to cover?

Holy dear Jeebus this is WILDLY unethical

I commend County Executive Ball & local leaders in Howard Co for working to block ICE's attempt to set up another detention facility in Maryland. We saw the inhumanity of ICE's operation in Baltimore & Marylanders have made clear: we do not want these facilities in our state.

It was always clear this was an injustice - but now we know by how much. Absolutely shameful, and as bad as the Nobel neglect of Lise Meitner, if not worse.

You can see the exact moment the snow finally slid off of the solar panels

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Where is Governor DeWine????

Are we in Redshirts? Does @scalzi.com actually know something about <gestures broadly> that we don't?

Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

The cowardice of Mike DeWine ...

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DAMMIT NOOOOO

Accurate

I spent several weeks this fall visiting elite liberal arts colleges, on the theory that these small, wealthy schools—with a singular focus on undergraduate education and almost no federal research money to threaten—are best poised to weather the crisis in higher education. Here's what I learned:

Bastards ... We loved living in Alhambra.

they should pass a law that says ICE has to follow the law

Maybe we need to start calling it "The Senator Bill Cassidy Vaccine Schedule"

Congresswoman @ayannapressley.bsky.social has been trying to get qualified immunity eliminated her ENTIRE career. What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?

I'm no Pats fan, but this is a big stupid sandwich with a side of idiot fries.

If they can't be trusted with upholding our laws, they shouldn't be entrusted with enforcing our laws Dismantle DHS. Hold offenders accountable.

Trump's ICE just purchased a warehouse in MD for $100M to hold 1,000+ detainees. Last week, I joined Marylanders demanding that ICE stay out. This Admin is spitting in the face of communities from Minneapolis to Maryland & wasting our tax dollars. We won't back down. (1/2)

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The Democrats just want to make the ICE kidnappings more genteel Like what if they made the Middle Passage more humane same logic!

Murphy says that it's about getting ICE back to "obeying the law." So ... we already have the laws. What are these proposals actually going to do differently? Abolish ICE. Dismantle DHS. Remove power. Define and enforce consequences. Otherwise its just window dressing.

If you’re Dems, please coalesce around Stephen Miller not having a job anymore.

So good. As always. Be a good neighbor

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...