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Elyse

@wraithfodder

Fan of TV shows like Project Blue Book, etc. Science, medicine & weird news fascinate me. U can follow me at Bluesky under Elyse42 as I'm migrating there. Thx!

Earth Se unió Temmuz 2008
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Elyse
Elyse@wraithfodder·
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@TaraDBennett And as long as fans with cash to spare buy these seats, they'll never go away.
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Anybody else remember the good ole days of going to a sci-fi convention and the seats were free? Now astronomical gouging prices. Yikes!
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Boston Smalls@smalls2672·
So many American people have no clue how much of their future is being outright stolen from them right now. They fundamentally don't understand the gilded age or the 1890s. If we dont bring this generation's version of teddy roosevelt and fdr, there will be nothing that resembles a middle class. Just haves and have nots with constant violent protests in the streets.
Lauren@cabsav456

Incredible reporting from the WSJ on how the DOJ’s antitrust division is being gutted by a pay-to-play system. Just more betrayal for anyone who thought this administration would look out for the little guy. At the heart of the scandal is Mike Davis. He’s a lobbyist who reportedly charges corporate giants like Walmart, HPE, and Live Nation $300,000 a month to bypass career experts and get mergers approved. He’s also a full-time aggressive shitposter on X. According to sworn testimony, Davis threatened to destroy the job of the DOJ’s antitrust head that he had previously vouched for and called a “good friend” (Gail Slater). This was because she wouldn’t sign off on a settlement for his client, HPE. It worked. Slater was ousted just last month, her deputies were fired, and Davis got his deal approved. When Slater posted her resignation with "great sadness," Davis’s public response on X was “Good riddance.” He’s even taken credit for her removal in other posts. This is how he treats "friends" who stand in the way of his $300k-a-month clients. The article details a pattern of corruption. In the Compass real estate merger, Davis went over the heads of investigators to kill a routine probe into a company that controls 20% of the housing market. The merger combined the #1 (Compass) and #2 (Anywhere Real Estate) largest brokerages in the country by sales volume. The previous administration brought a massive lawsuit to break up the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monopoly. Instead of a courtroom battle to lower ticket prices, the deal was backchanneled at the White House while the DOJ’s own trial lawyers were kept in the dark — they didn't even see the term sheet until the judge did. It was a total surrender, again orchestrated by Mike Davis. This is exactly what the swamp looks like. We’re told this is a populist movement, but the DOJ is currently operating as a private concierge service for the highest bidder. People like Mike Davis can threaten public officials into submission, and the American consumer is the one who pays the price through higher costs and less competition. If you’re wondering why your bills are going up and monopolies are getting stronger, look no further than swamp creatures like Mike Davis. Apparently the DOJ’s integrity is for sale.

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Malcontent News@MalcontentmentT·
Afrikaners Mel and Peet Viljoen who were granted asylum status by Donald Trump last year were arrested in Florida on 51 counts of theft. They were committing self-checkout fraud. Updated: ICE took them into custody this afternoon. The couple is wanted in South Africa on multiple criminal charges.
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Covie@covie_93·
What would ICE agents even do at airports???
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@pubity Wait til they suck all the aquifers dry.
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Pubity@pubity·
The largest data center in the world is planned to be built in Ohio, and it'll cost up to $40,000,000,000 to construct. The 3,700 acre center will require 10 Gigawatts, 1/3 of Ohio's entire power grid capacity, to run.
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Elyse@wraithfodder·
@RpsAgainstTrump Deplorable. Unless he decides to turn the US into a dictatorship, he can't do it. Of course at rate he's destroying the country and alienat our allies, will there be anything left to govern?
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Republicans against Trump
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump·
Trump just shared this post, saying he deserves a third term as a “reward from stolen election.”
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Bet one of those awful Elon MUSK DOGE kids did this. Museum sues Trump administration alleging it canceled grant on basis of race nbcnews.com/politics/trump…
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@woofknight Yeah, seen xrays of that. You get skewered by your femur. Ouch.
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And this ladies and gentleman is why you keep your feet off of the dashboard while riding in a car. Airbags deploy at 100-220 mph.
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Archaeo - Histories@archeohistories·
"They told us the paint was safe enough to eat. So we put the brushes in our mouths hundreds of times a day. And now our bones are still radioactive a century after we died.' They were called the Radium Girls. Teenagers who painted watch dials with glowing paint, who danced in the dark covered in their own light, who were told they had nothing to fear. Their employer knew better. They just never told the girls." Orange, New Jersey, 1917. Grace Fryer was eighteen when she walked through the doors of the U.S. Radium Corporation. The job seemed almost too good to be true: painting watch dials with luminous paint so soldiers could read their watches in the trenches of World War I. The pay was better than any factory work available to young women. The paint actually glowed. The girls painted their nails with it, their teeth, their faces—showing up to dances shimmering like something out of a fairy tale. They called themselves the Ghost Girls. Their supervisors told them the paint was perfectly safe. "You could eat it," one said with complete confidence. So they did. Every day. The technique was called "lip-pointing"—put the brush between your lips to make a fine point, dip it in radium paint, paint the number, repeat. Hundreds of times a day. Thousands of times a week. Gram after gram of radium-laced paint passed through their lips, settled permanently in their bones. The male scientists and supervisors working with the exact same paint wore full protective gear behind lead shields. They already knew what radium could do. They simply never told the women. By 1922, the sickness began. Teeth fell out. Jaws dissolved. Bones snapped from the smallest movements. And something else—something no one could explain. They glowed in the dark. At night, standing before their mirrors, their own bodies gave off pale greenish light. The radiation had buried itself so deep it was literally shining through their flesh. When Grace Fryer's symptoms appeared in 1923, she went to the company for help. U.S. Radium denied everything. Their hired doctors blamed syphilis—a deliberate, cruel strategy to label dying women as prostitutes. Grace found a lawyer in 1927. By then she could barely walk, her spine collapsing, weighing under 90 pounds. Four other dying women joined her. The company's legal strategy was simple: delay until they died. But when the women appeared in court in 1928, the public saw with their own eyes what the company had done. Grace had to be carried in. Quinta McDonald's face had sunk where her jaw was eaten away. The outrage was unstoppable. U.S. Radium settled. Each woman got about $175,000 in today's money. Grace died in 1933 at 34. By 1937, all five were gone. What they did can never be undone. Before the Radium Girls, companies faced almost no consequences for injuring workers. Their case changed everything—workers gained the right to sue for negligence, companies became legally required to warn about hazards, employers were held responsible for occupational injuries. Every warning label on a chemical container. Every required piece of protective equipment. Every workplace safety law. Five dying women built that. In 2014, researchers held a Geiger counter to Grace Fryer's grave. Ninety-one years after her death, her bones still registered radiation. They will glow for 1,600 years. "She could barely stand when she brought her lawsuit. Her spine was giving way. She knew she wouldn't survive. She sued anyway—not to save herself, but to save people she would never meet. Her bones still glow beneath New Jersey soil. Her name is written into every workplace safety law in the country. The company that poisoned her is remembered only for what it did. Grace Fryer will never be forgotten." © Tales Of Past #archaeohistories
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Elyse@wraithfodder·
@TimHannan I would like to think at least a handful of ICE agents are human, although it all went to hell toward end of ep.
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Tim Hannan@TimHannan·
Watching the Pitt and ICE brings a woman who they beat up to the hospital. Ridiculous story line. ICE would never get anyone medical help.
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@CattardSlim Does Elon even realize how lame his post is?
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Cuckturd@CattardSlim·
Elon tries to impress Maga by saying his son is just as simple as them.
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@atrupar Waiting for Propaganda Barbie, aka Karoline Leavitt, to try to spin this revolting post.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar·
Trump: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
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@atrupar Dementia Don needs to be put in the Memory Ward...
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar·
Trump: "You go to California, they send out like 38 million ballots. Some Democrats get 7, 8 ballots. Republicans are a lot of times calling in, 'Where's my ballot? Where's my ballot?' They're lucky to get one."
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@harryjsisson Trump is vile. However, if GOP thinks this is fine, just wait til Trump kicks the bucket and spontaneous celebrations break out worldwide.
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Harry Sisson@harryjsisson·
I expect every Republican who was outraged at people for celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death to immediately condemn Trump for saying “I’m glad he’s dead” about Robert Mueller. This is disgusting.
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@washingtonpost Yeah, like women in the military are wearing stiletto heels with mini skirts....MAGA are so gullible.
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The Washington Post@washingtonpost·
Army blonde Jessica Foster has gained more than a million followers since she began posting on Instagram four months ago. But Foster is an illusion — a fake woman who experts say was probably created by AI. wapo.st/4bANikX
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