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@jhsnyder.bsky.social

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ex-AT&T (Bell) Labs Research, ex-DoD SETA, retired for no particularly good reason I use the account jhstoo.bsky.social when I'm on my tablet.

Don Zeko: ... somebody from Cato is gonna read this and decide we need a free market in bribery of public officials to reach an efficient price.
May Day Protest along US 22 in NJ, 1 May 2025 Sign reads YOUR RIGHTS ARE NEXT
two text bullet points from an AFSC.org explainer of immigration detention quotas. 1. Each year approximately 400,000 immigrants are funneled into the U.S. immigration detention system. Detention quotas are a key driver of this grim reality. These aren’t just numbers. Rather, they are individual people whose lives are severely interrupted by detention. They include husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, legal residents, the elderly, asylum seekers, workers and employers, and people suffering from mental and physical illnesses. 2. Private prison company shareholders and executive leadership profit most from arbitrary and senseless detention quotas. They get paid based on quotas in their contracts, regardless of how many people are actually held in in their facility at any given time. That’s why they stand behind quotas and actively encourage policymakers to support them, too. For example, CCA (a private prison company operating detention centers) stated, “(o)ur growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to develop and manage new correctional and detention facilities.” Much of the approximately $2.8 billion the U.S. government spends each year on detention ensures private profit without addressing community needs.
RFKjr: says "we will undo layoffs; we knew we'd make mistakes so we planned to reinstate"
Captain America: "I understand that reference"
Principal Skinner briefly questions if he is out of touch before assuring himself that "It's the children who are wrong"
Madame Defarge, knitting, from the 1935 movie Tale of Two Cities: "Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see the triumph".
3CE Roman mosaic depicting leopard eating condemned prisoner's face.
Trump doin' his thing. It's centrally about him being King or dictator or whatever. It's the WHOLE thing.
Simpsons "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas".
leopard eating condemned man's face
Trump Admin weighs destroying ½ $B in stockpiled COVID-19 tests, in WashPost.
Musk claims Dems are upset about entitlements fraud investigations b/c Dems are using your taxpayer money to buy "ILLEGAL immigrants", their future voters. "Truth", Musk says.
"They should throw you in a river to see if you float in water.
Musk smirking in the Oval Office with Trump looking on with a frown ... a Vatnick Soup piece about Musk's "Election Interference Machine". Cover text says "US officially 2nd most hated country in Europe".
The police in New Haven, Conn., found a young seal wandering the streets and aided in its rescue. “Maybe we should just start keeping mackerel in the cruisers,” one officer suggested.
Simpsons cartoon: We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!
"There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here's how to survive ..."
Top pic: Debris from failed recent SpaceX launch returning to earth, which SpaceX CTO described as "entertaining". Bottom: SpaceX CTL says "safety of air travel is non-partisan, and we at SpaceX will make air travel safe for you.
screenshot of hacked DOGE website with text: "These 'experts' left their database open"
Homan on Fox News telling what's'er'name that AOC could be in trouble for providing webinars to undocumented immigrants.
reax to the news that DOGE has sucked $80M of appropriated money out of NYC bank accounts.
picture of a Trump-labeled airplane on a runway in Greenland. Headline reads "Danish MEP slams absurd proposal to rename Greenland "Red, White, and Blueland"
scientists in an observation room looking thru the glass at the weirdly dressed people on the other side of the glass looking back at them.
1911 pic of children working as "breakers" in Pennsylvania coal mine.