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Keeping track of our Ducks as they take flight outside Eugene. Once a Duck, always a Duck. #ProDucks

[SheepDog Society LLC @SDSLLC_USA]

If a widow collects even 1 social security check after her husband dies and she doesn't notify the government of his passing, then she can be criminally prosecuted.

If a Senator dies and their staff still happens to vote and sign Bills in their name that could affect the entire country, then what happens?

[Eddie Gonzales | Moscow Photographer @comrade_eg]

🚨 Police showed up at her door with Flock camera “proof” she stole a package.

She had timestamped video from her truck + neighbor’s doorbell proving she wasn’t even there.

Cop refused to watch it: “That’s not my job.”

Charges dropped only after weeks of fighting.

This is the surveillance state. Guilty until you prove your own innocence. 😱
#SurveillanceState #FlockCameras

[tern @1goodtern]

I don't think Americans know what is being done to them.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

AN ICE AGENT TORTURED A MAN TO DEATH, THEN COVERED IT UP.

AN. ICE. AGENT. TORTURED. A. MAN. TO. DEATH. THEN. COVERED. IT. UP!

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

We’ve been gaslit into believing "Personal Responsibility" is the answer to systemic collapse. You can’t "recycle" your way out of corporate pollution, and you can’t "budget" your way out of a housing market owned by hedge funds.

[Spirangelos @spiroferrer]

Why does no search function - email, twitter search, google, etc work at all anymore even if you use advanced search or old fashioned query tools

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

Rest in piss, Mitch McConnell. Thanks so much for making this country a significantly worse place. You will not be missed and your legacy is the shit-caked pedophile pretending to be President and a weak-ass SCOTUS. You have more value braindead than you did alive. Goodbye.

[ᒪᗩᑎE @lanechanged]

Using Mitch McConnell's vegetative corpse-to-be as a political blockade to a special election is such an on-brand Mitch McConnell thing to do.

[liz 💥 @lizaboth]

It’s so crazy to me that the price of everything just keeps increasing and the quality keeps decreasing and there’s nothing anybody can do about it

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

The "Middle Class" was a 50-year fluke designed to prevent a communist revolution during the Cold War. Now that the threat is gone, the elites are systematically dismantling it. You aren't "falling behind"; you’re being pushed back into the peasantry.

[SleeperCFB @SleeperCFB]

Dennis Dixon isn’t talked about nearly enough 🦆

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

So basically Mitch McConnell is a vegetable on life support in the hospital rn and bc his wife fled to China there’s no one with power of attorney to pull the plug or give up his seat…

Which is likely by design bc if the seat were vacated before August 3rd the election would become a special election which would allow Thomas Massie to run as an Independent and potentially win.

And the entire Republican Party is going along with this sick charade bc they are wholly owned by a foreign country who views Thomas Massie as a serious threat to their power.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A mother who previously claimed on RFK Jr.‘s Children’s Health Defense podcast that vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins has now been charged with their murders.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

It’s 250 years of freedom for white men only.
It’s 106 years of voting freedom for white women.
It’s 72 years of voting freedom for Asian immigrants.
It’s 61 years of voting freedom for Black people.
It’s 51 years of voting rights for Native Peoples, but we all know that’s a farce when their lands were stripped from them and their ways of life were classified illegal.
It’s 10 years of marriage freedom for queer couples.
It’s 0 years of voting freedom for Puerto Ricans.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Happy 4th of July

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A rural Arkansas school district was hemorrhaging $250,000 a year and couldn't keep teachers. So residents voted to take out a $5.4 million bond, upgrade every building in the district, and install 1,400 solar panels.

Three years later, the deficit flipped to a $1.8 million surplus.

The project wasn't just solar. Energy efficiency upgrades across all six schools, new lighting, HVAC systems, windows, and thermostats cut energy consumption by 1.6 million kilowatts annually.

The panels, some installed as a canopy at the school entrance and some on unused district land, generated enough excess electricity that the district started selling it back to the grid. Monthly utility bills dropped from $17,000 to $4,000.

The school board voted to put the savings into paychecks. Teachers saw raises averaging $2,000 to $3,000 a year, with some receiving up to $15,000 depending on tenure.

Batesville went from one of the lowest-paying districts in Arkansas to one of the highest-paying in its county. Resignations slowed and applications went up.

Taxpayers funded the upfront cost through the bond. The savings paid it back and then some. "Batesville has reduced the checks they write to utilities," said the energy company that managed the project, "and increased the checks they write to teachers."

At least 20 nearby districts have since copied the model. Nine thousand schools across the US now run on solar. Batesville was the first to route the savings directly into teacher salaries.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Socialism is the fire department putting out your fire.

Capitalism is the insurance company denying your claim.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

It turns out the great egg price increase that helped topple Joe Biden's presidency was <checks notes> due to an alleged conspiracy among egg producers to artificially increase prices and the coverage of that fact is a blink-and-you-miss-it story on the NYT website 🙃

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

This 👇

[Barstool Ducks @BarstoolDucks]

Just wait for All NBA Payton Pritchard