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Baker🇺🇦🌻
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Ne’er do well-no really. Witty once in a blue moon..sometimes obtuse. Believe in freedom to get in your own way when necessary. There’s still magic in the world if we look closely and quietly..
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On the lighter side, enjoy this Norwegian weather reporter’s travails.
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1A fuckkyeah
BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
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Everyone is asking what will happen with the energy of the No Kings protests, and I’m telling you that if Republicans don’t reopen the government soon, you’re gonna see exactly where that energy accrued.
It is not widely reported, but Medi-Cal (Cali’s Medicaid) is set to end at the end of December because of the Government shutdown

And CalFresh (Cali’s food stamps) is set to end at the end of October

So millions of people will lose their food assistance & healthcare in a matter of weeks or months
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Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models (Michael Beltran/Rest of World)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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I know this sounds like an overstatement but I would walk into traffic for Brookie. If you're in PA please adopt her. Look at that face.
Brookie 🐶
Adult female Cocker Spaniel mix
Adoptable from Central PA Humane Society (Altoona, PA)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/brookie-78846830/pa/altoona/central-pa-humane-society-pa187/
With the high powered ones..and we yell “dance sucker”..
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“As construction proceeds on the White House grounds, employees should refrain from taking and sharing photographs of the grounds, to include the East Wing, without prior approval”

— Warning letter from Treasury official

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
www.wsj.com
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I don't think it's fair to hold a 30-year-old man responsible for intemperate things he said when he was a 28-year-old boy.
BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.
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Whistles Have Become Chicago’s Surprising Act of Protest

By Mariah Timms

“It doesn’t take much to be a part of this resistance. And it is a resistance, whether people are comfortable with that word or not,” said Teresa Magaña, co-founder of Pilsen Arts Community.

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Whistles Have Become Chicago’s Surprising Act of Protest
Residents troubled by an immigration crackdown air dissent—and warnings—with devices typically favored by athletic coaches.
www.wsj.com
I don’t think it will..I’m contenting myself with fantasizing how good it will be to watch all this get leveled when the regime falls.
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“The KPI is to recommend a show to someone that they watch for at least ten seconds, which means booby-trapping the entire screen. The whole thing is like one giant fat-finger economy. They take away any way to go back to the thing you were watching so that you are ‘accepting a recommendation’…”
The Internet Doesn’t Have to Suck
Enshittification author Cory Doctorow says specific policy choices led to today’s broken web — and could lead us out.
nymag.com
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WSJ: Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

By Natalie Andrews and Alex Leary

Treasury HQ is across the street from the White House. Trump is telling wmployees not to take pictures of the demolition and share them.

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Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
www.wsj.com
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Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...
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Glad to have a safe haven like Bluesky sometimes. Have been getting harassed non-stop by bullies on Twitter for suggesting that so-called "adults" should grow up, and stop celebrating Halloween for two weeks straight.
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Imagine bowing and scraping to a terrorizing murderer in every effort to appease-and expecting a Nobel-that you might have won just by having some character and integrity in dealing with our allies.
A European diplomat briefed on the meeting between Trump and Zelensky described it as a mess and said Trump also “went on and on” about “his grievances of not having gotten the Nobel Peace Prize.”
-Washington Post
This seems not great..
Just a reminder that "en banc" review in the Ninth Circuit is ... unique.

The full court (29 active judges, currently with a 16-13 D-R split) votes on whether or not to rehear a case en banc.

If so, then *10* judges are randomly drawn to sit with Chief Judge Murguia as the "en banc" court.
Agree, seems like a really hard life that just gets tougher..sucks really, considering how productive the west coast once was..Dungeness season use to start right at Nov..