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When We All Vote @whenweallvote.bsky.social · 11d

Before you go to the polls, make sure you have the right ID to vote. 🪪🗳️

Some voter ID laws have changed since 2024, and at least 38 states require or request a specific kind of ID to vote this year.

Check your state’s rules with us and @voteriders.bsky.social at weall.vote/voterID!

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7d

✅ Trump pardoned a crypto CEO who gave his company a $2B deal

✅ He gave military contracts to a drone company connected to his son

✅ He instructed his DOJ to cut him a $230M check

If only Trump worked this hard last week to lower our grocery prices
popular.info/p/3-scandals...

3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency

During the second Trump administration, corruption scandals that would typically define a presidency receive a day or two of coverage.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 5d

Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP.

If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, don’t shame them.

Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.

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The Green Spotlight @greenspotlight.bsky.social · 4d

Life could be so much sweeter if people would stop elevating and worshipping sociopaths and putting them in positions of power.

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The Green Spotlight @greenspotlight.bsky.social · 2h

You can also go further and submit this LinkedIn Data Processing Objection Form: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...

Contact form | LinkedIn Help

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6h

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will be collecting your data to train AI models — starting today.

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Forbes @forbes.com · 5h

TSA workers were told sick calls will bring “appropriate accountability measures to the fullest extent possible” after the shutdown ends—but airport screeners told Forbes such threats would likely backfire.

Houston’s Bush Airport TSA Wait Times Top 3 Hours—As Unpaid Screeners Tell Of Agency’s ‘Scare Tactics’

TSA workers were told sick calls will bring “appropriate accountability measures to the fullest extent possible” after the shutdown ends—but airport screeners told Forbes such threats would likely backfire.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 4h

The share of consumers taking out the riskiest form of loans has reached its highest peak this decade, a sign of growing financial stress for many Americans. trib.al/Nb3jEPU

Both subprime and super prime loans are on the rise, signs of a K-shaped economy that is a 'prescription for real trouble' | Fortune

TransUnion found the share of subprime borrowers last quarter grew to 14.4%, the highest since 2019.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Aug 20

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

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VoteRiders @voteriders.bsky.social · 6h

NORTH CAROLINA VOTERS 🚨 Did you get a letter saying your voter registration application was submitted too late? This may be a MISTAKE!

Check your registration status ASAP to confirm you're eligible to vote on Election Day, tomorrow, November 4! Learn more ⬇️

Some NC Voters May Have Received “Late Voter Registration” Notice in Error

Fewer than 1,000 voters statewide may have received a letter in error from their county board of elections stating that they submitted a voter registration application after the registration deadline.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Her adoptive dad had sexually assaulted her for years. But when Taylor Cadle told police, she was treated like a “monster.” She was charged with lying to the police and had to write an apology letter to her abuser.

Justice finally came when Taylor took her phone and hit record.

Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.

“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d

It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time
billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...

Climate Gates

Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 5h

The full CBS interview with Trump about the pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao is shocking. "Why did you pardon him?" "I have no idea who he is. I was told that he was a victim ... They sent him to jail and they really set him up. That's my opinion. I was told about it."

NORAH O'DONNELL: Looked at this, the government at the time said that C.Z. had caused "significant harm to U.S. national security", essentially by allowing terrorist groups like Hamas to move millions of dollars around. Why did you pardon him? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Okay, are you ready? I don't know who he is. I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt. And what I wanna do is see crypto, 'cause if we don't do it it's gonna go to China, it's gonna go to-- this is no different to me than AI. My sons are involved in crypto much more than I-- me. I-- I know very little about it, other than one thing. It's a huge industry. And if we're not gonna be the head of it, China, Japan, or someplace else is. So I am behind it 100%. This man was, in my opinion, from what I was told, this is, you know, a four-month sentence. But this man was treated really badly by the Biden administration. And he was given a jail term. He's highly respected.

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The Green Spotlight @greenspotlight.bsky.social · 6h

Settings and Privacy, Data Privacy, Data for Generative AI Improvement: OFF

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 10h

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 3d

The Trump administration’s lawlessness cannot be ignored.

Period.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 3d

"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it

What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 4d

More than a dozen Epstein survivors, along with the family of Virginia Guiffre, send a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson demanding he call the House back into session and swear in Adelita Grijalva.
@jimacosta.bsky.social

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BREAKING NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Epstein Survivors Send Letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson Demanding that Adelita Grijalva is Sworn In.

I just received this letter from survivors of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein demanding that House Speaker Mike Johnson immediately swear in Arizona representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d

"Why won't she leave?"

In 2023, 51,100 women and girls were killed by partners or family members, about one every 10 minutes. Nearly 1 in 3 women worldwide (≈736 million) have suffered physical or sexual violence in their lifetime by a partner or family member. The real numbers are likely higher.

https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2024/11/femicides-in-2023-global-estimates-of-intimate-partner-family-member-femicides

https://www.who.int/news/item/09-03-2021-devastatingly-pervasive-1-in-3-women-globally-experience-violence

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/140-women-and-girls-on-average-were-killed-by-a-loved-one-every-day-last-year-un-finds

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 3d

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters

A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.

www.bellingcat.com

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MdWTH @mdwth.bsky.social · 3d

It's definitely about the oil

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..

@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime

The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...

www.miamiherald.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

If Trump topples Maduro, the elections in Venezuela will be rigged to install a pro-Trump puppet.

Contracts for rebuilding would be awarded to Trump-owned companies or to companies owned by Trump's friends.

Just like DOGE awarded contracts to Musk-owned businesses.

That's the goal.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 3d

Episodes of Atlantic Extreme Rapid Intensification - A 6X increase over the same since 1980 via @BhatiaKieran
Things are certainly changing as the waters warm. Greater ratio of strongest storms, that rapidly intensify, BUT importantly not necessarily a higher number of tropical systems overall.

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know? The US has one of the highest child poverty rates of OECD countries.

The average child poverty rate across OECD countries is 12.2%

In the US, it’s over 20%

It’s partly why many children rely on SNAP

High rates of child poverty warrant a national conversation.

OECD Child poverty rate by country

“On average across OECD countries, 12.2% of children live in relative income poverty (Chart CO2.2.A),
but rates differ considerably from country to country. In six OECD countries (Chile, Costa Rica, Israel, Spain,
Türkiye and the United States), more than 20% of children live in relative poverty; rates are particularly high,
at around 30%, in Costa Rica. In 17 other OECD countries (Belgium, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and
Sweden), however, less than 10% of children live in relative income poverty. In Denmark and Finland, the
child relative income poverty rate is only around 4%.”

Source:
https://webfs.oecd.org/els-com/Family_Database/CO_2_2_Child_Poverty.pdf

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