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Drew
@hopsandsmoke.bsky.social
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Every person involved with this needs to be sent straight to the Hague
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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It has become my solid gold, number rule for social media: Hate clicks are still clicks, attention is what the bad people want, and that is precisely the precious thing that I will not give them
seeing an unwelcome uptick in people I follow quote-tweeting bad people with bad opinions lately. I do not want to see the bad people's bad opinions, that's why I don't follow *them*
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Choose your PhD dissertation from today’s news:

-man collapses during White House press conference, Trump T-poses as RFK flees
-Elon Musk’s USAID body count rises over 600k
-lawsuit against OpenAI for multiple AI-assisted suicides
-Mike Johnson’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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If you're reading this, it's likely my @DjangoCon US talk is about you. It's about how lucky I am to be part of some amazing communities. It's about recovery. It's about the fact there's hope, even for people like us.

And thanks to the #DjangoCon US team, it's up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuHk...
What a Decade! with Timothy Allen
YouTube video by DjangoCon US
www.youtube.com
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There are no words for how evil this is
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I know I keep RTing this but they said he was AD, took it back, and now have reaffirmed it again. And I cannot get over that a person who ignored a confession of DV against an LSU athlete is now in charge of the entire athletic department and all LSU athletes.
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Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
I am somewhat surprised we haven't seen a column of the form "are women ruining feminism" yet

Don't get any ideas, Douthat
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms.
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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In 2023, students at Ohio State blocked the doors to the president's office.

Little did they know, live video from campus CCTVs were being fed straight to DHS.

It's part of a little-known, decades-long surveillance effort built on the back of college football.

www.foiaball.com/p/dhs-colleg...
Scoop: Inside DHS's vast college football surveillance effort
If you go to a college football game, the feds have cameras on you.
www.foiaball.com
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The New York Times is going through some things, although not, regrettably, a woodchipper.
The Fox feed for the U-17 world cup is going great
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I'd missed this: Democratic-endorsed candidates *swept* the 6 school board races in Mecklenburg County, one of North Carolina's largest counties (home to Charlotte).

This means there won't be a Republican on the board anymore; the sole GOP incumbent was ousted.
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Once again I am asking commenters making some variation of “you deserve this” to remember that Trump supporters are only 37% of the adult population; that several areas of Alabama went heavily for Harris, and that those areas by and large are the ones suffering most from the White House’s policies.
Via Anna Barrett: Alabamians could see major surges in the cost of Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans without enhanced tax credits for ACA premiums, which lie at the center of the federal government shutdown. https://ow.ly/IzP850XnvyG
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At last we are recreating the Mad Men office environment from the hit TV show “don’t recreate the Mad Men office environment”
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
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Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
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The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.

That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
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They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
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Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
Early 2000s nu-metal?
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@darthbluesky.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social I know he’s not a hound but surely yall have some Durham area followers in need of a new sweet pup.
I saw a post on the parent's fb group I'm in about a seemingly stray dog hanging around a park, so I went to see if he would let me put him in the car to take him to check for a microchip. He did and he wasnt 1/2
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The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
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If it goes up, don’t cross the picket line. Collective action is the only way we ever get things done.
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.

If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
www.cbsnews.com
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ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district.

#ice #chicago