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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 3h

"Pablo" is picking oranges in Woodlake, CA. He shares, "We fill around 5 bins in a 6 hour work day. The work is very hard on the bodies as they have to go up and down a 16 foot ladder while carrying a sack of oranges that weighs 60lbs-80 lbs." #WeFeedYou

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Amni Rusli @amnirusli.bsky.social · 3h

GS

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h

I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 5h

Tesla is currently operating production lines at 60% capacity due to low demand, losing in almost all markets and Elon is probably on a ket bender or tweeting Nazi stuff.

Yet, it’s running video ads for the first time, not for its cars, but to justify its CEO's wild compensation package.

$TSLAQ

Electrek @electrek.co · 5h

Tesla is finally running TV ads, but they are not for its electric cars

Tesla is finally running TV/streaming ads, but they are not to sell electric cars. They are to promote a vote for Tesla shareholders to approve Elon Musk’s next compensation package worth up to $1 trillion. more…

electrek.co

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 10h

for example bsky.app/profile/fint...

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 10h

Blackstone Enters Fight To Include Private Assets in 401(k) Plans, According To Wall Street Journal 🏦📈

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Keubiko 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦💪 @keubiko.bsky.social · 1d

You know what else fucked the U.S. Soybean Farmers? Your bailout of Argentina that allowed them to drop the export tax on them to zero, thus making them far cheaper for China, which has been buying massive amounts this month. Total clown show.

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 18h

I can confirm

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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 1d

💥 Russia: 500 kV Arzamas electrical substation struck by Ukraine in Nizhny Novgorod region.
The key substation of the region transmits power to Russian Railways traction substations, Gazprom gas processing facilities and 200,000 residents.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

an idea: know the company you keep & call them out, change their minds or leave them if they are bigots

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 1d

"When Titus protested for contriving a tax upon public toilets, Vespasian held a piece of money from the first payment to his son's nose, asking whether its odor was offensive to him. When Titus said "No," he replied, "How strange, it comes from a piss". Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, Vespasian XXIII

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 1d

They did found a way to make money.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

SAM ALTMAN SAYS OPENAI WILL ALLOW EROTICA FOR ADULT USERS - AXIOS

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 1d

They have been pestering me for months to do business. Never seen a positive for me.

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 1d

TACO tariffs.
Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade
economist.com/finance-and-...

Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade

Six months on from “Liberation Day”, things look surprisingly rosy

economist.com

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

SOYBEAN FUTURES SLUMP NEAR SESSION LOWS AS US EXPORTS HIT HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE FEBRUARY WHILE TOP BUYER CHINA STAYS ABSENT

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 1d

<A person who held power for 25 years and did so by killing opposition and murdering neighbor countries, accuses his opponents of "terrorism" and "seizing power". "The hat burns not only on the thief, but also on the murderer and the usurper"> they say in Russia. Sooner or later his time will come.

Vladimir Kara-Murza @vkaramurza.bsky.social · 1d

Человек, удерживающий власть 25 лет, убивающий лидеров оппозиции и бомбящий мирные города в соседней стране, предъявляет политическим противникам обвинения в «терроризме» и «захвате власти».

Шапка горит не только на воре — на убийце и узурпаторе тоже.

Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 1d

From the Economist real; versus proclaimed tariffs.

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 1d

Or as it’s commonly known - TACO Tuesday

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 1d

Understanding that senator comes from Latin senex, old hence experienced hence likely wiser, but ...

Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 1d

A shot in the dark 1964 - still hysterical. It's them!

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 1d

Handshake battle going again. I mean this is a Blake Edwards script.

Nils Wilcke @nilswilcke.bsky.social · 2d

L'étrange poignée de mains entre Trump et Macron au "sommet de la paix à Gaza", en Égypte (j'ai ajouté le son)

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 1d

WARNING: The Kremlin is Preparing to Mobilize Reservists on a Rolling Basis to Fight in Ukraine for the First Time: isw.pub/UKRWARNO101325

Note: This warning does not suggest that the Kremlin is likely to undertake a single large-scale mobilization at this time.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 1d

‘The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.’

In his final piece for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, Conor Gearty writes on the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the HRA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...