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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 5h

The GQP/MAGA gang screamed about the Biden administration pressing social media to suppress false claims about Covid-19. Apple Inc. & Google pulled apps used to track immigration agents, including a free ICEBlock app that let users anonymously report the locations of ICE officers within five miles.

Meta Removes Facebook Group Sharing Location of ICE in Chicago

Meta Platforms Inc. removed a Facebook group used to share information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago after a request from the Justice Department.

www.bloomberg.com

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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 14h

'Chinese exports of used cooking oil to the US were already in retreat well before President Donald Trump chose them as the latest flashpoint in his trade war with Beijing.'
Worth about $500,000 this year!
'Chinese soybean purchases from the US last year totaled about $12.6 billion.'

Trump’s China Cooking Oil Feud Comes With Sales Already Falling

Chinese exports of used cooking oil to the US were already in retreat well before President Donald Trump chose them as the latest flashpoint in his trade war with Beijing.

www.bloomberg.com

Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 14h

塔可 = Taco in Chinese.
Xi expects to break Trump this month. To start with, Trump's cooking oil trade war is a joke. The soybean trade to China that the US lost dwarfs US imports of used Chinese oil. And US tech and defense are nothing without China's rare earths.

China, Betting It Can Win a Trade War, Is Playing Hardball With Trump

Chinese leader Xi Jinping thinks the president will fold before launching new tariffs that would roil markets.

www.wsj.com

Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 23h

Young Republican leaders audition for govt, referring to "Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers." Talked of "raping their enemies & driving them to suicide & lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.'

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Reposted by Peter Christian Hall

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 1d

The world Santos "fought to serve"? On a platter?

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 1d

The world he "fought to serve"? On a platter?

Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 1d

Keep human beings working! Shopping in retail chains has become terminally awful. CVS in particular drives me mad with this scam: I've never experienced a clean purchase on their self-punchout line. I always need help, and I buy from them only with 40% discount coupons.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

“The city’s ‘Safe Stores are Staffed Stores’ ordinance is the first of its kind in the country. It requires large stores to increase the number of employees relative to self-checkout stands and also puts a limit on the number of items and types of goods that can be rung up at self-checkout.”

The controversial solution Long Beach has picked to battle shoplifters

Long Beach regulates self-checkout amid growing shopper frustration.

www.latimes.com

Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 1d

Keep human beings working! Shopping in retail chains has become terminally awful. CVS in particular drives me mad with this scam: I've never experienced a clean purchase on their self-punchout line. I always demand help, and I buy from them only with 40% discount coupons.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

“The city’s ‘Safe Stores are Staffed Stores’ ordinance is the first of its kind in the country. It requires large stores to increase the number of employees relative to self-checkout stands and also puts a limit on the number of items and types of goods that can be rung up at self-checkout.”

The controversial solution Long Beach has picked to battle shoplifters

Long Beach regulates self-checkout amid growing shopper frustration.

www.latimes.com

Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA now can settle all the claims against itself and will control the technology for our voting in dozens of states!
The company’s new owner laid out four goals, many of which align with the Trump administration.

Dominion Voting Systems Sold to GOP Firm — Right After Settling Defamation Suits vs. OANN, Giuliani, Powell

Dominion Voting Systems has been purchased by Liberty Vote, a firm headed by a former GOP election official with ties to a staunch ally of President Donald Trump -- just weeks after Dominion settled s...

www.yahoo.com

Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 2d

Why would anyone who's not rich want to live there?

Moon Child @moonchild42.bsky.social · 2d

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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 2d

Why would anyone who's not rich want to live there?

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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 2d

Seems only yesterday I was vigorously touting a book I worked for years on—something to do with businesses doing the right thing in a tough world. Salesforce bought up a lot of copies and celebrated its release. But hey, that was last year!

‘Slap in the face’: Marc Benioff’s Trump turn stuns San Francisco

The tech billionaire's comments put the longtime Democratic ally at odds with city and state leaders.

www.politico.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 2d

At least Chat GPT didn't urge him to force himself on her. Grok might well have suggested it.

Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 2d

I dropped my Times sub. I read the FT, Bloomberg, and the WSJ—which, so help me, consistently beats the Times in covering our ruling grifters.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 2d

The BshitStorm is commencing.

Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 2d

We're paying for this.

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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 2d

We're paying for this.
(Thanks, Caitlin G. DeAngelis
@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social)

Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 2d

Bill Clinton may be up to his neck in this. The thrice-disgraced Peter Mandelson arranged a meeting between Epstein and Blair, citing Clinton repeatedly. Let the chips fly!

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein in No 10 on advice of Peter Mandelson, documents reveal

National Archives papers show how then MP pushed for 2002 meeting between PM and ‘young and vibrant’ financier

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for stealing it, and thanks to its creator. The tone is wonderful.

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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 2d

Oink Zuck! Anti-DEI campaigner Robby Starbuck, sappointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias, has since claimed that individual shooters in the US were motivated by leftist ideology, described faith-based protest groups as communists, and without evidence tied Democratic lawmakers to murders

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 3d

In tweets, Frum dismissed "a photograph of two blood-covered Palestinian youths bringing their father's body to a hospital in Khan Younis as appearing "fake." The man had been killed in an Israeli airstrike.[39]' Under criticism, Frum apologized, insisting his "skepticism" was justified.

David Frum - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org