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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11h

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

news.sky.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 4h

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate

This streak dies tomorrow

Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months

This blind spot will remain forever

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 4h

Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.

On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.

This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.

Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

Russell Vought’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting the public at risk in areas ranging from auto loans and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports.

How Trump’s Hatchet Man Is Destroying Consumer Protections

Russell Vought’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting the public at risk in areas ranging from auto loans and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports.

www.forbes.com

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 20h

A grave injustice will finally be rectified on Saturday when Warren Zevon enters the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Revisit his emotional final visit to 'Late Show With David Letterman' following his cancer diagnosis.

Warren Zevon Says Goodbye

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

FRANK BOOTH: straight from my heart, fucker! You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker!
CHATGPT: Wow! 🤯 that was a really passionate statement! You clearly have thought deeply about what love means!

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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 1d

Big news day today so you might have missed @npr.org quietly sliding a Doobie Brothers Tiny Desk under the front door. youtu.be/jrkOQuRYCIQ

The Doobie Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 21h

Surprised by 2 Machina tracks on here! I respect it.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 21h

IT'S NOT AN "IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN" IF THEY ARE HARMING AND KIDNAPPING AND TERRORIZING PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS.

IT'S RACISM AND INTIMIDATION.

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21h

@reuters.com Preschool teacher abducted without a warrant taken away in front of children.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

"... the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn’t know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don’t like it."
@gelliottmorris.com

Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 1d

This is a very informative read: Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections

Democrats outran their polls and swept statewide races from Georgia to New Jersey, on an agenda of affordability and a broad anti-Trump backlash

open.substack.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com

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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 1d

Why does New York City get lefty whackjob mayor and San Francisco is stuck with these Republican Lite d-bags like Lurie? It's fucking embarrassing

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Amy Ash @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

Groupon lash extension salon

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

New sign outside the Oval Office..

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

I'm ready for apologies from pundits and politicians who showed their bigoted asses and suggested we needed to abandon trans people in order to win.

looks like "fairness in girls' sports" wasn't the unbeatable wedge issue you thought it was, was it? kinda makes you look like a dumbass, huh?

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 1d

🤔When Mamdani was running, the "Democrats" were aligning against him.

Democrats meaning: Dem party leadership, big money Dem donors, Dems in what's left of the news industry, transphobic Dems, Islamaphobic Dems, anti-woke Dems

But when Mamdani wins, "Democrats" claim the victory as their own?
🙂🙃

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 1d

Once more, for old times’ sake

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 1d

This is the face of the Democratic leadership, our party's leader in the fight against fascism: He voted for the guy Trump supports and he's too much of a chickenshit to admit it. Vive la Résistance!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Reporter: Today is election day in New York City. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: Look, I voted. And I look forward to working with the next mayor to help New York City.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance.

Follow AP for live updates.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power

One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

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Penny @deer.energy · 2d

The comic in question. I'm sorry, I don't have the energy to write proper alt text.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

“redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871” would go so hard on a crop top tbqh

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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 1d

Baseball is not masochism. Baseball is anxiety.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Conservatives 2016-2024: dumb libs think words are violence

Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.

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douglaspoland.bsky.social @douglaspoland.bsky.social · 2d

The next @raygunsite.com message tshirt has written itself. I want one of the “Smell the onions and mustard” shirts!

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

The trial of the D.C. sandwich thrower is officially underway—and the testimony of the “assaulted” officer is harrowing indeed.

The Border Patrol agent, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, testified he was not injured by the sandwich but that he could "smell the onions and mustard." trib.al/TKBbxXa

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 2d

People act like all conservatives are the same when the movement has a ton of diverse intellectual traditions. For example:

Bryan Johnson who measures the size of his son’s erections for technofascist reasons

Mike Johnson measures how often his son gets an erection for christofascist reasons

Weird guy who thinks he will never die because he got readings of his son’s boners

Weird guy who gets a push alert every time his son gets a boner

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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 1d

yea

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