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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 11h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 17h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Tom Axe @tomaxe.bsky.social · 7h

lol

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 8h

It’s important to realize that while the GOP went full fascist, there was a concerted, relentless, and obscenely well-funded campaign to pull the Dems to the Right.

They became the conservative party and the project isn’t even close to being finished.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

"Look, I'm one of a handful of people that don't take corporate PAC money."

"What about AIPAC money? You take AIPAC money, don't you?"

"A minuscule percentage of my resources come from..."

"I read it's like $800,000...."

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Tom Axe @tomaxe.bsky.social · 9h

Det är fan en tidsfråga innan Magda säger att vi måste ta hotet från kulturmarxismen på allvar.

Tom Axe @tomaxe.bsky.social · 9h

Lägg märke till hur "återvandring" (korrekt) förklaras i USA, och tänk sedan på alla svenska politiker som valt att ta ordet i sin mun.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · May 29

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."

My report:

State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’

The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

I was on the board of Fenway and I warned the then CEO in 2023 that this would happen. This was cowardly capitulation sacrificing trans youth.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12h

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 12h

Austin gay bar Oilcan Harry's, which I love, slams the news that Cheer Up's is being acquired by an investment firm.

"PLEASE AUSTIN, do your homework!! and actively support your LGBTQIA+ locally-owned community centers.
Remember, NONE of them begin with a C!!!!"

We don't know what's worse... the city not taking any noticeable proactive steps to protect 4th St. from being slowly stripped of its LGBTQIA+ owned identity, or Cheer Ups selling out its soul to a Florida corporation with conservative MAGA ties??? (Yes Pride Holdings, everyone saw you just unfollow D Trump Jr, Mr Beast, and Morgan Wallen today as this news blew up). Are you F**king serious?! Cheer Ups was supposed to represent alt queer Austin!! This news angers us, especially after their Pride stunt BS...
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What happened to our LGBTQ community where they don't seem to care that the owners of one of their "LGBTQIA+" entertainment businesses is actually a straight man trying to tear down Austin's historical LGBTQIA+ 4th St. block?.... looking at you new owners of Coconut Club.
There are only 5 locally LGBTQIA+ owned and LGBTQIA+ focused nighttime business in Austin now: The Austin Eagle, Highland Lounge, The Iron Bear, Oilcan Harrys, and Rain on 4th
PLEASE AUSTIN, do your homework!! and actively support your LGBTQIA+ locally-owned community centers.
Remember, NONE of them begin with a C!!!!
prideholdingsgroupcorporate

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Rent Controller OG @alisonb916.bsky.social · 13h

YIMBYs in California amended CEQA to allow just this.

Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 15h

Big Tech is targeting vulnerable communities for its data centers. Residents incur a huge cost in water & power and airborne toxic chemicals. Town officials sign NDAs so citizens have no awareness of the threat.

New from me: data centers and their effects.
buttondown.com/creativegood...

Don't let the data center come to town

In southwest Memphis sits the Colossus, a giant AI slop factory owned by Elon Musk. Gas-powered turbines at the facility foul the air with “nitrogen oxides...

buttondown.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 15h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Tom Axe @tomaxe.bsky.social · 14h

When @nofidelity.bsky.social is work shopping their halloween costume

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Magnus Vinqvist @magnus-vinqvist.bsky.social · 15h

Så nu ska Netanyahu strypa matleveranserna till de svältande i Gaza eftersom det inte går att gräva fram de återstående ur gisslan under de byggnader IDF jämnat med marken. Psykopaterna letar bara efter en anledning att fortsätta folkmordet.

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Tom Axe @tomaxe.bsky.social · 15h

We told a robot about happiness and

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rmeas002 @r1chard07.bsky.social · 15h

L to R: Alex Hope, Rachel Hope, Samuel Douglass, and William Hendrix

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Tom Axe @tomaxe.bsky.social · 15h

Kind of amazing how they all have the same joyless smile

rmeas002 @r1chard07.bsky.social · 15h

L to R: Joe Maligno, Annie Kaykaty, Peter Giunta, Bobby Walker

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The One Who Cums @theonewhocums.bsky.social · 21h

Seasonal depression hitting my brain when it goes below room temp

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 16h

Trans ppl and pro-Palestine ppl would have been among the two easiest demographics for Labour to keep but this leadership decided to adopt a far right transphobic position on basic rights while also cracking down on the freedom to protest while also being complicit in the Israeli genocide

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 16h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 16h

it helps to know that dee dated a notorious alt right guy who was obsessed with porn culture.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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Tom Axe @tomaxe.bsky.social · 16h

Alltså jag har inga problem med kroppsdoft oftast, men andedräkt/nasty tunga är fan inte kul.

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Tom Axe @tomaxe.bsky.social · 16h

Vill ofta rekommendera tungskrapa till killar jag ligger med men det känns inte som att det finns ett bra sätt.

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Tom Axe @tomaxe.bsky.social · 16h

Doing my food and supplement shopping at Ross Dress For Less, in hopes that it will yield some class action lawsuit money in the future

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: If you're rich; the Economy doesn't seem to suck as much as if you're poor.

Truly breathtaking shit.

There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

New JPMorgan data shows how different Americans in different income brackets perceive the economy.

www.cnbc.com

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