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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 11h

So let me get this straight, we borrowed $20 billion from our kids just to hand it to Argentina so they could steal our soybean market, and now we’re borrowing another $30 billion to pay off our own farmers?

These people couldn’t run a lemonade stand.

MAGA: Make Argentina Great Again.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 1h

Ya know, I just don’t think the data center blanket across America is gonna go unchallenged by Americans. We’re already rejecting them.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1h

"The deal with Broadcom would use as much power as 8 million US households.

A 2024 Department of Energy report on data center energy usage found that data centers are expected to consume about 6.7% to 12% of total US electricity by 2028."

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1h

Abolish ICE.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 4h

They tortured them. And it's only a small measure of what Palestinians have endured - or at least those who've been able to endure.

Still, I'm in awe of the defiant laughter in this testimony. And that somehow Greta managed to synchronize w the frog rebellion.

And then I put on my frog hat. When I'm about to get off the boat, there are a bunch of police officers waiting for me. They grab me, pull me to the ground, and throw an Israeli flag over me.

Then they ripped off my frog hat, threw it on the ground, stomped and kicked it, and kind of threw a tantrum.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2h

A government that targets citizens against fascism and dictatorships, isn’t a government worth keeping.

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Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 12h

I Just Did Something I Specifically Told a Child Not To: An Amanda Mattos Story

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Scott @smadin.net · 14h

it's so fun how "originalism" means the text of the Constitution can only ever mean what its authors would have understood it to mean in the context of their time, except if that text was written between 1864 and 1870.

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Rubicon1313 💕Safe 4 LGTBQ💕Vets @rubicon1313.bsky.social · 14h

Now, he’s just STEALING our money from the Fed Treasury.
That’s okay. We don’t need it, right. It’s not like we have any debt

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14h

The president keeps telling the military to murder people in boats and the military keeps doing it. Crimes, just straight-up crimes internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Trump’s Wag The Dog Moment - CIP

If you want to break up a drug cartel, blowing up a boat does little to accomplish that, unless you believe cartels only own one boat.

internationalpolicy.org

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 14h

NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population.

Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient.

Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe

And so much more important work.

But they’re destroying it all.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 14h

It wouldn’t be better, of course, if ICE were a well-organized, goose-stepping machine, but I’m struck by how chaotic their actions are. Screaming and gas. Random, nightmarish violence without rhyme or reason.

It’s pure terrorism.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 14h

Two dozen masked ICE Federal Secret Police, who are kitted out like they are going to war, kidnap a local and brutalize the community.

Toward the end of the video, they throw a gas cannister that almost hits a baby. 😟

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 17h

In other words, it's isn't support for the people of Argentina, it's support for an ideologically approved regime

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 17h

Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses on.ft.com/3L8Y0Wi

Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses

President suggests $20bn swap line is contingent on libertarian’s victory in midterm elections

on.ft.com

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Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 17h

Genuinely my pleasure.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 19h

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 17h

it's almost like it was never about crime and democrats who blustered about deporting "violent criminals" instead of standing firmly against trump's racist agenda only paved the way for this to happen

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 17h

And finally, George, who has never met a box or box-like-structure he doesn't want to get into.

A little tuxedo cat inside of a box on a cat tree, rolled over on his side and staring up at the camera.

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Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 17h

Here are Quinten, Rufus & Todd being just very cute together.

Three cats laying in a very lucky lady's lap. The black cat on the left licks his orange brother's face while their third brother acts as the snuggle pile backbone. When the black cat is done bathing the orange one, he rolls over and looks at the camera, revealing two teef that are too big for his little mouth.

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Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 17h

You make a great point. This is Todd, he's pretty into physical media.

A big beautiful black & white cat standing atop a wrack full of vinyl records.

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Jonathan L. Fischer @jonfischer.bsky.social · 18h

"When D’Angelo went up, his falsetto was existential. He didn’t sound higher. He sounded alive and alone." www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Column | D’Angelo showed us what the 21st century should sound like

His visionary R&B music — from “Brown Sugar” to “Voodoo” to “Black Messiah” — rearranged our ideas about timelessness.

www.washingtonpost.com

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 19h

On Oct. 1, a gas explosion caused a public housing project in the Bronx to partially collapse.

On Friday, HUD fired all the federal government's housing inspectors: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Affordable Housing Left Vulnerable After Trump Fires Building Inspectors

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development cut its inspection team two weeks after a public housing building partially collapsed in the Bronx.

www.bloomberg.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 20h

watching the government's social media accounts spit out groyper stuff on main this whole last year, this is how i imagined the behind the scenes chats were going

Politico @politico.com · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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

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Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 19h

It would honestly answer a lot of questions if the gain grindset gym bros turn out to be cooking their brains with lead poisoning. A micro version of the leaded gasoline violence spike.

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 22h

Not seeing this news getting out.

At least 51 people had to be rescued by boat; ~1400 people in shelters so far.

FEMA, what FEMA? That money was all dumped into ICE’s pockets.

alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

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