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Villen, lefty, runner, engineer, in that order. Formerly @christopherlay on the former birdsite. Formerly chrislay on Zuckbook. Also @chrislay at extinct pachyderm dot online. Some ville, Mass

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🎃 Chris Lay's rotting corpse 💀 @chrislay.bsky.social · Jul 24

An idea: UBI+JG. The SOEs staffed by the JG produce the basket of goods and services necessary to dignified material existence and participation in society, priced so that the whole basket costs the UBI. The UBI is fully taxed away by progressive income tax by the time you get to 1.5x median income.

🎃 Chris Lay's rotting corpse 💀 @chrislay.bsky.social · 2h

The sign at treeline on every trail that ascends the Presidential Ridge is the only thing I've thought about getting as a tattoo.

STOP
The area ahead has the worst weather in America. Many have died of exposure there even in summer. Turn back now if the weather is bad.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 18h

A GROWTH INDUSTRY! GAMBLING! DO THESE PEOPLE HEAR THEMSELVES!

sean kuhn @seankuhn.bsky.social · 19h

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer?

Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad.

The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself.

Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits.

Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h

U.S. lawmakers want to ban Chinese drones for security reasons.

They do not seem to realize this will spark a revival of the old DIY drone movement among people who cannot afford overpriced, bad American-made drones.

This will create many exciting, brand-new security threats. Possibly worse ones.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18h

The man being chased in this video is 68 year old Robert Held. Yesterday, Held filed a lawsuit against Broadview over their protest curfew hours.

Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 17d

Status Coup's videojournalist @JonFarinaPhoto had a leg day on the clock capturing this epic chase between two ICE agents and a nonviolent, middle-age activist who was standing outside the gates of the Broadview processing center on September 27, 2025.

#iceprotest #chicagoprotest #broadview

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

What a truly pathetic situation. PEOPLE ARE ABOUT TO BE STARVED - FUCKING FOCUS.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 18h

House Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed Donald Trump’s talk of a third term, saying the Constitution’s two-term limit prevents it.

GOP Speaker Johnson Pours Cold Water on Trump Talk of 2028 Run

House Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed Donald Trump’s repeated talk of possibly running for another presidential term, saying the US Constitution’s two-term limit would block him from such a bid.

bloom.bg

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h

Recent US Layoff Announcements:

1 UPS: 48,000
2 Amazon: Up to 30,000
3 Intel: 24,000
4 Nestle: 16,000
5 Accenture: 11,000
6 Ford: 11,000
7 Novo Nordisk: 9,000
8 Microsoft: 7,000
9 PwC: 5,600
10 Salesforce: 4,000
11 Paramount: 2,000
12 Target: 1,800
13 Kroger: 1,000
14 Applied Materials: 1,444

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

"How did people survive before______"

friend ... people used to starve to death... i hope that helps

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 19h

ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties.

Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan.

Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19h

Please note that CNN is spreading RACIST DISINFO by leading you to believe the LIE that Mamdani's aunt WASN'T scared of racists post-9/11.

The only "pushback" here is a bullshit claim that one of Mamdani's aunt's isn't his aunt.

CNN is trafficking in right wing, racist trash.

Eternal shame.

CNN @cnn.com · 19h

In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks. https://cnn.it/432IAcr

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 20h

This is so good. So inspired by Coates. Particularly to see a guy with such a huge brain leading with his heart.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

We live in an episode of Veep

Andrew Desiderio V @AndrewDesiderio
X.com
Funny moment just now in the Senate: Lindsey Graham whispered something into his phone and then Siri responded with full volume: "Calling Sean
Hannity mobile"
8:57 AM • 10/28/25 • 276K Views

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm

Support Jamaica

supportjamaica.gov.jm

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 22h

Look, I'm just saying that every escalation and trespass and glib little threat they've made has been at the cost of hemorrhaging whatever 'make life 2019 again' capital he had a year ago. This is with low unemployment and a stratospherically-high stock market.

They have no one on deck.

Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump's approval rating in our tracker has fallen to -18, the lowest it has ever been (lower than any point in his first term) www.economist.com/interactive/...

Chart showing Trump's net approval compared with this point in previous presidencies. In 2009, Obama's approval at this point was approximately +7, in 2017 Trump's was -16 and in 2021 Biden's was -7

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

The "don't talk about social issues" strategy only works if you *admit that was your strategy after the fact*. We're in this doom loop where Democrats try something, gaslight themselves into believing they didn't try it, then decide to try it again.

Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 1d

"if we just don't talk about it, they can't hit us for talking about it" has been thoroughly discredited but we're going to keep trying it because the point was always that party elites/centrist Dems don't want to talk about those things, not whether it was good strategy/messaging to do so!

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Becky Grambo 🍁 @rebeccagrambo.bsky.social · 21h

They were adorable!

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

huge: new york’s largest battery project has been canceled.

would’ve stored enough energy to power more than half a million homes.

why’d it die? a protest movement in NYC against battery storage, backed by curtis sliwa & national GOP politicians.

my latest for @heatmap.news #greensky

New York’s Largest Battery Project Has Been Canceled

Fullmark Energy quietly shuttered Swiftsure, a planned 650-megawatt energy storage system on Staten Island.

heatmap.news

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

America... boy, I dunno.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 1d

Biden 2020 won but he won by very explicitly incorporating the left into the coalition and they (centrists) spent the next four years trying to sabotage that, including trying to will a 2022 red wave into being

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d

*Democrats run centrists three elections in a row*

Centrists: We need to run a centrist. That's the solution

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Ken Mahan @weatherken.bsky.social · 1d

#Melissa to make landfall shortly as Top-10 strongest hurricane ever, in both wind speed & pressure. What's worse? A direct 90° landfall, a head-on collision instead of being sideswiped = more damage. Rain totals to 3' for some, storm surge 10'+.

#jamaica #tropics #mawx #boston @bostonglobe.com

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Eric Fisher @efisherwx.bsky.social · 1d

A truly incredible ring of <80ºC cloud tops perfectly ringing Melissa's eye tonight

May squeeze out a little more intensity from those very warm Caribbean waters overnight before landfall tomorrow

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1d

it seems like there are more and more world series each and every year

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 1d

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Scott Bessent is worth half a billion dollars and owns multiple properties around the world. This is one he owns in Charleston, SC:

Photo of a three story pink antebellum house

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

if the candidate is so badly damaged that you feel you need to silence criticism, I think that's a reason to not back the fucking candidate.

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🎃 Harm City Slasher 🔪 @sprawlhater.bsky.social · 1d

No girder delay keeps the NIMBYs away

Will Fedder @willfedder.bsky.social · 1d

Attention: for all you housing lovers along the Northeast Corridor - Baltimore’s City Council just passed single-stair reform AND repealed residential parking minimums AND reduced setback requirements one-after-another this evening

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