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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 7h

#MAGA

$16M per hour, cost of the climate hoax, your words.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate crisis costing $16m an hour in extreme weather damage, study estimates

Analysis shows at least $2.8tn in damage from 2000 to 2019 through worsened storms, floods and heatwaves

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13h

Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.

This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · 1d

Big shouts to @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social and @ashleerezin.bsky.social for catching this practice. Now the SoS has launched a hotline to track it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Two weeks after the Sun-Times first requested information about federal immigration vehicles with questionable plates, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has launched a hotline to report license plate tampering.
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Illinois aims to crack down on ICE cars with illegal license plates after Sun-Times report

Two weeks after the Sun-Times first requested information about federal immigration vehicles with questionable plates, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has launched a hotline to report license pla...

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 13h

Today is Thursday, Oct 23
Good morning ❤️

eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back

We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.

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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 12h

MAGA media is desperate for proof of widespread left-wing violence. But from an GOP bar fracas to a teen who staged his abduction by “four Mexicans,” the stories keep turning out to be hoaxes.

My latest newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...

MAGA Media Keeps Thirsting for Left-Wing Violence

. . . even if that means they have to invent it.

www.thebulwark.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

🧵 1/5 Thanks, Trump. Because only you could turn a shutdown into an asbestos awareness week. 🎉

#EastWingDemolition #ShutdownShitshow #AsbestosAwareness

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA keeps saying Trump is “saving taxpayers money” and “paying down the national debt.” If that were true, why did the U.S. national debt just surpass $38 trillion, a record high in American history?

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Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social · 14h

If you haven’t boycotted these companies already, here’s your sign.

CNN @cnn.com · 19h

Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump's proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom, according to the White House. https://cnn.it/47yWmpP

White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom | CNN Politics

Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot...

www.cnn.com

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Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social · 1d

Kebra Negast lineage showing up in my BSky feed, what?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. What is with the silence?

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like a statement from a bipartisan group of former first ladies about the destruction of the east wing could capture some attention ...

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 2d

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

OK, so we get the state intervening in the market, but not in a socialist way, in a right-wing nationalist way that’s corrupt and corporatist. A social nationalism, if you will. We can workshop the name later.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Exclusive: Several quantum-computing companies are in talks to give the Commerce Department equity stakes in exchange for federal funding.

Exclusive | Trump Administration in Talks to Take Equity Stakes in Quantum-Computing Firms

The discussions signal Washington’s wider involvement in critical parts of the economy.

on.wsj.com

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peachiiKim @peachiikimaf.bsky.social · 1d

That this is true shows America has been screwed up for a very long time.

Military on foodstamps... that ain't why people go into the military.

Tony Michaels 🎙 @thetonymichaels.bsky.social · 1d

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Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah...no. We're good with some big changes.

The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.

Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.

data4democracy.substack.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4d

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 6d

Beware of philanthropists who want control in exchange for their giving, writes Laurene Powell Jobs.

Essay | Laurene Powell Jobs: Beware of Philanthropists Who Want Control in Exchange for Their Giving

True generosity flows quietly to communities that already know what they need, building capacity not dependency.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 3d

I was listening to the radio who reported that dutch foreign minister, David van Weel, said that he understood why Israel closed the border crossings for humanitarian access because "the ceasefire agreement was violated" without saying who has repeatedly broke it over the past couple of days.

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 4d

Amazon’s Ring is partnering with Flock

• A network of AI-powered cameras used by ICE, federal agencies, and police

• Authorities can request users to share footage to assist with 'evidence collection and investigative work'

(via Techcrunch | 404 Media co)

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 4d

Yup.

A few months ago, I pointed out that part of the reason for ICE employees covering their faces, was that some of them were likely government contractors and not law enforcement, and so has no legal authority to detain.

People that know nothing about criminal justice reform yelled at me.🤷🏿‍♂️

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 4d

The Supreme Court is about to decide whether private contractors can break the law—and get away with it.

After being sued under state human trafficking laws for forcing immigrant detainees to work for free, the nation’s largest private prison company, GEO Group, wants blanket immunity.

ICE’s Private Prison Contractor Is Hoping to Get Blanket Immunity

After being sued for violating state-level human trafficking laws, GEO Group, the nation’s largest private prison company, is pushing the Supreme Court to grant private government contractors like its...

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4d

The Guardian is reporting that since Israel and Hamas signed the ceasefire and full hostage exchange agreement, Israel has violated the ceasefire 47 times, killed 38 Palestinians, and wounded another 143 more.

Meanwhile Hamas has released all remaining hostages.

It Was Never About The Hostages.

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Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social · 4d

Harper Hall Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey (miniature dragons! Female protagonist!)

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 4d

I’m glad this is being covered. Federal judges have been warning us as best they know how. When I looked into this back in June, I found dozens of cases where judges suggested that the Trump administration’s conduct was untrustworthy or acting in bad faith.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 4d

The news that the owner of the South Shore raid building knew in advance of the raid, proactively identified non-paying units to federal authorities, and permitted/endorsed the raid fits squarely in the category of information that is essentially expected, but still horrifying.

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