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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10h

Off their phones and into the streets

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

A Little-Noted Element
Propelled Mamdani's Rise:
Gen Z Loneliness
Members of Gen Z found something unexpected in the mayoral race: a chance to hang out. Their enthusiasm turned into real votes.
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Justjessicaok @justjessicaok.bsky.social · 2h

Just a little reminder that Altman and the “open source” internet “innovators” are the reason banks don’t have liquidity.

Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 2h

Does anything Sam Altman do make profits?

The $17bn nuclear start-up without any revenue

A nuclear technology company backed by Sam Altman is riding a wave of investor enthusiasm

www.ft.com

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 2h

Does anything Sam Altman do make profits?

The $17bn nuclear start-up without any revenue

A nuclear technology company backed by Sam Altman is riding a wave of investor enthusiasm

www.ft.com

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 13h

With all the excitement about the election I don’t want this story to get lost. This morning 8 car wash workers in Boston were kidnapped by federal agents in the largest workplace raid in the area in recent memory.

The details are horrifying.

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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...

Immigration agents raid Allston car wash and detain several workers - The Boston Globe

Many of them held legal status but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents, according to their manager.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13h

CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.*

The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 15h

Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL): "I want to tell people we all in this together. Whether you're on SNAP or not, if people can't buy groceries, that affects the large stores and the small stores ... They won't need as much food, so the farmers lose out also. We are all in this together."

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 15h

Ukraine has begun launching their own massive nightly drone and missile attacks into Russia targeting military sites and energy infrastructure. Two more oil refineries were struck along with chemical factories and electrical substations. Russian cities are now experiencing rolling blackouts.

This Will Break Russia -- UKR Drone Strikes Relentless

YouTube video by Jake Broe

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 15h

Rep. Dean (D-PA) points out President Trump's apparent obsession with "The Great Gatsby," despite its tragic ending, as his administration fights releasing SNAP funds.

"Apparently, the president never read 'The Great Gatsby,' because things don't turn out so well for the gilded folks in that story"

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Justjessicaok @justjessicaok.bsky.social · 17h

The people currently in govt want to companies to be able to assign value to you based on this kind of surveillance data to automatically allow or deny certain things: an algorithmic value status that instead of ad targeting it decides like if you’re worth sending an ambulance.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h

I wonder: over time what is the effect of the machine inaccurately reporting to you your daily activities?

When my husband left the house carrying a shotgun, the alert said he was carrying a garden tool. It’s unclear whether this is intentional (I’ve reached out to Google), but not identifying weapons seems like a significant oversight for a security-focused system. I would like to know if there is a person with a gun on my porch or wielding a knife in my home.
However, the daily Home Briefs is where it got weird. Around 8:30 each night, the Google Home app presents its interpretation of the day’s events in a new Activity Tab. You can customize this to focus on things you’re most interested in; for me, that’s animals and teenagers arriving home past curfew.
The summaries were about 80 percent correct, with a few less concerning confusions — it said a pizza oven was delivered when I was actually taking it away. But my main issue was with the heavy-handed editorializing in the summaries. Gemini took accurate real-time descriptions of events and turned them into a narrative full of declarative sentences that were simply incorrect.
For example, on Halloween, the summary said “Jenni and R were seen interacting with the trick-or-treaters and enjoying the festive atmosphere.” While I did pass out candy, my daughter R wasn’t home. Another summary detailed how my husband and I had spent an enjoyable evening relaxing on the couch along with others. We were home alone.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h

I wonder: over time what is the effect of the machine inaccurately reporting to you your daily activities?

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Justjessicaok @justjessicaok.bsky.social · 19h

People choose to believe things based on their values and saying she is a victim but hasn’t changed means this is a pr stunt meant to present you with a choice to abandon your values to become a victim.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

HOSTIN: You don't believe in QAnon anymore? You've changed?

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: No, I haven't changed. I was a victim just like you were of media lies and stuff you read on social media

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 20h

Note: By my count, this brings number of clergy who claim to have been and/or have been *filmed* being hit with projectiles shot by ICE/DHS or Illinois state police to *7.*

Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 22h

My latest report:
Baptist Pastor Shot in Leg by Officer During All Saints’ Day March Outside ICE Facility
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/baptist-pa...

Baptist Pastor Shot in Leg by Officer During All Saints’ Day March Outside ICE Facility

As Baptist pastor Michael Woolf marched on All Saints’ Day in an anti-ICE protest in the Chicago area, he suddenly felt a sting in his leg as a pepper ball round struck him.

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WIRED @wired.com · 20h

In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes. www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves

In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

www.wired.com

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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 1d

Terrorist Groups are Weaponising Climate Change —Outperforming States in Delivering Water, Food & Disaster Relief to Win Hearts, Minds & Territory. My Latest Article Reveals How Environmental Governance Is Becoming A New Tool for Legitimacy 👇👇👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Darkest Shade of Green: Climate Change, Terrorist Organizations, and the Battle for Environmental Legitimacy

Climate change is fundamentally reshaping modern terrorism through “environmental governance competition”—strategic contests where terrorist organizations exploit climate vulnerabilities to outperf...

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Bård Lahn @bard.lahn.no · 1d

Norwegian govt wants to revise the ethical guidelines for the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. Why? The ethical council was about to look into the role of big tech in wars and conflict, which could have lead to the exclusion of the likes of Alphabet and Microsoft

Kilder til NRK: Mot flertall for å endre reglene for oljefondet

Arbeiderpartiet vil gjøre det vanskeligere å kaste selskaper ut av oljefondet. Partiet går tirsdag sammen med Frp, Høyre og Sp inn for å endre reglene for fondet, ifølge NRKs kilder.

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 1d

The political writing coming out of @teenvogue.com was of the highest caliber! I was thrilled when they published an excerpt of Saving Ourselves. So sad to hear of the changes over there www.teenvogue.com/story/how-do...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 5d

It's the end of the road for BBC Science in Action. But science itself is facing growing roadblocks. For this terminal edition of SinA I'm joined by @naomioreskes.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social for where now?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

BBC World Service - Science In Action, How science got here, and where next

As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Really worth reading the entire 60 minutes interview transcript but admit this part got me laughing out loud.

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

“Oh, well I just told you about it, so now like all of the rest of us who pay attention to what’s going on, you know all about it. You just heard it, from me, and you know. You’re all caught up. So to repeat: does this concern you?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.

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Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great review by @mgraber1.bsky.social. I love the description of Barrett’s book (and others like it) as “campaign biography.”

Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 1d

@mgraber1.bsky.social reviews Justice Barrett’s book:
“By presenting judging as a realm of pure law, insulated from politics, the justices offer a picture so implausible that it makes the opposite claim—that judging is nothing but politics—more credible.”

Justice Barrett’s Campaign Biography

Amy Coney Barrett’s book, "Listening to the Law," claims the Supreme Court is above politics. Its very existence proves otherwise.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

"every time you hear a piece of good news about the explosive growth of clean energy, it’s worth remembering that the benchmark in question likely could have been met in 2005, rather than 2025, if not for Big Oil’s climate deception"

@aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>

Big Oil’s Three-Decade Plot to Kill America’s Clean Energy Revolution

In 1988, the U.S. was in prime position to dominate the industry for decades to come. But thanks to fossil fuel giants, China is instead the world’s superpower in renewables.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder where anyone would get the idea that they should use their position in the federal government to carry out personal vengeance missions?

STAT @statnews.com · 2d

George Tidmarsh, the Food and Drug Administration’s top regulator of drugs, has been placed on administrative leave after being accused of using his regulatory authority to inflict financial harm on a former business associate, STAT has learned.

www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f...

FDA’s top drug regulator placed on leave amid investigation

George Tidmarsh, the FDA's top drug regulator, has been placed on leave after being accused of abusing his regulatory authority, STAT has learned.

www.statnews.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution.

Millions of people living near these plants face an increased risk of cancer.

By @lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social

Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated

The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 3d

As Ring announces increased partnership with Flock and law enforcement, do not be fooled by reassurances that you can 'opt out.' Here's evidence that ICE tapped flock from local agencies sometimes without consent: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Border Patrol, ICE tapped into Washington police surveillance systems for potential immigration enforcement

Federal law enforcement agencies accessed data collected by some local police and sheriff’s offices automated license plate cameras around Washington, a University of Washington Center for Human Right...

www.spokesman.com

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