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Brian Stack @brianstack153.bsky.social · 1d

My neighbor Judy hits it out of the park again with her Halloween yard skeletons, this year the busted “Coldplay Couple”.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 8h

This feels like a pitch from 2015 or 2024 but is absolute bunk now. It’s totally switched back.

Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 8h

For this week's column I wrote about the way that the countercultural intellectual energy of the right - and lack thereof on the left - is drawing in young people, esp men, who would once have been drawn to radical leftist thinkers

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The fashion for the young: turn to the radical right

The intellectual energy of new rightwing movements is drawing in young people

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 19h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 10h

Excuses and half truths and fortified wine.

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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 10h

He says he fully supports the president and hasn’t been paying much attention to news involving immigration raids, fair elections, or freedom of the press. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send National Guard to San Francisco - The New York Times

Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services. Now he’s fully behind Donald Trump.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 11h

Come work for me!
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US reporter

Join team Vulture! The Register is seeking a US reporter to follow in our long tradition of holding B2B technology vendors accountable to their customers, helping CIOs make wise buying decisions, and ...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 14h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 13h

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No Surprises by Radiohead on Apple Music

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 1d

Competent!

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton was so cool she singlehandedly turned an otherwise unwatchable Woody Allen movie about Woody Allen having sex into one of the greatest movies of all time.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 1d

Clowns. They’re dealing with clowns. 🤡🤡🤡

technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1d

"...some of the politically connected people in the charter cities movement, people receiving investment from Thiel and others, were very excited about the prospect of the U.S. taking over #Greenland."

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‘The Democrats Still May Not Understand What They're Dealing With’

A Silicon Valley chronicler on the increasingly radical politics of Elon Musk, David Sacks and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

if healthcare was not tied to employment in the USA what would you be doing differently in your career?

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I Was Gonna Fight Fascism (feat. Alabaster Deplume) by Soccer96 on Apple Music

Song · 2020 · Duration 7:17

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA appeals to people who need to feel special, who need enemies to blame, who need simple answers to complex problems. It attracts those who mistake confidence for competence, who confuse being loud with being right, who think that admitting uncertainty is weakness
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Who Goes MAGA?

With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such …

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 1d

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The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 1d

LORD Business!

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 2d

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2d

with one of the most incredible kickers i've ever seen

NYT excerpt that reads:

On Thursday, Mr. Benioff said he had never been progressive even if many San Franciscans thought he was. He said he was a longtime Republican before switching to become an independent voter.

At the end of the interview, he turned to a public relations executive. He could be heard asking why her mouth was wide open and if he had said anything he shouldn’t have.

“What about the political questions?” he asked. “Too spicy?”

Then he hung up.

Heather Knight is a reporter in San Francisco, leading The Times’s coverage of the Bay Area and Northern California.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2d

Good on TechCrunch for still pubbing these details, but if how bad are you as a spokesperson if you don't even understand the basics.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about all this is - I thought Silicon Valley business leaders were pragmatists. Do they not see that dividing the country this way is long-term terrible for America, terrible for business? Or have they all given up on society and it's just about, hoard now to escape later?

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 2d

I've definitely been frustrated and grossed out by scenes on SF's streets in recent years. But it's way better in 2025 than it's been for 7 or 8 years, and sending in the national guard is completely absurd and unncessary.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 2d

Uh... what? And to think all these years I defended the guy to friends and colleagues who thought he was a blowhard empty suit who didn't really believe any of the pro-school pro-community politics he was spouting. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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