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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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Ryan McNeil @ryanmcneil.bsky.social · 2d

Loving how much our five-year old is digging old Godzilla films.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 2d

Two frames from The Good Place:

“Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.”

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 3d

guys we took down the evil empire team so everyone is team toronto now ok?

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 3d

Ratio me? I think sometimes people think they are being edgy but they aren’t. It is not edgy to support the head of one of the largest news organizations in the world. Like. It’s okay to just say you like adjacency to power! Own it!

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3d

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 4d

Hey BC doctors.

It is not ok to charge palliative patients private pay fees for opioid prescriptions.

Like, ever.

This medication class is essential for quality of life. Changes in dosing are common & essential. Getting to the clinic when you are dying from eg cancer, can be complicated.

a man in a white shirt and tie is asking what is going on ?

ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is asking what is going on ?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d

Their goal is revenge against every scientist who told them something they didn't want to hear or made them feel inferior by knowing more than they do.

Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 5d

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 5d

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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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 5d

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.

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Ryan McNeil @ryanmcneil.bsky.social · 5d

I really think they're overlooking the degree to which many Americans will only start caring about what's going on once they can't get their special little things in the mail.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.”

@cnbc.com $UPS
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 5d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 6d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 6d

Drake’s lawsuit against UMG over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us" has been dismissed

"The Court concludes that the allegedly defamatory statements in ‘Not Like Us’ are nonactionable opinion, the motion to dismiss is granted”

They also noted that the song had a ‘catchy beat and propulsive baseline’

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Ryan McNeil @ryanmcneil.bsky.social · 6d

Love that thing where I struggle writing most of the day and then it all comes together in a frenzied 30 minutes.

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Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder that we have a TT job opening here at Tulane for "a biological anthropologist specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains, especially those recovered from archaeological contexts. Regional focus is open."

Due by Oct 15.

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James G @orth.ca · 7d

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

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