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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 4h

DAILY MEMO: Elderly Man Hospitalized After ICE Hit and Run in Pacoima, One of 17 Incidents Reported Today 🧵2 Parts

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 5h

Feds have got until midnight tonight to take down the fence in front of the Broadview ICE facility, per a recent ruling from district judge LaShonda Hunt.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 6h

Not sure what’s up but this flatbed with what appears like more fence materials has pulled up outside Broadview.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 11h

Hey, if you're thinking about subscribing to my new efforts at Ghost, this is the week I need you to do it.

The doors are open and the Ghost era is beginning. If you were reluctant because of Substack, please show me I made the right choice by moving.

drewmcweeny.com

The front page of drewmcweeny.com, with a banner image showing Peter O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia, and my current top story, a column called "Try, Try Again."

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 7h

For those who missed it, I did an AMA here yesterday! You can see all the answers at under the #lieberAMA hashtag:

bsky.app/hashtag/lieb...

bsky.app

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Undead Presidents @taterpie.bsky.social · 8h

Lol bullet dodged 🤣

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9h

President Trump posthumously honored conservative activist Charlie Kirk about a month after he was fatally shot. Kirk’s widow, who accepted the honor on his behalf, said Kirk would have probably run for president.

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Undead Presidents @taterpie.bsky.social · 9h

Dementia Barbie

Undead Presidents @taterpie.bsky.social · 9h

I'd say bullet dodged but

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Jared Rizzi @jaredrizzi.bsky.social · 9h

The House Republican coalition to prevent the release of the Epstein files is razor thin but depends on members exactly like Mills

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10h

Cory Mills, boy I dunno

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/14/j...

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 9h

I will not support a primary challenge against Chuck Tingle.

lonevoice.bsky.social @lonevoice.bsky.social · 19h

Why @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, @chucktingle.bsky.social et al won't is clear: they THINK their reelection is locked up. They know the Americans who care don't have another option. And the second level leadership in the party is doing what they did with Biden: pretending nothing is wrong!

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Undead Presidents @taterpie.bsky.social · 9h

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AxbhLH/

On 13 October 1982, The Clash filmed their second night supporting The Who at New York City’s Shea Stadium. #TheClash #ShouldIStayOrShouldIGo

TikTok video by The Clash

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ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11h

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

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ryan @ryanjackson.bsky.social · 11h

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Marc Andreessen is doing in Tennessee something similar to what Tanner is trying to do in Texas. Lawmakers here are fine with it, or course, because it’s a white Christian nationalist project.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 13h

Ken Paxton just filed for an injunction to prevent Malcom Tanner from letting people live on his property. What happened to Texas, a place where you could do what you wanted on your own property?
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...

www.texasattorneygeneral.gov

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 16h

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 12h

By singing entirely in Spanish and refusing to apologize, Bad Bunny is telling millions of Americans to stop sitting on the sidelines as he takes to the biggest stage in the world at next year's Super Bowl.

The full story: lataco.com/bad-bunny-su...

By Gabriel Buelna and Enrique M. Buelna