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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 37m

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 51m

about time!

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 53m

Once unthinkable, NASA and Lockheed now consider launching Orion on other rockets

“We’re trying to crawl, then walk, then run into our reuse strategy.”…

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Vought has blocked CFPB staff from doing their work, and is also charging CFPB $5 million for his bodyguards. So technically, they are protecting one consumer.
www.govexec.com/management/2...

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 1h

you're doing God's work out there

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6h

King George III in early 1776

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 15h

big mood

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 23h

the u.s is doing everything it can to improve nuclear submarine manufacturing capacity, because falling years behind schedule while china speeds up is...
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The US Is Racing to Rebuild Its Submarine Power Before China Catches Up

Inside the effort to deliver a ‘transformational improvement’ in how the US builds submarines, vital to preserving its undersea advantage.

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 23h

to my mind this was the most overlooked economics story in recent years--we finally got the conditions demanded by populists of all stripes (reduce inequality! help the little guy!) and it was roundly condemned by everyone

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Oct 22

I have seen unified analysis of this in a couple years but looked at it in 2022, when things were hot.

Here's Arin Dube on the wage growth disparity side. Wage growth advantage for bottom over top is 11 percentage points over 2019-2023.
arindube.substack.com/p/wage-growt...

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: SpaceX's company town Starbase has started up its own volunteer fire department.

It's the latest way SpaceX and Starbase are exerting control over the corner of Texas they occupy.

Also, Starbase has hired its own fire marshal service for inspections/permits.

techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/a...

At Starbase, SpaceX is taking firefighting into its own hands | TechCrunch

SpaceX's company town has formed a volunteer fire department, extending control over both the emergency response and permitting process as the company looks to expand Starbase.

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 1d

Let's see what, uh, mechanisms, Jared Isaacman uses to win over Trump and restore his NASA administrator nomination. If he does get the job, it will be fun to see him follow through on his promises to fund cut NASA programs out of his own pocket.

www.reuters.com/science/form...

Former NASA nominee Jared Isaacman in talks to become agency's chief

Jared Isaacman, the private astronaut and Elon Musk ally who was removed from consideration to lead NASA earlier this year, met with acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy this week as a candidate for leading the space agency, a NASA spokesperson said.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 1d

In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region.

🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL

How indigenous practices can help protect forests

The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 1d

Hot take apparently that "no kings" has a motivating meaning in this country that is rooted in its own history and specific understanding of monarchy, not those of another time and place.

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 1d

Hard to say if this peace deal is going to last out the month.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 1d

#twitterfiles

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 1d

Israel killed five today in Gaza.

Hamas executing presumed collaborators.

A cease fire, maybe, but no sign that either leopard is interested in changing its spots.

Matthew Bell @matthewjbell.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas fighters tighten grip in Gaza, executing people in the street - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Hamas fighters tighten grip in Gaza, clouding future of ceasefire

Hamas fighters carried out public executions, defying Israel's assertion that war cannot end under President Donald Trump's plan until the militants are disarmed.

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 1d

some well reported backstory here for Marc Benioff's recent heel turn

sfstandard.com/2025/10/13/p...

Marc Benioff has already left San Francisco behind

The Salesforce CEO now principally lives, works, and votes elsewhere, but as he argued in an interview with The Standard, “nobody has given more than my family.”

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 1d

Soviet missileers.

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 2d

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Jon Kelvey @jonkelvey.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in the fall issue of Aerospace America with a closer look at the SpaceX/Musk Mars plan, such as it's been made public.

Is it doable? Sure, in theory!
Are there major unanswered questions that could kill the whole thing? Oh, absolutely!
aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/a-c...

A closer look at SpaceX’s Mars plan

aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 2d

During the Cold War when you were watching a movie the simplest and most-often used cue to tell the audience that the setting was in the USSR (or other eastern bloc nation) was for a police officer to demand someone show their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow about a third of Perseverance rover staff will be laid off, despite the mission being the penultimate step in a decades long effort to bring samples back from mars.

Reckless, needless budget cuts intended to hinder the pursuit of knowledge.

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 2d

the big case for private space is, of course, private companies allocate capital more efficiently than government agencies.

Like, um, buying cybertrucks that Tesla can't sell

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

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