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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Morning Brew ☕️ @morningbrew.extwitter.link · 2d

BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe

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baseballm0m.bsky.social @baseballm0m.bsky.social · 1d

WTAF is he talking about - seriously 😐

Tariff revenue?

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Ignore all laws about altering historic properties ✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅

#Ugh🤢✅

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

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

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 2d

The last 3 years have been the hottest in 125,000 years.

CO2 levels are their highest in about 12 MILLION years.

Scientists predict 4C+ this century & BILLIONS of deaths.

Not interested in this? Then you should consider a career in centrist politics & the mainstream media.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.

It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.

You clearly didn’t get the response you wanted—which was information handed over to you without having to dig into the facts of the case to craft a truthful story—so you thought you’d “tattletale” to main justice. Lindsay [sic] Halligan was attempting to point you to facts, not gossip, but when clarifying that she would adhere to the rule of the law and not disclose Grand Jury information, you threaten to leak an entire conversation. Good luck ever getting anyone to talk to you when you publish their texts.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 2d

WCK teams in Gaza were able to cook meat again for the first time in eight months. Our kitchens served hundreds of thousands of plates of chicken and beef with vegetables. Families—especially children—were overjoyed to receive meals they hadn’t had in months. #ChefsForGaza

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

That’s seven.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

this strikes me as a potentially serious problem for the government!

P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social · 2d

2/ Halligan was appointed pursuant to 28 USC 546, which authorizes the appointment of an "Interim" US Attorney for 120 days.

Once those 120 days are up, the "interim" lawyer is out & only the judges in the district can appoint someone to stay on the job.

www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

28 U.S. Code § 546 - Vacancies
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(a)Except as provided in subsection (b), the Attorney General may appoint a United States attorney for the district in which the office of United States attorney is vacant.
(b)The Attorney General shall not appoint as United States attorney a person to whose appointment by the President to that office the Senate refused to give advice and consent.
(c)A person appointed as United States attorney under this section may serve until the earlier of—
(1)the qualification of a United States attorney for such district appointed by the President under section 541 of this title; or
(2)the expiration of 120 days after appointment by the Attorney General under this section.
(d)If an appointment expires under subsection (c)(2), the district court for such district may appoint a United States attorney to serve until the vacancy is filled. The order of appointment by the court shall be filed with the clerk of the court.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 4d

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 3d

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

Not to be THAT dictionary, but…

It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

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Mike_WA @theothermike.bsky.social · 3d

The Chicago no kings, and people showed up.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 2d

If we are to avert "grossly tyrannical conduct," Illinois v Trump is a "make-or-break" moment for SCOTUS, per @stevevladeck.bsky.social
www.stevevladeck.com/p/184-the-ma...

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 3d

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3d

Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.

THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely wild the GOP is carrying water for a dude depicting himself as a king in a jet dumping poo on Americans.

Impossible to take anyone still standing by Trump seriously on any topic. Mike Johnson the “conservative Christian” is just cool with this at a values level, eh?

Mmmkay.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

OMG

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 4d

For your Saturday
~ Margaret Atwood
Handmaid's Tale
June —Nothing changes instantaneously.
In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Margaret Atwood
Handmaid's Tale
June —
6 Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen.
When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously.
In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like George Santos exemplifies a lot of what’s broken in the “justice” system. He was a corrupt politician, he briefly experienced the horrors of inhumane prison conditions, then the corrupt president moved to yank him out—and his victims received none of what they were owed in the process

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