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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 4h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

reminder that @lioneltrolling.bsky.social and i do a weekly politics show over at our patreon for Unclear and Present Danger www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

Unclear and Present Politics Episode 5 — Authoritarianism as Content Creation (Video) | Unclear and Present Patreon

www.patreon.com

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 3h

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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 1d

"How much soy we produce shouldn’t be a barometer for how well our agriculture sector is doing, but for how unsustainable it is."

I wrote for @newrepublic.com that the trade war with China shows we grow too many crops to feed not people but factory-farmed animals.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Trump’s Tariffs Should Force a Reckoning With America’s Soy Industry

The industry became the world’s second largest not because of human demand for soy, but to feed China’s pigs.

newrepublic.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 3h

Precious people protesting in support of immigrants at ICE facility in Broadview, IL. Thank youuuu!

substack.com/@xplicitpoli...

Nick Perri (@xplicitpolitix)

1,000 people at the Broadview, IL. ICE detention center today! Power to the fucking people!

substack.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h

Ya think

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3h

"Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call 'financial engineering'. In other words - there are fears these companies are overvalued."

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 3h

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 9h

Your grandfathers didn’t storm Normandy so you could be afraid of the word antifascist or “antifa”

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3h

265 days into Donald Trump's term:

The president's net approval rating is -16%,
down 0.7 points since last week.

39% approve, 56% disapprove, 4% not sure

www.economist.com/interactive/...

Donald Trump’s approval rating

Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump

www.economist.com

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 3h

Please shut the hell up

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4h

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3h

Guy falling over after putting a stick in the wheel of his own bike

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 3h

This whole movement is one of the greatest activities in the information domain that I have seen from Americans over the past 9 months. Bravo.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

www.nytimes.com

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 2h

this is so deeply upsetting

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2h

They are pulling moms out of carpool lanes www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUNR594/

A blood-curdling scream erupted as ICE agents pulled a woman from her car in a school pickup line, shocking parents and onlookers at the scene.

TikTok video by New York Post | News

www.tiktok.com

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 5h

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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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 3h

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.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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

www.nytimes.com

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 11h

“Trump administration officials have expressed confidence that they will continue to win at the Supreme Court — where the president has racked up multiple victories this year. That might make them less concerned with activities in the lower courts.”

They believe they own John Roberts …

Skeptical judges increasingly question administration’s veracity

Judges have increasingly shown exasperation with Trump administration court tactics. The White House has shot back, raising tensions to previously unseen levels.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h

United States Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, flanked by Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, get loudly booed in Tel Aviv, Israel as they praise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 9h

I am once again directing everybody’s attention to the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns turning their season around by putting in their third string QB named Lunch Winfield

mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 9h

louisiana just hit a 69-yd td pass + catch hit in stride. 🤌🏽🤌🏽

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

great awokening

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

Father Larry attempts to walk toward the detention center.

ISP prevent people from moving forward. Lieutenant Col Bradley says he's making a call and dialing the ICE facility, but also says people may be waiting a while.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 16h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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