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Asia Al-Azzi 🇵🇸 @asia-alazzi.bsky.social · 6h

-When all those wars ended, I turned around and asked myself; all this destruction happened and I didn't feel it until I survived; I saw this amount of destruction inside me and I didn't feel it🥀. My drawing..

🙏🏻🌹Please encourage me and share it.

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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 1d

I've struggled to understand how the labor movement metamorphized in the 70s to get us to where we are today and this episode walks you through the actual shift in economic policy and how it played out culturally. It's great, need to make time to read @melindacooper.bsky.social 's book.

Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 10d

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: first of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How neoliberalism remade US capitalism into an engine for endless asset appreciation, and the attendant reactionary politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...

www.thedigradio.com

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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 1d

This is so helpful, thank you.

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · 1d

"Even if it does bring about a welcome respite from the suffering in Gaza in the short term, I believe a durable, mutually agreed upon resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires what Trump’s plan sidelines: Palestinian self-determination."

Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 2d

My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east

theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...

Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland

The former British leader was tapped to lead redevelopment efforts in Gaza if a deal is agreed upon.

theconversation.com

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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 1d

Not in my America

Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 1d

BUT all 1200 are political consultants

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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds good to me

Picture of soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko

Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 1d

"The gap between these two measures [crop prices and input costs] is the greatest it has been in at least 25 years, “underscoring the rarity and severity of the economic conditions faced by agricultural producers in 2025,” the authors wrote."

www.agriculture.com/partners-uad...

UADA Analysis Shows Arkansas Farmers to Suffer Losses for Corn, Cotton, Long Grain Rice, Soybeans

Arkansas farmers will lose hundreds of dollars per acre this year for their corn, cotton, long grain rice, and soybean crops, according to an analysis by extension economists with the University of Ar...

www.agriculture.com

Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 1d

😔

Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 1d

Fellas is it good when the pope is a more persistently ethical voice than any of the world's major heads of state?

Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 2d

I don't understand Sora what's the business model? How much would users have to pay to make all that compute profitable, isn't video generation one of the more energy intensive uses of LLMs?

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

What a weird thing to post after ICE raids entire neighborhoods with the help of state police

Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 3d

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 5d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

thetriibe.com

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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 5d

Say what you want about Curtis Sliwa but he's the only candidate who John Gotti tried to kill.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 5d

ICE is doing a hell of a lot of harm in the Chicago area *right now.* I don’t mean to trivialize the national guard stuff, it absolutely is an irresponsible escalation, but the guard-centric convo around this really does understate what’s going on without any guardsmen.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 8d

Relatable

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9d

ICE in Chicagoland today:

CBP agents were seemingly everywhere, with arrests across several neighborhoods and the suburbs. Exact numbers are unknown.

Neighbors in Garfield Park witnessed feds choking a Black man in the street, and Border Patrol snatched people at retail strips and traffic stops.

Kidnappings across Chicago’s Northwest Side, Bronzeville, Cicero and suburbs; DHS confirms 37 arrests in South Shore apartments raid • The TRiiBE

A day after federal officers swarmed an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, agents returned to the South and West sides on Wednesday

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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 11d

I fall on the side of articles but we must band together against people who refuse either in favor of LLM summaries

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 11d

The division is that Klein is playing a game that only works if he maintains his proximity to power and Coates actually believes in things.

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 12d

So fundamentally the division between Ezra Klein and TNC, that I can identify, is that Ezra Klein thinks he has a moral duty to tell soothing lies about the dead because he has a large platform and boy do I have big big issues with that

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12d

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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 13d

Oh yeah your post about linux mint gave me the push i needed. I then discovered my computers hardware is just crashing one by one so i havent been on it much but loving what i see so far. No bloat! Amazing how refreshing it is to be off windows.

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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 13d

the enemy killing so many of you its literally demoralizing for their troops or non participation to the point of economic collapse.

Non violence is good tactic. Sometimes, it is insufficient I don't demonize people who find themselves confronted with the insufficiency of non violence.

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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 13d

You know, Germany was liberated by a dual invasion of the Russians and the western powers. I don't know what foreign army could come save us. Just, logistically, it seems unlikely. And non violent protest relies either on legal mechanisms eventually kicking in, or

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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 13d

I feel like Americans have a near fetishistic adoration of the idea of nonviolent protest which distorts what it can and cannot accomplish and holds it up as the highest and most legitimate form of political action. This belief will cripple us in the event that Trump can't be stopped by legal means.

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