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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7h

Kind of amazing to think about how different the world might be today if PayPal had just... failed early on and shut down. You can trace so much nonsense today back to PayPal getting bailed out by eBay.

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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 7h

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1h

DAILY MEMO: After No Kings Protests, Feds Wreak Havoc in Santa Ana and O.C.

Today's video is too long for BSKY, so you'll have to find it here, apologies.

lataco.com/daily-memo-a...

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 13h

Journalists: Stay safe when reporting on immigration in the US 📣

The US Journalist Assistance Network invites you to join a free webinar about legal rights and digital safety while reporting on immigration and the border.

🗓️ 10/30 | 1-2:30pm ET
🔗 cpj.org/USJANPanel

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NBC10 Boston @nbcboston.com · 1d

"Sam Rivers wasn't just our bass player — he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound," the band wrote in a eulogy to the founding member. on.nbcboston.com/EVxgnxn

Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers dies at 48

"Sam Rivers wasn't just our bass player — he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound," the band wrote in a eulogy to the founding member.

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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 1d

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 1d

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

This is obviously where we need to be headed. Am ambivalent whether he’s the person who should be initially socializing but whatever, here we go

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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Eli 💜💚✊🏽 @elicitizen.bsky.social · 1d

This is art.

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 2d

This is not the same blackout the system as blackout the system org which is a mass movement to shut down. This is shutting down corporate America for Christmas. And if it takes hold, which is very likely, it’s the first step towards the national one.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Eli 💜💚✊🏽 @elicitizen.bsky.social · 2d

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frannybananny.bsky.social @frannybananny.bsky.social · 2d

This should be Time Magazine’s 2025 Photo of the Year:

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2d

Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson calls for a general strike, at least 300,000 people attended the protest. #3E #NoKings #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #EpsteinFiles

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

Well that didn't take long

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d

#WATCH | Netanyahu signals a retreat from the Gaza ceasefire agreement, stating that the war will not end and that the Rafah crossing will remain closed until his conditions are met: the return of all captives and bodies, the dismantling of Hamas rule, and the disarmament of Gaza.

(Gaza24Live)

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

Please tell me a First Amendment lawyer is willing to step up here and defend this woman.

thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

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CarpinSanDiego @carpinsandiego.com · 2d

Im dead 😂😂😂

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Eli 💜💚✊🏽 @elicitizen.bsky.social · 2d

For not caring at all, he seems to be very pissed. What a pathetic miniscule guy. #NoKings

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's Truth Social account just posted this AI video of him flying a fighter jet that reads "King Trump."

AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.

Eli 💜💚✊🏽 @elicitizen.bsky.social · 2d

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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 2d

Found this video while explaining the Portland Frogs to someone. Enjoy!

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 2d

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 2d

Today’s peaceful protests demonstrate even more conclusively that the real threats of violence have always come from the red team.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings, Portland, Oregon

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 2d

Epically beautiful and also a bit scary and heartbreaking. We are on the precipice now of revolution or dictatorship. Those are the only jump offs. America largely made their choice today.

Already there are mass calls to cancel Christmas. A national grab your wallet, fuck the corps. It could work.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 2d

I have friends everywhere.
#NoKings

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