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Acey Deecey @mcgarrygirl78.bsky.social · 9h

Watching stupid white people walk around saying shit like, "I can't believe I'm agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene. We should give her a chance. Welcome to the resistance" is why I hate so many of them and why we'll never be free. These are the same folks who worshipped Liz Cheney in 2022.

a man says " oh dear lord " in front of a sign that says only murders in the building

ALT: a man says " oh dear lord " in front of a sign that says only murders in the building

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 6h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 3h

So which Chicago IL lawmakers are taking this case on and raising hell???

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 13h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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mivox is exHAUNTed 👻 @bs.mivox.net · 2d

Three people protesting outside the Portland, OR ICE facility, dressed in inflatable frog costumes, holding a small sign that says “Portland Frog Brigade”.

Over top of the photo is white text reading: “Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."”

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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So Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 14h

@edzitron.com what will be the first indicator that the bubble has popped?

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 14h

I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.

"I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat," he wrote in an followup blog post. "In total, l've spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations: no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living."
Kupperman's original skepticism was built on a guess that the components in an average Al data center would take ten years to depreciate, requiring costly replacements. That was bad enough: "I don't see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math," he wrote at the time.
But ten years, he now understands, is way too generous.
" had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which Al datacenter technology is advancing," Kupperman wrote. "Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most."
In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that's assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin - not to mention the fact that the industry's actual Al revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog.

"In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year," Kupperman posited in his updated essay. "No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden - heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth."
Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 "astonishing."
However, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up?
"Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you'd need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend," he writes.
"If the economics don't work, doing it at massive scale doesn't make the economics work any better
- it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis," he concludes.
Overall, the pessimists broadly agree: it's no longer a matter of if Al is massively overhyped, but when the whole thing comes crashing down.
More on Al hype: Data Shows That Al Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

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So Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 15h

This is the second time in two years I’ve been unable to go to concerts that I paid for

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 17h

"Is Portland on fire? Depends on if the person you ask is lying" is a hell of a journalistic low, even for the Times.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Couillon @diabsoule.bsky.social · 16h

So the GOP is not going to pay the military, not pay federal employees, fire federal employees during a shutdown, and increase ICE arrests. Surely, things will end up fine and back to normal any minute now.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 18h

The specifics of the RIFs I’ve seen in group chats have been staggering. Bracing & reminding myself these are specifically intended to cause fear & distress.

Please share URLs for any good trackers you seen as they emerge. (I want more than OMB’s version) fedscoop.com/trump-federa...

Table of how many federal employees have been laid off in the latest RIF (Reduction in Force). This is from an OMB legal filing from Oct 10. For each agency, it lists number of fired employees, RIF notice date, and whether the administrations has recalled any of those employees to do work. Total headcount is 4,100 across 8 agencies. Treasury (1446) and HHS (1200) are the most affected. EPA (30) had the fewest layoffs this time.

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So Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 16h

Anything that helps people who aren’t rich is what they’re going after

zoladudley.bsky.social @zoladudley.bsky.social · 17h

Trump said he was going after “Democrat oriented” federal workers/programs…so, does this mean programs for the disabled are something only Democrats care about?

Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 19h

Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.

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Pretty Khemyst @prettykhemyst.blacksky.app · 17h

This affects not just K-12, but also college students, their teachers/professors, and parents. Even if your child may not receive educational supports, YOU should still be advocating for them. ALL children deserve an excellent education! So what are YOU going to do about it?!!?

Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 19h

Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.

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Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 19h

Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Uncle pablo from Miami @pablostjohn.bsky.social · 18h

Yall be so fine & wanna live across the country. Smh

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So Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 17h

Everyone’s just fucked up. God damn.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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So Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 17h

Unsolicited pic pic

Me, taking a picture of myself taking a picture of myself

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 18h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

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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So Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 17h

They could’ve gotten those watches from a corner store for $10 lmao

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

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So Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 17h

I went to sleep at 1am and had to force myself to go back to sleep when I woke up at 4. It doesn’t make any sense.

LUFFY D. PUDGIE SUCKAFREE👅 @pudgieeeeee.bsky.social · 18h

If they held a gun to my head and said sleep in until 10am, I’d surely be dead … cuz I can’t do it.. smh

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