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Thomas Bamonte @thomasbamonte.bsky.social · 1h

Op-ed by Erin Aleman, the executive director of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning: "We cannot afford a strategy that only helps our system scrape by. We must fund a transit system that thrives — not just survives." www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/what...

Opinion: This fall is Illinois' chance to ensure transit not only survives — but thrives

We must go beyond survival and work toward building a strong, truly regional transit system, writes Erin Aleman of CMAP.

www.chicagobusiness.com

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 1h

The U.S. has stepped in with an extraordinary bailout of Argentina. Here's what it means

The Treasury Department has extended a financial lifetime to Argentina in apparent hopes of heading off an emerging market financial crisis.

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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 19h

Some much needed good news, though this is of course not over yet.

Keep being vocal against the Ellisons' attempts at monopoly. Keep calling your congresspeople.

Perhaps let's send Paramount Skydance physical letters to back off of buying WBD. 👀✍️💌

www.thewrap.com/warner-bros-...

Warner Bros. Discovery Rejects Paramount's Initial Takeover Bid

Warner Bros. Discovery deflected Paramount Skydance's initial takeover approach because the per-share price is too low, according to Bloomberg News.

www.thewrap.com

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 1h

George Orwell's writings warning of the dangers of totalitarian and authoritarian states gave the English language the term "Orwellian."

A new documentary by Raoul Peck called "Orwell: 2+2=5” argues that Orwell's greatest fears are coming true.

Out in theaters now.

Documentary argues George Orwell's greatest fears are materializing

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 18h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 18h

According the article, the Everett Police still have not told the parents why they arrested their 13-year-old child, nor why they handed him over to ICE while his parents waited in the station to pick him up.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 18h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2h

I’ll miss @marcmaron.bsky.social’s voice, but I hope his legacy of deep conversation and connection will continue. Listen to my conversation with Marc on the final episode of the WTF podcast.

Episode 1686 - Barack Obama — WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

For the final episode of WTF, Marc travels to Washington, DC for another conversation with the most significant guest in the show’s history. Former President Barack Obama welcomes Marc into his o...

www.wtfpod.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2h

More than a decade ago, I sat down with @marcmaron.bsky.social in his garage to tape something new called a podcast. This time, he came to me to record his last episode.

We talked about the power of conviction, decency in an age of division, and the true story of America.

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 1h

Dayum!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

Who doesn’t love their new trump taxes

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Alan Jackson @akjackson.bsky.social · 3h

What is sad is that I read multiple newspapers, and this is where I learned a significant amount about Bari Weiss.

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Darth Satoris 🇩🇰 @darthsatoris.bsky.social · 2h

Last Week Tonight has 32 Emmys, 8 WGA awards, 9 PGA awards, and 3 Peabody awards. Also FYI, the Peabody Award is the radio and television equivalent of a Pulitzer.

John Oliver and his team of writers do AMAZING work.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

John Oliver is good at his job

youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 2h

Well, here we are folks.

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

I was so disturbed by this news, I remember hearing it like it was yesterday. I was with a friend in Montreal, and we both started crying. It was the only time we'd seen each other cry.

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FOX5 Las Vegas @fox5vegas.com · 13h

A 15-year-old girl escaped captivity from a home in South Dakota where police believe she was sexually assaulted and forced to take illegal drugs.

Story: https://www.fox5vegas.com/2025/10/09/15-year-old-escapes-captivity-home-after-being-sexually-assaulted-forced-take-drugs-police-say/

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 13h

Dark dark stuff.
There aren't many days that go by that I don't think about Matthew Shepard and that horrific act.
May he rest in peace.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 23h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 22h

My daughter wants to take a couple of philosophy courses in college but isn't sure because she doesn't want to deal with this weird strain of 'PhilosophyGuy' that seems to take things to a weird & creepy place.

These are the times I wish she'd accepted her offer at Agnes Scott College instead.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel is a phil major

longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 23h

Insert *Why Not Both* gif

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

Mississippi teenagers reported this story.

You can support the Youth Media Project and work like this by donating here: givebutter.com/PLg4mr

Mississippi Youth Media Project

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