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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1h

The beatings will continue until morale improves

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2h

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1h

It’s true: the cities are lawless and scary, if you live here sell your property as fast as possible, particularly if you have a 2 family row house from the 1920s with those nice bay windows.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 3h

This happened after the "DON'T DO THAT" judicial ruling handed down yesterday, in case you're wondering how well that whole checks-and-balances thing is working out.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 4h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely prepared for kale salad desk lunch today.

A bowl of kale salad accompanied by a small green box of Oral B dental floss

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

So McKinsey identified some of the big challenges in selling AI and demonstrating any ROI was atop the list -- "many customers see AI hiking IT costs without being able to offset these by slashing labor costs."

More from @theregister.com 's wrap-up here: www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/m...

McKinsey wonders how to sell AI with no measurable benefits

: Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity

www.theregister.com

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

Usually I skeet, "I am asking once again for term limits on columnists," -- but for those who want to know why, Qasim Rashad lays out a detailed and persuasive case for why lengthily-tenured pundits are ultimately bad for the discourse by examining the career of only one. Worth reading.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

The Atlantic—one of the most prolific corporate media outlets in America—attacked me, my values, & my advocacy. And they got most everything wrong.

Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...

Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity

From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.

www.qasimrashid.com

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is fighting back against Trump treating their city as a war zone by dressing up in colorful, silly costumes like a Portland Frog.
The costume is fun, but also very clearly no place for hidden weapons, and no way to pose a physical threat.
ICE attacking only serves to show what’s going on.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

“The public is completely uninterested in knowing whether the contest is rigged or not, and rightly so; it abandons itself to the primary virtue of the spectacle, which is to abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what it thinks but what it sees." -- Roland Barthes

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

It makes me a hell of a lot less inclined to shop, period. Aside from books. I will always buy books.

Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2d

The thing that gets me about the days of the year that Amazon has its little sales is how so much of the Web becomes so BORING as every editorial outlet left standing tries hard to get that affiliate revenue with their own selections.

"What to buy" roundups are right up there with gift guides, IMO.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2d

There goes @markblankenship.bsky.social bringing me joy with his newsletter again. You need to subscribe to The Lost Songs Project: lostsongs.substack.com

The Lost Songs Project | Mark Blankenship | Substack

This is a music newsletter that rediscovers forgotten hit songs. What made the tunes popular back then? Why are they still awesome now? We're gonna find out. Click to read The Lost Songs Project, by M...

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2d

Covering AI as incorporated into workplace communications, so do I.

Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2d

Some context from EV Reporter: Tesla is just entering the market. It's fun to dunk but let's look at the bigger market picture.

evreporter.com/tesla-sells-...

Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2d

Was looking for the u/peng reference since his work in the r/bayarea subreddit & his clean-ups have done so much to highlight this issue; glad to see it buttoning up the piece.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2d

Real Genius had it right in 1985: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X...

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine learning that not only are you infertile, your government is now going to make you pay more taxes because of your medical condition.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2d

Day two of @bookshop.org's anti-prime sale, so go and get your holiday shopping sorted while you support independent booksellers.

bookshop.org

Reply in thread with what you've bought & I'll share my picks!

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

bookshop.org

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 2d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2d

Great work comparing the journalistic mission statements from Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC: www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...

Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different

CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.

www.niemanlab.org

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly powerful first-person reporting from High Country News:

"I saw it everywhere: a woman alone with a toddler in her arms, looking terrified as the men around her screamed about a world that had lost the face of God."

www.hcn.org/articles/the...

The strange loneliness of Charlie Kirk’s funeral - High Country News

Photos and reflections from the memorial in the Phoenix suburbs.

www.hcn.org

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently some pundit types need to be reminded that resigning from your job is not cancellation.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 3d

Hell of a ride when you read these two back to back: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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