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Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 47m

Congratulations to JD Vance, heir to the “worst living VP in American history” title.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 16h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 14h

In USA v Comey, "for the avoidance of doubt," AG Pam Bondi purports to retroactively appoint Halligan under a different statute and to "ratify" her grand jury presentation & signature on the indictment—a month after the statute of limitation ran out.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12h

One kind of funnier aspect of watching authoritarianism rise amid my own petty grievances is the satisfaction of watching pundit bros struggle not to admit that the hysterical resistance wine moms were right.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 12h

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 13h

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 16h

seems bad!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Screenshot text from the Atlantic

Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”)

In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed.

Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 13h

ELECTION DAY: NOVEMBER 4TH, 2025.

You can find all Working Families Party-endorsed candidates and ballot measures across the country from California to Ohio to Arizona to Michigan to New York here: wfpus.org/Candidates

Tired of everything getting more expensive? These candidates are too.
HUNDREDS OF WORKING FAMILIES PARTY ENDORSED CANDIDATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY
WHO WILL FIGHT TO MAKE LIFE MORE AFFORDABLE FOR REGULAR PEOPLE
an illustration of a bunch of candidates

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 4d

It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

“.. More than 7 in 10 respondents rated current economic conditions as either ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’.”

@usatoday.com
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 17h

Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 17h

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.

www.techdirt.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

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Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 15h

He took Ghislaine Maxwell for free.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 15h

Re: Teen Vogue, WaPo—Uniformity of message, dumping cumulative decades of diverse thought and experience in favor of the same grey, fashy extremism—it’s all about money. They couldn’t care less who you are and what you bring to the table, it’s about big mergers &infinitely deep, velvet-lined pockets

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 16h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 18h

Oh these mufuckas is Fairy Tale Evil

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 19h

Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down."

Trump official threatens to ground all flights before Thanksgiving in shutdown standoff

Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down." As the stalemate drags into the second month, it's adding more potential risk to the aviation system and putting a further strain on air traffic control staf...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h

CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an exclusive interview with President Trump on Sunday, but cut out a contentious portion regarding Trump’s pardon of a cryptocurrency billionaire.

It’s telling that the video of this portion is nowhere to be found online, only in the published transcript. trib.al/PvVEx8a

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 22h

I think about this daily as I check in with the taco review publication to see what ICE is doing in LA

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22h

LA Taco and Triibe report stuff that national newspapers never touch. If you had told me six months ago that I should rely on a publication focused on taco reviews for real info on what the govt is doing I'd have laughed in your face.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 23h

Everyone involved in this, including Trump, should be prosecuted for murder under the next administration.

Let him defend it with presidential immunity, and then take it back to SCOTUS after packing the court back into a real judicial body.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

“every time theres a republican president the economy collapses” feels like pretty easy messaging on the economy

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Layoffs Already Higher Than for Any Full Year Since 2020
Announced US job cuts by quarter

It’s been harder than normal to get a grasp on the US labor market lately, with several agencies that produce key economic data, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, going dark during the government shutdown. Even before that, President Donald Trump’s efforts to downsize the US government left holes in the sprawling federal statistical system. But private datasets have helped fill in some of the gaps.

A report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed almost 950,000 US job cuts this year through September, the highest year-to-date total since 2020—and that was before the heavy October run of announcements. (Excluding that first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, US job cuts in the first nine months have already surpassed full-year layoffs for every year since 2009.) When something is almost the worst since the Great Recession, North says, “that’s not a very encouraging number.”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this

WIRED headline reads: Trump's FBI pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock from Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen.

Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy!

Sorta seems like a problem.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder where anyone would get the idea that they should use their position in the federal government to carry out personal vengeance missions?

STAT @statnews.com · 1d

George Tidmarsh, the Food and Drug Administration’s top regulator of drugs, has been placed on administrative leave after being accused of using his regulatory authority to inflict financial harm on a former business associate, STAT has learned.

www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f...

FDA’s top drug regulator placed on leave amid investigation

George Tidmarsh, the FDA's top drug regulator, has been placed on leave after being accused of abusing his regulatory authority, STAT has learned.

www.statnews.com

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 1d

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say

Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.

www.latimes.com

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2d

I hope they turn Waymo off in LA…

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