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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jan 10

Outside Corpus Christi, Texas—where water is so scarce they hand out shower timers at HS football games—Elon Musk is building a $1B lithium refinery that could need 8 million gallons of water a day.

Tesla is testing the plant, but they still don’t have the water to run it. What gives?!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Morning Brew ☕️ @morningbrew.extwitter.link · 15h

BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe

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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 6h

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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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 19h

Guess all those people of child bearing age don’t need health care

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Mary Tagler @yramt.bsky.social · 4h

I was diagnosed with breast cancer at 47. I can't imagine the cost if I didn't have insurance for active treatment and everything that follows it.

I also take asthma medicine that is over $200 an inhaler without insurance. F this guy. #cansky

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 19h

DeSantis said “Most people, particularly under 50, what they really need is a catastrophic plan that’s affordable, where then they can pay whatever they’re doing out of a health savings account.”
floridapolitics.com/archives/761...

Ron DeSantis says people under 50 don’t have much use for comprehensive health insurance

'Catastrophic care' should be enough for them.

floridapolitics.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.

Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 1d

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

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YouTube KidZuko clips of the first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow. Both of the clips have over 400,000 views each

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Halloweean Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 2d

It’s so funny that for the past week republicans have all been like “the only people out there are gonna be Hamas.” Everyone in this crowd is signed up for Kohl’s rewards points.

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2d

“This is what democracy looks like.”
“This is what America looks like.”
NYC

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 1d

Every day he commits a new outrage that would have the branch manager of a retail chain sacked on the spot and much of the media shrugs and moves on…

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 2d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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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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Mary Tagler @yramt.bsky.social · 2d

I'm ready #NoKings #Chicago

Poster that says They Are Eating The Checks They Are Eating The Balances

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

Tomorrow is going to be big, loud, boisterous, and joyful. There will be more people, in more places, bringing more signs and songs and joyful defiance than anything we’ve ever done before. We need you with us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 3d

When you’re making your #NoKings posters, remember… Donald Trump LOVES a good nickname.

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Mary Tagler @yramt.bsky.social · 4d

I'm imagining Rage Against the Machine in the background

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Ask a Manager @askamanager.org · 6d

boss secretly arranged for me not to get paid, exec accidentally sent a message criticizing me to the whole staff, and more

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My boss secretly arranged for me not to get paid for committee work I recently volunteered to serve on a committee at work. The group meets once a week during lunch and hosts weekend activities five times a year. Members who serve on the committee […] The post boss secretly arranged for me not to get paid, exec accidentally sent a message criticizing me to the whole staff, and more appeared first on Ask a Manager.

www.askamanager.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6d

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 6d

7 "Whistlemania" meetups are happening Tuesday night across Chicago. Here’s how to join them: blockclubchi.co/46PIk2O

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6d

“We’re saving God by shooting priests in the head with crowd control weapons” is generally something you only get in the most unhinged JRPGs from the SNES era

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 7d

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 7d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 6d

As the Trump shutdown drags into its third week, it's clear Republicans are so committed to raising people's health care costs that they're willing to hold the country hostage to do it.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 6d

As I said before, they just move the line when crossing the line has no consequences.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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