Aidan O'Shea
@aidanboshea.bsky.social
DC. Communicate about building a fair food system for a living @farmstand.bsky.social. Into urbanism/housing and the future of journalism on here.
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Capri Theater
New Sharon, IA
New Sharon, IA
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Capri Theater
New Sharon, IA
New Sharon, IA
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🚨 Starting a new thread here because I think there may still be more attempts to delay ranked-choice voting in D.C.
It is currently set to be implemented for next June's primary, but some back and forth today makes me think two councilmembers could try to derail that.
It is currently set to be implemented for next June's primary, but some back and forth today makes me think two councilmembers could try to derail that.
Interesting: In testimony to the D.C. Council about implementing ranked-choice voting next year, elections board director Monica Evans says reporting results will take longer, up to 10 days after the election. That's because all mail ballots need to be received before counting.
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
🚨 Starting a new thread here because I think there may still be more attempts to delay ranked-choice voting in D.C.
It is currently set to be implemented for next June's primary, but some back and forth today makes me think two councilmembers could try to derail that.
It is currently set to be implemented for next June's primary, but some back and forth today makes me think two councilmembers could try to derail that.
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🧵Several new bills propose expanding the H-2A program — no surprise when farms are losing workers to ICE's racist deportation agenda. But H-2A is an exploitative program, and expanding it is not good for ANY workers. #InternationalFoodWorkersWeek
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🧵Several new bills propose expanding the H-2A program — no surprise when farms are losing workers to ICE's racist deportation agenda. But H-2A is an exploitative program, and expanding it is not good for ANY workers. #InternationalFoodWorkersWeek
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In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
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Nobody wants this shit. Nobody.
The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.
The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Nobody wants this shit. Nobody.
The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.
The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.
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Only two nations in the world use cash bail: the Philippines and the United States.
DC eliminated cash bail more than 30 years ago because it's wrong to have one system of justice if you're rich and another if you're poor.
House Dems, DC is watching your votes on H.R. 5214.
DC eliminated cash bail more than 30 years ago because it's wrong to have one system of justice if you're rich and another if you're poor.
House Dems, DC is watching your votes on H.R. 5214.
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Only two nations in the world use cash bail: the Philippines and the United States.
DC eliminated cash bail more than 30 years ago because it's wrong to have one system of justice if you're rich and another if you're poor.
House Dems, DC is watching your votes on H.R. 5214.
DC eliminated cash bail more than 30 years ago because it's wrong to have one system of justice if you're rich and another if you're poor.
House Dems, DC is watching your votes on H.R. 5214.
This bit from my money managing app gets me every time
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This bit from my money managing app gets me every time
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New: the airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government
The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New: the airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
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Don't be chickenshit. bsky.app/profile/npr....
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $35.9 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
CPB agrees to revive a $36 million deal with NPR killed after Trump's pressure
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $35.9 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
n.pr
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Don't be chickenshit. bsky.app/profile/npr....
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Psssssst: Here’s the theater finder page for Wake Up Dead Man! Showtimes begin 11/26, and more theaters will be popping up throughout the week. www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | Official Website | November 27 2025
Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery on the official site. In theaters November 27 2025 brought to you by Netflix. Directed by: Rian Johnson. St...
www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Psssssst: Here’s the theater finder page for Wake Up Dead Man! Showtimes begin 11/26, and more theaters will be popping up throughout the week. www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com
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This is exactly the type of stuff we should want representatives in purple districts to break from party orthodoxy on www.politico.com/live-updates...
Fellow Democrat takes aim at Chuy García’s 'undemocratic' retirement gambit
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is seeking a vote on a resolution condemning the longtime Chicago lawmaker.
www.politico.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is exactly the type of stuff we should want representatives in purple districts to break from party orthodoxy on www.politico.com/live-updates...
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We and our allies reached a settlement on behalf of @ewgofficial.bsky.social for Tyson to stop making climate claims. Big Ag needs to know that we're protecting consumers from their greenwashing.
More ➡️ farmstand.org/tyson-foods-...
@animallegaldefense.bsky.social @earthjustice.org
More ➡️ farmstand.org/tyson-foods-...
@animallegaldefense.bsky.social @earthjustice.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We and our allies reached a settlement on behalf of @ewgofficial.bsky.social for Tyson to stop making climate claims. Big Ag needs to know that we're protecting consumers from their greenwashing.
More ➡️ farmstand.org/tyson-foods-...
@animallegaldefense.bsky.social @earthjustice.org
More ➡️ farmstand.org/tyson-foods-...
@animallegaldefense.bsky.social @earthjustice.org
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
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NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
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I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
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This week's newsletter looks at a new book on mapping — and includes some maps I made that put economic disparities into an interesting perspective.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
Putting the real world down on paper
This week's newsletter looks at how we use maps. I review a new book on the subject, interview a mapmaker and show how maps can reshape our assumptions about borders. It's all topped off with what I t...
www.howtoreadthisch.art
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This week's newsletter looks at a new book on mapping — and includes some maps I made that put economic disparities into an interesting perspective.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
Gaston’s tavern number from Beauty and the Beast but everybody’s belting out “Suspended in Gaffa”
I feel like it’s totally okay to get together with the boys and drink some frosty ones and talk about how impressive Kate Bush is
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Gaston’s tavern number from Beauty and the Beast but everybody’s belting out “Suspended in Gaffa”
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GREAT JOB ALERT!
ProPublica is hiring another senior editor for our Local Reporting Network.
The editor will edit the work of 4-5 reporters from our partner newsrooms, collaborating on projects that spur change.
💰 Salary range: $150,000 to $195,000
➡️ Apply: propub.li/3JAIqme
ProPublica is hiring another senior editor for our Local Reporting Network.
The editor will edit the work of 4-5 reporters from our partner newsrooms, collaborating on projects that spur change.
💰 Salary range: $150,000 to $195,000
➡️ Apply: propub.li/3JAIqme
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
GREAT JOB ALERT!
ProPublica is hiring another senior editor for our Local Reporting Network.
The editor will edit the work of 4-5 reporters from our partner newsrooms, collaborating on projects that spur change.
💰 Salary range: $150,000 to $195,000
➡️ Apply: propub.li/3JAIqme
ProPublica is hiring another senior editor for our Local Reporting Network.
The editor will edit the work of 4-5 reporters from our partner newsrooms, collaborating on projects that spur change.
💰 Salary range: $150,000 to $195,000
➡️ Apply: propub.li/3JAIqme
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Issue polling does not work. Know your values, frame the debate.
really key point. polls, particularly issue polls, are a WILDLY unrealistic way to measure how people actually interact with political messaging these days
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Issue polling does not work. Know your values, frame the debate.
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We live in sad times. While the Mayor was cutting a ribbon on the Takoma section of the Metropolitan Branch Trail, federal law enforcement was abducting someone just down the way on the Trail and by a school.
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We live in sad times. While the Mayor was cutting a ribbon on the Takoma section of the Metropolitan Branch Trail, federal law enforcement was abducting someone just down the way on the Trail and by a school.
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9:30 Club owner voluntarily recognized its workers’ union: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Staff at 9:30 Club and other venues win voluntary union recognition
The production company I.M.P. will recognize a union for hospitality staffers at 9:30 Club, the Atlantis and Lincoln Theatre, after workers petitioned last month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
9:30 Club owner voluntarily recognized its workers’ union: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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every woman acutely understands this face.
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
every woman acutely understands this face.
My take is that there’s this distinct email syntax along many Boomers that is born of the idea that email is not a real conversation, and thus complete sentences are never necessary
Had the same reaction. Did I miss something where everyone rich and famous sends emails that are incomprehensible gibberish?
Seen a few of the epstein emails now, all with different people and it's not the main issue here but is everyone illiterate
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My take is that there’s this distinct email syntax along many Boomers that is born of the idea that email is not a real conversation, and thus complete sentences are never necessary
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the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product
The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product