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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 6h

What if a Ukrainian drone got lost and ended up blowing them up?

Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 8h

So get this: in order to "fight crime and the cartels", Trump created the biggest violent crime cartel in US history, and it's 100% funded and enabled by the state.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11h

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8h

The English Revolution was in no small part sparked by King Charles I routing around parliament to find everything he wanted through non/legislative means, despite that being why Parliament exists. Over a century later, American colonists aware of this explicitly gave their Congress power to stop it

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 9h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 17h

Coming out is a lifelong process done over and over with different people in various ways. It should always be done on the LGBTQIA+ person’s terms when they are ready and it is safe to make that choice.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 8h

Hmmm, let's check the replies to this one!

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ALT: a man with a beard is smiling while holding a cell phone in his hand .

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 10d

i'll admit to having a lot of dark fascination with what happens next after the very obvious happens

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15h

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered.
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...

Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero

The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...

kyivindependent.com

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 8h

Like don't get me wrong, if you can ruin Dreamforce and make this fucker squirm, that means he'll lower prices, and there will be even more work for me.

And I'm all for that!

Just not sure how effectively the general public can boycott enterprise software.

Bit like MAGA trying to boycott Hamilton

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 8h

When I compare what they insurrected over to what we haven’t insurrected over it makes perfect sense to me why they feel empowered to kidnap kids in broad daylight

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 8h

You're going to boycott ... B-to-B SaaS?

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 9h

Very high number, but plausible since Trump has made investing in anything AI-related the path of least resistance and lowest risk.

He's channeling money into it, picking the industry to be the only economic winner while everyone else is drowning in tariffs and uncertainty.
bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6d

The tariff exemption for computers is now so large that it's shifting the entire makeup of the economy

AI industries contributed roughly 0.71% to the 3.8% pace of GDP growth in Q2, which is likely an underestimate given how official data struggles to capture investment in parts

A graph depicting contributions to US Real GDP growth by AI-related investment, AI-related net imports, and all other sectors

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

the double-event is upon us already

A meme showing a man at a chalkboard from "Pacific Rim". He says "in the beginning the [new French PMs] were spaced apart 24 weeks. Then 12. Then 6. Then every 2 weeks. In four days we could be seeing a PM every 8 hours until they are coming every 4 minutes. We should witness a double event within seven days

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

A meme saying “EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM: TARIFF GRANDPA HAS AWOKEN, TARIFFS TO 10000%”

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 9h

When right-wingers say "small government" they don't mean a government with few powers and a small budget.

They mean a government made up of one person.

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 9h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 15h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 9h

Who is occasionally saving my posts? It’s not you again is it, US border agents?

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 9h

The Salesforce tower eye of Sauron is going to hit different this halloween. 👀

Salesforce HQ as the Eye of Sauron for Halloween

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 9h

Because their "anti-colonialism" and "anti-imperialism" is very much pro-colonialism and pro-imperialism as long as it's not a Western country doing it.

Soviet Man's Burden all the way.

To them minorities have no agency and no importance. Only white American (evil) and Russian (good) have agency.

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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 10h

I'm going to have so many t shirts of fallen AI companies in 5 years

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10h

Doing this while making it harder for regular people to get COVID vaccines. Anti-vax in the streets and pro-vax under the hospital sheets.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 12h

American Shabiha

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

By the way ICE in this video is driving a $100k luxury SUV. They’re literally gangsters with a $100 billion dollar budget, which, like any gangster, they have used to buy themselves luxury cars and guns. Pretty soon they’ll start gold-plating their weapons, because why not

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 10h

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