Chris J
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Chris J
@cpj1.bsky.social
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a thing they all have in common: none of them was a combatant
AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.

"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"

apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
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Q: A federal judge ruled that the administration has to fully fund SNAP. DOJ said they're gonna appeal. What's your message to folks as we're headed to Thanksgiving?

TRUMP: *looks at JD Vance* you wanna gowithater
Also, this Applebees hadn’t had broccoli for the past 2 months. Something is messed up in the supply chain.
I’m not a lawyer, but I feel like this Applebees, “Buy a veteran a beer” promo is encouraging me to waive my 3rd amendment rights.
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This is because Netflix has a specific list of approved digital cameras and a specific production pipeline that ends up making everything look extremely same-y. Nothing else looks like a Netflix show, but every Netflix show looks like a Netflix show.

www.vice.com/en/article/w...
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making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us
BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!
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If they’re comparing it to themselves, sure. If they’re comparing it to someone capable of putting on their pants without crying, probably not.
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Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content
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Bro is communism bad or not
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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Please, please, please let a juror throw a sandwich at lunch.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
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Seeing a lot of people mocking RFK jr for immediately running away when someone passed out near him but for all you know he was getting to work identifying dangerous 5G signals in the area
Facebook co-opting the PG-13 rating from the MPA as though it's some kind of open standard is the funniest shit ever.

www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com
It’s more likely than you think…
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Who knew that FDNY had deal breaker views about...Israel which is a foreign country I believe. Do they have any other views about any other countries we should know about?

NYC Fire Commissioner to Quit Over Mamdani Stance on Israel - Bloomberg share.google/u4nCw8SxcGCX...
NYC Fire Commissioner to Quit Over Mamdani Stance on Israel
New York City Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker will step down next month, becoming the first senior official to resign on the heels of Zohran Mamdani’s decisive win of the mayoralty Tuesday.
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[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
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Surprised he heard about it.
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
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“Meta’s argument is that our recent stories about its glasses are not newsworthy because we wouldn’t bother writing them if the videos in question were filmed with an iPhone as opposed to a pair of smart glasses.”

Good resource for people who don’t seem to understand the differences.
What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
www.404media.co