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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 4h

We're at the neighbors hiding neighbors stage.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 6h

ICE tactics in Chicago are escalating.

Crashing into a woman’s car so they can grab her is unconscionable!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

Did people actually believe Trump during his campaign, or did they just love the permission he gave them to be racist?

Trump on loop: “They’re stealing your jobs.”

If that were true, why aren’t Americans lining up to take those so-called “stolen” jobs?

Every Trump voter needs to see this.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

The IRS is laying off people during the shutdown, even though it was rehiring staff it previously fired because it was so shorthanded.
This one stands out because firing IRS employees costs the government money, since they bring in about $6-8 for every dollar spent on tax enforcement

IRS Halts Layoff Plans, Begins Rehiring Amid Staffing Shortages
The agency is attempting to rebuild its workforce and restore public confidence.

Treasury Department: Treasury cut 1,446 employees on Friday. Two Internal Revenue Service employees confirmed layoffs were taking place at the tax agency, which has already shed more than 25,000 employees. One employee who was laid off was working Friday and exempt from shutdown furloughs.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

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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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 12h

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d

Tracking Trump Tariffs on Countries and Products

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tracking Trump Tariffs on Countries and Products

See which countries and industries are being targeted by President Trump, as he seeks to remake the global trading system.

www.nytimes.com

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 2d

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

www.theatlantic.com

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Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 2d

By a vote of 46-50, the Senate did not adopt the Schumer amend #3109 to prohibit the use of funds to procure or modify foreign aircraft for presidential airlift to S.2296, FY26 NDAA

Senators Cortez-Masto, Cruz, Hawley & Tillis did not vote.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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montygibbon.bsky.social @montygibbon.bsky.social · 22h

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 18h

kid rock as porta potties: thread

Kid Rock wearing pink and looking stupid.

A porta potty that matches the pink of his ugly ass shirt.

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Senator Akilah Weber Pierson, M.D. @senakilahweber.bsky.social · 1d

California has taken a historic step toward justice. With the signing of my bill SB 518, @governor.ca.gov has established the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery, making California the first state in the nation to create a permanent agency dedicated to reparative justice for Black Americans.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17h

Pediatrics has long endured a workforce shortage. Now the Trump administration’s crackdown on vaccines is turning a difficult profession into an impossible one. @katherinejwu.com spoke with pediatricians about the looming crisis their jobs may face:

Pediatricians Are Rapidly Losing Incentives to Offer Vaccines

The Trump administration’s crackdown is turning a difficult profession into an impossible one for some doctors.

bit.ly

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 1d

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

cayimby.org

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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 1d

Good god.

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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 1d

Good god.

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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 1d

If you give a president an airplane.

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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful! And four talons for members of the family and court of the emperor!

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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like it’ll alienate all the libertarian tech and finance folks who so far haven’t been too concerned with what’s happening to people who aren’t them.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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wesmontgomery.bsky.social @wesmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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