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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 20h

Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

Violations include digging without permits and dumping wastewater into storm drains.

arstechnica.com

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 5h

Salesforce is the Amazon of hostile UX patterns.

emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 5h

France and Germany too. Also keep an eye on Japan. 😬

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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Kevin Williams @gaytonausa.bsky.social · 16h

fun fact: China just instituted a range floor for PHEV models sold.

If a PHEV can‘t get 100 km (62 miles) on electric power, then it doesn't qualify for tax subsidies.

insideevs.com/news/775369/...

China Set To Add 62-Mile Minimums For PHEV Range

China's new PHEV range minimum could have big implications for plug-in models sold in and outside of the country.

insideevs.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 15h

ICE keeps grabbing US citizens. wweek.com/news/2025/10...

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Serendipity @serendipityinfl.bsky.social · 22h

You're Guilty if l say you're guilty 😔

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 10h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 9h

Hot seller! Where to purchase that’s not Amazon?

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12h

Hot new item. Flying off the shelves.

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 14h

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 12h

It’s hard to overstate the role of the NYTimes in normalizing both genocide and fascism beneath an obscene veneer of civil discourse.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 12h

🖕🧊🛩️ It’s always the oligarchs

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 15h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 12h

They were always angry that Chavez nationalized the oil in Venezuela. Given the persistent relentless grift coming out of the White House, it’s hard not to consider her elevation as a pretext for invasion and capture of Venezuela’s sovereign resources for… “democracy”.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Trump ran a great campaign for Machado’s Peace Prize.

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 12h

As if he was ever seriously in contention 🙄 Truly disheartening how many of these terrible, factually inaccurate takes are circulating from accounts with large audiences.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado praises Trump after White House criticizes snub

Some of Trump's Republican allies have called for him to get the Nobel Peace Prize, though the nomination deadline passed early in his current term.

www.cnbc.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

In 2020, Trump put footage of vandalism and violence in Portland and elsewhere on repeat in his social media and campaign ads. This time, despite similar rhetoric about the city, he isn’t. And I bet you can guess why. www.pbump.net/o/the-presid...

The president’s pretend enemy

There is no crisis of unrest in Portland, Oregon. One way I know this to be true is that President Trump — who is insistent that Portland faces just such a crisis — doesn't offer any evidence of it. A...

www.pbump.net

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 13h

Happy holidays!

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h

NEWS: Trump just announced the U.S. will impose a 100% tariff on all Chinese goods starting November 1

emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 13h

So soft and fearful and yet weirdly obsessed with Portlanders, the large majority of whom don’t know or care about his views.

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 13h

Disappointing because either you know better and are playing rhetorical games or you don’t and actually believe that Machado isn’t who she clearly is.

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 13h

If someone is claiming to be against “Antifa” they are telling you they are PRO-fascism and their brains are curdled beyond recovery.

Pity them. Mock them. But do not ignore them or give them a moment’s peace for their anti-democratic, anti-constitutional bullshit.

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 13h

“Antifa” isn’t a real organization much less a threat to anyone other than these weirdo wannabe fascists in the Trump regime.

Anti-fascism is a real ideological, ethical and moral framework that opposes fascism in any form that was demonstrated by the triumph of Allied forces during WWII. 1/2

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 17h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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